WIFT
NSW holds industry events of interest to all screen professionals.
World
of Women WOW Film Festival 2007
Big Breakfasts
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Screenings
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CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN'S DAY 2008
Two film events presented by Women in Film & Television NSW
AUSTRALIAN SHORT
FILM SHOWCASE
Thursday 6th March 2008
1.15pm for screening 1.30pm
Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney.
Featuring 8 exciting short films by Australian women
Hosted by: Hon. Verity Firth MP, NSW Minister for Women
Tickets $10/ $7 Concession / $5 WIFT members
Ticket includes afternoon tea
Click
here to view the program.
INTERNATIONAL
SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
Friday 7th March 2008, 6pm for screening 6.45pm
Roxy Theatre at Film Australia, 101 Eton Road, Lindfield
Featuring 9 International shorts selected by Women in Film &
Television International
Tickets $15 / $10 Concession / $5 WIFT members
Ticket includes complimentary glass of champagne
Click
here to view the program.
To book for either event
please contact info@nsw.wift.org or phone 0402 246 601
Children under 15 must be accompanied by an adult.
WORLD
OF WOMEN WOW FILM FESTIVAL 2007
The
WOW Festival screened at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington on 25th
& 26th October with a mix of films, the forum From Conception
to Screen, video and mobile phone work in the foyer, Jazz music
from Miriam Waks and George Baraliakos, food from Sheree Waks and
Bob Maksimov and drinks form Watershed Wines and iDrinx. Interstate
filmmakers Cath Murphy and Annabelle Murphy joined us for the screening
of their film Marti's Party.
The Hon. Penny Sharpe,
MLC opened the Festival on behalf of the Hon. Verity Firth MLA,
NSW Minister for Women with an inspiring account of pioneering women
in the Australian film industry, Louise Lovely and the McDonagh
sisters. Click here to read her opening
address.
Rosalind Gillespie spoke about making Climbers 27 years
ago and the film looked immaculate, as if it was only recently shot,
while Darlene Johnson spoke about making Crocodile Dreaming,
a fascinating and terrifying tale of indigenous Australian belief
and experience.
Tania Chambers, Chief
Executive of the NSW Film and Television Office awarded generous
industry prizes from our sponsors. The joint winners of Best Fiction
were Marti's Party and Playground. The filmmakers
won Panavision film equipment hire to the value of $5,000 and post-production
in an Avid editing suite from Spectrum Films to the value of $5,000
respectively. TressCox Lawyers also generously donated $1,500 film
legal services for each film. The winner of Best Documentary was
Searching 4 Sandeep, winning negative processing or other
services to the value of $1,000 from Atlab and a short course voucher
to the value of $600 from the AFTRS Drama Dept. Best Animation prize
of a $400 voucher towards a short course or equipment hire from
Metro Screen went to Safe House. The Best Student film
award went to Loveproof; the prize gives the filmmakers
$600 worth of DVD authoring and 50 copies of the film from Art Resistance.
The iDrinx Viral Category was won by The Girl in the Red Dress,
with a selection of iDrinx products and an engraved award.
The Audience Choice Awards
for the best film of each session went to Crocodile Dreaming,
The Uncertainty Principal and Searching 4 Sandeep.
These films will be sent to WIFT International as contenders for
selection for the WIFTI Showcase Films 2008.
Lindy Monson, President
of WIFT NSW, thanked all those who contributed to WIFT NSW and the
WOW Film Festival this year, including our Patrons Anthony Buckley
and Dr Meredith Burgmann, our sponsors and the WOW Festival Director
Sil-Nyin Cameron who initiated the project back in February and
drove it tirelessly forward.
A full list of credits
are listed in the program and thanks go to all who contributed to
WOW 2007, both as WIFT NSW Management Committee members and as outside
industry members and volunteers.
The WOW Festival programs
will now travel as the WOW National Tour 2007/08 to over 18 national
and regional locations in Australia. From Conception to Screen
will also be offered to the Tour partners.
