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Network Events + Industry Seminars



The Metro Screen Network organises events that offer opportunities to network, pitch projects for equipment use, screen works for feedback, share skills and resources, collaborate to produce work and attend seminars, panels and information sessions. Providing a practical focus to assist you to develop skills, gain knowledge and build creative collaborations.
Let us help you get your foot in the door!

For more information email the Metro Screen Network Coordinator. To become a Metro Screen member, phone reception on 02 9356 1818 or email us

"These events are vital for emerging artists and filmmakers. Thank you Metro Screen."Speed Networking participant.


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2010 EVENTS COMING UP

The Greener Screen
Mon 30 Aug - afternoon and evening
Sustainable practice in the creative screen industries. This is a unique opportunity to learn from the experience of pioneering Australian leaders in sustainable production practice. Intensive daytime workshops will lead into lively evening main event discussions about the very real environmental challenges. The Australian media industry has proven time and again that it has the power and creativity to influence the world. Attend the workshops, question the panels, join our online backchannel through the hashtag #MSGS and be part of the solution.

SPAA Fringe Pitching competition
Call for submissions – deadline 09 Aug. Pitching workshop held August. Pitching Competition held on 28 Sep.  Have you got what it takes to sell your project in just three minutes? Here’s your chance to win over those elusive industry heads and set your project on the road to real success.

PAST 2010 EVENTS

The Independent Feature - financing to distribution
Hear from independent filmmakers who have taken the bull by the horns and made a feature film through blood, sweat and private investment.

Career Advice Round Tables
The Metro Screen Network presents an opportunity to meet with working film industry professionals in a focused environment to gain valuable insight, advice and career guidance.

Speed Networking 2010
Wed 23 Jun, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Whether you are looking for a crew of like-minded creatives or seeking collaborators with the tech skills to complement your vision, this is the event to attend.

Audience Screen Test
Wed 21 Jul, 6.30pm – 9pm
Audience Screen test - be in the audience. Their mum liked it. Their best friends laughed. Their editors smiled politely. Now it’s time to show their work to you - what will you think?


  • Check our what our round table professionals had to say here
  • Check out photos from our events. 
  • View vodcasts of our previous seminars and special events.
  • Check out our 2009 events here.
Metro Screen Crew Network
If you are looking for crew, the Metro Screen Network is a great place to start. Drop a line to the Network coordinator with your crew requirements.

Production Forms and Templates available for download here.

“Metro Screen is the only organisation in Sydney that really supports and encourages emerging filmmakers. We were so excited when we found out about their fantastic resources and have both benefited from the training courses and the support of the Metro Screen Network group. Thanks to generous funding from Metro Screen, we were able to use professional equipment that made a massive difference to the quality of our production. Our film has since received two distribution deals and numerous international screenings.” Tonnette Stanford, Director and Katherine Wilkinson, Producer The Vicious and the Delicious.
‘Holding Hands’ has quickly found success.
‘Holding Hands’ won a Metro Screen subsidy and is produced by Katherine Wilkinson and co-directed by Tonnette Stanford and Katherine Wilkinson. Documentary: After suffering a brutal hate crime, Sydney couple Craig and Shane are forced on a difficult journey to recovery; but they soon discover that even in the worst circumstances, they can inspire positive change. It has been selected for Frameline Film Festival in June and won a Special Jury Award at Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival in India in April 2010.
It has also been selected for: Pink Apple Film Festival Switzerland 2010, Melbourne Queer Film Festival Melbourne 2010, Bent Lens Film Festival Canberra 2009, TasPride Festival Tasmania 2009, QueerDoc Sydney 2009
and is scheduled to screen at: Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada | Out Takes Film Festival, Auckland & Wellington, New Zealand | Frameline Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, San Franciso

Clarke Richards 'Happenstance' in Tropfest
Clarke Richards won the 2009 Metro Screen short film comp 'Tell Your Story' with a prize of $3,500 in equipment hire. He used this to  produce and act in  'Happenstance' which will screen as a finalist in this years Tropfest. 'Happenstnace' - Grey is a young woman lost beyond hope. Jilted, depressed and alone, she makes a life-ending decision on Valentines Day, when a hapless singing bear-o-gram changes the course of events. Congratulations to Clarke even further as he picked up Best Male Actor at the 2010 Tropfest festival AND Katie won the Women In Film Award both for HAPPENSTANCE proudly supported by Metro Screen.


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