Screenwriting
“The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.” Says - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
"A great film owes its life force to the strength of its story; to the idea pulsing through every shot. Peeling back the layers of a script to reveal its beating heart, only to delicately stitch back those muscles and veins so that no trace of surgery remains – I don’t believe any other part of the film-making process is quite as demanding, difficult or truly rewarding as writing." Says Alecia Walsh - Scriptwriter
Christina Andreef
After 7 years of university film studies, Christina Andreef just craved to get behind the camera. She learnt the ropes as assistant to Director, Jane Campion on “Sweetie”, “An Angel At My Table” and “The Piano”, and then wrote and directed three prize-winning shorts of her own:- "Excursion To The Bridge of Friendship” (In official selection in Sundance & Cannes), "The Gap" (Sundance & Telluride) and "Shooting The Breeze” (Sundance & Berlin).
She followed with her first feature film "Soft Fruit” in 2000. “Soft Fruit” won the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize in Spain and screened in Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. It was nominated for 7 AFI Awards. She has recently written a screenplay adaptation of Nikki Gemmell’s novel, “Shiver”, which she will direct for the screen.
Brian Hannant
Brian Hannant joined the Commonwealth Film Unit (now Film Australia), over ten years produced a number of acclaimed documentaries and two feature films for TV, Flashpoint and Judy (part of Three to Go series, included Peter Weir’s Michael and Oliver Howes’ Toula); wrote, produced and directed documentaries for the South Australian Film Corporation; co-wrote Mad Max 2 (with George Miller and Terry Hayes), 2nd Unit Director on the film; co-wrote and directed the feature film The Time Guardian; five years Head of Directing at AFTRS; recently completed screenplays for two feature films which are currently in development.
Louise Wadley
Louise Wadley Writer/ Director / Producer graduated from the National Film School in UK and worked on a series of BBC, ITN Factual and Channel Four award winning Documentaries as well as Shooting and Directing the most repeated broadcast documentary in Ireland to date, "To Russia with Love", a Russian/ Irish production.
Louise wrote and directed a number of fiction shorts acquired by the BFI and now back in Sydney after over 20 years in the UK has several features in development including "She sells Seashells by the Seashore" about the life of a once famous, but now forgotten 18th Century palaeontologist.
