In its submission to the Productivity Commission’s public inquiry into Australia's intellectual property system, the Australian Writers’ Guild said the industry has outgrown the current copyright system, which provides insufficient protection to performance writers.The AWG has proposed that the Gove...
More One of Australia’s most successful US television showrunners will be at the AWG National Screenwriters’ Conference in March to announce details of a plan to shake up the way our industry is funded.Shane Brennan, who has executive produced more than 300 episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS, is retu...
More Some 30 writers, producers and screen development executives attended the Australian Writers’ Guild Pathways networking event in Melbourne last week.The Pathways event, supported by Film Victoria, was designed to introduce producers to writers with screen projects.Each of the thirteen writers attend...
More A delegation from the Australian Writers’ Guild attended this year’s Asia-Pacific focused screen summit in Brisbane.Warren Coleman (Happy Feet) Shane Krause and Shane Armstrong (Bait, Acolytes, K-9) took part in a panel titled Telling Stories in the Asia-Pacific. WA based screenwriter Barbara Connel...
More The AWG congratulates the screenwriters recognised in this week’s AACTAs: Reg Cribb and Jeremy Sims, who received the AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for LAST CAB TO DARWIN and Robert Connolly and Steve Worland who got the AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for PAPER PLANES.The AACTA A...
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