MAKING MOVIES ROADSHOW Hits the Road

1 April 2010

Organisation

The MAKING MOVIES ROADSHOW has packed its swag and will hit the road once more in 2010. Apply now to have the MAKING MOVIES ROADSHOW visit your regional or remote community this year.

The joint initiative of Woodside, NITV, ScreenWest and FTI, aims to teach regional people, including many Indigenous participants, digital filmmaking skills as a way of sharing their unique stories with a wider audience.

The program involves sending a team of three professional filmmakers to eight regional communities each year to run five-day introductory workshops in digital camera operation, sound recording, music, animation, non-linear editing and storytelling techniques. The workshops are designed for 12 youth or adult participants, although other community members are often involved. The training sessions culminate in an outdoor community screening of the films created by the participants. Films made in 2009 included documentaries, horror films, comedy spoofs, drama and even a music video.

Over the past seven years, the MAKING MOVIES ROADSHOW program has delivered 58 workshops to approximately 700 regional participants with over 160 short films produced and screened to 6,700 community members. Several of the films have also broadcast on NITV and the BRACS network, Goolarri TV and Golden West Network.

“It’s a very successful initiative that encourages people living in regional areas to discover filmmaking as a means of sharing their stories and celebrating their communities,” said FTI CEO, Graeme Sward.

“The audience responses have been very positive to the unique films that have been created, often by first-time filmmakers,” he said.

Communities interested in having a filmmaking workshop visit their regional location should download the application form here or contact the MMR Coordinator, Daniel Balint, at the Film & Television Institute on (08) 9431 6700.

Applications close 5pm Friday 14 May 2010