"There is no shortage of original ideas and top-class writers in Australia. Only a shortage of willingness to develop them and their ideas properly. Cautious and cynical production and programming are increasingly the order of the day."
Shane Brennan has been elected the president of the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG), succeeding Jan Sardi.
After more than two and a half years, the Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS), Australian Writers’ Guild and Screenrights have settled their Federal Court dispute.
Ryan Griffen, Greg Waters, Yolanda Ramke and Samantha Lang are among the 16 practitioners who have been selected to travel to LA as part of Screen Australia/the Australian Writers’ Guild's Talent USA contingent.
The Australian Writers' Guild has formed the Diversity and Inclusion Action Committee which will consult and advise with the guild on all aspects of the AWG’s diversity program.
In this wrap: The late Cris Jones and C.S. McMullen win AWG’s John Hinde Awards; WA writer wins PAGE International Screenwriting Award; Melbourne scribe wins in Austin Film Festival script competition.
The Australian screen industry can brace itself for yet another Canberra-led inquiry, this time from the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications.
“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.