The 1996 West Australian television series SWEAT returns to ABC 3. Produced by Margot McDonald and EP’d by Paul Barron this 26 part series is probably best known these days as the late Heath Ledger’s first regular TV role. ...
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This comic strip was purpose-built to accompany the calendar that came with the bi-monthly Film and Television Institute News (retitled MONITOR) the member’s magazine of the FTI in Fremantle, Western Australia. We thought we needed to make our serious publication a little more entertaining. So we thought an events calendar with a comic strip was the way to go. The characters were based on...
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Local filmmakers Charlie Lewis and Cassidy Hill have completed their latest short film A Basement On A Hill. The film is funded by the Film and Television Institute’s OOMPF grant. Basement is a psychological thriller about a 16 year old called Anna who has extremely controlling parents and the lengths they will go to maintain that control....
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Members of the Film and Television Institute you may already have a copy of MONITOR magazine in your (actual not virtual) letterbox. ...
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Blast from the Past. Ten Years ago, Western Australia’s own Warped Time Productions made this funny, clever animated short. It’s an alternative take on the hardships of exploring and adventuring into remote and difficult areas. If you have 7 minutes to give, bring forth your inner Bear Grylls and enjoy some Old school computer animation (as we used to call...
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It’s the Festive Season. It’s so EASY to lose your mojo re your career, your goals. Just because it’s a ‘holiday’ there is no reason to stop climbing that big plastic mountain we call ‘success’ The following advice is aimed mainly at the film students and newly-hatched filmmakers who are likely to be reading this. Others may choose to ignore this, or keep reading for nostalgia...
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Do you want to know what Western Australian filmmakers Vincenzo Perrella & Dan Osborn are up to? The duo who made Singer Songwriter? And This Is Perth – the instructional video about the City of Perth? Yeah, with Bertie the … (best not give it away if you haven’t seen it – just go here now.)...
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Western Australian Independent Filmmaking – four words that make an awkward sound when you smash them together. Maybe we should just call it WAIF, because people love an acronym. If you’ve never had anything to do with it, then you might be sitting back in your swivel chair saying, “Surely, like the unicorn, independent filmmaking in the western-most state is but a myth....
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