Screen Queensland would like to invite you to a Panel Session and Networking Event on Friday 9 September 2011.  Click here to view your invitation.

 What books make great films? Watch publishers and agents present to film producers in an entertaining recreation of ‘the pitch’. You might just see Australia’s next international hit adaptation begin its journey from book to blockbuster.

For the second year in a row, Screen Queensland and Brisbane Writers Festival will bring together the publishing and production industries for a special event that could see an author’s work adapted into a major motion picture or television event in a development package worth up to $40,000.

This year, the panel session adapting literary works for film and TV will be followed by a networking event inviting producers, writers and directors to mingle with publishers and agents, and to hopefully start discussions leading to some deals.

Launched at this event will be a development package of $40,000, offered by Screen Queensland, for an adaptation which will include an option fee for the author.  It is envisaged that following the event, applications will be open for the development package for approximately 6 weeks, with the selected recipient of the package announced sometime during the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) (November 3-13, 2011).  The package includes up to $5,000 for the author, plus a $2,000 bonus if it is the work of a Queensland author.

Those on the panel are:

• Chris Brown, producer + Peter/Michael Spierig, writers/directors, adapting the feature film Jungle, soon to start shooting in Queensland
• Tracey Robertson + Anthony Mullins, Hoodlum Active, producing the multiplatform content for the TV series adaptation Conspiracy 365, currently in production
• Mark Overett, New Holland Pictures, currently in development on the Keith Bulfin book Undercover, being developed as the feature film The Banker with Danish director Niels Arden Oplev (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
• Ross Grayson-Bell, producer of the adaptation Fight Club, and Head of Screenwriting at AFTRS

We hope to see you there.

**This event is open to anyone who may have an interest in adaptations. Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you believe would benefit from attending this event.**