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International Emmy Award for WA Scriptwriter
12 November 2009
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West Australian ex-pat Claire Tonkin has won the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award for her unpublished screenplay Me and Mine, a TV series about the ramifications of adoption and finding a place in the family.
Claire will be presented with the award at the International Emmy World Television Festival in New York later this month.
Entrants for the award had to create a completed half-hour to one-hour English-language television drama script for a family audience. Claire’s script will be read to the audience by actors at the Festival.
Claire graduated from ECU with a Bachelor of Communications (Media Studies) in 2007. She was supported early on by ScreenWest with a New Screenwriter’s bursary for a television series she created in a Scriptwriting unit at ECU.
Bevan Lee, script executive for the 7 Network, selected her for an attachment on All Saints, and she was then hired as a trainee in the drama department at Channel TEN where she is now a drama executive.
Claire’s past successes include being in the final 16 films for Tropfest 2005 for Fingerprints and winning a 2007 AWGIE (Australian Writers’ Guild Award) for her short film Button – also originally written in a Scriptwriting unit. In 1999 she won the WA Citizen of the Year Award youth category award.
FTI congratulates Claire on her award.
Image: Claire Tonkin Receiving her AWGIE in 2007
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