Screen Dunedin presents 2 days of workshops, screenings and seminars for film and television professionals, students and enthusiasts.
Otago Museum Friday the 27th and Saturday the 28th March
Friday Huia Room – daytime – screenings of exceptional films from local film schools and other films of note and local significance with talks/ Q&A by the film makers, koha at door
Barclay Theatre
Friday 10.00am-12.15pm – NZ Film Commission
a 2hr+ session on developing short films for the Film Commission PODs as a stepping stone to making features – and how to make that work. NZFC Development Executive Hone Kouka
Friday 12.30-1.30 – McDaniel+Power Actor/Profile Management
workshop on tricks and traps of casting, auditions, and working with an actors’ agency.
Barbara Power!and Aliana McDaniel, koha at door
Friday 1.45-2.45 – Nga Aho Whakaari
Finding a Maori Voice in Film
Pita Turei
Friday 3.00-4.00 – Areo Cinematic Games
An introduction to blending film making and online gaming
Zoe Hobson, Exec. Producer Areo Cinematic Games, koha at door
Friday 4.15-5.15 WIFT NZ (Women in Film and Television)
Music rights and how to license music for film, television or advertisement (to budget).
Mushroom Music / Mushroom Pictures Managing Director Jackie Dennis.
WIFT Member: Free. Others: $5 koha at door
Friday 5.30-6.30 – Natural History NZ + Great Southern Film & TV
Seminar on developing projects for the international television market/changes in the international television market.
Craig Meade(NHNZ) & Yvonne Donohue (Gt Sthn), koha at door
6.30-7.30 Drinks Museum Atrium Sponsored and cash bar
Friday Night 7.30-8.30 – Script to Screen Writers Room
Experts Panel: What Makes a Great Short Film?
Writer / director Patrick Gilles, DoP Stephen Downes and NZFC Short Film Sales and Marketing exec Juliette Veber use case studies to debate effective short film making. 45-minute panel discussion including short film clips, + Q & A.
Friday Night 8.30-10.30pm -Date Night pitching session. NZ Writers Guild/SDGNZ/SPADA
Speed pitch your ideas to film/TV producers – structured networking for writers, directors, & producers. Yvonne Donohue (Great Southern Film & TV, Akd), Craig Meade (NHNZ, Dn), Steve Zanoski (South Pacific Pictures, Akd), Christina Milligan (Conbrio Media, Akd), Zoe Hobson (38 Pictures, Dn), Alex Cole-Baker (Chocolate Fish Films, Akd)
Advance registration required to pitch: To register please contact steven@nzwritersguild.org.nz
Saturday March 28th
Huia Room – daytime – Local documentaries, Pioneering Animation, and Stunning Student work – screenings of exceptional films from local film schools and other films of note and local significance with talks/ Q&A by the film makers, koha at door
Barclay Theatre
Saturday morn 10am-11am – Shortland St – Writers Search
What’s involved in writing for the country’s longest running drama, who they’re looking for, and how it works – with one on one follow ups for prospective writers by apptmt.
Producer Steven Zanoski & senior writer Kate McDermott
Advance registration required to audition: To register contact Al Baddock <baddock@earthlight.co.nz>
Saturday 11.30-2.30 The Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand presents . . .
Where to put the camera, what to tell the actors: A 3 hour workshop with Jonathan Brough
Using the scene as the basic building block, the workshop will explore the fundamentals of making memorable and resonant film or TV – what to tell the actors, and where to put the camera. Through the exploration of scene focus, through-lines, physical blocking and the wants and needs of the characters, we will explore the different ways a scene can be shaped and the ramifications of those decisions. Participants will be expected to do some brief preparation for the workshop, and also serve as actors.
Jonathan Brough is a director of film and TV. His television credits include The Insider’s Guide to Happiness, The Pretender, Outrageous Fortune, Eating Media Lunch and The Unauthorised History of New Zealand. His short film The Model was officially selected for the Cannes Film Festival and, more recently, his short film No Ordinary Sun was awarded ‘Best Short Film’ at the 2005 Auckland Film Festival.
You can attend either as a participant or an observer.
Participant fee: $20, *$10 for SDGNZ members, Observer fee: $10, *free for SDGNZ members
To apply to attend as a participant please email office@sdgnz.co.nz with a bio and brief statement on why you would like to attend.
To register as an observer please email your name to office@sdgnz.co.nz
Afternoon tea/informal interactions
Saturday 3.00-4.00 – 38 Pictures
a talk on working for Maori TV and network productions, skills required, how to get there etc….
Zoe Hobson, Exec Producer, 38 Pictures, koha at door
Saturday 4.00-5.30 Drinks
Sat 5.30 pm-7.00pm – Festival Closing
Dunedin Film Society Special film screening: Broken Wings (Israel)
‘Maya is a promising songwriter, but the boys in the band consider her family duties a cop-out. Her fury at this injustice provokes a crisis of heart-stopping suspense: the anxiety for emotional rescue becomes almost palpable. The actors thrive with writer/director Nir Bergman’s tellingly detailed script and illuminate the volatile density of family relationships with a clarity that is as rare as it is gratifying.’ – Bill Gosden.
‘Bergman’s script is a small wonder of elegant economy, judiciously investing in little Bahr’s melancholy, Yair’s life-is-meaningless platform (toppled when a volatile girlfriend stands on a window ledge and asks if he still thinks she’s ‘a speck of dust’), and Dafna’s first painfully awkward fumblings toward new romance. Warm yet clear-eyed and droll, always emphatic, never lugubrious, the film earns its unexpected ending
many times over.’ – Jessica Winter, Time Out
Screenplay/Director: Nir Bergman; !Producer: Assaf Amir; !Cinematography: Valentin Belonogov; !Editor:
Einat Glaser Zarhin; !Music: Avi Belleli!
With: Orly Zilberschatz-Banai (Dafna), Maya Maron (Maya). Nitai Gvirtz (Yair), Vladimir Friedman (Dr
Goldman), Dana Ivgy (Iris), Danny ‘Mooki’ Niv (Yoram), Daniel Magon (Ido), Eliana Magon (Bahr)!
In Hebrew with English subtitles! 87 mins, DV!
!M sex scenes, offensive language
koha at door
The 2009 Dunedin Fringe Festival runs from 26 March – 5 April
www.dunedinfringe.org.nz
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