Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps are among the writers aiming to win consecutive prizes at this year's AWGIE Awards.
Ben Lawrence and Beatrix Christian's 'Hearts and Bones' was named best original feature film screenplay at the Australian Writers' Guild's annual AWGIE Awards Tuesday evening, while Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps took home the adaptation prize for 'Penguin Bloom'.
Kate Mulvany has a stellar CV as a playwright, screenwriter and stage, film and TV actor - but several years ago she was afraid that screen roles were drying up.
Just two features are in contention for this year’s Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE Award for Best Original Film: 'Brothers' Nest' from Jaime Browne, and 'Sweet Country' from Steven McGregor and David Tranter.
Shelley Birse has taken out the top prize at this year’s AWGIE Awards, winning the Major Award for the second season of ABC cyber-thriller The Code.
Hopscotch's John Collee is nominated twice, for Tanna (with Bentley Dean, Martin Butler and the Yakel tribe of Tanna Island) and, in the feature film-adaptation category, for The Patriarch. So is Shaun Grant, for both Berlin Syndrome and Jasper Jones, the
Andrew Anastasios and Andrew Knight’s The Water Diviner won the top prize and the gong for best original feature at the 2015 AWGIE Awards.
Nine features have been nominated for this year's AWGIE Awards for performance writing.