Rachael Turk

Creative Spirit
Claudia Karvan

As Australian horror/drama Daybreakers busts $40m worldwide, leading lady Claudia Karvan explains the creative ethos at the core of her highly acclaimed film career – from Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide to a string of TV successes (The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way and the upcoming Spirited) – that merges the actor/producer roles.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, March 12
Event: Friday On My Mind
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter

Join me for this weekly AFTRS film event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.

Great Adaptations
Jennifer Byrne

As Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet starts shooting in Perth, the thoroughly well read Jennifer Byrne (host of the ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club) talks about what makes a “great Australian novel” ripe to become a great screen adaptation.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, February 26
Event: Friday On My Mind
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter

Join me for this weekly AFTRS film event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.

Friday On My Mind is back for 2010!

And who better to launch it than the legendary John Collee. Put it in your diaries folks! And turn up early to guarantee a seat.

Mastering the Craft
John Collee

Internationally renowned screenwriter John Collee (Happy Feet, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) divulges how to gain a command of the “method” of screenwriting, as well as sharing his ideas about the development process and a 7-step approach from idea to treatment to script.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, February 19
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter

Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.

Seeing the Big Picture
Michael Petroni

A graduate of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles (AFI) and winner of both its Screenplay of the Year and the WGA/Scenario award for Best New Screenplay of 1996, Australian born writer/director Michael Petroni (Til Human Voices Wake Us, Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader) talks about his work in Hollywood amongst the likes of 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Spyglass Entertainment and Revolution Studios writing commercially rewarding films for an international audience.

With an aim to enhance the level of storytelling in Australia through his Australian production company See Pictures (with producer Jamie Hilton), Petroni discusses his work with local writers here to develop bigger stories and his own plans to write and direct projects in Australia in 2010/11.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, November 27
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter

Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.

Warp Mentality
Anna McLeish

Following a Screen Australia grant of $400K, Anna McLeish spills the beans on what Warp Films Australia shares with Warp X (UK), the specific opportunity they see in Australian talent and how the local industry can best engage with their slate encompassing low-budget genre pics, mid-range features and Australia/UK co-productions.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, November 20
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter

Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.

Primed Viewers
Vincent Sheehan & David Caesar

With its unique distribution strategy of advance screenings in regional NSW, Prime Mover is going to the heart of its audience. We talk to its director David Caesar (Mullet, Dirty Deeds) and producer Vincent Sheehan (Little Fish) about making and maximising films for an untapped regional market.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, November 13
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter

Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.

Short Cuts
Festival strategies of the Future

How big is the short film festival audience? How can they best serve a filmmaker’s career? Which ones should you enter and in what order? With over 400 short film festivals in Australia, and a bevy of A-listers overseas, our panel of industry experts will help navigate the most effective route for both your film and career.

Special guests:
• Bronwyn Kidd – Festival Director, Flickerfest
• Ian Gardiner – CEO of Viocorp / online broadcaster Nice Shorts
• Angie Fielder – producer (Crossbow, I Love Sarah Jane, Netherland Dwarf)
• Craig Boreham – writer/director (Transient, Love Bite, Stray)

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, November 6
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter

Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.

Samantha Lang
Her Place

Having recently completed a stint on Penny Chapman’s innovative children’s series My Place, director Samantha Lang (The Well, Monkey’s Mask, L’Idole) talks about carving a niche for one’s self and evolving a personal visual style.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, October 30
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter

Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.

The Business of Ideas
Hopscotch MD Troy Lum

Armed with $1m in new Enterprise funding and business developments from distribution and DVD to Hopscotch Features and a joint venture with Three Drunk Monkeys, Hopscotch Entertainment MD Troy Lum talks about how his company is maximising the current local playing field.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Today! Friday, October 23
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter

Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.

Shooting Micro-budget
The Curious Case of Shifty

In the tradition of Dogme, Warp, Advance Party and our own former IndiVision, we look at the ‘just do it’ culture of micro-budget filmmaking and Curious Film’s boutique distribution arm. In particular, we discuss their distribution strategy for five times BIFA nominated Shifty, the first film to be made by Film London Microwave, a unique 
scheme set up with BBC Films to make features for under £100,000.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, October 16
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter
* with special advance screening of Shifty

Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.