Back on Track
Earlier in the year, Maria showed my action script, But the Truth, to a Queensland company. They loved it, so Maria and I flew down to meet with them. Coordinating the meeting was Maria’s friend, Vicky Wanless. Vicky herself is an actress, writer, producer, and director. She’s also, at this time, a Queenslander. Nothing came of the action script, but as we moved forward with Little Diva Rising, Maria brought Vicky onboard. When we were breaking down roles of who’d do what, a lot (nearly everything) was new to me. The only thing I knew about was writing. I didn’t even know what everybody else was good at. As time…
Making a Family
Only one day of filming this weekend, as I was at the Words in Winter Writers Festival in Daylesford on Sunday conducting a workshop on character. On Saturday, we filmed a number of the scenes between the two central characters, Vic (Cam Faull) and Maria (Maria Tevelis). I’ll start with Maria, who’s also a producer on Little Diva Rising, and a lot of the driving force behind the production. When Tony asked me to write him a feature screenplay some years ago, he asked me to write parts for actor-friends. This is who Tony is – he is always looking out for and trying to help others. It didn’t make…