Monday, 15 September 2014
6.30pm — 8.30pm
The Dolphin Hotel, Surry Hills
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Guest Speaker: Hal McElroy
Hal is one of Australia’s most prolific producers with a long list of hits in the business.
His four-decade career has produced the classic Picnic at Hanging Rock, the perennial favourite “Blue Heelers”, The Sum of Us, “Water Rats”, “Murder Call”, and the US network success The Last Frontier.
More recently, Hal produced 68 episodes of Australia’s most ambitious action television series “Sea Patrol”.
Following countless trips to Hollywood, Hal has raised hundreds of millions of dollars. He has wrestled with complex logistics and budgets to create thousands of jobs for actors, writers, directors, and crew. But his job didn’t end there, as he then must sell and market the more than 2000 hours of film and television he is responsible for.
Throughout Hal has managed to inspire people to share a collective vision, weld talented individuals into unified teams, break down walls of negativity, and overcome a myriad of obstacles that would stop most people.