Alex Broun, the Artistic Director of Short+Sweet Theatre, and one of the world’s leading writers of ten-minute plays, talks about what it takes to keep going and be successful in the entertainment industry.
All in Choc Tops
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.
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.
Martha Knox-Haly is an organisational psychologist and author of the book How to stop your workplace going pear shaped. Her writing and practice is based on investigations of almost a thousand Australian workplaces.
An established print and television journalist, Renée Brack is currently a well-recognised face of the MOVIE NETWORK Channels. At Choc Tops she will give a mass media perspective on our film and TV production industries.
Gary Friedman studied with Jim Henson of “The Muppet Show” in 1987 and went on to develop a number of major projects in his native South Africa.
At Choc Tops he will ask, “How has the world changed with Web 2.0 in the past 500 days? What will the next 5000 days bring?”.