Friday June 15: Jan Sardi: Adaptation, audiences and award winning films
Jan Sardi is one of Australia’s best known and internationally acclaimed screenwriters. It was his screenplay for
Shine that first drew him to local and international prominence resulting in AFI and AWGIE award wins as well as
Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Writers’ Guild of America award nominations.
Jan’s screenwriting career is distinguished not only by Award wins and nominations, for both film and television,
but more recently by his uncanny ability to adapt works that have gone on to be box office successes including
hit films The Notebook and Mao’s Last Dancer. He is currently adapting The Secret River by Kate Grenville, and
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier.
Jan will discuss the key ingredients of a successful adaptation; how he goes about taking audience into account
and the most effective way of creating dramatic structure.
The Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) serves up fresh, free and topical mind food for screen
arts and broadcast practitioners and enthusiasts alike every week at ACMI. Hosted by Sandra Sdraulig, former
CEO of Film Victoria and Director of the Melbourne International Film Festival, Friday on My Mind is FREE and
open to all.
Come along and enjoy the informed and film literate host as she discusses creative practice with a range of
interesting guest practitioners each and every Friday throughout the year. The latest details on guests appear in
AFTRS’ weekly Victorian Red-Alert e-bulletin, which you can sign up to receive it via the AFTRS’ website:
AFTRS WEBSITE: www.aftrs.edu.au/
RED ALERT: www.aftrs.edu.au/redalert
Get your Friday fix of ideas and insight from some of the best in the business …
Sessions are usually Unclassified 15+ but on some occasions will include 18+ material.
