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.
A fast-paced mockumentary on the Sydney greyhound racing scene has won the approval of both the audience and the judges.
The nine finalist films from five countries that will screen at Show-Fest 2009.
Drawn from films around the world and selected by a panel of industry professionals, NAFA is proud to present the nine finalist short films of Show-Fest 2009. Screening at the Ritz Cinema in Randwick, five films from Australia will compete with international entries from Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the US.
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.