Basic Facts
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Year of Foundation:
2005
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Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:
2016
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Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:
2005
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Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:
Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) – The Au
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Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cathy Henkel
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Address:
2 Bradford Street, Mt Lawley WA 6050
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Country:
Australia
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Website:
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Points of Contact
CILECT Contact Person:Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cathy HenkelTelephone:+61 8 6304 6518Mobile:+61 409 453 518Email:c.henkel@ecu.edu.auCILECT Contact Person:Head of Production: Jaclyn HewerEmail:j.hewer@ecu.edu.au
Mission & Strategy
The Western Australian Screen Academy (WASA) offers an intensive practical and academically rigorous course in professional screen production at both Bachelor and Masters levels. Entry is competitive with student selection based on portfolios of work in addition to satisfying ECU’s academic entry requirements.
Students pursue a major area of specialization in producing, directing, screenwriting, cinematography, sound or editing. Coursework includes professional production of six short dramas, documentaries, a web-series, music videos and client-based projects.
WASA collaborates closely with the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). The program has strong links to the professional industry and makes extensive use of experienced industry mentors. WASA also boasts a unique partnership with Nine Network Australia, including sponsorship of 14 Awards for Excellence, screenings at major cinemas, and student work televised on the Nine network, earning students a broadcast credit.
Students graduate well prepared for professional employment, with a diverse show-reel of production work and a theoretical foundation backed by practical skills in the digital screen industries.
Degree Areas
Bachelor of Arts
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Degree Awarded
Bachelor of Arts
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Portfolio & Interview
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Bachelor of Arts Honours
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Bachelor of Arts Honours
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Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Media and Communication
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Bachelor of Arts
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Broadcasting
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Graduate Diploma
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Master of Screen Studies
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Master of Arts
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Key Teaching Staff
Dr Cathy Henkel
Cathy’s previous credits include The Burning Season (IF Award Best Documentary , EMMY nomination, 2008), I told you I was ill: Spike Milligan and The Man who Stole my Mother’s Face (IF Award and Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best Feature Documentary 2004). She has won numerous other awards including SPA Documentary Producer of the Year (2009), an ACS Award, numerous AFI and ATOM nominations. She recently produced and directed Rise of the Eco-Warriors, an action adventure feature documentary set in Borneo and Show me the Magic, about acclaimed cinematographer Don McAlpine. Rise of the Eco-Warriors has been being re-versioned as a 13 part TV series in conjunction with Singapore-based Silver Media Group.
Associate Professor Andrew Smith
Andrew has extensive experience in directing film, television and theatre. He has directed numerous short films including the award winning AFC funded short Calling Gerry Molloy. In television he has directed episodes of the series Streetsmartz, Parallax, Something in the Air, Home and Away, Ocean Star, Snobs, Going Home, Breakers and Pacific Drive. He has also produced, directed and written documentary and magazine programs for the ABC.
Andrew is a directing graduate of WAAPA and holds two Masters degrees – one in Film and TV Directing from AFTRS and the other in Film and Theatre Studies from the University of New South Wales. Andrew is currently the Program Director of Performance at WAAPA.
Jonathan Rowdon has over 30 years’ experience as a long-form television documentary and drama editor. He trained at the BBC in London and spent 10 years as a staff editor before leaving to become freelance. He lived and worked in Perth, WA between 2002 and 2006, then back in London between 2006 and 2011, before returning to Perth in 2011. He has worked on programs for broadcasters including BBC, ABC, SBS, Channel 7, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, National Geographic, The History Channel and The History Channel Canada, as well as working in the corporate sector as a director and editor. He has also worked as a writer, director and producer, and teaches editing at the West Australian Screen Academy at Edith Cowan University in Mount Lawley.
Ric works as a sound designer and post-production sound mixer for film and documentary feature and series productions. His 40-plus year career in audio has encompassed music production and television sound, as well as post-production, and he constructed and ran several studios (Singapore and Perth) before setting up his own independent facility, Curtin Productions.
He has lectured in sound at several Western Australian tertiary institutions and is the current WA representative for the Australian Screen Sound Guild.
Ron Elliott
AFI and Logie nominated writer Ron Elliott is a scriptwriter, director and academic. He has written for Home and Away, Bush Patrol, Ship to Shore and many more children’s television series, and his directorial credits include feature film Justice.
