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The Australian screen industry has a problem. Great stories get stuck in development, films get made with no plan to find an audience, and too few people decide what gets made.
In Chasing the Screen, producers Adam Drummond and Pirie Martin set out to build something better, and they do it on the record. Each episode takes one problem, brings in someone who has lived it, and moves the build one step forward. Along the way you'll hear from filmmakers, actors, data experts and industry insiders about what it really takes to get a story onto the screen.
It's honest, it's unfinished, and they might not pull it off. That's the point.
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Want to make a million bucks at the box office? It might be harder than you think. Emmy winning producer Kirsty Stark breaks it down for us. Kirsty Stark started out in the camera department. Now she's an Emmy Award-winning producer at Epic Films, the founder of CrewHQ, and a co-host of We Interrupt This Broadcast. In our very first guest interview, she talks about why every crew member is really running a small business, how to keep a set safe and honest, and who owns what once a project ge...
From self-finance to Sitges festival; actor/producer Brendan Cooney shares the rollercoaster story of releasing indie film Within The Pines. South Australian actor and producer Brendan Cooney put about $40,000 of his own money into Within the Pines, a near-silent survival thriller shot in Mount Crawford Forest. It went on to screen at Sitges, take first prize at Rhode Island, sign with Umbrella in Australia and Buffalo 8 worldwide, and land on Prime Video. Interviewed in his backyard during ...
Two Aussie producers start a journey to solve the big issues facing the screen industry, but will this challenge be too much for them? Adam Drummond rang his mate Pirie Martin to quit. By the end of the call he was more in than ever. In the first episode of Chasing the Screen, a producer from Wagga and a filmmaker from Adelaide set out the problems facing the Australian screen industry: inflated budgets, the loss of mid-budget films, government money that funds projects but never finds them ...
The Australian screen industry is struggling. Two producers set out to learn what's wrong, then build a solution in public. Adam Drummond and Pirie Martin talk to producers, actors, distributors, cinema owners and startup founders about what's working, what's broken and what's been overblown, and share everything they learn along the way. Featuring opinions from Kirsty Stark, Kate Separovich, Dr Tara Lomax, Brendan Cooney, Peter Szilveszter, Nick Hayes, Paul Wiegard, Alex Blumberg, Les Hill, ...
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