Source: The Writers Guild of Canada April 30, 2019 A full house gathered at the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning’s Koerner Hall in Toronto last night for the 23rd annual WGC Screenwriting Awards gala. Not only were attendees treated to Sondheim and a spot-on...
Source: Globe and Mail For his screenplay Port of Call, an immigrant’s story and love letter to an uncle, Amir Kahnamouee has won the 2018 Daryl Duke Prize, an award created to nurture unknown film and television writers in Canada. The third annual prize comes with a...
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...
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.