David Hannam David Hannam i(A124442 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Script-writer, script editor, and story producer.

In the early 1990s, David Hannam undertook some minor roles in film and television, including as 'Guard D' in Singapore Sling (1993). But by 2000, he was beginning to work regularly as a script-writer.

In 2000, Hannam contributed to crime drama Stingers, followed by work on Jonathan M. Shiff Productions' live-action/animated children's fantasy series Horace & Tina (2001). Between 2000 and 2002, he contributed at least eight episodes to Something in the Air, and also wrote for Always Greener (2002). In the same period, he was writing for hospital drama All Saints, to which he contributed at least seven episodes between 2001 and 2004. In 2005, he contributed two episodes to Last Man Standing.

In 2003, Hannam began a productive association with The Sleepover Club: not only did he contribute at least nine episodes to the program between 2003 and 2007, but he was also script editor in 2003. In 2007, he resumed his connection with Jonathan M. Shiff Productions, contributing to Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji.

Between 2003 and 2011, Hannam was a regular contributor to Neighbours, for which he wrote over thirty episodes: he was also the program's story editor and story producer in 2008.

Since 2010, Hannam has contributed episodes to Dance Academy (2010-2012), Bed of Roses (2011), Winners & Losers (2011-2012), and Lightning Point (2012).

Screen Australia also credits Hannam with scripts for H2O: Just Add Water and Chuck Finn (series two): his name is not attached to any of the episodes for the former, and production of the latter was truncated by the bankruptcy of the production company.

Further Reference

'Heading to Hollywood with Scriptwriter David Hannam [radio interview]'. Breakfast with Red Symons. 774 ABC Melbourne. 26 May 2009. http://blogs.abc.net.au/victoria/2009/05/heading-to-holl.html (Sighted: 20/11/2012)

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • David Hannam was the first recipient of a Film Victoria International Fellowship that enables winners to travel to Hollywood, U.S.A., to work with established film and television producers.

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Rock Island Mysteries ( dir. Evan Clarry et. al. )agent Australia : FremantleMedia Australia , 2022-2023 24477519 2022 series - publisher film/TV children's Fourteen-year-old Taylor and her friends explore the mysterious and beautiful Rock Island.
2022 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Children's Television Series
form y separately published work icon Nowhere Boys : Two Moons Rising ( dir. Sian Davies et. al. )agent 2016 Australia : Matchbox Productions Pty Ltd Nowhere Boys 3 , 2016 10423656 2016 series - publisher film/TV science fiction fantasy children's

'When tech-nerd and sci-fi fanatic Luke (Kamil Ellis) arrives for his first day at Bremin High all appears to be tiresomely ordinary, but what he doesn't know is that Bremin is located at the convergence of magical ley lines and that someone has been awaiting his arrival to put together a new gang of Nowhere Boys. Three other Nowhere Boys have already been identified; 'bad boy' Heath (Joe Klocek) high achiever and soccer star, Nicco (Luca Sardelis) and musical theatre geek Jesse (Jordie Race-Coldrey).

'Coinciding with Luke's arrival, the people of Bremin start disappearing. Doubly peculiar is that, not only are they disappearing, but they're being wiped from everyone's memory and only the Nowhere Boys have noticed! Eventually Luke, Heath, Nicco and Jesse discover they are the last four people in the world. They find themselves thrust together in an eerily empty wasteland, forced to figure out how to save the town.' (Production summary)

2017 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Children's Television Series
form y separately published work icon Carlotta ( dir. Samantha Lang ) Australia : Story Ark Productions Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2014 7368191 2014 single work film/TV

'CARLOTTA is based on the extraordinary life of iconic Les Girls headliner and Australian transgender pioneer, Carlotta. Spanning forty years of groundbreaking social and sexual upheaval, Carlotta lays bare the life of the sexually confused teenager Richard Byron and his flight from a neglectful and abusive household into the turbulence of the hedonistic Kings Cross of the sixties and seventies. We witness the birth of the transsexual underworld against the threat of criminal prosecution as well as social rejection and with it, the emergence of the all conquering drag queen and performer, Carlotta.'

Source: Screen Australia.

2014 shortlisted Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Telefeature or Mini Series
2015 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
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