Get your cameras rolling and ready for a wonderful community collaboration between Community Bank Sunshine Coast and Sunny Coast Showdown.
It’s time to learn to grow and promote your business through creative video content with a free event at the Peregian Digital Hub on Thursday 25 May from 6-8pm.
Experts in video creation, you’ll hear from masters in storytelling about how to grow and promote your business and how a film industry benefits all businesses.
Trish Radge, chair of Sunshine Coast Community Financial Services who operate Bendigo’s Community Bank of Marcoola, Cooroy and Tewantin-Noosa, said they chose to sponsor Sunny Coast Showdown due to their focus on building a film industry on the Sunshine Coast.
“We see that collaboration as meaning more jobs for the coast, which is much better for our community,“ Trish said.
“Our goal is to improve banking for everybody. That means providing businesses with a banking service, but also if we can help grow their business then that’s better for everybody.
“It’s actually thanks to our customers that we can put these events on because it’s their banking that is making the difference. By banking with us it means that we have this money to collaborate with Sunny Coast Showdown and provide these free events.“
The Sunshine Coast film and TV competition reveals the region’s best up-and-coming screenwriters and producers announced its 2023 winners in March.
Each winner will receive mentoring, support and funding to elevate their projects, produce them locally, and deliver the final product at the Sunny Coast Showdown showcase festival on 24 June.
The screen incubator and festival is the brainchild of Powderfinger’s Jon Coghill and former USA Survivor producer Dan Munday who, together with the Sunshine Coast Screen Collective, are looking to boost the local film and TV industry.
Dan said the local film industry was important for everyone on the coast.
“A legitimate film industry here spreads money through the community to every profession and trade,“ he said.
“A lot of people don’t realise that everyone benefits from something like this, not just the actors and the directors. Whether you’ve got a catering company, whether you’re a carpenter, whether you’re a lawyer, the money from film flows into almost every aspect.“
He said the sponsorship they received from Bendigo Bank really elevated and scaled up the content they were able to produce this year.
“When we did the Showdown the first time, we did it for $44,000 totally plus about $200,000 of volunteer hours,“ Dan said.
“This year we raised $180,000, of which $70,000 came from Bendigo Bank. We wouldn’t be producing on this scale and getting the great product that we’re getting without their contribution.
“I think they’re contribution wasn’t only in money though. Their brand and their community spirit is 100 per cent aligned with what we’re doing with Showdown. We are a non-profit and we’re all about trying to make connections in the community which otherwise wouldn’t happen.“
Dan encouraged every business owner on the Sunshine Coast to attend the upcoming Digital Hub event.
“There’s content that can be video created for every business, whether it’s for traditional advertisement on tv, within the start of the movies when you go to your local cinema, or is it going to be something that is digital and on Facebook and socials,“ he said.
“We’re going to have the team from Blink, which is a local production company, who are going to come up and talk about that element.“
His top tip for businesses creating videos was to use professionals to create great content.
“They’re there for a reason and they spend a lot of time curating their craft. There’s some incredible producers of content on the Sunshine Coast,“ he said.
“It may feel like a bit of money when you’re looking at costs to create it but the content they produce is really powerful.
“I’d definitely recommend the team from Blink, Saturate based in Peregian Digital Hub, and also Social Tap is another one.“
EVENT DETAILS:
Date: Thursday 25 May
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Peregian Digital Hub, 253-255 David Low Way, Peregian Beach
Booking is essential. RSVP 0492 970 507. Pizza and beverages provided.
