Tropfest Roughcut 2013
Delve beneath the surface of filmmaking with Australia's best actors, directors and producers.
Overview
For around 100,000 people annually, Sydney’s Tropfest is a chance to enjoy a day of live music, cold drinks, good company, and some of the best short films made that year. For a slightly smaller number it’s also a chance to delve beneath the immediate surface of filmmaking.
Tropfest's Roughcut program is probably the festival's main draw for filmmakers and other cinephiles and will return in 2013 to pick apart the idea of collaboration as the key to creativity. Each session will focus on a different aspect of the filmmaking process, with speakers ranging from high-profile Australian actors to Natasha Pincus, aka the brain behind the world-dominating video for Gotye's ‘Somebody I Used to Know'.
This year organisers have managed to pull together a lineup with more famous names than the Ocean's trilogy. Tackling the subject of taking Australian productions overseas will be writer/director Michael Petroni (Narnia) and producer Jamie Hilton (The Waiting City, Sleeping Beauty), while writer Erica Harrison and animator/director Simon Rippingale will discuss how they collaborated on crowd-funded animation A Cautionary Tail.
Helming the requisite social media section will be Thomas Mai and Hattie Archibald of FanDependent, exploring how new media can help finance, market, and distribute film content. Cutting Edge will delve into post-production, and Aussie export Sam Worthington will rekindle his long-standing relationship with the festival (he took out Tropfest's Best Actor award in 2001 before going on to score the leading role in Avatar) by returning as a speaker.
Tropfest Roughcut will be held in Monkey Baa Theatre Company at Darling Quarter on Saturday 16 February. A limited number of tickets are on sale via Monkey Baa's website.
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