Marena Manzoufas.
Veteran broadcasting and TV distribution executive Marena Manzoufas is being remembered as a smart and adventurous woman who made an immense contribution to Australian TV.
A founding member of Bruce Gyngell’s executive team at Sbs in 1980, Manzoufas died on Friday from brain cancer, aged 68.
At Sbs she set up the subtitling unit, recalling: “The discussion that the fifth channel in Sydney and Melbourne should be a multicultural service, accessible to the community at large, and not an ethnic television service accessible only to particular language speakers at particular times, led directly to the need to establish a subtitling capacity, a quite new and unique venture in Australian television.
“When the unit was established, there was virtually no existing expertise in Australia, no trained personnel and certainly no body of knowledge or experience on which to draw.”
She served as deputy program director at Sbs until 1989 before joining...
Veteran broadcasting and TV distribution executive Marena Manzoufas is being remembered as a smart and adventurous woman who made an immense contribution to Australian TV.
A founding member of Bruce Gyngell’s executive team at Sbs in 1980, Manzoufas died on Friday from brain cancer, aged 68.
At Sbs she set up the subtitling unit, recalling: “The discussion that the fifth channel in Sydney and Melbourne should be a multicultural service, accessible to the community at large, and not an ethnic television service accessible only to particular language speakers at particular times, led directly to the need to establish a subtitling capacity, a quite new and unique venture in Australian television.
“When the unit was established, there was virtually no existing expertise in Australia, no trained personnel and certainly no body of knowledge or experience on which to draw.”
She served as deputy program director at Sbs until 1989 before joining...
- 7/8/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Production house Cjz has appointed Andrew Farrell to the newly created role of head of factual.
Cjz chief executive, Matt Campbell, said the company's factual programs had helped shape the reputation of the company.
"It was time to dedicate a senior role within Cjz for this genre," he said.
"Andrew comes with a bucket load of experience and passion for factual programming and is a perfect fit for Cjz..
"He has an impressive list of credits both in Australia and particularly the USA over the past eight years..
Farrell started his career as a regional TV news reporter, then producer for Beyond 2000.
He then went on to reality TV with programs like the original Big Brother, My Restaurant Rules and live events such as the AFI.s..
He has spent the past eight years at Beyond Productions and was recently in the position of executive producer..
Some of his...
Cjz chief executive, Matt Campbell, said the company's factual programs had helped shape the reputation of the company.
"It was time to dedicate a senior role within Cjz for this genre," he said.
"Andrew comes with a bucket load of experience and passion for factual programming and is a perfect fit for Cjz..
"He has an impressive list of credits both in Australia and particularly the USA over the past eight years..
Farrell started his career as a regional TV news reporter, then producer for Beyond 2000.
He then went on to reality TV with programs like the original Big Brother, My Restaurant Rules and live events such as the AFI.s..
He has spent the past eight years at Beyond Productions and was recently in the position of executive producer..
Some of his...
- 12/4/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
This week, Wamg had the opportunity to participate in a virtual roundtable with Ben Snow, the Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic (Ilm) for Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and ask him some questions about his experiences in the visual effects world.
Raised in rural Australia, Ben Snow studied computing and film at the University of Canberra. He did a variety of work and traveled extensively before working as a runner for a computer graphics house in London. Snow later returned to Australia to set up the computer animation department for a company in Sydney where he worked on commercials, broadcast idents and openers, including a computer graphics title sequence for Beyond 2000.
Snow left Australia to join Industrial Light & Magic in 1994, where his first project was to help create the three-dimensional computer graphics image of the .Enterprise B. for Star Trek: Generations. This version had...
Raised in rural Australia, Ben Snow studied computing and film at the University of Canberra. He did a variety of work and traveled extensively before working as a runner for a computer graphics house in London. Snow later returned to Australia to set up the computer animation department for a company in Sydney where he worked on commercials, broadcast idents and openers, including a computer graphics title sequence for Beyond 2000.
Snow left Australia to join Industrial Light & Magic in 1994, where his first project was to help create the three-dimensional computer graphics image of the .Enterprise B. for Star Trek: Generations. This version had...
- 9/21/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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