SCRIPTWRITING - WORK IN PROGRESS TALK
New Zealand filmmaker Armagan Ballantyne (Photo: right) and German Screenwriter and Performer Annette Lober (Photo: left) will discuss the responsibility of storytelling and the beauty of failure.
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Please talk to the lovely staff at the Toi Whakaari reception who will let you know in which studio the talk will be held.
Annette Lober is a screenwriter, actor and performer based in Berlin.
She received her BA and MA of Performing Arts at Zurich University of the Arts and at LAMDA London while already learning alongside directors such as Robert Wilson and Ariane Mnouchkine before gradually developing her own performances for art spaces such as Julia Stoschek Collection and Zero Foundation.
Her experimental short
Godot/Schmalach was invited to the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2007.
On screen she worked for directors such as Denis Dercourts (France) and Gore Verbinski (US).
Since 2015 she has been professionally writing screenplays and consulting on scripts throughout Europe and has been selected as a participant of the Melbourne Directors Lab in 2017.
Born in New Zealand,
Armagan Ballantyne studied film making in Prague, where she directed her first short film
Whiste She Rolls which screened in competition at the Venice film festival.
She then completed an MA in directing at the film school in Sydney. Her graduation short film
Little Echo Lost a short film starring Hugo Weaving as the voice of the
Echo Man screened before the world premier of
Being John Malcovich at the New York film festival.
With writer Briar Grace-Smith, Armagan attended the Sundance Lab, with
The Strength of Water. This film went on to screen in competition at the Berlin Film Festival (generation section) the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and was a co-production between NZ and Pandora Film in Germany.
Armagan directed
Lily and Ra, a short film for Art for the world for the Human Rights Commission. She often collaborates with her partner Jon Baxter, they have a post production company Perceptual Engineering where they work with other artists. Recently they created
Nga Hau, a large audio visual installation for the Wellington museum.
Last year she served on the Jury of the International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Iran. Armagan recently returned from the 2019 Berlin Film Festival where her shot film
Hush that she made in collaboration with the Toi Whakaari students screened in competition.
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