The recipients of the Endemol Shine Australia Early Profession Writers Program are (pictured L-R) Slade Camilleri, Sally Alrich-Smythe, Becki Bouchier and Luke Agius.
A collaboration between Endemol Shine Australia and Display screen Australia, and supported by the Australian Writers’ Guild, the initiative offers high-level coaching for early to mid-career Australian writers who’ve the potential for a robust profession trajectory in scripted episodic storytelling.
Over eight weeks the 4 rising writers can be immersed in all sides of the Endemol Shine Australia script division.
Endemol Shine Australia Head of Scripted Sara Richardson stated: “The purposes obtained had been excellent, and these 4 writers exemplary. It’s a privilege to have the ability to run this program once more with the assist of Display screen Australia. Endemol Shine Australia is happy to information and mentor them, in addition to encourage their studying {and professional} growth.
“They’re this trade’s future,” she continued.
Display screen Australia Head of Improvement Bobby Romia stated: “We’re thrilled to see Luke, Sally, Becki and Slade embark on this thrilling subsequent step of their careers. The Early Profession Writers Program provides them the proper platform to refine their craft and open doorways to new alternatives. These 4 recipients convey with them a robust urge for food to study and a ardour to create a brand new slate of tales for the subsequent era, and I can’t wait to see what they obtain.”
Luke Agius
With a expertise for creating fascinating and provoking tales, Luke’s distinctive perspective was formed by his upbringing in Western Sydney with a Maltese father and First Nations mom. He started his filmmaking profession at age 12 and made a plethora of movies, finally culminating his abilities in the direction of finally finding out Media Arts Manufacturing on the College of Know-how Sydney. He has since made a number of award-winning quick movies, music movies, company content material for giant manufacturers akin to Google, and, previous to turning 23, directed his first function movie The Ferryman, which is now out there on Amazon Prime. Luke was additionally a author and director behind the Display screen Australia short-form webseries Go Determine, which has accrued in over 100k views throughout socials. With a ardour for telling significant tales that resonate with audiences, Luke’s second function The Undesirables is presently in post-production.
Sally Alrich-Smythe
After finding out Inventive Writing on the College of Know-how Sydney, Sally educated on the Nationwide Institute of Dramatic Artwork (NIDA) in 2016 for Musical Theatre, and later returned there to do her Grasp of High quality Arts: Writing for Efficiency in 2018. Sally is presently a daily script author on House and Away, the place she beforehand labored as a Senior Storyliner. In 2023, Sally’s play Wavelength received the Australian Theatre Competition NYC New Play Award, and was learn to a offered out viewers at Theatre Row in October of the identical yr. Her TV pilot script Soiled Highway was each a finalist and extremely recommended for the Australian Author’s Guild’s Monte Miller Award 2021 and is presently beneath growth as an eight-part tv collection with CJZ Productions. In 2021, Sally was a Recent Ink Author Resident at The Australian Theatre for Younger Individuals, the place she additionally labored as an educator and divisor for the theatre maker workshops. Her produced playwriting credit embrace The Stargazers Mission (Periscope Productions/Melbourne Council of the Arts, 2020), and Homesick (The Outdated 505, 2019). Most lately, Sally accomplished a six-week skilled script growth placement with ScriptedInk and Studio Canal/StudioPlus as a Improvement and Acquisitions Intern.
Becki Bouchier
Becki is a Singaporean-Australian screenwriter and director whose work explores the challenges confronted by girls, with a concentrate on psychological well being and gender roles. Becki was nominated for an Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE Award and an Australian Administrators’ Guild Award for her quick movie Snapshot, which had its world premiere at Austin Movie Competition. In 2022, she was a recipient of the SBS Rising Writers’ Incubator and spent 12 months working as workers author at manufacturing firm Sweetshop and Inexperienced. Becki’s darkish comedy/drama pilot script Jelly was longlisted for the AWG’s Rising Writers’ Award. Her two different tv pilot screenplays Blackout and Unhealthy Timing have been invited to the AWG’s prestigious Pathways showcase, and her romantic-comedy function screenplay Fashionable Day Romance was longlisted for each the Monte Miller and John Hinde Awards. In 2019, Becki made her first foray into theatre, writing and directing the play Chasing Yesterday which carried out to a sold-out season on the Melbourne Fringe. Becki has been chosen for the AWG’s First Break program and has a Grasp of Movie and Tv (Narrative) from the Victorian Faculty of the Arts.
Slade Camiller
Slade Camilleri is a screenwriter and script editor from Melbourne, Australia. Having obtained his Bachelor of High quality Arts (Screenwriting) in 2017 from the Victorian Faculty of the Arts, Slade has gone on to work as a manufacturing assistant on numerous movies, akin to Darklands and The Speedway Murders. In early 2023, Slade was introduced on to the relaunch of Neighbours, the place he spent a yr because the senior script coordinator, earlier than moving into his present function of trainee script editor/storyliner, and author of six episodes.
The Early Profession Writers Program is offered by Display screen Australia in collaboration with Endemol Shine Australia with trade accomplice Australian Writers’ Guild.
