FAST TURNAROUND TELEVISION

FAST TURNAROUND TELEVISION (On Camera) with Award Winning Director/Executive Producer/Writer PINO AMENTA and Special Industry Guest, Leading Feature Film and Prime-Time Television Casting Director, DAVE NEWMAN (MCSWEENEY NEWMAN CASTING, Sydney).

6 Week Program
Sundays I 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Commencing February 11, 2024

“HOME & AWAY” DIRECTOR PINO AMENTA is one of Australia’s most revered Screen Directors, Executive Producers and writers.  His contribution to the Australian film and television industry has been incredible, since he first began his career directing The Sullivans in 1976. Having just Executive Produced Australia’s most anticipated Drama High Country (a Curio Pictures production for the Foxtel Group), starring Leah Purcell and directed by Kevin Carlin, his extensive directing and producing credits are too long to list. Here are but a few of the incredible projects that he has Directed, written and/or series produced over his illustrious award winning career: Home & Away (currently directing); Wentworth; Five Bedrooms; 800 Words; Winners & Losers; Packed to the Rafters; The Doctor Blake Mysteries; Darby and Joan; City Homicide; Conspiracy 365; All Sants; Mortified; Silversun; Always Greener; Marshall Law; Last Man Standing; The Lost World; City Homicide; Round the Twist; Crash Zone; Farscape; Blue Heelers; Good Guys Bad Guys; Snowy River; All Together Now; Acropolis Now; The Flying Doctors; Sons and Daughters; My Brother Tom, Anzacs; Carson’s Law; Bellamy Cop Shop and many more. Please click here for detailed IMDB credits.

Over the past five decades, he has directed and/or series produced some of Australia’s finest actors (some in award winning performances), including Leah Purcell, Kerry Armstrong, Chris Hemsworth, Susie Porter, Ryan Corr, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Jeffery, Orpheus Pledger, Danielle Cormack, Kate Jenkinson, Kate Atkinson, Katrina Milosevic, Celia Ireland, Socratis Otto, Sigrid Thornton, Robbie Magasiva, Georgie Parker, Erik Thomson, Denise Scott, Craig McLauchlan, Nadine Garner, Roger Corser, Anna McGhan, John Wood, Pamela Rabe; Tammy Macintosh, Nicole Da Silva, Bernard Curry, Rebecca Gibney, Michael Caton, Hugh Sheridan, Angus McLaren, Jessica Marais, James Stewart, Jessica McNamee, Zoe Ventoura, Brooke Satchwell, Shane Bourne, Noni Hazelhurst, Daniel McPherson, Libby Tanner, Judith McGrath, John Howard, Marny Kennedy, Kate Box, Zoe Terakes, Maia Mitchell, Matt Passmore, Damien Bodie, Kat Stewart, Michala Banas, Scott Major, Nathanial Dean, Grant Bowler, Lisa McCune, Alison Whyte, William McInnes, Anne Phelan, Jane Hall, Francis Greenslade, Radha Mitchell, Jane Hall, Gary Sweet, Caroline Gilmer, Bryan Brown, John Waters, Stephen Peacocke, and so many more.

Joining us as our Special Guest (in week 6) is leading Feature Film and Prime-Time Television Casting Director, DAVID NEWMAN from MCSWEENEY NEWMAN CASTING, Sydney.

David has worked in various aspects of the industry for the last 30 years, the last 20 years in casting, including 7 years working with Christine King Casting.  He has worked onsome of the biggest and most successful feature film & long-form drama projects to shoot in Australia.  He is CBS’s go-to Australian Casting Director for sourcing Australian talent in Pilot season.  He has a number of projects slated for 2024/2025.  His most recent work includes the multi-million dollar live-action Captain Nemo origin story series Nautilus, a 10-episode show originally slated to air on Disney+ but will now stream on the AMC Network in 2024.  Other recent projects include Love and Monsters; Blacklight; Rock Island Mysteries; The End; Dora and the Lost City of Gold; The Family Law; Tidelands; The Bureau of Magical Things; Mako Mermaids; Terra Nova and many more.

Tom, the other half of McSweeney Newman Casting has cast well over 100 feature film, mini-series and tele-movie projects, as well as over 500 hours of episodic television for the US, UK, Canadian and Australian markets.  The Los Angeles native is a proud member of the Casting Guild of Australia and for the past 28 years has been a member of the Casting Society of America (CSA), serving on the Board of Directors prior to his move to Australia in 1998.  Together, Dave and Tom make a formidable team. 

On the last week of term, students will screen-test for David Newman from McSweeney Newman Casting and Founding Artistic Director of Film & Television Studio International/ CEO of top tier talent agency McMahon Management, Craig McMahon.

***In addition to your 6-Week Program, Leading International Casting Director David Rapaport will also join us live from Hollywood for an industry Q&A on what’s coming up in 2024 Pilot Season. David is one of Hollywood’s Casting Titans who has cast (and continues to cast) some of Warner Bros. and the CW’s most ground-breaking Television Series including: Gossip Girl, Riverdale, The Flash, YOU, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Titanic, LA Confidential, 8 Mile, The Matrix Reloaded, 8 Mile, Running with Scissors, Elephant, Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, Katy Keen, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Superman and Lois, Batwoman, Gotham Knights, Dead Boy Detectives, Titans, Doom Patrol, Equal, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, YOU, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, XO, Kitty and many more.

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