2024

PLATFORM / DEVELOPING PASSION PROJECTS PROCESS

For Film’s Sake and the Sydney Film Festival

In its second year Platform expands to two unique initiatives. Platform: Lab, a rapid development incubator for emerging and established screen producers and multidisciplinary creatives and Platform: Margins will select up to four script editors/producers from across Australia to work alongside Belvoir Street Theatre playwrights as they adapt their plays to screenplay format..

Platform: Lab

Guided by international industry leaders, twelve Australian creatives will collaborate, create and pitch new works of screen fiction in just one week. Maybe it will lead to a new project or a future partnership or maybe it will be an intensive, inductive and iterative exploration into new creative processes better suited to our digital age. Platform: Lab will be delivered by UK creator of the BFI Producer Programme Samm Haillay and South African Realness Institute and former Artistic Director of the Binger Institute, EYE Netherlands and NZIFF.

Platform: Margins

Over five days editors will develop story, market and audience insights to better support writers develop their script and story materials. Margins will culminate in a workshopped reading with actors drawn from the Belvoir fellows and associates. Margins will be delivered by FFS Executive Director Sophie Mathisen and Associate Professor Chris Mead, Head of Theatre, VCA, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne. Guests will include Robin Mukherjee, playwright and UK screenwriter of Cate Shortland’s award-winning feature Lore, Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, producer of Netflix’s award-winning series Top Boy and 2023’s Disney+ breakout Rye Lane and Marten Rabarts, former Artistic Director of the Binger Institute, EYE Netherlands and NZIFF.

Sophie Mathisen

Samm Haillay

Marten Rabarts

Chris Mead

Dom Mercer

Sophie Mathisen

Samm Haillay

Marten Rabarts

Chris Mead

Platform 2023For Film’s Sake and the Sydney Film Festival

For Film’s Sake selected 13 filmmakers to come together for an intensive that formed teams and generate new projects in just five days, culminating in a public pitch at Sydney Film Festival.The Platform talent incubator, run in partnership with the festival, is designed to create more “agile development behaviours and outcomes”, and was focused on newly-generated projects as a means to spotlight talent, rather than existing works or slates.

Platform 2023For Film’s Sake and the Sydney Film Festival

For Film’s Sake selected 13 filmmakers to come together for an intensive that formed teams and generate new projects in just five days, culminating in a public pitch at Sydney Film Festival.The Platform talent incubator, run in partnership with the festival, is designed to create more “agile development behaviours and outcomes”, and was focused on newly-generated projects as a means to spotlight talent, rather than existing works or slates.