ARE YOU INDIGENOUS AND WANT TO WORK IN FILM OR TV?

• Free short courses in digital, TV, and film skills
• Scholarships in production management and producing
• Help to develop your story idea into a script
• Funding to make a short documentary for broadcast on NITV
• Funding to make a short film or transmedia project
• Tips on working with community

If you’re interested and indigenous, find out more at the free session on the 5th August.

Metro Screen has a long track record of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are just starting out on their screen careers, including:

Wayne Blair – The Sapphires (Director) Redfern Now (Director and Actor). Wayne made his first two short films Fade 2 Black and Jublj with us.

Elizabeth Goie Wymarra – Elizabeth’s first short film The Biggest Port was screened at the Message Sticks Festival and her second production Woollo screened on ABC TV.

John Bell – Writer and co-producer of Gods of Wheat St  and writer Redfern Now (ABC TV) made his first short film Justice for One with us.

Adrian Wills  – Writer and Director credits include Redferm Now, Boxing for Palm Island, Gods of Wheat Street and Rush. Adrian made his first two short films Angel and Dare 2 Dream with us.

“Metro Screen gave me an opportunity, and more importantly an opportunity where I would be trained. I had the story in me and Metro Screen provided me with the chance to put my story onto the screen.”  Wayne Blair, Director of The Sapphires.
Info session – everyone welcome

Tuesday 6 August
Metro Screen, Paddington Town Hall, Cnr Oxford St & Oatley Rd, Paddington
6.30pm – 8pm FREE
RSVP

For more info: Call David Opitz on 02 9356 1818 or email d.opitz@metroscreen.org.au or click here