**We now cater for Melbourne residents [as of 23^rd November 2008]!** 

Gaia's Genesis acts as a talent pool for actors, film crew, musicians, animators and graphic designers wanting to get into the film and television industry. Catering mainly for those residing in Adelaide and Melbourne, we do allow interstate and overseas members but they will need provide their own travel and accommodation for projects filmed in South Australia and Victoria due to financial constraints.

We are also currently looking to form our own production company with the assistance of those within the talent pool, focusing mainly on projects with a multicultural theme. Projects in the pipeline can be found here.

Affiliation Program
We now have over 110 actors and 40 production crew in our membership. We are prepared to offer production houses a range of talents needed for your project through our affiliation program. All you have to do is join our free membership and contact the webmaster with the name of your production house and she will forward any production roles to the talent pool, asking them to contact you. Any queries about our affiliation program can be found in our FAQ section.

We also cater for film students in Adelaide and Melbourne! Students will have exclusive access to the cast request application form for their tertiary projects. They may also request crew for more advanced projects. Please refer to the Membership FAQ for more information.

Genesis Directory
Did you have a production company/group website or an online CV you wanted to share with everyone? A new feature has been added to the site known as the Genesis Directory which acts in the same way as a yellow pages site. You'll need to log into the site in order to add your site to it.

Who else do you cater for?
We currently only cater for people in Adelaide and Melbourne. If you know anyone who would be interested in joining our talent pool, please direct them to this site!

LinkedIn
Are you a member of LinkedIn? If so, you might consider joining the Gaia's Genessis group to let other members connected to the professional netwoking site know that we exist. Yes, we are spreading our wings to promote ourselves on the internet as a professional talent pool.

Facebook
We are always on the lookout for ways to promote the site so we can better give our members work opportunities. For those of you who are members of facebook, we'd like to inform that we have a page on the social networking site. Please consider becoming a fan and helping us promote the site. 

N.B: You will need to be a member of facebook to view the page.

How many people have you worked with in the Genesis Pool? As you may or may not be aware, we actually have a feature on the site known as Connections which works in a very similar way to a myspace or facebook friends request.

So, how do you connect to other members of the Genesis Pool? All you have to do is log into the site and click on the Members List. From there, you can choose the person you have worked with and bring up their profile where you'll see a Connections button on top of their profile. Select Request Connection and wait for approval!

Be warned though that you can only request one connection at a time so if you are well-networked, it might take a while to work through all your connections!

N.B: You need to be a member of the site to use this feature.

As the university semester draws to a close, Gaia's Genesis is looking to becoming a professional production company. Having said that, we are looking for someone with experience in accountancy to help us deal with the bookkeeping of financial issues associated with running a production company. If you can help us out, please contact us.