The A to Z of directing for the cinema
WORKSHOP BREAKDOWNDay One | The director’s processWhere do the ideas come from for a film?How do you translate this into a script for the cinema?How do you work with key crew?How do you have a productive and fruitful relationship with your producer?What are the logistics of securing finance?Day Two | Working with actorsCasting actorsRehearsing with actorsPractical workshop with actors
WORKSHOP BREAKDOWN
Day One | The director’s process
Where do the ideas come from for a film?
How do you translate this into a script for the cinema?
How do you work with key crew?
How do you have a productive and fruitful relationship with your producer?
What are the logistics of securing finance?
Day Two | Working with actors
Casting actors
Rehearsing with actors
Practical workshop with actors
ABOUT NADIA TASS
After pursuing an academic career in Arts and Education, Tass began acting and later directing classical and contemporary theatre in Melbourne. She directed her first feature film, Malcolm, in 1986. Since then Tass has directed the Australian features Rikky and Pete (87), The Big Steal (89), Mr Reliable (97), Amy (98). Amy received 23 international awards including Best Film at the Paris Film Festival (99), Grand Prix de Cinecole at Cannes Film Festival (99), Grand Prix Cannes Junior (99), Les Mureaux Grand Prix Cannes Junior (02) and the Humanitarian Award at Asia Pacific Film Festival (99).
Nadia’s work in the US includes Pure Luck (91) for Universal Studios, The Miracle Worker (00) for Disney, Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (01) for Disney, Undercover Christmas (03) for CBS Network, Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (04), and Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (05) for Warner Bros/Revolution Studios, and Custody for Jaffe Braunstein Films. She also directed Stark (93), a mini series for The BBC/ABC television.
In 2010, Tass completed the Cascade Films feature, Matching Jack, which is has just been released by Twentieth Century Fox in Australia and will come to New Zealand in 2011.
Tass has a number of feature films in development with American studios and English production companies, in addition to the slate of projects being developed through her production company Cascade Films. Projects in development include Gun Alley, Tying The Knot, and Bottle This! (Nadia’s first documentary venture).
Auckland | 4 & 5 October 2010
Wellington | 6 & 7 October 2010
ENTRY REQUIREMENTSApplicants must be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident who has lived in New Zealand for at least the last six months.Applicants must be available for both days of the workshop.SDGNZ members selected for the workshop will attend for free. Non-members will be required to pay $100+GST (this fee includes an Associate membership to SDGNZ).Modest travel assistance (flights and accommodation) may be available for successful applicants from outside the workshop area. The NZFC and the SDGNZ will not be liable for meeting or reimbursing participants for the cost of travel to and from airports, meals, telephone calls, mini-bar costs, room service costs or any other personal costs incurred by the participants during the workshop.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident who has lived in New Zealand for at least the last six months.
Applicants must be available for both days of the workshop.
Modest travel assistance (flights and accommodation) may be available for successful applicants from outside the workshop area. The NZFC and the SDGNZ will not be liable for meeting or reimbursing participants for the cost of travel to and from airports, meals, telephone calls, mini-bar costs, room service costs or any other personal costs incurred by the participants during the workshop.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Applications should include:
• A letter outlining the reason for wanting to attend the workshop (specify in the letter which location – Auckland/Wellington) and the perceived benefits from attendance
• CV or filmography listing your directing experience
• SDGNZ membership number (if applicable)
Please send applications via email to:
Email: kate.stevenson@sdgnz.co.nz
Phone: 09 360 2102
Application Deadline | 5pm Wednesday 15 September 2010
Successful applicants will be informed by Friday 17 September
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Member Profile
Screen Directors Guild of New ZealandThe Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand (SDGNZ)
An organisation that creates a forum where directors and editors can define, defend and further their professional industry. Directors and editors have a responsibility to shape and influence the collective environment they work in. It is the Guild's role to help screen directors and editors work more effectively in the New Zealand Film and Television industry.
Through the promotion and advancement of New Zealand feature film and TV production, the SDGNZ strives to develop the professional incentives that are needed to encourage talented people to stretch their skills, exploit their gifts to the full and encourage others to follow.
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