Melbourne Lift-Off Audience Choice Filmmaker Roundtable

PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND CLICK THE BELL FOR REGULAR FILM INDUSTRY GUIDANCE. JOIN US LIVE MONDAY 11TH JANUARY FOR OUR NEXT FILMMAKER ROUNDTABLE! Featuring four filmmakers who picked up the audience choice award from this year's Melbourne Lift-Off Film Festival 2020. We will be joined by filmmakers Vincent Furfaro director of Esports Ready, filmmaker Austin Salt-Cowell director of Death Cafe, we will also be joined by Lachlan Brown of Genre Confusion and Catherine Dao director of Symphoria. We will discuss each film while they screen muted in the background, delving deep into the lessons learned by each artist as they tackled their award-winning projects. We hope you can join us for this truly unique live event! Esports Ready Dir. Vincent Furfaro Synopsis: Summer is a streamer who plays video games and draws to a small online audience. She is offered a spot on a competitive esports team however, her family aren't very happy about the idea. Death Cafe Dir. Austin Salt-Cowell Synopsis: A short documentary exploring the bizarre, yet supportive role of a Death Cafe, where strangers meet to discuss all forms of life and death, to form some closure about their recently-departed loved-ones. Genre Confusion Dir. Lachlan Brown Synopsis: Playing heavily on the tropes of 7 different genres, this parody features an ensemble cast, that keeps switching settings and characters until their worlds start to bleed together. Symphoria Dir. Catherine Dao Synopsis: At 29, Shawn Wittig is the epitome of the spoiled rich kid living on the largesse of an indulgent single playboy father. The years of coddling by dad, including avoiding prosecutions from DUI to manslaughter charges continue to fuel Shawn's addictions to drugs and alcohol, When the law finally caught up with him, Shawn is released into a teaching/rehabilitation program at the local university run by JT Dalton, a brilliant but mysterious chemist. At first JT’s and Shawn’s relationship is antagonistic but, after a late night in the chemistry lab, it becomes something deeper. Soon JT and Shawn are involved in an illicit and highly sexualized affair that begins to consume both their lives. When the University catches wind of the affair, JT is promptly suspended and Shawn’s father forces the young man to give up his romance with his older professor… --- Become a Professional Network Member today: https://liftoff.network/membership Follow us EVERYWHERE!! Instagram - https://bit.ly/2JmKeMB Facebook - https://bit.ly/3btkM4d Twitter - https://bit.ly/2UCxx5H