<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lord David Puttnam Lecture </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">(in person)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lecture title: </span></b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Culture and Technology: the new power couple </span></i><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">‘A Case History’</span></i><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Bookings (free - please share with your networks)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/culture-and-technology-the-new-power-couple-a-case-history-tickets-51844860373" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/culture-and-technology-the-new-power-couple-a-case-history-tickets-51844860373</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This Lecture:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)">This lecture is the second of two presentations <i>titled Culture and Technology, the New Power Couple</i>. Lord David Puttnam will be at RMIT in person to deliver a ‘case history’ on this topic.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)">The case history centres on the forthcoming film Lord Puttnam has recently had funded: ‘Arctic Thirty’. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lecture description:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tomorrow’s screen careers will be grounded in a whole new set of realities. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Today’s students will have to adjust to the demands of a rapidly evolving screen industry in an increasingly unstable political and social environment. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In this seminar David Puttnam will address these challenges through the lens of his own history as producer, politician and environmentalist; and the way all three roles have impacted the development of his forthcoming film ‘Arctic Thirty’.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Having retired from the movie industry in 1998 he has spent the past twenty years working in just about every aspect of the world of education.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Three years ago he obtained the rights to Ben Stewart’s book ‘Don’t Trust, Don’t Fear, Don’t Beg’, a gripping account of the experience of a group of Greenpeace activists in their attempt to stop the flow of Arctic oil.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Their actions and subsequent imprisonment in Russia are an extraordinary story - and, in a world reeling from the findings of the most recent IPCC Report, it’s proved sufficiently resonant to persuade David Puttnam out of retirement and back behind the camera.”</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Presented by the Screen and Sound Research Group, RMIT School of Media and Communication.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:20px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">BIO: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:20px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lord David Puttnam has worked in the international film industry over more than three decades. He has achieved the highest accolades, including 10 Academy Awards, 25 BAFTA Awards, a Palme d’Or from Cannes, and 10 Golden Globes. His film work includes: </span><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:20px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Mission</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:20px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, <i>The Killing Fields</i>, <i>Chariots of Fire</i>, <i>Midnight Express</i>, <i>Bugsy Malone </i>and <i>Local Hero</i>.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:20px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:20px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">He is a member of the House of Lords where he pursues an active role in a variety of areas, from educational and environmental issues to digital skills. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:20px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:20px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">His extensive work in political arenas has brought him into the world of education. 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