Jones has worked with Gillian Armstrong on High Tide and Oscar and Lucinda, with Jane Campion on An Angel at My Table and A Portrait of a Lady, with Samantha Lang on The Well and with Jocelyn Moorhouse on A Thousand Acres.
One of Australia’s most successful screenwriters, Craig Pearce, has bee presented the Australian Writers' Guild's 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Michael Miller, co-writer of the ABC's 'Cleverman', has won the $10,000 Australian Writers' Guild's 2016 John Hinde Award for Science Fiction.
In a David and Goliath battle, the screenplays for Ben Young’s debut feature Hounds of Love and Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge will compete for the original feature film prize at this year’s AWGIE Awards.
Calls by the Seven, Nine and Ten networks to scrap the quotas for children’s and pre-school programming have been roundly condemned by key screen industry groups and guilds.
“Ever since I started with John Clarke when I was 24, the only breaks I’ve had have been for health or my wife abusing me [to take a break]. I’ve just gone from one project to another and it’s quite a privilege.”I’ve just gone from one project to another and it’s quite a privilege.”
The groundswell of support for the Australian screen industry’s Make it Australian campaign grows by the day.
“As an industry we have to constantly go to government with cap-in-hand, seeking to be recognised," 'The Doctor Blake Mysteries' star tells IF.