BIG
BREAKFASTS
Women in Film and Television
NSW invite you to a Big Breakfast panel discussion:
CREATIVE
CAREER SHORTCUTS: the role of creativity in a screen professional’s
career path.
Women with
diverse skills share their insights and experience. How are inspiration,
creativity and a career sustained? What is the most creative way
to find work and approach problem-solving? How does a screen specialist
use creative skills in fresh ways, for happiness or for money?
Tuesday 3rd April 2007
8.00 – 10.00 am
Arena Bar & Bistro
212 Bent St Fox Studios, Moore Park Sydney
Enjoy a sumptuous breakfast and join Susan
Stitt, Cinematographer, winner 2006 Kodak Gong 48 Hours, stills
photographer & art historian; Miro
Bilbrough, Writer/Director Floodhouse, Bartleby, Urn; Dany
Cooper ASE, Editor, AFI winner & Emmy nominee Angel Baby,
Candy, Battlestar Galactica; Annie
Breslin Sound Designer/Editor Mad Max 2, Unfolding Florence,
Unfinished Sky; and Jan Preston, award-winning
Screen Composer & performer for features, television and
silent films. Chaired by Lori Flekser,
Director of Film Development (Sydney), Australian Film Commission.
OPEN TO ALL. Tickets
(including breakfast): WIFT members $20 or Breakfast/membership
package $70/35 student. Non-members $40.
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL by
noon on 30th March. Click
here for a registration form or email us at info@nsw.wift.org
Supported
by City of Sydney
REALITY
TV EXPOSED
WIFT is very pleased
to report a highly successful Big Breakfast Event. With close to
60 people in attendance, Reality TV Exposed took place
better than we could have imagined. A heartfelt "Thank You" to our
panelist, Ned Lander, Kirsty De Vallance, David Mason, Dr. Jane
Roscoe and Ariel White. They provided invigorating and entertaining
discussion that revealed a great deal of insight into the workings
of reality TV. And, of course, we cannot forget the participants.
Thank you to all who attended, listened intently, asked questions,
and made the event an overall informative and pleasurable experience.
Our last three Big Breakfasts, "I'd Like to Thank..." - award
winners tell us how, Where's the Work? and Meet the
Screen Composers, were great successes.
"I'd Like to Thank..." - award winners tell us how was a
panel discussion chaired by Margaret Pomeranz. Award-winning members
of the panel included:
- Christine Olsen (Writer:
Rabbit Proof Fence)
- Jane Manning (Director:
Delivery Day)
- Sally Browning (Documentary
Filmmaker: The Diplomat)
- Paul Fenech (Director:
Intolerance and Writer/Director: Fat Pizza) and
- Angie Fielder (Manager:
If Awards).
Where's the Work?
focused on finding work in the film and television industry. Speakers
included:
- Pip Gordon from Seven
Services;
- David Eedle of the
The Dramatica Group P/L;
- Tania Scott, the Training
Advisor at ABC Television Production Resources.
The speakers at Meet
the Screen Composers included:
- Sally Corbett from
Headland Studios;
- Jay Stewart composer
for popular television series, including 'Moment ofTruth', 'Pants
on Fire', 'Treasure Island' and 'Popstars';
- Jan Preston, composer
of documentary and feature films, and lecturer at AFTRS; and
- Christopher Gordon,
one of Australia's most respected orchestral film and television
composers.
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FORUMS
Unfolding
Florence: unfolding design, a Filmspeak Forum
WIFT NSW held
the final Filmspeak forum at the 53rd Sydney Film Festival, where
Jon Rohde chaired a panel called Unfolding Florence: unfolding design.
Writer Katherine Thomson, Producer Sue Clothier, Post Production
Designer and Animation Supervisor Tim Richter and David Lennie of
Signature Prints discussed their work and involvement with the film.
