Explore the process of writing for screen with renowned author and screenwriter Nayuka Gorrie.
Develop your skills writing for the screen in this exclusive workshop. Gorrie will discuss the practice of writing, creating Blak love stories and crafting characters and representations.
Supporting Partner
About Nayuka Gorrie
Nayuka Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta freelance and comedy television writer. Their writing centres on black, feminist and queer politics. They co-wrote and performed in the third and fourth seasons of Black Comedy and provided additional writing on the second season of Get Krack!n. More recently, Nayuka was a writer for the SBS/Matchbox series, The Heights (season 2) and the NITV children’s series, Thalu. Nayuka’s writing can be found in The Guardian, Saturday Paper, Vice, Junkee, Archer Magazine, The Lifted Brow and NITV among others. Nayuka contributed to the anthologies Growing Up Queer n Australia and Animals Make Us Humans and is currently writing a book of essays as a recipient of The Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter initiative to support their writing.
First Nations Film Club
Watch films from ACMI's collection and beyond, looking back on the trailblazing storytellers and seminal works that have paved the way for First Peoples stories on screen.
Join the club
You will need to be a member of the First Nations Film Club to attend this session. By becoming a member of the Club, you'll also get a range of ACMI member benefits.