Jacqueline Feather is a New Zealand born America-based screenwriter for television and film. Her credits include '' Malice in Wonderland'' (1985), ''

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'' (1999) and ''

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'' (2008). With her then writing partner

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she is a four times nominee and one time winner of the Writers Guild of America Award, winning in 1989. Today, aside from her writing she is a Jungian Analyst in private practice and a Training Analyst at the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California.

Biography

Born in

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to art teacher parents, her grandfather was the theatre critic for National Radio. She took a B.F.A. at the

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in 1976 before moving to the United States in her early 20s where she followed a 25 year career as solo screenwriter and as a member of the Feather & Seidler writing team, with

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winner

.Jacqueline Feather biography
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/ref> Among Feather's screenplays are ''Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica'' (1993), ''Dancing in the Dark'' (1995), '' Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure'' (1988), '' Onassis: The Richest Man in the World'' (1988), ''

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'' (1998),Feather and ''Quest for Camelot''
on the Swedish Film Institute website '' Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story'' (1999) and '' Son of the Dragon'' (2008). Having taken an

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in Counseling Psychology and a

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in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology at the

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(2001–2008), she then undertook six years analytic training. Today she continues her writing alongside practicing as a Jungian Analyst/Depth psychotherapist in Ojai California, and is a Training Analyst at the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California.

Writing credits

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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