Image: IMDB production shot of The Favourite. APDG members can see a stream of a substantial forum with the production design Oscar nominees at NIDA. A v. pleasurable treat.
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The price of an AIDC ticket goes up by $50 at midnight on Sunday.
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The Australian Directors’ Guild Awards are running in Sydney last year, to the delight of directors denied the opportunity to feast together in the Harbour City since 2014.
The Melbourne community bids farewell to the event and wishes to tell Sydney directors that it is being sent off in good condition with the fleas washed off and a bow in its hair.
It is an excellent evening like all the Guilds awards nights. According to the release,
This year’s awards will take place on Monday 6 May with the ceremony at the City Recital Hall and the gala dinner at the Ivy Ballroom.
In addition, the submission deadline for the 2019 ADG Awards has been extended until Friday 15 March.
Three new awards categories have been added to the event. From this year, the feature film awards will
be separated into two: Best Direction in a Feature Film (Budget $1M or over) and Best Direction in a Feature Film (Budget under $1M). The other new awards are Best Direction in a Commercial Advertisement and Best Direction in an Interactive or Immersive Title.
More details here..
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With the support of APRA AMCOS, regional resource organisation Screenworks has announced its 2nd annual Screen Composing Bootcamp.
This is a lovely program in itself which
will give four emerging composers from regional areas in NSW, Victoria and Queensland, an opportunity to escalate their career through a tailored mentoring program with some of Australia’s most accomplished screen composers.
Screenworks Screen Composing Bootcamp also includes an all-expense-paid trip to a metro centre so that the selected participants can shadow their mentor, meet composers and immerse themselves in the screen composing industry.
While this is aimed at regional composers, it has now expanded beyond home territory in northern NSW to include the rest of the eastern seaboard.
The mentors are Adam Gock, Rhonda Davidson-Irwin, Bryony Marks, and Guy Gross, which is a fabulous range of talent .
Applications will close at midnight on Sunday March 24th 2019.
Screenworks and APRA AMCOS acknowledges the need to address the gender imbalance within the Australian and New Zealand music industry. At least 50% of the selected participants will be female.
Detailed information about the project and the application process are available at www.screenworks.com.au.
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The Australian Writers’ Guild is reminding its members that Mindframe offers an online hub for media
Australian media, communications and public relations professionals play an important role in influencing social attitudes and perceptions of suicide and mental ill-health.
To support Australian media, Mindframe has developed this ‘Media Industry Hub’ section, highlighting some of the Mindframe resources and information that media commonly request.
Everyone with a conscience rather than a rotting stump in their hearts will ask themselves about the lived reality of mentally ill people, or characters with addictions and compulsions, or struggling with poverty and insecurity. Can we continue to use these stock figures for our entertainment? To reinforce collective paranoia and superiority?
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The Writers Guild is also telling the sector that the annual AWGIES awards are open. The details are here. Entries must be in by 18 March.
The virtue of the AWGIES is the pleasure and status that comes with genuine peer review, along with a evening of fun at the climax. The vice is you need to be a member. You have to be in it to win it.
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The Australian Production Designers Guild is part of
A presentation of American Cinematheque in association with the Art Directors Guild and the Set Decorators Society of America
Come along and join other APDG members this Sunday 24 February to watch the live-streamed panel discussion with Australian Fiona Crombie, along with other Oscar nominated production designers and set decorators, as it takes place in Hollywood.
Sunday 24 February, 10am
The National Institute of Dramatic Art
215 Anzac Parade, Kensington, NSW 2033
That is a very extremely cool event. You have to join the APDG.
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LAST MINUTE REMINDERS:
The Raising Films Industry Forum final submissions are due in by 24 February.
The Raising Films Australia Screen Industry Survey report – Honey, I Hid the Kids: Experiences of Parents and Carers in the Australian Screen Industry, has generated a long overdue discussion about the rights and needs of parents and carers working in the Australian screen industry. The survey findings will now inform strategies and policy changes to create more family friendly workplaces and support workers in the screen industry to better fulfil their work and caring commitments.
The report is here.
The videos are here.
