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Nov 7th 7.00pm Selling Film and TV Rights: Yasmin McDonald 

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Now the writers’ strike is over, the wheels of TV and film production are moving again. How do you get film interest in your books? How do options work? How do you get a film and TV agent? Film and TV agent at CAA Yasmin McDonaldtalks us through how the industry works. 

Before moving to CAA Yasmin worked at United Agents for 11 years and her roster of  authors, illustrators, screenwriters and directors includes Paul Murray (The Bee Sting); John O’Farrell, co-writer of Chicken Run 2: Dawn Of The Nugget; JP Delaney (The New Wife); Tom Gauld, graphic novelist and cartoonist for The New Yorker, The Guardian, New Scientist; and Lisa Mulcahy (The Tourist, Lies We Tell), among others.