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Thank God It’s Friday!
For Melbourne film fans, Fridays are about to get even better with AFTRS’ popular ‘Friday On My Mind’ event now making its way down to Victoria.
The Australian Film, Television and Radio School's (AFTRS) film discussion forum, Friday On My Mind, is set to roll out in Melbourne, starting the first week of March. Following a successful run in Sydney, the school has announced a sister program will run at the ACMI cinemas on Friday afternoons.
Melbourne's Friday On My Mind will be a free, informal gathering where every week a different guest from the screen arts, across directing, producing, writing or performing, will talk about their career and speciality.
Film industry veteran Sandra Sdraulig - previous CEO of Film Victoria and current chair of the Adelaide Film Festival - is set to host. "It's very much an informal, intimate and conversational approach," says Sdraulig. "It's really about having a conversation that will lead to all sorts of creative insights into the process. The focus will be on how someone writes and directs - how they do their craft, how they work, what inspires them."
The first event will be held on March 2, with Australian film and television director Matthew Saville (pictured) lined up as the first guest. Having built up an impressive list of directorial credits including the drama thriller Noise, the acclaimed Graham Kennedy biopic The King and more recently helming the mini-series Cloudstreet and the AACTA award-winning episodes of The Slap, Saville is sure to have interesting thoughts to offer.
"Matthew's got incredible diversity in what he's worked on," Sdraulig says. "He's a real visual stylist. We'll also be showing footage that hasn't been shown before. That's one of the parts of what we are doing. We'll be offering insight into the filmmaking process but also exclusive access to footage and sneak previews."
The following week, Australian legend Eric Bana will be stepping up to speak.
On what interests Sdraulig on the program, she says, "I am most interested in ideas, sharing knowledge, and mentoring. This is a unique program for looking into the creative process that focuses on writers, directors, producers and actors; the full spectrum of industry professionals - and it does so in a really respectful, insightful and intimate environment.
"I'm a person of the industry and I'm not a journalist or interviewer. It's not about criticism. It's not about salacious material. It's just about getting them to talk about what they do best. I just think it's unique in that respect," Sdraulig sums up.
The event is open to the general public, and Sdraulig hopes to generate interesting discussion between audiences and the guests. Previously, the Sydney based event had been transcribed and released in the AFTRS journal, LUMINA. On the plans to emulate that process for the Melbourne event, Sdraulig says "That will happen down the track. It's not going to be podcasted or anything like that though. It's really about the intimacy, that special moment when you are in an auditorium with someone talking, and you are observing the physicality of that and the immediacy of that."
The hour long event will run on Friday afternoons at the ACMI Cinemas in Melbourne. For more information, go here.
