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DOUG MACLEOD WINS $15,000 JOHN HINDE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION
Doug MacLeod has received the inaugural $15,000 John Hinde Award for Science Fiction for his script Man Bites Dog, an episode from the popular children's television series Dogstar.
This premier award, announced at the 2008 AWGIE Awards in Melbourne on 15 August, honours the life of one of Australia’s most legendary film critics, John Hinde. The aim of the award is to encourage, reward and foster creativity in the development and showcasing of science fiction writing for feature film, short film, television, radio and interactive media.
Dogstar is set in the year 2347 when on the voyage from Old Earth to New Earth, a freak accident causes the Dogstar, a giant space ark containing all of the world’s dogs, to become lost to mankind. Glen and Simone Clark set out on a quest to find their missing dog Hobart and they won’t rest until they find him, and every other dog from Old Earth.
In Doug's winning script, Man Bites Dog, the Dogstar goes through a microwave radiation anomaly and ends up the size of a tennis ball... As Zeke, the robot pilot of the Dogstar says, ‘Stranger things have happened,’ though he can’t think what.
Doug MacLeod is a Melbourne writer and TV producer. He has worked on many of Australia's most popular TV shows, including Fast Forward, Big Girls' Blouse, The Micallef Program and SeaChange. He has been the script editor on Kath and Kim and worked with John Clarke on a stage adaptation of the work of May Gibbs that premiered at The Sydney Festival in 2007. In 2006 he won an AWGIE for his on Dogstar and he is currently trying to write novels for teenagers. Man Bites Dog also recieved the 2008 AWGIE Award for Children's Television C Classification.
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