CONSULTING
One-on-one personalised sessions for your career and projects in screen media.
Navigating the screen media world can be daunting. With a supportive and outcome-focused approach, Screen ABC can help you navigate the various stages of your specific project, grow your production company, brainstorm business strategies, and help you position yourself for a sustainable and rewarding career within the screen media industry.
- Illuminate and clarify your professional goals
- Assist you with planning and strategy to achieve them
- Equip you with industry expertise and knowledge
- Provide you with proactive support to help you tackle the most challenging of ventures and ensure success.
Consulting can take the following forms:
- One-on-one consulting sessions – Tailored to your specific goals – in your emerging careers or projects: One hour, 30 mins, 10-15 minute “burning question”. Prices below. 2 hour plus consulting sessions – POA.
- Preparing for the pitch – Before attending international markets or meeting with financiers and distributors, it is important to have market ready visual materials and pitches. Come road-test your project by pitching to producer experts. For this consultation contact directly through andrena@screenabc.com.au.
- Invisible EP™ – Andrena can help you navigate the various stages of a project being developed, financed, produced and released – but in an “invisible” capacity. No credit. Just fee based. POA.
- One-on-one consulting sessions – Tailored to your specific goals – in your emerging careers or projects: One hour, 30 mins, 15 minute “burning question”, 90 minutes and two hours. Prices below.
Screen ABC Consultants
Andrena Finlay
Andrena is a creative and practical producer. She has raised the finance, negotiated the distribution deals and prepared the initial budgets for all her films. In her career Andrena has produced 10 feature films, 3 shorts and 2 television films. She has won a BAFTA and a LOGIE and been nominated for several AFI awards. Her films have been screened at many international film festivals, including Cannes main competition, and have been released in all major territories. She has been a Drama Investment Manager at the Film Finance Corporation and Head of Producing at AFTRS.
Along with esteemed producer Sue Milliken (Ladies in Black), in 2019 Andrena co-authored ‘Producing for the Screen: A Handbook’. They wrote the book to give aspiring entrants into the Australian film industry a practical, hands-on idea of what is involved in turning the ‘light bulb’ idea into a cinema experience.
Combining over 35 years of experience as a hands-on film producer, her passion for teaching, and her accreditation as a life coach, Andrena is a well-rounded consultant to help you.
Please see consulting rates below. For one on one consultation that require preparation i.e. script/s review, pitch deck review, budget review this will require additional preparation time which is also set out below.CONSULTATION RATES FOR ANDRENA
Daphne Paris
Daphne Paris has worked in the screen industry for over 30 years as script supervisor, associate producer, writer and director on feature films and television. Her credits include Crocodile Dundee I and II, Lorenzo’s Oil, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Babe, Babe: Pig in the City, The Dismissal, Vietnam, Dirtwater Dynasty, Heartbreak High and the Going Home series. During her time as Production Executive and Head of Production at AFTRS, Daphne combined her passion for filmmaking with teaching to support, mentor and supervise young filmmakers on 400+ short films plus several features.
Please see consulting rates below. For one on one consultation that require preparation i.e. script/s review, pitch deck review, budget review this will require additional preparation time which is also set out below.
CONSULTATION RATES FOR DAPHNE