Entries are open for the Adelaide Film Festival and the Australian Writers’ Guild’s biennial screenwriting development initiative, the INSITE Award – presented to the writer of a screenplay that hasn’t yet secured a producer or funding.
The Australian Directors' Guild and Australian Writers' Guild have joined Screen Producers Australia in proposing that SVOD and AVOD services be required to spend 20 per cent of their Australian revenue on local content as part of their submissions to the Federal Government's media reform green paper.
The session, titled Writing for Screen: Finding Your Place, will be toplined by multi-platform scribe Mike Jones, a writer and story lecturer at AFTRS, and screenwriter Peter Mattessi (Eastenders, Waterloo Road).
US writer, producer and showrunner Alexa Junge has been a writer or producer on Friends, Sex and the City, West Wing and United States of Tara.
The Australian Writers' Foundation has announced the recipient of the 2012 Kit Denton Disfellowship
Screen Australia and the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) have opened applications for the third year of Talent USA: LA, a week-long program of targeted and curated meetings, workshops and networking opportunities for Australian creators, directors and/or screenwriters.
Screen Australia and the Australian Writers’ Guild are supporting up to 10 Australian directors and/or screenwriters to take part in Talent LA this September.
The Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) congratulates scriptwriter and Australian Writers Foundation president Geoffrey Atherden, who has been made a Member of the Order of Australia as part of the recent Australia Day Honours.