ScreenACT Newsletter

We have had a great response to the Stephen Cleary writing for low budget feature workshop and it will be going ahead as planned.

Following on from the success of ScreenACT's Project Pod, international script consultant Stephen Cleary will be back in town to run the first phase of a Low Budget Feature initiative. The two day workshop "Writing for a Low Budget Feature" is about actually writing low budget features as opposed to having a script that is high budget but you only have a low budget to make!

The workshop is scheduled for the weekend of 25^th and 26^th September and will be co-hosted by ScreenACT and the ACT Writers' Centre.

For application forms click here.

Come along to a special charity screening of "The Secret of Moonacre" the $27million family fantasy feature produced by ScreenACT's Monica Penders. The film stars Dakota Blue Richards (The Golden Compass), Ioan Gruffudd (The Fantastic Four) and Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) and is directed by Gabor Csupo (The Bridge to Terabithia). Click here for the trailer

There will be two screenings only:
12th September, 2010 - 3.00pm at the CSIRO Discovery Theatre. Tickets for this screening and more information can be purchased on line here

22nd September, 2010 - 7.00pmat the National Film and Sound Archive. Tickets can be pre-purchased in person from the box office at the National Film and Sound Archive, McCoy Circuit, Acton, or over the phone by calling 6248 2000.

Join us for a drink, raffles and give aways from 6.00pm onwards with a Q&A with the producer after the event.

All proceeds will go to local not-for-profit Shaw Possibilities who support and empower adults with disabilities. A big thank you to both the CSIRO and NFSA for their support of these special events.

ScreenACT has a new website (see here), and we would like to expand our production directory. This is a free service and lists crew, facilities and services in the ACT region. To submit your details or update existing details, click here to fill out a form, or email your details to ScreenACT.

ACT's Bearcage Productions has been commissioned by the History Channel to produce an exclusive new documentary, BLESSED MARY: A Saint for All Australians, to commemorate the historic canonisation of Mary MacKillop in Rome on October 17, 2010.

Hosted by Alan Jones, this hour-long special will coincide with the canonisation of Australia's first saint and will have its world premiere on The History Channel on Sunday, October 10 at 7.30pm AEST, with an encore screening on Sunday, October 17 at 8.30pm AEST.

SPAA Fringe, hosted by SPAA is a two day event that educates, connects and inspires filmmakers. Here, you will have the opportunity to pitch your project to SBS, ABC, Foxtel, distributors and established producers.

Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) are offering a 10-week course in digital compositing for film. Software taught in this course is Nuke. Nuke is quickly becoming the standard digital compositing software in the film industry.

Screen Australia will be holding two Script Factories, held in Sydney during November.

Photographers, filmmakers and other digital artists have just three weeks to submit their Centenary of Canberra Show Us Your Limits entry before the competition closes at 4.00pm on the 31st of August 2010. Click here for more information

• Avid Award for the Best Editing in a Feature Film
• The Lab Award for the Best Editing in a Television Drama
• Best Editing in a Documentary
• Best Editing in a Television Non-Drama
• Best Editing in a Commercial
• Best Editing in a Music Video
• Best Editing in a Short Film.

In August, the Government will host it's first initiative promoting awareness between the general population, and those affected with the H1N1 virus.

• Short films, 15 to 90 seconds in length that document or observe parts of life for young people who are attempting to adjust to this chaotic, new world.

Email all queries to design@shopfront.org.au.

Australian Herpes Management Forum (AHMF) is launching the inaugural Live & Love Short Film Competition - an initiative designed to destigmatise HSV (Herpes Simplex Virus) - through the creation of short films.

Love Short Film Competition is looking for high-quality, 30-second-long films that explore HSV and educate viewers about its prevalence, while encouraging open discussion about the virus in order to reduce its stigma.

A total prize purse of $15,000 is up for grabs, with finalists being invited to mingle with a host of arts industry representatives, at the Live & Love Short Film Competition Awards, to be held in Sydney on Tuesday 19 October 2010 - the evening prior to Herpes Awareness Day, 20 October 2010.

You have until 24 September 2010 to write, shoot and edit short films designed to de-stigmatise herpes. The Live & Love website, >, provides you with competition and voting details and information about HSV and support services, including a list of sexual health experts.

For further information email or visit http://www.liveandlove.com.au.