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Joan Sauers Joan Sauers i(A148638 works by)
Born: Established: New York (City), New York (State),
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Americas,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: ca. 1991
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BiographyHistory

Script-writer, script editor, and author.

Joan Sauers was born in New York, and began her professional association with film and television in Hollywood. According to an interview with Richard Fidler in 2007:

I shared a bungalow actually with David Lynch and Jean Luc Goddard and Michael Powell, the director of Red Shoes. I mean there was amazing sort of talent around at the time and we would sit around sort of at lunch time having take away pizzas talking about films and I probably got more of an education that way than I ever would have at film school, which I never went to.

She arrived in Australia in the early 1990s, and began working on Australian film and television as both a script-writer and a script editor. Among the works for which she served as script editor are The Principal, 100 Bloody Acres, Rake, Cedar Boys, and The Heartbreak Kid.

Sauers is also the author of a number of non-fiction books, including Sex Lives of Australian Women and Sex Lives of Australian Teenagers. She published her debut novel in 2023.

Sources:

'Joan Sauers Investigates the Sex Lives of Australian Teenagers' (interview with Richard Fidler), ABC Radio. 13 February 2007. Available via ABC website.

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Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Wakefield ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse et. al. )agent Australia : BBC Studios Jungle Entertainment , 2021 21478633 2021 series - publisher film/TV

'Nikhil Katira is a psychiatric nurse working at Wakefield, a facility perched on the edge of Australia's spectacular Blue Mountains. There's one problem - while his patients are getting better, he's getting worse.' (Production summary)

2021 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Television Drama Series
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