EVENT DETAILS
Date: Wednesday 13 to Friday 15 November
Time: 9am to 6:30pm
Tickets: Tickets have been subsidised to allow for free registration
VENUE
Quest Townsville
19-21 Leichhardt Street, North Ward
REGISTRATION
Screen Queensland, in partnership with Screenworks, is bringing the NQ Screen Forum back for its third year in 2024 to Townsville. The three-day event invites regional film and television practitioners of all experience levels to connect with and learn from a program of industry experts, growing their industry skills and connections.
Receive practical advice to finesse your writing, optimise a freelance career, learn the art of adaptation, understand funding opportunities and more through a series of Q&A panels, workshops, roundtables, discussions and one-on-one consultations.
The NQ Screen Forum is delivered as part of our North Queensland Regional Program.
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER
9:15am – Registration and sign in
9:30am – The Life of a Freelancer with Kirsty Stark (CrewHQ)
2:15pm – Collaboration, Funding and Initiative Opportunities with Screen Queensland, Screenworks and Screen Australia
3:45pm – SBS Food with Louise Hodgson, and Pandamonium Films’ Ewan Cutler and Shontell Ketchell (Tastes of the Tropics)
5pm – Networking
THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER
9am – Ask Us Anything with Rowena Billard (Screen Queensland), Lisa O’Meara (Screenworks), Shontell Ketchell (Pandamonium Films) and Sara Khan (television writer)
10:15am – Writing for Television with Sara Khan (television writer)
1:30 – Introduction to Producing with Kerrin McNiel (Good Apples Pictures)
3:15 – The Moogai with Mitch Stanley (No Coincidence Media), moderated by Lisa O’Meara
5pm – Networking
FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER
9am – Ask Us Anything with Kerrin McNeil, Mitch Stanley, Rowena Billard and Libby Butler
10:30am – In Conversation with Libby Butler
1:45 – Networking lunch
