Affiliations and Awards
Arts Sector Affiliations:
Member: NZ Writers Guild (President 2004 - 2007) Member: Playmarket Member: WIFT (Women in Film and Television) Member: PANZ (Playwrights Association of NZ) Member: NZSA (Pen) NZ Society of Authors Member: Travcom: Travel Writers Association of NZ |
Distinctions and Awards:
Recipient, 2018 Shanghai Writer's Residency, courtesy of the Michael King Wrtier's Centre and the New Zealand China Friendship Society. Finalist, Qantas Media Awards, 2009, Reviewing Winner, Best foreign short screenplay, 2008 Moondance International Film Festival (Eeling) Winner of PANZ play writing competition, 2007 (The Dance of Life) Selected for the inaugural New Zealand Writers Foundation Screenwriting Laboratory in 2002 – with Martyn Sanderson (Screenplay - Woman from the Hills) The Beach, the first short film I wrote (dir. Dorthe Scheffmann) was selected for Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Narrator of the Year Award 1993 |