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Eloise is a visual artist, writer, and designer from the Mid-Coast of NSW. She enjoys making and representing stories of family, fantasy, and autistic youth. Her writing mostly lies in auto-fiction, and the characters she represents in her screenplay works are largely inspired by her own multicultural childhood experiences. She is also interested in representing these experiences in escapist, fantastical characters/settings via costume, film, and illustration. ‘The Taximan’ is her proudest piece of writing and a movie-length screenplay version of it is in progress.
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| The Taximan |
2024 |
| My piece, The Taximan, is a 15-page screenplay that tells the story of a
little autistic boy, August, better known as the Taximan, as he chauffeurs
his mother from her workplace in Alexandria to their home in Waterloo with
nothing but a busy sidewalk, taxi driver garb, a toy wheel, and a heap of
imagination. August is obsessed with cars, chauffering, maps, and anything
Top Gear - he is quite the expert on the Inner-West's best shortcuts, and is
massively proud of his Five Star Taxi Service 'business'. August's mother, Michelle, is more than happy to indulge in August's fantasies, playing the part of the perfect passenger, even when the road gets a little bumpy. My work depicts the very important role parents play in neurodiverse children's upbringing. It's wholesome, it's gut wrenching, and it takes a unique and nuanced approach to depicting autistic children. It's a love letter to my own mother, and it pays homage to my own experiences in my youth. My brother was also a massive inspiration for this story (he's the one with the car-obsession since birth). It's one of my most proud works so far! My attached document includes an illustration, a logline, summary, and the 15-page screeplay. |
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