April wrote the screenplay "Charlotte Badger" as her Scriptwriting Masters degree thesis project at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington in 2010.  It's an epic historic adventure inspired by a true story.

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Inspired by the real adventures of miscreant, mother and mutineer Charlotte Badger from a time when only the bold survived.

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Based on a true story, this historic drama regales the adventures of Charlotte Badger, a convict transported from Mother England to a penal colony on the other side of the world. Her struggle to survive takes her from servitude to mutiny aboard the ship Venus and then on to a land where no white woman has set foot before.