Tuesday 25 February 2020, 6:30pm – 9:30pm 

The Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Awards are Australia's premier awards for unproduced scripts. Every year this event unearths Australia's best new screen and stage writing talent and their hottest project ideas.

Join an exclusive group of industry professionals as we announce this year's Monte Miller Award winners.

The Moon Dog Brewery Ballroom is located only 3 km from the Melbourne CBD on Duke Street (just off Victoria Street near the Richmond/Abbotsford border).

Join us on Tuesday, 18 February for SPA's first Breakfast Briefing of the year with Network Ten's Head of Drama and Executive Production, Rick Maier.

Rick spent over 20 years writing, script editing and consulting on adult and children’s series including The Young Doctors, E-Street and Prisoner before taking up a position at TEN firstly as Executive Producer in Development and Drama, and for the last ten years as Head of Drama.

In his current role he has been responsible a number of the Network's flagship programs including Offspring, Five Bedrooms, The Secrets She Keeps and, of course, Neighbours. He is also the Network EP for Masterchef Australia (2012 – 2020).

Don't miss this unique opportunity to gain an insight into the current trends within the commercial broadcast sector and the opportunities that lie ahead.

DATE AND VENUE DETAILS

Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Time: 08:00 - 09:30
Venue: Boardroom, Level 1, Building 61, Fox Studios Australia, Moore Park NSW 2021
Download a map of Fox Studios here.

SPA member: $30 | Guild: $37 | Non-member: $45

If you are having difficulties booking please contact Angus Young, Producer on angus.young@screenproducers.org.au or 02 8076 5875.

AWG & The Corner Gallery are proud to present the FIRST in our series of "Meet the Creatives" here in WA.

Our first special guest is St. John Cowcher, he's a writer, actor, theatre-maker and puppeteer who has worked for many companies including Black Swan Theatre, Barking Geko, and The Last Great Hunt. He's an award winner and muli-nominee for the Martin Sims Award and has a new show called Ragnarøkkr - a metal-musical retelling of the classic Norse myth that starts its season at the Blue Room Theatre as part of this year's Fringe World Festival 2020 before hitting the road to tour to Adelaide and beyond.

St. John will join us at the Corner Gallery in Subiaco for an exclusive chat and Q+A about the creative process of adapting Norse mythology for the stage and we'll discuss the process of creating a Fringe show with the collaborative efforts of musicians and theatre makers from various different backgrounds. We'll also be discussing St. John's work on his past productions Frankie's and Man and the Moon before breaking for some light refreshments.

When: Saturday 15 February 2020
Where: The Corner Gallery - 263 Hay Street, Subiaco
Doors Open: 2:00pm
Start: 2:30pm
Finish: 4:00pm
Cost: $10 AWG Members // $15 Non-Members

*Future events will include talks with writer/director Maziar Lahooti (Below) & Tim Watts & Chris Isaacs (The Last Great Hunt) and a range of other special guests still to be announced, so stay tuned.*

NB: If you enjoy this event and would like to see more creative talks, - The Corner Gallery & Little Wing Collective are holding a series of Creative Conferences between 12-21 February and details can be found here: http://www.littlewingcollective.com/creative-conference.html

Bus Stop Films (BSF) is inviting everyone to celebrate their 10th anniversary at their 2019 End of Year Showcase, screening their amazing new suite of inclusively made films created by their local and international BSF programs. The night, hosted at the Wesley Conference Centre Sydney, brings #inclusivefilmmaking to the BIG SCREEN and celebrates the creativity, passion and hard work of BSF students and their awesome industry mentors.

The ticketed event kicks off at 6.00pm, Wednesday 11th December and the night will feature the film projects made by students from classes delivered through partnerships with the Australian Film, TV and Radio School (AFTRS), Information & Cultural Exchange (ICE) Parramatta, The Flagstaff Group (Wollongong) and our groundbreaking film project with the Arts Council of Mongolia (ACM).

The night will premiere 10 short films plus an exciting sneak peek at our latest project “Stairs” filmed with students in Mongolia in partnership with the Arts Council of Mongolia!

