Film/tv

Drive, action, epic stories, women in central roles are the motor for Blankenship’s filmscripts.

Telling the story is the key!

Beverly Blankenship’s film scripts tend to be bizarre. Producers are puzzled, audiences love them.

Despite Blankenship’s success as a film author she does not write film scripts often. Writing is a lonely job for someone who thrives in the creative bustle of theatre.

THE AUTHOR

Beverly’s first script SHAME (with Michael Brindley) was a big success. The film has become a classic in Australia, shown in schools and taught in universities.
Shown in international festivals including New York, Chicago, Santa Barbara and garnering many prizes, including BEST SCRIPT (Critic´s Choice 1988) and others.

In the US the movie was distributed by Skouras Pictures and shown in every state. It has also been repeatedly broadcast in the US, Australia and and Europe.

Gray Pictures produced a US remake with Amanda Donehue in the lead.

CHARLES DARWIN AND THE QUESTION OF FRONTAL SEX
(with Harald Posch) is the second film script.

THE FILMDIRECTOR

The first film is a bizarre comedy: DER HUND MUSS WEG (THAT DOG HAS GOT TO GO). Script: Elfriede Hammerl, for Austrian National Televion. Televised November 2000

“...THAT DOG HAS GOT TO GO is theatre and opera director Beverly Blankenship’s film debut...The story bursts with absurd humour, the ironic excursions into the surreal remind of the best times of KOTTAN.” (Salzburger Nachrichten)
“Theatre and opera director Beverly Blankenship gives her origial and satirical film debut...” (.)