While she was studying at the UK’s National Film and Television School six years ago Australian-British screenwriter Samantha Collins wrote a screenplay about an Australian woman who goes to London in search of her missing sister.
As someone who lives with physical disability, Stephanie Dower never connected with the characters she saw on screen because their portrayals were always negative.
Growing up in a remote town in South Australia in the 1950s, Emma Freeman's mother often heard the circus troupe which camped in fields nearby.
Intrigued by people who choose to live off the grid in shacks, Eve Spence had the idea of writing a feature centred around one such community, overlaid with the arrival of asylum seekers from Iran.
Tony Birch's Miles Franklin-shortlisted novel 'The White Girl' is set in the 1960s but the themes of courage, strength and dignity of Indigenous resistance are just as relevant today, according to Damienne Pradier.
Tracey Rigney, Emma Freeman, Tanya Modini, Laura Scrivano, Zoe Pepper, Eve Spence and Amin Palangi are among the directors who will take part in Attagirl, the new lab dedicated to creating production and distribution pathways for feature films by female and non-binary creative teams.
The 12 successful applicants for Attagurl, the narrative feature film development lab to support female and non-binary filmmakers from around the world, will be announced next week, and Deanne Weir is excited.