Huna Amweero

Writer

Huna Amweero is a multi-award-winning screenwriter working across feature films, television, and short form content.

Huna co-wrote the critically acclaimed feature film, Blaze, with visual artist Del Kathryn Barton, which had its World Premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, and its Australian Premiere at the Sydney Film Festival. Huna won the 2022 AWGIE Award for Best Original Feature Film Screenplay for her work on the film, going on to also receive the 2023 NSW Premier Literary Award’s Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting. Blaze, which was produced by Causeway Films, follows a young girl who, after witnessing a violent sexual assault, retreats into her imagination where a shimmering magic dragon who has been her childhood companion, allows her to express her rage and ultimately find renewal.

In 2023, Huna wrote two episodes of the TikTok supernatural comedy series Krystal Klairvoyant, and an episode for season 2 of Surviving Summer for Werner Films and Netflix.

Earlier in her career, Huna was a recipient of the Emerging Filmmakers Fund from Screen NSW for her short script Alone (dir. Erin Good, 2014). That same year, she ranked 8th in the world for the NYC Short Screenplay Challenge. Huna’s short films have screened at film festivals including Sydney Film Festival, St Kilda Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival.

Huna served as co-writer on the Screen Australia funded web series Jade of Death (dir. Erin Good, 2018) for Last Frame Productions; the story follows a small-town girl who can hear how and when people will die.

Huna was selected to attend the Bunya Productions Engendered Masterclass for Female Genre Writers and Directors which was hosted by Jeremy Podeswa (Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Six Feet Under, The Handmaid’s Tale) and writer and showrunner Raelle Tucker (Supernatural, True Blood, Jessica Jones).

In 2023, Huna was selected by Screen Australia as one of the eighteen recipients for Enterprise People, which saw her placed at Stephen and Hunter Page’s Djali House. She was also named as one of IF’s 2023 Rising Screenwriters in their annual list which identifies key rising talent across all facets of the screen industry.

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