Founded and run by Irishmen Gerry O'Boyle and Frank Murray, Mavericks is a writing and film festival held in London. Its primary purpose is to honor, nay, even glorify, writers. Mavericks co-founder O'Boyle elaborated a bit on his motives. We do writers as opposed to directors introducing movies, because it's a very writer-driven thing. It's about people who don't get a good deal.
Nobody knows who they are.
Everybody knows who the director is, everybody knows who the actor is. Pat McCabe is, or someone like that. So we're here to change it all. It's going to carry the thing. We personally believe and we've always gone by the maxim that great writing and great stories will always stand up on their own, more so than all of the special effects in the world, all the settings, and all the sunshine, actors, and actresses as well.