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Tropfest Roughcut Sydney

Tropfest Roughcut returns to Sydney this July!

Featuring conversations with industry heavyweights from Wolf Creek star John Jarratt to comedy great Dan Ilic, among others, this full-day event will be an incredible forum of conversation about creativity in the film and TV industry.

Including a mix of networking sessions, panel discussions and conversations with industry greats, tickets are just $30 and are expected to sell out fast.

EVENT DETAILS
Where: Lend Lease Theatre, Darling Quarter, Sydney
When: 10:00am – 3:00pm, Saturday 26 July 2014
Ticket Price: $30.00

THE LINE-UP

MC – Marc Fennell
Australian TV and radio personality Marc Fennell (The Feed, That Movie Guy, Hungry Beast) will MC Roughcut, bringing his trademark wit and knowledge to the event’s presentation. Fennell is most listened to film critic in Australia, reaching over 1.9 million people each week on triple j radio.

John Jarratt
With a career spanning decades in the industry, Australian screen star John Jarratt (Wolf Creek) will share his experiences from making his screen breakthrough in 1975’s The Great Macarthy, through his successful television career including McLeod’s Daughters, to international acclaim through his stand-out roles in Wolf Creek, Australia and Django Unchained, and his directorial debut in the upcoming StalkHer.

Jasin Boland
Australian motion picture stills photographer, Jasin Boland (Mad Max: Fury Road, Skyfall, The Matrix), is one of only 45 members accepted into the exclusive LA based Society of Motion Picture Stills Photographers. With still photography being one of the first points of contact between film maker and audience, capturing strong key art is an important part of the film production process. Jasin will share his insights into the challenges in capturing strong stills from some of the most expensive film sets around the world.

Dan Ilic
Dan will bring insight into how crowd-funding created the opportunity for his ABC Radio National show A Rational Fear to be transformed into a digital comedy hub. The project made headlines earlier this year reaching the $50,000 crowd-funding goal to cover production of a 10 week digital season.

Facebook AU
Representatives of Facebook AU will be running a session on social media marketing. Using case studies to show what (and what not) to do. This session will provide a fresh take on how the continually expanding social media platform can help filmmakers reach audiences on a larger scale.
MORE SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON.

PARTNERS
Roughcut is proudly supported by Screen NSW and Nikon Australia.

Tickets are available at: http://tropfest.com/au/roughcut/

Visit www.tropfest.com/au for festival details, screening venues and regular updates on all things Trop!

When

26th July 2014 10:00 am
To 26th July 2014 03:00 pm

Where

Lend Lease Theatre
Darling Quarter
Sydney 2000