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  Date Time Subject 24th Dec - 3rd Jan 16:00:00 AMULET FILMS We wish you all a happy Christmas and a prosperous and healthy New Year.

  Date Time Subject 23rd December 2004 15:00:00 AN ORDINARY GOD Script meeting with Clifton Stewart and Tom Strudwick (Development Exec).

  Date Time Subject 18th December 2004 15:56:07 SINGLE TO SOUTHEND Script meeting with Richard & Suki Ahsam (Writers) and Tom Strudwick (Development Exec).

  Date Time Subject 4th December 2004 13:15:39 SINGLE TO SOUTHEND Script meeting with Richard & Suki Ahsam (Writers) and Tom Strudwick (Development Exec). The development funding we received from Screen East has been put to good use with the involvement of Tom Strudwick as script editor. Tom is also employed as script editor on one of our other projects, "An Ordinary God" and is a freelance consultant, a script editor, and a provider of training schemes for producers and writers. Consulting clients have included sales agent The Works, the New Zealand Film Commission, production companies and law firms. Training programmes include Screen South’s Good Foundations producer scheme and Dreamcatcher writer development programme, the NZFC’s CineMart Seminars and the New South Wales FTO’s Aurora script project. Tom entered the film business in 1991 and In 1992 he joined Ciby Sales where he became Acquisitions Executive. Ciby Sales became one of the most successful film sales companies worldwide, financing over sixty feature films, including Academy Award and Palme d’Or winners The Piano, Secrets and Lies, Underground and All About My Mother, as well as films from Robert Altman, David Lynch and Bernardo Bertolucci. Acquisitions included PJ Hogan's Muriel’s Wedding, Mike Leigh’s Career Girls and Topsy Turvy, Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine and Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides. In 1997 the company was taken over by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and renamed Goldwyn Films (later United Artists Films), and Tom was promoted to Vice President, Acquisitions & Production. He was production executive on Michael Winterbottom’s The Claim and Rob Schmidt’s Sundance entry Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, and responsible for development deals with Michael Winterbottom’s Revolution Films, Almodovar’s El Deseo, Killer Films (Boys Don’t Cry, Velvet Goldmine) and GreeneStreet Films (In The Bedroom, Swimfan). Acquisitions included Karyn Kusama’s Sundance Best Picture Girlfight.