Nerida
Moore
Senior
Development Executive
Screen
Australia
Level
7, 45 Jones St
Ultimo 2007
12th
Oct. 2015
Dear
Nerida
I have a challenge for you:
To read the first 10 pages of my 6th
draft screenplay for HONEY.
Backstory:
Since 10th May 2012 I
have been banned, by the Screen Australia board, from making applications of
any kind to Screen Australia. I am banned from even having a telephone
conversation with atone at SA!
My crime:
I have intimidated and placed at
risk members of Screen Australia’s staff with my correspondence.
The evidence in support of my
crime?
None.
Your job is to seek out and
develop screenplays of the highest quality. Does it matter that such a
screenplay might have been written by an axe murderer serving multiple life
sentences in jail? Would you care if the screenwriter happened to be a person
whose character, morals and values you found reprehensible if s/he had written
a great screenplay? Why should it matter if a screenwriter has been critical of
Screen Australia policy? If a filmmaker has had the temerity to hold senior
members of Screen Australia accountable for their words; their actions?
Are you on the lookout for good
screenplays or for screenplays written by people you approve of?
If you fear that the reading of
the first 10 pages of HONEY may place you at risk, do not turn to page one. If
you are curious to see if the first 10 pages hold promise, read them. Ten
minutes of your time. Not a lot.
If the first 10 pages whet your
appetite for more, keep reading. If you get to the end of the screenplay and
believe it to have potential to be a fine film, bear in mind that HONEY cannot
be made as an Australian film for as long as I am a banned filmmaker.
best
wishes
James
Ricketson
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