ACMI Summer 2013/2014 School Holiday Program

Kids in the Studio: Space Explorers
Mon 13 Jan – Fri 17 Jan                    10am, 1pm
Mon 20 Jan – Fri 24 Jan                    10am, 1pm
Full $15 / Concession Card Holders /ACMI Member $12
For kids aged  8 to 12. Tickets must be purchased in advance – please note, accompanying adults are not required to purchase a ticket. In the event of a workshop cancellation, ticket holders will be notified directly and a full refund will be provided.      

Kids in the Studio: CUT IT OUT
Thu 9 Jan              10am – 4pm
Fri 10 Jan              10am – 4pm
Thu 23 Jan            10am – 4pm
Fri 24 Jan              10am – 4pm
Full $90 / Concession Card Holders $80 / ACMI Member $75

For kids aged 9 to 12 years. Tickets must be purchased in advance. In the event of a workshop cancellation, ticket holders will be notified directly and a full refund will be provided.

This one day workshop introduces kids to traditional animation using paper cut outs and stop motion techniques. You will create cut-out characters and explore the principles of animation by making your very own short animation. At the end of the workshop, each participant can take their own cut-out animations home.

KIDS IN THE STUDIO: FLIP IT
Mon 13 Jan – Fri 17 Jan    11am – 2pm
Mon 20 Jan – Fri 25 Jan    11am – 2pm
No bookings required, drop in any time between 11am and 2pm.

For kids aged 5 to 10 years.

A flip book is a simple animation tool, with pages featuring a sequence of drawings or photographs. When they're flipped through the fingers, they create the illusion of a moving image!

Kids create their very own flip book in this drop-in holiday activity, choosing from a number of music video scenes and characters inspired by Spectacle: The Music Video Exhibition.  The characters on the page morph and transform into a short animation – the drawings literally come to life in your hands!

MAKE A MOVIE
Wed 15 Jan – Fri 17 Jan    10am-4pm
Full $270* / Concession Card Holders $220* / ACMI member  $220*
* cost includes a take-home USB flash drive containing the finished film
For kids aged 9 to 12. Numbers are limited – bookings are essential for all workshops.

Whether you're a video newbie or a regular YouTube uploader, this workshop is a must for any budding filmmaker.

Working in a small group under the guidance of experienced staff, you will create a team name for your movie -studio', pitch your ideas, write a script, storyboard, act, direct and operate a camera. You'll be filming in a professional television studio and on location around Federation Square.

WRITING FOR THE SCREEN
Mon 13 Jan            9.30am – 4.30pm
Full $160 / Concession $140 / ACMI Members $130

For ages 15 to 20. Tickets must be purchased in advance. In the event of a workshop cancellation, ticket holders will be notified directly and a full refund will be provided. 

Thinking about studying screenwriting? Have a great idea for a script or screenplay? ACMI's Writing for the Screen intensive workshop helps budding young screenwriters navigate the complex principles and processes involved in writing for both the film or television industries. It provides the perfect platform to develop your next screen writing project.

Lead by qualified tertiary educators, learn the principles and practices for developing scripts for film and television. From effective narrative structures and character development to creating on screen worlds and crafting dialogue – this one day intensive workshop helps you gain an understanding of how to transform great ideas into great scripts for the screen.

INTERMIX PRESENTS SHOW YOUR OWN
Thu 23 Jan            6pm
Designed for young people aged 15 to 20.
Free but with limited capacity > register by emailing 

Show your own work on the big screen in front of friends and media professionals at this exciting and collaborative event for young creators. We want photos, films, games and graphics, anything you have created that you want to be seen.

This event is the perfect place to screen material you have created for school, uni, work, festivals, or for any other reason. Receive feedback from your peers and invited professionals. Get help in solving that technical problem you can't quite master, or find people to collaborate with on future projects.  

Download your media to a hard drive and bring it in or upload it to our Show Your Own project Dropbox. Any way you can, get the material to us, and we will show it alongside everything else.

Kids' Flicks: Smart films for smart kids.
Full/Concession (2D) > $7 / ACMI Member (2D) > $5
Full/Concession (3D) > $9 / ACMI Member (3D) > $7

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (3D)
Sun 24 Nov, 1pm
Sat 30 Nov, 10.30am
Sun 1 Dec, 10.30am
Sun 1 Dec, 1pm
Flint Lockwood is a misunderstood young inventor. In an attempt to solve world hunger, he creates a machine that causes food to rain from the sky. However, just as Flint begins to receive recognition for his witty contraption, the machine spirals out of control stirring up a worldwide phenomenon of epic portions.

A MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
Sat 7 Dec, 1pm
Sun 8 Dec, 10.30am and1pm
Thu 12 Dec, 10.30am and 1pm
Fri 13 Dec, 10.30am and 1pm
Sat 14 Dec, 10.30am and 1pm

Michael Caine, along with everyone's favourite Muppets plays it straight as the crotchety Ebenezer Scrooge, an old  penny-pincher who couldn't care less about Christmas, in this adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story. Working for the skinflint is Bob Cratchit (Kermit the Frog), who begs Scrooge for a holiday on Christmas Day.

NATIVITY 2: DANGER IN THE MANGER!
Mon 16 Dec – Tue 24 Dec   10.30am and 1.00pm
Mr Peterson (Dr Who's David Tennant) is the new substitute teacher at St Bernadette's, a school over-run by the chaotic yet well-intentioned teacher's assistant, Mr Poppy (3-stooges-for-the-price-of-one Marc Wootten).

CHIMPANZEE

Fri 27 Dec 10.30am, 1pm and 3pm
Sat 28 Dec and Sun 29 Dec  10.30am and 1pm
Mon 30 Dec – Fri 10 Jan 10.30am, 1pm and 3pm
Sat 11 Jan and Sun 12 Jan 10.30am and 1pm
Mon 13 Jan – Fri 17 Jan 10.30am, 1pm and 3pm
Sat 18 Jan 10.30am and 1pm
Sun 19 Jan 10.30am, 1pm and 3pm

Baby Oscar is just like any other fun loving chimp in the Tai Forest on the Ivory Coast. He has plenty of friends to play with and a doting mother to care for him. But Oscar's life takes a dramatic turn when his is separated from his tribe and together with Freddy, the alpha male leader; they form a new and exceptional bond as father and son.

THE WIZARD OF OZ 3D
Mon 20 Jan – Fri 24 Jan 10.30am, 1pm, 3pm
Sat 25 Jan 10.30am, 1pm
Sun 26 Jan and Mon 27 Jan 10.30am, 1pm, 3pm
Dorothy, played by a luminous seventeen-year-old Judy Garland, and her trusty dog, Toto, set off on the Yellow Brick Road, bound for the Emerald City in Victor Fleming's classic 1939 musical.

Caught in a tornado that propels her far from the safety and familiarity of her home in Kansas, Dorothy, with the help of her new friends Tin Man, Scarecrow and Lion join forces to find the Wizard of Oz and, hopefully, be home in time for supper.