The School of Night by Simon Bowler! A WriteMovies award winner.
Free thinking is a fatal temptation…
Sixteenth-century England is emerging from the drudgery of the Middle Ages. Into this world of darkness, blazes a group of new voices, The School of Night — a loose collection of intellectuals and spies… prepared to risk everything to think freely.
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Who is Simon Bowler?
After graduating in Film and TV from the University of Westminster, London, Simon wrote and produced at BBC World Service Television.
He then produced, wrote and directed feature documentaries for Channel 4 and The World Bank. He produced the acclaimed mockumentary feature film Man of the Year.
He returned to television to produce, direct and write multiple shows for Channel 4, the BBC, ABC, PBS, Discovery, Oxygen, Bravo, and Friends of the Earth.
He worked with Michael Philips (the producer of Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Sting etc.) in script development on Mimic and The Lasy Mimzy, and then with George Hickenlooper (Mayor of Sunset Strip, Hearts of Darkness, Factory Girl, Dogtown etc.) on the structure and edit of his Starz series, Hick Town and with on Casino Jack, starring Kevin Spacey, which had a scene of Simon meeting Jack Abramoff!
Simon is regarded as one of the best interviewers in the business, and he has written award-winning screenplays and theatrical plays.