Monthly Archives: October 2010

by Rachael

this week at FOMM: The Reef

The Reef
Andrew Traucki & Michael Robertson

In 2007, producer Michael Robertson and director Andrew Traucki brought us horror/thriller croc feature Black Water and with it a model for low-budget, genre Australian movies. With shark film The Reef they take this one step further with a clever online strategy from the set and before to reel in audiences before cameras even rolled. Here they guide us through the new waters of online marketing.

Special guests:

• Michael Robertson – producer Prodigy Movies
• Andrew Traucki – writer/director (The Reef, Black Water, Rocky Star – TV)

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, October 22
Event: Friday On My Mind
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter

The Reef

An inspiring AFTRS event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. All welcome. Join me for my last session of 2010!

by Rachael

this week at FOMM: Jucy

Jucy details
Louise Alston on the budding “womance”

Fresh back from a full-house premiere at Toronto International Film Festival where Jucy* was listed in the ‘Top 15 Films to Watch’, director Louise Alston (All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane) talks about the rise of the “womance” buddy genre and what it takes to get a second feature up in the current international climate.

Special guest:
• Louise Alston – director (All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, Jucy)

* free advance screening of Jucy!

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, October 15
Event: Friday On My Mind
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter
Jucy

An inspiring AFTRS event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. All welcome.

by Rachael

this week at FOMM: Legend of the Guardians

Birds of a Feather
Simon Whiteley on The Owls of Ga’Hoole

Following the international success of Happy Feet with George Miller, Australia’s Animal Logic has sunk its talons into producing the Zack Snyder directed action animation The Legend of the Guardian: the Owls of Ga’Hoole.

Simon Whiteley will talk us though the design of key characters and environments to create this spectacular air display.

Special guest:
• Simon Whiteley – production designer (Babe, The Matrix, Happy Feet, Legend of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga’Hoole)

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, October 8
Event: Friday On My Mind
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter

An inspiring AFTRS event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. All welcome.

by Rachael

‘Wake Up’ by Rex Woods

“The morning sun when it’s in your face really shows your age…”

I don’t know if Reg Livermore meant a bunch of 15-year-olds rubbing sleep from their bedheads as they duck out for a day of skating but I love the way old toons can be reinterpreted.

Check out this nice little nostalgic short Wake Up written and directed by Rex Woods, son of one of our industry’s super creative couples Rowan Woods and Jacquelin Perske.

“It’s late September and I really should be back at school…”

Film school for this one too, perhaps?

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