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SWANZ & USC Screenwriter Finalists Announced
SWANZ & USC Screenwriter Finalists Announced
The
New Zealand Writers Guild is honoured to
announce the 8th Annual SWANZ (Script
Writer Awards New Zealand) and Unproduced Script
Competition Finalists.
NZWG is proud to be awarding writers in nine categories at the 2017 SWANZ Awards ceremony. The following categories – plus the NZWG Mentorship Award – will be announced at The Sweat Shop on Thursday 28 September 2017.
Door entry is available HERE
2017 SWANZ - Finalists
South Pacific
Pictures – Best Feature Film
The Inland
Road – Jackie van Beek
Waru – Briar
Grace-Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe,
Chelsea Cohen, Renae Maihi, Paula Jones, Josephine
Stewart-Te Whiu
Best Short Film
Mr
Bernstein – Guy Hamling
My Brother Mitchell
– Todd Karehana
Shout at the Ground – Joe
Lonie
The Pissy Tits Street Gang – Rosie
Howells
Best Play
Magdalena of
Mangere – Louise Tu’u
Te Puhi – Cian
Elyse Waiti
Top This – Emilia
Marriott
ATEED Best Episode TV Series –
Drama
Dirty Laundry, Episode 12 – Jess
Sayer
The Brokenwood Mysteries Series 3, Episode 4
– Tim Balme
The Cul de Sac, Series 2, Episode 6
– Stephen J Campbell
Shortland Street 25th
Anniversary Special – Nick Malmholt, Harry
McNaughton
Westside Series 2, Episode 10 – James
Griffin
Best Web Episode
Auckward
Love, Season 3, Episode 1 – Jess Sayer
Darryl.
An Outward Bound Story, Episode 2 – Millen Baird, John
Argall
Guess I'm Coming to Dinner – Roseanne
Liang
The Cricket Bat – Mike
Minogue
Best One-off TV
Drama
Jean – Paula Boock, Donna
Malane
Why Does Love? – Pip Hall, Philip
Smith
Best New Writer
Cian Elyse
Waiti
Jess Sayer
Mike Minogue
Rosie Howells
Todd
Karehana
2017 Unproduced Script Competition -
Finalists
TV
Pilot
Mountain View – Carl
Smith
Saviour – Rene LeBas
The Wrong Side
of the Grass – Rene LeBas
Feature
Film
Daisy Chain – Shoshana
McCallum
Blind Eye – April
Phillips
Bootblack – Richard Goodwin
Make sure that you're there in person to see
the winners take centre stage:
SWANZ Awards @ Sweat Shop Brew
Kitchen
7 Sale Street, Freeman's Bay, AKL
1010
7:30pm for 8pm start, Thurs 28
September
Get your tickets HERE
The SWANZ are proudly
supported by New Zealand Film Commission, Final Draft, South Pacific Pictures, ATEED and Filthy
Productions.
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