Samuel Leighton-Dore Selected in Screen Australia’s Untapped Development Lab
Congratulations to Samuel Leighton-Dore for being selected in Screen Australia’s Untapped Development Lab.
Samuel’s animated horror/comedy series Other Half, and five other projects were chosen from more than 380 participants for the Australians in Film (AiF) and Screen Australia’s Untapped Development Lab.
Other Half follows a jaded marriage counsellor who abducts a series of newlywed clients, surgically attaching them spine-to-spine and forcing them to compete in challenges designed to prove they are soulmates. Twenty years later, a documentary film student conducts interviews with the one surviving couple, who are divorced but not yet separated, in hopes of solving the absurd case.
Sam will now take part in group and individual sessions, and given a professional mentor, script advisor, and pitch coach, plus an invitation to the AiF alumni network, which consists of Australia’s leading and award-winning content creators.
Supporting partners for Untapped include the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Screen NSW, Screen Queensland, South Australian Film Corporation, and Scripted Ink, while industry Partners include the Australian Directors Guild, Australian Writers Guild, Screen Canberra, Screen Producers Australia, Screen Tasmania, Screen Territory, Screenwest and Screenworks.
