Guy Ducker
@guyducker.bsky.social
Professional writer, director, editor and all-round filmmaker. Amateur eco-zealot.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell)@drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 8mo ago🚨 Let's get momentum behind having a broadcast national emergency briefing 🎤 Watch Olivia Blake read the letter to #Starmer and broadcasters youtu.be/c0NLZPUTH3g?... ✍️ Please give 1 minute to sign the letter yourself: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... 👏👏 Over 41,500 have signed now
Calling all workers! There follows a public information film (made by me) for the Climate Majority Project. Thank you for your attention. Carry on.
Climate Majority Project@climatemajority.bsky.social · 8mo agoBrave climate action for the majority starts with being real about the risks we face & choosing the steps that make us SAFER. Our short film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Guy Ducker, explores how a nation under threat once found unity, courage, and purpose, and what that could mean today.
Calling all workers! I've made a public information film for the Climate Majority Project. Thank you for your attention - carry on.
Climate Majority Project@climatemajority.bsky.social · 8mo agoBrave climate action for the majority starts with being real about the risks we face & choosing the steps that make us SAFER. Our short film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Guy Ducker, explores how a nation under threat once found unity, courage, and purpose, and what that could mean today.
'The Man Who Killed the World' was just selected by Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition via FilmFreeway.com! Just the quarter-finals so far, but progress.
Film Festivals, Screenplay Contests, Submissions
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My embarrassingly talented partner, Sara Lodge (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) has made a film introducing her Wolfson History Prize shortlisted book 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective'. Prize ceremony soon...
Wolfson History Prize@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 9mo ago"History has never been more important than it is in the current moment." 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' by @victoriandetective.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @yalebooks.bsky.social
My partner's Wolfson nominated book is in the Yale sale: HALF PRICE until the end of the month (Yale website only). This means that you can pick up the paperback for less than £6, a perfect stocking filler. Discount code: FIFTY yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @victoriandetective.bsky.social
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective - Yale University Press London
A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account—and how they became a cultural sensationShortlisted for The Wolfson History Pr...
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Delighted that an opera I filmed last Christmas for London Youth Opera has been nominated for an Ivor Novello award! Congratulations to all involved. Ceremony tonight... www.meggnicol.co.uk/news/nominat...
Nominated for an Ivor Novello Award - Megg Nicol
It’s incredibly exciting but Nathan Williamson and myself have just been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for ‘The Quest‘ which we were commissioned to write by London Youth Opera for their last ye...
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Girl-next-door or Terminator? Will Tilly Norwood really lay waste to the acting profession?
Thoroughly Modern Tilly
Will AI be the end of the acting profession? The latest hopeful starlet hit the news last week: a young unknown called Tilly Norwood. Unknown because, up until a few months ago, she didn’t exist. As you may have heard, Tilly is AI generated. Reportedly, Hollywood agents are vying to represent her, and her human counterparts are decrying her. Does this mean that the future foretold by the 2002 movie…
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Proud and delighted to announce that Sara's book 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' has been nominated for the UK's top history prize!
Dr Sara Lodge@victoriandetective.bsky.social · 11mo agoI’m incredibly honoured to be in this company of writers. It’s a wonderful confidence boost & I’m looking forward to meeting all of them.
Victorian female detectives in Chiswick, no less! Come along on Saturday.
Dr Sara Lodge@victoriandetective.bsky.social · 11mo agoV grateful to @thevicsoc.bsky.social for sponsoring my conversation with Jojo Silva about Victorian Female Detectives at Chiswick Book Festival this Saturday 13th September. Please do come along at 12.30 pm and stay for a drink & a chat. W4 was crawling with 19th-c sleuths...🕵️
Sara's talking about her book, 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' with Jojo Silva at the Chiswick Book Festival on Saturday. If you can, do come along! www.ticketsource.co.uk/chiswickbook...
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'Tales from the Cutting Room Floor' offers some thoughts on movies that helped builds nations... and one that lead to many murders. #cinema #nationalism #movies cuttingroomtales.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
Movies of the Motherland
The Dangerous Power of Patriotic Cinema ☛ After a family holiday in Country Cork, Ireland, home of Michael Collins, hero of Irish independence, I became curious to know more about him. I decided to…
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On movies that helped builds nations... and one that lead to many murders.
