Notes
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'... offered for the screenplay of a feature-length fiction film or for the script of a television drama program.'
(Source: Victorian Premier's Literary Awards website, http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/vrprize/index.html)
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2007
winner form y
The Tumbler
( dir. Marc Gracie
)
Australia
:
Mondayitis/Ztudio
,
2007
Z1417439
2007
single work
film/TV
thriller
crime
Two men stumble into an army base in the middle of the desert. While most of the Australian and American troops are out on manoeuvres, the base is guarded by a single, disenchanted soldier. Learning that the men are seeking a forgotten fortune in gold bars, hidden under the base after World War II, she throws her lot in with them, rather than face her coming court martial. But one of the men has his own agenda.
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Year: 2006
winner form y
Noise
( dir. Matt Saville
)
Australia
:
Retro Active Films Pty Ltd
,
2007
Z1304559
2007
single work
film/TV
thriller
crime
(taught in 1 units)
The community reels after a mass murder on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the screaming in his head while all around him try to deal with the afterburn of the terrible crime.
(Source: Australian Film Commission website)
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Year: 2004
winner form y
Somersault
More Than Scarlet
( dir. Cate Shortland
)
Australia
:
Red Carpet Productions
,
2004
Z1153215
2004
single work
film/TV
(taught in 2 units)
'A visually haunting story of an adolescent girl's discovery of the difference between sex and love in the winter landscape of an Australian ski resort town.'
Source: Screen Australia.
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Year: 2002
winner Everett de Roche
