Campaign spreads for fairer pay for screenwriters and directors

Writers and Directors Worldwide (WDW) are stepping up their fight for fairer payments for content creators and are inviting Australian writers and directors to look at what is being done internationally to protect creators’ interests.WDW, an umbrella body for national royalty-collecting societies ha... More

Debut feature film by AWG member scoops US awards

AWG member Jed Malone’s debut feature film has brought home a number of awards and other accolades from the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema in the United States.Her film The 33rd Wedding won the Honorable Mention Best Film award. It also picked up the Producers Choice nomination for Best ... More

Sisterly love wins AWG TV script competition

A TV comedy about drugs, anarchy, alcohol, arson and sisterly love has won the 2015 Australian Writers’ Guild nationwide Think Inside the Box competition for unproduced scripts.Grow Up, by D'Arcy Foley-Dawson, is a comedy drama about two sisters with very extreme personalities trying to live togethe... More

Screenwriters should look out for new privacy provisions in contracts

The AWG is advising our members to look carefully before signing contracts that contain new privacy provisions.We are issuing the advice after concerns some contracts contain new provisions that may give production companies and studios access to information about a writer beyond what is directly re... More

NPEA – MIA, Catalyst in Question; Arts funding back to the future?

It has been a turbulent year for the Arts and artists in Australia. First, the federal government slashed Australia Council’s grants funding and announced the National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA). The industry responded with a wave of national protests. The arts community was united ... More