Whether you’re an emerging practitioner or running a successful production company, you need business skills to help you put your best foot forward and craft a sustainable career.
For filmmaker and journalist Santilla Chingaipe, it’s time for the Australian screen industry to move beyond conversations about gender representation and diversity, and start taking action. She'll be one of a number of leading Australian creatives to share the stage with dual Academy Award winner Geena Davis at ACMI’s upcoming conference, Being Seen on Screen.
The currency foreign exchange market, like any financial market, is extremely volatile. Varying conditions mean it is important for productions to properly understand how to manage the risks involved with foreign investment.
Whatever your technology requirements for your production projects, Hire Intelligence has the solution.
“You get to learn the whole gamut of the industry, but you're only being assessed on your main specialisation. That's hugely beneficial, because to understand how a set works and how you a production comes about, you need to understand what everyone else is putting in."
The 4th Asia Pacific Screen Forum connects filmmakers across Asia Pacific for five days of panels and presentations, intimate round-table discussions, workshops, screenings and networking events.
As Amy Doherty’s career shifted from television to virtual reality, she kept coming up against hurdles. She found she lacked a shared language with programmers to convey her ideas. Writing things out, it was hard to express timing, the depths of the interactive worlds or non-linear storylines on the page. She’d even resorted to building dioramas. After learning about SpaceDraft she found a simpler way to communicate her ideas around journey, atmosphere and tone.
When many film students start out, the first thing they want to do is pick up the camera. When teachers have step in to remind them of the importance of pre-production, it can feel like putting a halt on their students’ creativity. However, educators say new software is helping to ‘gamify’ production planning.