AustLit
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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 crimeTwo 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.