The projects and participants for the second New Perspectives Pitch Lab have been unveiled, with sessions for the training initiative to commence this week.
Developed through the Australian Film Television and Radio School (Aftrs), Doc Society, and the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc), in partnership with Screen Nsw, the program consists of seven online coaching workshops and an online pitch event. Mentors include global director of Good Pitch at Doc Society, Malinda Wink, and Screen Nsw investment manager Andrea Ulbrick.
The selected projects for this year are feature documentaries Wave Riding: The Ancient Sport of Oceania, Queen to Councillor, Joy, and Catching Crooks, as well as documentary series Our Country.
The five teams will develop their project pitch in group and individual sessions before pitching to an industry panel for feedback. From there, one set of creatives will be selected for pitching opportunities at Aidc 2022. The training is designed to...
Developed through the Australian Film Television and Radio School (Aftrs), Doc Society, and the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc), in partnership with Screen Nsw, the program consists of seven online coaching workshops and an online pitch event. Mentors include global director of Good Pitch at Doc Society, Malinda Wink, and Screen Nsw investment manager Andrea Ulbrick.
The selected projects for this year are feature documentaries Wave Riding: The Ancient Sport of Oceania, Queen to Councillor, Joy, and Catching Crooks, as well as documentary series Our Country.
The five teams will develop their project pitch in group and individual sessions before pitching to an industry panel for feedback. From there, one set of creatives will be selected for pitching opportunities at Aidc 2022. The training is designed to...
- 11/22/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Chris Phillips, Caro Macdonald and Anu Hasbold (Photo credit: Nicola Bernardi).
At The Coalface, This Is Reality and Give Us Green, Darling! are the three winners of the Screen Australia and Al Jazeera English Witness pitching competition, held at the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) in Melbourne earlier this week.
Each project receives a $100,000 commission, with 50/50 funding from Screen Australia and Al Jazeera English to make a 25-minute documentary which will be released on Aje Witness platforms.
Screen Australia head of documentary Bernadine Lim said: “The pitches and trailers presented at Aidc blew us away with the quality of their subject rigour, visual impact and diversity of ideas.”
“These three teams have earned a unique opportunity to build professional relationships and learn from collaborating with an international, award-winning documentary platform to take their stories to the world.”
Aje Witness Ep Fiona Lawson-Baker said: “We are so excited to move ahead...
At The Coalface, This Is Reality and Give Us Green, Darling! are the three winners of the Screen Australia and Al Jazeera English Witness pitching competition, held at the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) in Melbourne earlier this week.
Each project receives a $100,000 commission, with 50/50 funding from Screen Australia and Al Jazeera English to make a 25-minute documentary which will be released on Aje Witness platforms.
Screen Australia head of documentary Bernadine Lim said: “The pitches and trailers presented at Aidc blew us away with the quality of their subject rigour, visual impact and diversity of ideas.”
“These three teams have earned a unique opportunity to build professional relationships and learn from collaborating with an international, award-winning documentary platform to take their stories to the world.”
Aje Witness Ep Fiona Lawson-Baker said: “We are so excited to move ahead...
- 3/5/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
(Top to Bottom L – R) Erin Good, Jane Eakin, Joanna Beveridge, Tel Benjanmin, Warwick Young, Maria Theodorakis, Nicholas Verso, Eddie Diamandi, Victoria Thaine, Henry Inglis, Wade Kimberley Savage, Caro Macdonald, Tamara Whyte, Laura Clelland and Tam Sainsbury.
From more than 100 applications, the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) has selected 15 directors to attend Screen Producers Australia’s (Spa) annual conference Screen Forever in Melbourne next month.
These directors will join the Spa’s Ones to Watch undertaking a special program of panel discussions, workshops and networking events. All the directors attending will be presenting the projects they have developed that are ready for production at Spa Connect, the conference’s marketplace.
“This will be the second year we have taken a directors delegation to Spa, and this year we build on last year’s program to ensure the directors are more integrated into the conference program,” said Adg CEO Kingston Anderson. “We...
From more than 100 applications, the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) has selected 15 directors to attend Screen Producers Australia’s (Spa) annual conference Screen Forever in Melbourne next month.
These directors will join the Spa’s Ones to Watch undertaking a special program of panel discussions, workshops and networking events. All the directors attending will be presenting the projects they have developed that are ready for production at Spa Connect, the conference’s marketplace.
“This will be the second year we have taken a directors delegation to Spa, and this year we build on last year’s program to ensure the directors are more integrated into the conference program,” said Adg CEO Kingston Anderson. “We...
- 10/24/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Warwick Thornton.
Director Warwick Thornton will turn his back on the limelight to experience life on an isolated beach in the remote Dampier Peninsula for Nitv series The Beach, one of seven documentary projects recently backed by Screen Australia.
The federal agency today announced that $965,000 of production was recently allocated through its Producer program and $720,000 through the Commissioned program. The agency also supported an additional 11 projects in its recent development round, including two natural history projects, a Vr production and two original format series.
“The Beach is one of the most important projects of my life. It’s about my life. It is my life,” said Thornton.
Other projects to receive production funding include a feature film about shark fanatic and filmmaker Valerie Taylor in The Real Jaws: The Valerie Taylor Story and an online animated series about the untold history of soccer, A Game of Three Halves.
‘The Real...
Director Warwick Thornton will turn his back on the limelight to experience life on an isolated beach in the remote Dampier Peninsula for Nitv series The Beach, one of seven documentary projects recently backed by Screen Australia.
The federal agency today announced that $965,000 of production was recently allocated through its Producer program and $720,000 through the Commissioned program. The agency also supported an additional 11 projects in its recent development round, including two natural history projects, a Vr production and two original format series.
“The Beach is one of the most important projects of my life. It’s about my life. It is my life,” said Thornton.
Other projects to receive production funding include a feature film about shark fanatic and filmmaker Valerie Taylor in The Real Jaws: The Valerie Taylor Story and an online animated series about the untold history of soccer, A Game of Three Halves.
‘The Real...
- 4/8/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
The 14th annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival is, once again, packed to the gills with worldwide wonderful, weird and revelatory filmmaking. The fest runs this year on July 14-24.
The highlight of the festival is the once-in-a-lifetime live performance of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, which will be performed on July 17 at 7:15 p.m. American animator Brent Green will be traveling Down Under to provide the live musical score and narration for his emotional, live-action animated tale about undying love and creation. He will also be accompanied by band mates and foley artists, Mike McGinley, John Swartz, Donna K and Drew Henkles.
Some other films to look out for at the fest will be the Australian premiere of Zach Clark‘s terminally twisted Vacation!, a black comedy about four girls on a debauched weekend of drinking and drugging that ends horribly for all involved; Marie Losier’s acclaimed...
The highlight of the festival is the once-in-a-lifetime live performance of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, which will be performed on July 17 at 7:15 p.m. American animator Brent Green will be traveling Down Under to provide the live musical score and narration for his emotional, live-action animated tale about undying love and creation. He will also be accompanied by band mates and foley artists, Mike McGinley, John Swartz, Donna K and Drew Henkles.
Some other films to look out for at the fest will be the Australian premiere of Zach Clark‘s terminally twisted Vacation!, a black comedy about four girls on a debauched weekend of drinking and drugging that ends horribly for all involved; Marie Losier’s acclaimed...
- 6/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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