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Karin Altmann

Karin set up ScriptWorks in 2009 after six years as a Project Manager with the Australian Film Commission, (now Screen Australia) where she selected, funded and managed feature film, documentary and shorts projects for both development and production.

She had worked at the AFC twice previously and, in her time there, has read more than 1,700 projects. She also designed and established a number of initiatives, including the AFC New Screenwriters Program; the Distinctly Australian Fellowship programs and, with ABCTV, the JTVdocs program.

Karin is a frequent guest lecturer at the RMIT University, the Victorian College of the Arts Film School (University of Melbourne) and AFTRS (the Australian Film, Television and Radio School). She has twice served on the judging panel of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars.

A graduate of the National Film School of Great Britain, Karin's credits as a documentary director include award winners, Raoul Wallenberg: Between the Lines (winner, AFI Best Documentary) and Lynn Seymour: In A Class Of Her Own (US title Ballerina: Lynn Seymour). Her documentary on schizophrenia, Holding On To What Is Real, was nominated for the International Prix Jeunesse.

Karin's work as an Australian television drama writer includes: Something in the Air, Blue Heelers, Cluedo and War and Puss for the ABC Worst Day Of My Life series (nominated for an Awgie Award and also written and published as a children's novel). She co-wrote the telemovie, One Way Ticket, a ratings winner for Channel 9, with her ScriptWorks colleague, Michael Brindley.

The Australian Writers Guild presented Karin with the 2010 Dorothy Crawford Award For Outstanding Contribution to the Profession.

Filmography

RAOUL WALLENBERG: Between The Lines »

Raoul Wallenberg was an unlikely hero. A Swedish diplomat, he risked his life to challenge the Nazi forces in Hungary and to save the lives of as many as 100,000 Jews in Budapest in 1944...