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To kick off the bumper edition end-of-year newsletter, words of advice for all you budding actors from Academy Award<\/em> winner Gene Hackman<\/em><\/p>\n

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Well, here we are again at the end of another year; and what a productive year it\u2019s been. A jam-packed 12 months of fun and challenging classes and masterclasses, ongoing success professionally for many of our students, and a profoundly noticeable improvement in acting skills across all age groups and levels of study.<\/p>\n

We encourage our students to be unafraid of making mistakes, to learn from those mistakes, and to make bold and interesting choices. The past term particularly has seen some interesting choices indeed, resulting in some dynamic on-camera performances.<\/p>\n

To witness such effort and fearlessness in our students \u2013 from juniors to teens to adults, makes all of the hard work our tutors put in to the classes and courses well worth the effort. <\/p>\n

Thanks for the great work everyone! Keep it up next year. <\/p>\n

TERM DATES<\/h5>\n

The current term completes on Saturday 14 December. <\/p>\n

Term 1, 2014 classes start week commencing Monday 27 January, after the six week summer semester break.<\/p>\n

It would be greatly appreciated if all students returning for Term 1 classes post a $50 fees deposit to secure their position for next year.<\/p>\n

JANUARY FILM ACTING TECHNIQUES MASTERCLASS<\/h5>\n

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The January Film Acting Techniques masterclass will be a challenge, as it follows on from the successful September masterclass which produced the short film, The Pedder File<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Pedder File<\/em> premieres to a couple of hundred thousand Sydneysiders on the TVS Dark Carnival<\/em> program sometime after Christmas, and then screens again on Anthology of Interest<\/em> in March next year. TVS<\/em> programmmer Garfield Barnard<\/em> called the film, \u201cexcellent, with a real-life twist.\u201d Thanks once again to the cast (in order of appearance) Paul Millett, Jessica Robbins, Lydia Dyhin and Tayla Brown<\/em> for your empathetic and truthful performances.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll let you know when The Pedder File<\/em> is screening as soon as TVS<\/em> give us the program dates and times.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t our first short film to screen on TVS: The January 2008 Masterclass film, Dead Minds<\/em> screened for the third time last month after originally premiering at The International Night of Horror Film Festival <\/em>in 2009; and the masterclass film Miasma<\/em> screened on TVS in 2006, generating very positive audience feedback.<\/p>\n

The above films are a hard act to follow \u2013 but if you\u2019re looking for a challenge, let\u2019s try to top them in the January, 2014 masterclass! I know I\u2019m game and up for it!<\/p>\n

(For dates, times and further information please refer to the course flyer attached to your Newsletter link email!)<\/p>\n

SCREEN TEST MASTERCLASS REVIEW<\/h5>\n

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The one-day Screen Test Intensive with casting director Kari Harris<\/em> was an instructive, challenging and fun workshop. The participating students Shannon Donaghey, Jessica Grosbard, Michelle Devlin, Meredith Cox, Owen Brown, Mona Bagherpour and Jozsef Kleiner<\/em> worked hard, sometimes struggling to understand the process, but then nailing it to their level of ability and sometimes beyond when auditioning for camera. Well done. And thanks again to Kari<\/em> for a full-on day.<\/p>\n

For all aspiring actors and for those of our students already on the audition trail, here\u2019s sound advice from Emmy Award<\/em> winning Breaking Bad<\/em> star, Bryan Cranston<\/em><\/p>\n