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Call For Entry
Sheffield International Documentary Festival, the UK’s premier event for international documentary professionals, has opened for film submissions. Sheffield Doc/Fest is considering documentaries of any style or subject from established or debut filmmakers, for this year’s official programme. The festival, now in its sixteenth year, will run from 4th to 8th November 2009. To [...]

Deadline 15 May
Open Channel and Screen Australia are looking for projects that exhibit a strong authorial vision, a compelling story, interesting characters, any subject, any genre. Directors and or director/ producer teams with vision and ambition are invited to participate. Aspiring filmmakers with very little, or no experience, are also welcome to apply. Successful applicants [...]

What Makes Great TV?
Join a discussion on what makes great television with panellists John Holmes, Andy Nehl and Lynn Hegarty and moderated by Kay Pavlou.
When: Tuesday 5th May. 6pm to 7.30pm
Where: AFTRS Theatre 1, 130 Bent Street, Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park, NSW
Cost: Free for ADG members, students, suggested $5 donation for others
RSVP: r…@adg.org.au with [...]

August 1st to 3rd
‘The Armidale International Film Festival’ will be held from 1st to 3rd August 2008- in Armidal, NSW. This year audiences will be captivated by highly acclaimed films from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. In one single weekend you can enter the different cultures of Austria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, India, [...]

Prepare to be vibrated… SONO PERCEPTION is a collaborative concert showcasing Australia’s leading and emerging sonic artists blurring the boundaries between sound, music and noise. SONO PERCEPTION artists incorporate precocious computer programs, re-imagined Percy Grainger machines and the occasional kooky robot!
It’s hypnotic, evocative, bizarre and unlike anything you’ve heard before.
‘Wonderfully post apocalyptic’ – The Age, [...]

Acclaimed by the New York Times as ‘an astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history amid China’s economic miracle’, Yung Chang’s multi-award winning film explores the human impact of the giant Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze, China’s longest river.
Website: http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org
When: Saturday 21 June, 10am to 12pm
Where: Statement Lounge, State Theatre, [...]

June 17
Why making films accessible makes commercial and artistic sense: an informative session for producers and directors about how to make films accessible to all, focussing on audio description, captioning and exhibition. Hosted by Alex Varley (Media Access Australia), Leanne Emerson (Roadshow Entertainment), Tony Oldham (Atlab Australia), Linda Baker and Michael Gold (Access Services, Red [...]

Dr Amantha Imber is the Head Inventiologist at Inventium. Using her background in Organisational Psychology, she helps those who believe they don’t have a creative bone in their body through to ultra creative people think and behave even more creatively. Current clients include BP, Fosters, Deloitte, Australia Post, Qantas, and a large number of advertising [...]

at Open Day 2008
In April, the federal government hosted a summit with the aim of generating ideas from Australia’s greatest minds about how to move forward in the 21st century.
Metro Screen is bringing it local, focussing on the arts and asking you – some of the greatest minds of our filmmaking community – to bring [...]

Saturday June 14th. 10am – 3pm
Free and open to the public

Final Cut Studio 2, Flash, The Art Of Editing and post production workshops
HD camera, cinematography and how to make a short film workshops
Screenwriting and how to structure your screenplay workshops
Information sessions on crew hierarchy and set protocols, our youth department, mentorship opportunities [...]