Bong Joon-ho with the Sydney Film Prize. (Photo: Enzo Amato)
Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite has won the Sydney Film Festival’s $60,000 Sydney Film Prize.
The dark comedy, which also won the Palme D’or at the Cannes Film Festival, was selected out of 12 competition films.
Bong Joon-ho, who was in attendance at the festival, accepted the award at last night’s Closing Night Gala awards ceremony at the State Theatre, ahead of the Australian premiere screening of Danny Boyle’s Yesterday.
Accepting the award, he said: “This festival is really amazing, especially the audience… really special and extraordinary. This is the most meaningful prize for me – in this beautiful city and beautiful theatre, and one of the most beautiful audiences in the world.”
The festival jury was comprised of Australian producer John Maynard (president); Australian filmmaker Ana Kokkinos; Brazilian actor and director Wagner Moura; Kiwi filmmaker Gaylene Preston...
Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite has won the Sydney Film Festival’s $60,000 Sydney Film Prize.
The dark comedy, which also won the Palme D’or at the Cannes Film Festival, was selected out of 12 competition films.
Bong Joon-ho, who was in attendance at the festival, accepted the award at last night’s Closing Night Gala awards ceremony at the State Theatre, ahead of the Australian premiere screening of Danny Boyle’s Yesterday.
Accepting the award, he said: “This festival is really amazing, especially the audience… really special and extraordinary. This is the most meaningful prize for me – in this beautiful city and beautiful theatre, and one of the most beautiful audiences in the world.”
The festival jury was comprised of Australian producer John Maynard (president); Australian filmmaker Ana Kokkinos; Brazilian actor and director Wagner Moura; Kiwi filmmaker Gaylene Preston...
- 6/17/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Indie distributor Lightyear Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Jirga, Australia’s submission for Oscar consideration in the foreign-language film category, from Visit Films.
Written and directed by Benjamin Gilmour (Son of a Lion), the pic stars Sam Smith as a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan to seek redemption for killing a civilian man during the war. Shot on the fly in Afghanistan after Pakistan withdrew permission to film there, Jirga is the winner of the Cinefest Oz Film Prize.
Lightyear plans to release the film, produced by John Maynard, theatrically in the spring.
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Written and directed by Benjamin Gilmour (Son of a Lion), the pic stars Sam Smith as a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan to seek redemption for killing a civilian man during the war. Shot on the fly in Afghanistan after Pakistan withdrew permission to film there, Jirga is the winner of the Cinefest Oz Film Prize.
Lightyear plans to release the film, produced by John Maynard, theatrically in the spring.
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- 11/29/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Indie distributor Lightyear Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Jirga, Australia’s submission for Oscar consideration in the foreign-language film category, from Visit Films.
Written and directed by Benjamin Gilmour (Son of a Lion), the pic stars Sam Smith as a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan to seek redemption for killing a civilian man during the war. Shot on the fly in Afghanistan after Pakistan withdrew permission to film there, Jirga is the winner of the Cinefest Oz Film Prize.
Lightyear plans to release the film, produced by John Maynard, theatrically in the spring.
“...
Written and directed by Benjamin Gilmour (Son of a Lion), the pic stars Sam Smith as a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan to seek redemption for killing a civilian man during the war. Shot on the fly in Afghanistan after Pakistan withdrew permission to film there, Jirga is the winner of the Cinefest Oz Film Prize.
Lightyear plans to release the film, produced by John Maynard, theatrically in the spring.
“...
- 11/29/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Discovery selection screens to press and industry on Saturday.
Visit Films has come on board to represent worldwide rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to the Pashto- and English-language drama Jirga ahead of its North American premiere in Tiff next week.
The Discovery selection screens to press and industry on Saturday (September 8) and won the top award at CinefestOZ 2018 following the world premiere at Sydney Film festival in June. The North American premiere is on Tuesday (11).
Sam Smith stars as a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan to make peace with the family of a civilian he killed accidentally during combat,...
Visit Films has come on board to represent worldwide rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to the Pashto- and English-language drama Jirga ahead of its North American premiere in Tiff next week.
