Foxtel Fellowship
The Australian Writers’ Foundation is calling for nominations for the $25,000 FOXTEL Fellowship: rewarding excellence with freedom.
This prestigious fellowship will be presented to a screenwriter who has created a body of work that is impressive in its craft, scope and impact. The intention of the fellowship is to provide the chosen writer with the financial and creative freedom to develop a television project of their choosing and is made possible due to generous sponsorship from FOXTEL.
The fellowship was created in 2007 when FOXTEL and the AWF came together to recognise television’s important contribution to the country’s cultural landscape and in particular the screenwriters who shape that contribution through their exceptional work. The fellowship is one of three projects from the partnership that also includes the annual FOXTEL Screenwriter’s Address and the FOXTEL Oral History project, a series of interviews with significant writers who have built and shaped the screen industry.
The 2009 FOXTEL Fellowship was awarded to Christopher Lee, a former journalist and Foreign Correspondent, who has written for some of Australia’s favourite television dramas including Stringer, Police Rescue and the ABC mini-series The Bodysurfer. Lee was also a Script Executive for the Showtime drama series Love My Way and co-creator of the popular Network TEN drama series Rush. He has won four Australian Writer’s Guild AWGIE awards for excellence in performance writing.
Lee said that the fellowship gave him the rare chance to develop a personal project.
“Every jobbing writer has a project that’s worked on with love and affection with very little chance it’ll see the light of day. The Fellowship is a refreshing chance for this kind of scenario to make its way as a FOXTEL project. Working with FOXTEL over the past year has been a great experience, I’ve turned a corner and I’ve every hope for the future of the show.”
Screenwriters may nominate themselves and the AWF also encourages third party nominations for the fellowship.
Nominations close 5pm Friday 21 May 2010 with the Fellow to be announced at the 43rd Annual AWGIE Awards in Melbourne on 20 August 2010.
For details on how to apply go to www.awg.com.au
The Australian Writers’ Foundation is the charitable arm of the Australian Writers’ Guild, the peak professional body for Australia’s film, television, theatre, radio and new media writers.
This prestigious fellowship will be presented to a screenwriter who has created a body of work that is impressive in its craft, scope and impact. The intention of the fellowship is to provide the chosen writer with the financial and creative freedom to develop a television project of their choosing and is made possible due to generous sponsorship from FOXTEL.
The fellowship was created in 2007 when FOXTEL and the AWF came together to recognise television’s important contribution to the country’s cultural landscape and in particular the screenwriters who shape that contribution through their exceptional work. The fellowship is one of three projects from the partnership that also includes the annual FOXTEL Screenwriter’s Address and the FOXTEL Oral History project, a series of interviews with significant writers who have built and shaped the screen industry.
The 2009 FOXTEL Fellowship was awarded to Christopher Lee, a former journalist and Foreign Correspondent, who has written for some of Australia’s favourite television dramas including Stringer, Police Rescue and the ABC mini-series The Bodysurfer. Lee was also a Script Executive for the Showtime drama series Love My Way and co-creator of the popular Network TEN drama series Rush. He has won four Australian Writer’s Guild AWGIE awards for excellence in performance writing.
Lee said that the fellowship gave him the rare chance to develop a personal project.
“Every jobbing writer has a project that’s worked on with love and affection with very little chance it’ll see the light of day. The Fellowship is a refreshing chance for this kind of scenario to make its way as a FOXTEL project. Working with FOXTEL over the past year has been a great experience, I’ve turned a corner and I’ve every hope for the future of the show.”
Screenwriters may nominate themselves and the AWF also encourages third party nominations for the fellowship.
Nominations close 5pm Friday 21 May 2010 with the Fellow to be announced at the 43rd Annual AWGIE Awards in Melbourne on 20 August 2010.
For details on how to apply go to www.awg.com.au
The Australian Writers’ Foundation is the charitable arm of the Australian Writers’ Guild, the peak professional body for Australia’s film, television, theatre, radio and new media writers.