MEAA invites you to catch up with colleagues from across the media industry at our Sydney Media Drinks. We’re back on the Aurora Hotel Rooftop, Surry Hills and we’ll be there from 6.00pm until late.
Canapes and drinks provided at bar prices. Non members are welcome.
DATE AND TIME: Wed 7 December 2016, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM AEDT
LOCATION :Aurora Hotel (ROOFTOP), 324 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010
The Toronto Short Film Festival is in its second year of screenings and this is a great opportunity for MAP students to enter their projects into. With no pre-screening requirements and open to all shorts under 50 minutes (including documentaries), it’s worth spending a couple of minutes to enter. The DEADLINE is November 18th so there’s still almost a solid month to get your submission together! There’s also a late entry deadline that’s not until Jan. next year. Some more info below. Enter here
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This episode of The Business of Life by Vice News offers a great discussion on low budget filmmaking and the changing nature of the production and creative industries. It is well worth a watch:
The Steve Jaggi Co. is a full service motion picture production company that produces in house feature motion picture content and provides executive services and production, sales and marketing consultancy to third parties, both domestic and foreign.
A unique opportunity has opened for an intern to join their team. You will have the opportunity to be trained by seasoned industry practitioners in a number of areas including but not limited to:
The right candidate requires the following skills:
Additional (but not required, as training will be provided) skills include:
It’s important that you are passionate about film and are motivated to learn. Experts within their team will provide support during the internship, but you will be expected work independently as well.
This intern position adheres to the Fair Work Australia guidelines governing unpaid work and internships:
Worth entering if you’re looking for cast in your next film, even if you don’t decide to ultimately go through Starnow:
http://www.starnow.com/go/aus-film-schools/
Here’s a good little article by No Film School that discusses how the Coen Brothers construct their dialogue scenes in terms of visual style, including framing, lenses, post work and much more.
Contract terms: Full time employee with 6 months probationary period.
Salary: negotiable depending on experience.
Experience: minimum 3 years relevant experience.
About Chimney
Chimney have storytelling at heart. . Though Post-production is their first true love, they’ve expanded across the spectrum of creative production, delivering effective and visually superior work with a strong focus on client service. They work with high end moving images, producing TV commercials and online films in all their variety.
Based in Surry Hills, Sydney, Chimney Australia is one of 12 worldwide offices of the Chimney Group, a dynamic, entrepreneurial and award winning business with over 380 global employees.
About the Role, and You
They are currently searching for an experienced Editor/Motion Graphics designer to join them full time. You must have a keen sense for design and a strong ability to multitask, bringing several projects at a time to life, from concept to delivery.
Equally important is a developed understanding and sensitivity towards client/brand/product needs, as-well as an eye for quality, as this role will require you to manage external designers/editors to ensure creative and technical excellence.
If you are self motivated, highly organised and a team player, then they want to hear from you!
Essential skills:
Highly valued skills, but not required:
Culture:
Chimney Group offers a high performance culture that attracts the best talent available to deliver effective and visually superior work spanning all aspects of production and post production. They value positive people who are passionate about their work.
Benefits:
Chimney has a number of programs, both individual and team based, to reward outstanding employees. For outstanding staff there is ample opportunity for international group transfers and work placements.
Starting date:
ASAP
Applications must be recieved by October 28th 2016.
Applicants must have working visa for Australia to be considered.
How to apply:
Please submit a cover letter with a summary of your achievements, Reel and your resume to bo.thorp(at)chimneygroup.com with “Editor/Designer” in the subject line.
2016 recipients of the fellowship: Alex Murwaski, Anya Beyesdorf, Brooke Goldfinch & Alex Ryan
Applications have opened for the 2017 Lexus Australian Short Film Fellowship: 50K to produce your next short film. Must have written and directed an award winning short or be currently studying and have written and directed a short (required to submit the film for review)
For full eligibility requirements see below.
The Fellowship is open anyone who meets ALL the following eligibility requirements:
• Must be at least eighteen (18) years old;
• Has never directed a full-length feature film, nor be in pre-production on one at the time of submission and thereafter;
• Has written AND directed at least one (1) short film (under 40 minutes in length) which has been accepted to a film festival AND/OR is a current enrolled student in a film school;
• Can speak and write fluently in English;
• Must not have a pre-existing agreement with a film or television studio that would interfere with or prevent with entrant’s ability to participate in the Competition;
• Available to attend 2017 Sydney Film Festival held between 7 to 18 June 2017;
• Is an Australian citizen.
Join Kino Sydney as we throw open our screen to Sydney’s diverse scene of local filmmakers to premiere their madcap, creative, and always inventive short films.
Cheer on short films, gain insights from our Q&As and industry talk, chill out to live music, feel content on pizza, and try your luck on our giveaways.
Tickets are only $10 with all programming and food inclusive. Screening filmmakers get in free.
WANT TO SCREEN?
Use Kino as a space to hone your craft, test how a joke works with our audience, or screen a film as a calling card to meet collaborators amongst our community. We ask only that films are under 6 minutes; no ads or home videos; not available online. Register to screen here: https://kinosydney.com/screen-a-film/
DATE AND TIME: Mon 7 November 2016 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM AEDT
Here’s a good little video introducing the post production process from ingesting files to packaging the final deliverables from the master edit.
I’ve also included a flow chart graphic. Good luck to all students putting together final assessments/major projects for MAP over the next fortnight!
