• Little Diva Rising

    The Three Faces of Writing

    You wouldn’t think that standing around giving actors instructions (when it’s needed), watching actors act, and watching the footage on the camera, would be so exhausting. But it is. It’s something about the creative process, about trying to produce something from your imagination – and whatever wells that invariably draws on. When I was younger and would have big writing sessions – and I’m talking writing eight or nine hours – I would always end the day feeling two things: uneasy, as if I’d spent so much of the day in my imagination, it was difficult transitioning back into the real world exhausted, like I’d just spent a couple of…

  • Little Diva Rising

    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…