Meet the Filmmaker
Meet the Filmmaker is a weekly 3-hour class that brings SFS students into direct contact with working film professionals to offer them some insight into the craft, art and industry of film and TV.
Run over seven weeks during each semester, each session is designed as a workshop-lesson and has a specific theme or topic built around the particular filmmaking discipline of the invited guest: screenwriting, directing, cinematography, producing, editing, sound design...
The invited guests present examples of their work and discuss in detail their creative process. After a special 'lesson' created by the guest filmmaker that shows how creative choices are made and developed in the filmmaking process, guests and students are invited to freely interact - that is to ask questions and follow wherever the conversation may lead...
Meet the Filmmaker program for Semester Two, 2010:
• July 26th - LUKE DOOLAN (Filmmaker, Screenwriter/Editor)
Luke is one of Australia's top editors. He's also a writer and director. This year his latest short film, Miracle Fish, was nominated for best short film at the Academy Awards.
In this session Luke will be doing a special workshop on editing techniques including his work on The Square and Animal Kingdom and discuss the making of his films.
Luke is part of the Blue Tongue Films team of filmmakers who have produced an outstanding, rich and diverse body of work since 1996, including clips for Ben Lee, Missy Higgins, Empire of the Sun and You Am I, the short films Bloodlock, Loaded and Spider and the features The Square (2008) and Animal Kingdom (2010).
Check out the website at:http://blog.bluetonguefilms.com/
• August 2nd - GEOFF BURTON (Filmmaker, Cinematographer)
A film and TV veteran of over three decades. Geoff's long list of credits as director of photography include the major Australian films Sunday Too Far Away (1975), Stir (1980), The Year My Voice Broke (1987), Sirens (1993) and recently, Lucky Miles (2006) and Blessed (2008). He is also a director; he co-directed The Sum of Us in 1993 and recently he's made a series of outstanding and adventurous films for TV including The Fall of the House (2003) and Mohammad Hossain's Intensive Care (2006). In this session Geoff will offer a personal account how his art as a cinematographer has evolved under the infleunce of both technology and other mediums - inlcuding flat art - in the last forty years.
• August 9th - TILMANN SCHNEIDER (Filmmaker, Animator)
From Germany, Tilmann Schneider is a filmmaker and animator with decades of experience and an impresssive body of work. He has an animation studio and company called Ü.
Tilmann has worked producing children's programming for some of the major European broadcasters including Germany's ZDF.
Currently Ü produces concepts, & designs sound and composes, photographs and animates for film & tv. In this session Tilmann will discuss animation, both as technique and as an art and will screen extracts of his work.
Check out the website at: www.studio-ue.de
• August 16th - ELIZABETH MARY MOORE (Filmmaker, Production Designer)
Elizabeth is one of Australia's leading production designers with a career stretching back to the early 90s. In this session Elizabeth will discuss the way a PD works and the importance of collaboration. Her recent feature credits include Accidents Happen (2009), The Square (2008), Opal Dream (2005) and The Illustrated Family Doctor (2005).
• August 23rd - ANDREW PLAIN (Sound Designer)
Arguably the best sound designer in Australia, Andrew Plain and the team at Huzzah, based at Fox Studios, have produced a brilliant body of work over the years in features, commercials, short films and factual programming. Recently Andrew completed work on Stuart Beattie's Tomorrow When the War Began. Other recent credits include, The Waiting City (2009), Knowing (2009), Two Fists, One Heart (2009) and Jindabyne (2006) and Lantana (2001).
Check out the website at: www.huzzahsound.com
• August 30th - GREG READ (Filmmaker, Writer/Producer/Director)
Greg is an experienced all-round filmmaker. His company Paperbark Films was established in 1992 and produces features, documentaries, TV programs, commericals and corporates, as well as design solutions. In this session Greg will talk about the role of the producer as well as his work as writer/director on his feature Like Minds (2006) and the possiblilities for emerging film makers working with short schedules and low budgets. Greg's recent credits include The Eye of the Storm, currently in post-production and directed by Fred Schepisi.
Check out the website at: www.paperbarkfilms.com
