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 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 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 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 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...
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