The 2018 Sydney Film Festival program is out now! This year’s selection features a host of works by AFTRS alumni, both recent and from the years past; 15 alumni’s (plus two current student’s) works are featured amongst the short films, including Eryk Lenartowicz’s Cannes-selected Dots (2018); the works of 5 ex-students are amongst the festival’s fiction feature films, including a restoration of Gillian Armstrong’s pioneering feminist classic My Brilliant Career (1979); and 6 are amongst the feature documentaries. Not to mention the festival’s FLUX: ART+ FILM stream, which has been curated by 2018 Honorary Degree awardee Bridget Ikin.
However, we’re most excited about the whopping 16 alumni and staff whose works will be presented in the From Little Things Big Things Grow retrospective; a celebration of 25 years of Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department that includes early works by Warwick Thornton and Ivan Sen and is not to be missed.
Shorts
Director/Screenwriter/ Co-Producer/Editor: Karen Pearlman (Master of Arts (Film & Television) Editing – 2000)
Director/Co-Screenwriter: Hunter Page-Lochard (Graduate Certificate in Story Development and Screenwriting Fundamentals – 2012)
Co-Screenwriter/Co-Producer: Eryk Lenartowicz (Master of Screen Arts – 2017)
Director/Screenwriter: Eryk Lenartowicz (Master of Screen Arts – 2017)
Cinematography: Ramy Daniel (Master of Screen Arts – 2017)
Editor: Joshua Webber (Master of Screen Arts – 2017)
Co-Production Design: Thomas Muir (Foundation Diploma – 2013)
Cinematographer: Zoe White (Master of Arts: Film and Television Cinematography – 2008)
Co-Director/Co-Screenwriter: Nathan Mewett (current student: Master of Arts Screen: Screenwriting – 2018)
Co-Director/Screenwriter: Larissa Behrendt (Graduate Diploma in Documentary – 2013, Graduate Diploma in Screenwriting – 2012)
Cinematographer: Marden Dean (Master of Arts: Film and Television Cinematography – 2008)
Screenwriter/Co-Producer/Star: Daniel Monks (Foundation Diploma – 2009, Graduate Certificate in Directing – 2011)
Screenwriter: Will Goodfellow (Graduate Certificate: Screen Drama – Directing & Screenwriting Directing & Screenwriting – 2008, Master of Screen Arts – 2014, Graduate Diploma: Screenwriting – 2009)
Co-Producer: Lucy Gaffy (Graduate Certificate: Screen Drama – Directing & Screenwriting Directing & Screenwriting – 2008, Graduate Diploma: Directing (Fiction & Non Fiction) – 2009, Master of Screen Arts – 2012)
Co-Producer: Alicia Easaw-Mamutil (current student: Master of Arts Screen: Producing – 2019)
Cinematographer: Jack McAvoy (Graduate Diploma in Cinematography – 2012)
Editor: Alana Greig (Graduate Diploma in Editing – 2012)
Co-Director/Producer: Stephanie Davidson (Foundation Diploma – 2013)
Features
Composer: Angela Little (Master of Arts: Film, Television and Digital Media Screen Composition – 2007)
Director: Gillian Armstrong (Certificate in Directing – 1973)
Director: Stephen McCallum (Graduate Certificate: Directing – 2010, Graduate Diploma in Directing (Fiction & Non-Fiction) – 2011)
Co-Producer: Michael Pontin (Graduate Diploma in Producing & Screen Business – 2011)
Director: Mairi Cameron (Master of Arts (Film & Television) Directing – 1998)
Documentary
Co-Producer: Rebecca Berry (Master of Arts (Film and Television) Documentary – Writer/Director – 2002)
Co-Producer: Rachel Clements (Master of Arts (Film & Television) Producing – 2000)
Cinematographer: Hugh Miller (Cinematography Documentary Certificate – 2000, Master of Arts (Film & Television) Cinematography – 2002)
Co-Producer: Bridget Callow-Wright (Master of Screen Arts & Business – 2015)
Director/Screenwriter: Grant Saunders (Master of Arts Honours: Film, Television and Digital Media Documentary – 2005)
Editor: Lindi Harrison (Specialist Extension Certificate Editing – 1993)
Retrospective: From Little Things Big Things Grow
Director/Screenwriter: Warwick Thornton (Bachelor of Arts (Film & Television) Cinematography – 1995)
Co-Producer: Rachel Perkins (Specialist Extension Course Certificate Producing – 1995)
Director/Screenwriter: Rima Tamou (AFTRS Indigenous TV Training Certificate – 1994)
Director/Screenwriter: Darlene Johnson (Graduate Diploma (Film & Television) Directing – 1997, Master of Arts Honours: Film, Television and Digital Media in Writing & Directing – 2006)
Cinematography: Kim Batterham (Diploma Cinematography – 1978, Bachelor of Arts (Film & Television) – Conversion – 1997)
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Director/Co-Screenwriter: Rima Tamou (AFTRS Indigenous TV Training Certificate – 1994)
Editor: Milena Romanin (AFTRS’ Post-production Coordinator)
Director/Screenwriter: Erica Glynn (Master of Arts (Film & Television) Directing – 1998)
Producer: Steve McGregor (Master of Arts (Film & Television) Directing – 2001)
Producer: Helen Lovelock (Bachelor of Arts (Film & Television) Producing – 1995)
Director/Screenwriter: Ivan Sen (Bachelor of Arts (Film & Television) Directing – 1997)
Director/Screenwriter: Ivan Sen (Bachelor of Arts (Film & Television) Directing – 1997)
Cinematographer: Allan Collins (Specialist Extension Course Certificate Cinematography – 1996)
Director/Screenwriter: Wayne Blair
Cinematographer: Murray Lui (Master of Arts (Film & Television) Cinematography – 1999)
Director/Screenwriter: Beck Cole (Master of Arts (Film & Television) Documentary – 2001)
Co-Producer: Darren Dale (Honorary Degree – 2014, AFTRS Council Deputy Chair)
Co-Producer: Rachel Perkins (Specialist Extension Course Certificate Producing – 1995)
Cinematography: Warwick Thornton (Bachelor of Arts (Film & Television) Cinematography – 1995)
Editor: Karen Johnson (Specialist Extension Course Certificate Editing – 1995)
Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer: Warwick Thornton (Bachelor of Arts (Film & Television) Cinematography – 1995)
Co-Producer: Darren Dale (Honorary Degree – 2014, AFTRS Council Deputy Chair)
Co-Producer: Rachel Perkins (Specialist Extension Course Certificate Producing – 1995),
Program Strands
FLUX: ART+ FILM – Guest Curator: Bridget Ikin (Honorary Degree – 2018)
Image: Still from Barbara, directed by Larissa Behrendt and Marieka Walsh