LA’s Ausfilm Week: “Like speed dating without the alcohol”

Eleven Australian producer teams from across the Australia met with American producers and studio executives at the Ausfilm Week in last week.

Ausfilm’s Deb Richards told Encore the sessions were, “like speed dating without the alcohol, with seven meetings one after another.”

The one-to-one sessions were project-specific, the filmmakers pitching a feature script they looked to receive funding and create co-productions on.

Australian producers included Bill Leimback (Beneath Hill 60), Jamie Hilton (Sleeping Beauty, The Waiting City), Stephen Amis (The 25th Reich), Robert Galinsky & Elizabeth Howatt-Jackman (Prey), Pam Collis (Singularity), Craig Lahiff & Helen Leake (Swerve), Sonya Armstrong (Seduction in the City), Lessa Khan and Marissa Goodhill, Jodea Bloomfield and Pippa Hinchley (The Live Sex Girls), Anthony Maras (The Palace) and Michelle McDonald of Screen Australia.