FTI Graduate Success Stories

17 January 2008

Organisation

It’s hard to keep track of all the different achivements of FTI graduates and program participants. Assembled below is a selction of our student’s success stories from recent years.

Live Action News

Dan Puodziunas works his way up the Production ladder of Australian television FTI graduate Dan Puodziunas has worked on a variety of programs from ‘Rove’, to ‘Sunday Arts’ and ‘Rockwiz’. Read More

Continued Success for Short Film ‘Double or Nothing’ Short film ‘Double or Nothing’ has been selected for screening at this year’s Winter Magic Short Film Festival in Katoomba. Read More

‘Eight Letter Word’ selected for Newtown Flicks A short film created by Matt Hodgkinson and Karla Nessfield will screen in Sydney in June. Read More

More Festival Sucess For ‘Rope Burn’ Adam Bishop’s short has been invited to screen at Outfest in LA. Read more

‘Rope Burn’ to screen at opening of Glamfest A short film produced by Adam Bishop is set to screen on the opening night on Perth’s newest film festival. Read more

‘Double or Nothing’ in double festivals Gregg Johnson and Alex McArthur celebrate their film being in the Funnybone 500 Read more

Adam Bishop rides a wave of success FTI Producing graduate Adam Bishop’s latest film has been selected for both the Mardi Gras Film Festival and the St Kilda Film Festival. Read more

Alex Goddard’s film screens around the world: The latest short film from Alex Goddard is finding success on a global scale. Read more

‘Coach Captains’ selected for Byron Bay Film Festival: FTI graduate Jacqui Treagus’s short documentary to screen in Byron Bay. Read more

FTI graduate on Tropfest short list: FTI members Matt Hodgkinson and Karla Nessfield fight through the competition at the biggest short film festival. Read more

‘Double or Nothing’ selected for Byron Bay Film Festival: A short film, which was made on a weekend by FTI students has been selected for this prestgious festival. Read more

AD UP Recipients Announced: Video Production student Jenny Plunkett comissioned to make a commercial. Read more

Mandurah Short Film Festival announces nominees:Amongst theose nominated are FTI graduates Ethan Marrell, Andrew Gavin Taylor, Nadir Raza Khan and Mathew Voysey. Read more

FTI Graduates at ‘Storm the Stage’: FTI graduates were part of the successful multi-cam crew to film ‘Storm the Stage’ under the direction of Mark DeFriest. Read more

Lucinda Marty wins pitching competition: Against tough competition Lucinda is the WA finalist in the AFTRS pitching competition. Read more

Alex Goddard directs new show: Alex Goddard has signed on as a Director for ‘Oystervision’. Read more

Shelly Craddick Documentary screens at Wave Rock: Documentary student Shelly Cradick has had her film selected for the Wave Rock film festival. Read more

Jacquie Treagus’s ‘Coach Captains’ premieres: This new documentary looks at the world of tourist guiding bus drivers. Read more

Ethan Marrell releases new documentary: ‘On the Vege’ is the latest documentary from award winning director Ethan Marrell. “Readmore:http://www.fti.asn.au/news/187

Goddard’s latest film sells out in Ney York: Alex Goddard’s new film ‘Untitled / Trees’ has had a sell out screening in the USA. Read more

FTI Graduates nominated for WA Screen Awards: a host of graduates from FTI are nominated. Read more

‘Jack in a Box’ premieres: A new short film from Michael Rautao premieres. The film was funded through the Australian Film Commission. Read more

Hugh Buttsworth’s ‘Hacker’ selected for ‘TROPFEST: Best of the Rest’: Buttsworth’s suspense filled Sci-Fi short will screen around Australia. Read more

FTI graduates win at WA Screen Awards: Nic Montagu, Aaron Kennedy, Lisa Evans, Gareth Lockett, Josh Lee, Ethan Marrell and Randall Lyton amonst the winners. Read more

Jack Wung wins at ASEAN film awards: Jack Wung wins silver at ASEAN awards with his international film, shot in Paris, editing in Bangkok, sound in Perth. Read more

Ethan Marrell wins at Flake Festival: ‘For Young and Old’ a documentary by Ethan Marrell has won a prize at the Flake Film Festival. Read more

‘Hearts and Minds’ at Mexican Film Festival: This short film from Producer Jocelyn Quioc and Director Chris Richards Scully was crewed by FTI students. Read more

FTI graduates nominated for WA Screen Awards: Mike Berry Porter, RObyn Kingdom and Rob Castiglione and may others amongst the nominees. Read more

Alex Goddard makes films for Wayne Cooper: FTI graduate enters the fashion world. Read more

‘Samseng’ selected for St Kilda Film Festival: Chris Richards Scully’s short film, which was crewed by FTI students has been selected for the prestigious festival. Read more

Tim Merk’s ‘Jim’ finalist at Grassroots: The latest short film from animator Tim Merks has been selected for the Gassroots film festival. Read more

Bob the Motivational Speaker nominated for WASA: Daniel pita’s short animation created during his studies at FTI has been nominated. Read more

‘Earnest the Emu’ at national animation awards: Mitzi Drysdale’s short animation has been short listed at the AEAF awards. Read more

Animation News

Madfish Animation to Premiere at Tropfest: Clancie Shorter has been comissioned to make a new advertisement for Madfish Wines. Read more

Making ‘Dogstar’: Tim Merks talks about his experiences as a Scene Planner and Animator. Read more

Making ‘Dogstar’: Roseline Lau shares her experiences of working on this new 26 part TV series. Read more

‘Ransis and Alee’ screens in New York: Randall Lynton’s stylish stop motion film hits the Big Apple. Read more

Dox wins at Film Festival: Nadir Raza Khan, Andrew Gavin Taylor and Mathew Voysey celebrate as their animated short ‘Dox’ claims the top prize. Read more

Six Questions with the ‘Dox’ Crew: Find about more about the making of the short film ‘Dox’. Read more

FTI trained animators join ‘Pixel Pinkie’:Roseline Lau, Christien Clegg and Tim Merks have joined the Tasmanian based production. Read more

FTI Graduates nominated for WA Screen Awards: a host of graduates from FTI are nominated. Read more

Danny Jennings wins at Margaret River Short Film Festival: Danny Jennings has picked up an armful of awards at the festival. Read more

‘Tiki the Weasel’ is the coolest film film: A short film created by Tan Teck Weng, Clancie Shorter and a whole team of their class mates has been voted coolest film at the SPLIF screenings. Read more

‘Spooky Doll Kids’ in New York*: Roseline Lau’s stop motion animaed film screens in the USA. Read more

‘Spooky Doll Kids’ at Fitzroy Shorts: Roseline Lau’s short film screens at prestigious Melbourne festival. Read more

‘Spooky Doll Kids’ at the Equinox Festvial: Locally produced animation features at Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Read more

‘Spooky Doll Kids’ selected for MIFF: Local animation selected for Melbourne International Film Festival. Read more

‘Jelly Invader’ wins at WASA: Daniel Pita’s comical 3D animation wins at WA Screen Awards. Read more

A host of FTI animations at the AEAF awards: ‘Existence’, ‘Jelly Invader’ and ‘Last Memory’ and ‘Suicidal Baloon’ nominated. Read more