Tim Ferguson and the Screenability Nsw interns.
The first eight participants in the Screenability Nsw internship program, each receiving a paid placement across film and television, have been unveiled.
Screenability Nsw, launched by Screen Nsw in September, is a program to create opportunities in the screen industries for people with disabilities. Screen Nsw has partnered with Ai-Media, Aftrs, Carriageworks, Bus Stop Films and Toozly on the initiative.
On top of the internships, the program promises to deliver an annual film festival at Carriageworks, a short film-making initiative and a long-term job placement scheme. .
Yesterday at Aftrs each of the interns met representatives from the companies who will be employing them; they include Matchbox Pictures, Screentime and Animal Logic.
Each intern will be provided with bespoke training through Aftrs, developed in consultation with Bus Stop Films. An online network will be created for all the interns to share their production experiences,...
The first eight participants in the Screenability Nsw internship program, each receiving a paid placement across film and television, have been unveiled.
Screenability Nsw, launched by Screen Nsw in September, is a program to create opportunities in the screen industries for people with disabilities. Screen Nsw has partnered with Ai-Media, Aftrs, Carriageworks, Bus Stop Films and Toozly on the initiative.
On top of the internships, the program promises to deliver an annual film festival at Carriageworks, a short film-making initiative and a long-term job placement scheme. .
Yesterday at Aftrs each of the interns met representatives from the companies who will be employing them; they include Matchbox Pictures, Screentime and Animal Logic.
Each intern will be provided with bespoke training through Aftrs, developed in consultation with Bus Stop Films. An online network will be created for all the interns to share their production experiences,...
- 12/6/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Theodore Bikel. Theodore Bikel dead at 91: Oscar-nominated actor and folk singer best known for stage musicals 'The Sound of Music,' 'Fiddler on the Roof' Folk singer, social and union activist, and stage, film, and television actor Theodore Bikel, best remembered for starring in the Broadway musical The Sound of Music and, throughout the U.S., in Fiddler on the Roof, died Monday morning (July 20, '15) of "natural causes" at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The Austrian-born Bikel – as Theodore Meir Bikel on May 2, 1924, in Vienna, to Yiddish-speaking Eastern European parents – was 91. Fled Hitler Thanks to his well-connected Zionist father, six months after the German annexation of Austria in March 1938 ("they were greeted with jubilation by the local populace," he would recall in 2012), the 14-year-old Bikel and his family fled to Palestine, at the time a British protectorate. While there, the teenager began acting on stage,...
- 7/23/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
(L to R): James L. Larocca, director of the performance, Eli Wallach, Peter Sabri and playwright Jeff Baron. (Photo copyright Lee Pfeiffer/Cinema Retro. All rights reserved). By Lee Pfeiffer
It isn't every day you can see a legendary actor perform before an intimate audience, but last night afforded one such opportunity when Eli Wallach took to the stage at The Players, the legendary New York club dedicated to the performing arts. The one night performance was to benefit The Players Foundation for Theater Education, a newly-founded non-profit group that is dedicated to promoting theater history. Wallach was reviving a role he played more than a decade ago in writer Jeff Baron's acclaimed two-character play Visiting Mr. Green. Wallach and Peter Sabri performed a reading of the play in front of a packed house. The plot centers on Ross, a 30 year-old New York executive who has a mishap...
It isn't every day you can see a legendary actor perform before an intimate audience, but last night afforded one such opportunity when Eli Wallach took to the stage at The Players, the legendary New York club dedicated to the performing arts. The one night performance was to benefit The Players Foundation for Theater Education, a newly-founded non-profit group that is dedicated to promoting theater history. Wallach was reviving a role he played more than a decade ago in writer Jeff Baron's acclaimed two-character play Visiting Mr. Green. Wallach and Peter Sabri performed a reading of the play in front of a packed house. The plot centers on Ross, a 30 year-old New York executive who has a mishap...
- 1/27/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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