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FEATURE FILM COURSE
Starts Late January 2025
MELBOURNE

Overview 

  • Become a Feature Filmmaker  by actually working on and making a real, feature film.
  • The course runs for 12 months and includes 4 separate 4 Day film shoots (over weekends), which are edited together to make one feature length film.
  • Once completed, the feature film will be eligible for festival submission and international distribution with the possibility of royalties paid back to cast and crew.
  • Students who successfully complete this course will receive a Director, Producer and relevant crew credits on an international feature film.
  • Evening and weekend classes and shoot days – you can continue to work full-time and still make a feature film.
  • You will know how to make a Feature Film
  • Interview Essential

  • Email: enquiry@australianfilmcentral.com

  • Or Phone 1800131166

10 People Maximum
Phone 1800131166

Micro-Budget Movies that
we Have Made - Trailers

Tabernacle 101 Movie - 94 Minutes

Dealing With Destiny - 85 Minutes

The Makeover - 94 Minutes

How it works:

  • Learn the entire filmmaking process by doing.
  • Create the story and write a screenplay. 
  • Cast professional actors.
  • Preproduction (rehearsals, scheduling, production design, locations etc.).
  • 1 evening class per fortnight with additional weekend and evening classes closer to shoot days.
  • At least 16 full shooting days spread across the year.
  • Post production process (editing, colour & VFX, sound post and music).
  • Each student will be given distinct scenes and approximately 2 shooting days as the Director on set.
  • Work across all crew roles to learn the process with support from.
  • Work with professional cinema equipment including a Netflix approved cinema camera and cinema lenses.
  • Learn the business side of filmmaking, i.e. contracts, budgeting, marketing, distribution and sales.
Create the Film Directors and Producers of Tomorrow

Who’s this for?:

  • First time filmmakers with some crew experience wanting to learn the process and kick-start their career
  • People with a passion for filmmaking and a transferrable skillset (e.g. professional photographers or videographers, creative directors etc.)
  • Indie filmmakers who want to work with a bigger team and receive professional support to leap into a feature film.
  • People who have graduated from our 5 Month Film School
  • This course is NOT for complete beginners. Due to the complexity of making a feature film and the requirements of each student some prior to transferrable experience is required.
  • If you are a complete beginner please see our 5 month filmmakers school which is specifically for novices.
Interview Essential
Phone 1800131166

The Film Instructors Taught by Filmmakers for Future Filmmakers

Sean Smith

Sean Smith is a fanatical Film Maker. His communication skills and teaching skills are of the highest calibre. He is currently in production on his own feature film. He teaches most of the course in Melbourne. Feedback on Sean is exceptional as students warm to his amazing teaching skill. Main Teacher

Colm O'Murchu

Colm founded Australian Film Base in 1997 and has since taught emerging filmmakers to make professional films. Colm has guided and instructed over the years on 175 short films made. His new film Tabernacle 101 has just been released theatrically in the USA and ia available on Amazon Prime, Google Play and Apple TV. With a wealth of film teaching and film making experience Colm O’Murchu is one of the very best film instructors.​ Main Focus: Casting & Directing

John Hresc

John has worked in the film, television and music industry for the last 25 years,and is a member of the Australian Screen Sound Guild. He worked for Channel 9 for ten years sound posting many of the TV shows and promos you see on TV.  During his work in Television he also collaborated with a number of short and feature filmmakers, as a sound and dialogue editor, sound designer, sound supervisor and sound mixer. This has culminated in over 20 national and international award winning short and feature films to date. Main Focus Sound Postproduction

Our Most Recent Feature Film - Tabernacle 101

Why we made this course?

  • We’ve been helping people pursue their passion for filmmaking for over 20 years now and in that time we have seen countless students go on to become industry professionals and feature filmmakers. 
  • Over the years we have also made or been a part of making indie films in Australia and seeing that segment grow and change. 
  • Today we believe the barriers to becoming a feature filmmaker are fewer than they have been before and that there are incredible opportunities for people from anywhere to be a part of this great tradition of creative storytelling.
  • We realised there was nothing like this course available in Australia, so we made it! 
  • We wanted to provide a pathway for people new to filmmaking moving from either student films, professional commercial work or short films to move into feature filmmaking. Completing this course and film you will not only receive a filmmaking certificate but the film will be eligible for industry credits, such as iMDB.
  • Although not the primary goal of the production, the feature film will have the potential to earn royalties for cast and crew, including the student filmmakers.