The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing: Judges 2007

Claire Dobbin (Convenor)

Claire Dobbin is a freelance script editor and producer who works with development agencies and filmmakers in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and France. She is Chair of the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Australian and New Zealand representative and selection board member of the Paris-based international script workshop éQuinoxe, advisor for screenwriting workshops in Australia and New Zealand, and guest lecturer and mentor for masters students at the Victorian College of the Arts Film School.

Previously Claire lectured in screenwriting at RMIT, and was Director and Senior Development Executive of the Melbourne office of the Australian Film Commission, where she supervised the development and/or production of acclaimed films including Mallboy, Small Treasures and Rabbit-Proof Fence. She was script and project consultant on Candy, (Berlin 2006). She is currently script-editing a number of features for both Australian and international writers and developing and co-producing two features.

Vincent Giarrusso

Vincent Giarusso is a Melbourne-based film maker, writer and composer. During the 90s he wrote and performed with the ARIA award-winning rock band undergroundLOVERS/gbvg. He wrote, directed and composed the score for the highly acclaimed Mallboy (official selection in Director’s Fortnight at Cannes 2000). Since then he has had a number of projects at various stages of development in the private and government sector as both a writer and director, including Orange (AFC funded to third draft), The Inbetweenies (treatment funding FilmVIC) and Godless (AFC indiVISION 2006).

Music compositions include the score composition to The What If Man (a science-fiction documentary, MIFF 2001) and Mist and Sea. Vincent lectures in script writing, directing for television and feature films, and multimedia at Swinburne University.

Adrian Martin

Adrian Martin is an award-winning journalist with over two decades experience of film criticism and analysis. Adrian has been the weekly film critic for The Age in Melbourne since 1995 and has written extensively for film and culture magazines since 1979. He has also written and made contributions to over 30 books. His career has been acknowledged with The Byron Kennedy Award (Australian Film Institute, 1993) and Pascall Prize for Critical Writing (Geraldine Pascall Foundation) 1997.