Screen Acting Ongoing
Starts: Thursday 26 March, 2020
6 x Thursdays, 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Cost: $395
Location: Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), 8 Victoria Road Parramatta NSW 2150. View MAP.
Outcomes:
- Practice screen acting techniques
- Strengthen screen acting muscles
- Learn thorough script analysis
- Deliver truthful performances on screen
- Build on existing screen acting terminology
Course overview:
So, you’ve finished our Screen Acting Essentials course (or a similar foundation course elsewhere) and you now want to practice your screen acting weekly?
This 6-week Screen Acting Ongoing course will give actors aged 18+ the opportunity to flex their screen acting muscles with scenes taken from film and television shows.
Each week, Arka will work practically with actors towards creating compelling and truthful characters for the camera.
Note: this Ongoing series is only open to students with prior screen acting training and/or experience.
The Teacher:
ARKA DAS is an actor and filmmaker from Sydney, Australia, whose work includes award winning Australian and international film, TV & stage credits. Arka has starred in Academy Award nominated film Lion and will be seen in Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of Mulan. His TV credits include Top of the Lake: China Girl, directed by Academy Award winner Jane Campion, a lead role on ABC’s critically acclaimed medical drama Pulse, alongside Janet King, The Code and also Nine Network/Sony’s crime drama Bite Club.
As a writer & director, Arka holds short films, web-series and short documentaries under his belt. He wrote and directed Khana Khazana, a short film exploring the dark side of migrant labour, which had its Australian premiere at Flickerfest International Short Film Festival and its US premiere at LA Shorts Film Festival and has also screened at St Kilda Film Fest and the International Film Festival of South Asia Toronto. Arka is also one of the writers on an upcoming anthology feature film produced by Co-Curious and in development with the assistance of Screen Australia and Create NSW.
Benefits:
By the end of this course, whether you’re aware of it or not, you will have built up lifelong skills that will seep into your everyday lives. You will:
- Become better listeners.
- Become more open to, and tolerant of differing views.
- Become acutely aware of your breathing and emotions.
- Develop a more positive self-image.
- Become more comfortable with self-evaluation and constructive feedback.
Important information:
- Please read our Centre Policies.
- Please wear comfortable loose clothing and appropriate footwear.
