Virgin Australia is offering a ‘Best of the Fest’ program, curated quarterly: a selection of AFTRS films that have screened at film festivals like Berlin, Toronto and Palm Springs ShortFest.
Queensland Originals: First Concepts with AFTRS will see talented local writers, directors and producers receive select briefings with a high profile line-up of industry leaders and trailblazers.
Rickard is a partner and head of production at Jungle (formerly Jungleboys) where she's produced Soul Mates, No Activity (Stan’s first original commission), Here Come the Habibs, The Moodys and The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting.
Wide Angle Tasmania and AFTRS have announced they will collaborate on a web series training initiative, Step-Out Web 17. One team will be selected to produce their series.
Their first joint initiative was a four day workshop at AFTRS last week for Year 9 and Year 10 students from Granville Boys High School.
The session, titled Writing for Screen: Finding Your Place, will be toplined by multi-platform scribe Mike Jones, a writer and story lecturer at AFTRS, and screenwriter Peter Mattessi (Eastenders, Waterloo Road).
Two of the participants hail from Alice Springs, one from Broome, one from Perth, one from Townsville, one from Brisbane, one from Sydney and two from Yirrkala in the Northern Territory. Three of those selected are women.
Landers' latest project is a book, Who Bombed the Hilton?, examining the 1978 bombing outside the Sydney Hilton which killed two garbage collectors and one police officer.