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10 May

Metro Screen

Sydney Film Festival Program

HOT TICKETS

The Sydney Film Festival Official Program has been released and tickets are now on sale. Many sessions will sell out, so here are a few picks to get your started - Being Venice features Sydney as a brightly textured backgrop to a father-daughter tale. Filmmakers will be interested in the documentary Side by Side produced by Keanu Reeves about the huge transition that cinema is currently going through. Pencil Sunday 17th June in to your festival diary for the panel discussion featuring the diverse group of Dendy Awards finalists sharing their experiences and discussing current trends at the vanguard of Australia's short-film industry, presented by Metro Screen. Watch the trailer for Tabu it's absolutely stunning and last but not least how can you go past Mabo, Moonrise Kingdom and the fun times planned for the festival Hub. Sydney Film Festival runs 6 – 17 June.

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Featured Items

Apps Lab

Become a Mobile App developer

Only one more day to get your application in for one of 12 heavily subsidized spots in our Metro Apps Lab workshops closing tomorrow Friday 11 May. No age restrictions, only basic html required, b.y.o great idea.

Apply online >

Speed Networking

Filmmakers Networking Social

Watch the Sydney Opera House light up during VIVID and meet your next round of collaborators at the annual Speed Networking event Wednesday 30 May 6pm only a few $5 tickets left!

Book tickets >

Innovate Funding

$5000 Innovate Funding

If your idea is so big, bold and beautiful that it doesn’t quite fit in to all those little tiny grant requirement boxes, then Innovate Funding could be for you. Applications close Friday 18 May.

Apply online >

Apps Lab

Seminar speakers announced

Metro Apps Lab seminar will feature Oliver Weidlich (Mobile Experiences), Tim Parsons (Quickflix) and Paul Buchanan (PayPal Australia) July 5th in Surry Hills, stay tuned for more updates.

Tickets & Info >

LEARN

Book in to any short course today and get a free DVD, movie ticket or Screen Hub membership. 29 short courses available online now in Video Game Design, Multiplatform, Webisodes, iPhone Apps, Screenwriting, Camera and Lighting, Producing, Post-Production, Directing, Sustainable Screen Production, Cultural Awareness and School Holiday programs for kids including Filmmaking and Video Game Design.

Short Courses Starting Soon

Cultural Awareness 25 May

Debra Hocking, a descendant of the Mouheneener people and a survivor of the Stolen Generation, takes students on a journey through her personal experiences to inform a discussion on cultural awareness. Through a series of exercises and hypothetical scenarios the course is designed to make you more informed, understanding and culturally aware.

Camera Essentials 2 June

Camera Essentials is the perfect introductory practical course for basic camera operation and cinematography  techniques.  In order to maximise hands-on experience the class is limited to 12 participants.

Multiplatform Techniques 12 June – 17 July

Learn techniques for producing multiplatform content including: building a strong following on social media sites, blogging to gain subscription and tips to promote views of your content online.

Music Video Making Intensive 18 – 24 June

An exciting, fun and fast paced practical course where you create a music video. By the end of the course each participant has a music video clip to add to their showreel.

HIRE

Last chance to win $1000 hire

If you have 4 minutes to take our Hire and Production survey you could win $1000 in Production hire from Metro Screen – take the survey before 11 May to be in the running. Congratulations to …… for completing the survey and taking out the Screen Hub membership, DVD and movie ticket prizes.

Take the survey >

New RedRock Mattebox for Hire!

The micro Mattebox offers a flexible solution for managing light and controlling flare, allowing you to configure your eyebrows/flags and filter stages to meet your needs exactly. Hire the Mattebox with our Micro Delux Redrock Cinema Rig for $210 / $178.50 member rate or in a discounted kit with the Sony PMW-F3 + Sony Prime Lenses kit, RedRock Matte Box and follow-focus rig for $600 / $510 member rate.

Latest From The Forum

JOBS

Colourist Needed

I am looking for someone to colour grade a 15 to 20 minute short film I recently shot on a Red Epic. If you are interested in finding out more, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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ENTRIES

Queer Fruits Film Festival

Queer Fruits Film Festival was established to provide a vital regional screen culture event to enable the GLBTIQ communities and wider community to participate in the celebration and innovation of international queer filmmaking culture.

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EVENTS

Tamworth Festival Documentary

Deluded Penguin Productions is producing the documentary Lights on the Hill: A Story of the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 2012/13. With a glimpse towards the past, and the Festival's history, this all Aussie doco also looks to the future, to the up and coming musical stars of tomorrow.

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GIVEAWAYS

Silent Souls Giveaway

Lyrical, mournful and stunningly beautiful Silent Should was the Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival, and winner for Best Screenplay at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. When Miron’s beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to go on a journey to return her body to the riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.

More info >

CONGRATULATIONS

The Child Star and The Beach

Metro Screen Alumni Ridwan Hassim won two awards at Fox Studios on 4th May at the Premiere Short Film Competition run by Rising Pictures. Firstly, Most Original Film for The Child Star [created as part of a Documentary Scholarship via Metro Screen] and secondly, Best Film for The Beach [Funded by Screen NSW Emerging Filmmakers Fund through Metro Screen]

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