Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

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Lunch Break: Inside the Writers’ Room

Jane Allen is a highly accomplished screenwriter, script producer, and script editor with over 20 years of experience in the film and television industry. Her recent credits include Last King of the Cross, Troppo, 100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone, Halifax: Retribution, The Heights, The New Legends of Monkey and The Unlisted, which won the 2020 Prix Jeunesse International Award for Outstanding Children’s…
VIC

AWG VIC: Short Films Are Dead – Or Are They?

Why bother making a short? In the current era of web-series and TikTok – are shorts still relevant? This session focuses on the long and the short of it all (ha, see what we did there?).  Join filmmaker/actor Brett Cousins as he cross examines filmmaker/actor Katrina Mathers (Cherry Hands Media) in a deep-dive session about whether…
NSW

AWG Member Meetup

Calling all AWG members attending the Screenworks Regional to Global Conference! Please join our CEO Claire Pullen for a casual half-hour meetup at the Goanna Lennox cafe on the morning of Friday 20 June, just across the road from the conference venue. Claire will be speaking on the panel Taking the Wheel in the A.I. Fast Lane! at…

News


Writers’ entitlement to superannuation

Writers who are engaged by production companies to write scripts are entitled to superannuation under the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth) (the Act).  Section 12(3) of the Act states that if a person works under a contract that is “wholly or principally for the labour of the person” then that person is an employee of the other…

Applications open for The Creators program

Screen Australia and the Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) have announced applications are open for The Creators program. Now in its third year, The Creators is a career acceleration program for high-calibre, mid-career screenwriters to build toward the creation of their own shows.  Expanding upon the success of Years 1 and 2, Year 3 sees The Creators evolve to…

Selected participants for Seeding Storytellers announced

Screenworks and the Australian Writers’ Guild have today announced the selected participants of Seeding Storytellers with 17 emerging First Nations screenwriters selected for the program which will guide them to become note-takers in a writers’ room. The selected participants are Annidette Puni (Sydney, NSW), Angelina Hurley (Brisbane, QLD), Aria Kitchener (Tweed Heads, NSW), Barbara Hostalek (Perth, WA), Colleen…

New Professional Development Opportunity for Emerging Writers in WA

The Australian Writers’ Guild is excited to announce In the Writers’ Room, a unique professional development workshop designed to give early career screenwriters in WA an insight into how a professional writers’ room operates. From the basics of what a writers’ room is and does through to the less obvious topic of etiquette in a room, it will give…

Image credits

Poor Things, by Tony McNamara. Photograph: Searchlight Pictures

Prima Facie, by Suzie Miller. Photograph: Helen Murray

Gordon (Patrick Brammall) and Ash (Harriet Dyer) in Colin from Accounts Season 2. Photograph: Joel Pratley/Easy Tiger Productions/Binge/CBS/Screen NSW

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, by Summerfall Studios

Little J and Big Cuz. Image provided by Ned Lander