{"id":1495,"date":"2014-08-08T12:46:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T02:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2014-08-08T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T02:46:03","slug":"talking-australian-gothic-with-terry-hayes-at-the-melbourne-writers-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"Talking Australian Gothic with Terry Hayes at the Melbourne Writers Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

In huge news, I’ve been invited to talk at the Melbourne Writers Festival (which I’m told is quite rare for genre writers). I’ll be in conversation with none other than the legendary Terry Hayes (writer of Mad Max 2<\/em>, Dead Calm<\/em>, et al) about the contribution of cinema to an “Australian Gothic”. I’m absolutely thrilled at the opportunity, and hope it’s well-attended (they have us in the main cinema at ACMI in Fed Square!). Will be a lot of fun. Even better is that I get a free pass to any (not sold out) session at the MWF, something I’ve certainly never had the fortune to experience before. Will be a heady week.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.mwf.com.au\/session\/australian-gothic-cinema\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Australian Gothic in Cinema<\/h2>\n

Saturday Aug 30 4pm, ACMI Studio 1\u00a0 Tix: $22.00\/$19.00<\/p>\n

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Successful and controversial Australian films Wolf Creek<\/em>, Mad Max<\/em> and Dead Calm<\/em> have exposed the real and imagined dark side of our nation. Screenwriter\/novelists Aaron Sterns and Terry Hayes discuss the role of cinema in creating an Australian Gothic. In conversation with Richard Watts.<\/p>\n

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Terry Hayes is a former journalist and screen-writer. Born in Sussex, England, he migrated to Australia as a child and trained as a journalist at the country\u2019s leading broadsheet. At twenty-one he was appointed North American correspondent, based in New York, and after two years returned to Sydney to become an investigative reporter, political correspondent and columnist.<\/p>\n

He resigned to produce a prominent current affairs radio program and a short time later, with George Miller, wrote the screenplay for Road Warrior\/Mad Max 2<\/em>. He also co-produced and wrote Dead Calm<\/em>, the film which launched Nicole Kidman\u2019s international movie career, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome<\/em> and a large number of TV movies and mini-series \u2013 including Bodyline and <\/em>Bangkok Hilton<\/em> \u2013 two of which received international Emmy nominations. In all, he has won over twenty film or television awards.<\/p>\n

After moving to Los Angeles he worked as a screen-writer on major studio productions. His credits include Payback<\/em> with Mel Gibson, From Hell<\/em>, starring Johnny Depp, and Vertical Limit<\/em> with Chris O\u2019Donnell. He has also done un-credited writing on a host of other movies including Reign of Fire<\/em>, Cliffhanger<\/em> and Flightplan<\/em>, starring Jodie Foster.<\/p>\n

I Am Pilgrim<\/em> is his first novel. He and his American wife \u2013 Kristen \u2013 have four children and live in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Equally comfortable in both fiction and film, Aaron Sterns has worked in the horror field for over twenty years. He is not only the co-writer of Wolf Creek 2<\/em>, winner of Best Screenplay at the Madrid International Fantastic Film Festival, but also author of prequel novel Wolf Creek: Origin<\/em>, described as \u2018one of the best serial killer novels out there [‘] destined to be considered a classic in future years\u2019.
\nSterns is the author of various Aurealis Award-nominated and Year\u2019s Best Fantasy & Horror recommended short stories, including The Third Rail<\/em> (from the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-Under<\/em>) and the dark werewolf-bouncer world of Watchmen<\/em> (the basis for his vicious and visceral upcoming novel Blood<\/em>). He is a former lecturer in Gothic & Subversive Fiction, editor of The Journal of the Australian Horror Writers<\/em> and Ph.D. student in postmodern horror. He also served as script-editor on Greg McLean\u2019s Rogue<\/em> and appeared in a little cameo as Bazza\u2019s Mate in Wolf Creek<\/em>.
\nSterns is currently working on another novel and a multitude of screenplays, including a film version of Blood<\/em>. He lives in Melbourne with his fiancee and the third of the \u2018Wolf Creek babies\u2019.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Richard Watts is a Melbourne-based arts writer and broadcaster. He presents the weekly program SmartArts on 3RRR and is a staff writer for ArtsHub, as well as a member of the Green Room Awards Association\u2019s Independent Theatre panel. Richard currently serves on the boards of La Mama Theatre and the literary journal Going Down Swinging, and was previously the Chair of Melbourne Fringe. He is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and the founder of the Emerging Writers\u2019 Festival.<\/p>\n

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In huge news, I’ve been invited to talk at the Melbourne Writers Festival (which I’m told is quite rare for genre writers). I’ll be in conversation with none other than the legendary Terry Hayes (writer of Mad Max 2, Dead Calm, et al) about the contribution of cinema to an “Australian Gothic”. I’m absolutely thrilled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-blatant-self-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aaronsterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}