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Screen Australia calls for Script Factory applicants - last day!
Justine Hart on The Script Factory's previous expedition to Australia
Tue, 8 Sep 2009
It's the final day for Oz script developers and creative producers to make an application to join The Script Factory when we head for Australia next month to run a Script Developer Training programme as guests of Screen Australia. A workshop aimed at up-skilling the standard of Australian development practice we'll be providing high-quality training in script analysis and development for the benefit of 21 practitioners from around Australia. We'll be staging two three-day workshops in late October 2009, the first in Sydney, hosted by the New South Wales Film and Television Office (Screen NSW), and the second in Melbourne, hosted by Film Victoria.
These inaugural Australian workshops are designed to enable practitioners with high-level story-analysis skills to focus on the nuts and bolts of script development.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia's new Head of Development (formerly of the UK's Icon Distribution) said: “Strong, craft-based script development is an essential part of the filmmaking process. These hands-on workshops will hone the participants’ script reading and analysis skills in order to ascertain a screenplay’s potential strengths and correctly identify the source of its weaknesses. These tailored, practical programs aim to strengthen and advance Australia’s screenwriting culture and support the development of creative Australian storytelling which engages with audiences.”
Applications are invited from practitioners who work in script development and who will benefit from a structured course in story theory and working practice taught by The Script Factory's Justine Hart and Lucy Scher, in order to build their confidence and resources when preparing script reports and working with writers.
Screen Australia’s partnership with the Script Factory will allow for the screen agency to secure the intellectual property for the workshops, subsequently allowing them to be run in Australia with local trainers on a biannual basis.
Further information and an application form is available at www.screenaustralia.gov.au/scriptfactory
Applications close on Thursday 10 September 2009. Successful applicants will be announced in early October 2009.