Asia Australia Media Executive Leadership Program (pdf 44Kb)

The Asia Australia Media Executive Leadership Program is a five day course being held in Singapore from Sunday 22 November to Friday 27 November 2009 aimed at developing entrepreneurial, strategic leadership and management skills, to enable participants to strengthen their companies and to better meet the challenges of the evolving global marketplace.

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AFTRS Short Courses

Approximately twice a year the Australian Film, Television and Radio School with the support of the Northern Territory Film Office runs short courses for professionals in Alice Springs and Darwin.  The courses run vary depending on the needs of the industry and have included courses such as:

• After Effects Compositing
• Art of Creative Editing
• Audio for Mini DV
• Cinematography
• Doing Business With Asia
• From Idea to the Page
• Final Cut Pro Basics and Advanced
• Tax Fundamentals

EURISTA Development Skills Workshop

In association with Eurista Development, Screen Tasmania and Screen Australia, the Northern Territory Film Office supported one project and one developer to participate in the EURISTA Development Skills Workshop.

The EURISTA Development Skills Workshop was a week long script development skills residential workshop that was held in Freycinet, Tasmania in July 2009.

The successful Territorians chosen where:

• Rachel Clements – Developer
• Eleanor Hogan – Project – Stupid Old Love

IGNITE

In 2009 the Northern Territory Film Office in partnership with acclaimed script development company Eurista Development run IGNITE, an accelerated feature film development initiative which took place over six months.

IGNITE mixed high intensity residential workshops with distance learning and online consultation.

IGNITE aimed to generate well developed stories and energised creative teams who are ready to push their projects on with an increased chance of success.

Five Territory projects were chosen to participate in IGNITE.  The projects chosen were:

• I am Daisy – Jane Hampson
• Captive Lives – Tom. E Lewis and Fleur Parry
• Carnage – Steven McGregor
• The Sandbar Man – Trevor Shiell
• Reffo Now – Andrzej Zukowski

Each project was given a full scholarship to participate in IGNITE.  The scholarships were valued at in excess of $15 000 with $10 000 being set aside for script development.

Also participating in IGNITE were two writers from Tasmania and a writer/producer team from South Australia.  Each interstate team received support from their state screen agency to participate in IGNITE.

Yarning Up Series One and Series Two

Produced by the Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association (TEABBA) and Penny Smallacombe, in association with the Northern Territory Film Office, Screen Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Department of Education and Training, and National Indigenous Television (NITV), Yarning Up is an initiative that allows Indigenous filmmakers from remote Top End communities to attend workshops in Darwin and pitch their projects for production.

The first Yarning Up series was broadcast in 2008 and the projects involved were:

• Yolngu Guya Djamamirr - Frank Djirrimbilpilwuy
• One River, All Rivers  - Tom E. Lewis
• One Tree One Man -Jedda Puruntatameri
• Yothu Marnda - Elish Markuniny

The films involved were screened on ABC TV’s Message Stick and NITV as well as at a number of national and international festivals where they picked up a number of awards.

Post production is currently underway on the four films chosen for Yarning Up 2:

• The Barngurnn Story - Marie Brennan
• Nundhirribala’s Dream - Ella Geia
• The Boss for his Country - Rennova Urban
• One Leader, Ten Wives - Malcolm Wilson

Yarning Up 2 will be broadcast on ABC TV’s Message Stick and NITV later this year.

Headlands

Headlands was an intensive 10 week documentary research and writing development initiative from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) through its Documentary Department in partnership with the Northern Territory Film Office and other state and federal agencies.  The program focused on supporting selected applicants through the intensive process of research and development of a high concept documentary feature, series, multi-media or one-off program that required extensive research. 

Dixi Joy Bankier from Darwin was the Territory’s successful participant.

Arista Residential Workshop

In association with Arista Development and Screen Tasmania, the Northern Territory Film Office supported two feature film projects to participate in a seven day residential script development workshop held at Freycinet Lodge, Tasmania.

The successful projects chosen were:

• Stupid Old Love – Eleanor Hogan
• The Sandbar Man – Trevor Shiell

Arista Development Workshops – June 2008

From Saturday 21 June 2008 to Monday 30 June 2008 the Northern Territory Film Office in association with the NT Writers’ Centre hosted two, two day workshops and four half day one on one meetings by acclaimed script development company Arista Development.

The workshops held were:

• Saturday 21 June 2008 and Sunday 22 June 2008 – Arista Development Treatments and Short Documents Workshop – Alice Springs
• Saturday 28 June 2008 and Sunday 29 June 2008 – Arista Development Writing and Developing Family and Children’s Films – Darwin

18 people attended the workshops.

Arista Development Lo Budget High Quality Feature Film Workshop – November 2007

On Sunday 18 November 2007 and Monday 19 November 2007 the Northern Territory Film Office (NTFO) in association with the NT Writers’ Centre hosted Arista Development’s two day Lo Budget High Quality Workshop in Darwin.

21 writers, including three from Alice Springs whose travel costs were covered by the NTFO, attended the workshop.  The workshop covered:

• Issues facing low budget filmmakers today
• A brief history of no to low budget filmmaking
• The meaning of distinctiveness
• Low budget genres
• Low budget development
• Directing low budget

Creating Vision

In May 2006 the Northern Territory Film Office in partnership with Desert Knowledge and the Department of Business, Industry and Regional Development and facilitated by Burdon Torzillo, hosted a three day workshop attended by remote Indigenous screen practitioners from across the Territory.  Attendees included representatives of Indigenous Media Associations.