Workshops open window to filmmaking

Enthusiastic media students took part in a filmmaking workshop conducted by two prominent Australian film identities at the Bunbury Chamber of Commerce and Industries on Thursday.

CinefestOZ partnered with the Film and Television Institute WA for the program run by renowned playwright Reb Cribb and Film and Television Institute's Ros Walker.

More than 20 students from Bunbury Catholic College and Manea Senior College were taught filmmaking essentials by the experienced duo.

The workshop was designed to help students produce quality short films to submit to the upcoming CinefestOZ Cinesnaps competition.

CinefestOZ education officer Caroline Beamond said the workshop helped show students filmmaking was a potential career option.

"We are trying to show them that film is made up of many talents," she said. "We want kids to believe that it is a viable pathway."

This year's Cinesnaps competition encourages students aged between 15 and 18 to create a three to five-minute film following the theme 'The Window'.

Entries to the short film competition close on June 30.