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Australians have lost confidence in the power of imagination; parents rank it low on the list of attributes they value in their children. But imagination is key to creativity, empathy and action. It is the antidote to fear. Restoring confidence in the power to imagine and dream is key to both personal lives and the life of the nation. Knowing the past and breaking the silence are important, but culture leads politics. It's time to be bold.
Former publisher and founding editor of Griffith Review Julianne Schultz contemplates what Australia is today, and what it can be in the future, in her latest book The Idea of Australia: a search for the soul of the nation (2022, Allen & Unwin). Following Professor Schultz's presentation, she will be joined by broadcaster and author Peter Mares to discuss what a more ambitious, compassionate and informed nation looks like.
Buy a copy of the book online: https://shop.acmi.net.au/products/the-idea-of-australia-softcover
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Australians have lost confidence in the power of imagination; parents rank it low on the list of attributes they value in their children. But imagination is key to creativity, empathy and action. It is the antidote to fear. Restoring confidence in the power to imagine and dream is key to both personal lives and the life of the nation. Knowing the past and breaking the silence are important, but culture leads politics. It's time to be bold.
Former publisher and founding editor of Griffith Review Julianne Schultz contemplates what Australia is today, and what it can be in the future, in her latest book The Idea of Australia: a search for the soul of the nation (2022, Allen & Unwin). Following Professor Schultz's presentation, she will be joined by broadcaster and author Peter Mares to discuss what a more ambitious, compassionate and informed nation looks like.
Buy a copy of the book online: https://shop.acmi.net.au/products/the-idea-of-australia-softcover
____________________________
Let's talk about the future of screen culture.
ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.
DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23
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![Frozen director Jennifer Lee [FULL TALK] | Disney: The Magic of Animation](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oxHIVP7osH0/mqdefault.jpg "Frozen director Jennifer Lee [FULL TALK] | Disney: The Magic of Animation
Hear from one of the top minds working in animation today.
Chief Creative Officer of@disneyanimation, Jennifer Lee – best known as the writer and director of the beloved Frozen films – speaks with ACMI Assistant Film Curator Maria Lewis. Go behind the doors of the Walt Disney Animation Studios with Lee as she talks about her career to date, including her inspiration and her experience at Disney.
About Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee is the Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS) and is the writer/director of Frozen 2 (2019) and Frozen (2013), the top two highest-grossing animated features ever released.
As Chief Creative Officer, Lee has creative oversight of all films, series, shorts and associated projects from Walt Disney Animation Studios. Lee is executive producer for the critically-acclaimed feature Raya and the Last Dragon and the upcoming November 2021 feature Encanto, in addition to the upcoming Disney+ projects Baymax, Zootopia+, and Iwáju, among others.
Directing the Frozen features with Chris Buck, Lee became the highest-grossing female director of a feature with more than $1.45 billion and $1.27 billion in global box office for Frozen 2 and Frozen, respectively. Frozen 2 received the Humanitas Prize for Feature Film, Family and the Kids’ Choice Award for Animated film, two Annie Awards and a Visual Effects Society Award. Frozen received multiple honours, including two Academy Awards®, the Golden Globe®, BAFTA® Award, PGA Award, five Annie Awards and two GRAMMY® Awards. She can be seen in her CCO role and as writer/director of Frozen 2 in the critically-acclaimed 6-episode series, Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2 on Disney+.
Lee’s career with Walt Disney Animation Studios began March 2011, when she became the co-writer of 2012’s Oscar®-nominated, arcade-hopping adventure Wreck-It Ralph. For their screenplay, she and Phil Johnston received an Annie Award. She then penned the screenplay for Frozen and went on to direct the film (with Buck). In 2014, for her work on Frozen, Lee was given Women In Film’s Dorothy Arzner Directors Award at the Crystal + Lucy Awards. That same year, she gave a memorable commencement speech at her undergraduate alma mater, University of New Hampshire, and was awarded an honorary doctorate degree.
In 2016, Lee was one of the writers of the story for the Academy Award-winning feature, Zootopia.
Lee was one of the executive producers of 2018’s Oscar-nominated feature Ralph Breaks the Internet. She also wrote the book for Frozen: the Broadway Musical, for which she received a Tony® Award nomination in 2018, as well as adapted the screenplay for the live action feature, A Wrinkle In Time that same year.
Before joining Walt Disney Animation Studios, Lee built a career in book publishing before she pursued screenwriting, entering Columbia University’s graduate Film program in 2001. There she received the William Goldman Award for excellence in screenwriting, and her first feature-length script Hinged on Stars won the Columbia University Film Festival. She graduated in 2005 with an MFA in film.
Lee lives in Los Angeles, California, with her family.
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Learn more about Disney: The Magic of Animation (13 May – 23 Jan 2021) at ACMI:
https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/disney-the-magic-of-animation-exhibition/")
