Hot tip from our Multi Platform guru, Gary Hayes – storyboard app for iphone

September 16, 2009

Gary Hayes – all round multi platform guru here at AFTRS has circulated this bit of intel. around the school today – and we thought it might be a good one to share with the the red set community…. “For those on projects at the moment, still in storyboard / previs stage of their project [...]

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Spring is in the air & applications are open for 2010

September 9, 2009

Last weekend’s OPEN DAY at AFTRS saw a gorgeous Spring weekend unravel for the 12 hundred people who turned up at the School to find out more about the what and how for next year’s courses…. …… and now it is down to business for applying. Our microsite:  www.makeit.aftrs.edu.au has been up  and running since [...]

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AFTRS OPEN DAYS: ONE WEEKEND ONLY – Sept 5 & 6

August 28, 2009

Interested in learning more about what’s on offer at Australia’s national screen arts and broadcast School in 2010? AFTRS Sydney – Saturday Sep 5 & September 6 – 10 am – 3pm One weekend only! FREE What you will find and can do at OPEN DAY + Course information booths – talk to AFTRS teaching [...]

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Diversity that’s what audiences want – according to Robert Connolly

August 12, 2009

At last week’s Friday on My Mind – our FREE weekly industry talks – Robert Connolly who was our guest for the week ending August 7 talked about his latest project Balibo [which is poised to go out on screens nationally very shortly] and towards the end of the session in response to a question [...]

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Jane Campion’s Bright Star – “sold out”

July 23, 2009

Following its world premiere at Cannes earlier this year, Jane Campion’s Bright Star has now sold to: + Atlantic Film for Scandinavia + SSG for Taiwan + Babilla for Colombia + Phars for the Middle Wast + PT Camila for Indonesia + Golden Village for Singapore + Myndform for Iceland + Vertigo for Spain and [...]

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LUMINOUS LUMINA – a new journal for the screen arts & broadcast sector

July 5, 2009

With the goal of providing a reflective and culturally oriented publication for the screen arts & broadcast community AFTRS last week launched a new, 180 page journal called: LUMINA. Created as vehicle to provide space for cultural reflection and analysis LUMINA was created to share the thoughts and ideas of people who want to have [...]

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What a great year for Australian Films – AWGIE nominees just announced

June 23, 2009

The Australian Writers’ Guild has just announced via their newsletter the nominees for the 42nd annual AWGIE Awards to be presented in Sydney on August 28 and we are delighted to have quite a few AFTRS alumni in the nominee list. This year is proving to be a great year for Australian feature films reflected [...]

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MAKE IT AFTRS in 2010 – Our full course offering for next year now available

June 17, 2009

Be on the look out at newstands and letterboxes around the nation for our latest eye catching insert featuring all of the AFTRS courses on offer for 2010. You will find the 2010 AFTRS course offer insert inside the following newspapers on the following days: + The Koori Mail – National June 17 + The [...]

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Great news: Samson & Delilah – set to hit $2m

June 11, 2009

Simon de Bruyn, over at IF, reported today that box office takings for AFTRS graduate Warwick Thornton’s award winning Samson & Delilah is “steaming towards $2m” with expectations it will hit the two million dollar milestone this weekend…… As Simon points out in his post, the track record to date for Thornton’s feautre debut, being [...]

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Bright Star – Jane Campion’s latest feature in competition at Cannes

May 17, 2009

AFTER 62 years of the Cannes Film Festival, AFTRS alumni Jane Campion is still the only woman to have won the Palme D’Or, the festival’s top award — in 1993, for The Piano and 2009 sees Campion in competition again for the same award with her latest feature project Bright Star, an Australian-British co-production starring [...]

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