Gareth Meadows

I’m quite gratified, taken aback & humbled by the response my feature script has received in 2023. Here’s looking forward to an exciting 2024. Now, if there’s an enterprising exec producer out there who fancies bring this piece to life on the screen, I wouldn’t object.

@BenJohnson2018 I want a little bit of your 2026 mojo, my friend.

So my manager says he loved my feature rewrite and there are no notes. Developed and wrote up a pitch deck for a producer and he messaged back to say he loved it and there are no notes. 🤔 Is this going to be a 2026 trend? Ben the one draft wonder who writes nothing notable?

Thrilled to announce that my feature script ‘Leave A Light On’ has been named a shortlisted finalist in the inaugural Mediterranean Screen Arts Academy screenwriting competition. Top 21 from over 1,100 entries! Huge congrats to all, but especially to winner, Mary Craven Adams.

@AJLinnemeyer @rrreadsbooks I hope you love it as much as I do.

@GarethMeadows @rrreadsbooks I’m really excited!

I need a new tv show. what are we watching? #WritingCommunity

@rrreadsbooks Depends what you’re into. Just finished Pluribus – compellingly original. Currently late to the party with watching Shogun, which is both beautiful and tragic. Love it!

@AJLinnemeyer @rrreadsbooks Great choices! Oh, and Arcane is outstanding.

@rrreadsbooks Right now I’m watching both Fallout and Nobody Wants This. Apple TV has a bunch of excellent ones if you like sci-fi. Arcane is up next, which I’ve heard good things about

@DzintraSullivan @Matt_Pinner Same. Fuck, I feel old.

@Matt_Pinner Gen X representative here. All 20.

10 for me!!….I feel confident nobody Has all 20!! How many for you?

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@CindyBegel Such horrific news to wake up to.

This Rob & Michele Reiner story is a HORROR! What a loss. Directed When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men, The Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Bucket List, Misery. An amazing actor! Comedy/drama. Cared about the world we live in

@pennpaperplanes Amen, Amanda. The past 18 months, I’ve just focused on this. Nothing else. Feel like I’ve turned a corner. My writing has clicked. And still so much to learn and improvements to make! Writing is both an art and a craft – development is iterative, not immediate.

Please do not stop writing. Every word improves you.

@JGgambarojoe59 What a beautiful pic. Good morning!

Good morning CCF 🙏 🌄 ☺️

@caytlyn_brooke Incredible, Caytlyn! Great news

Absolutely blown away! I sold 102 BOOKS this weekend, sold out of 2 seperate titles, & a library director stopped by and purchased my entire collection for her shelves!! Ahhh!!

@BenJohnson2018 Enjoy the ride, my friend!

@GarethMeadows A lot more different than I anticipated, to be honest, but quite the adventure.

NOVEL UPDATE: I have 4 chapters now, but it's been a real learning experience because the level of detail and exposition in a novel is so much more. I'm used to writing lean so for screenplays, so I have to keep reminding myself that with a movie, people can just see what something is and it's visual context, but in a novel I have to provide that detail through description and sometimes exposition.

@kimhornsby Love this, Kim! Keep up the good work – love seeing screenwriters going from strength-to-strength.

Home from the American Film Market where movies are bought & sold in LA I have thoughts so buckle up if you want to take this ride: Overwhelming first day - Noise, crowds, stimulus, getting the lay of the land Realized all the meetings I couldn't get with production companies by email, I still couldn't get by crashing their suites upstairs at the door. Lionsgate, A24, Neon, The Asylum - forget it. BUT, I had some conversations with gatekeepers, kept dropping by & ended up meeting with two Horror Distributors about films we have ready to go A lovely assistant named Keeley slipped me in to pitch her boss, a guy named Kyle told me to email his boss & say I'm a friend of @LukeBarnett of Teacher's Pet, & I was told to come back Saturday at a 3rd place to line up for a meeting. I got in, met a producer whose mom lives one island over from me. He wants to see the films and also talked to me about Xmas movies. Met with another company wanting to bump up their Xmas slate who liked me and wants a follow up this week. But some of the best moments were chance encounters like showing a guy on the street how to get to the hotel (I might adapt a book he optioned), sharing an Uber with the organizer of the EFM in Berlin, sitting with studio owners in Vancouver, schmoozing at Indie Rights' taco party, connecting with social media friends IRL, meeting an incredible actress who's life story I might co write, grabbing a quick bite with 2 women in film who I know I'll work with next year, meeting a cool lady director @RBwalksintoabar was eloquent/giving as always, @stevenmartini schmoozed around with his movie Bittersweet, @TahhanSolo dropped in to wow us with his career trajectory, @cathylynnyonek was making deals and taking names, @erichcannon was working the room with his slate for Compassionate Disaster, @CedricGegel captivated like the leading man he is, Felicity, Shayna and Craig from @NetworkISA hosted a fun party after their panel (where I was asked to pitch a room of 300 people) and I met a ton of filmmakers with incredible projects looking for funding I even had my very own Meet Cute & ran into him again at the bar on the final night. Thanks to Amanda Toney of @Stage32 who was my wing woman singing my praises like we were pitching him a movie. A Rom Com. I was brave in all respects last week. I put myself out there and left no stone unturned. AFM was about networking, having biz cards ready, trailers cued up, being friendly, collecting info &, today, doing the follow up Was it worth it? For me, it was. I'll be back AFM! #AFM2025 #ProducingMovies

Developing a new feature script: Leave a Light On – a psychological road-movie through a ravaged Britain. Strong early feedback. Open to producer chats re: BFI Early Development Fund. Poster below. DMs open. #Screenwriting #IndieFilm #BFI

@CindyBegel Great question! I’m sure there are many: Ridley Scott, Peter Nowalk, Joe Barton & Brett Goldstein spring to mind. John Green & Philip Pullman in lit. Not leading, but the Coen brothers write badass women. Wonderful too to see so many brilliant women writers showing how it’s done

@GarethMeadows I like that! There are men that liked to write strong women like Jim Brooks. Are there any male writers that we presently look at for writing strong women?

"Thelma & Louise" was written by a 1st time writer. In longhand. Callie Khourie was frustrated at the lack of female roles. Studios balked, hating T & L's defiance. Passed around as a great script til it found Ridley Scott. Write your bad girls script! A champion will find it.

@CindyBegel I grew up with strong women. I married one. Our daughter is a strong woman. They’re all around us, but are fiendishly underrepresented on screen. That wrong should be put right.

@GarethMeadows I love men write strong women characters, Gareth!

@akatepockett Well done, Kate - great achievement! Scream it from the rooftops!

tw weight loss//// im not very public irl about my weight loss journey so im gonna scream it here I HAVE LOST ALMOST 30lbs!!!!!!

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@laurcunn That’s huge news! Congratulations!

I know I'm a small voice on a big platform, and this isn't controversial at all, so it won't get seen... But I became a published author 5 years ago. And last week it was finally made into an audiobook. And I'm so damn proud. 🥹