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DATE: Friday 14th March
TIME: 6pm for a 6:30pm start

COST: $25pp inc GST
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Acting Mastery is excited to announce our first Industry Talk Night for 2025, with award-winning screenwriter, director, and creator, Yolanda Ramke!

Yolanda Ramke is an award-winning screenwriter and director. Having worked for several years behind-the-scenes in the Australian film and television industry, Yolanda first found success in 2013 with the short film, ‘Cargo’ (which she wrote, and co-directed with Ben Howling). A viral hit online, the film garnered over 20 million views on YouTube and an international festival run. 

In 2016, Yolanda made her feature directing debut with their expanded take on ‘Cargo’. Starring BAFTA and Emmy Award winning actor, Martin Freeman, the film premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and blazed a trail as the first Australian Netflix Original feature film. 

‘Cargo’ was nominated for 5 AACTA awards, including Best Film and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was recognised by the Australian Film Critics Association (AFCA) with 5 award nominations, three Film Critics Circle of Australia award nominations, and 2 Fangoria Chainsaw award nominations (including Best First Feature). Yolanda went on to win her first Australian Writers' Guild (AWGIE) award for ‘Cargo’ in the Feature Film - Adaptation category. 

In 2019, Yolanda co-directed 2 episodes of ‘The Haunting Of Bly Manor’, the follow-up to hit Netflix series, ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’, created by Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass, ‘The Fall Of The House Of Usher’). Since returning to Australia, Yolanda has won her second AWGIE award for Telemovie or Miniseries as a member of the writing team on SBS' ‘New Gold Mountain’.

Yolanda has also served as creator, executive producer, and as a writer and co-director on ‘Troppo’, inspired by the novel Crimson Lake, by New York Times best-selling author, Candice Fox.