Rachael Turk

Current

• Curator 'Friday On My Mind' at AFTRS
• Freelance Journalist at Various
• Screenwriter, Film Director at All at Once Productions, Southern Star, ABC

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Past

• Editor at Inside Film (IF) Magazine
• Communications Manager at Animal Logic

Education

• Macquarie University
• Macquarie University

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Industry

Media Production

Rachael Turk’s Experience

• Curator 'Friday On My Mind'

  AFTRS

  (Educational Institution; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year)

  Curator and moderator of free Arts Q&A format with the industry's most thought-provoking minds

• Freelance Journalist

  Various

  (Entertainment industry)

  1997 — Present (12 years)

  • ‘Screen Idol’: Andy Warhol, ‘Cinema in Revolt’
  Artlines, Gallery of Modern Art, Oct 07
  
  • ‘Love Unlimited’
  Sydney Morning Herald ‘Radar’, Mar 06 (cover story)
  
  • ‘Kurt So Good’ – Gus Van Sant’s homage to Kurt Cobain
  Sydney Morning Herald ‘Metro’ – Aug 05 (cover story)
  
  • Seamus McGarvey
  British Cinematographer (UK) – Aug 05 (cover story)
  
  • film review: ‘9 Songs’
  Dazed + Confused (UK) – Mar 05
  
  • ‘Art of War’: interview Gillian Armstrong
  Metro Mag – May 02 (cover story)
  
  • ‘Children of the Digital Revolution’, Moulin Rouge
  Metro Magazine - Oct 01 (10-pg feature)
  
  • ‘Rising Interest in Reality TVC’
  Australian Creative - Autumn 00
  
  • ‘Electric Darkness’: black neon style of The Matrix
  OnLine - Jun 99 (cover story)
  
  • ‘Exploding the Myths’
  Pulp (NZ) - Dec/Jan 98
  
  • ‘Surfito Ergo Sum: I surf therefore I am’
  Australian Surfer Magazine - Spring 97 (14-pg feature)
  
  • ‘News enters the virtual dimension’
  International Broadcasting Asia - Aug 97

• Screenwriter, Film Director

  All at Once Productions, Southern Star, ABC

  (Media Production industry)

  1992 — Present (17 years)

  Notable:
  • 2008: short film feeling_lonely? [writ/dir. Rachael Turk] won 'Best Short Drama' at the WOW Film Festival; screened at LA Shortsfest, Sydney Int'l Film Festival and Brisbane Int'l Film Festival
  
  • 2007-09: TV series in development with Southern Star and the ABC as part of screenwriting consortium 100 Monkeys
  
  • 2007: short film feeling_lonely? [writ/dir. Rachael Turk] received post-prod funding from the Australian Film Commission (AFC) and was selected for the 2007 Manhattan Short Film Festival, where it screened to 40,000 people across 99 cities around the world
  
  • Short film Smile For Me [writ. Rachael Turk] won the 2006 Australian Writers Guild (AWGIE) Award for 'Best Short Film Script'. The project then received production funding from the NSW FTO ‘Young Filmmaker Fund’, the film [dir. Anna Fraser] screened at New York’s ‘Australian Short Film Today’ with a selection of other award-winning short films.

• Editor

  Inside Film (IF) Magazine

  (Media Production industry)

  April 2003 — November 2008 (5 years 8 months)

  Notable:
  • 2008 – Launched online video for if.com.au; Bell Awards: Highly Commended 'Best Digital Publication'; Finalist 'Best B2B Magazine'
  • 2007 – Bell Awards: Highly Commended 'B2B Magazine Launch/Relaunch'
  • guest editor for youth media and arts organisation Vibewire.net
  • 2007-08 – juror for AWGIE Awards 'Best Unproduced Screenplay'
  • 2003-07 – presenter for the IF Awards (people’s choice film awards)
  • 2006 – on-air critic for Bondi FM
  • 2005 –on-air interviewee for Showtime Radio
  • 2005 – chair/producer of Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) conference sessions: ‘Art & Politics’ and ‘In The Bedroom’
  • 2005 – chair Palace Films Q&A for The Illustrated Family Doctor
  • 2004 – chair/producer of SPAA Fringe session Somersault
  • 2003–04 – on-air critic Radio National ‘Drivetime’ (Finished People)
  • 2003 – chair of Popcorn Taxi’s Danny Deckchair’s Q&A

• Communications Manager

  Animal Logic

  (Media Production industry)

  April 1997 — April 2003 (6 years 1 month)

  Notable:
  • 2003 - Animal Logic Film listed as one of the top 10 animation houses in the world (reported by BOARDS, Canada and CG World, UK)
  • 2001 - Animal Logic website ranked 9th in Entertainment category of Australian websites (reported by Hitwise)
  • 2000 - Presented at Managing Internal Communication conference, Sydney
  • 1999 - Presented at Australian Technology Showcase
  • 1999 - Presented at Antenna Cinema (Italy) with Michael Ward (FFC), Pressana Vasuveda (AFC, UK) and Domenico Procacci (Fandango)

Rachael Turk’s Education

• Macquarie University

  BA (Hons.) , Cultural Studies & Critical Theory , 1995 — 1995

  • Awarded First Class Hons.

• Macquarie University

  BA , Mass Communications (Film, English) , 1990 — 1992

  • Awarded the Association of Independent Schools prize for Eng. Lit.

Additional Information

Rachael Turk’s Groups:

IF / Omnilab / JVC

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