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Friday On My Mind: Trevor Blainey

FRIDAY ON MY MIND: OCTOBER 3

Producing – Realising Ambition: Trevor Blainey

Trevor Blainey began his career as a production accountant, quickly notching up experience on on over 30 films and television series including Underground: The Julian Assange Story, Chopper, Crackerjack, After The Deluge, My Brother Jack, Sisters of War and Three Dollars.

In 2002 Trevor produced the short film Roy Höllsdotter Live, written and directed by Matthew Saville, won a swag of awards and played at festivals – in Australia and overseas, screened on SBS and had a cinema release in 2003 as a double bill with Harvie Krumpet.

In 2007 Trevor then produced Matthew Saville’s first feature, Noise which had its world premiere at Sundance, where it was a finalist for the Best International Feature. Noise went on to play in Australian cinemas for over 20 weeks and won a number of awards.

Awarded the Feature Film Producer of the Year by SPAA in 2007, Trevor then teamed up with Matchbox Pictures to produce Anatomy (Series 3) which screened on the ABC in 2012 and in 2014 he co-produced Cut Snake with Michael McMahon. Written by Blake Ayshford (The Code) and directed by Tony Ayres (The Home Song Stories, The Slap) Cut Snake features Sullivan Stapleton (The 300, Animal Kingdom), Alex Russell (Carrie, Unbroken) and Jessica de Gouw (These Final Hours), the film had its World Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year, screened at TIFF and is due for a local theatrical release in 2015.

With a few features, a TV series and a doco series focused on Australian musicians living and working overseas called Music Beyond Borders in development, Trevor will share his experience on the producer side of screen content creation with host James Hewison.

Guest: Trevor Blainey

Doors open 5pm
ACMI (Federation Square, Melbourne)
FREE*

* Tickets can be picked up from 10am at the ACMI ticket office.
Places are limited. First in best dressed.

More info: http://www.aftrs.edu.au/events/friday-on-my-mind/

When

3rd October 2014 05:00 pm
To 3rd October 2014 06:00 pm

Where

ACMI
Federation Square
Melbourne 3000

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