EVENT: 9 SEPTEMBER
If you are a budding short filmmaker and are developing ideas for short film, then you won’t want to miss this amazing opportunity. Participants in the workshop will be mentored by experienced industry practitioners who have excelled in short filmmaking, including producer/director Paul Swadel (Poppy, Infection, Accidents), screenwriter and academic Shuchi Kothari (Firaaq, Apron Strings, Coffee and Allah), and animator/director James Cunningham (Das Tub, Poppy, Infection).
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EVENT: 16 APRIL
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! Deadline Friday 25th March. An intensive 2-day workshop building on Gaylene Preston's hit seminar and workshopping practical ways to protect the core essence of a film throughout the rigorous process that is filmmaking. "We need to explore that big mysterious exciting unfathomable unifying thing deep in the heart of the film – which I call the ‘It’. The It is why you want to make the film in the first place. This workshop explores ways of finding It, articulating It, protecting It, promoting It."
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EVENT: 19 MARCH
"This seminar is about that big mysterious exciting unfathomable unifying thing deep in the heart of the film - which I call 'the It'. The It is why you want to make the film in the first place." Gaylene Preston talks through techniques for keeping 'the It' at the centre of the filmmaking process, from script development, to financing, to directing on set.
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NEWS: 5 OCTOBER 2010
Show Me Shorts and Script to Screen have announced the names of six up-and-coming filmmakers who will participate in their inaugural Short Film Lab on 6 November.
Selected from more than 90 applicants from around New Zealand, the participants in the 2010 Short Film Lab are: Sam Bunkall, Simon Hansen, Lauren Jackson, Kelly Joseph, Renae Maihi, and Rose McIver.
\Announcing the successful applicants at the Show Me Shorts programme launch on Tuesday…
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EVENT: 10 SEPTEMBER
Script to Screen and Show Me Shorts are calling for applications for the 2010 Short Film Lab. If you are a budding film writer or writer/director, then you won’t want to miss this amazing opportunity. Participants will be mentored by experienced industry practitioners who have excelled in short filmmaking, including producer Ainsley Gardiner (Boy, Eagle vs Shark, Two Cars One Night, Tama Tu), writer/director Mark Albiston (Run, The Six Dollar Fifty Man), and screenwriter, producer and academic Shuchi Kothari (Firaaq, Apron Strings, Coffee and Allah).
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EVENT: 28 AUGUST
A one-day masterclass with groundbreaking screenwriting theorist Christopher Vogler. Christopher Vogler's acclaimed book, The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, is one of the most successful screenwriting books ever published and Vogler is one of the most in demand screenwriting teachers and consultants in the world.
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