The Discovery selection screens to press and industry on Saturday (September 8) and won the top award at CinefestOZ 2018 following the world premiere at Sydney Film festival in June. The North American premiere is on Tuesday (11).
Sam Smith stars as a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan to make peace with the family of a civilian he killed accidentally during combat,...
- 9/7/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Storm Boy.
Screen Australia has unveiled the recipients of its last production investment funding round of 2016. $15 million is shared between seven films and eight television projects, including anticipated titles such as Fred Schepisi.s Andorra and the Shawn Seet remake of Storm Boy..
.We are delighted to be supporting TV projects from so many of the major players all in one round including Foxtel, Channel Seven, Network Ten, the ABC and Sbs," CEO Graeme Mason said. "And in film we look forward to seeing the latest from acclaimed talents Fred Schepisi, Jonathan Teplitzky and John Maynard."
The successful feature film projects are:.
– A contemporary re-imagining of 1976 classic Storm Boy from writer Justin Monjo (The Secret Daughter, Spear), director Shawn Seet (Deep Water, The Code) and Ambience Entertainment producers Michael Boughen and Matthew Street (Tomorrow When the War Began). This time around we meet Mike .Storm Boy. Kingley as a grandfather...
Screen Australia has unveiled the recipients of its last production investment funding round of 2016. $15 million is shared between seven films and eight television projects, including anticipated titles such as Fred Schepisi.s Andorra and the Shawn Seet remake of Storm Boy..
.We are delighted to be supporting TV projects from so many of the major players all in one round including Foxtel, Channel Seven, Network Ten, the ABC and Sbs," CEO Graeme Mason said. "And in film we look forward to seeing the latest from acclaimed talents Fred Schepisi, Jonathan Teplitzky and John Maynard."
The successful feature film projects are:.
– A contemporary re-imagining of 1976 classic Storm Boy from writer Justin Monjo (The Secret Daughter, Spear), director Shawn Seet (Deep Water, The Code) and Ambience Entertainment producers Michael Boughen and Matthew Street (Tomorrow When the War Began). This time around we meet Mike .Storm Boy. Kingley as a grandfather...
- 11/29/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Vr project Buried.
Screen Australia has announced its latest funding round, with $3 million in production and development funding split between two Indigenous TV projects, eight multiplatform projects, eight feature films, and two individuals and two companies.
The two Indigenous television projects to have received production investment are:
–... ABC TV.s previously announced Indigenous comedy drama series The Warriors. From Robert Connolly's Arenamedia, the show is set in the competitive world of Australian Rules Football, and has major production investment from Screen Australia and funding support from Film Victoria;
–... Nitv documentary Carry The Flag,.which delves into the story behind the Torres Strait Island flag designed by Bernard Namok, from Tamarind Tree Pictures with Screen Queensland and Screen Territory support.
The eight multiplatform projects to have received production investment are:
–... Vr project The Buried, a 3D experience that plunges the viewer into a magical Dreamtime world, from Indigenous writer/director Tyson Mowarin,...
Screen Australia has announced its latest funding round, with $3 million in production and development funding split between two Indigenous TV projects, eight multiplatform projects, eight feature films, and two individuals and two companies.
The two Indigenous television projects to have received production investment are:
–... ABC TV.s previously announced Indigenous comedy drama series The Warriors. From Robert Connolly's Arenamedia, the show is set in the competitive world of Australian Rules Football, and has major production investment from Screen Australia and funding support from Film Victoria;
–... Nitv documentary Carry The Flag,.which delves into the story behind the Torres Strait Island flag designed by Bernard Namok, from Tamarind Tree Pictures with Screen Queensland and Screen Territory support.
The eight multiplatform projects to have received production investment are:
–... Vr project The Buried, a 3D experience that plunges the viewer into a magical Dreamtime world, from Indigenous writer/director Tyson Mowarin,...
- 10/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Collisions still..Photo credit Piers Mussared.
