Australia Day Awards Ceremony

Friday 26 January 2018

Time: 5pm

Gloucester Park

Bring along a picnic and enjoy some live entertainment, listen to our Australia Day Ambassador and witness some fine Temora locals being recognised for their hard work and committment to the community.

Australia Day Ambassador 2018 - Anupam Sharma

Anupam Sharma is a filmmaker, speaker and author with a Bachelor’s and Master’s

degrees in Films and Theatre, and a post -graduate thesis on cinema from University

of NSW. Named as one of the fifty most powerful & influential Australian

film professionals by Encore magazine, he is the founding head of films & casting

TEMPLE, one of the most prolific and award winning international production &

consultancy firm based out of Fox-Studios – Sydney

He is currently in post of his feature length film which documents Australian adventurer

Pat Farmer’s test of human spirit and behind the scenes drama as he runs the length of

India up to 85 kilometers a day for 64 days with the backdrop of colourful, enchanting,

challenging, organized chaos of India. With development investment from Screen

Australia and Screen NSW, Anupam is also currently developing a slate of high profile

Australian film projects with major Australian film makers including Bill Bennett and

John Winter.

Anupam directed the much publicized Australian feature unINDIAN starring cricket

legend, Brett Lee, and internationally acclaimed actress, Tannishtha Chatterjee. The film

had its world premier at Montreal Film Festival in September 2015.

Anupam was founding head of AI Film Fund (2013-16) which was based on his idea of

alternative funding for diverse Australian films. As part of TEMPLE, worshipping

cinema, Anupam leads a team of film professionals, who have worked on more than 264

projects between Australia and India, Denmark, USA, & China, including feature films,

television serials, music videos, television commercials, as well as film festivals. He

directed and produced one of the highest budget ad campaigns by Destination New South

Wales for South Asia.

In 2011 Anupam launched the Australian Film Initiative to market and promote

Australian screen culture in non-traditional markets, resulting in India’s first annual

Australian Film Festival with support from Hugh Jackman in 2011, a Baz Luhrmann

retrospective in 2012/2013, and Phillip Noyce retrospective in 14-15. His other credits

include directing the commissioned short documentary Indian Aussies – Terms &

Conditions Apply, as well as heading up production on most of the high budget

Bollywood films shot in Australia. Anupam has advised many government and private

bodies in relation to Indian films, including Baz Luhrman’s Moulin Rouge, Channel

Seven, the Department of Foreign Affairs (Australia), and World Movies among others.

In 2012 he was the chief judge and advisor to the first India centric Australian reality

television show on SBS - Bollywood Star.

With a high social media following of over quarter million twitter on his verified twitter

account, Anupam is a respected commentator and frequent speaker at various conferences

and on television programs including the ABC, the NINE Network, SBS TV, SPAA, Art

Gallery of NSW, and the POWERHOUSE Museum. Anupam Sharma was honoured to

be an Australia Day Ambassador five years in a row, and was one of the thirteen young

professionals shortlisted in the prestigious ‘Face To Watch’ series by The (SYDNEY)

Magazine.

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Australia Day Awards Ceremony

Friday 26 January 2018

Time: 5pm

Gloucester Park

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