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Making Movies Interviews: The Film Programmer
Claire Gandy started out tearing tickets at her local cinema – now she gets paid to watch 1-2 films every day as one of the few female programmers in the Australian film industry. Here she talks about her ‘super-busy Mondays’, her favourite set visit and the costs of installing technology to run digital cinema and 3D.
Making Movies Interviews: The Marketing Manager
Heilan Bolton works for 20th Century Fox Film Distributors and one of her key tasks is to identify the audience for each of their films and collaborate with her publicity and promotions colleagues and media agency to find the most effective ways to reach out to the audience in the hope of maximising box office revenue. She says the highlights of her job include working with really creative people and sometimes getting to meet Hollywood superstars like Hugh Jackman.
Making Movies Interviews: The Distribution Executive
The first film Troy Lum ever bought to distribute was The Blair Witch Project. Troy describes the role of the distributor and talks about why releasing Australian films is so much harder: how only one in four films are successful and about distributing the biggest Australian film of 2012 - The Sapphires.
Making Movies Interviews: The Visual Effects Supervisor
Chris Godfrey, visual effects whiz who worked on Tomorrow, When the War Began, Australia, Moulin Rouge and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring talks about recreating Times Square on ‘green screen’ for The Great Gatsby using state-of-the-art technology.
Making Movies Interviews: The Music Composer
Guy Gross grew up in a film and TV family – his parent are producers of such Australian classics as Blinky Bill, Skippy and Flipper. He studied composition at the Conservatorium High School and forged a successful award-winning career and has some advice for aspiring composers.
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