Choc Tops Meeting: A director's Tunnel vision

Carlo Ledesma has just completed his first feature film The Tunnel, widely acclaimed for its trailblazing “day and date” release that famously included the peer-to-peer service BitTorrent.

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Choc Tops Meeting: Mission Possible - Your Short Film on International Screens

Jane E. Seymour has been an actor for over 27 years and is director of Resource Performance Workshops, where she’s an audition coach. She has an MA in Theatre & Film, a Classical Acting Certificate, and an Advanced Certificate in Performance Skills. Her most recent professional development was in 2009 and 2010 at Margie Haber Studio in Los Angeles.

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Choc Tops Meeting: The business of filmmaking

Two of the producers of the new Australian feature film Cedar Boys talk about the business of filmmaking. It will have been three weeks since opening by the time Jeff Purser and Ranko Markovic speak at Choc Tops, so they will have much to say about the effectiveness of their marketing efforts.

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Choc Tops Meeting: New media for filmmakers

At Nick Bolton’s last Choc Tops appearance in May 2006, his fevered excitement on such things as MySpace was greeted with blank faces. Facebook and Twitter didn’t even exist then. The content creation and distribution models have since been turned upside down.

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Choc Tops Meeting: Information memorandums and film finance

Matthew Joyce has had success in Tokyo with his company becoming the first non-Japanese co-producer/partner on some of the major Japanese feature films through the distributor Shochiku.

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