UPDATE ON CATAPULT LAB

If you're a budding screenwriter, how do you break into the industry, either film or TV?

Last December, the Australian Writers' Guild in Victoria hosted a one day session about how new writers can break in. We heard from Shaun Grant, Anne Richey, Grant Scicluna, Shanti Gudgeon and Rohan Jones, who have bee past recipients of New Writers' grants .Karin Altmann also gave a terrific talk about what assessors are looking for in new submissions, and Charlie Carman outlined Film Victoria's new Catapult Lab.

To prove the demand for programs for new writers, Film Victoria had over 130 applications to their Cataput Lab initiative!

The alternative, of course, is to grab a camera, a few crew and bunch of actors, and start shooting!

MARK POOLE