Clio Barnard Wins Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize

The British filmmaker picks up the inaugural $48,500 cash prize which also comes with access to the Trust's experts at the forefront of medical research, ethics and the history of medicine. LONDON – U.K. award winning filmmaker Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant, The Arbor) has been awarded the inaugural Wellcome Trust and BFI screenwriting fellowship in association with broadcaster Channel 4's standalone filmmaking unit Film4. The award comes with a cash prize of $48,500 (£30,000) and aims to ...