African Cinema Conference presents...
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The Film & TV short course unit at Monash South Africa is proud to announce the following courses to be tutored by leading Australian professionals, in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
BUSINESS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
This course is designed for both freelancers and those working in independent production companies.
The course will focus on two aspects:
1) Co-productions and co-financing. This will include a complete and thorough understanding of all elements involved in raising finance and co-productions including marketing; legal frameworks and copyright; raising finance; budgeting; distribution; project managing and time scheduling, proposals and pitching, management skills, negotiating techniques.
2) Independent company sustainability. Here Terry will look at business structures, sustainability and long term financial survival and strategies.
Trainer: TERRY JENNINGS is the Acting CEO of the Film Finance Corporation
(FFC). The FFC is the key funding body for the Australian federal government.
Terry specialises in the preparation of financing plans for feature films,
Telemovies and mini series. Budget analysis, sales analysis, review of legal
documentation, policy papers etc. Terry has worked on co-financing,
co-production models, bank gap financing for over 40 FFC feature Films.
Terry has extensive experience as an independent producer and therefore
understands both corporate and independent needs, and how best to help
companies survive.
Dates: Johannesburg 24 - 27 Sept
(Please note: 24th is public holiday, Heritage day)
Cape Town 29 Sept - 2 Oct
Duration: 4 days each
No. of places: 20 per course
Cost: R 3 000 FREELANCERS
R 4 000 COMPANIES
There are a limited number of partial bursaries available on a discretionary basis.
Application deadline : FRIDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER
For further information:
Nikki Tilley, Project Manager, Film & TV short course unit. Tel: + 27 11 950 4162 Fax: + 27 11 950 4166 / 4066 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SCREENWRITING SEMINARS (JHB & CT) &
SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP (JHB):
Following the resounding success of the first course held in June 2003, we are lucky enough to have secured Ms Linda Aronson back in October. Linda will be delivering a series of Screenwriting seminars in Johannesburg and Cape Town, along with a Script Development workshop and private consultations in Johannesburg.
This course is designed for all those interested in Core Screenwriting skills, be they Producers, Directors, Writers and Script Editors, who are interested in advancing their script analysis skills, and for those in theatre wanting to move to screen.
Trainer: Linda Aronson: Recognised internationally for her practical techniques for writing non-linear films, Linda Aronson is also a working writer and script consultant with awards as a playwright, scriptwriter and novelist.
Her novels are published in nine countries. She has written for TV companies from Australia, UK, USA and New Zealand.
Ms Aronson has guest-lectured at NYU and Columbia, at Goldsmith's College and National Film & Television School in London, at the CEEA in Paris and at Australian Film, Television and Radio School, along with UTS and RMIT in Australia. Her book Screenwriting Updated: New and Conventional Ways of Writing for the Screen is required reading for all new film students at NYU in New York and has been acclaimed by the industry (including Hollywood guru Christopher Vogler). Screenwriting Updated: New (and Conventional) Ways of Writing Films
Linda Aronson is recognised internationally for her 'nuts and bolts' explanations of how to write films not only in the conventional structural form (one protagonist on a three-act journey) but in non-linear forms such as flashback stories, multiple protagonist stories and stories that jump between different time frames (like Pulp Fiction). While other film theorists ignore these forms or say they are too complex, Aronson demonstrates how the forms actually conform to predictable patterns.
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She shows writers how these apparently formless structures are based on the traditional three act model (splitting it and reconfiguring it so as to piggyback on the suspenseful build the traditional three act model) and thus can be planned and written within reasonable budget and time frames. On Day One of her two day seminar she covers a variety of approaches to conventional narrative. On Day Two she covers four families of 'parallel' or 'non-linear' narrative.
Dates: SCREENWRITING UPDATED SEMINARS
Experience level: All screenwriters - experienced, intermediate and beginners
Johannesburg 3 - 4 October
Cape Town 9 - 10 October
Duration: 2 days each
No. of places: 50 per course
Cost: SCREENWRITING UPDATED SEMINARS
(JHB & CT):
FREELANCERS: R 850
COMPANIES: R 1 000
Dates: SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
Fri 3 - Tues 14 October
Duration: 8 days
No. of places: 20
Cost: FREELANCERS: R 5 650
COMPANIES: R 7 000
*There are a limited number of partial bursaries available on a discretionary basis.
*Linda Aronson's books will be made available for purchase at the workshops.
Application deadline : FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER
For further information:
Nikki Tilley, Project Manager, Film & TV short course unit. Tel: + 27 11 950 4162 Fax: + 27 11 950 4166 / 4066 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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