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Anything Is Pozible
At each stage of their project, content makers are always looking for unique ways to increase their resources. Metro Screen is right behind crowdfunding campaigns for projects that we support with funding, equipment subsidies, mentoring and promotion. Nearly $40,000 has already been pledged to projects on the Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible. You can fund creative projects and help Metro Screen supported short films, multiplatform and digital media projects to meet their full potential. Watch this space. Metro Screen is showcasing crowdfunding campaigns every month.
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Featured Items
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Multiplatform Filmmaking
Storytelling and filmmaking is becoming increasingly multiplatform. Keep up with the trends in technology, develop the skills for 360-degree storytelling as well as techniques for multiplatform content in marketing, social media and current business models.
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School Holiday Fun
Don’t miss out on school holiday short courses for kids – Young Filmmakers Workshop (3 Oct), The TropJr Young Filmmakers Workshop (18 Dec) and Video Game Design for Kids (24 Sept). These popular school holiday short courses will fill fast.
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Behind The Scenes
Come behind the scenes at the pilot shoot of FOUNDIS, an exciting, fun new talk show soon to be seen on Television Sydney, recently shot at the multi-camera Green Screen chroma key studio at Metro Screen.
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The Sapphires Breaking Records
Congratulations to the whole team behind The Sapphires for breaking opening weekend box office records. As a long-time supporter of Director Wayne Blair, Metro Screen is proud as punch to see this feature film wowing audiences across the country.
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Funding
Deadline Alert: Dream Accelerator
This is your last chance to pitch your way to the red carpet, get in front of industry investors at Cannes, MIPCOM or SXSW Interactive as well the SPAA Conference and Metro Screen alumni. Submit a 3 minute video pitch for your idea. Grab a phone, an iPod or your mate’s camera and sell us your dream transmedia project, TV or feature film concept. Metro Screen can take you all the way to the international red carpet. Dreams can become careers with the funding and support to make it happen. Work it! The Dream Accelerator program is presented by Metro Screen in association with the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) and is open to NSW residents only. Applications for this opportunity close 27 August – lights, camera, action!
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HIRE
Camera Winter Special
Don't miss your chance to score 10% off RED Scarlet-X hire or a $100 media lab pass with the Sony F3. By booking the RED Scarlet-X before 1 September, we'll take 10% off the cost of your hire + Book the Sony PMW-F3, now with internal 4:2:2 S-Log recording, and you'll receive a bonus 5 day pass to hire the professional workstations at Metro Screen for free.
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Latest From The Forum
JOBS
Location Required for Short Film Sweet Lullaby
Looking for an apartment for a short film shoot called "Sweet Lullaby". It would need to look like an up-and-coming couple live there. No date on shooting yet. Happy to forward the script. It is a project for "The engine room project". We're just a bunch of guys trying to make good quality short films.
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EVENTS
Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2012
Indulge your senses at the 13th annual Lavazza Italian Film Festival presented by Palace Cinemas with the proud support of Lavazza, the ‘numero uno’ authentic Italian coffee of connoisseurs, the world-over. The Festival, like Lavazza, continues to encapsulate the spirit of Italy with a thrilling program of over 30 award-winning, critically acclaimed features and includes highlights from internationally revered film forums, including Cannes, Sundance and Berlin, Rome and Venice.
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Giveaways
Holy Motors Giveaway
From cult French filmmaker Leos Carax, comes the groundbreaking Holy Motors starring Kylie Minogue and Eva Mendes. Premiering at Cannes this year to rapturous acclaim, Holy Motors has been best described by the Sydney Film Festival as a 'gorgeous blend of sci-fi, song and dance, romance and subversive weirdness'. From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next.
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Hamish and Andy's Euro Gap Year Giveaway
After immersing themselves in American culture last year, Hamish and Andy have decided you can never stop learning and it would therefore be irresponsible not to take another gap year in 2012. The Nine Network's new series, Hamish and Andy's Euro Gap Year, will feature the boys' travels and adventures throughout Europe and be broadcast weekly from The Lord Stanley, a disused pub in East London.
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Congratulations
Juliana's Story
Juliana's Story is a short film produced and directed by Metro Screen part-time Certificate IV in Screen and Media and Multiplatform Producing graduate, Angelique Papadelias. The film recently won an Award of Excellence for Best Original Score from the LA Movie Awards 2012. It is due to premiere this month at the World Independent Music And Film Festival in Washington DC.
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