Auslan interpreters will interpret the event and audio description and captioning of all films will be included.

Tickets for the event are just $22, and include refreshments on arrival, and can be purchased via TryBooking at https://www.trybooking.com/BGCYT

https://www.busstopfilms.com.au

WISE (Women in Screen & Entertainment) Meet-Up| SAVE THE DATE

Location TBC

Advocacy Group meet up for Women in Screen. Email info@wiftaustralia.org.au for more info

https://www.screeneditors.com.au/awards/

More details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/412226886388054/

5 December, WIFT NSW & Screen Vixens End of Year Drinks
oin WIFT NSW and Screen Vixens for our end of year drinks. All genders, members and non-members welcome. Ticket includes canapes - drinks available via cash bar. 

Tickets

$15 plus Booking Fee for General Admission

Membership

To find out more about WIFT or to become a member, head to wiftaustralia.org.au/membership

To find out more about Screen Vixens, head to https://screenvixens.com

Tickets here.

SPEED DATING – EXPANDING YOUR COLLABORATORS

In collaboration with the ADG, AWG and WIFT, Screen ABC is delighted to be hosting our first Speed Dating – Expanding your Collaborators session.

This is an event for writers, directors and producers (with at least one screen credit) to pitch themselves and/or their ideas to potential future collaborators.

Date: Wednesday 27 November, 2019

Time: 6.15pm – 9.30pm

Venue: Cobbstar Studios: 2 Oatley Road, Paddington. Underneath the Chauvel Cinema.

The old Metro Screen.

Entry fee: $10 if a member of a guild/WIFT, $25 if not a member

More information here.

Women In Film & Television (WIFT) Australia will be taking Raising Films Australia’s latest initiative, the “Making It Possible” Program to Adelaide in November 2019. The program is a free one-day course with follow-up mentorship, for women in the screen industry whose careers have been impacted due to parenting and caring responsibilities. The Adelaide course is delivered in partnership with Creative Plus Business and supported by funding from the South Australian Film Corporation.

The course will provide a holistic approach to personal, career and creative advice, mentorship and education while providing access to a free creche on the day. Expressions of interest to take up one of the 12 places per session will be open to SA-based screen industry practitioners who identify as female, are aged over 18, and who have had a demonstrated “time out” from or had their career impacted due to the consequence of parenting or caring responsibilities.

The one-day course will be held at the Iris Cinema (part of The Mercury Cinema) in Adelaide on Wednesday 27 November 2019, with expressions of interest now open for this session. Applications close Wednesday 30 October 2019.

Raising Films Australia is based on a UK model that is dedicated to supporting and advocating for parents and carers in the screen industry and the “Making It Possible” Program is based on Raising Films UK’s course held in 2017.

All information about the course is available at:
https://www.wiftaustralia.org.au/makingitpossible

Dame Changer and Stan’s Lottie Lyell Scholarship returns

Dame Changer and Stan are thrilled to present the Lottie Lyell Scholarship, an initiative honouring screen pioneer Lottie Lyell by supporting the professional development of two Australian women filmmakers. The successful applicants will attend Creative England’s Market Trader intensive feature film development programme at the European Film Market at Berlinale, 22-25 February 2020.

The Market Trader programme equips participants with the knowledge and support they need to understand the global film market, to plan and target their approach and develop the skills and relationships to get female-led, Australian screen projects in front of a global audience.

The inaugural recipients in 2018 were filmmaker and artist Juliet Darling and film practitioner and producer Virginia Whitwell.

“Our project NUDE TUESDAY now has a sales agent thanks to meetings conducted in Berlin.The experience has given me connections to many agents, distributors and financiers, several of whom we are now in correspondence with on a number of projects.”

- Virginia Whitwell

All costs will be covered by Dame Changer and Stan, with airfares generously discounted by Stage and Screen.

