GET READY TO PITCH OR PITCH IN

FTI's Philanthropy Program has raised over $200,000 for WA screen projects since its launch in 2015. In preparation for the 2017 program, we're opening the submissions for the Pitching Night event in May, giving you the opportunity to pitch your project to potential investors.

To enquire about submitting an application to pitch a project on the night, please email Ros Walker, FTI Director, Screen Production at ros@fti.asn.au.

FTI’s next Philanthropy Program pitching night will be scheduled for Tuesday, 30th of May. Information about the Program is available HERE.

CONGRATULATIONS, CASSIE

Pictured: Cassie Rowe, MLA for Belmont. Inset: Cassie Rowe joins the FTI Board (2007)

FTI sends its sincere congratulations to all successful candidates in last week's State Election, but reserves a very special congratulations to Cassie Rowe, former FTI Chair and now Member for Belmont.

Cassie first joined the Board of FTI in 2007 for a one-year term, after completing FTI's Screenwriting Diploma the previous year. Since that time, she has served a further two three-year terms, while developing a career as a financial planner.

Cassie resigned from the FTI Board in June 2016, citing the need to focus her energies on the campaign for the seat of Belmont. We are glad to see these efforts have been rewarded, and wish her all the best in her new role as a parliamentarian.

PLAYUP PERTH: VR SPECIAL EDITION

A very special edition of Playup Perth later this month will give local VR developers an opportunity to present in front of HTC's VIVE Program Manager, Lisa Chu, visiting from Taiwan.

Games already announced for the showcase are: Burning Candle Software’s Boondoggle, a VR music visualizer to generate unique visual effects to music; Scott Ludlam‘s WA 2.0, an experimental visual showcase of Western Australia’s possible futures; a yet-to-be-titled multiplayer team death match by Smash It Out; and Stirfire Studio‘s Symphony of the Machine, a VR puzzle game where players use an ancient machine to manipulate the weather.

If you have a VR project you'd like included in the presentation (finished or in production), email Kate Raynes-Goldie. 

When: Friday 24th of March |  Time: 6-10PM | Age Restriction: 18+
Where: The Nostalgia Box: Shop 3, 16 Aberdeen Street, Perth
Price: $7 for FTI Members | $10 General Admission | Booking: HERE

FTI DOCO CLUB - RESCHEDULED WITH NEW VENUE

FTI's third monthly edition of Doco Club  has been postponed to Thursday 23rd of March in order to celebrate a new and exciting partnership with The City of Perth and a new location for FTI's screening events @ The Northbridge Piazza Community Room (Cnr Lake & James Sts).

FTI's Doco club has been running since January 2017 and is a hub for doco enthusiasts, designed to showcase poignant doco's and be a networking  opportunity for the WA doco sector. Screenings are accompanied by Q&A's with the filmmakers with drinks  available at FTI's bargain prices. 

To celebrate Doco Club's new location,  FTI has rescheduled the screening of The Burning Season' (2009), written and directed by local environmentalist Cathy Henkel.

This is a feature documentary exploring the palm oil farming industry's annual deliberate lighting of fires that rage across Indonesia, destroying pristine rainforest, endangering orangutans and contributing to climate change. 

This powerful documentary exposed the effects of palm oil farming and was key in the start of a worldwide movement to save the orangutans of Indonesia. 

Cathy will talk about activism through documentaries and FTI will have beanbags, popcorn and cheap drinks. 

When: Thursday 23rd of March |  Where: Northbridge Piazza Community Room
Time: 7PM | Price: Free for FTI Members | $5 General Admission | Booking: HERE

FTI ENROLMENTS

Learn acting techniques for camera and take home a screen test of your scene

ACTING FOR CAMERA weekend course with Dr. Damien Spiccia teaches methods and techniques for being comfortable in front of the camera and shining on screen. Acting for camera is a completely different beast to acting for the stage; subtlety and subtext are the order of the day, and if the actor doesn’t truly believe the lie, the camera will spot it right away. 

Enrolments are still available for the Acting for Camera course and we are able to announce that Simon Akkerman ACS has been confirmed as the the guest lecturer for cinematography. This is an outstanding opportunity to hear from a world-class cinematographer.

When: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th of March |  Time: 11am - 4pm | Price: $150 FTI Members | $200 General Admission | Enrol here. 

VR BOOTCAMP (INTRO TO VIRTUAL REALITY) COURSE STARTS IN APRIL

Curious about virtual reality but not sure where to start? Come to VR Bootcamp, brought to you by the VR School.

The VR Bootcamp is designed for beginners to virtual reality. We will introduce you to the fundamentals of VR: what it is, what it can do, and how it can be applied creatively and commercially. Learn from industry experts, Frame VR, and try the latest VR experiences on cutting-edge hardware.

The VR Bootcamp will inspire you with ideas on how to apply VR to your artistic and business endeavours, and you will be ready to bring VR thinking into your own work practices. 

Once you have cleared the VR Bootcamp, continue your VR journey by learning how to design and create 360 video content for VR with our upcoming VR School Weekend 360 Video Course.

When: Saturday 8th of April |  Time: 10am - 2pm
Where: Northbridge Piazza Community Room 
Price: $85 FTI Members | $100 General Admission | Enrol: HERE. 

REVELATION: CALL FOR PAPERS

Drawing delegates from around the country, the Revelation Academic Conference is a truly interactive two days of intense discussion and debate on all things cinema.

Presented in association with Murdoch University, Revelation is Australia's only international film festival to host and encourage academic discussion alongside its screening program.

The call for papers is currently open to academics, students, and independent researchers.

Alongside papers on indie cinema, genre, auteurs, documentary film, new media, and audiences, this year the conference is especially interested in papers on age in cinema; topics could include (but are not limited to) the representation of age in film, age and identity, and the role of older people behind the camera. 

To register your interest in presenting a paper, email Jack Sergeant, Revelation Program Director, HERE.

REVELATION ACADEMIC CONFERENCE
When: Monday 10th & Tuesday 11th of July |  Where: North Metropolitan TAFE  (Leederville)
Price: $100 (includes 6 film festival mini-passes) | Register: HERE.

GIVEAWAY: STONES IN HIS POCKET

Thanks to our friends at the Perth Theatre Trust, we have a double pass for one lucky FTI member for the WA premiere of Stones In His Pocket, a madcap story of Hollywood descending on a small Irish community.

The performance features Sean Hawkins (Howie the Rookie directed by Toby Schmitz) and Grant Cartwright (winner Green Room Award Best Actor in an independent production for Five Kinds of Silence) who play 15 characters between them - from the two Irish extras looking for a brighter future on the silver screen, to the young local, bitter about being rejected for a job on set, to the gorgeous Hollywood superstar.

To win a double pass, simple email us with 'Cinema on Stage' as the message header.

When: Friday 22nd April & Saturday 23rd April |  Where: Subiaco Arts Centre
Price: From $38.00 | Tickets: HERE.

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