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PRESIDENT'S LETTER The 2023 APDG Awards were held this year at Federation Hall in Melbourne. The event went off without a hitch and I would like to congratulate Rebecca Whittington and the awards team for what proved to be a flawless event. Amongst the award recipients was this year’s lifetime achievement winner, Jennifer Irwin. What [...]

SIGGRAPH Asia is a special and unique place for artists, scientists, and innovators to converge and share their love for computer graphics. As a roving event in the Asia Pacific region, every SIGGRAPH Asia edition brings together a brilliant blend of computer graphics and interactive techniques with the host country’s local culture. This year, we [...]

AUSTRALIA’S NEWEST INDUSTRY GUILD ELEVATING THE LOCATIONS DEPARTMENT The Australian Location Managers Guild (ALMG,) has launched a website www.almguild.com, to promote the creative and logistical contributions that the Location Department makes to bring abstract concepts and writing to the screen. The guild is now inviting Locations Department professionals, as well as screen industry colleagues, to [...]

PRESIDENT'S LETTER Through one of life’s delightful and unexpected turns I have just completed my first year as the APDG president. The APDG is a very different organisation to the one I first came to know in 2009. Perhaps not surprisingly, it its far more cohesively integrated into the Australian performance design culture and has [...]

International Production Design Week: A New Initiative To to Celebrate the Craft of Production Design Inspired by the experience of the inaugural Gathering in Greece last year, the Production Designers Collective will coordinate a week of events in October to globally promote the craft of production design. Following the significant success of the first-ever international [...]

APDG National Executive Screen Representative and production designer of Sweet As, Emma Fletcher shares her experience of a four day whirlwind trip Berlinale in Germany. During the Western Australia’s border closure in 2021, I was the production designer for Arenamedia’s Sweet As, a coming of age story about an at-risk Indigenous teenager. We filmed through Port Hedland, Karratha, South Hedland and Karijini [...]