'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.' — David Hockney
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Italian actress Isabella Rossellini has written, directed and starred in a series of short films named ‘Green Porno.’ The films are a comical but insightful study about the sex life of bugs, insects and various other creatures.
Visit the Sundance YouTube channel for more.
Un Secret
Congratulations to our winners of the Un Secret Comp, you will be getting your tickets in the mail shortly!
A.C from Birmingham
K.H from Beverly Hills
E.B from Dingley Vale
M.M from Surry Hills
G.W from Port Macquarie
There are some pretty amazing flash animations happening at the website for The Canadian Forces.
In association with our good friends at Dendy Films, Design Federation is giving our readers the chance to win one of five double passes see the new film Death Defying Acts, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.
When famous escape artist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) arrives in Edinburgh and offers a $10,000 reward to anyone who can contact his mother from beyond the grave, a beautiful but deceptive psychic (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her young ‘sidekick’ daughter (Academy Award nominee for Atonement, Saoirse Ronan) take the challenge.
Come and hear award-winning novelist, TV and games writer Matt Costello talk about the key ingredients for planning, writing, designing and structuring a compelling game.
Presented by AFTRS LAMP, Australia Council’s ‘Story of the Future’ and Film Victoria.
This seminar is a must for storytellers interested in adapting their work for games as it explores the recent emergence of games as a storytelling platform.
Seminar participants get to:
- Hear about extending the familiar narrative family of books, plays, film and television to games
- Find out about the next generation of games
- Hear Matt Costello explain which types of stories and characters are best adapted from other media
- Learn about role-playing game environments inside social virtual worlds, production methodologies, user-generated games.
- Hear a market overview on the games development business and new creative opportunities from Kurt Busch from Krome Studios.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to workshop stories and games in a rapid development session.
This is a must-attend seminar and workshop for creative writers, producers and broadcasters of every flavour who are considering turning their stories into console, online or casual games.
Places are limited - book now to secure your place
Details:
Saturday 1st March
2.00pm - 5.00pm
Course fee $45
Venue:
Screen Pit, ACMI
Federation Square
Flinders St, Melbourne
How to Apply:
Call: 03 9602 8300 during business hours to reserve your place.
Payment can be made over the phone, final day for payment 29.
The Danish film Blood Sisters (Blodsostre) won the $5000 prize for Best Film yesterday at Flickerfest (the 17th annual Australian International Short Film Festival, held at the Bondi Pavilion), while the $1250 Award for Best Animation went to the Canadian Madame Tutli-Putli. The Australian producer Kath Shelper and director Warwick Thornton got the Short Film Award for Nana, while Dugong, written by Erin White, won Best Original Screenplay.
In association with Dendy Films, Design Federation is giving our readers the chance to win one of 10 double passes to an exclusive preview screening of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. The screening will take place on:
30/01/08 @ 6:30pm at Dendy Newtown (261 King St, Newtown)
If you havent already seen this amazing award winning animation by Run Wrake, you are missing out.
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For a better quality version of the clip, and more information head to http://www.runwrake.com/
ACMI is the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
From the wonders of more than a century of cinema, to television, computer games and the screen-based art of the future, ACMI is the place to find out everything about the moving image.
World leading and state-of-the-art, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) celebrates, champions and explores the moving image in all its forms - film, television, games, new media and art.
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