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Heath Ledger tribute night plans under way

Rob Stoykovski is in the process of planning a tribute worthy of Heath Ledger.

It is a lot of pressure for the ambitious 23-year-old and his four-man team who run local events, marketing and promotions company I-Spy.

I-Spy is behind the coming Heath: Official Tribute Night, an evening in honour of the late Perth actor which will take place on February 12 at the Burswood Entertainment Complex.

The event has been years in the making with half of the proceeds going to three charities close to the late actor's heart - Telethon, His Majesty's Theatre Foundation and Australians in Film, which has the Heath Ledger Scholarship beneath it.

A year after Ledger's death in 2009, Stoykovski said he first made contact with the Ledger family and explained his vision for the tribute.

While they loved the idea, at the time it was too close to the Academy Award winning actor's death.

"From our point of view it was 'well if the Ledgers aren't on board, we don't feel comfortable about doing it at all' so we shelved it," Stoykovski explains to _Access All Areas _.

"And then last July after our massive Sex and the City 2 premiere party at the Perth Town Hall and Cinema Paradiso, we touched base with Heath's dad *Kim * again to see where they were at and if anything had changed and basically with the Heath Ledger Theatre opening coming up and with it being almost three years since his passing, they said it was the right time and they could now endorse it."

Stoykovski says the aim of the "one of kind, one-night only affair" is to have a celebration and tribute to Ledger, with his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight going to be the focal point with a screening of the film at Movies by Burswood.

"There are corporate and international guests and the Ledger family who will attend a pre-screening function which will be followed by a 30-minute documentary made by a local video team recapping his accomplishments and then into The Dark Knight," he says.

"There will be a few surprises along the way, which we think capsulate Heath's personality, his journey, his spirit and his legacy."

The event made headlines when British actress Sienna Miller confirmed her appearance, only to pull out the following day.

"She was confirmed for six weeks and was really looking to the event. I felt sorry for her because it was completely out of her control, she wanted to be here but filming on her new movie had blown out so it was completely out of her control," he says.

"We had a lot of people wanting to come to the event, such as Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sam Worthington, Nicole Kidman, Baz Luhrmann and Ledger's Candy co-star Abbie Cornish who said she will be there in "spirit".

"We are very fortunate Gemma Ward is going to be a part of it. We just told her we would love to have her there considering her friendship and knowing him personally, because we do want the people who were close to Heath there."

While the event is taking up all of I-Spy's resources at the moment, Stoykovski promises more local events are on the horizon, revealing they are working on something involved in the live music scene in the inner city which "has never been done before".