AWG: 2024 Rising Writers Awards: shortlist

9 early-career writers and their initiatives have been shortlisted for the Australian Writers’ Guild’s 2024 Rising Writers’ Awards.

Previously the Monte Miller Awards, the AWG custom dates again to the Nineteen Seventies, recognising excellence among the many Australian Affiliate and Pupil members.

The shortlisted initiatives had been chosen from over 500 entries throughout two classes, with scripts starting from performs and tv collection to brief movies, options, audio and net collection.

“We’re delighted to see so many entrants with distinctive and thrilling initiatives on this yr’s Rising Writers’ Awards. The Awards have an extended historical past of elevating writers initially of their careers, and we will’t wait to attach this new cohort and their high-quality initiatives with the business,” stated AWG Director of Skilled Growth Susie Hamilton.

The shortlisted initiatives will quickly be obtainable for producers and executives to discover on AWG’s Pathways Showcase.

Winners might be introduced at an business occasion in Melbourne in late July.

Lengthy Kind Class

Bells by Danny Lee [television, comedy]When a profitable early 40’s skilled immediately dies, he’s reincarnated as a toy elf and should show to Santa his life’s value, beneath menace of everlasting existential deletion.

Blue Print by Rob Draper [television, drama]When Cathy joins the Ford advertising and marketing staff in 1980, she winds up serving to a gregarious teamof Aussie Ford employees kickstart a brand new age within the Ford versus Holden rivalry.

Former Folks by Evlin DuBose [television, drama]After the autumn of the USSR, a jaded journalist investigates seventy years of tragedy and mysteries in a single Soviet household, as instructed by the one survivor.

Scorpio by Allanah Avalon [feature film, comedy]Between intercourse work, lesbians, Orthodox Russians, and a rising Melbourne property market, Scorpio has discovered herself in an irreconcilable cocktail able to explode in her face; a comedy / drama, Scorpio traces one younger girl’s expertise coping with household expectations and the lies one should hold to maintain a myriad of lives.

The Night time Bus by James McLaren [feature film, drama]Two girls, who haven’t seen one another since highschool, realise they’re caught on the identical lengthy bus journey dwelling collectively. When well mannered chit-chat immediately reveals a violent intent, they have to query who they thought they had been and what they’ve turn into to make it to the top of the road.

Brief Kind Class

Hallow by Ryan Prestipino [short film, drama]A younger woman, satisfied her aged neighbour is God, units out to obtain his non secular acknowledgment.

Mum Fell off the Roof by Cameron Williams [television, comedy]Mitch and Poppy are left within the care of their ineffective dad after their mum has an accident. However when Dad’s unfastened parenting expertise land him in bother, the siblings’ estranged grandmother arrives to take management.

The Night time of the Lonelies by Willy Brown [short film, drama]A naive Australian backpacker reluctantly accepts to be proven a shortcut via a menacing London at night time, solely to seek out himself fearing for his life in his mysterious information’s home.

Too Fabulous to Die Alone by Harry Sabulis [television, comedy]Out of the closet however caught on the earth of his straight high-school associates, a 22-year-old homosexual man with Japanese European heritage goes headfirst right into a messy journey of self-discovery within the homosexual scene – whereas his Belarusian grandmother is hell-bent on discovering him a boyfriend for his straight finest buddy’s marriage ceremony.