Press release from Frank PR
It’s not everyday that film buffs can be privy to an award winning scriptwriter’s work before it makes it to the big screen, but that is exactly what’s on offer with PAC Script Lab on Wed. November 4 as Perth writer Sarah Rossetti’s feature film script The Catch will be read and revealed to the public for the first time.
Winner of four AWGIES (Australian Writer’s Guild national awards), a Lotteries Commission Award for Film Excellence (for Pilbara Pearl) and a WA Premier’s Award, as well as scooping the What If Award for Best Emerging Australian Talent in 2000, Sarah Rossetti’s work is no stranger to acclaim.
Like all writers, Sarah has based much of the content of her script on real events; its insight providing a Trading Places meets Trains, Planes and Automobiles movie that looks at the Television Industry much like The Player looked at Hollywood.
“I was in Banff, Canada awhile ago and used my experiences pitching there in The Catch,” says Sarah.
“Many of the situations in the script are real in terms of what it is actually like to pitch a film at the biggest television conference in the world,” she adds.
Shane, the main character in this Canada-meets-Australia comic drama, was inspired by many of the lobster fishermen Sarah met when researching and writing Lobster Tales, a documentary about WA’s crayfishing industry that screened on the ABC in 2000.
When HANK, a small-time Canadian Television Producer, goes fishing down under, SHANE, a debt-driven Aussie Lobster Fisherman, unwittingly trades places with him. SHANE fishes for finance at Banff Film Festival parading as HANK, leaving the furious HANK to play catch-up with Shane’s Decky-would-be-Actress girlfriend, JESS, in tow.
As well as writing drama and documentaries for Australian and international television, Sarah lectures and tutors scriptwriting on and off for three of our West Australian universities and she has recently submitted her PhD in Media Studies at Murdoch University, whilst also running a
B & B from her home in North Perth.
To hear The Catch being read by professional actors along with the chance to offer your valuable feedback, join PAC Script Lab at Subiaco Arts Centre on Wed. Nov 4 at 6pm. Complimentary wine and nibbles will also be on offer.
To reserve a place, email: pac@screenworkshop.com.au – or phone Annie Murtagh-Monks or Danielle McCormack. The script is suitable for all ages.
PAC Script Lab
P: 08 9384 4604
E. pac@screenworkshop.com.au or visit www.screenworkshop.com.au
Proudly supported by ScreenWest, Paddy Maguire’s and Subiaco Arts Centre