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An Australian feature-length documentary which turns a light on the dark side of human behaviour and challenges audiences on what they would do if ordered to inflict pain on another person will get a national release. Writer-director Kathryn Millard.s Shock Room combines dramatisations, animation, archival film and interviews with psychologists to debunk Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.s infamous 1960s .Obedience to Authority. experiment. Believing they were participating in a study on memory and learning, participants were asked to inflict apparently lethal shocks on a fellow human. Milgram later famously claimed that 65 per cent of us will blindly follow orders. Extensive research from Millard, who is Professor of Screen and Creative Arts at Macquarie University, reveals that Milgram ran more than 25 versions of his experiment but filmed only one. And that, overall, the majority of people actually resisted. Shock Room will screen at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival in...

Nine features have been nominated for this year's Awgie Awards for performance writing.

Eight telemovies and miniseries are in contention. The Australian Writers. Guild says nominations in the 25 categories for the 48th Annual Awgie Awards reflect the abundance of outstanding work currently being produced in Australia. Nominees for best original telemovie are Steven McGregor for Redfern Now: Promise Me and Katherine Thomson for House of Hancock, while Christopher Lee.s Gallipoli and Jan Sardi and Mac Gudgeon.s The Secret River contend for best adaptation in a television miniseries. There are four nominees for original television mini-series: The Principal by Alice Addison and Kristen Dunphy; The Kettering Incident by Vicki Madden, Andrew Knight, Cate Shortland and Louise Fox; Deadline Gallipoli by Jacquelin Perske, Stuart Beattie, Shaun Grant and Cate Shortland; and Love Child: Series 2 from Tim Pye, Cathryn Strickland, Chris McCourt, Jane Allen and Tamara Asmar. In the categories...