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Zapruder’s other films has once again organised major players in the Australian screen industry to reward courage in writing.

Presented by the Australian Writers’ Foundation (AWF), the $30,000 Kit Denton Fellowship will be sponsored by Zapruder’s other films with Animal Logic, FremantleMedia Australia,  GNWTV, Hopscotch Films, Princess Pictures, Shine Australia and TressCox Lawyers.

For the fourth year running the prestigious fellowship will be presented to a writer who has shown courage in their work and demonstrated a willingness to challenge the status quo with their writing.

In 2009 the fellowship was awarded to a Victorian theatre company, Back to Back Theatre, in recognition of its groundbreaking work. One of Australia’s leading contemporary theatre companies, it has forged its own unique relationship to theatre, developing an original, distinctive artistic voice and a working process that supports its ensemble of actors with intellectual disabilities as its creative core.

The company said that receiving the fellowship has allowed them to consistently move ahead with the creation of a work which they hope will be an experience for the audience that is unlike anything seen before.

“It is a great honour to have received the 2009 Kit Denton Fellowship. The purpose of the Fellowship is to promote courage in performance writing; we can think of no better impulse. With support from the Fellowship, we hope to make a work that is simultaneously intelligent, irresponsible, unpredictable, irreverent, disrespectful, respectful, essential, intriguing, chaotic, ridiculous and funny.”

The fellowship was created in 2007 to honour the work and memory of Kit Denton, a respected and admired member of the writing community. Kit was a lifetime member of the Australian Writers’ Guild, a scriptwriter, author, poet and lyricist.  His most famous work was The Breaker, an international best selling novel about the trial and execution of Breaker Morant.

The driving force behind the fellowship is Kit’s son Andrew Denton, whose production company Zapruder’s other films is amongst the eight sponsors. He said that “A courageous idea can have a life well beyond its creators expectations. 2008 winner, playwright Suzie Miller, has just moved to the UK to capitalise on the success there of her play about a child killer, Transparency, the writing of which was supported by the Fellowship. I am delighted that producers whose work I respect are prepared to support writers whose words have the capacity to make people see the world differently”.

The $30,000 fellowship consists of a $25,000 cash prize and pro bono legal advice from TressCox Lawyers to the value of $5,000.

Entries for the Kit Denton Fellowship open Wednesday 14 April and close 5.00pm Friday 7 May. For more information on the fellowship and how to enter go to www.awg.com.au

In presenting the Kit Denton Fellowship, the Australian Writers’ Foundation, the charitable arm of the Australian Writer’s Guild is demonstrating its commitment to increasing opportunities for satisfying and rewarding work for Australian performance writers.

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The Best Comedy prize for the 2010 Movie Extra Tropfest, which is sponsored by Zapruder’s Other Films, was won for the second year in a row, by Abe Forsythe. Abe was also the overall winner of Tropfest for his short film Shock, a topical tribute to the gentle soul that is Kyle Sandilands. 

For more details visit the Tropfest website here

The Australian Writers’ Foundation is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2009 Kit Denton Fellowship is the groundbreaking theatre company Back to Back Theatre. The $25, 000 fellowship was presented to the Geelong based company by Andrew Denton as part of the 42nd Annual AWGIE Awards.

The fellowship was set up in 2007 in memory of Kit Denton, scriptwriter, author, poet and lyricist, whose most famous work was the international best-selling novel The Breaker.

Reflecting the courage of Kit’s own work, the purpose of the Fellowship is to promote courage in performance writing and to champion bold and challenging ideas.

Back to Back Theatre is one of Australia’s leading contemporary theatre companies and in its 21-year history has forged its own unique relationship to theatre, developing an original, distinctive artistic voice and a working process that supports its ensemble of actors with intellectual disabilities as its creative core. The company’s remarkable production Food Court was recently performed at the Sydney Opera House as part of Brian Eno’s Luminous festival. The Kit Denton Fellowship will allow the company to develop their proposed project Ganesh Vs the Third Reich into a marketable script.

After awarding the fellowship Andrew Denton said:

“In the tradition of the boy who pointed out the Emperor’s new clothes, we were looking for writers with courage, to think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable. I think we can proudly say that in Back to Back Theatre we found it. ”

Zapruder’s other films sponsors the fellowship along with Animal Logic, TressCox Lawyers, FremantleMedia, GNWTV and Kennedy Miller Mitchell.