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AWG gives Senate Inquiry the facts about Australian playwriting

The Australian Writers’ Guild homed in on the importance of funding Australian stories, the lack of a national Cultural Policy and the effect on playwrights of recent funding cuts, in their briefing of the Senate Committee looking into federal government funding of the arts.The committee, chaired by...

Bold pitch wins AWG student membership

AFTRS student Angela McDonald has won a year’s membership to the Australian Writers’ Guild for a screen project judges called a “very bold, edgy, high concept idea”.Angela is an Advanced Diploma Screenwriting Series TV student at AFTRS, which ran the competition, supported by the AWG.As part of the ...

Insite Award Winner Announced

ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL AND AUSTRALIAN WRITERS’ GUILD ANNOUNCE INSITE AWARD WINNER The winner of the 2015 INSITE Award for unproduced screenplays has praised the Australian Writers’ Guild and the Adelaide Film Festival for providing “a unique platform” for performance writers. Melbourne-based screenw...

Two winning screenplays to spring Off the Page at Adelaide Film Festival

A script about a struggling writer looking for a mysterious author has taken one of the top two prizes in this year’s Off the Page competition run by the Australian Writers’ Guild in partnership with the Adelaide Film Festival and the Media Resource Centre.People like him look Ridiculous in Suits by...

Honouring our screen legends

Film Victoria has announced two new Screen Leader Awards starting in 2016: The Film Victoria – Fred Schepisi Award for Achievement in Directing; and The Film Victoria – Jan Sardi Award for Achievement in Screenwriting. The Fred Schepisi Award is named in honour of the iconic director who continues t...

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