We're very pleased to be continuing our work with The Bridge in 2018. The Bridge is a leading disability services provider in Melbourne's South-East and we've been telling the stories of the organisation for the last three years. Recently we visited the three branches of the organisation, The Bridge Employment, The Bridge Connects and The Bridge Works. Below are some moments we captured showcasing the organisation's commitment to empowerment, choice, support and advocacy. 

This year's video campaign will focus on two of these services, The Bridge Connects and The Bridge Employment. We're looking forward to working closely with the team again to develop some new stories and share the successes of the organisation and the people they support. 

The iconic Melbourne Film Festival is underway for 2018 and we're elevated to say that Yarn will be on the big screen. Our video campaign for the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne (formerly VCA & MCM) will be preceding screenings across the festival. Featuring Melbourne University’s established alumni; Patricia Piccinini, Benjamin Northey and Richard Frankland. 

The entire videos can be viewed at: https://www.weareyarn.com.au/work/

Melbourne Film Festival will be running from 2-19th August 2018, tickets can be purchased at:   (http://miff.com.au/tickets) 

Drone image of reef installation off the coast of Portarlington, Victoria

Yarn is thrilled to be working with the National Centre for Coasts and Climate and the City of Greater Geelong to capture the incredible design, construction and installation of an artificial reef off the coast of Portarlington, Victoria. The innovative project aims to increase biodiversity, improve water quality and prevent erosion and flooding of the coastline by constructing an offshore breakwater of steel cages filled with local rock and recycled mussel shells.

The City of Greater Geelong’s reef engineers

Drone image of Rambler’s Road, Portarlington, Victoria

We’re currently producing a series of films that follows the journey of this incredible project and the people involved, from the conception through to the construction of the reef. It’s exciting and true to the values of Yarn to produce content that promotes people and projects working to preserve our local environment. The story of a local council working together to combat the large issue of coastal climate change is one we’re eager to continue filming and look forward to showing the series later this year.

Below are some incredible stills taken on our shoot along the coastline of the Bellarine Peninsula.

Reef installation off the coast of Portarlington, Victoria

Drone image of reef installation off the coast of Portarlington, Victoria

Drone image of reef installation off the coast of Portarlington, Victoria

Richard Frankland is the head of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development; a member of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music; and the subject of our third instalment of our VCA & Conservatorium Greats campaign. 

Inside Richard’s house

Richard is a prolific creative. A poet, musician, author and filmmaker, he's written, directed and produced over fifty video, documentary and film projects. A highly acclaimed activist, Richard was nominated for Australian of the Year in 2013 for his work with Indigenous community groups and work on lateral violence and community awareness. 

Richard at his property in Victoria

In June, we met and profiled Richard at his property in the southwest of Victoria. We were captivated by his story and look forward to sharing it with you in the coming month.

Richard at his property in Victoria

Our latest project with VicHealth is taking us around Victoria to tell the stories of the clever grant recipients that are keeping their communities active. 

"VicHealth’s Active Club Grants provide funding to increase the opportunities Victorians have to participate in community sport clubs." - VicHealth

We travelled to South Gippsland to film with Swell Mamas, a mother’s group bringing together the unexpected world’s of surfing and childcare to the beaches of Inverloch. We then journeyed out west to the You Yangs in regional Victoria to film with Escaping Your Comfort Zone, a body-positive hiking club for women.

We are looking forward to our upcoming shoots, capturing the incredible locations and communities assisted by VicHealth’s Active Club Grants. We'd like to thank everyone who has been involved so far.

Our second instalment for the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne (formerly VCA & MCM) features Associate Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey. Focusing on stories from established alumni in the fields of visual art, music, film and television, we interviewed Ben at Hamer Hall in Melbourne before joining him at his rehearsal and performance of Beethoven's 5th symphony with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Since studying conducting at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music from 2000-2002, Ben has appeared in an array of prestigious national and international performances. Receiving the 2010 Melbourne Prize Outstanding Musician’s Award, Ben is highly regarded for his "progressive and diverse approach to repertoire”. We’d like to thank him immensely for being involved in this production. 

We’d also like to thank Hamer Hall in Melbourne, ABC Studios at Ultimo in Sydney, Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre in Nowra and of course the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

We are very pleased to present our video campaign for the 'Homeless Grapes’ project. Wine retailer Vinomofo has already raised over $100,000 for homelessness through the initiative. In conjunction with 12 wineries across three regions, the project looks forward to accumulating a further $200,000 for the cause next year through the sale of their specialty wines. 

“We can see a near future where this is a global project - wine communities around the world donating their grapes, their time and their love to make beautiful wines in support of their local homeless.” - Vinomofo

Our latest recruitment campaign for the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne (formerly VCA & MCM), features stories from their established alumni in the fields of visual art, music, film and television. Our first video profiles the inimitable Patricia Piccinini, who first graduated from the VCA in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts (Painting) and is now a faculty member.

We met Patricia at her studio in Melbourne before travelling to Brisbane to see her latest exhibition ‘Curious Affection’ at The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). In what the gallery has called her “most ambitious exhibition to date”, Patricia has become the first Australian artist to occupy the entire ground floor of GOMA. 

We would like to sincerely thank GOMA and Patricia Piccinini and look forward to sharing her story with you.

Piccinini’s ‘Curious Affection’ will be exhibiting until August 5th, 2018 at The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA).

We're in the edit on our latest project with wine retailer Vinomofo. This video will tell the story of their Homeless Grapes initiative, which started in South Australia's McLaren Vale in 2015. Now in it's fourth year, Vinomofo, along with three local winemaking communities - including growers, pickers, winemakers, label designers and bottling companies - have come together to make a wine that Vinomofo goes on to sell. All the proceeds are donated to three charities that support people experiencing homelessness. It's a fabulous project with a great story that we've been thrilled to capture over the last few weeks at De Bortoli Wines in Victoria's Yarra Valley along with Inkwell Wines, Penny's Hill Wines and Chalk Hill Wines in South Australia's McLaren Vale. We're looking forward to the release of the film in a few weeks.