Choc Tops Meeting: Financing Australian independent films

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.

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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: 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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