Lynette Wallworth is working at the cutting edge of a form whose future is still unknown: virtual reality..
The Australian filmmaker-artist has been nurtured by Sundance's New Frontier sidebar, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
New Frontier presents developing tech and cutting-edge experimental work. Wallworth describes it as "anything that isn't the traditional cinema experience"..
The multi-disciplinary artist is currently in California, in the middle of conforming her latest film, Collisions, before presenting at New Frontier for the third time.
Wallworth previously exhibited an interactive installation, Evolution of Fearlessness, and in 2013 she brought the John Maynard-produced Coral: Rekindling Venus.to Park City:.Kenneth Turan of the La Times called the full-dome film "immersive cinema at its most spectacular".
Soon after Sundance 2015, at which."Vr really hit in a very big way", Sundance senior programmer and curator of New Frontier, Shari Frilot, started talking...
Lynette Wallworth is working at the cutting edge of a form whose future is still unknown: virtual reality..
The Australian filmmaker-artist has been nurtured by Sundance's New Frontier sidebar, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
New Frontier presents developing tech and cutting-edge experimental work. Wallworth describes it as "anything that isn't the traditional cinema experience"..
The multi-disciplinary artist is currently in California, in the middle of conforming her latest film, Collisions, before presenting at New Frontier for the third time.
Wallworth previously exhibited an interactive installation, Evolution of Fearlessness, and in 2013 she brought the John Maynard-produced Coral: Rekindling Venus.to Park City:.Kenneth Turan of the La Times called the full-dome film "immersive cinema at its most spectacular".
Soon after Sundance 2015, at which."Vr really hit in a very big way", Sundance senior programmer and curator of New Frontier, Shari Frilot, started talking...
- 1/6/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Luke Ford and Anna Samson play a distinctly odd couple at the centre of What Time Is My Heart?, the debut feature from writer-director Romi Trower.
Produced by Tristram Miall, the privately financed film also features Brooke Satchwell, Wade Briggs, Meyne Wyatt, Eddie Baroo and Kaarin Fairfax. Shooting wrapped in suburban Melbourne at the end of last month.
Ford, whose recent credits include Infini, Catching Milat and Deadline Gallipoli, plays Adrian, an It genius with a penchant for fast cars, leather gloves and soppy 1980s pop music, who also happens to have Ocd.
Samson (The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Winners & Losers) is Grace, a street artist with multiple personalities who can only engage in sexual activity through her promiscuous alter ego named G.
The new neighbours find themselves in therapy with the same psychiatrist and share a walk home one evening, beginning a kind of impossible love story with no touching,...
Produced by Tristram Miall, the privately financed film also features Brooke Satchwell, Wade Briggs, Meyne Wyatt, Eddie Baroo and Kaarin Fairfax. Shooting wrapped in suburban Melbourne at the end of last month.
Ford, whose recent credits include Infini, Catching Milat and Deadline Gallipoli, plays Adrian, an It genius with a penchant for fast cars, leather gloves and soppy 1980s pop music, who also happens to have Ocd.
Samson (The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Winners & Losers) is Grace, a street artist with multiple personalities who can only engage in sexual activity through her promiscuous alter ego named G.
The new neighbours find themselves in therapy with the same psychiatrist and share a walk home one evening, beginning a kind of impossible love story with no touching,...
- 8/20/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Jennifer Peedom.s Sherpa and Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed will screen at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival next month.
They are among 26 titles selected for the Tiff Docs section of the fest, which runs from September 10 to 20, enhancing Australia.s profile at the event where Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker will have its world premiere in Gala Presentations and Simon Stone.s The Daughter will have its North American premiere in Special Presentations.
Produced by Bridget Ikin and John Smithson, Peedom.s film chronicles how Sherpas united in grief and anger to reclaim Mount Everest after an icefall killed 15 of their members on Mount Everest.. It will open in Australia in February, co-distributed by John Maynard's Footprint Films and Transmission.
It will be the international premiere of Armstrong.s doc which profiles Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly, who won three Academy Awards.
Among the world premieres...
