EVENT: 7 SEPTEMBER 2010, AUCKLAND
Join us next Tuesday for a special Writer’s Room discussion with the makers of Boy – the film that this year smashed the record for highest grossing local film at the New Zealand box office and features some of the most superb acting by children seen in a comedy. Boy won the audience award in both the Sydney and Melbourne festivals, and has just opened at Australian cinemas in the Top 10.
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EVENT: 10 SEPTEMBER 2010, APPLICATION DEADLINE
Script to Screen and Show Me Shorts are calling for applications for the 2010 Short Film Lab. If you are a budding film writer or writer/director, then you won’t want to miss this amazing opportunity. Participants will be mentored by experienced industry practitioners who have excelled in short filmmaking, including producer Ainsley Gardiner (Boy, Eagle vs Shark, Two Cars One Night, Tama Tu), writer/director Mark Albiston (Run, The Six Dollar Fifty Man), and screenwriter, producer and academic Shuchi Kothari (Firaaq, Apron Strings, Coffee and Allah).
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FEATURE: 20 JULY 2010
"Normal is the lie, sane and logical is the lie...To do comedy you just need tell the truth...Drama helps us dream of who we can be and comedy helps us understand who we are." - Steve Kaplan at the Auckland June Writer's Room
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EVENT: 15 SEPTEMBER 2010, WELLINGTON
Do you want to make a living writing or directing in New Zealand? At our upcoming Wellington Writer's Room three award-winning television practitioners talk about the demands of writing, directing and producing for TV.
MC Bevin Linkhorn (producer, The Gibson Group) will lead a discussion with writer/producer and novelist Paula Boock (The Insiders Guide, Time Trackers, Until Proven Innocent), creator/director Thomas Robins (Freaky, The Killian Curse…
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EVENT: 31 AUGUST 2010, AUCKLAND
Leanne Pooley talks to Gaylene Preston about her latest film Home By Christmas
When it comes to exploring those stories closest to her, Gaylene Preston asks: documentary or drama? In the case of her recent film, the critically acclaimed box office hit Home by Christmas, Gaylene has seamlessly blended the two into a radically new hybrid form. The film is a finalist in many categories of the forthcoming Qantas…
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EVENT: 28 AUGUST 2010, WELLINGTON
A one-day masterclass with groundbreaking screenwriting theorist Christopher Vogler. Christopher Vogler's acclaimed book, The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, is one of the most successful screenwriting books ever published and Vogler is one of the most in demand screenwriting teachers and consultants in the world.
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