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Think Inside the Box 2015


Seeking the next great Australian TV drama scripts The Australian Writers’ Guild is looking for screenwriters to create the next great Australian television drama. The Guild is calling for entries to its writing for television competition Think Inside the Box. The winners will ...
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Script editing pioneer Harold Lander dies aged 91


One of the pioneers of the Australian script editing industry, Harold Lander, has died aged 91. Lander worked on TV dramas such as ‘Homicide’ and ‘Hunter’ as well as movies including ‘Storm Boy’ and ‘Breaker Morant’ and he won two AWGIES for radio wri...
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48th Annual AWGIES News


Abundance of outstanding nominees for the 2015 AWGIE Awards Eight Australian telemovies or television mini-series are battling it out for top honours in this year’s AWGIE Awards for performance writing. Awards for the best original and best adapted screenplays for Australian feature films ...
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Challenges continue for European screenwriters


AWG members and others with an interest in TV, film and multimedia may find the latest SAA research into writers’ remuneration interesting. Our colleagues from the Society of Audiovisual Authors undertake regular research into matters of special concern to the author members of its 25 constit...
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Young writers share AWG screenplay award


Two writers shared the AWG-sponsored 2015 Best Screenplay Award at this year’s Sydney Film School’s 22nd Film Festival. The award went to Josh Sambono for his script, ‘Leroy’s Dream’ and to Jovan Atanackovic, for ‘Plastic Smiles’. They each received a yea...
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