Healing (2014) – Wins Feature Film Script Award

Pointblank Pictures and Pinnacle Films are thrilled to announce that screenwriters Alison Nisselle and Craig Monahan were last night announced as the winners of the 2013 QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARD for FEATURE FILM SCRIPT, in a ceremony at the State Library Of Queensland in Brisbane.

Developed by the two writers over many years, and directed by Craig Monahan (The Interview) HEALING stars Hugo Weaving and Don Hany in a story of redemption and renewal centred around two men in a low-security country prison – one a warden, the other a long-term prisoner.

This prestigious award places the film’s screenplay and its authors amongst many of the leading lights of Australian writing such as Christopher Koch, Murray Bail, Cate Kennedy and Andrew Bovell; and is the first public accolade for the yet to be completed film.

In awarding the prize to HEALING, the judges commented that “this wholly impressive, truthful work avoids all the usual traps of pursuing ideological agendas or stereotypical storylines, and in so doing, takes us to the source.”

Production of HEALING took place earlier this year on locations in regional Victoria and the film is currently in post-production.

HEALING will be released in Australia in April 2014 by Pinnacle Films.