Applications are now open for Dame Changer members only (a great reason to be a DC member) and close on Friday 22nd November 2019. For eligibility, guidelines, more details and to apply, please go to: https://www.damechanger.com/market-trader/

Please join us for WIFT Australia’s first AGM. The AGM will be held over zoom video conferencing to connect each state and territory as well as ‘in-person’ meet up. More details can be found here, but official AGM proceedings will begin at:

8.15pm - NSW, ACT, TAS, VIC

7.45pm - SA

7.15pm - QLD

6.45pm - NT

5.15pm - WA

For more details, head to the AWG website: https://awg.com.au/events/the-powerhouse-mixer

OzDox invites you to a special occasion for our community: a gathering to recognise the career and contributions of esteemed documentarian Pat Fiske.

Put the date in your diary and come along to show Pat how much we love and value her contribution to Australian cinema:

Wednesday November 13, 2019
6pm for a 6.30pm start
AFTRS Theatre
130 Bent Street EQ Moore Park

There'll be excerpts from Pat's work, tributes from special guest speakers, insights into our common history, unforgettable anecdotes, and a whole lot of mingling.

To invite others via Facebook click here, or please forward this email.

About Pat:

Pat Fiske has been producing and directing films since the early 1970s and is a prominent member of Australia’s independent filmmaking community. In 2001, she was awarded the prestigious Stanley Hawes Award for her outstanding contribution to the documentary industry in Australia at the Australian Documentary Conference.

In the 1970s and '80s, Pat was on the boards of Filmnews and ASDA. In 2001-2002 Pat was a Documentary Consultant at SBS Independent, and she was Co-Head of the Documentary Department at AFTRS with Mitzi Goldman from 2002 to 2008. In 2003, the Documentary Department initiated Ozdox, the Australian Documentary Forum, which meets once a month and has been going since 2003. For many years, she also worked as a curator for Australian Screen Online. You can read Pat's detailed filmography here.

https://www.facebook.com/events/543158109828662/

Book HERE

RE:FRAME – AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY

Audience is a buzzword again. But no longer is it just bums on seats (or eyeballs on screens) – we’re talking data, demand and drivers; changes in a screen and broadcast industry that is coming to grips with ‘big data’ and human-centred design, that are likely to have a serious impact over the coming decades.

Our third Re:Frame event seeks to unearth new thinking and to consider questions about how new technologies, new platforms and new demands are changing the ways that we conceive and create content. What do these rapid and dramatic shifts mean for Australian creatives today? And what new challenges do we face? What opportunities arise from this fast moving, digitising and increasingly global marketplace for stories?

Featuring keynotes from ‘data whisperer’ Elisa Choy and ACMI’s experience guru Seb Chan, and a panel of industry innovators to chew over the implications for creative and business practices, join us to discuss the challenges and opportunities for Australian storytellers and audiences in this volatile digital age.

Interstate or can’t make the date? Re:Frame will be available on live stream and catch-up via our Facebook page.

AFTRS Re:Frame program is designed to engage the sector in a future-focused conversation, to bring the best and brightest minds from across the creative and business sectors to provide insights and inspiration about the future, and to encourage debate about how we can better play our part in the growth of the Australian creative economy.

PROGRAM

KEYNOTE: EVERYTHING WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BIG DATA
Elisa Choy, Founder & Principal of Strategic Data Central (AKA the Data Whisperer), leads us through questions of big data – what can it tell us? What is it telling us? What can we learn?

KEYNOTE: HUMAN CENTRED DESIGN THINKING
Seb Chan, Chief Experience Officer at ACMI explores how data and behaviours can lead to insights about audience experiences and engagement.

PANEL: ENGAGEMENT IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY
Ashley Chang (YouTube), Bec Bignall (Rural Rooms), Kate Hodges (Shark Island Institute) and Georgia Rowe (ABC) give their perspectives of the challenges and opportunities for screen storytellers in a digital age, ranging from technology, trends and innovation to culture and creativity, international and regional.

https://www.aftrs.edu.au/event/reframe-2019/

Following the ABC television premiere of documentary film The Show Must Go On, we will be presenting a Wellness Roadshow, that will tour nationally over the next twelve months.

