Carmen Knox has been appointed the director of Craft Services – a worldwide online support network for emerging screenwriters and directors – in Australia and New Zealand. The network was founded by Emmy-nominated producer Nicholas Weinstock during the pandemic to provide resources and information about the industry to new and emerging writers far from Hollywood. The service has grown from there, and Craft Services is now an active online talent network that includes more than 300...
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- 5/8/2023
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
When Jess Paine and Ramon Watkins were announced as the inaugural recipients of the In Dreams Fellowship at the beginning of last year, their aspirations of cracking the US market were given a significant boost.
However, the screenwriting initiative’s mission to spark a new wave of Australian storytelling perspectives in Hollywood coincided with the more unwelcome wave of Covid across the world, which cast a shadow over new opportunities in the industry.
Despite this, both Paine and Watkins have managed to take their craft to the next level, with the former having her YA sci-fi pilot The Replacements optioned by Kojo Studios and Stampede Ventures partnership, The Alliance, while the latter has joined Impact Australia 2 to work on half-hour queer comedy Daddies.
Paine, who writes scripts for Neighbours while developing other projects, told If the pandemic may have even carried a silver lining.
“We’ve entered an era where...
However, the screenwriting initiative’s mission to spark a new wave of Australian storytelling perspectives in Hollywood coincided with the more unwelcome wave of Covid across the world, which cast a shadow over new opportunities in the industry.
Despite this, both Paine and Watkins have managed to take their craft to the next level, with the former having her YA sci-fi pilot The Replacements optioned by Kojo Studios and Stampede Ventures partnership, The Alliance, while the latter has joined Impact Australia 2 to work on half-hour queer comedy Daddies.
Paine, who writes scripts for Neighbours while developing other projects, told If the pandemic may have even carried a silver lining.
“We’ve entered an era where...
- 9/29/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Jessica Paine and Ramon Watkins.
Jessica Paine and Ramon Watkins are the inaugural recipients of the In Dreams screenwriting Fellowship, launched by producers Carmen Knox and Melissa Azizi.
The fellowship is designed to connect Aussie screenwriting talent with Hollywood; Paine and Watkins will now complete the Storywise six-week Teleseminar with story/career consultant and In Dreams sponsor Jen Grisanti before participating in a curated series of meetings with key Hollywood industry professionals. All finalists in the program were also awarded Final Draft screenwriting software.
Finalists’ scripts were evaluated by a panel of Hollywood judges, including representatives of Imagine Entertainment, Greg Silverman’s Stampede, Verve Talent and Literary Agency, Abrams Artists Agency and Gunpowder & Sky.
Paine, a former breakfast TV producer, is a screenwriter and script editor who since graduating from Aftrs Graduate Diploma of Screenwriting has worked on shows such as Deadline Gallipoli, Wonderland and Cleverman. Most recently, Paine spent...
Jessica Paine and Ramon Watkins are the inaugural recipients of the In Dreams screenwriting Fellowship, launched by producers Carmen Knox and Melissa Azizi.
The fellowship is designed to connect Aussie screenwriting talent with Hollywood; Paine and Watkins will now complete the Storywise six-week Teleseminar with story/career consultant and In Dreams sponsor Jen Grisanti before participating in a curated series of meetings with key Hollywood industry professionals. All finalists in the program were also awarded Final Draft screenwriting software.
Finalists’ scripts were evaluated by a panel of Hollywood judges, including representatives of Imagine Entertainment, Greg Silverman’s Stampede, Verve Talent and Literary Agency, Abrams Artists Agency and Gunpowder & Sky.
Paine, a former breakfast TV producer, is a screenwriter and script editor who since graduating from Aftrs Graduate Diploma of Screenwriting has worked on shows such as Deadline Gallipoli, Wonderland and Cleverman. Most recently, Paine spent...
- 1/28/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Carmen Knox and Melissa Azizi.
Producers Carmen Knox and Melissa Azizi have launched a new screenwriting fellowship, In Dreams, with the aim of connecting unrepresented Aussie writers to Hollywood.
Two writers, selected by a judging panel of representatives from companies such as Imagine Entertainment, Greg Silverman’s Stampede, Verve Talent and Literary Agency, Abrams Artists Agency and Gunpowder & Sky, will be invited to participate in the program.
As part of the fellowship, the two winners will receive curated series of virtual introductions and meetings with key Hollywood industry professionals, as well as 1-on-1 consultation and creative guidance from the Knox and Azizi.
The program is sponsored by the Jen Grisanti Consultancy; Grisanti is a story/career consultant, former studio executive and the writing instructor NBC’s Writers on the Verge program. Both winner will have the opportunity to participate in Grisanti’s six-week Storywise Teleseminar.
Unrepresented Australian screenwriters of...
Producers Carmen Knox and Melissa Azizi have launched a new screenwriting fellowship, In Dreams, with the aim of connecting unrepresented Aussie writers to Hollywood.
Two writers, selected by a judging panel of representatives from companies such as Imagine Entertainment, Greg Silverman’s Stampede, Verve Talent and Literary Agency, Abrams Artists Agency and Gunpowder & Sky, will be invited to participate in the program.
As part of the fellowship, the two winners will receive curated series of virtual introductions and meetings with key Hollywood industry professionals, as well as 1-on-1 consultation and creative guidance from the Knox and Azizi.
The program is sponsored by the Jen Grisanti Consultancy; Grisanti is a story/career consultant, former studio executive and the writing instructor NBC’s Writers on the Verge program. Both winner will have the opportunity to participate in Grisanti’s six-week Storywise Teleseminar.
Unrepresented Australian screenwriters of...
- 8/22/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
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