Rachael Turk

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.

Time to Shine
Jan Sardi, Mao’s Last Dancer

From the Oscar nominated Shine to The Notebook, Love’s Brother to Mao’s Last Dancer, screenwriter Jan Sardi talks about finding the emotional core of a story and making it resonate on an international level.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, October 9
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.

Mi Culture, Su Culture
SBS’s Caterina de Nave

With hits such as East West 101 and The Circuit in second series and the AWGIE-winning Saved, we talk to SBS’s EP of Commissioned Content (Drama & Comedy) Caterina de Nave about how she is navigating film/TV trends in multicultural content – and how the production community can best engage with that.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, October 2
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.

Film School to Features
Forging the Director/DOP relationship

This week we talk to AFTRS alumni director Alister Grierson and DOP Jules O’Loughlin, who have maintained the creative collaboration developed at film school, on to Kokoda and now in pre-production for James Cameron’s Sanctum.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, September 25
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 Heart of Drama
Adapting Disgrace

We look at the key challenges and solutions in adapting J.M. Koetzee’s Booker Prize-winning novel to the screen in terms of character, dialogue and the story’s emotional core.

Special guests:
• Steve Jacobs – director (Disgrace, La Spagnola)
• Anna Maria Monticelli – screenwriter (Disgrace, La Spagnola)

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, Aug 14
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.

Novel Ideas
Chip Rolley

What is the relationship between books and films? What makes manga and the graphic novel so ripe for adapting and what genres will be next? How is technology changing the way we read forever, as publishing has its “iPod moment”?

All this and more when we speak to the Sydney Writers’ Festival’s incoming Artistic Director Chip Rolley this week at Friday On My Mind.

Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, July 17
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.