78: Erin Good (Krystal Klairvoyant)
Australian Screenwriters Podcast
Erin Good is an exciting new writer/director in the Australian Screen Indstry. She's produced a couple of series for Tik Tok, including her latest, Krystal Klairvoyant, which has been nominated for a Rose D'Or and C21 Internatinoal Media Awards. We had a great chat at Content London 2023 about writing a scripted series for a new social media platofrm like Tik Tok. Check It out on... Tik Tok: Instagram:
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77: Grainne Brunsdon (Director of Content, Screen Australia)
Australian Screenwriters Podcast
This is the first in a series of interviews I recorded at Content London 2023. Grainne is a highly experienced, strategic executive in the creative industries and current Director of Contant at Screen Australia. Before this she was the Head of Screen NSW. In this interview we talk about the benefits of the conference, how Screen Aus are there to help and loads about fudning.
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76: Ben Lewin Pt 1 (The Sessions)
Australian Screenwriters Podcast
Ben Lewin is an Australian writer and director. Despite contracting Polio at the age of 6, he's had a long and distinguished career in both TV and film. His TV credits include Rafferty's Rules and his best known films include Paperback Romance (1994) and The Sessions (2012), which starred John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, receiving an eye-watering number of award nominations.
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75: Libby Butler & Lewis Mulholland (Loving Captivity)
Australian Screenwriters Podcast
Libby Butler (Neighbours and Erinsbrough High) and newcomer lewis Mulholland chat about their web series "Loving Captivity", which they wrote, funded and produced whilst living through the Melbourne lockdowns.
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74: Caden Pearson (Emerging star writer and director)
Australian Screenwriters Podcast
Caden is an early-career Indigenous screenwriter, director, and producer from Cairns in Far North Queensland, Australia. He proudly got his start writing for The Epoch Times Australia during the Beijing Olympics in 2008. In his current lifetime his family is from the Bagarrmugu and Kuku Yalanji clans from Far North Queensland, with Scottish, French and Irish heritage as well.
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73: Roger Simpson (Halifax: Retribution)
Australian Screenwriters Podcast
Roger Simpson is a giant of Australian drama and shouldn't need an introduction! If you've watched Aussie drama, you've seen one of his shows.
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72: Content London - Elizabeth Kilgarriff (Firebird Pictures)
Australian Screenwriters Podcast
As Commissioning Editor for Drama in England and Scotland, Elizabeth Kilgarriff commissioned projects like Bodyguard, Poldark and Luther to name just a few of her hits. But now she's branched out and heads up her own production company, Firebird Pictures.
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71: Micharne Cloughley (Law & Order: SVU)
Australian Screenwriters Podcast
This episode is another story of Aussie writer made good overseas.
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70: Content London 2019 - Carly Heaton (Foxtel Executive in Charge of Drama Production)
Australian Screenwriters Podcast
This is the third in my series of interviews from the recent Content London Drama Summit.
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69: Content London 2019 - Stuart Menzies (The Cry)
Australian Screenwriters Podcast
This is the second interview in a series from the recent Content London Drama Summit.
info_outlineNina Oyama is a stand-up comedian who's also written for Tonightly, The Chaser's Election Desk and sitcom in ABC Iview's Fresh Blood Pilot Season initiative; a show she created with her friend Angus Thompson and also acted in ABC's Utopia.
You can check out The Angus Project here:
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/fresh-blood-the-angus-project
We talk about her time at Tonightly, caring for Angus (who has cerebral palsy) and lots more.