They are among 26 titles selected for the Tiff Docs section of the fest, which runs from September 10 to 20, enhancing Australia.s profile at the event where Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker will have its world premiere in Gala Presentations and Simon Stone.s The Daughter will have its North American premiere in Special Presentations.
Produced by Bridget Ikin and John Smithson, Peedom.s film chronicles how Sherpas united in grief and anger to reclaim Mount Everest after an icefall killed 15 of their members on Mount Everest.. It will open in Australia in February, co-distributed by John Maynard's Footprint Films and Transmission.
It will be the international premiere of Armstrong.s doc which profiles Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly, who won three Academy Awards.
Among the world premieres...
- 8/11/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
A division of Universal Pictures will distribute Sherpa, Jen Peedom.s feature documentary which chronicles how Sherpas united in grief and anger to reclaim Mount Everest after an avalanche killed 16 of their members. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group will release the film worldwide, excluding Australia and New Zealand. The doc had its world premiere in official competition at the Sydney Film Festival at a full house at the State Theatre on Sunday, sparking a chorus of admiration on social media. Fox International Channels MD Jacqui Feeney posted on Facebook, .Well done Jen - film was magnificent. Great story well told..
Producer Rosemary Blight: "Sherpa is a wonderful film, a must see, courageous film making."
Abigail Sheppard: "Incredible film: at once tragic and inspiring. And beautifully made." James Bradley:. .Congrats Jen, it.s a very powerful and moving film - raises very deep questions about the Everest industry.
Producer Rosemary Blight: "Sherpa is a wonderful film, a must see, courageous film making."
Abigail Sheppard: "Incredible film: at once tragic and inspiring. And beautifully made." James Bradley:. .Congrats Jen, it.s a very powerful and moving film - raises very deep questions about the Everest industry.
- 6/8/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Felix Media will be the first screen-based business to move into Carriageworks, the multi-media arts precinct in inner Sydney.
John Maynard and Bridget Ikin.s production banner is joining two other new resident companies, the Sydney Chamber Orchestra and Aboriginal theatre troupe Moogahlin, in November. Felix Media.s multi-media works include Lynette Wallworth.s full dome presentation Coral, Angelica Mesiti.s Citizen.s Band, The Calling, The Begin-Again and In the Ear of the Tyrant, and John Weiley.s documentary marking the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House, The Dream of Perfection/Autopsy on a Dream.
Next year Felix is partnering with the Adelaide Film Festival, the University of Western Australia.s Cultural Precinct and Carriageworks on Char Soo, Adelaide-based artist Hossein Valamanesh.s four-screen work set in a street market in Iran.
Carriageworks Director Lisa Havilah said: .Carriageworks is dedicated to championing ambitious and risk-taking, artist-led programming. The...
John Maynard and Bridget Ikin.s production banner is joining two other new resident companies, the Sydney Chamber Orchestra and Aboriginal theatre troupe Moogahlin, in November. Felix Media.s multi-media works include Lynette Wallworth.s full dome presentation Coral, Angelica Mesiti.s Citizen.s Band, The Calling, The Begin-Again and In the Ear of the Tyrant, and John Weiley.s documentary marking the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House, The Dream of Perfection/Autopsy on a Dream.
Next year Felix is partnering with the Adelaide Film Festival, the University of Western Australia.s Cultural Precinct and Carriageworks on Char Soo, Adelaide-based artist Hossein Valamanesh.s four-screen work set in a street market in Iran.
Carriageworks Director Lisa Havilah said: .Carriageworks is dedicated to championing ambitious and risk-taking, artist-led programming. The...
- 10/16/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Go big or go small- just avoid the middle ground in Australian film budgets.
That approach is being advocated by some industry executives and producers in response to the global trend which sees many mid-level films being marginalised.
.In light of the recent flight of the indie audiences in Australia and worldwide and the fact that indie films are struggling in the cinematic marketplace, there will be an increasing bifurcation of the production landscape,. predicts Safc CEO Richard Harris.
