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FRAMED #10 – Exploring Screen Industry Pathways
Open Channel's last FRAMED seminar for 2008 presents an eclectic mix of notable screen practitioners sharing their secrets and helping to steer you along the path to industry enlightenment! Speakers include award-winning cinematographer Laszlo Baranyai (NOISE), costume designer Christiana Plitzco (AMY, WORST BEST FRIENDS), and producer Ros Walker
(PORTRAIT: THE MAKING OF PORTRAIT OF A LADY, BATAVIA).
Hosted by Sue Marriott, President, WIFT (Vic), Vice President, MEAA (Vic).
When: Thursday 27 November, 12.30 - 2pm
Where: Digital Harbour Theatrette, 1010 Latrobe St, Docklands
RSVP: framed@openchannel.org.au
Speakers
Laszlo Baranyai was born in Budapest and begun his career as a camera assistant for the Hungarian Film Company MAFILM. He studied at the Academy of Dramatic and Cinematic Art, Film and Television in Budapest and worked on a number of features, shorts and documentaries before he immigrated to Perth in 1988. Since moving to Melbourne in 1992 he has been DOP on a number of Australian features, shorts and television series including Soft Fruit, True Love and Chaos, Soft Fruit, Roy Hollsdotter Live, Curtin and Noise (Sundance 2007). He was nominated for an AFI Award 2007 for his cinematography on Noise.
Born in Germany, Christiana Plitzco was assistant costume director for the Victorian State Opera from 1988-1990. Her Swiss and German work as a costume designer includes Romeo’s Sohn (Theater an Hechtplatz) and Arriman der Schreckliche (Kampnagel Theater). Christiana’s Australian film and television credits as costume designer or supervisor include Amy, Worst Best Friends, Heartbreak High, Max Gillies at the Club Republic, and most recently, Baz Luhrman’s Australia.
Ros Walker completed a BA and a Bachelor of Letters (honours) at the University of Melbourne specialising in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and also trained as a classical singer. Ros' producing credits include Co-Producer on the feature film Peaches starring Hugo Weaving and Jacqui McKenzie and Producer of the telemovie Baby Bath Massacre (Winner ATOM Awards Best Teenage Program). She has produced two documentaries, Portrait: The Making of Portrait of a Lady - an intense study about Jane Campion's work with Barbara Hershey, Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich, and Thread of Voice, a documentary about ARF ARF, a group of experimental voice artists. She produced the short films Mr Electric starring Ernie Dingo (AFI Award for Best Short and IOC Best Short Film Melbourne International Film Festival) and Sheep (Winner Best Director St Kilda Film Festival). Ros was Manager of Film Victoria from 1998 - 2002 responsible for managing investment, script and professional development for Victorian film and television projects. Previously Ros worked as Acting Executive Producer at the Open Channel. Ros has co-written a feature film Batavia which is in development, was script editor on the feature film Blue Rose and is co-writer on a documentary series The Fireside History of Deadly Diseases. Ros is Victorian Chapter Head for the Screen Producers Association of Australia and was previously a board member for Women in Film and Television and Melbourne Fringe.
FRAMED 2008 is generously supported by Film Victoria.
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