The Team

Anne Brooksbank has written many episodes of major series, including Blue Heelers, Water Rats, and several feature films. She has won six AWGIES including Best Telefeature, 2000, for Marriage Acts. Her episode of Halifax fp was nominated for Best Script, 2001. She has been an assessor for the AFC and has lectured on screenwriting at Sydney University and UTS. She is currently working with an LA director on three feature scripts, including an adaptation of her book, Mother's Day.

David Caesar is one of Australia's best known writer-directors of feature films Dirty Deeds, Mullet, Idiot Box, and documentaries Fences and Body Work. He has directed All Saints, Wildside, Water Rats, Halifax F.P., Bad Cop Bad Cop and Crashburn. Since being a recipient of the FTO's Aurora 2004 Workshop, he has directed the mini-series RAN, and written/directed the mini-series Dangerous as well as writing his own scripts.

Raymond Devitt is a well-known writer, story consultant and script editor. Steeped in popular culture, Raymond specializes in innovative genre-based scripts. He has taught Screenwriting and related subjects at UTS, Macquarie University and Metro Screen. He served as script editor on the feature film Dirty Deeds and story consultant on Stranded. His screenplay Highway Toll won a place in the prestigious Aurora 2003 Workshop and is currently in development.

Anthony Egan is a screenwriter, script consultant and script editor with
a penchant for comedy, genre hybrids, horror, sci-fi, thriller and action. In 2005 he was script editor of Masterpiece, a finalist in the Nichol Screenwriting Competition. Anthony has worked as a writer or analyst with Fox-Icon /Fox-Searchlight, Beyond, Voyager Films, Vitascope, Cine-2000 (Korea), China Entertainment (Hong Kong) and many others. He has just produced the sci-fi comedy feature Mortal Fools.

Claire Haywood is a writer/producer whose television credits include McLeod's Daughters, Housecalls, Auction Squad, Bert Newton's 10 to 1. She's had several plays produced and has written commissioned feature films in Australia and New Zealand. Her documentary credits include: All Days Are Nights and A Frontier Conversation. Claire has been a script assessor for twenty years. She's assessed for Fox Australia and Arena Television and is currently a script reader for the NSW FTO and the NZFC.

John Lonie is head of Screenwriting at AFTRS. His television credits include writing for True Believers, The Paper Man, GP, Police Rescue. John is co-writer of Kokoda screened Australia-wide in 2006. His script The Savage Garden will be shot in 2007. Script editing credits include Ivan Sen's Beneath Clouds, Alison Tilson's Japanese Story, Axefall by Lynne Vincent McCarthy, (selected for the first Aurora Workshop), and Cannes Prix d'Or winner Laurie McInnes' Dogwatch.

John O'Grady is a comedy specialist who has worked as writer, script editor, developer and producer. He was Executive Producer ABC TV Comedy from 1979 to 1997. His many credits include Mother & Son, for which he was script editor and Executive Producer. His programs have sold to more than 30 countries. He has won 4 AWGIE Awards for Best Comedy script, and the AWG's 2006 Fred Parsons Award for Comedy.

Deborah Parsons is one of Australia's top TV drama writers, and has written for Phoenix, Police Rescue, Good Guys Bad Guys, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, McLeod's Daughters, Young Lions, Marshall Law, White Collar Blue, MDA and others. Deb has written four feature films, lectured in Screenwriting at RMIT and been a leading script editor and consultant for the FFC, FTO, AFC, and Film Vic.

Nick Parsons wrote and directed the feature film Dead Heart, two short films and Saviour, a half-hour episode of the 2006 series two Twisted, and several plays. Nick has script edited or advised on the feature films Clubland, Candy, Caterpillar Wish, Newcastle (in production), Cedar Boys and The King (in post-production). He is currently working on a commissioned screenplay, Homecoming, and the upcoming children's series My Place, for ABC Television.

Ian Pringle was a producer on cutting-edge independent films Romper Stomper, Lover Boy, Celia, The Tale Of Ruby Rose and the writer/director of The Plains of Heaven, Wrong World, and Prisoner of St Petersburg. As a script consultant for international production companies and Australian funding bodies Ian helped develop many scripts. He now has two optioned feature screenplays in development.

Scott Roberts has written successfully for film and TV in London, LA and Australia for over twenty years. His first feature as writer/director was The Hard Word with Guy Pearce & Rachel Griffiths (2002). Scott has taught screenwriting and is an expert script doctor, editor and assessor. As script consultant he has helped a number of projects through to completion. In early 2007 there are two films in production - Prey and The Independent - that he made a significant contribution to through Script Central.

Billy Marshall Stoneking was series writer for Paramount TV's Mission: Impossible, creator/writer of acclaimed ABC TV series Stringer, and writer of several plays including the often performed Sixteen Words For Water. He has written/produced several documentary films about the years he spent living with tribal Aboriginal people. His script editing credits include Chopper and Aboriginal filmmaker Darlene Johnson's Crocodile Dreaming. Billy is a full-time lecturer in Screenwriting at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

Chryssy Tintner is a freelance screenwriter, development executive, script doctor, editor and assessor. Following her Master of Arts at USC, Chryssy worked in Los Angeles, Europe and Australia. This included stints with Thompson Street Pictures at 20th Century Fox, Rosebank Films, the William Morris Agency, Octagon/World 2000 at Ardmore Studios in Ireland and assessments for the Australian Writers Guild.

Greg Woodland, Director of Script Central, has been a script editor and script consultant for most Australian film funding bodies, the NZFC and AWG. Greg is a writer/director whose short films have screened internationally in festivals & on television. He received a 2005 AFC Writing Fellowship, a Varuna 2004 Writers Fellowship and a 2002 FTO Script Editor Fellowship. His script The Visitor won the Open Script Award of the 2007 Inscription Scriptwriting Competition and is currently in financing.

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