Monday, 20 June 2011
6.30pm — 8.30pm
The Dolphin Hotel, Surry Hills
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Guest Speaker: Carlo Ledesma
Carlo Ledesma on the set of The Tunnel.
With a career spanning over fifteen years in film, radio, theatre, and television, Carlo Ledesma is an award-winning filmmaker based in Sydney.
Carlo has just completed his first feature film with Distracted Media’s The Tunnel, widely acclaimed for its trailblazing “day and date” release that famously included the peer-to-peer service BitTorrent.
From 1997 to 2004 Carlo worked as a senior producer on the acclaimed Philippine sports and travel show “Gameplan”. The show won several Catholic Mass Media Awards and gained a strong cult following.
Moving to Sydney in 2004 to pursue a Masters degree in Film, Carlo wasted no time establishing his presence, directing several films and working on high profile projects, mainly for the production company Viocorp.
In 2007 Carlo’s film The Haircut was awarded The Mini Movie Channel Award for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival. The prize money from that enabled him to get started on his next project The Last One.
Carlo also shot and directed a feature-length documentary for Nike called My Game, which explored the Philippines’ devout passion for basketball. My Game premiered in October 2007 in Manila to glowing reviews.
Carlo is currently writing a screenplay for a psychological horror-thriller as well as a graphic novel. Both are targeted for a 2012 release.