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: 27 JULY 2010, AUCKLAND
Script to Screen invites you to join MC Kathryn Burnett in a discussion with local comedy revolutionaries writer/actor Oscar Kightley (Naked Samoans, Bro Town, Sione's Wedding) & producer Elizabeth Mitchell (Bro Town); and recent Radiradirah collaborator, comedian/animator Guy Capper (The Pen).
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EVENT: 21 JULY 2010, WELLINGTON
Script to Screen and the New Zealand International Film Festival present a special filmmakers festival discussion as part of the Wellington Discussion Series.
The directors of three local feature films screening in this year’s festival, Simone Horrocks (After the Waterfall), Jason Stutter (Predicament), and Brendan Donovan (The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell), will talk to MC Simon Marler about the challenges they faced bringing their…
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EVENT: 14 JULY 2010
Script to Screen and the New Zealand International Film Festival present a special Writers Room with Australian writer/director David Michod (Animal Kingdom) and writer/director Sam Peacocke (Manurewa) looking at how they approached contemporary crime stories.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Drama) at Sundance this year, Michod’s Animal Kingdom is a fictional drama based on extensive research into Melbourne’s crime underworld and…
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EVENT: 29 JUNE 2010, AUCKLAND
Fresh from his Romantic Comedy lecture tour in Australia, renowned US comedy teacher and consultant Steve Kaplan and MC Nick Ward (Screenwriter Stickmen, Second Hand Wedding) will take a look at the mechanics behind the laughs.
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FEATURE: 14 JUNE 2010
“The best scripts absorb you into their world within the first few pages. You’re experiencing instead of reading – and that’s the challenge for writers. How can we create something that is a blueprint for a film but also offers the reader an immersive imaginative experience?" Robert Sarkies at the Auckland April Writer's Room
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