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Document - Folder, Sardi, Jan
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Jan Sardi is a screenwriter living in Eltham. Before becoming a screenwriter, he taught at Eltham College for five years.
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Newspaper article: "Shining star"; Diamond Valley News, 30 November 1996. Jan Sardi won best original screen-play for 'Shine" about David Helfgott, Australian Film Institute awards 1996.
Newspaper article: "Oscar nomination"; Diamond Valley News, 19 February 1997. Jan Sardi's film Shine" about David Helfgott is nominated in several categories for Oscars.
Newspaper article: "Writer vows to tell dancer's life"; Diamond Valley Leader, 29 November 2006. Jan Sardi plans to tell, in film, the story of Chinese dancer Li Cunxin.
Newspaper article: "Eltham is where I like to be - Sardi"; Diamond Valley Leader, 26 May 2010. Jan Sardi to contribute to the Emerging Writers Festival, May 29-30.
Newspaper article: "The 'fight goes on' to tell Australian stories", The Age, 11 June 2020. Jan Sardi made an Officer of the Order of Australia.Newspaper clippings, A4 photocopies, etcjan sardi, film "shine", david helfgott, eltham college, st joseph's college north fitzroy, vince colosimo, mao's last dancer, li cunxin, jane scott, film "the notebook", emerging writers festival, film the secret river, mac gudgeon, robert conolly