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Film training courses in Sydney from the University of Sydney – Film courses open to everyone. Experience the magic of the movies with our ever-popular film courses. These exclusive film courses are designed for the general public and provide a fantastic insight into the history of world cinema and modern day movies.

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Aristotelian-Inspired Screenwriting Course

This course starts by taking students inside the head of the audience to understanding what people like about films. We use this knowledge as the basis for building characters and subsequently a story. We follow a step-by-step approach to learn an appreciation of the way screen characters and stories actually work to affect audiences, to move, challenge, confront, excite, seduce, amuse, arouse, inspire, intrigue and ultimately entertain. The course is highly accessible and useful fo... [More]
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Conscious Ageing Course: Creating Meaning & Purpose in the Second Half of Life

You’ve lived Adulthood I – you’ve built a career and perhaps raised a family. You’re in your mid-50s, 60s or 70s and you probably have another 20, 30 or 40+ years of good life ahead of you. So, what’s next? Human life expectancy at birth in industrialised countries has increased by some thirty years since the beginning of the twentieth century. Career and child rearing, by which we have defined ourselves, no longer occupy the majority of our time. We are in new territory. We need to... [More]
Conscious Ageing Course: Creating Meaning & Purpose in the Second Half of Life
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Movies Now Course

Experience the excitement of viewing surprise films before their commercial release, followed by an active discussion led by the editor of Australia’s online movie magazine, Andrew L Urban, who is also the creator and host of the former SBS series Front Up and former channel host of World Movies. You will explore the background of each film, analysing the themes and cinematic elements, whenever possible with a special guest from the production or relevant to it. Course Content Parti... [More]
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The Archers Course: The Great Films of Powell and Pressburger

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger joined forces at the end of the 1930s and for more than a decade their company, The Archers, produced some of the most important, and unconventional, British films, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, "I Know Where I’m Going!", A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes and The Small Back Room. We will explore their careers, both individually and as a partnership, and screen three features in full, in addition to numer... [More]
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Film and Music Course: A Fusion for the Senses

Join some of Australia’s leading and award winning screen composers in this unique new course as they guide us through the creation of screen music, with selected clips from a broad range of films and TV drama they have helped come to life. This course will take you inside the creative process to learn how creativity and technology fuse to produce a soul stirring fusion of images and music. Music is arguably the most visceral of artforms, instantly touching our senses; when combined... [More]
Film and Music Course: A Fusion for the Senses
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A History of World Cinema Course with David Stratton

David Stratton’s History of World Cinema course explores in great detail the development and trends of world cinema in chronological order. This unique ten-year series on the history of world cinema, is a rare opportunity to participate in this very personal but immensely informative survey of international cinema from its origins. Two courses from the 10-year series will be scheduled every year, each covering a segment of cinematic history across 12 highly informative 3-hour sessio... [More]
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This unique cinema history continues with a close look at the post-war period as reflected by cinema around the world. This class covers the period 1946-1947. Especially notable during these two years are the origins of the Blacklist, as McCarthyism took hold in America, and the numerous fine examples of film noir emanating from Hollywood. In addition, this was the start of the richest period for British cinema and there was a new mood among filmmakers across much of Europe, especially Italy, with the arrival of neo-realism. A feature will screen at each session as well as numerous clips.

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Jean Renoir Course: Cinema's Great Humanist

Son of the painter Auguste Renoir, Jean Renoir started making films in 1925 with one of his father’s last models as his star. During the 1930s, with masterpieces like Boudu sauve des eaux, Le crime de Monsieur Lange, La Grande Illusion, Le bete humaine and perhaps his finest film, La regle du jeu, he explored a world where ‘everyone has his reasons’. During the war he worked profitably in America, and after making the sublime The River on location in India, he returned to France to ... [More]
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Gene Kelly Course: More Than an Inspirational Song and Dance Man

Gene Kelly had a hit on Broadway with Pal Joey before becoming the major musical star at MGM in the 1940s and early 1950s, with classic films such as The Pirate, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Summer Stock - and the three films he co-directed with Stanley Donen, On the Town, Singin' in the Rain (the best movie musical?) and It’s Always Fair Weather. He also appeared in an eclectic collection of dramatic roles, in films as diverse as Christmas Holiday and Inherit the Wind. We will exa... [More]
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Graham Greene Course: The Author as Auteur

Graham Greene’s connection with cinema began in a professional way when he became a film critic for The Spectator in the mid-1930s, and he had a lifelong interest in cinema. Many of his novels were adapted into films, some of them twice (Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, The Quiet American), as well as some of his short stories, and he wrote original screenplays as well. A list of Greene-related films is instructive: 21 Days, The Secret of Stamboul, This Gun for Hire, The Confid... [More]

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A Day with 'Anna Karenina' Course

Anna Karenina is the most truly adult and mature of Tolstoy’s novels, and its central attraction, giving it unmatched power, is the character of Anna herself. Tolstoy summons into being a whole society as he moves the reader effortlessly from one social milieu to another, evoking familial and social relationships, intellectual attitudes, and habits of behaviour, with supreme mastery. His work is concerned not only with the problem of marriage and the role of women, but also with the... [More]

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