We heard about the inception and development of the idea, the writing
and research process, the formation of the animated sequences and
the rescue and restoration of Florence’s work.
Audience members responded
with detailed questions of their own and were treated to a display
of production stills, contemporary samples of Florence’s wallpaper
and generous lucky door prizes featuring the designs from Signature
Prints.
Unfolding Florence is
a Film Australia/Becker Entertainment Production produced in association
with the New South Wales Film and Television Office and SBS Independent
and is distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Dendy Films.
Unfolding Florence marks
Gillian Armstrong’s return to Film Australia, where she directed
the documentaries 14’s Good 18’s Better and Bingo, Bridesmaids
and Braces in the 1980s.
WIFT NSW thanks the speakers,
Dendy Films and the Sydney Film Festival for their participation
and support.
Latin
American Women Filmmakers at the 53rd Sydney Film Festival
Meet The Filmmaker:
Gisela Camara (director, Brazil) and Alicia Scherson (director,
Chile)
In recent years there has been an explosion in Latin American cinema
with Latin films and documentaries playing to critical acclaim at
festivals around the world. The audience met with Alicia Scherson,
winner of the Award for Best New Narrative for Play at the 2005
Tribeca Film Festival in New York, and Gisela Camara’s (Teen
Mothers) and enjoyed complimentary sangria in this celebration of
Latin American cinema.
Presented by the Sydney Film Festival in association with the
Council on Australia Latin American Relations and Women in Film
& Television NSW (WIFT NSW
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SCREENINGS
Women in Film
and Television International Short Film Showcase
Presented
by WIFT NSW for International Women’s Day 2006 at Parliament
House Sydney. Featuring 7 films by women from Australia, Canada,
USA and the UK. Guest of Honour: Dr Meredith Burgmann MLC, President
of the Legislative Council of NSW
MOUSTACHE, directed by
South Australia’s Vicki Sugars, was a highlight of the WOW
Film Festival 2004 and was selected from it by WIFT International
for inclusion in the inaugural WIFTI Short Film Showcase. WASP,
also chosen from WOW 2004, went on to win an Academy Award.
For one night only on
IWD the showcase screened across eighteen cities in five countries
within the WIFTI global network. In Sydney, Dr Meredith Burgmann
joined WIFT NSW and the audience for drinks at Parliament House
and opened our event with an entertaining and thoughtful tribute
to the tenacity of women filmmakers.
Click
here for more information on the WIFTI Showcase
Red Carpet WOWS for
2004!
Many thanks to the filmmakers, organisers and attendants of our
second Red Carpet Night for 2004. Held at the Valhalla Cinemas in
Glebe on the 19th of September, Red Carpet Night partnered with
Women in Film and Television NSW to present some brilliant short
films by outstanding women filmmakers from past WOW International
Film Festivals including...
- Cate Shortland's multi
award winning short films Flowergirl and Joy;
- Sarah Watt's beautiful
animation Living with Happiness;
- Jane Manning's subtle
and funny realisation of Khoa Do's brilliant script Delivery
Day;
- Susan Kim Danta's
evocative animation Driving Home;
- Susan Stamp's delightful
animation The Windwheel and
- Kate Cawley's outrageous
claymation musical on ice Les Grenouilles.
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WIFT
NSW NETWORKING DRINKS
Informal get-togethers
for members and other industry professionals at rotating venues
in Sydney. Details advised by e-mail.
OTHER
EVENTS
Women on the
Inside
WIFT NSW has run a series
of visits to some of the most renowned and notable companies and
organisations in NSW's film and television industry. Animal Logic
at Fox Studios and The LaB at Artarmon were host to WIFT NSW members
hungry for insights into high-end Post Production. The tours were
both informative and inspiring.
Film Freaks Trivia
Night
Thank you everyone who
turned up to our fabulous trivia night! We had a HUGE turn-out,
and a very fun night was had by all.
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