2011 Kit Denton Disfellowship

3 June, 2011

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Entries for the Kit Denton Disfellowship have now closed. Longlist applicants have been contacted and there will be a public announcement of the shortlist taking place in September.

“F**k them all, big and small”1              Â

Are you harbouring a dangerous idea you’d love to see on Australian screens – but reckon no one out there wants to know?

Then try us - they’re the very ideas we want.

We’re looking for strong, exciting, subversive ideas; a project of exceptional quality that would make for great Australian television, film or new media, if only some bastard would back it.

We want to see ideas that take courage to think, to say and to produce.

It’s not about a hard life, or writing your script under difficult circumstances.
While that may take courage, it’s not the courage we’re seeking.

We are interested in the courage of your idea. One that will cause ripples long after you have cast your stone. One that challenges the groupthink.

We want ideas of substance, intelligence and purpose that will take viewers outside their comfort zone. They could be comedy, drama, documentary or a mixture of all three. And we want writers with the talent, tenacity and passion to tell the story the way it needs to be told.

We want to back a groundbreaking, status quo challenging project and if we don’t find it we reserve the right not to award the disfellowship.

It’s not a ‘Fellowship’ it’s a Disfellowship. Why? Because winning it may mean that your nan disowns you, your neighbours shun you and the shock jocks call for you to be locked up.

The Kit Denton Disfellowship is a grant and support worth $30,000 to help you get your idea written for screen production. Initiated by Zapruder’s Other Films, and supported by all the players below.

We invite you to step up and be heard.

*Grant surfers need not apply

HOW TO APPLY

Entries open Monday 6 June and close Friday 1 July 2010.

You will need to provide a 2 page (max.) narrative telling the story of your work, the nature of the project and how you would develop it with this Fellowship and a one page CV (max.)

You can also nominate others:
To nominate someone you think would fit the bill you need to provide 1 page (max.) of information on the writer you are nominating and their project as well as their contact details. If the nomination is accepted the AWG will contact the nominee and they will then need to provide the information above.

Entry forms and guidelines are available here.

 1 Director Elia Kazan’s exhortation to himself.