.There has long been a discussion about what has been dubbed the .dead zone. for feature films, somewhere between $5m-$15m.
.Some Australian producers will continue to see cinema as the main game for their film and therefore they will think about their budget in terms of competing in what is an increasingly difficult theatrical space.
.Others, however, will be . or in many cases already are . thinking about making their film...
That approach is being advocated by some industry executives and producers in response to the global trend which sees many mid-level films being marginalised.
.In light of the recent flight of the indie audiences in Australia and worldwide and the fact that indie films are struggling in the cinematic marketplace, there will be an increasing bifurcation of the production landscape,. predicts Safc CEO Richard Harris.
.There has long been a discussion about what has been dubbed the .dead zone. for feature films, somewhere between $5m-$15m.
.Some Australian producers will continue to see cinema as the main game for their film and therefore they will think about their budget in terms of competing in what is an increasingly difficult theatrical space.
.Others, however, will be . or in many cases already are . thinking about making their film...
- 9/11/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Victorians will be able to watch Kasimir Burgess. debut feature Fell later this month at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image or on VoD for the same fee- $10.
The initiative continues the novel approach to exploiting the film being undertaken by producer/distributor John Maynard.
Fell was available on VoD in New South Wales, Queensland, the Act, South Australia and Northern Territory for 50 hours after its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.
The results have encouraged Footprint Films'. Maynard and the Acmi to stream the film for $10 from August 21 to September 27 from three outlets: Acmi's website, Fell's website and its Facebook page.
The film is booked to screen at Acmi for seven days, restricted to 20 sessions to try to maximise the attendance-per-screening, from August 21 at the same price.
Maynard is convinced high ticket prices at the major chains are deterring cinemagoing. He points to a recent...
The initiative continues the novel approach to exploiting the film being undertaken by producer/distributor John Maynard.
Fell was available on VoD in New South Wales, Queensland, the Act, South Australia and Northern Territory for 50 hours after its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.
The results have encouraged Footprint Films'. Maynard and the Acmi to stream the film for $10 from August 21 to September 27 from three outlets: Acmi's website, Fell's website and its Facebook page.
The film is booked to screen at Acmi for seven days, restricted to 20 sessions to try to maximise the attendance-per-screening, from August 21 at the same price.
Maynard is convinced high ticket prices at the major chains are deterring cinemagoing. He points to a recent...
- 8/14/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Producer/distributor John Maynard is taking a novel approach to releasing Kasimir Burgess. drama Fell after its Victorian premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Maynard has booked the film into Australian Centre for the Moving Image for six days, starting on August 21.
Reasoning that watching films is a better experience when cinemas are well- attended, he is limiting the number of sessions to 13: two per night plus afternoon sessions on the Saturday and Sunday.
Moreover, to overcome any price resistance, tickets for all sessions will cost just $10.
After that, Acmi will stage screenings in September in the Australian Perspectives program for Acmi members.
Burgess. debut feature scripted by Natasha Pincus stars Matt Nable as guy who is grief stricken when his daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident and vows revenge against the driver (Daniel Henshall) after the latter is released from prison.
Fell screens at Miff on...
Maynard has booked the film into Australian Centre for the Moving Image for six days, starting on August 21.
Reasoning that watching films is a better experience when cinemas are well- attended, he is limiting the number of sessions to 13: two per night plus afternoon sessions on the Saturday and Sunday.
Moreover, to overcome any price resistance, tickets for all sessions will cost just $10.
After that, Acmi will stage screenings in September in the Australian Perspectives program for Acmi members.
Burgess. debut feature scripted by Natasha Pincus stars Matt Nable as guy who is grief stricken when his daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident and vows revenge against the driver (Daniel Henshall) after the latter is released from prison.
Fell screens at Miff on...
- 7/22/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Australian media artist Lynette Wallworth.s Coral: Rekindling Venus will premiere in China in September during the World Economic Forum in Tianjin.
An immersive film experience that takes viewers through fluorescent coral reefs in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, it will screen in a full-dome cinema airfreighted from Berlin in the Forum.s New Champions section.
