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Open Channel: Drama & Comedy Conference

Lachy Hulme, Rick Maier, Jason Stephens, Mary-Anne Carroll & more will speak at a conference for emerging industry practitioners.

Melbourne-based industry training organisation Open Channel is hosting a Generation Next Drama and Comedy Conference later this month with some impressive industry names in panel discussions.

Aimed at emerging practitioners, it begins with a key note address from Film Victoria CEO, Jenni Tosi.

Speakers include:

Lachy Hulme (Actor – Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War, Offspring and Beaconsfield)
Laura Waters (Princess Pictures and Producer of Sporting Nation and Chris Lilley’s Angry Boys and Summer Heights High)
Mary-Anne Carroll (Executive Producer – Comedy at the Seven Network and Series Producer of Winners and Losers Series 1 and 100 eps of All Saints)
Chris Oliver-Taylor (Managing Director, Matchbox)
Jason Stephens (Creative Director, Freemantle Media)
Dan Fill (Chocolate Liberation Front – Game Masters (Game), Figaro Pho, 2012 Titanic Miniseries (online)
Lisa Fitzpatrick (Director Development and Production – Network 10)
Peter Hudson (CEO TV1 SF Channels, TV1 General Entertainment Partnership)
Rick Maier (Executive Producer – Network 10)
Jane Roscoe (Network Programmer – SBS)
Joanne Azzopardi (Vice President International Sales Australasia, Beyond International)
Brett Sleigh (Development Manager – ABC)
Deborah Allanson (Studio Ish)
Sue Edwards (Acting General Manager, Film Victoria)
Anthony Mrsnik (Director of Legal and Business Affairs, Showtime)
Linda Klejus (Producer – Conspiracy 365)
Mark Bamford (Partner – Tresscox Lawyers)
Peter Moon (Australian Writers Guild Vic.)
Dan Bennett (Script Producer – Winners and Losers)
Gina Black (Unit Production Manager – Terra Nova)
Mike Cowap (Investment Manager – Screen Australia)
Ewan Burnett (Burberry Productions and Executive Producer – Small Time Gangster, Last Man Standing)
Deb Huxley (Media Mash – Consultant to Fetch TV)
Steve Luby (Ruby Entertainment, Producer of Bed of Roses, Crackerjack and The Brush Off)
Tim Phillips (Investment Manager, Drama – Screen Australia)
Anna Whitelaw (Head of Marketing and Communications, Pozible)
Guila Sandler (Writer – Rescue Special Ops, Out of the Blue, McLeod’s Daughters)
Australian Directors Guild, Australian Cinematographers Guild, Australian Screen Editors Guild, Australian Writers Guild

August 30th and 31st, 2012
Cinema Nova, Carlton

www.openchannel.org.au

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