Source: Vancouver Sun By Dana Gee Sometimes, summer jobs can really pay off. That is certainly the case for Vancouver’s Kate Bond, who drew on several years spent working as a tree planter in northern B.C., a historical tour guide in the Yukon, and a wildfire lookout...
Source: The Globe and Mail By MARSHA LEDERMAN Kate Bond is a Vancouver lawyer, the mother of a young child – and an aspiring writer. She has written eight novels, showing most of them to nobody. In the winter of 2015, she decided to try her hand at screenwriting. She...
Source: National Observer By Carl Meyer Kate Bond has the kind of voice that dances joyfully all over the vocal register, fiercely introspective yet disarmingly whimsical. “Writing a screenplay is very different from writing a novel. There’s so much white space on...
For immediate release (Vancouver) — Vancouver resident Kate Bond has been selected as the winner of the 2017 Daryl Duke Prize, an award created to support up-and-coming Canadian film and television writers, for Trapline, her first screenplay. The prize comes...
For immediate release (Vancouver) – A Vancouver resident has been selected as the winner of the 2017 Daryl Duke Prize, an award created to support up-and-coming Canadian film and television writers. The prize comes with a $25,000 award. The identity of this year’s...
The Daryl Duke Prize
The Daryl Duke Prize is an annual $25,000 prize awarded for excellence in a screenplay for an unproduced long-form dramatic film telling a fictional story. Created in memory of the great Daryl Duke, who strongly advocated for Canadian stories told through a Canadian lens — to truly express our own perspective.
