Pearl Tan, the new Senior Lecturer in directing at AFTRS has been making a low budget feature, The Casting Game, a rom-com about a group of actors from diverse backgrounds trying to get work. Image is cropped from the poster. It tells us a lot about the changing values at the school.
The unsolved question in the jobs merry-go-round won’t be answered for months. Who will replace Jenni Tosi as head of Film Victoria in December? There is a lot of picking over names but not too many suggestions at the moment. We can assume that the Board will really want a replacement who pretty well resembles her, with her affinity for TV, her energy and her ability to get money from the Victorian government.
