Asia-Pacific News

Entertainment legal services practice, David Whealy and Associates, and veteran producer Patrick Condon have organised for 22 students from the prestigious Chapman University Carol Dodge Film School (LA Film School) to visit Sydney and take part in a whole host of industry events between 7-17 June this year. David Whealy explained, “The LA Film School [...]

The ABC is celebrating 21 years of providing career scholarships for women in broadcast technology. The ABC’s Women in Broadcast Technology Scholarships (WiBT) were launched in 1992, to encourage women to pursue careers in the technical side of media broadcasting. Eight scholarships are available nationally, every year for Australian women studying TAFE or equivalent level [...]

Continuing its commitment to foster creativity and nurture talent, Australian Subscription Television Association (ASTRA), the subscription TV (STV) industry’s peak body, announced the placements for the 2013 ASTRA Graduate Program. Through an industry partnership with the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS), some of the leading broadcasters in STV have selected graduates of the [...]

NVIDIA has announced the appointment of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as the first Southeast Asia CUDA Teaching Center (CTC). The CUDA Teaching Center Program is designed to support and encourage teaching establishments to include GPU Computing using CUDA C/C++ as part of their course offerings. Under the program, NVIDIA will donate CUDA enabled GPUs to [...]

With the focus of the Digital Education Revolution being to on expose Australian students to teaching and learning which will prepare them for further education, training and a life in the digital world, a new web streaming service – recently launched by EnhanceTV – looks set to help transform the way in which broadcast TV [...]

As part of the strategic expansion of their digital acquisition workflow, Bond University recently purchased two of Sony’s flagship F65 CineAlta Premium 4K cameras as the key digital acquisition component for its Bachelor of Film and Television degree course. Bond University’s decision to choose Sony’s F65 solution began at a recent Sony customer event organised [...]

ABC Victorian State Director, Randal Mathieson together with Manager of Technical Services Victoria Glenn Carmichael, have awarded 2012 ABC Women in Broadcast Technology (WiBT) Scholarships to Swinburne University of Technology student, Claudette Mono and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) student, Anita Rolfe. Upon presentation of the scholarships at the ABC’s Southbank facility on Wednesday, [...]

The Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) recently made a major foray into the digital camera market with its purchase of two ARRI ALEXA cameras. AFTRS also purchased an ARRIFLEX 416 Plus HS film camera, compact prime lenses, super speed lenses and an Alura zoom lens and accessories as part of the package deal. [...]

Tertiary students seeking broadcast television careers will gain training opportunities through a new partnership between Central Institute of Technology and Global Television. Designed to equip the next generation of television technical professionals with real-life, practical experience and enhance the industry’s skills base, the initiative is a first for the WA market on this scale. It [...]

Scots College in New Zealand has this month opened a new building focused on creative and performing arts, graphics, music and drama, offering courses such as digital animation, robotics, film and television and sound recording/mixing. Located in the eastern suburb of Miramar, with neighbours including film industry luminaries such as Weta Digital and Park Road Post [...]