Rie Natalenko was awarded a Doctor of Creative Arts degree in Screenwriting from Wollongong University (Australia) in 2006. Her creative work was "Heloise", a screenplay about Heloise and Abelard, who lived and loved in twelfth century France. It is the true story of a love that was destined to end in tragedy. "Heloise" also won the IF award for "best unproduced screenplay in Australia."