SAE Magazine 13-2

128 W ith that in mind, you can imagine my trepidation when Rodney asked me to co-write his 1991 award-winning classic novel Captivity Captive into a screenplay. It was clear that to do this classic Australian period novel justice we would have to embrace that art of collaboration and compromise. There was potential for this dramatic project to blow up in our faces. With Film Victoria funding us the stakes were high and the team, including producer, script editor and Rodney and I, all have a range of character traits. Captivity Captive centres on a border crossing of the human soul. This is a story of an unsolved murder mystery: three siblings from a Catholic family found murdered in a paddock in New South Wales in 1898 – with no c theme centres on sexuali and misinterpreted. Whe days of collaboration, I re I was to Rodney’s positio studied with legendary no been mentored by poet Jo the lessons in poetic repre me to be totally applicable the producer, Chris Warne respecting of the novel – delivery of a workable m had to consider script edit job was to focus our po functional story form. Production & Know How // Adaptation process Love – the pi of our film – interest to

SAE Magazine 13-2

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