Showreel Intensive

SHOWREEL INTENSIVE with Prolific Television Director/ Producer/ Writer PINO AMENTA (HIGH COUNTRY; WENTWORTH; HOME & AWAY), Artist Manager/ Founding Artistic Director Craig McMahon and Professional Crew.

3 Session Program + Showreel Shoot on Location
Wednesdays I 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Commencing April 2, 2025

Award Winning Film and Television Director, Writer (and more recently) Series Producer WENTWORTH (7-Time LOGIE Award Winner / 6-Time AACTA Award Winner) and HIGH COUNTRY, joins us to Direct and Produce our first Showreel Series for 2025.  Pino also directs serial drama HOME AND AWAY on a regular rotational basis. It is an honour and a privilege to have Pino take the reins, with over 50 years of experience in the entertainment business.

If you are looking to update or add to your reel or commence a new one with maximum impact for 2025, let’s make it special. Our scenes are highly produced, and of exceptional broadcast standard.

The Showreel Intensive includes a 3-Week hands-on Program facilitated by Craig McMahon, CEO of McMahon Entertainment Group: Founding Artistic Director of Film & Television Studio International, and Top-tier Talent Manager at McMahon Mangement.  Craig will help guide you in selecting the perfect scene that is going to showcase you as your most sellable self/type, preparing you for your Showreel Shoot with Pino Amenta, so you get the best results.

• April 2:  6:30pm – 9:30pm // Scene Prep 
• April 9:  6:30pm – 9:30pm // Scene Prep
• April 16:  6:30pm – 9:30pm // Scene Prep
• April 19/20:  Filming on location with Director Pino Amenta & Professional Crew

Pino Amenta is one of Australia’s most prolific and enduring film and television Directors and Series Producers.  Winner of an AACTA Award for Best Television Drama for Wentworth, he then went on to become the series producer in 2016 from the 4th season onwards.  Most recently directing Home and Away, and series producing Five Bedrooms, and upcoming TV Mini-Series Darby and Joan,Pino began his career as a television director in the mid to late-1970s, through shows such as Chopper Squad (1978) and The Sullivans (1976).  Over nearly five decades, he has directed 800 Words; Winners and Losers; The Doctor Blake Mysteries; Worst Year of My Life, Again!; Packed to the Rafters; Conspiracy 365; City Homicide; All Saints; Mortified; Holly’s Heroes; Last Man Standing; Silversun; Noah & Saskia; Always Greener; Marshall Law; Beastmaster; Crash Palace; The Lost World; Flap Chat; Chuck Finn; Crash Zone; Farscape; Blue Heelers; Good Guys Bad Guys; Snowy River: The McGregor Saga; Us and Them; All Together Now (92 Episodes!); Acropolis Now; The Flying Doctors; Boulevard of Broken Dreams; Nancy Wake; Sons and Daughters; My Brother Tom; Anzacs; Carson’s Law; All the Rivers Run; Taurus Rising; Bellamy; Cop Shop; Young Ramsay; and many more.  

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, 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, Kerry Armstrong, Jane Hall, Gary Sweet, Caroline Gilmer, Bryan Brown, John Waters, Stephen Peacocke, and so many more.  Too many to list!  His contribution to the Australian film and television industry has been incredible.  

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As the Founding Artistic Director of Film & Television Studio International, Craig McMahon works at the forefront of our industry, developing exciting new talent to springboard onto our screens.  As the CEO of McMahon Management, personal manager to local and international artists, Craig is at the coalface of what is happening on the daily in the film and television industry – globally.  With an electric, visionary, and excitable approach to developing hugely successful careers, Craig is a dynamic, innovative and hands on manager. He works with his actors from the ground up – renowned for literally taking complete unknown, raw, emerging clients and developing them into not only working, but award-winning actors. His long-standing working relationships with USA and UK managers, agents, and immigration attorneys enable him to continue this ongoing journey and partnership with his artists – internationally.  Craig makes it his business to know the business at every level. Established in 2002, McMahon Management celebrates popular culture whilst still having a deep appreciation and respect for industry tradition and history. Enthusiastic and considered McMahon Management is a creative collaboration – working together with artists to accomplish the shared goal of telling stories in theatre, film and television.