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A Message from the NSW President
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Image courtesy of Mikayla Grosse
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The NSW Branch has been off to a busy start this year with two fantastic recent events that were both incredibly well attended. Last month’s first “In Conversation with Camera Technicians” series saw a great session featuring The Art of Focus Pulling and Camera Assisting. A big thanks to all the incredibly talented panelists and to NSW Committee Member and Ist AC, Molly Sutherland for putting the night together and moderating the panel.
The first week of March we also hosted a special Sony Cine Camera Night and welcomed some of the Sony international team from Singapore, Japan and Australia. The Sony Burano & Venice took centre stage along with a great panel sharing footage and experience working with the Sony CineAlta lineup. Again the HQ was full to capacity with plenty of opportunity to get hands on with equipment thanks to Lemac & CR Kennedy who also brought along the new Zeiss Nano Prime Lenses.
Our March Drop In next week on Thursday March 21st @6pm welcomes DOPs Tania Lambert ACS and Kate Cornish who will be talking about their experiences on the Credit Maker Scheme whilst shooting the drama series, Erotic Stories. It enabled Kate to gain her first long-form drama broadcast credit as a DP and this is sure to be another great night.
Amazing to catch up with so many of our incredible ACS Sponsors at the Annual Sponsors Brunch this past week. It's the support of all our sponsors that allows us to host so many great industry events.
One of those events is our prestigious ACS National Awards in Brisbane this year which will be held on Saturday May 4th with satellite events on the days leading up to the big night, so now’s the time to book your tickets.
Thanks to all those who have already taken the time to reply to the rates survey. The survey will be open until the end of the month so I encourage you all to participate as this is an important initiative to make sure the new rate card for the Australian Camera Dept has current and real world rates for publication.
This month also marks the 100th edition of AC Magazine which is a major milestone for the ACS flagship. Thank you to all the contributors, sponsors and advertisers over the years that really have made this a world class publication by cinematographers for cinematographers.
If you have changed address recently please update your address in the ACS membership portal, accessible in the top right corner of the ACS website, and to make sure that you receive this celebratory edition at the end of the month.
All the best,
Carolyn
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Carolyn Constantine ACS
NSW ACS Branch President
National ACS Vice President
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Credit Maker & Erotic Stories
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Image courtesy of Kent Wang
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Tania Lambert ACS and Kate Cornish discuss their ground-breaking collaboration.
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Stepping up into TV drama can be a stressful transition. Not only is there more time pressure than in short form, but also the needs of many people in power above you dictate the rules of play.
Learning the balance of how to maintain your vision for a series and execute skillful storytelling whilst dealing with those pressures, is one of the first steps to succeeding in this world.
Tania Lambert ACS
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Join Tania and Kate as they share their respective experiences on shooting the tv drama series, Erotic Stories and gain insights into the ACS/SA Credit Maker Initiative that brought them together on this project allowing Kate to gain her first long-form broadcast drama credit.
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Kate Cornish hard at work shooting their Episode.
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Image courtesy of Renata Dominik
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If you have ever wanted to shoot TV drama this will be a fascinating insight into all aspects of that world.
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ACS National Awards tickets are on sale NOW!
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Saturday 4th of May at the Ithaca Auditorium, Brisbane City Hall
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Hosted by the inimitable Ray Martin AM and with special Guest of Honor,
Bryan Brown AM.
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The event is proudly sponsored by Creamsource and is hosted by the Queensland branch.
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Mark your calendars for June and make plans to head out to Hollywood, CA. The LA Expo is cine gear's biggest EXPO and features 350+ exhibits, new product and service introductions, complimentary seminars led by industry leaders, master classes, film competition, and awards ceremony.
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LOCATION: STUDIO LOCATION still TBA
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In Conversation with Camera Technicians
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Molly Sutherland (host) with Sid Tinney, David Elmes and Adrien Seffrin (panelists)
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Image courtesy of Vitali Lisau
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An extremely full HQ with a lot of Student and Active members in attendance.
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The new BURANO with Sean Ellwood and Takahashi Nobutatsu from Sony presenting
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Images courtesy of Carolyn Constantine ACS & Kevin Hudson ACS
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Carolyn Constantine ACS , Bronwyn Cooksley (new ACS Operations Executive) & Erika Addis (ACS National President)
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Ali Peck (VA Hire), Julian Panetta (National Sponsorship Manager) & Nic Godoy (Panavision)
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Far side L-R Mitch Hancock & Annabelle Elvy (Sydney Event Service), Jordan Allison (Sunstudios), Steve Piggott (Protog/Nanlite), Ross Hooper (Nikon), Sidat de Silva ( NSW ACS Treasurer). Near side L-R Nudzejma Advic (Sunstudios), Jess Donovan, Jenn Cooper & Trygve Jackson (All from Canon) & Kylie Dredge (Nikon).
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Front L-R Dwaine Hyde, Drew Macpherson & Marcus Bolton (Cutting Edge)
2nd row L-R Ali Peck (VA Hire), Nic Godoy (Panavision) & Julian Panetta (Nat Sponsor Mgr). Back table: Naveen Sivakumaran (Eizo), Susan Lumsdon (NSW Committee), Luke Simpson (Godox/Kayell) & Pieter de Vries (PDV),
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Foreground L-R Randall Titus (Blonde Robot), Scott Backhouse (Lemac) and Andrew Barley (Macquarie Commercial Finance).
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Photos courtesy of David Wakeley ACS
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It is time to do an update for the rate card with the aim to include cinematographers. It would be great to get an accurate measure for the current rates in Australia.
It is planned that the ACS will host the rate card in the future on their website as a tool for all technicians and productions to access for reference. All answers are optional and so is anonymity. If you take on more than one role, please feel free to complete the survey more than once for each role you wish to provide feedback for.
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As you think about all the people on your projects...
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we ask you to be mindful
& think about who is in your crew...
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To check out the
ACS National & NSW INSTAGRAM accounts click the respective icons below:
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New South Wales Major Sponsor
New South Wales Diamond Sponsor
New South Wales Gold Sponsor
New South Wales Silver Sponsors
National Major Sponsor
National Platinum Sponsors
National Gold Sponsors
National Silver Sponsor
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