.Coral will be presented as a cultural event under the umbrella of Wef's Climate and Sustainability portfolio with screenings to environmental scientists to connect with the bigger environmental story of our oceans,. producer John Maynard tells If.
.Wef has also scheduled screenings each day for environmental policy makers, special communities, private and public screenings and for the media,. added Maynard.
Wallworth will present many of the screenings over the three days of New Champions and serve as a juror on ClimateSHAPE, which will be part of the Global Shapers Community at the event.
An immersive film experience that takes viewers through fluorescent coral reefs in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, it will screen in a full-dome cinema airfreighted from Berlin in the Forum.s New Champions section.
.Coral will be presented as a cultural event under the umbrella of Wef's Climate and Sustainability portfolio with screenings to environmental scientists to connect with the bigger environmental story of our oceans,. producer John Maynard tells If.
.Wef has also scheduled screenings each day for environmental policy makers, special communities, private and public screenings and for the media,. added Maynard.
Wallworth will present many of the screenings over the three days of New Champions and serve as a juror on ClimateSHAPE, which will be part of the Global Shapers Community at the event.
- 6/24/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The innovative strategy of streaming Kasimir Burgess. Fell on VOD platforms concurrent with its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival has paid off, according to producer-distributor John Maynard.
Maynard is now working on the second stage of the release plan for the drama which stars Matt Nable as guy who is grief stricken when his daughter is killed in a hit and run accident and vows revenge against the driver (Daniel Henshall).
Having the film available to rent online for $9.99 for 50 hours in Nsw, Queensland, South Australia, the Act and Northern Territory was part of Maynard.s plan to make the festival screenings special events.
He partnered with the Sff and the Adelaide Film Festival to stream the Natasha Pincus-scripted film and is convinced attendances at the two screenings in Sydney were not affected by the VOD release.
.It was a great way to cut through a lot of noise at the festival,...
Maynard is now working on the second stage of the release plan for the drama which stars Matt Nable as guy who is grief stricken when his daughter is killed in a hit and run accident and vows revenge against the driver (Daniel Henshall).
Having the film available to rent online for $9.99 for 50 hours in Nsw, Queensland, South Australia, the Act and Northern Territory was part of Maynard.s plan to make the festival screenings special events.
He partnered with the Sff and the Adelaide Film Festival to stream the Natasha Pincus-scripted film and is convinced attendances at the two screenings in Sydney were not affected by the VOD release.
.It was a great way to cut through a lot of noise at the festival,...
- 6/24/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Kasimir Burgess. debut feature Fell will get a VOD launch across most of Australia following its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival this Friday.
In a bold new move, Sydney Film Festival and Adelaide Film Festival have partnered to stream Fell online over the same weekend it premieres in Official Competition at the State Theatre in Sydney.
.Sydney Film Festival is pleased to offer audiences across Australia the chance to have their own virtual festival premiere screening,. Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley said today in a statement released to the media. .Fell will be available online from the Sydney Film Festival website on the day of the premiere, giving audiences beyond Sydney.s State Theatre access to the World Premiere of this stunning debut feature..
Fell follows the plight of Thomas (Matt Nable), a father rendered grief stricken when his daughter is killed in a hit and run accident.
In a bold new move, Sydney Film Festival and Adelaide Film Festival have partnered to stream Fell online over the same weekend it premieres in Official Competition at the State Theatre in Sydney.
.Sydney Film Festival is pleased to offer audiences across Australia the chance to have their own virtual festival premiere screening,. Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley said today in a statement released to the media. .Fell will be available online from the Sydney Film Festival website on the day of the premiere, giving audiences beyond Sydney.s State Theatre access to the World Premiere of this stunning debut feature..
Fell follows the plight of Thomas (Matt Nable), a father rendered grief stricken when his daughter is killed in a hit and run accident.
- 6/10/2014
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Kasimir Burgess’ drama gets VOD launch across most of Australia after its Sydney Film Festival premiere.
