Melbourne, Victoria – WIFT Vic will present ‘Time’s Up- A Forum For Change’, taking place at Arts Centre Melbourne, and featuring Tracey Spicer, Sue Maslin, Anjali Rao along with a panel of industry experts.
The event will take place at 6.30pm on Monday 26th February 2018. Read More
On the panel our president, Margarita Ivanovsky, joined Charlie Carman (AWG), Doron Kipen (ASSG), Jonathan Brough (ADG), Camille Van Wessem (ASE), Sky Davies (ACS) & Madeline Getson (Film Victoria) to talk about their organizations and the importance of joining one.
Margarita had the opportunity to talk about the exciting future of WIFT Vic and the importance we place on support women in the industry.
This event also helped us to start talking about future collaborations with the different guilds. So watch this space! Read More
In November we were kindly offered a discount to the SCREEN FOREVER 2017 conference. It was 3 days filled with inspiring teaching, informative wisdom from trailblazers, networking, pitching and building new relationships with like-minded peers.
The conference covered the grave situation women face in the entertainment industry and the positive impact women speaking up is having on the issues of diversity and gender. Other highlights included the effects Netflix has had on the Canadian Entertainment industry, meeting the television buyers across Australia’s networks, learning of the new structure for ABC and discovering the future of storytelling in the worlds of Virtual and Augmented Reality. Those who booked early had roundtable opportunities as well as time to network, ending with a chance to unwind at the 17th Annual Screen Producers Australia Awards and the SCREEN FOREVER Gala Party.
This jam-packed conference is one not to be missed and we hope we can offer a discount in 2018.
First of all, a big thank you to our guest speaker, Katrina Mathers. Not only did she dedicate her time and energy to share with us her secrets, she did it all on a Sunday morning!
Learning about funding while having food would probably be the only thing that will get me out of bed on a Sunday morning and clearly, I wasn’t the only one. We had members attending from all sorts of industries; TV, film, festival and even literature. It was a great opportunity to network and get to know them over coffee and food.
Katrina’s knowledge of funding was fascinating and insightful. It’s not surprising hearing that her short films have won over 30 awards including an AACTA (The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award), and have screened at hundreds of film festivals. Plus two of her recent animations were Academy® Accredited, Nullarbor and The Gallant Captain (co-directed with renowned children’s author Graeme Base). Katrina has also written, produced and directed for organisations such as ABCTV, Granada Media, MCM Entertainment, ActIII Animation, 9MMCommercials and Network10.
I’m happy to say that we had a successful first networking brunch event and that we look forward to having Katrina come back for events in the future. We hope to continue hosting similar events all around Melbourne, so keep an eye out for a WIFT VIC event near you!
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