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With the sun shining and the breeze blowing across Lake Macquarie, Raffety’s Resort was a great location for Hidden Door to turn the tables on the Warner Bros staff and challenge them to a Tropfest style Short Film Festival.

The day started off by creating the movie sets, using aerosol art a.k.a Graffiti. Each team learnt some tips and tricks under the guidance of our professional artists and created Sci-Fi, Western and Horror scenes.

Conference rooms were transformed into film studios and employees into actors, make-up artists, script writers, cameramen and directors. With the help of professional film directors each group shot their short film with hilarious results.

“Starting the day with the “building” of the sets was perfect as everyone started to get into the genre of their short film straight away. Having the experts help with the filming was brilliant and made a huge difference to the “professionalism” of the films. It was a great day all round and the staff have not stopped talking about it yet.”
Melanie Faustmann, Warner Bros.

A series of original artworks, inspired by the theme ‘reselience’ are currently on sale on eBay with all proceeds going to Mission Australia ARTWORKS! project which helps disadvantaged children reach their potential through art and creativity.

Created on Hamilton Island in less than 3 hours, small teams of people worked together to develop theories of resilience and use them to create an original painting. Each team was also given the challenge of working within the guideline of a specific artistic style.

Each 1m canvass represents the vision of each team and how they integrated two objects - natural and man-made - into an outstanding piece of art within the theme of resilience.

All proceeds will go to Mission Australia ARTWORKS!

Putting a little sparkle into an Entertainment Industry Leader.

Having left the Sydney Entertainment Centre bright and early bound for the Hunter Valley, the group from Arena Management, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Sydney Entertainment Centre, were set for 2 days of fun and relaxation. First up a bit of team bonding; armed with cameras and a team mobile phone, each team set off to conquer challenges throughout the Hunter Valley.

Text messages gave them glues that led to activities including a helicopter flight, 18holes of putt putt golf, martial arts instruction and cheese and wine tasting. During each activity, the team had to complete a challenge, such as matching wine to descriptions, snapping landmarks from the helicopter and breaking planks of wood with a single karate kick!

The teams earned a reward, so we treated them to a private dinning experience at The Rock restaurant.  Pre dinner entertainment was in the form of a cooking demonstration and wine tasting conducted by renowned winemaker Usher Tinkler. 

A lazy morning followed a good night sleep at Peppers Guest House, then it was off to Petersons Champagne House for lunch and a light hearted wine appreciation from owner and head winemaker Colin Peterson.  A fantastic way to celebrate a milestone and as Colin Peterson says “Life would be flat without bubbles”.