FEBRUARY 2010

ROLES and SCREENTESTS GAINED

ELIZABETH SAUNDERS starts shooting a guest role in Neighbours this week playing nurse Rose Walker. She auditioned in December for Lou Mitchell and Peter Rasmussen.

JEAN-MARC MANNING (Qld) managed to get a part in Bad Behaviour after some grueling screentests, one of which (would you believe), lasted three and a half hours. But it was worth it. He got the gig!
 
SASKIA HAMPELE (pictured) got a small role in a feature film 'Blame', shot over in Perth. She was also put on hold for a lead in another feature 'The Other Side' which she subsequently just got.
Two movies and we're only six weeks into the year. She's running Hot!!!

Also a young Queensland actor was successful in getting a role in a Melbourne based show. The casting director Alison Telford met him in a TAFTA intensive workshop and thought he was so right for the role that he was asked to audition even though he's a Queensland actor.

SEBASTIAN GREGORY has just started rehearsing/shooting the lead role in A Heartbeat Away. This Seb’s 4th major Feature Film.
 
TERESSA LIANNE and EMILY JENKINS just finished the National Actors Intensive in Melb and had an incredible time topped off by getting an audition for a new feature film Big Mama’s Boy being cast by Peter Rasmussen.

FANTINE BANULSKI just got her first major role in the ABC, TV Pilot for a kid’s show called Oosh. She was spotted by Jodie Brearley during the Teen Intensive here in Melb recently and asked to audition.She got the role.
FANTINE is only 12 years old and she has been attending our Kids classes for the past couple of year, which just goes to prove that you don’t know w hen or where BUT if you stick in there IT CAN HAPPEN.

CHRIS PANG who just finished shooting Tomorrow When the War Began, had an audition for City Homicide and got the role. LILLY BROWN (Qld) who participated in the last Gold Coast Tafta Intensive got a leading role in the feature film Sinbad and the Mentaur directed by Karl Zwicky.

COURSES COMMENCING SOON....

MELBOURNE
Ultimate Screentest Course #2 Sat 27th February
Ultimate Screentest Course #3 Sat 27th March
Ultimate Directors Workshops Sun 7th March
Choices & Alternatives Wed 17th Feb
Emotions #2   Tuesday 16th Feb

SYDNEY
Ultimate Screentest Course #2 Sat 6th March
Teenage course Sat 13th Feb
Emotions  -  intensive commencing Sat 6th Feb
Acting for the Screen - Sam Atwell

GOLD COAST
Ultimate Screentest Course #1   Sat 13th Feb
Ultimate Screentest Course #2   Sat 13th March
Elements of Screen Performance #1 Commencing Mon 15th Feb  7.00pm
TV Presenters Course  Tuesday 23rd Feb

STUDENT PROFILE

OSAMAH SAMI
Osamah came to us about 4 years ago and has done every TAFTA course available in that time. He still comes to classes.
His professional career started with a smallish role in a movie called Lucky Miles in 2007. Since then he has gone from strength to strength guest starring on television in East West 101, Canal Road, City Homicide and then a regular leading role in the SBS series Kick. Last year he had a role in Cedar Boys a movie made in Sydney and then the male lead in Tony Ayres, Savedopposite Claudia Karvan. He was asked to go to Sydney where he did a season at Belvoir St Theatre in Bagdad Wedding. He had previously appeared on stage at La Mama Theatre in Sinners. He is currently writing (and will also play the lead  in) his own mini series for SBS, developing another project with Tony Ayres and will play the lead role in the upcoming Dee McLachlan feature film Eliminated .