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.
Explorations of evil and entrapment took top honours at Thursday's AWGIE Awards, with Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes' 'Late Night with the Devil' and Kitty Green's 'The Royal Hotel' winning the original and adapted feature prizes, respectively.
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.
There’s more money in games than there has ever been, and the market is looking for more narrative game content. How do writers take advantage of that? That's a key question on the mind of Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) executive director Claire Pullen, as the guild ups its work with narrative designers and games writers.
Steven McGregor and David Tranter's 'Sweet Country' was named best feature film original screenplay while Yolanda Ramke's 'Cargo' was deemed best feature film adaptation at the Australian Writers’ Guild’s annual AWGIE Awards on Thursday night.
AWGIE nominee Clare Sladden will make her feature directing debut on Shadow Lodge, a suspense/thriller about a once-close group of four friends who come together to renovate an old house.
The Australian Writers’ Guild is calling for entries for the 50th annual AWGIE Awards.
'Blaze', 'How To Please A Woman', 'Sissy' and 'Sweet As' will contend for the best original feature prize at this year’s AWGIE Awards, while 'Mrs Harris Goes to Paris', 'The Stranger' and 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson' are up for the adapted gong. 'The Newsreader' leads in television with two nominations alongside 'Total Control', 'Firebite', 'Bump' and 'Heartbreak High'.