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07-Sep-2010
Need help to finance your film, doco or TV production?
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC), the Australian Government’s export credit agency, recently launched the Producer Offset loan, a facility for financing eligible Australian productions that have international distribution agreements. EFIC invites you to find out more about this alternative way to increase your cash flow at a presentation to be held at ScreenWest on 21 September, 2010. Read More
07-Sep-2010
ABC Kids TV Spring Development Round
Throughout the year ABC Children’s Television run a number of development rounds which focus on particular genres and demographics. Currently submissions are open for the Spring Development Round 2010 for Factual and Entertainment Formats for 8-12 year olds/10-15 year olds. Read More
07-Sep-2010
WAnimate event: an evening with Pixar animator Simon Allen
WAnimate members are invited to a special event on Friday to hear animator Simon Allen speak about his exciting career and offer invaluable insights from his work with the one of the world's most prestigious animation studios, Pixar. Read More
07-Sep-2010
On A Wing and A Prayer on YouTube
The ABC TV documentary On a Wing and a Prayer is currently in production but you can already see some of the magic on YouTube with the filmmakers posting new footage every day from a nesting hollow of the rare Carnaby Black Cockatoo. Watch as the eggs are hatched and follow the story for seventy days until the birds are old enough to leave the nest. Read More
07-Sep-2010
Motel Deception plays at Future Shorts
WA short Motel Deception is screening this month at the Future Shorts 'Best Of Europe Summer Special' screening on Tuesday 14 September. Read More
07-Sep-2010
The Toll to screen in California
Local independent feature film The Toll has been selected to screen at the Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival in California. This follows the film’s recent world premiere at CinéfestOZ in Busselton plus selections to the Edmonton International film Festival and Naperville Independent Film Festival. Read More
07-Sep-2010
DigiSPAA competition prize pool hits $50k
This lucrative and prestigious digital film making competition has just upped the ante with the winner now walking away with over $50,000 worth of prizes, including $10,000 in equipment hire to turn their filmic dreams into a reality. Entries close Friday 17 September 2010. Read More
07-Sep-2010
SPAA Fringe speakers announced
The 2010 line-up for SPAA Fringe will include LA-based Cora Olsen (Present Pictures), distribution specialist and Fringe patron Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting), Victoria Treole (Blue Cat Pictures), Gil Scrine (Gil Scrine Films), Michael Favelle (Odin’s Eye Entertainment), Hungry Beast’s Elmo Keep and the team behind Blame, David Lightfoot, and WA producers Ryan Hodgson and Melissa Kelly. Read More
07-Sep-2010
Entries for KidScreen Awards closing soon
Now in its second year, the KidScreen Awards will celebrate international kids’ entertainment. Entries close September 17 and the Awards will be presented at the KidScreen Summit 2011 in New York. Read More
07-Sep-2010
Flickerfest entry deadline extended
Australia’s only Academy® Awards accredited Short Film Festival, Flickerfest, has extended the deadline for Australian entries to Friday September 17. If you have a film to submit to GreenFlicks then the submission deadline is October 22. Read More
07-Sep-2010
What's in Production: 7 Sept 2010
The What's in Production document on the ScreenWest website has information on Western Australian projects in pre-production, production and post production. Read More
31-Aug-2010
Dome Lab 2010 – Last call for applications
The emergence of ‘destination cinema’ and the proliferation of large-format screens in public spaces present a challenge - and opportunity - to filmmakers and artists working in more traditional screen formats. Most fulldome content to date has been educational and comprised of computer-generated animation, data visualisation, or a combination of both. Now there is a shifting focus to the entertainment potential of live-action story-telling for large-formats such as fulldome. Dome Lab is a world-leading intensive workshop investigating this potential and the specific challenges involved in creating compelling live-action narrative content for large format and frameless screens. This workshop series will take place in Perth from October 20 – November 5. Read More
31-Aug-2010
A Big Screen-ing for Broome, Kununurra and Kalgoorlie
The National Film and Sound Archive is touring new and archival Australian films to Broome, Kununurra and Kalgoorlie in September through the Big Screen travelling film festival. WA feature 'Blame' and short films 'My Nan & The Yandi' and 'Mabuji' are screening in the WA leg of the Big Screen tour. Blame producer Ryan Hodgson will speak at the screening of his film on September 3 in Broome. Read More
31-Aug-2010
AIDC MeetMarket - looking for fresh produce
MeetMarket is open for submissions for the next annual selection of projects. The MeetMarket catalogue - which is available year-round through screeningroom.org.au - offers content seekers a curated collection of projects. The 25 competitively selected new additions each year will also feature in MeetMarket at AIDC. The deadline for submissions is Monday 29 November 2010. Read More
31-Aug-2010
'The Tree' screening
ScreenWest have 5 doubles passes to an exclusive Q&A event and advance screening of The Tree with producer Sue Taylor. Following the film’s festival run which includes Cannes closing honours, Sydney Film Festival, MIFF and CinefestOZ last week, Perth audiences will get the chance to the see the film with its September 30 cinema release. Read More
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