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2013 summary

November 2013 

INDUSTRY INTERNSHIPS

JIAO CHEN
Producer Jiao Chen (Bloomers, Ngurrumbang) will spend six months in Los Angeles working across the development of feature films at Lin Pictures (Sherlock Holmes, Terminator Salvation, The Lego Movie) which has a first look deal with Warner Bros. 

KATHERINE SLATTERY
Producer Katherine Slattery (The Turning) will spend 10 weeks working closely with Producer Amanda Higgs (The Slap, The Secret Life of Us) on series two of The Time of Our Lives.

September 2013

INDUSTRY INTERNSHIPS

KATIA NIZIC – INTERNSHIP
Producer Katia Nizic will spend six months working closely with Producer Sue Maslin of Film Art Media on her feature adaptation of The Dressmaker (novel by Rosalie Ham), which will star Kate Winslet. 

MARCH - JUNE 2013

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS

JULIETTA BOSCOLO – CATCHING SIGHT – BINGER DIRECTOR LAB
Genre Drama/Comedy
Producer Linda Micsko
Writer/Director Julietta Boscolo
Synopsis A 30-year-old blind woman regains her sight; but will she be able to accept the flaws she sees in her past and find love?

CRIS JONES – BYZANTIUM – BINGER DIRECTOR LAB
Genre Drama
Producers Melanie Coombs, Mish Armstrong, Alicia Brown
Writer/Director Cris Jones
Synopsis After a road accident on the highway, a young man finds himself trapped in a strange, remote town, where nothing – and no one – is as it seems.

VICKI SUGARS – U-TURN – BINGER DIRECTOR LAB
Genre Drama
Producers Julie Byrne, Vicki Sugars
Director Vicki Sugars
Synopsis Fifteen-year-old Babe learns how to turn her family’s grief around when her sister is killed in a car accident.

INDUSTRY INTERNSHIPS

MIRANDA NATION – INTERNSHIP 
Writer/director Miranda Nation will spend six months working with director Kasimir Burgess and producer John Maynard on the feature film Fell.

SAMANTHA DINNING – INTERNSHIP
Producer Samantha Dinning will spend four months in London working with the development and acquisitions team at distribution and production company Element Pictures (The Guard, Shadow Dancer, Omagh).

RAQUELLE DAVID INTERNSHIP 
Producer Raquelle David will spend six months in Toronto, Canada, working directly with producer Niv Fichman across the development and production slate of feature films and television projects at Rhombus Media (Blindness, The Red Violin, Antiviral).

NATALIE LINDWALL INTERNSHIP
Natalie Lindwall will spend six months as a Development Producer across film and television with the award-winning London-based company, Ecosse Films (Diana, Wuthering Heights).

ALEX MURAWSKI INTERNSHIP
Writer/director Alex Murawski will spend three months in Los Angeles working with director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Black Robe, Mao’s Last Dancer) on his new production of Bonnie & Clyde.