Sessions

The sessions include:

• Industry sessions and screenings
• Technical sessions

Note: all sessions are 15+, with the exception of Genre on a microbudget, which is 18+

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Industry sessions and screenings

Location: University Hall, 745 Harris Street, Broadway, NSW 2007
Map and directions

• 11.00 am - Registrations open

• 12.00 pm Welcome
  Independent producing and the microbudget, chaired by Broadcaster and independent distributor Peter Castaldi*, featuring independent producer Jason Byrne (Little deaths^*, One Perfect Day, Rats and Cats and Shadowplay) and independent producer and distributor John L. Simpson (The Jammed^*, Men's Group ^*, Mother fish)^*, and Defrim Isai, head of FilmLab^*, the SA Government initiative to help develop, produce and market low budget feature films.

• 1.00 pm
  Scripting the microbudget, a screen writing session chaired by director & screenwriter Margot Nash^*, featuring writer directors Louise Wadley^* & Alex Munt^*, whose film LBF* has just been selected for SXSW* in March.

• 1.45 pm
  Random 8, a case study Gillian Leahy discusses the new microbudget collaboration between filmmaker and academic Kathryn Millard^*, cinematographer Steve Macdonald^* and Composer Waldo Garrido*, shot using multiple Red cameras^*

• 2.30 pm
  Preview screening of the OZ microbudget feature Twenty ten^*, followed by a live Q&A with cast and crew

  
  

• 30 min BREAK

  
  

• 4.15pm
  The business, a session on the minimum requirements for microbudget features, chaired by Professor Michael Fraser, AM Faculty of Law at UTS, and featuring Nicholas Cole^*, Special Counsel specialising in media law and producer of The last ride and Joe Lo Surdo*, Managing director, FIUA (Film Insurance Underwriting Agencies)*, and David Emery, applications manager at the Office of Film and Literature Classification*

• 5.15pm
  A session on DigiSPAA^*, featuring its coordinator Daniel Scharf^*

• 6.00pm
  Theatrical and digital distribution with Rachel Okine* - Production and Acquisitions Executive at Hopscotch Productions* with their Head of Digital and Television Louise Balletti-Collins

  
  

• 30 minute BREAK

  
  

• 7.00pm
  Genre on a microbudget, an in conversation between directors Steven Kastrissios^* (The Horseman^*) and Andrew Traucki^* (Black water, The Reef^*)

• 15 minute break

• 8.00pm
  The Australian premiere screening of US microbudget feature Harmony and me^*, followed by a live Q&A with writer director Bob Byington^*

Technical sessions

Location: Bon Marche Studio, 755 Harris Street, Broadway, NSW 2007, entry via side alley
Map and directions

• 11.00 am - Registrations open

• 12.15pm
  Dr. Kurt Lancaster^* (via Skype), author of DSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with Video^* in conversation with symposium convenor Greg Ferris

• 12.45pm
  Sessions on the new Panasonic AG-AF102 by Mathew Alexander, Product Marketing Manager, Panasonic Australia

• 1.30pm
  Nick Buchner a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Sony Australia Limited* discusses the Sony PMWF3 and previews the Sony NXCAM HD 35mm Large Sensor Camcorder* scheduled for release in April

• 2.15pm
  Cinematographer and large-sensor video evangelist Pieter de Vries* reflects on shooting with HDSLRS and the new cameras discussed above

  
  

• 15 minute BREAK

  
  

• 3.30pm
  Film editor, Jason Ballantine^* (WOLF CREEK) discusses the atypical post-production workflow for feature filmmaking, using Avid Media Composer, followed by a Q&A

• 4.15pm
  sound engineers Brent Heber^* and Paul Najar^* discuss workflows for post production sound

• 5.00pm
  Post production workflows with Apple's Final Cut Studio*

• Event continues in university hall (see above)