Gender:
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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2012 recipient Creative Industries Career Fund to undertake a screenwriting internship.
- 2002 winner Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Jill Blewett Playwright's Award for the Creative Development of a Play Script by a SA Emerging Writer for 'Small Faith'.
Awards for Works
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y
Aunty's Wedding
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2020
19670947
2020
single work
picture book
children's
'A Tiwi-Island girl prepares for Aunty's wedding with help from her maningawu in this vibrant picture book by the popular actor and writers of Top End Wedding and the highly acclaimed illustrator of Alfred's War.
'Everyone on the island is getting ready for Aunty's wedding.
'Maningawu puts on her best hat and I can wear a wurrijinga in my hair. Lucky!
'We all dress up, but I still don't understand. Why do people have a wedding?
'A warm family story that celebrates love and culture from actor, activist, writer and Australian sweetheart, Miranda Tapsell, and Joshua Tyler, co-writer of Top End Wedding, lushly illustrated by Samantha Fry.' (Publication summary)
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form
y
Top End Wedding
( dir. Wayne Blair
)
Australia
:
Goalpost Pictures
,
2019
13859352
2019
single work
film/TV
'This hilarious and heart-warming comedy is the story of successful Sydney lawyer, Lauren, and her fiancée Ned. Engaged and in love, they have just 10 days to find Lauren's mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the Northern Territory, reunite her parents and pull off their dream Top End Wedding.' (Production abstract)
- 2020 nominated Capricornia Film Awards — Best Feature-length Production
- 2019 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Film
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