Movies of the Motherland
The Dangerous Power of Patriotic Cinema ☛ After a family holiday in Country Cork, Ireland, home of Michael Collins, hero of Irish independence, I became curious to know more about him. I decided to take the easy route and watch the movie, the 1996 Neil Jordan biopic. The film seems to be something of a touchstone for the people of Ireland – it was even granted a PG certificate, despite the swearing and violence; it’s deemed to be so culturally important that the Irish government is keen that all Irish kids see it.
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For fans of Lewis Carroll, and indeed of portrait photography, I offer up my Dad's reading on 'Hiawatha's Photography'. Enjoy! #LewisCarroll, #NonsensePoetry youtu.be/HKf9SOanOlo
'Hiawatha's Photographing' by Lewis Carroll, read by John Leeson
YouTube video by Guy Ducker
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My father—actor John Leeson—finishes up his season of Shakespeare sonnets with no.12 'When I do count the clock that tells the time'. #Shakespeare, #sonnets, #K9
My father's season of Shakepeare sonnets continues with sonnet 2: 'When forty winters shall besiege thy brow'. #Shakespeare, #sonnets, #K9
Another from the season of Shakespeare sonnet read by my father, actor John Leeson. All the 3s - sonnet 33! #shakespeare, #sonnet, #drwho
Another 14 lines of golden words from Shakespeare, delivered by my father, actor John Leeson. More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
On a beautiful June day, actor John Leeson seeks to do a direct comparison between 'a summer's day' and 'thee'. Which is lovelier? Let's find out... More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
In these days of high-stress doom scrolling, one minute of poetry can provide a moment of peace. So here's my Dad reading Shakespeare's sonnet 116. More of these to come. #Shakespeare, #poetry, #sonnets
Tales From the Cutting Room Floor reports from one of the most fun festivals around.
Screen. Play.
Report from The London Screenwriters Festival 2025 I’d not been to the London Screenwriters’ Festival for some years, maybe not since 2017. As you might expect, it’s changed. The venue is the same—Regent University, neatly hidden in London’s Regent’s Park—but the tone is different, or perhaps just more noticeable. It’s fun. Whether it's a festival or a film set, the tone filters down from the top, and presiding over the Screenwriters’ Festival is one of the most distinctive personalities of the British indy scene: …
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Cat standoff! ⚔️ Orange thinks he has high ground. He strikes and Gray retreats... But it's just the opening gambit... #cats #catsofbluesky #cat #checkmate #4Dchess
Tales from the Cutting Room Floor asks what are awards really for?
Raise the Red Carpet
Are Movie Awards Nonsense? The Golden Globes and the BAFTAs are in the rear-view mirror, the Oscars lie ahead – awards season is upon us, and you know what that means… Do you know what that means? I’m not sure I know what it means and I vote on awards. The Oscars may be the most high profile trade junket on the planet, watched by nearly 20 million Americans and millions more worldwide, but aren’t all these ceremonies just a festival of self-congratulation?
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A want to take a moment to big up the film 'Speak No Evil' (2024). I've not seen the Danish original , but the US/UK remake has an incredibly taut script. James McAvoy owns the film, but Scoot McNairy and Macenzie Davis (both of 'Halt and Catch Fire') are excellent too.
Just learned two wonderfully obscure storytelling words: Deuteragonist - the second most important character in a drama. Contagonist - a secondary antagonist. #screenwriting #screenplays
Proud to have made this film for MP Watch – putting pressure on politicians to step-up on climate and nature. If you can, please support!
MP Watch@mpwatch.bsky.social · 2y ago⚡MP Watch has two campaigns running: ⚡one on Carbon Capture and Storage & ⚡a second on widening the public debate about how to organise our vital water system ⚡we also support our constituent groups 👛 We need your help to continue this work. Please donate here: buy.stripe.com/9AQ9DK83jdrS...
Hello Bluesky! I'm a refugee from Twitter, looking forward to engaging with a calmer forum for discussion and wit.
