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Storytelling in Animation!

Visual storytelling extraordinaire Michael Shanks from TimTimFed shares his knowledge on how to create an online audience for your...

How to Tell a Personal Story

Sometimes life really is stranger than fiction (err, hello 2020!). Award-winning Australian film director, best known for the biopic I Am...

Celebrating NITV and its boss

How do you go from dreaming of being a journalist to one of the youngest executives working in television today? In celebration of...

Running Your Own Production Company

What’s the point of setting up on your own? Is it worth the effort? Aaron Fa’Aoso, actor, screenwriter, director and producer, shares his...

Get Stuff Done!

So, you’ve got an idea… now what? Alex Wadelton, one of Australia’s most highly regarded advertising writers and creative directors, is a...

Make Ideas Happen

Where do ideas come from? How do you get that lightbulb to go off? Which ideas are worth following, and what form should they take? Amal...

Turn Your Life into Material

Benjamin Law is an expert at turning what he knows into incredible content. He’s turned his memoir The Family Law into an award-winning...

Back Your Ideas!

Rachel Griffiths is a household name as an actor and in her diverse career she has appeared in over twenty-six films, including Muriel's...

How to Find an Audience

Tracey Mair, one of Australia’s leading film and television publicists for almost three decades, gives an insight into publicity for the...

What Makes the Perfect Pitch

Lee Naimo, Online Investment Manager at Screen Australia shares straight from the horse’s mouth the do’s and don’ts of pitching. From...

So I wanna make a movie....

First time feature director, John Sheedy, shares his experience of making the fantastic H for Happiness. Talking with our very own Denise...

Wrestling Budgets!

Charlotte Wheaton, Producer from Good Thing Productions and queen of budgets shares her knowledge on how to make the finance match the...

Make It Monthly - TONIGHT!

It's 2020 so everything has gone online. We're excited to be presenting our first ever online, live streaming panel. And what better...

#RunningFreeSkills - LIVE

Our very first workshop, recorded in our home studio (or back bedroom!) is now online. Watch here: ACMI's YouTube Channel Workshop#1 is...

Don't Panic! Top tips for freelancers.

Here's a little piece I wrote for Screenhub about how to get through these tough times. You can read it here:

Running Free - Running Live!

Stuck at home? Now is the time to brush up on everything from presentation skills to lighting to budget management. Running Free is a...

'Running Free' - Free workshops!

Has your work been cancelled? Are you sitting at home? Bored? Self-isolating? Watched as much Australian content as you possibly can??...

Make It Monthly; a partnership between AFTRS, Media Mentors Australia and ACMI.

Media release: December 11, 2019 AFTRS, Media Mentors and ACMI launch Make It Monthly Make It Monthly, a new Melbourne-based program of...