Where: State Libary of South Australia, North Terrace
When: 10.00am to 2.00pm - Sunday, 20 February 2005
Participants: 12
Course Fee: Free
Closing Date: Wednesday, 9 February 2005
Please Note: Entry is Competitive
This 1/2-day workshop will provide participants with a practical understanding of the AFC's A-Z Budget for Documentaries. The course aims firstly to give people some rudimentary skills to operate an Excel spreadsheet such as writing and checking formulas, creating layouts for schedules, adding and linking worksheets.
Participants will also gain an understanding of the broader concepts and variables of budgeting, how to determine timeframes and potential costs and how to attach figures to ideas. Cash flow schedules and cost reporting are also discussed and examined.
This is a hands on workshop, each participant will work at a computer. Delivery will include lectures and practical exercises.
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Course Director
Lori Flekser is a Project Manager in the Film Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission and has over 20 years experience working in the Australian film and television industry. She learned to budget documentaries on the job and discovered the real costs of shooting documentaries during years of production office and location experience working all around the world. Her credits include large-scale documentary specials for Discovery Channel, such as Scott Hick's Emmy award winning Submarines - Sharks of Steel and the post 9/11 PBS special Bitter Harvest.
Joining Lori will be Lisa Scott who in her position as Project Manager at the Film Finance Corporation provides advice to FFC Investment Managers, assesses budgets and monitors cost reporting of funded productions. Her credits include the television dramas Always Greener and Water Rats and Miro Bilborough's film Floodhouse.