• Australian Writers' Guild
  • Professional member of the Pinewood Studios of;
  • International Screenwriters' Association

Carmel JOYCE Scriptwriter & Filmmaker

  • "PERNILLA'S GIFT" - THE SCREENPLAY - BOOK - FILM 6:00 min. A true though dramatised story of a spirited bosun’s daughter, who makes a break from her rural Swedish community of religious restraints. Pernilla knew if she stayed in Gammalthorp, her future life would be one of hard-labouring, farm work. She has no desire birthing a baby each year as her mother and grandmother did during their short lives. When her stepmother dies, Pernilla realises she must make a stand against all community authorities of father, church and state. Eloping with Carl, a boy she has known since childhood, to the nearby town and port of Karlshamn, Pernilla's spoilt and reckless nature charts a course that continues to take her into troubled waters. After losing Carl, she endures many challenges as her plans begin to unravel. She is pregnant and alone but determined to survive in the cold town of heartless despair where everyone must abide by the rigid rules, or forced to use desperate measures in order to stay alive. Her son, Guss, now grown up, and an able-bodied seaman, devises a plan to rescue his mother from further strife and turmoil with the authorities, by spiriting her out of the country. Pernilla’s past eventually catches up with her, forcing her and her son to release the family ties that bind them.
  • PERNILLA'S GIFT - Screenplay THE BOSUN - Screenplay The Bosuns' Quests for Fairer Skies ’PERNILLA'S GIFT & THE BOSUN are two AUSTRALIAN/SWEDISH FEATURE DRAMA SCREENPLAYSBoth screenplays are a true and historical reflection of Australia during the pioneering time. Both screenplays evolved from one of the writer’s novels., "THE BOSUNS QUEST FOR FAIRER SKIES". Henry never knew his father. His mother, Pernilla gave birth and passed on to her only child, a survival instinct. At the age of ten, Henry now works and supports his mother, who gains permission to live with her son, leaving the forced labour at the spinning house. As soon as Henry is old enough to work on a ship, his mother signs him on at the Karlshamn seaman's house where he becomes a bosun, an able-bodied seaman.rag me to add paragraph to your block, write your own text and edit me.
  • SCREENPLAY AWARDS
    PERNILLA'S GIFT 2021 - 2019 - 2018 AWARD WINNER
  • PERNILLA'S GIFT MAY 2019 AWARD WINNER
    Michael Gilbert • Producer Ocean Road Entertainment - I don't think I got a chance to tell you how much I enjoyed pernillas gift and the bosun; I think if you joined those two scripts you could very easily have a 10 part series on your hands.Something like “roots” meets “anne with an e” with a scandinavian overtone. Its a style of story telling that really excites me.If your heart is set on a feature film I think pernilla definitely has a strong enough narrative structure to be that.
    Thanks Michael for your praise of my screenplay, 'PERNILLA'S GIFT' & 'THE BOSUN' After seeing your work in , 'The Game Of Thrones', I most humbly accept and with much gratitude, your astute appraisal of my work.
  • BLIND FAITH SCREENPLAY BOOK & SHORT FILM ON VIMEO
  • BLIND FAITH SCREENPLAY BOOK & SHORT FILM ON VIMEO
  • BLIND FAITH SHORT FILM AWARDS - 2020
  • THE CORNISH CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY novel
    THE CORNISH CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY SCREENPLAY
  • The Cornish Captains of Industry true story based on COBRE COPPER MINES in Cuba copperplate of mine 1861
  • The Cornish Captains of Industry
  • THE CORNISH CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY John Henry Reynolds was destined to be a Captain of Industry during the early pioneering days of Australia. In 1870 he arrived in Brisbane and quickly voiced his moral and political opinions as the new editor of the Courier Mail. John’s heritage stemmed from the Reynolds, Opie and Tonkin families, of the Cornovii tribe of Cornwall. Over time, each generation of these families passed on to their descendants their unique set of inherited talents. John Opie and Sir Joshua Reynolds, two renowned portrait artists who lived in London during a dynamic and politically sensitive period, were ancestors of John’s. John and Joshua had their own inner turmoil concerning some of their patrons, whose wealth was gained from their West Indies plantations, which were worked by slave labour. Follow the journey of great Uncle John, who found himself aboard a British ship. The ship’s task was to rid the South American seas of pirates. His adventures give a fascinating insight into Britain’s role of reshaping the political stage of South America. The story reveals Britain’s efforts in the early 1800s in blockading the Spanish slave trafficking. At the same time, Britain was fostering its own future trade interests in the area by forming alliances with former Spanish colonies. The Reynolds brothers were commissioned to manage mining operations in Cuba. They suffered abhorrent conflicts in their minds when confronted with the barbaric treatment of the working slaves. Under these conditions, the British government’s sanctioning of the joint British Cuban venture clashed violently with the men’s Wesleyan ethics and beliefs. Ultimately, by going against their moral code, there was a price to pay in the future for the Captains of Industry’s success in Cuba.
  • Editor Linda Daniels It never ceases to amaze that the author can put so much information into so few pages. This type of writing never loses the reader as it provides a picture of the family without rhetoric and boring para-phrasing. The editor would love to think that the author will never tire of providing the public with these wonderful insights into life which has passed us by many moons ago.
    FROM THE EDITORS DESK - INHOUSE PUBLISHINGThe Cornish Captains of Industry provides an in-depth look at very specific portions of history and individuals of importance within them. A book of this calibre with its fresh approach to past Victorian events will excite history enthusiasts and those interested in the progression of industry.
  • "THE BOSUN". Guss's (Henry), life on the ocean takes a new turn when he jumps ship in Sydney illegally, and eventually becomes a model family man and citizen in Australia. Both screenplays are a true and historical reflection of pioneering times in Australia and evolved from one of my novels, "The Bosuns' Quests for Fairer Skies".
  • SCREENPLAY AWARDS THE BOSUN 2019

  • THE JANE FACTOR - Screenplay

    BRITISH/AUSTRALIA PIONEER STORIESThe Ulster Soldier's Daughter tells the story of Jane Wright Duncan's parents and of Jane's earlier life in 19th century English army outposts. Jane's life in Australia as a follows in the screenplay sequel, The Jane Factor.
  • THE JANE FACTOR
  • THE QUEEN'S OWN ULSTER SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER NOVELS AND SCREENPLAYS WRITTEN BY CARMEL JOYCE
    Novel THE "QUEEN'S OWN" ULSTER SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER
    Screenplay The Ulster Soldier's Daughter
    TV pilot JANE The Ulster Soldier's Daughter
    Both screenplays are a true and historical reflection of pioneering times in Australia. The screenplays evolved from one of the writer's novels, "The 'Queen's Own' Ulster Soldier".
  • THE ULSTER SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER AWARD WINNER Nov 2018
  • For my six grandsons, Jarred, Regan, Blair, Kyle, Rowan and Nicholas, whose 3rd great-grandfather and Qld printer, John Henry Reynolds printed and published, The Queensland Court eight articles, The Rise and Progress of the Queensland Industries, for the Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne International Exhibition, 1879, 1880, 1881.
    It is difficuilt to write a detailed description of the Queensland colony in such a manner as to enable readers at a distance to realise that which is described. Not mearly the superficial differences so often insisted upon - the trees that shed their bark instead of their leaves, the hot Christmas and cool July - but the fundamental characteristics of this continent are so different from those of European countries.