Latest Articles: Writers
THE FAVOURITE continues winning streak
Tony McNamara and Deborah Davis’ THE FAVOURITE continues wowing audiences and critics alike picking up a slew of awards at the BIFA’s as well as the Atlanta Film Critics Circle Awards overnight. Read all about the good news here!
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Studio Canal Back Keith Thompson and Katherine Thomson
Studiocanal Australia and Goalpost Pictures are developing a feature based on the true story of members of the Vienna Mozart Boys’ Choir and their choirmaster who were trapped in Australia during World War II. Keith Thompson (The Sapphires, Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted to You, Hoges) is writing the first draft and Goalpost’s Rosemary Bright will produce. The second project backed by the fund is Helena, a biopic about the Polish-Australian-American cosmetics businesswoman, art collector and philanthropist Helena Rubinstein. Set in 1928, the film follows ...
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Louis Nowra: The Playwright Born To Shock
“Every day, I think how did I get here?” he says. “How did I get to be writing books and plays and going to Hollywood, how? I am lazy but I have this other persona that does all the work. And I’ve never reconciled my upbringing with this persona who has done so much.” MARTIN PORTUS profiles LOUIS NOWRA, the remarkable talent behind the Australian classic Cosi and much more. Read it here.
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THE FAVOURITE
Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize Congratulations to producers Ed Guirney, Ceci Dempsey, Lee Magiday; writer Tony McNamara and director Yorgos Lathimos.
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Jane Campion Wins NSW Premier’s Literary Prize
The New South Wales Premier’s literary awards winners were announced last night among them Dame Jane Campion was announced the joint recipient of the Betty Rowland Prize for Script writing. The fourth episode of TOP OF THE LAKE: CHINA GIRL entitled Birthday was written by Campion and co-creator Gerard Lee. Here’s what the judges had to say: The Birthday episode script effectively combines reinvented elements of the thriller, the melodrama and film poetry to create a mode of storytelling in a heightened register ...
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THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE is welcomed back to the Lyric Hammersmith
Praise for Andrew Bovell’s THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE in its successful return season at London’s Lyric Hammersmith. “Easily the finest production I have ever seen at the Lyric Hammersmith” – Evening Standard “An articulate piece of drama about the dangers of unarticulated emotions.” – The Telegraph “This production’s searing honesty about family relationships stays with you long after the curtain falls.” – RadioTimes
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Muriel’s Wedding the Musical: A resounding hit
Congratulations to the Muriel’s Wedding: the Musical team. After opening night this Saturday the reviews are flooding in. Here are just some of the terrific responses: “Muriel’s Wedding feels like the complete package: a beloved film seamlessly updated; a central character who retains all the ambiguities that made you root for her in the first place; a conspicuously inventive score peppered with classic pop hits, and a mainstage debut that will be talked about for years.” SMH “Director Simon Phillips has the ...
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Tommy Lee Jones Joins STONER
Andrew Bovell’s adaption of John William’s book STONER adds another star to the list as Tommy Lee Jones joins the cast. To be directed by ATONEMENT’s Joe Wright STONER follows a dirt-poor farmer (Casey Affleck) turned academic who emerges as an unlikely existential hero while making his way through the first half of the 20th century. Read more here.
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Thing I Know To Be True – UK tour success
Andrew Bovell’s THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE continues its tour of the UK, charming audiences as it goes. “Those of a sentimental turn of mind may find Things I Know To Be True to be a heart-warming and reassuring story of family life as lived today – a familiar story of solidly working class parents struggling to make a better life for their children. Those of a more cynical bent might connect with the realisation that the ties that bind families ...
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New Pizza: Stefano Manfredi’s guide to new wave pizza
Stefano Manfredi has been researching pizza for for many years, the result is his book NEW PIZZA. Charting the new wave movement that re-imagines pizza making in a modern context, Manfredi notes “It’s a movement back to pizza’s origins, before industrial flour milling, while at the same time using modern advances in stone milling, machinery and oven technologies.” Read more here.
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Missy Higgins Joins Miracle City
Heralded as an uncovered musical theatre gem, Sydney Opera House audiences will have the chance to catch Nick Enright and Max Lambert’s acclaimed musical Miracle City. After a smash season at the Hayes Theatre in 2014 Miracle City will arrive at the Opera House in October, this time with Missy Higgins in tow. Set in the early 1990s, at the height of televangelism, Miracle City tells the story of the Truswells, a family with a dream to build a religious theme park, and the ...
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Found: Muriel’s Wedding BFF
“Sydney Theatre Company and Global Creatures announced today that Australian actor Madeleine Jones will play the role of Muriel’s best friend Rhonda in the world premiere of Muriel’s Wedding The Musical.” PJ Hogans iconic film adapted to the stage by the writer himself will open at STC’s Roslyn Packer Theatre in November this year. Read more here.
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Becoming a Screenwriter
Writer Andrew Bovell has put pen to paper, this time to discuss his experienced of becoming a writer for screen. Producer Jan Chapman will officially launch the paper Putting words in their mouths: The playwright and screenwriter at work on August 10 at Sydney Theatre Company. The event will be hosted by STC artistic director Kip Williams. In the meantime you can preview Andrew’s work here.
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Bovell: Back from the Edge
In an illuminating interview released over the weekend writer Andrew Bovell discusses family, Hollywood, writers block and his sanity. As the Patrick White fellow, Bovell also speaks passionately about the state of writing in Australia: “A lot of writers will tell you a story of being commissioned, spending two or three years writing a play and then not seeing it produced … They shouldn’t abandon a writer like that. If you think a writer’s worth commissioning, they’re worth producing.” Read ...
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TIFF – The Future is Female
The Toronto International Film Festival yesterday released it’s first slate of films – as part of the larger festival this collection is titled The Future is Female. Among the films presented Mary Shelley written by Emma Jensen was featured. Directed Haifaa Al Mansour, the first female Saudi director, Mary Shelley stars Elle Fanning “in this scintillating biopic of the Frankenstein author, chronicling her tempestuous marriage to dissolute poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the fateful night at a Swiss chateau that inspired her most famous creation.” ...
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Picnic at Hanging Rock: Amazon picks up Aussie classic
“With fantastic scripts and outstanding cast […] Picnic at Hanging Rock is set to be a must-see series in 2018.” From co-creator and writer Alice Addison Amazon has acquired Picnic at Hanging Rock, the upcoming six-episode Australian drama series starring Game Of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer. Picnic at Hanging Rock will have its world premiere on Foxtel in Australia in 2018. Read more here.
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