Cliff Green

Cliff Green OAM (born 6 December 1934, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian screen writer, whose best known work is Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).

Cliff Green, December 2013

In the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2009 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to the Australian film and television industry as a screenwriter and educator.[1]

His TV writing is used as an example of economy, wit and minimal formal camera directions in at least one screenwriting textbook. [2]

He served on the board of the Victorian Film Corporation from 1977 to 1984.

His screenplay Boy Soldiers was the first Australian drama to receive an Emmy nomination.

Television series

In 1981 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced I Can Jump Puddles, a mini-series written by Green based on Alan Marshall's autobiographical stories. [3]

Recognition

1976 - AWGIE (Best Screenplay)

1979 - Picnic at Hanging Rock Nominated for a Saturn Award (Best Writing)

1990 - AWG Richard Lane Award

1991 - International Emmy nomination for the screenplay of Boy Soldiers

2009 - Order Of Australia Medal

Select credits

References
  1. "GREEN, Clifford". Australian Government - It's An Honour. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2009.
  2. Aronson, Linda. Scriptwriting Updated. Australian Film, Television and Radio School. ISBN 1-876351-03-9
  3. "I Can Jump Puddles (1981)". Australian Screen. Retrieved 13 February 2008.


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