AFTRS graduate to win LA internship
Village Roadshow Pictures will award a producing graduate of The Australian Film Television and Radio School a four month internship based at its Los Angeles Studios. 
The Internship is provided through Screen Australia’s Talent Escalator Program – which aims to harness and further talent within the screen industry.
Screen Australia’s Head of Development Martha Coleman said, “This opportunity has been designed to expose a bright producing graduate to the market realities of working at a major production company and the business of packaging projects. The experience gained working with Matt Skiena and Luke Sandler at these two great companies will give the participant a strong grounding at the start of their career.”
The successful graduate will be announced later this year.
Dear Martha…why do they have had to come out of AFTRS?
There’s plenty of talented and bright Producers around who have never set foot in a film school who could do with the same experience.
and this from screen hub:
John Maynard resigned as Head of Producing at AFTRS on December 13th 2010, and will leave on January 21st 2011. His appointment was announced at the end of June 2010, so he was in the job for around six months.
We understand that Maynard considers this to be a difficult decision. Ultimately he felt that he and David Court had achieved the more immediate changes which were possible. He was frustrated in his attempts to secure for producers and producing students the respect he felt was denied to them. “Basically”, he said, “AFTRS is unable to take producing seriously – and this is a crucial problem for both the national film school and the industry it is supposed to serve.”….
read the full letter here
http://www.screenhub.com.au/ne.....wsID=36046
Hi Dolly.
This is a bridging program set up between AFRTS and SA – Last month Screen Australia announced a number of talented young producers who will travel and learn from some of the World’s best: http://www.encoremagazine.com......erns-10205
Brilliant….now all we need is to do the same for some writers by sending them to the BBC to learn some comedy