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The preparation for the Panel Presentations was immaculate and impressive. Emerging from the range of demands of three weeks of Filmlab, every single person arrived with their own evolved narrative point of view formed and intact. As the second generation of Filmlabsters, perhaps only the first generation will only really appreciate the size of this achievement.
Deadlines propel us forward and this might have contributed to additional understandings you all needed to come to. Impressively, the measured and open offerings made by each team had the honest search for ‘truth’ about their own process and projects, so much part of the ethos of Filmlab. Who knows what when is another way of talking about this and the panel found the story of our Filmlab through you yesterday.
One the Labsters shyly asked me if I would be proud of the films that came out of the Lab and I have to say I am already. And of the participants. You are a community and a growing culture of unique South Australian film-makers. And the mutual support today when you presented to each other is evidence of this.
A word about our panel: perceptive, knowledgeable, experienced practitioners of low budget films themselves, their contributions highlighted challenges each of you were approaching, confronting and in some cases have already dealt with.
The creativity of all of you is impressive but today I wanted to single out the producers. I have watched you hold the line over three weeks of allowing your ‘creatives’ the space to develop their voices, often skewing wildly off into far reaches that they would only have managed to traverse knowing you were there, grounded and solid, sensitive and positive, empathetic while managing to keep your distance. All writers and directors dream of that producer. Well done.
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