Vicscreen has announced the first eight participants in the series development program of its origins. The group benefits from learning in the room of LA and paid authors at some of Australia’s most renowned production houses.
Gemma Bird Matheson, Hannah Samuel, Molly Daniels, Penny Greenhulg, Matthew Bonn, Diane Vous, Greta Nash and Serra Nathan have more than 150 applicants for the two-year initiative was chosen from. A room of a professional writer.
So far, the cohort has completed eight months of writing for television shows at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and generated two original pilot scripts while participating in weekly lectures and workshops. did.
For the past six months, they have worked in a series of paid author rooms, including established television creators and production companies such as Michael Lucas/Werner Film Productions, Tony Ailes Company, and Elise McCready/Easy Tiger. He helped create four new Primetime series from production, showrunner, David Hannam.
We also attended the first future vision meeting in Melbourne, as well as learning opportunities for showrunner Hannah Carroll Chapman and program leader Claire Frost, story editor, writer, producer and former development executive. There was also a trip.
Next up in the group is the customised industry placement to further develop skills and expand the network as they continue to build individual projects.
Launched in September 2023, the Originate series expands the Originate Games program designed to amplify new voices and new ideas from Vicscreen’s existing origin facts, origin features, and Victorian screen talent I will.
Vicscreen CEO Caroline Pitcher said the “pioneering” initiative worked to promote skills growth and career progression.
“This not only cultivates the wisest cohort of familiarity with the industry of television writers that this country has to offer, but also enriches the Victoria television production ecosystem for years to come, and we are It motivates me,” she said.
Lucas, creator of the popular drama The NewsReader, said he looks forward to working with the group in the future.
“A writer’s room time is a rare and valuable resource that will disappear, especially for emerging writers,” he said.
“So I loved the focus of the powerful and practical writers’ room in this program and was excited to participate. And in the end, the participants were very smart, agile, open-minded. Creative, I got out of experience as much as they did.”
Chapman said programs like the Origin series are essential to help train Australia’s next generation screenwriters.
“As the rooms become smaller and the opportunities for long-term showtimes become more rare, it’s important that future showrunners can be immersed in these kinds of experiences. The story,” she said.
