Incubator Event #2 @We Are Moving Stories
We’re happy to announce our second Incubator event @ We Are Moving Stories!
Come and hear our We Are Moving Stories contributors and filmmakers Katrina Mathers, Kerry Drumm and Andrew Garton on Thursday 30 August 1-2.30pm. Our venue is ACMIX. Directions: https://www.acmi.net.au/acmi-x/
We'd love to find out about what you're working on and will share ideas for where We Are Moving Stories will be traveling to next!
Katrina Mathers is a prolific independent filmmaker, business owner and actor; Katrina’s 20+ shorts (as writer, producer or director) have won more than 50 awards including an AACTA Award for Best Short Animation (“Nullarbor” 2011 Producer). She’s been a Tropfest finalist director (“The Referees” 2003 Director) and wrote the winning screenplay for the Australian Series II of Project Greenlight (“No Mail” 2006 Writer). Two animations Katrina produced were Academy accredited (“Nullarbor” & “The Gallant Captain” 2013 Producer, Co-directed with Graeme Base) and one was included in the 2012 Oscar® Nominated Shorts collection (“Nullarbor”). Katrina co-founded The Lampshade Collective animation and VFX studio (2007-2013) and oversaw production on many TVCs, ghosting jobs and shorts. Currently she runs Cherry Hands Media, a multimedia production company and consulting service. She’s been a judge and guest speaker for many film festivals and panels and has also had a successful career as an actor, key credits including the original “Saw” short film; “The Wedge” Channel 10; “Flipside” ABCTV; Moosehead award comedy show “Footy Chicks” and ABC774 weekly radio serial “The Breakfast Shift”.
Kerry Drumm started out in the animation industry and even has a PhD on the subject! Shifting lanes, Kerry now works full-time as a screenwriter and playwright. She started the year as a writer on the IMAX documentary, GREAT BARRIER REEF, narrated by Eric Bana and has a number of projects in development with December Media. Her stage play STRAWBERRY has recently been licensed for a 2019 season and HALF of ME was selected for the PlaySix Festival. She has a trilogy of short films in post production with Choo Choo Productions and is currently in script development on a British TV pilot.
Andrew Garton is an independent filmmaker, musician and writer with a background in community access media. His work spans the genres of non-fiction film-making, short-format documentary, non-linear radio documentary drama, projected video and sound installations. His first feature Ocean in a Drop - broadband impacts in rural India was launched at the Chennai Film Festival in December 2017 and screened on Indian national public television in May 2018. Andrew has a Master of Arts in Interactive Media and is an Adjunct Industry Fellow, Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology. He is currently completing a podcast series for Global Voices and the Association for Progressive Communications based on his book, Right to Know - India's Internet Avant-garde, and his next feature, Forged from Fire - the Making of the Blacksmiths' Tree. Andrew lives and works out of his post-production studio, Secession Films, on the outskirts of Melbourne's north eastern green wedge.
Facilitator: Dr Carmela Baranowska is the founder and product architect at We Are Moving Stories. Over a 25 year career as a journalist, filmmaker and university lecturer Dr Carmela Baranowska has gained unique insights which she brings to her work. She's the first Australian to win a Rory Peck award and the only person to have won both a Rory Peck and Walkley award. Carmela is passionate about human rights, access, representation and amplifying other people's voices through media, especially film. Carmela has written about, filmed, lived and worked in East Timor, Burma, Afghanistan, West Papua, Indonesia, Australia, Europe and the U.S. Her 2015 conferred PhD was titled The Responsibility of the Media: Occupation in East Timor and Western Sahara.