Keith Smith
Successful Graduates
Claire Marshall
Fantasy Scenes Directory – Sleep Over Club (2006), Drama Coach Wormwood (2007), Director Chris Murphy What’s Next to the Moon (2009), Directory Trapped (2009), Drama Coach movie Closed for Winter (2009), Second Unit Directory Lockie Leonard (2010), Directory Castaway (2010), Accepted into Multi-platform Producers Scholarship (2011), Sydney, Winner MIPFormats International Pitching competition Cannes (2014).
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Ben Young
Award winning short films include: A Shadow of Him (2007); Something Fishy (2010); The Planet Lonely (2008); Bush Basher (2011); Castaway (TV series) – Director 4 episodes, Seven Network (2011); Trapped (TV Series) – Director 5 episodes, Seven Network (2008); Select Music Videos: Director – Drapht: John Doe (2011); The Lazy Calm: Petrol Paint and Glue (2013); Director – Drapht: Bali Party (2015); Director – John Butler Trio: Only One – ARIA Nomination Best Music Video (2014); Writer/Director Hounds of Love – Feature Film 2016 (offical selection Venice Film Festival).
Paul Komadina
Director Play Dancing at Lughnasa Adelaide Fringe Festival (2006); Director’s Attachment Lockie Leonard (2006); 6 x Official Selection and 3 x Awards for feature The Director’s Cut (2009); 2 x Official Selection for short Little Boxes (2009); Director Childrens’ Television Trapped – Episodes 21-26 (2009); Director Childrens’ Television CastAway – Episodes 1-4 (2011); Director Cult Film Show The Devil’s Classroom (2011); Highly Commended: ADG Awards for Ruby Boots Wise Up Music Video (2013); 7 x International Awards for Nez Beautiful Music Video (2013); Bill Warnock Award for Screenplay Nasty Business (2014); Finalist Best Director: PADC Diamond Skulls (2015); Best Comedy: San Francisco Webfest for Zac and Me and 6 x Official Selection (2015); Commendation: Revel-8 for rêverie (2015); Top Three: Bill Warnock Award for Screenplay Goners (2015); Finalist Best Director: PADC Diamond Skulls (2016); Paul is a commercials director at Beautiful Pictures (since 2012) and an independent drama writer/director.
Xoe Baird
Winner – Perth Advertising Design Club Sound Designer of The Year (2014). Select credits: Sound Effects Editor Aussie Gold Hunters Discovery 2016), Sound Designer The Legend of Gavin Tanner (ABC – 2016), ADR Recording Death in Paradise (BBC1 2016); Sound Designer The Shapes (ABC3 iView 2015), Sound Designer Top Knot Detective (2016), Sound Effects Editor Bad Girl (Feature – 2016). Sound Design on TVC’s including Lotterywest – Summer Events (2015), Browns Dairy (2015), Transperth – Rail Closure (2015), Sound Designer at Soundbyte Studios (2013–2015).
Ceinwen Langley
Trainee Script Assistant Trapped (2008), Winner: the Australian Writer’s Guild and Fremantle Media Neighbours Internship (2009), Storyliner Neighbours (2010-2011), Trainee Script Editor Neighbours (2011), Writer Neighbours (13 episodes) (2011 – 2013), Winner: ScreenWest FilmNavigator Initiative (2010), Winner: SceenWest TeleNavigator Initiative (2014), Author The Edge of the Woods (2014), Writer/Contributor Birdee Magazine (2014 – 2015), Author Almost Midnight: Three Classic Fairytales (2016).
Caitlan O'Connor
Commercial editor and colourist Firstlight Digital 2011-2015, Freelance video editor and colourist 2015-present. Finalist for PADC Diamond Skulls Best Editor 2016
Colourist: The Walers: Australia’s Great War Horse. Nominated Best Film CinefestOz 2014, Editor and colourist: San Cisco Fred Astaire. Nominated Best Music Video ARIA 2013, TVC Editor and/or colourist: LotteryWest, MoMA, Kleenheat, P&N Bank, Perth College, HIF, HBF, iiNet, MRA, Red Rooster, TAB, RAC, Cash Converters (UK) and others. Music video editor and colourist: Drapht Dancin’ John Doe (2015), John Butler Trio Flesh and Blood Acoustic In-Studio Sessions (2014). Documentary colourist: Australia’s Secret Hero’s Vietnam Episode 1 to 3 (2015) (SBS), Recipes that Rock Seasons 1 and 2 (2013, 2014) (Food Network UK, National Geographic People, Seven Two), Orphans on Wall Street (2014) (ABC), Tribal Scents (2014) (SBS), Life Architecturally (2012) (ABC), Director: Swing in Seven City of Vincent Film Project Documentary (2015), Painful Bliss (Bondi Film Festival 2010, Dungog Film Festival 2010, Adelaide Shorts 2010, Soho Rushes Film Festival 2010), Short Film editor and colourist: The Unsung Docker Virgin Australia Film Competition (2013). Caitlan is a freelance commercial editor and colourist.
