emily ballou
Poet, screenwriter and award-winning novelist Emily Ballou was a recipient of the Australian Film Commission’s New Screenwriters Scheme for her first feature screenplay, Sadie X-Ray in 1996. Since then she has worked with Gillian Armstrong adapting Helen Hodgman’s Waiting for Matindi for the screen, wrote the short film ‘Mittens’, directed by Emma Freeman, which was Fox Searchlight’s 2004 contender for the Academy Awards and worked as a story consultant with Craig Pearce. She is currently completing the feature The Circus for producer Leah Churchill-Brown and Leanne Tonkes, The Girl in the Mirror, a feature adaptation of the award-winning documentary ‘Girl in a Mirror’, to be produced by Angie Fielder (Aquarius Films) and Helen Bowden (Matchbox Pictures), and an adaptation of Sophie Cunningham’s Geography, for Tony Ayres and Matchbox Pictures.