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Channel TEN drama executive Claire Tonkin has won the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award for an original script written by a non-US citizen younger than 30.
She will will be presented with the Award at the International Emmy World Television Festival in New York City in November.
Entrants for this contest were asked to create a completed half-hour to one-hour English-language television drama script for a family audience.
Her unpublished screenplay Me and Mine, a drama about the ramifications of adoption and finding a place in the family, will be read by actors at the Festival.
Tonkin, who has worked on Rush and All Saints, is no stranger to winning contests, having has previously won a 2007 AWGIE for for her short film Button. In 1999 she won the WA Citizen of the Year Award youth category award.
TEN should surely have a look at this project, given the success of family dramas, and Seven’s factual success with reuniting families.
Source: The Australian
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Interestingly, this is not the first time an Aussie has won it. Jo Kasch a Blue Heelers writer won it a few years ago. (And no, my surname is not Kasch!) Good on you Claire.