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Janet van Eeden is a freelance journalist, playwright, script writer, producer and occasional poet. She writes regular features for the Pietermaritzburg based The Witness and The Weekend Witness, Screen Africa and many national print media including The Sunday Independent, as well as a few British magazines, including Scriptwriter UK and the websites Litnet and Twelvepoint.com.. Van Eeden has written ten screenplays. A screenplay she co-wrote, White Lion, will be released in May 2009.

She is currently producing her own film, A Shot at the Big Time, which was developed with funding from the National Film and Video Foundation. It is in pre-production. She attended workshops in Johannesburg every month last year with the NFVF to develop a new script, Running Time.

She has written numerous stage plays and has produced five of them (and directed two) and taken them to the Grahamstown Arts Festival with funding from the National Arts Council each time. Her third play in her Savage trilogy, The Savage Sisters, premiered in Grahamstown in July 2005, and A Matter of Time, premiered in Grahamstown in 2006, and was directed by Ian Roberts. Her play Expletive Deleted was selected for the main festival for MUSHO 2007 at The Kwasuka Theatre in Durban. Expletive Deleted, also directed by Ian Roberts, and toured in 2007. Her new play, In-Gene-Uity, will premiere at the Grahamstown Festival in 2009.

Van Eeden has her Masters in English (cum laude) and lectured part-time in Scriptwriting at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal for two years. In that time two of her students received the prestigious M-Net EDiT award in subsequent years. She gives Scriptwriting workshops around the country and will give workshops at AFDA Johannesburg, the Kruger National Park and at Wild Talk International Film Festival in 2009.

She received a National Arts Council Grant in 2008 to write the novel The Width of a Thread.

Her stage play A Matter of Time was unanimously declared the winning entry by all three judges of the Olive Schreiner Award 2008.

Launching soon: White LION. For more information on the film go to www.whitelionthemovie.com