SYNOPSIS

They will discuss the genesis of their projects, their experiences making the films and getting into Sundance.

Many of these industry professionals have already enjoyed a great deal of career success and will discuss their creative challenges and successes as well as how their work relates to actors and the business of acting.

Bring your questions.


PANELIST BIOS 

Juan Pablo Buscarini, director - The Games Maker
One of the most respected directors and producers of children’s films in Latin America, Juan Pablo Buscarini embarks on his first English-language feature film with The Games Maker. His Spanish- language children’s films have screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival and garnered multiple awards and much acclaim around the world. In 2011, Buscarini produced Un Cuento Chino, the biggest box office draw of the year in Argentina. He also directed the hit films Condor Crux, El Arca and El Ratón Pérez, which won the Goya Award for the best animated film of 2007. 

Kim Farrant, director - Strangerland
“Who are we beyond clothes and skin” was the premise behind Kim’s first critically acclaimed feature documentary Naked on the Inside. The question driving her first drama feature Strangerland is “Who do we become when pushed beyond our edge?” Kim greatest love is uncovering the uncomfortable parts that dwell within us all. 
Kim’s other directing work includes the action procedural Network Television Rush (Endemol/Ten), several short films including Alias, Between Me and Bombshell, and the television documentaries series The Secret Side of Me (SBS) and Out of the Saddle (SBS). Naked on the Inside sold to major networks worldwide (including the Sundance Channel) and was a finalist at the Sydney Film Festival and was nominated for the Film Critics Circle of Australia award for Best Documentary. That film followed six extraordinary people from around the world who expose their bodies and reveal their secrets in a unique experiment in search of their inner selves.
Kim began her career as an actor training at the American New Theatre in Los Angeles with acting coach Eric Morris, then completing ‘The Journey’ at the Actors Centre in Sydney Australia. Whilst there, she was asked to direct the play one day and found her self for the first time feeling fully in her skin and changed to working behind the camera, graduating from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (whose alumni include Jane Campion and Gillian Armstrong) with a Master of Arts (Honours) in Directing.
Kim’s has written and directed a number of short films that have screened worldwide at festivals including Cannes; London; Cork; Bilboa; NYU International Student Film Festival; St. Kilda Film Festival; and both Sydney and Melbourne Fringe Film Festivals. Her short film Sammy Blue was a finalist at the IF Awards in 2000. Bombshell won the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival Jury award for best short film and the Audience award in 2010. Kim also directs commercials and coaches actors and has taught master classes throughout Europe and Australia on documentary filmmaking. 
She is currently developing a TV drama series called Random. 


NO HEADSHOTS, REELS, AND/OR BUSINESS CARDS WILL BE COLLECTED AT THIS EVENT.

Q&A only. No screening. 45 minute panel.