John Alsop developed a feature-length screenplay about the adventures of American landscape architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin after they won a 1913 competition to design the new Australian national capital. It did not go smoothly from there. John has previously written extensively for Australian television.
Discipline:
Film/Video – screenplay
John Alsop
Discipline:
Film/Video – screenplay
Region: Erskineville, AUSTRALIA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014
Studios
Phi Beta
John Alsop worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…