Shriekfest Radio! Denise Gossett interviews Juliet Bergh!!

Juliet Bergh is an award-winning screenwriter whose writing credits include diverse genres such as baby-boomer drama, post-apocalyptic science fiction, and psychological horror.

Her interests lie in characterization, the macabre, and stories that explore human frailty and strength.

She works part-time as a General Practitioner balancing the working week between the consulting room and her film projects. Juliet's film career began when a lifelong interest in photography introduced her to filmmaking.  

Her 1st short film script, 'Scrap Heap', was selected as a graduate show-piece for the New Zealand School of Film and Television in 2010. It went on the screen at the Show Me Shorts Film Festival.

Her 1st co-written feature script, 'Existence', was produced under the NZFC's Escalator scheme with subsequent local and overseas festival presence. She was a joint recipient of the 2012 SWANZ Best Feature Film Script and the New Writer Award.

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Juliet's current writing projects include a feature length adaptation of her short screenplay, 'Hannah's Birthday' for which she has received a SEED funding grant from the New Zealand's Writer's Guild.

The unproduced short screenplay has garnered critical success overseas, winning Best Short Screenplay at the 2014 Shriekfest, Hollywood Horror Festival and Best Unproduced Psychological Drama at the 2014 St Tropez International Film Festival. It has also recently won the short screenplay prize with the Creative World Awards.