Screenplay - hostile natives and exegesis - indigenous screenwriters

This practice-led research examines screenwriting from an Indigenous Australian perspective. The primary research outcome is an original screenplay titled Hostile Natives. This is a television pilot script for a science fiction drama series. Contextualising the creative work is an exegesis titled Indigenous Screenwriters. This explores challenges faced by Indigenous Australian screenwriters including Indigenous disadvantage, low industry participation, auteur filmmaking culture and genre limitations. These challenges are considered through prisms of Postcolonialism and Globalisation. Finally, screenwriting practice is positioned as a series of discrete creative decisions. This study suggests an approach to creative decision-making based on an Indigenous worldview.