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...
More The stars of the story came out in Sydney on Friday 23 September to celebrate the 44th Annual Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE Awards. The awards, which recognise the integral role the story plays in film, television, radio, interactive media and theatre, were presented at Doltone House. The Majo...
More This Friday at the 44th Annual AWGIE Awards in Sydney , The Australian Writers' Guild will honour Chris Lilley, Ian David, Denise Morgan and Currency Press for their unique and outstanding contributions to Australian performance writing. Chris Lilley, the comic genius behind We Can Be Heros, Su...
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