Screen Australia head of development Martha Coleman, Omnilab Media’s Christopher Mapp, Sony Pictures Australia’s Stephen Basil-Jones and producer Al Clark discuss the representation of genres in the Australian film market.
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Nice to see Screen Australia feels that the next decade is going to be a great one. I believe the same…but….where are the pragmatic and ambitious writing programs/funds for screenwriters working across a variety of platforms and genre’s? Development funds to quote Ruth Hartley “To pay writers to sit in rooms and writer” are still thin on the ground…WHY? Scripts don’t write themselves and writers need to pay the rent. Where are the programs for Australian screenwriters fed up with trying to kiss the hand of the “handful” of producers in this country who can actually swing a screenplay into production..programs that help screenwriters travel abroad to seek investment in their projects..India anybody? China? Why hasn’t Screen Australia compiled a list of approachable Producers in various countries so writers can look abroad…the narrow pathways in this country are simply killing writing talent…hence we have crap product being shopped around. Our filmmaking schools wouldn’t know ambitious writing talent if they tripped over it or how to nurture it.
Enough is Enough…
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If there was more on offer around Australia there would be more initiative to make more films. The governments dont offer a lot to people who graduated from many different film or theatre schools. I guess it falls to someone writing a great script but a lot of the ones being produced are crap… Why do we keep making THrillers? why is there no family movies anymore??
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I think scripts are too often judged in the same way that books are judged. But a book is different. The words are an end in themselves. A script is just a plan, and they’re mostly not read for pleasure.
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We’re not going to pull ourselves out of this idea slump if we don’t begin to create realistic and effective pathways for screenwriters of talent to meet and develop ideas with Producers. We need to encourage and foster a system where writers of obvious talent and fertile imaginations (and at least five screenplays) are introduced to producers with clout. Al Clark…how does Australia’s next Charlie Kaufman actually get a script to you? Just pop it in the post? I mean c’mon…this is a panel that is talking about the future, but the future will just remain the same if we aren’t actually tackling the problems of the present. We can’t rely on film schools to produce the next crop of writing talent..because from experience they have no idea..they are simply floggin a product..a hollow dream.
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Is there such a thing as Australian Arthouse?
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