The Australian Writers' Guild applauds Screen Australia on their change in focus from auteur expression to a more audience driven model and we congratulate the government funding body for it’s continued dialogue with the Guild regarding these matters. In their recently released 2010-2...
More Please note that entries for this competition are now closed. Longlisted entrants will be privately contacted by 21 December with the shortlist and final winner publicly announced in early 2012. To warm your dark heart ….. Do you want your horror film made … a chance at a...
More In the U.S. fighting for the rights of Australian writers at the International Affiliation of Writers' Guilds (IAWG) AGM, AWG President Jan Sardi and Executive Director Jacqueline Woodman also supported a Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) campaign against ITV Studios. The WGAE are demanding ...
More Trouble is brewing over this year’s SPAA conference, with the scripts selected for the feature film shop window staging a sit-in at SPAA head office. Wake Up Dead, a particularly fat script, blocked the door of the SPAA lunchroom just before lunch yesterday while other scripts phoned media outlet...
More We're SO fed up with seeing Directors and Producers listed for projects but the writer is mysteriously missing! Do these scripts write themselves we wonder? The latest is this release from SPAA. Seven projects selected for SPAAmart but who are the screenwriters? If this makes you angry too...
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