Sonia Borg

Sonia Borg
Born	1931 Vienna, Austria
Died	4 February 2016 (aged 85) Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Screenwriter
Nationality	Austrian
Citizenship	Australian

Sonia Ingeborg Borg AM (1931 – 4 February 2016) was an Australian writer and producer, who was one of the leading screenwriters of films and TV in the 1970s. She moved to Australia from Germany (Vienna, Austria) in 1961 and worked as a television actress before becoming an actors' tutor at Crawford Productions in Melbourne. She then became a writer, and worked on most of Crawfords dramas at the time. In the late 1970s she also became known for writing films about animals.^[1]

Select Writings

• Homicide (1964–73; TV series)
• Division 4 (1970–75; TV series)
• Matlock Police (1971–75; TV series)
• Rush (1974; TV series)
• Power Without Glory (1976; mini series)
• Solo One (1976; TV series)
• Lasseter (1976; unmade film about Lasseters search^[2]
• Storm Boy (1976)
• Blue Fin (1978)
• The Min Min (1978; unmade feature)^[1]
• Women of the Sun (1981; TV series)
• I Can Jump Puddles (1981; TV movies)
• Dusty (1983)
• Colour in the Creek (1985; TV series)
• Dark Age (1987)
• Ratbag Hero (1991; TV miniseries)

References

1. Paul Davies, "Sonia Borg", Cinema Papers, Oct–Nov 1978 p109-111, 162
2. "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, June–July 1976 p. 61

External links

• Sonia Borg at IMDB
• Sonia Borg at National Film and Sound Archive