Screen acting · Brisbane
Filmed every week.Shot on location once a term.
Class is a classroom, and in it every performance is recorded and played back. Once a term the work is shot properly, at a location rather than in a hall. Beyond that, each step up is a real thing you can book, all the way to a crewed film with a credit on it.
Above: on location for a FilmLab production, cast from our own students.
Not a showcase at the end of term. Every time a student gets up, every week, recorded and played back.
The work shot properly rather than filmed in a hall. Covered from more than one angle, so a performance can be cut rather than only recorded.
Eight threads across four levels, written out so you can read what improvement looks like.
The cap is real. A screen class stops working the moment it is big enough to hide in.
Who it is for
Two ways in
Classes for kids and teens
Junior and teen classes at Acacia Ridge and Cleveland. Craft on camera, filmed every single week and played straight back.
A session$44 to $64
Classes and coaching for adults
Mature Acting, 15 years to adult, on Monday nights in New Farm. Then private coaching, showreels and casting support when you want more.
A session$64
Where this can go
Nineteen festival wins, cast entirely from this room
Two short films made with Koevari Pictures (formerly GP2 Entertainment), both on IMDb, both cast from FilmLab students rather than from auditions held outside. Between them they have nineteen wins and eight nominations we can name for you, festival by festival, at external festivals.
One of those awards went to a student for acting. Ruby Lott took a Special Mention for Supporting Actress at the Five Continents International Film Festival, for a role she got by being in the room and being ready for it.
None of that is what you are buying when you book a class, and we say so there too. It is what everything above the weekly class can lead to, and it is the reason the rest of it exists.
How it goes
Six steps, and you only have to take the first one
Every step here is a real thing you can book. Start at the bottom, go as far as you want to, and stop wherever suits. Nobody is moved up before they are ready and nobody is pushed.
Weekly classes
Junior, teen and mature. Craft on camera, taught by working actors, filmed every single week and played straight back.
A session$44 to $64
The production day
Once a term the work is shot properly, at a location instead of in a hall. Groups mix, and the scene is covered angle after angle so it can be cut rather than only recorded.
Includedin the term
Private coaching and direction
One to one with the lead educator, the director, or both. Audition preparation, self-tape filming, and feedback on a tape you have already sent.
From$95 to $715
Showreels
Original scenes written for you and shot in 6K, not somebody else's monologue, and cut into a reel you can actually send.
From$450 to $1,350+
Agency and casting support
Profiles on the platforms casting actually uses, self-tape feedback on real auditions, and submission where we represent you.
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The films
Crewed short films made with Koevari Pictures, listed on IMDb and submitted to festivals. Casting is by audition and is never part of what you buy. We will look outside FilmLab if the role needs it.
Castingnever promised
A class is where it starts.
It is not where it has to end.