SARAH ROSSETTI – WRITER & SCRIPT EDITOR
Perth Screenwriter, Sarah Rossetti, has credits in a wide variety of genres.  She has won four AWGIES (Australian Writers’ Guild national awards) a Lotteries Commission Award for Film Excellence, a WA Premier’s Award and an If Award for Best Emerging Australian Talent – awarding her a flight to Los Angeles to work on her feature film.  Sarah enjoys working as a Script Editor and writing commissioned TV drama and doco programs/series. 
 

WRITER

2007

The Steinberg Experiment:  Writer and Researcher:  One Hour Docudrama.

(development funded) Taylor Media/ABC.

Weeping Women:  Writer and Researcher:  One Hour Documentary.

CM Films/Seven Network/FFC.

2005

Lockie Leonard:  Writer:  Episode 14 Children's Drama Series.

RB Films/Nine Network/ScreenWest.

Sleepover Club Series Two:  Writer:      4 Episodes Children's Drama Series.

Animazing Productions/Nine Network.

2004-2008

Nullarbor Pearl:  Writer:  Feature Film.

(development funded) 1st, 2nd and 3rd Drafts funded ScreenWest.

2003

Booze - Australia's Love Hate His & Her Story:  Writer and Researcher:  2 x 1 hour Documentary Series. 

(development funded) Artemis/ ABC/ Film Australia/ScreenWest.

All This:  8 Hour Adult Drama Series Plotting Team and Writer:  Episode 7.

(development funded) Kelly Lefever/ ScreenWest.

Sleepover Club:  Writer:  Episode 25.  Children's Drama Series.   (Shortlisted 2004 W.A Premier’s Award - script).

Burberry Productions/Nine Network/ITV UK/Nickelodeon USA.

2002

Home and Away:  Writer:  Episode 3463 Soap Opera.

Seven Network.

Ocean Obsessions:     Writer:  6 x half hour Documentary Series.

(development funded) Aquarius & Artemis/ABC TV/ScreenWest.

People Dimensions:  Researcher:  3 x half hour Documentary Programmes.

ABC (in-house documentary series).

Ocean Star - The Quest:  Writer:  3 Episodes Children’s Drama Series.

BBHTV/Network Ten/Disney Channel/BBC.

2001

Crush:  Writer:  Short Film.

Vitascope & Sauce Films/ScreenWest.

1999

Lobster Tales:  Writer and Researcher: One hour Documentary.  (Winner 2000 AWGIE Award.)

Artemis/ABC TV/Discovery Canada

1998

Pilbara Pearl:  Writer:  Short Film.  (Winner 1999 AWGIE Award, nominated AFI 1999.)

CVA Film & Television/SBS/ABC/ AFC/ScreenWest

1997

Hello Breakfast:  Writer:  Short Film.

Conspiracy Pictures/Arena TV Network

1996

Surfers Tension:  Writer:  1 Hour Radio Drama.  (Winner 1998 AWGIE Award.)

ABC Radio National.

Bush Patrol:  Writer:  Culture Clash:  Episode 10 Children's Drama Series. 

Winner 1996 W.A Premier’s Award (script) and 1997 AWGIE Award.

Rosenbaum Whitbread/Seven Network. 

SCRIPT EDITOR

2007

God Made Them Blind:  Documentary

Richard Todd/ScreenWest/AFC/ABC.

2005

King Lui:  Feature Film

Michael Bau/ScreenWest

Discerning Affairs:  Feature Film

Shelley Craddock/ScreenWest

Touch Stones:  Half Hour Documentary.

Education Department/West One.

Orphans Winning on Wall Street:  Feature Length Docudrama

Donna Geyer.

2004

Double Vision            :  Feature Film.

Sam Wilson/ScreenWest.

2003

Going to the Dogs:  Short Mockumentary Film

Vidiola/ScreenWest.

2002

John Rocky Robinson Roll with the Punches:  Short Mockumentary Film

Tim Maricic/Award Winner Tropfest 2002

AWARDS

2007

Shortlisted for the 2007 WA Premier’s Awards – Script Section (Pure Poetry).

2005

Shortlisted for the 2005 WA Premier’s Awards – Script Section (The Haunting).

2004

Shortlisted for the 2003 WA Premier's Awards - Script Section (Graffiti).

2000

Winner of the National If Award – Best Emerging Talent (Pilbara/Nullarbor Pearl).

Winner of the W.A. Lotteries Commission Award for Film Excellence (Pilbara Pearl).

Winner of the National AWGIE Award - Broadcast Documentary (Lobster Tales).

1999

Winner of the National AWGIE Award - Short Film (Pilbara Pearl).

1998

Winner of the National AWGIE Award - First Radio Play (Surfers Tension).

1997

Winner of the National AWGIE Award - Children’s Original (Culture Clash).

1996

Winner of the W.A Premier’s Book Awards - Script Section (Culture Clash).

Winner of Most Outstanding Student prize for creative writing at Curtin University.

EDUCATION & AFFILIATIONS

2006-2008

Completing her PHD Doctorate in Philosophy/Media at Murdoch University, WA

2007

Appointed to the National Executive Council of the Australian Writers’ Guild. 

2004

Script Assessor for the Australian Writers' Guild, and Committee Member, WA.

Lecturer and Tutor of Scriptwriting at Murdoch University, WA

2003

Lecturer and Tutor of Scriptwriting at Edith Cowan University, WA.

2000-2005

Adjunct Teaching Fellow & Scriptwriting Tutor at Curtin University, WA.

1998

Creative Writing Major.  B.A with Distinction in Communication & Cultural Studies at Curtin University, WA.

1996-2007

Committee Member and Full Member of the Australian Writers’ Guild. 

PUBLICATIONS – poetry, short fiction, articles and reviews in journals

Aversion, C.S.T.C. Training Journal, Daarke Worlde, Elisabeth Kubler – Ross Broadsheet (U.S.A), F.A.W New Writers’ Column, Four W, Fremantle Arts Review, Galloping on 4, Grok, Homestyle, In The Picture, Infant Times, Ita, Lies, Naked Eye, Navigations, Quadrant, Refractory Girl, Speculum, Stet, The Australian Writers’ Journal, Naked Pomegranate, The West Australian, The Western Review, Wasteland, Westerly, Western Word, Westwrite, Womanspeak, XY: Men, Sex and Politics.
 

PUBLICATIONS – poetry and short fiction in anthologies

Fremantle Stories, She’s a Train and She’s Dangerous, Summer Shorts, Summer Shorts II, Summer Shorts III ( Fremantle Art Centre Press), Voices of the grieving Heart (U.S.A),Who Do You Think You Are?, Shrieks (Women’s Redress Press).