A news filled red alert lands in your inbox this week with details about the swag of AACTA nominations for AFTRS alumni, some early Oscar buzz for Cate Shortland and the lowdown on the latest pop-up radio station, NEXT FM, which is live on air now. We also have Kimble Rendall joining us to talk about his soon to be released second feature Bait 3D at Friday on My Mind this week plus a great selection of AFTRS OPEN short courses inside…
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FRIDAY ON MY MIND
Every Friday at 5pm AFTRS brings you the best and brightest from the screen arts and broadcast industry to discuss ideas and topics of relevance. So why not wind up your week with some food for the mind…
This week Friday September 14: Hooking Up with Bait 3D & Kimble Rendall
Writer, director and musician Kimble Rendall has made his filmmaking name as second unit director on big budget fare like Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, I, Robot, Casanova and Ghost Rider and has a swag of Aussie rock music video directing credits to his name (A Rolling Stone poll, saw Kimble voted Australia’s top music video director). Musically, he goes by the name ‘Dag Rattler’ in the punk rock band XL Capris, and he was a founding member of the Hoodoo Gurus.
On a roll, Kimble – who has recently signed on to direct the $25 million action-thriller Blowback, written by Brian Trenchard-Smith due to be filmed in Sydney next year – sees his second feature Bait 3D theatrically released this month after screening at Venice. A genre hybrid: horror/action/thriller, Bait 3D sees a battle between two massive great white sharks and a handful of shoppers all trapped in a submerged coastal Australian supermarket in the aftermath of a tsunami.
Kimble will discuss the lure of the shark thriller, the challenges of shooting in 3D and his ascending directing career.
BONUS: The session will be followed by a special preview screening of BAIT 3D at 6:30pm at Hoyts EQ, courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
- Guest: Kimble Rendell
FREE every Friday at AFTRS at 5pm
AFTRS Theatre 1
Doors open 5pm.
First in – best dressed
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NEWS & EVENTS
AFTRS PEOPLE & AACTA AWARD FEATURE FILM NOMINATIONS
24 Feature Films are in contention for the 2nd AACTA awards and seven are the work of AFTRS alumni. The list of nominated films by AFTRS graduates is as follows:
- 33 Postcards – Directed/co-written by Pauline Chan (BA Directing, 1991), Music: Antony Partos (BA Sound, 1991)
- Dead Europe – the feature length directorial debut for Tony Krawitz (MA Directing, 2001)
- The King is Dead – Director/Producer: Rolf de Heer (Graduate Diploma Directing, 1980), Editor: Tania Nehme (Editing, 1991)
- Lore – Directed /co-written by Cate Shortland (Graduate Diploma Directing, 2000) with Sam Petty (Sound 1992 and Editing 1991) as Sound Designer
- Mental – Director/Writer: PJ Hogan (Graduate Diploma Screenwriting, 1984), Producer: (one of a team of seven ) Jocelyn Moorhouse (Graduate Certificate Directing, 1984), Music: Michael Yezerski (Graduate Certificate Screen Music, 2001)
- Not Suitable for Children – Director: Peter Templeman (MA Directing, 2005), Writer: Michael Lucas (MA Screenwriting, 2006), Music: Matteo Zingales (Graduate Diploma Screen Music, 2004), Editor: Matthew Walker (MA Editing, 2005), Production Design: Elizabeth Mary Moore (Production Design, 1997)
- The Sapphires – Directed by Wayne Blair (Indigenous Fellow, 2006/2007), Cinematography Warwick Thornton – (BA Cinematography, 1996), Production Design Melinda Doring (MA Production Design, 1998), Dialogue Editor Bronwyn Murphy (Graduate Diploma Sound, 1983), Assistant Sound Editor Jared Dwyer (MA Sound, 2007)
- Toomelah – Director/Writer/Cinematographer/Editor: Ivan Sen (BA Directing, 1998)
- Storm Surfers 3D is also nominated for a Best Feature Length Documentary and was co-written by Chris Nelius (Graduate Diploma Sound, 2003) and also saw Michael Yezerski (Graduate Certificate Screen Composition, 2001) score the music while Liam Egan (BA Sound, 1987) worked as the Sound Designer alongside fellow sound alumni Glenn Finnan (Graduate Diploma Sound, 2005) as Sound Recordist and Simon Alberry (MA Digital Media, 2001) as Data Manager
Good luck to all at the upcoming awards
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GRADUATE NEWS
On Friday, last week, some great news for AFTRS alumni Cate Shortland (Graduate Diploma Directing, 2000) was released with the announcement that Cate’s latest feature Lore has been selected as the Australian entry for consideration for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards.
Lore is Cate’s second feature length film (after her debut Somersault, which dominated the 2004 AFI Awards winning a record 13 awards), and is German-Australian co-production. Lore is also nominated for an AACTA (see story above).
Lore, will be released in Australia this week after its North American premiere yesterday at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The final Academy Award® nominations will be announced on January 15, 2013, with the awards presented on February 24.
Fingers crossed for Cate to be officially nominated.
Meanwhile AFTRS alum Paola Morabito (MA Directing, 2006) has just seen her latest short film I’m The One, executive-produced by her mentor and fellow AFTRS alumni Jane Campion (Graduate Diploma Directing, 1984) screen in the official line-up of the 69th Venice International Film Festival in the Orizzonto category, which showcases new trends in world cinema.
Paola received funding for I’m the One from Screen NSW as part of the Emerging Filmmakers Fund and we read that the characters and the situation of the film came to her in a dream so vivid it woke her during the night. The following morning, she immediately put pen to paper to begin writing the script. I’m the One tells the story of 17-year-old Wolfe who rejects his father’s invitation for a boy’s night out and is left to confront his overwhelming and forbidden lust for his father’s new girlfriend.
The 69th Venice International Film Festival, ran in Venice Lido from August 29 to September 8.
Congratulations Paola
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NEXT FM ‘POPS UP’ ON THE AIR
The 2012 crop of AFTRS Graduate Diploma Commercial Radio Broadcasting students are live on-air now right through until Friday September 21 on NEXT FM, a pop-up radio station targeting the youth demographic.
You can listen now via www.nextfm.aftrs.edu.au and from this Friday you can also tune in on 100.7FM in western Sydney.
Calls are welcome on [02] 98056688 to share an opinion or maybe even take away a prize.
Once NEXT FM, wraps the students will head out on work attachment at radio stations around the country and most, if not all, will be working in the industry within a month or two.
Image: Photo of Cate and the star of Lore at the Toronto International Film Festival. Image found on the official TIFF website
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