SPAA reveals seven projects to be showcased
Seven film projects have been selected to be put in the shop window at this year’s Screen Producers Association of Australia conference.
SPAAmart, which runs alongside the SPAA conference features projects which are in an advanced state of production.
The criteria for being featured is that they are “well developed, distinctive, fresh and with the potential to be highly attractive to their intended audiences.”
The conference takes place in Sydney from November 13 to 16.
How about telling us who wrote the screenplays?
Agreed, a most noticeable and disturbing omission.
I agree Tony, every creative talent that is part of making the film still relies on the writer to start the ball rolling.
Tony Morphett, don’t be silly. This is Australia, mate! We don’t care who wrote the scripts. Irrelevant!
You could try respecting the screenwriters and tell us who they are.
Exactly Tony!!!!!!!!
Yes, who are the writers? I think they’re worth a mention.
Who were the writers of these projects?
Obviously the future of film is that we don’t need screen writers – why else would SPAA not feature their names? Shame SPAA.
Maybe these well developed, distinctive and fresh projects wrote themselves?
Look, this is Australia..as long as the film looks good who gives a stuff who wrote it. Most Producers think screenplays are written by well trained monkeys anyway. In this world everybody is a screenwriter and they have a script burning to get out…who actually writers the thing is irrelevant. As soon as we can find a way to have robots write scripts the better off the whole industry will be. A producer will be able to punch in the genre, level of drama and dialogue desired and the screenplay will spit out of a whole in the wall..shrink wrapped of course.
Very disappointing press release from SPAA. Let’s hope they take the opportunity to apologise and follow up with another Press Release telling us who the Writers are. Remember Producers and Directors – without writers you have nothing!
What a disgrace SPAA. Where is the writers mentioned. If anyone should be mentioned its them. They’ve probably given hours and hours of their life rapping on a keyboard to come up with these scripts and the producers and directors waltz in and get the credit. Rectify this- with an apology.
My Mistress was written by Gerard Lee
DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD daily reports on ‘done deals’ for movies and TV shows, the production companies/producers AND writers – ‘the team’, as such fueling the creative engine in an industry (U.S.) in which, particularly in cable TV, hotbed of highly original filmed drama, the writer is held in the highest esteem (as many of the hit productions derive from their fertile and sometimes weird, offbeat minds). Were the local writers to be held in this same, or even similar, standing, all SPAA had to do nearly two weeks back when Tony raised this issue was say, “Oops, sorry folks, here’s a new listing of the projects – producers, writers, directors.”
It really says it all, doesn’t it? At least now it’s right out there for everyone to see. Screenwriters only count for a very small window of time when an real IDEA
(as opposed to a vague subject area masquerading as an idea) is needed, a story developed and a screenplay written. After that, the door is firmly closed and the screenwriter is no longer part of what has suddenly become the producer and director’s ‘vision’. We are no longer relevant. In fact, as SPAA has so accurately shown, we no longer exist…
(Except for that incessant, barely audible ‘whinging’ coming from some distant corner…’All quiet on the set please! What’s that nobody carrying on about the other side of the door? Somebody bury them. Sorry – what? Oh okay – just get them to go away then. Until next time we need a story.)