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This work brings together 13 world-class international screenwriters from widely varied cultural and artistic backgrounds, and brings alive the relationship between the words of a script and the final film we see on the screen.
On the 26th of March 2005, Doctor Who returned to our screens after an absence of 16 years, with a new Doctor, a new assistant and thirteen new adventures. This book collects together the shooting scripts for the first series. The shooting scripts give an insight into how the series was visualized and acted.
A mentally disturbed man takes his 14-year-old daughter and his six-year-old son into the desert supposedly for a picnic. He abruptly goes berserk, tries to shoot them, sets fire to the car and kills himself. A young Aboriginal man guides them in the way of survival in what becomes a ritual walkabout during which he courts the girl.
Three showgirls with a difference set off in a bus across the Australian desert to play a cabaret engagement in Alice Springs. As they cut a swathe of satin and tulle across the country, there are chance encounters, some disappointments, a surprise revelation and much hilarity.
Drew is a young Aboriginal lawyer fast-tracking his way from Perth to a policy job in Canberra via Broome. In the whirlwind of the travelling courtroom, cases are decided in minutes, with repercussions that go on for years. Drew has no idea what's hit him. This drama series stars Aaron Pedersen, Kelton Pell, Tammy Clarkson, and Marta Kaczmarek.
Tells a story about friendship between four middle-aged women, refracted through their relationship to the late husband (Alec - a renowned intellectual and scientific genius) of one of them, Meridee. This blackly comic play deals with issues related to women, careers, aging, grief and relationships.
Set in Sydney in the early 1980s, the multi-award winning television drama Blue Murder centres on the notorious friendship between a crim, Neddy Arthur Smith and a copper, Detective Sergeant Roger The Dodger Rogerson. Ian David, the writer of Police Crop, Johs Jury and other TV dramas, researched the story extensively.
Raised by missionaries, Jimmie Blacksmith, a young half-castle Aboriginal man, is poignantly caught between the ways of his black forefathers and those of the white society to which he aspires. Exploited by his boss and betrayed by his [white] wife, he declares war on his white employers and goes on a violent killing spree.