Best Practice Guide

The guide for screenwriters and producers working together.

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NZWG & SPADA Best Practice Guide

A guide for screenwriters and producers working together.

The Best Practice Guide helps screenwriters and producers establish robust and successful creative collaborations.

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NZWG & SPADA to offer the Best Practice Guide

Establish best practice in your professional working relationships. The guide offers tools and template questions for practitioners when collaborating with writers, producers, directors and actors.

Chapters included the Best Practice Guide
  • Writers and producers approaching each other
  • Communication
  • Copyright, credits, and ownership
  • Professional development tools
  • Defining roles in the working relationship

The tools and templates are designed to be used as a starting point for all practitioners.

NZWG and SPADA are delighted to share this Guide with the wider screen community to utilise in their day-to-day practice.

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Thanks to our supporters

Thanks to the New Zealand Film Commission for their financial support to create this guide from the Screen Sector Capability Fund. The Guide is a collaboration between NZWG and SPADA (in association with the NZFC) and was developed to support the inaugural cohort of the Creative Collaboration in Action Programme. This programme was designed for emerging writers and producers to facilitate the development of healthy, collaborative working relationships, culminating in a pitching session with Aotearoa’s funding agencies and broadcasters.

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