FuckUp Nights August, part of Melbourne International Film Festival

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Welcome to FuckUp Nights Melbourne! This month we are presenting a very special event as part of Melbourne International Film Festival to hear about some stories from filmakers & storytellers from the entertainment industry about some truly seismic fuckup's along the way!

FuckUp Nights is a global movement born in Mexico in 2012 to share public project failure stories with hundreds of people attending each event around the world. Each month speakers will be invited to talk about their FuckUp stories; we’ll learn about their biggest mistakes, what they learned, how they moved on- all whilst sharing invaluable advice along the way.

The speakers will candidly share in 7-10 minutes:

• What their creative project was
• What went wrong / How it affected their personal life / What they learned / What they would do differently.

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Speaker 1: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rod-cuthbert-84065325/)Luke McGregor

Luke McGregor’s comedy career began in 2007, after entering the Raw Comedy competition. Luke’s first solo Melbourne International Comedy Festival show, My Soul Mate is Out of My League, played to sold out rooms and won the Best Newcomer Award, and his shows since have been equally acclaimed. On television, Luke has had roles in Utopia, Legally Brown, Time of Our Lives and Please Like Me. In 2016, Luke presented Luke Warm Sex on ABC TV, and he wrote, performed in and produced the ABC TV series Rosehaven with Celia Pacquola. They finished shooting series two this year.

Speaker 2: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rod-cuthbert-84065325/)Santilla Chingaipe

Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. She spent seven years working for SBS World News, reporting from Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia and interviewing some of Africa’s most prominent leaders. Her work explores contemporary migration, cultural identities and politics. She recently presented a one-off documentary for SBS, Date My Race. Chingaipe is currently directing and producing documentary on the complexities of Australia’s South Sudanese community. She is also making a short documentary exploring the perception of beauty in Australia. Chingaipe writes regularly for The Saturday Paper.

Speaker 3: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rod-cuthbert-84065325/)Tegan Higginbotham

Tegan Higginbotham is a multi-talented comedian, actor and writer. She's appeared in TV mini-series Molly, in films Oddball and Holding the Man, and on Foxtel’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? She has also had a regular presence on television, including on shows Have You Been Paying Attention?, The Project and Foxtel’s Screen, with Margaret Pomeranz and Graeme Blundell. Other acting credits include It's a Date, Thank God You’re Here, Twenty Something, City Homicide and This is Littleton.

Speaker 4: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rod-cuthbert-84065325/)Amiel Courtin-Wilson

Amiel Courtin-Wilson is one of Australia's most innovative filmmakers whose internationally acclaimed work as both a filmmaker and artist spans feature films, documentary, video installation, drawing and photography. At 19 Amiel's debut award winning feature documentary CHASING BUDDHA premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He has since directed over 20 short films and six feature films including BASTARDY (2008), HAIL (2011), RUIN (2013) and THE SILENT EYE (2016).

His films have screened at Cannes, Sundance, Venice, Rotterdam, The Whitney Museum and over a hundred other film festivals. Amiel's films have also exhibited at museums and galleries including MONA, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Gallery of New South Wales, MCA in Sydney, Gertrude Contemporary and The Ian Potter Museum.

His work has received a plethora of awards including: Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2013, Best Moving Image portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra (2016), Best Documentary at the IF Awards and Sydney Film Festival (2000), Best Documentary Jury Prize at the 2009 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Best Editing at the Asian Pacific Film Festival, Best Film and Best Cinematography at the Sopot Film Festival and Best Film and Best Direction at the Fantaspoa Film Festival. Amiel also recently won the Byron Kennedy Award at the 4th AACTA Awards in recognition of his commitment to innovation in Australian Cinema over the last two decades.

At the end of the stories, you’ll have a chance to ask questions- nothing too cheeky, but feel free to dig around. You’ll hear stories and advice you won’t get elsewhere - and these stories will (hopefully) put you in good stead to not make the same fuckups.

Attendance is free, but we do ask you to register in advance.

Organised by our partners MIFF (http://miff.com.au/), AFTRS (http://www.aftrs.edu.au/), KJR (http://kjr.com.au/), Inspire9 (http://inspire9.com/), Young Henrys (http://www.younghenrys.com/home), General Assembly Melbourne (https://generalassemb.ly/) & Collabosaurus (https://collabosaurus.com/).

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