Prepare for The Impact
The crowd-created feature was eight years in the making by sixty-seven writers and thirty-six directors (both world records), including Australians.
Hugh Bonneville: Taking The High Roald With To Olivia
Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville beautifully immerses himself in the real life role of much loved but deeply complex children’s author Roald Dahl in the new drama To Olivia.
ScreenCraft: Breaking Down Barriers with Cameron Pinches
An Aussie expat is kicking goals in the US for screenwriters.
Saidin Salkic: Righteous Filmmaker
As per the title of his latest film, The Last Days of Loneliness, this Melbourne artist deserves broader recognition in this country. And yes, we asked him about the meaning of life.
Day for Night: Downton’s Simon Curtis and Julian Fellowes
The director and writer of Downton Abbey: A New Era take us behind the scenes of the latest addition to the franchise, which they hope is just the tonic that fans have needed to return to the cinema.
Justine Juel Gillmer: The Write Stuff
Scripting the new Barry Levinson film starring Ben Foster, second in command on Prime Video’s epic The Wheel of Time series, selected by Gal Gadot to write her next feature film are all the new normal for this screenwriter who started with an internship at McLeod’s Daughters.
Unsung Auteurs: Taylor Sheridan
FilmInk salutes the work of directors who have never truly received the credit that they deserve. In this installment: expert neo-westerner and Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan.
Australia’s Forgotten Television Plays: Four from the Goddard Years
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian television plays looks at four efforts from the ABC in the late sixties: Colin Free’s The Air-Conditioned Author (1966), Pat Flower’s Anonymous (1966), Ron Harrison’s A Ride on the Big Dipper (1967) and Gwenda Painter’s Touch of Gold (1967).
Shaun Grant: Deconstructing Nitram
We caught up with the writer of the acclaimed, highly controversial probe into one of Australia’s darkest chapters.
David Williamson: For Good or For Ill
This week sees the release of Home Truths, a memoir from David Williamson, one of this country’s most successful writers.
