Celeste Franklin.
Emerging Western Australian screenwriter Celeste Franklin has been awarded the Australian Film Television and Radio School’s 2020 Storytelling Scholarship, which supports Aftrs’ mission to discover and support writers from under-represented groups.
A former primary school teacher, Franklin worked in costume departments for more than 20 years on numerous productions including Paper Planes, Lockie Leonard, Last Train to Freo and Water Rats.
This year she began a Masters of Arts Screen: Screenwriting so the scholarship will cover her tuition fees for the two-year course.
Her maternal grandfather was a Kalkatung man who fought in Jimmy Sharman’s boxing tents. Her maternal great, great, grandfather was blackbirded from the South Sea Islands to be a kanaka on the northern Queensland cane fields.
She won the scholarship based on her creative response to the story provocations in the Aftrs brand campaign Storytellers Wanted, which was developed by the agency 72andSunny and directed...
Emerging Western Australian screenwriter Celeste Franklin has been awarded the Australian Film Television and Radio School’s 2020 Storytelling Scholarship, which supports Aftrs’ mission to discover and support writers from under-represented groups.
A former primary school teacher, Franklin worked in costume departments for more than 20 years on numerous productions including Paper Planes, Lockie Leonard, Last Train to Freo and Water Rats.
This year she began a Masters of Arts Screen: Screenwriting so the scholarship will cover her tuition fees for the two-year course.
Her maternal grandfather was a Kalkatung man who fought in Jimmy Sharman’s boxing tents. Her maternal great, great, grandfather was blackbirded from the South Sea Islands to be a kanaka on the northern Queensland cane fields.
She won the scholarship based on her creative response to the story provocations in the Aftrs brand campaign Storytellers Wanted, which was developed by the agency 72andSunny and directed...
- 3/2/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Malina Maria Mackiewicz's.Driftwood Dustmites.
Five Aftrs films have been selected to screen at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.
One Aftrs student film will also screen at Hot Docs in Canada, the most prestigious documentary festival in North America.
At Midnight is directed by Amber McBride (2014) and will screen at Hot Docs following its world premiere at the Academy-Award qualifying Sheffield Doc/Fest in the UK..
McBride's film has also been selected for the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival in the Us alongside Larissa Behrendt.s documentary Clan (2013), which is also playing at the Athens International Film and Video Festival in Ohio.
The five films headed to Houston are Foal (directed by Vanessa Gazy 2014), The Drover.s Boy (directed by Margaret McHugh 2014), Silent Night (directed by Nastassja Djalog 2014) and two films by director Malina Maria Mackiewicz - Deszcz and Driftwood Dustmites (2014).
Deszcz had its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto...
Five Aftrs films have been selected to screen at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.
One Aftrs student film will also screen at Hot Docs in Canada, the most prestigious documentary festival in North America.
At Midnight is directed by Amber McBride (2014) and will screen at Hot Docs following its world premiere at the Academy-Award qualifying Sheffield Doc/Fest in the UK..
McBride's film has also been selected for the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival in the Us alongside Larissa Behrendt.s documentary Clan (2013), which is also playing at the Athens International Film and Video Festival in Ohio.
The five films headed to Houston are Foal (directed by Vanessa Gazy 2014), The Drover.s Boy (directed by Margaret McHugh 2014), Silent Night (directed by Nastassja Djalog 2014) and two films by director Malina Maria Mackiewicz - Deszcz and Driftwood Dustmites (2014).
Deszcz had its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto...
- 3/22/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The Australian Film Television and Radio School has unleashed a new crop of talent on the industry with the 2015 Graduation Ceremony. . .
A highlight of the ceremony was the awarding of the Aftrs. Honorary Degree (Doctor of Arts) to broadcaster, commentator and filmmaker Phillip Adams.
Adams played a key role in the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. .
He was the author of a 1969 report that led to legislation by Prime Minister Gorton in 1970 for an Australian Film and Television Development Corporation (later the Australian Film Commission) and the Experimental Film Fund as well as the eventual creation of an Australian national film School (now Aftrs). Phillip was one of the original members of council for the interim School.
The Dressmaker producer Sue Maslin present the degree. .
Maslin is a graduate of the Aftrs Masters of Screen Arts & Business degree.
Graduates include Imogen Banks, one of the producers...
A highlight of the ceremony was the awarding of the Aftrs. Honorary Degree (Doctor of Arts) to broadcaster, commentator and filmmaker Phillip Adams.
Adams played a key role in the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. .
He was the author of a 1969 report that led to legislation by Prime Minister Gorton in 1970 for an Australian Film and Television Development Corporation (later the Australian Film Commission) and the Experimental Film Fund as well as the eventual creation of an Australian national film School (now Aftrs). Phillip was one of the original members of council for the interim School.
The Dressmaker producer Sue Maslin present the degree. .
Maslin is a graduate of the Aftrs Masters of Screen Arts & Business degree.
Graduates include Imogen Banks, one of the producers...
- 12/8/2015
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Joel Loxton.s The Kangaroo Guy has won the jury award in the international student category at the Montreal World Film Festival, capping a successful period for Aftrs students. Malina Mackiewicz.s Deszcz,. which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, will compete at the Chicago International Film Festival (October 15-29) for the top prize- the Gold Hugo, which is chosen from 50 short films from around the world. Ella Rubeli.s documentary The Heart Thief has been selected to compete at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis as one of five documentary finalists. The Heart Thief premiered at the Raw Science Awards last year and was runner up in the category best student film . 10 minute documentary. Sean Capel's Life After Death will have its world premiere at the Academy Award-qualifying Raindance Film Festival in London, which runs September 23-October 4. Margaret McHugh's The Drover's Boy. has...
- 9/22/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
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