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Month: June 2016
Off The Grid Screening
Award winning film ‘Off The Grid’ will be playing at the end of next month, Thursday 30th July in Darlinghurst. The event includes live music, chocolate tasting and an Indian Buffet Dinner and costs $35 in total for students.
A bit about the film:
From 2011 to 2013 Jonathan Taggart (Director) and Phillip Vannini (Producer) spent two years travelling across Canada to find 200 off-gridders and visit them in their homes. They met off-gridders in every single province and territory and through their film they narrated our travels and chronicled in depth the experiences, challenges, inventions, aspirations, and ways of life of people who have chosen to radically re-invent daily life in a dramatically innovative but also quite traditional way.
Life Off Grid is a film about people who have chosen to build their lives around renewable energy, with beautiful, inspiring, and often challenging results.
Trailer:
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Free Screening: CODE – THIS THURSDAY @5PM
Pivotal will be hosting the first Sydney screening of the award-winning documentary :”CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap”.
When: Thursday 9th June, 5PM
This thought-provoking documentary shines a light on the lack of female software engineers, both in the workplace and in university and primary school programs. This event includes a screening as well as a panel discussion from highly sought after panelists working in the industry which includes:
> Kate Mckenzie, Chief Operations Officer, Telstra
> Jenine Beekhuyzen, Found of Tech Girls Movement & Author of the books ‘Tech girls are chic, not just geek”
> Robyn Elliott, Chief Information Officer, Fairfax Media
> Valeria Ignatieva, Co-Founder, Diverse City Careers
> Cath Jones, Developer, Digital Transformation Officer
> Daphne Chong, Technical Lead Developer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation & Co-organiser of Women Who Code
EVENT AGENDA:
5.00pm – 5.30pm Registration & Networking
5:30pm – 5.45pm Opening and Welcome
5:45pm – 7.00pm Movie Screening
7.00pm – 8.00pm Panel & Audience Discussion
8.00pm – 8.30pm Networking
Sydney Film Festival News: 20 Films To See
Abe Forsythe’s Film ‘Down Under’ will be screened at SFF
A recently published Sydney Morning Herald Article provides movie-goers with a great breakdown of 20 recommended films from the various categories and genres on offer. Gillian Leahy’s Baxter and Me is one of the 20 which gets a good write up as a must see documentary at this year’s festival. The article is definitely worth a read, especially if you are yet to decide on what films to attend this year. Some are selling fast, others have sold out, so get your program lined up and clear your schedule for the next 2 weeks as the festival is only a couple of days away!
The article can be found by clicking here
MAP UNDERGRAD. SCREENINGS
Still from Liam Egan’s ‘Kim and Austin’
This semester’s ungrads have been slaving away to create some absolutely fantastic (some disturbing) and high quality media projects from short films to docos to installation/alternative media to showcase this semester. Here’s the details for the screening:
When: Thursday June 16th
Time: Thursday, June 16 at 6 PM – 10 PM
Location: The University Hall UTS
733 Harris St, Ultimo, Sydney, Australia 2007
Link to Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/813519138780318/
Update: an actual still from Camilla Turnball’s ‘Mantis’
Richard Hall’s ‘Peach’
Awesome Free Material
I’m sure some of you have heard of this already, but the Indie Film Hustle Podcast is really a must-listen-to. It’s free and a new episode is provided weekly. You can subscribe through iTunes and other podcast streaming services. The information is raw, candid and honest and the tips and guide to filmmaking is relevant to students who will be working on low-budget productions. The episodes which deal with entering into film festivals and other distribution platforms is particularly timely for those currently wrapping up MAP Major Project.
There are also film courses and info packs available over on Alex’s website:
Here’s a link to the latest episode that discusses film festival hacks:
IFH 067: Film Festival Secrets – How to Crack the Festival Code