NAFA News

Choc Tops Meeting: Developing your story engine

2012-02-07T23:00:00Z

David Steinhoff is the CEO and Head of Development at Presence Films, a privately funded concept development group with shareholders based around the world.

2011: The Year in Review

2011-12-01T00:43:43Z

NAFA is proud to finish our ninth year with another set of amazing Choc Tops guest speakers and popular events.

Choc Tops Meeting: Christmas Special

2011-11-15T12:24:26Z

Attention actors, writers, and filmmakers!
Join us for a drink and share your personal report card for 2011. Attendees can also show examples of their work from the past year, and say their good-byes till we meet again in February 2012.

Show & Tell Theatre: 'Bondi Dreaming'

2011-11-04T09:43:06Z

Best mates since childhood, loveable rogues Charlie and Frankie always dreamt of getting out of Blacktown and moving to Bondi. But with the pressure of a failing solarium business they — along with best mate Macca — make a snap decision that finds them in an Asian prison cell instead.

Choc Tops Meeting: The actor and director's process in visual effects films

2011-10-07T20:00:00Z

Alan Maxwell has done everything from working as a typographer to spending 14 years directing TV commercials in Australia and the UK. He has worked with agencies such as Singleton Ogilvy & Mather, J. Walter Thompson, and McCann-Erickson for brands such as McDonald’s, Ford, and Shell.
This wide range of directing experience in film and TV eventually expanded into visual effects (VFX). At this month’s Choc Tops meeting, Alan will talk about how directors and actors can approach working in scenes involving VFX.

Choc Tops Open Forum: Help Us Make Show-Fest 2012 a Smash Hit

2011-09-15T06:23:36Z

After eight years in the game, NAFA’s Show-Fest short film festival is now a smoothly run and hopefully enjoyable event.

This is the perfect time for audience feedback. Don’t keep your feedback to yourself, tell it like it is!

Choc Tops Meeting: Casting Strategies for 'Now'

2011-08-07T08:15:17Z

Cristina Harris began her professional training as an actor in the early 80s at Sydney’s Ensemble Studios. She now works as a consultant and also teaches casting and audition techniques to nervous actors in a friendly workshop environment.

Show-Fest International: Just days to go!

2011-07-30T02:12:46Z

Show-Fest is on Wed, 3 August. Here’s a slideshow of last year’s festival…

Choc Tops Meeting: Financing Australian independent films

2011-07-08T02:00:00Z

Andrena Finlay has been producing films since 1982, having studied at the UK’s National Film School. Her first short film won the 1983 BAFTA for Best Short Film. Features she has produced include Frauds, Me Myself I, and Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance, as well originating The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Her current film is Goddess, now in post-production.

Show-Fest International 2011: This year's finalist films

2011-06-20T09:30:56Z

Our panel of industry judges has chosen the seven films that will be screened at this year’s festival. The finalist films will be in competition for the Best Film award worth AU$9500 (including AU$1000 cash). The judges were: director and long-standing member of the Australian film industry Martha Ansara, director and editor Lucas Bradley, and the producers of The Tunnel Enzo Tedeschi & Julian Harvey.