An Oxford screenwriter's bizarre script about a pig has been shortlisted for a comedy award.
Ewan Kilgour's script, Harold The Amazing Contortionist Pig, is one of four scripts nominated for the Comedy Shorts Initiative 2001.
It is the story of a pig that runs away from home and joins the circus, where he performs a contortionist act.
The winner will be announced on Wednesday, October 17, after the scripts are acted out before the judges. The best will be made into a short film.
The judges include comedian and writer Stephen Fry, and Duncan Kenworthy, producer of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill.
Mr Kilgour, 34, of James Street, won the Orange Screenwriting Award a year-and-a-half ago for a feature film called Feet Up, which is to be screened in the next couple of years.
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