Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting (1984-)
Subcategory of New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
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History

Called the Scriptwriting Award in 2012, and the Betty Roland Prize (Scriptwriting) in 2013.

Notes

  • Awarded to the screenplay of a feature-length film or documentary, the script of a radio play or documentary, or the script of a work (fiction or non-fiction) especially made for television.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2024

Indexed selectively. Also shortlisted: The Giants (Laurence Billiet and Rachael Antony).
winner form y separately published work icon Safe Home Anna Barnes , Michelle Law , Jean Tong , ( dir. Stevie Cruz-Martin ) Australia : Kindling Pictures SBS , 2023 23923086 2023 series - publisher film/TV

'Safe Home tells the story of Phoebe, a young woman working at a not-for-profit legal centre helping women escape domestic abuse, whose life gets turned upside down when she witnesses a murder on a suburban street.'

Source: Screen Australia (https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2022/02-21-new-australian-drama-series-safe-home). (Sighted: 03/03/2022)

Year: 2023

Also shortlisted: The Australian Wars.
winner form y separately published work icon Blaze Huna Amweero , Del Kathryn Barton , ( dir. Del Kathryn Barton ) Australia : Causeway Films , 2022 13008260 2022 single work film/TV

'After accidentally witnessing a woman being raped, a 12 year-old girl left catatonic with shock, struggles to make sense of what she saw and ultimately finds renewal in the inestimable world of her imagination.'

Source: Screen Australia funding approval.

Year: 2022

winner form y separately published work icon Nitram Shaun Grant , ( dir. Justin Kurzel ) Australia : Stan , 2021 21974084 2021 single work film/TV

'NITRAM looks at the events leading up to one of the darkest chapters in Australian history in an attempt to understand why and how this atrocity occurred. Currently in production in Victoria.'

Source: Stan.

Year: 2021

winner form y separately published work icon Freeman Laurence Billiet , ( dir. Laurence Billiet et. al. )agent Australia : General Strike Matchbox Pictures , 2020 20130131 2020 single work film/TV

'A nation came together around Indigenous athlete Cathy Freeman who delivered when it mattered on the greatest stage on earth at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. 20 years on, this documentary sheds light on one of Australia's proudest moments.' (Production summary)

Year: 2020

joint winner form y separately published work icon The Cry [Episode 2] Jacquelin Perske , ( dir. Glendyn Ivin ) United Kingdom (UK) Australia : Synchronicity Films , 2018 18090429 2018 single work film/TV
joint winner form y separately published work icon Missing Kylie Boltin , Australia : SBS , 2019 18892000 2019 single work film/TV An interactive online documentary about the abduction, in 1966, of Wendy Jane Pfeiffer from Mylor in the Adelaide Hills, and her discovery by two Pitjantjatjara trackers.
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