Make a booking with Mike Rubbo.

Mike Rubbo is happy to give talks on a number of subjects either to High School/University students or adults. For students, the following topics suggested.

1. Shakepeare and his writing. The great puzzle.

In this talk, Mike explores the theory that he advances in his feature documentary, Much Ado About Something. Was there a hidden hand working behind the Bard, contributing to the works we know as Shakespeare's? For more information on this topic, explore the web site. For a young audience, this talk also explores what constitutes the truth. How do we know something is true? Mike shows excepts of his film with this talk.

50 min.

2. Making documentaries.The search for truth in real life.

Mike has spent a life time making award winning documentaries (see his personal site) He has also been Head of Documentaries at the ABC, and Executive Producer of Race Around the World. Now, he has his own mini DV camera, and is making documentaries around the world, programs that he sells to the ABC, BBC and US public Television. He explains to students how he get his ideas and then how these ideas become films. The secret of making documentaries is the ability to get access to interesting people at key moments in their lives. Mike speaks about getting this access in a way which is relevant to any student creatively observing and relating to the world around them. He ends this talk with some thoughts on ethics. What do you have the right to show? Mike will show excerpts from Race Around the World and documentaries he has made.

50 min.

3. Documentaries and fiction, different ways of seeing the world.

As well as making documentaries, Mike has written and directed four feature films, one of which, Vincent and Me, won an Emmy. He is able to speak about the difference in making fiction and documentary is a way which will be very interesting to students trying to relate to the media world in which they live. Excerpts of his fiction and documentaries will be shown.

50 Min

For adult Audiences.

Variations on the above themes will also make interesting talks for adult audiences.

Shakespeare, the man Behind the Myth.

For sophisticated management seminars, Mike suggests that his talk on Shakespeare, the Man behind the Myth, makes for a wonderful intellectual encounter. This talk is guaranteed to stimulate executives who need to be jumped out of existing thought ruts. A wonderful way to start a retreat or an extended management encounter. Length as required.

1hr. plus or minus.

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Mike Rubbo