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Feature Navigator Phase 2: Consultation Week
Taking place over five days from 4-8 October 2011, the Consultation Week is primarily for teams (writer, producer and director) with projects that have market viability and are planning to shoot within WA. However, individual writers with well-developed scripts without a producer attached will be considered. Feature Navigator is open to feature or telemovie projects that are intended for financing through government agencies and/or other commercial sources.
Feature Navigator will encourage filmmakers to build an engaging screen story and a solid team approach, and to see their project from real-world market perspectives. The program is intended for second draft or beyond scripts that would benefit from frank creative and commercial interrogation.
Feature Navigator will also enhance producer skills in the presentation of projects, and in building bridges with the domestic and international marketplaces for finance, distribution and sales representation.
This year's national and international consultants include Sue Murray and Ron Osborn, with additional consultants to be announced in the coming weeks.
During the consultation week, each team will meet for up to three hours of detailed feedback on their project with each consultant. Meetings will be held across five days with all teams attending an introductory session on Tuesday morning October 4, and a wrap up session on the afternoon of Saturday October 8.
Following the consultation, all groups are expected to complete a new draft and two projects may be selected for ScreenWest development funding of up to $15,000.
The Feature Navigator program is presented by ScreenWest in association with the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG).
Please refer to the Feature Navigator Guidelines for details on how to apply.
Project selections will be advised by mid-September.
Feature Navigator Consultants:
SUE MURRAY
Sue Murray has worked in the film industry since 1977. She is Executive Director of Fandango Australia where she has executive produced Rolf de Heer's Dr Plonk (2007), Ten Canoes ( 2006), the documentary The Balanda and the Bark Canoes (2006) and Alkinos Tsilimidos' Tom White (2004) and co-produced Alexandra's Project [2003] by Rolf de Heer. She is also a script reader and assessor for various government agencies. She is a strategic marketing consultant with the company Filmmarketing and in that capacity worked on Son of a Lion, My Teheran For Sale, Samson & Delilah and Little Sparrows. Prior to Fandango, Sue was Acquisitions Consultant for Fine Line Features for Australian and New Zealand. She was Director of Marketing at the Australian Film Commission from1987 to 1998 after setting up the research and information functions at the AFC. From 1977 to 1981 she worked at the Australian Film Institute, programming cinemas, handling corporate publications and running the annual film awards.
RON OSBORN
A writer/producer based in Los Angeles for 31 years, Ron has worked in half-hour comedy, animation, hour-long comedy and drama, feature originals and feature rewrites, on such series as Mork & Mindy, Moonlighting, Duckman, Cupid, and The West Wing, as well as features such as Meet Joe Black and The Flintstones. He has been nominated for 7 Emmys, 3 Cable Ace Awards, 2 Writers Guild Awards, and a Humanitas. He has written pilots for every primetime American network, as well as for such cable networks as Showtime, FX, ABC Family, Lifetime, and USA, and currently has a half-hour series in development at Disney. He has worked with producers and directors such as Ron Howard, George Lucas, Steven Speilberg, Dick Donner, Steve Tisch, and Wendy Finerman, and his original spec feature thriller Echo currently has two producers attached and is being shopped. Ron has also taught screenwriting at Dreamworks, and at his alma mater for over two decades where his students have included Michael Bay, Zach Snyder, and Tarsem Singh. Ron has just finished and is about to publish his first novel.
