Arts
By Cameron McCullough Photos Gary Sissons
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itting on the judges’ couch at the Peninsula Film Festival this year will be a face not as familiar as other on-screen personas.
You may have walked past him in Mount Martha or seen him at a local café with his wife. His name is Shaun Grant, and he is a highly acclaimed screenwriter
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whose films have premiered at the world’s most prestigious film festivals, including Cannes, Toronto and Sundance. Shaun’s journey from a childhood in blue collar Kyneton, to the judges’ couch on the peninsula he now calls home, was one of twists, turns and chances of fate. “It didn’t start out this way,” said Shaun. continued page 36...