Call for Applications! Script Focus Programme with Gaylene Preston

NEWS: 3 FEBRUARY 2011

Te Ao Marama Creative Development Series 2011: Gaylene Preston

Script Focus Programme 7th March 2011, Auckland

Application Deadline: Thursday 17th February 2011

Script to Screen is pleased to announce a forthcoming series of events with celebrated New Zealand Director/Writer/Producer Gaylene Preston in our first Te Ao Marama Creative Development Series for 2011.

Gaylene Preston will focus on ways to protect the heart and soul of a film throughout the rigorous process that is filmmaking, from the first glimmer in the mind of the originator to its delivery to an audience.

We make films in noisy spaces. It is not unusual for filmmakers – even when their film has successfully found an audience – to feel that somehow the original glorious idea has been rendered bland and more ordinary by the collaborative art business that is filmmaking. We need to explore that big mysterious exciting unfathomable unifying thing deep in the heart of the film – which I call the ‘It’ The It is why you want to make the film. This series explores ways of finding It, articulating It, revealing It, protecting It, promoting It. - Gaylene Preston

As part of this series Gaylene will run a Script Focus Programme for two creative teams actively developing a feature film. Drama/doco hybrid feature projects are welcome. Each team will spend half a day working intensively with Gaylene on their project. Those attending should represent writing, directing and producing roles on their project. Full Application Info.

Gaylene Preston will also present a half-day seminar and a two-day advanced workshop in Auckland. More information on these events coming soon.

Gaylene Preston is one of New Zealand’s most accomplished filmmakers. Her award-winning work has screened extensively at international festivals including Venice, Sundance, Toronto, London, Chicago, Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand. Her latest film, Home by Christmas, won critical and popular acclaim and is one of the top 15 grossing New Zealand films of all time at the NZI box office. Gaylene’s career has spanned three decades, and her generosity of spirit and her powerful mentorship and advocacy skills have been central to the development of New Zealand’s filmmaking community. Gaylene’s mentorship extends beyond New Zealand’s shores. She has recently returned to New Zealand from Canada where she has reprised her role as Mentor Director at the internationally renowned BANFF Centre’s 2011 Women in the Director’s Chair Workshop. Gaylene's full bio.

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