Cristina Harris began her professional training as an actor in the early 80s at Sydney’s Ensemble Studios. She now works as a consultant and also teaches casting and audition techniques to nervous actors in a friendly workshop environment.
Show-Fest is on Wed, 3 August. Here’s a slideshow of last year’s festival…
Andrena Finlay has been producing films since 1982, having studied at the UK’s National Film School. Her first short film won the 1983 BAFTA for Best Short Film. Features she has produced include Frauds, Me Myself I, and Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance, as well originating The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Her current film is Goddess, now in post-production.
Our panel of industry judges has chosen the seven films that will be screened at this year’s festival. The finalist films will be in competition for the Best Film award worth AU$9500 (including AU$1000 cash).
The judges were: director and long-standing member of the Australian film industry Martha Ansara, director and editor Lucas Bradley, and the producers of The Tunnel Enzo Tedeschi & Julian Harvey.
Carlo Ledesma has just completed his first feature film The Tunnel, widely acclaimed for its trailblazing “day and date” release that famously included the peer-to-peer service BitTorrent.
Jane E. Seymour has been an actor for over 27 years and is director of Resource Performance Workshops, where she’s an audition coach. She has an MA in Theatre & Film, a Classical Acting Certificate, and an Advanced Certificate in Performance Skills. Her most recent professional development was in 2009 and 2010 at Margie Haber Studio in Los Angeles.