La Trobe historian and author Associate Professor Clare Wright and Hollywood producer and writer Anne Kenney stopped over in Castlemaine on Tuesday last week as part of a research tour of the goldfields region for upcoming project Forgotten Rebels: From Book to Screen.
La Trobe University recently announced it is investing $200,000 into developing the pilot TV script and treatment for Associate
Professor Wright’s Stella Prize winning book, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka about the little acknowledged role of women in the Eureka Stockade.
Anne Kenney (Outlander, ER, LA Law) has been secured to develop the pilot script. For the full story see last Friday’s Castlemaine Mail.