While the other member of TBAAG’s writing team can’t manage to secure funds and accolades with projects she devises “for-serious”, Matthew manages to win a US competition with a title that is NOT EVEN A REAL WORD.
Matthew was clearly not content with Get Black securing Screen Australia development funding, an Inside Film Award nomination and reaching the finals of the Page International Screenwriting Awards.
No, he had to have more, greedy sod.
It’s a big week for regular TBAAG contributor, Troy Nankervis, with the Australian television debut of two high-profile productions he worked on.
We TBAAGers are thrilled to be able to brag that our Free Internet and Cleft Pigeon producer Troy Nankervis has made the Top 10 of the MTV ONE80Project. Troy’s project Wasted is a a rockin’ 8 part, one hour drama series set against the backdrop of Melbourne’s live music scene.
TBAAG’s writing team is back in the office, after some much-needed time out exploring New Zealand’s South Island. And we’re sure that painstaking research re: which Sauvignon Blanc goes best with the green-lipped mussels fits into this category.
At the moment we’re busting our craniums in order to bring you the funnies for our Melbourne Fringe production, Free Internet.
And the good news… This week, Greta begins writing for Good News Week, which of course screens 8.30pm on Mondays on Ten. The baffled silences will be hers.
Matt and Greta have been working on their respective screenplays. In Greta’s new feature script, she’s hoping to cast Nicholas Cage’s hair in the lead role.
TBAAG are currently in Los Angeles attending the Screenwriting Expo hosted by Creative Screenwriting Magazine. They will be attending a series of seminars and workshops featuring leading film and TV writers and screenwriting gurus, such as William Goldman, Aaron Sorkin, Syd Field and Steve Kaplan (who is also working with Matt as a script adviser on his Screen Australia-funded screenplay, Get Black).
We are very proud to announce that resident TBAAG word-chimp Matthew C. Vaughan has been nominated for a 2008 IF Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay for his script Get Black. In fact this same coveted award was won in 2007 by our comrade Luke Preston for his screenplay The Adventures of Abigail Storm.