Oscar winner to curate screen fest

Two-time Oscar-winning writer and director

Christopher Hampton has been named as curator of Bridport’s From Page to Screen festival. The writer of Dangerous Liaisons and the film adaptation of Atonement will choose the films, invite special guests and take part in a Q&A session with broadcaster Francine Stock during the festival from April 26 to 30 at Bridport Arts Centre.

Christopher said:

“Adapting for the screen, whether it be a novel, a stage play, a biography, a historical event or a newspaper article, presents its own particular problems, perhaps more technical, but in no way less intricate than writing an original screenplay.

“I’ve spent decades ruminating on these issues, without necessarily having reached any firm conclusions, though I do by now, I suppose, have a few tentative suggestions. I’m delighted at the opportunity to visit Bridport to be able to kick some of these suggestions around.”

Christopher’s latest screenplay, The Son, is cowritten with Florian Zeller and stars Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby. It was released in the US last November and is now in UK cinemas. The Son is a companion piece to The Father, also co- written with Florian Zeller, and won Christopher his second Oscar and Sir Anthony Hopkins a best actor Oscar.

Broadcaster Francine Stock will host a Q&A with Christopher discussing his six decade career of adaptations across cinema and the stage. It includes Oscar wins for The Father in 2021 and Dangerous n For more information about the Page to Screen Festival visit bridportarts.com

Liaisons in 1988, both for best adapted screenplay. He won the Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Carrington starring Emma Thompson in 1995. He was also Bafta nominated for his screenplay adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement, which won best film in 2007.

Christopher is the youngest writer to have a play in the West End with his original work When Did You Last See My Mother. It was written and performed in 1966 whilst he was still studying at Oxford University.

Christopher was born in Faial, Azores.

During the Suez Crisis in 1956 the family fled Egypt. He read German and French at New College, Oxford, graduating with a starred First Class Degree in 1968.

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