Dan Walsh
Cinematographer on 16mm short film Grab a Lift, (2008), 2nd Assistant Cameraman (A.C) on Canadian/ Australian Coproduction Stormworld TV series (2008), Cinematographer for short film Casualities which won an Australian Cinematography Society Award (ACS) (2010), Cinematographer for 35mm short film titled, Daniel, (2010), Cinematographer for International Women’s Day commercial, Man Over TVC, shown nationally, (2011), 2nd A.C on AACTA nominated feature film, Satellite Boy (2012), 1st A.C & 3rd camera operator on AACTA award nominated and ACS award winner, Better Man Mini Series (2012), Cinematographer on short film, Integrated (2012), 1st A.C on AACTA award winning mini series, The Secret River (2014), 1st A.C for 3 seasons on Logie winning Channel 9 TV series, House Husbands (2014), Cinematographer on music clips for hip hop artists, REMI and also Nfa Jones, (2014), 1st A.C on American NBC/ Syfy series, Childhoods End (2015), Moved to Vancouver, Canada and joined IASTE Local 669 guild as a 1st A.C (2015), 1st A.C on CW channel TV series, iZombie and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (2016), 1st A.C on upcoming Netflix TV series, Travellers (2016), 2nd Unit, 1st A.C on Feature film, Power Rangers (2016).
Benjamin Morris
Freelance Sound Editor at Channel 9 Perth; WA Screen Award Nomination (Best Sound) for Runner (2009); Lecturer for Post Production Sound at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts; WA Screen Award Nomination (Best Sound) for Casualties (2010); Unit Co-ordinator at SAE Institute Perth; Sound Editor for nationally broadcast TV shows Garden Gurus and Explore; WA Screen Award Nomination (Best Sound) for Sororal (2014)
Lucy Cooke
Production Assistant – Son of A Gun – Perth (2013), Directors Assistant to Alex Proyas – God’s of Egypt – Fox Studios, Sydney (2013 – 2015), Assistant to Vince Vaughn – Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge (2015), Production Coordinator (2016 – current) – Rodeo VFX – Venice Beach, Los Angeles, USA.
Ben Croker
Official selection Flickerfest Film Festival for True Colours (2016); Selected for Australian international Documentary Conference ACCESS program with Roy Ackerman (2016); Production Assistant Matt and Kim To The Rescue (2015); Official selection Sunscreen International Film Festival for True Colours (2016); Official selection Living Skies Student Film festival for Skin and Bone (2016); Official selection Kashish Mumbai LGBT Film Festival for Skin and Bone (2016); Official selection SpringOut Film Festival for both Skin and Bone and True Colours (2016); Official selection Melbourne Documentary Film Festival for Skin and Bone (2016); Official selection and Winner of Platiunum Award F.A.M.E’US Film Festival for True Colours (2016); Official selection Fastnet Film Festival for True Colours (2016); Official selection Freedom Shorts Film Festival Film Festival for True Colours (2016); Official selection OutFilm Connecticut Film Festival for True Colours (2016); Official selection Miami International Film Festival for both Skin and Bone and True Colours (2016); Official selection Roma Creative Contest for True Colours (2016); Official selection Sydney World Film Festival for True Colours (2016); Completed four short promotional video biographies of visiting artists for the Jackman Furness Foundation for the Performing Arts (2016); Ben is currently working as a post-production assistant at Prospero Productions.
Jordan Davenport
Production Internship at Mad Kids Productions (2015); Production Assistant on The Legend of Gavin Tanner (2015); Researcher/Production Assistant on DAFUQ (2015); First Assistant Director Music Video: Draft Dancin John Doe (2015); Writer/Producer of ABC webseries What’s The Deal With Data (2016); Research/Camera/Editing attachment at Joined Up Films (2016); Jordan is a researcher at Joined Up Films.