It’s not every day that you get to sail down the Amazon River in a canoe to do location scouting with a Palme d’Or winning director who is guiding you on your short film. But that was the recent experience of Kate Vinen, one of 50 directors selected for PlayLab Films’ 10-day development lab in Peru with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
AFTRS student films have again fared well on the international stage, recognised in the fiction and documentary categories at the CILECT CAPA Awards for the second year running.