Aaron Blabey and Don Watson Win Book of the Year Awards

Cameron Creswell heartily congratulates Don Watson, whose latest book American Journeys (Random House 2008) is the winner of the 2008 Age Book of the Year and Book of the Year (Non-fiction) awards, announced at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 25 August. Don previously won the Age Book of the Year in 2002 for Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart. This news followed the announcement of the Children's Book Council of Australia awards, at which Aaron Blabey won Book of the Year - Early Childhood for Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley (Viking 2007). Both Don and Aaron are outstanding storytellers, and this recognition is richly deserved.

Aaron's second picture book, Sunday Chutney, has just been published and his third is due out next year. Don's essay On Indignation is due out in October as part of MUP's series of essays.

Short Film receives AFI nomination and Panavision Award

Costume designer, Xanthe Heubel, was costume designer on Rene Hernandez's The Ground Beneath. This film recently received the very prestigious AFI nomination for 'Best Short Fiction Film' and won the 'Panavision Best Australian Achievement in Cinematography' Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival where the film had its World Premiere.

Mireille Juchau's nominated for The Prime Minister's Literary Awards

We are delighted to announce that Mireille Juchau's Burning In has been shortlisted for Australia's newest and richest literary prize, the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Awards that is valued at $100,000.

Helpmann Awards

At the 2008 Helpmann Awards Julie Lynch won Best Costume Design for Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show and Colette Mann was nominated for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical .
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Cannes 2008 - Adam Arkapaw

We are delighted to announce that DoP Adam Arkapaw's latest project, Julius Avery's short film Jerrycan, has been awarded the Short Film Jury Prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Set over the course of a single day Jerrycan uses non-actors to portray a group of young boys in regional Victoria looking for trouble. The shooting style was spontaneous and captures the impromptu moments as the boys play, fight and egg each other on to ever more dangerous deeds.
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New Client - Kim Hardwick

We are pleased that Kim Hardwick, the director of the controversial new musical Hatpin, has joined The Cameron Creswell Agency. Kim's previous credits include directing and producing several successful seasons of Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory Of Water and Jonathan Gavin's A Moment On The Lips.
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New releases by Cameron Creswell authors

This year sees the publication of a brace of new books by Cameron Creswell authors. Peter Corris has released his latest Cliff Hardy, Open File (Allen & Unwin, March), and April and May are bumper months, with the publication of Virginia Duigan's second novel, The Biographer, and several debut novels: Consumed by Caroline Hamilton (ABC Books) The Lost Boys by Sam de Brito (Picador) A Deadly Business by Lenny Bartulin (Scribe) The Retreaters by Sharlene Miller Brown (ABC Books).

Several of these authors will be appearing at the Sydney Writers Festival in May.
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Stephen Orr speaks out about Adelaide Writers' Week

Adelaide novelist Stephen Orr - winner of this year's SA Premier's Award for an Unpublished Novel - has written a thoughtful, firm piece on where he thinks Adelaide Writers' Week is getting it wrong. He was supported by fellow Adelaidean Sean Williams, the author of 23 novels.
Read the piece, and ensuing commentary, here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/14/2189879.htm
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Sundance Film Festival

David Michôd's Crossbow and Sean Byrne's Advantage have been selected to screen at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
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Rotterdam Cinemart

Miro Bilbrough's screenplay Venice & Eron Sheean's Errors of the Human Body have been selected for the 2008 Cinemart in Rotterdam.
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ADG awards

Tony Krawitz won an ADG award - Series (On Going) for All Saints ep 393 "Precious Moments"
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ADG awards nominations

The following clients who have received ADG awards nominations:

Television Telemovie
Curtin - Jessica Hobbs

Series (On Going)
All Saints ep 393 "Precious Moments" - Tony Krawitz
All Saints ep 380 "The Hearts of Men" - Peter Fisk

Television Commercial (TVC): Performance
Ford - Sean Byrne for Barry Hall

Music Video
Straight Lines - Paul Goldman and Alice Bell for Silverchair
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