First Feature Lab Seminars
Seminars with Keith Thompson, Philippa Campbell and
Alison Maclean
15 APRIL to 17 APRIL,
AUCKLAND
Script to Screen and the NZ Film
Commission present three open seminars and panel
discussions as part of the First Feature Lab. Take a closer
look at development and co-writing with Keith Thompson; hear Alison Maclean talk about the transition
from short film to features; and delve into creative
producing with Philippa Campbell.
When: Mon 15th –
Wed 17th April, 2013, 10am-12pm
Where: University of Otago House, 385 Queen
Street, Auckland, 1010
Cost: Day pass – $10 concession
(student/guild/unwaged), $15 full
Three day pass – $25
concession (student/guild/unwaged), $40
full
Registration: To register go to our
website
COLLABORATION AND DEVELOPMENT WITH
KEITH THOMPSON
MONDAY APRIL 15, 10am-12pm
A
follow up to Keith Thompson’s session at the Big Screen
Symposium last year. Keith will discuss the process of
co-writing versus script editing and how writing in
collaboration can strengthen the development
process.
Screenwriter Keith Thompson is a ten-time Australian
Writer’s Guild AWGIE Award winner. His recent film
adaptation The Sapphires, co-written by Tony Briggs, was an
Official Selection at Cannes 2012 and has recently been
released by the Weinstein Company. The film won 11 awards at
the 2013 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Awards
(AACTA) including Best Film and Best Adapted
Screenplay.
Schedule:
10 – 10:45am -
Seminar
10:45 – 11:15 - Tea and refreshments
11:15
– 12pm - Panel discussion with Keith Thompson,
screenwriter Briar Grace-Smith and director Alison
Maclean.
FROM SHORT FILMS TO FEATURES AND BEYOND
WITH ALISON MACLEAN
TUESDAY APRIL 16,
10am-12pm
Alison Maclean discusses the transition
from short films to features, the advantages of the short
film medium, and what elements make a story best suited to
which medium. As a director with extensive international
experience she will delve into the different demands of
working around the world in both film and
television.
Canadian-born to New Zealand parents, writer
and director Alison Maclean helmed one of the most
successful NZ Film Commission funded short films of all
time, Kitchen Sink, which debuted at Cannes and won eight
international awards. A graduate of Elam School of Fine
Arts, she has directed feature films Crush (which she also
wrote) andJesus’ Son (US). A director of commercials and
television series including Sex and the City and Gossip
Girl, Maclean divides her time between New York, Canada and
New Zealand, and she is developing several feature
films.
Schedule:
10 – 10:45am – Seminar
10:45
– 11:15 – Tea and refreshments
11:15 – 12pm - Panel
discussion with Alison Maclean, producer Philippa Campbell
and screenwriter Briar Grace-Smith.
CREATIVE
PRODUCING WITH PHILIPPA
CAMPBELL
WEDNESDAY APRIL 17,
10am-12pm
Philippa Campbell will talk about the
writer/producer relationship, drawing on her own extensive
work to explore the producer’s role in the evolution of
projects.
Philippa Campbell has produced five New
Zealand feature films, including the acclaimed Rain, which
premiered in competition in Cannes; Sundance audience award
winner No. 2; Black Sheep, winner of three international
awards; and the genre-busting Rubbings from a Live Man. Most
recently she was a producer on Jane Campion’s
international television mini-series Top of the Lake,
starring Elisabeth Moss and Holly Hunter.
Schedule:
10
– 10:45am – Seminar
10:45 – 11:15 – Tea and
refreshments
11:15 – 12pm - Panel discussion with
Philippa Campbell, writer/script editor Keith Thompson and
producer/NZFC Short Film Manager Lisa
Chatfield.
ENDS