The Wellness Roadshow event will take place in Sydney on Tuesday 29 October 2019 at the NSW Parliament House Theatrette. This is a free event and will include a screening of the film, followed by a panel which will be moderated by Monica Davidson and will include Ben Steel (writer/director), Julie Crabtree (psychologist), Dean Ray (musician) and Julia Edwards (Entertainment Assist). The panel will discuss the issues raised in the film along with tools and resources available to individuals. Afternoon tea for all attendees will follow.

To continue the conversation the Wellness Roadshow will tour nationally facilitating further screenings, conversations, panels and events with the aim to increase awareness of mental health issues within the entertainment industry.

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The Show Must Go On is the first film to tell the story of the mental health of the 42,000 people working in the Australian arts and entertainment industry. While ‘show business’ is often seen as glamorous, fun, exciting and well paid, recent and alarming world-first research from Entertainment Assist and Victoria University paints a darker picture for entertainment workers. Anxiety symptoms are 10 times higher, sleep disorders are 7 times higher and symptoms of depression are 5 times higher than the national average. Suicide attempts in the industry are double the national average.

This film follows former Home and Away actor and debut documentary filmmaker Ben Steel on a soul-searching investigation into why are there so many arts and entertainment workers developing and struggling with mental wellbeing issues. Ben shares his intimate experiences living with depression and anxiety for the past few years, and along the way, we are witness to his intimate conversations with key creatives and crew, actors, dancers, musicians, performers- many of them household names - who have likewise struggled and how they have survived.

While this film may not reach and save every life, we hope it will have enough impact to at least save one, and that it will spark much-needed conversations about mental health.
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Time: 2.30 - 5.00pm,
Date: Tuesday 29 October 2019
Venue: Theatrette, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney.
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The Wellness Roadshow would not be possible without the generous support of Film Victoria, Creative Victoria, Screen Australia, Stage and Screen, Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance, Sidney Myer Fund, Andyinc Foundation, The Arts Wellbeing Collective, Entertainment Assist and Village Roadshow Limited. Additional partners of this event include WIFT NSW, MEAA, Casting Guild of Australia, Screen Producers Australia, Australian Writers' Guild.
www.TheShowMustGoOn.com.au

Book your free ticket here.
For further information please contact diana@filmartmedia.com

WIFT NSW - Panavision Event

CREATIVE & TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP WITH PANAVISION
Presented by WIFT NSW

Wednesday 23 October 6.45pm-9.30pm

This workshop, proudly presented by Panavision & Women in Film & TV NSW, is aimed at Directors, Producers, emerging Cinematographers and anyone else interested in understanding camera and lens technology to enhance creativity. The workshop will cover working with spherical, anamorphic and large format systems and how they apply to current filming demands.

The workshop will be presented by Nic Godoy, National TVC Manager for Panavision Australia. Nic is a Film and TV professional with over 20 years experience. Nic has worked in varied sectors of the Film and TV industry in technical and consultant roles. Astute in technical and creative areas, and the end to end filmmaking process.

Tickets

$5 plus Booking Fee for WIFT Members
$15 plus Booking Fee for General Admission
Tickets at: tiny.cc/6biudz

All ages and genders welcome - children under 13 free. This event is “family friendly” and children of all ages are most welcome. Whilst a formal crèche or supervision will not be provided, there will be a designated kids area with children’s toys and activities which families are welcome to use! #raisingfilmsau

Parking & Transport

Erskineville and Newtown train stations are within walking distance.
Bus route 355 stops on Erskineville Road, near Prospect Street.
Bus routes 422, 423, 426 and 428 stop on King Street, near Erskineville Road.
Limited 2-hour parking.

Accessibility

Rear entrance has level access for people who use a wheelchair.
Front entrance has wheelchair lift access.
Toilets are accessible.

All welcome - aimed at Doco industry. Antenna DocTalk.

Antenna's Doc in the Park - inaugural outdoor event with film, band, DJs, food, drinks etc