Move over Australian Idol – here comes Open’s Channel 2007 Short & Sharp Pitching Competition!
Wednesday, August 22, 6.30 – 9.00pm
It’s back! OPEN CHANNEL and Cinema Nova present the 2007 Short & Sharp Pitching Competition in association with the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival. Finalists will pitch an original short film idea with a human rights angle in front of panel of film industry judges and audience for the chance to get their film made. The judging panel this year will include acclaimed producer Sue Maslin (‘Japanese Story’), Melbourne director Alkinos Tsilimidos (‘Em 4 Jay’) and producer Gai Dunlop, Ambassador to Australia for the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy Awards). It’s a fun, entertaining evening with an unique insight into what makes a winning pitch!
Wednesday, August 22, 6.30 – 9.00pm
Tickets available at the box office:
$8 full/$6 for Cinema Nova Privilege cardholders, OPEN CHANNEL members and concessions (includes entry to the Short & Sharp ‘after party’!)
Writing / Reading / Playing / Living the Story of the Future at The
Age Melbourne Writers’ Festival
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the
Laboratory of Advanced Media Production (LAMP) invite you to spend an
afternoon inside the Story of the Future.
Join acclaimed scriptwriter Simon Hopkinson; award-winning author
Bernard Cohen; new media producer, designer and LAMP Director Gary
Hayes; writer, producer and AFTRS lecturer Jackie Turnure, and the
Physical TV Company collaborative team of award-winning multi-modal
artists Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman for an interactive
exploration of new media writing and cross art-form collaboration
techniques, ranging from collage writing and online role playing to
building spiritual spaces in Second Life.
Through presentations, Q&A sessions and audience activities the panel
will discuss their experiences of writing for new media environments
and will invite you to explore the Story of the Future. They will
challenge notions that collaborative writing and user generated
content remove authorship from writing to reveal how writers and
producers can provoke a new narrative where words become worlds and
readers become players and collaborators.
Date: 30 August 2007
Time: 1.30pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square,
Melbourne
This is a free event in the Workshop Program of the Age Melbourne
Writers’ Festival.
Registration is essential and closes on 27 August
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What is your vision of the Story of the Future?
Answer in 25 words or less when you register online and help us to
create a Story of the Future Statement at The Age Melbourne Writers’
Festival. Even if you are not attending we invite you to contribute
via email to storyofthefuture@ozco.gov.au
Registration page
@Jewish Museum of Australia until 28 Oct
“How does one identify Jewishness? What are its signs?” For 25 years, this question has absorbed French photographer, Frédéric Brenner as he has travelled the world, chronicling Jewish life in over forty countries.
www.jewishmuseum.com.au
@Northcote Town Hall.
8, 9, & 15 Sept.
Three unique concerts featuring some of the finest muslim artists both local &national. Featuring traditional & contemporary sounds from Qawwali singing to hip hop to folk & more. www.iced.org.au/mmf
Google’s Anita Borg scholarship for women in computing studies (at
university) in Australia and New Zealand is currently open, but
applications close MONDAY.
It’s open to international students as long as they are enrolled in an
AU/NZ university.
Prizes:
– $5000 for the winners
– $1000 for the finalists
– networking retreat in October
Info on applying: http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/anitaborg/
Deadline: extended til 20th August