This Friday, as soon as the credits roll on the world premiere of the new Australian film Fell, which is one of 12 films in competition in the Sydney Film Festival, it will be available for Us$9.35 (A$9.99) on video-on-demand for 50 hours across Australia. Nearly all of Australia anyway.
The world premiere of Fell via the internet is a game-changer in a multi-screen world,” said producer John Maynard. “It’s democratic, it’s inclusive and it’s about time.”
Maynard produced writer/director Kasimir Burgess debut film with Mary Minas under the Felix Media banner and his distribution company, Footprint Films, will release Fell locally. (Minas did a six-month internship with Felix and Footprint in 2012).
Fell is a tense, emotional story about a man whose young daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident, and also about the man driving the truck that killed...
This Friday, as soon as the credits roll on the world premiere of the new Australian film Fell, which is one of 12 films in competition in the Sydney Film Festival, it will be available for Us$9.35 (A$9.99) on video-on-demand for 50 hours across Australia. Nearly all of Australia anyway.
The world premiere of Fell via the internet is a game-changer in a multi-screen world,” said producer John Maynard. “It’s democratic, it’s inclusive and it’s about time.”
Maynard produced writer/director Kasimir Burgess debut film with Mary Minas under the Felix Media banner and his distribution company, Footprint Films, will release Fell locally. (Minas did a six-month internship with Felix and Footprint in 2012).
Fell is a tense, emotional story about a man whose young daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident, and also about the man driving the truck that killed...
- 6/9/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Direct from its world-premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival, Sff and Vivid Ideas are proud to present the Australian Premiere of the highly anticipated futuristic thriller The Rover and host director David Michôd, actors Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson and producer Liz Watts at the State Theatre on Saturday 7 June. The Rover screens as part of Sff’s Official Competition. Michôd, Pearce, Pattinson and Watts will also give a talk as part of Vivid Ideas at Town Hall on Sunday 8 June.
Actor Cate Blanchett will attend the Festival to introduce a special screening of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2 the second chapter of the epic trilogy in which Blanchett is the voice of the character Valka. The screening is held at 2pm on Public Holiday Monday, 9 June, at Event Cinemas George Street.
UK visual artists and film directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard introduce Sff’s Opening Night Film,...
Actor Cate Blanchett will attend the Festival to introduce a special screening of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2 the second chapter of the epic trilogy in which Blanchett is the voice of the character Valka. The screening is held at 2pm on Public Holiday Monday, 9 June, at Event Cinemas George Street.
UK visual artists and film directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard introduce Sff’s Opening Night Film,...
- 5/30/2014
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Writer-director Jennifer Peedom was in her tent at the base camp at Mount Everest when the avalanche struck last month, killing 16 Nepali guides. An experienced climber, she was about 2km from the devastation but heard the noise. The Sherpas who had been hired for the Everest expedition she had planned to film were in the ice fall when the avalanche happened above the base camp. Fortunately none was killed or injured, but Peedom quickly realised the subject and tone of the feature documentary she was shooting had changed dramatically. With the working title Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain, the film had intended to follow an Everest expedition from the viewpoints of the Sherpas and their sometimes uneasy relationships with foreign climbers. Subsequently the climbing season was cancelled as the Sherpas made demands on the government for compensation and insurance. .We knew this was the story we had to cover,...
- 5/13/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The team on site..
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A team of Sherpas working with an Australian documentary crew was just metres away when the devastating avalanche struck Mount Everest last week, killing at least 13 Nepali guides.
Fortunately none was injured and the crew is remaining on the mountain to continue work on Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain. Co-produced by Bridget Ikin and John Maynard.s Felix Media and John Smithson of London-based Arrow Media, the feature-length film will follow an Everest expedition from the viewpoints of the Sherpas and their sometimes uneasy relationships with foreign climbers. .We will continue to cover whatever happens, as we are covering the Sherpa point of view,. writer/director Jennifer Peedom told If from the base camp on Monday.
Peedom is an experienced climber who worked at high altitudes as the director of the Discovery series Everest Beyond the Limit and is licensed to go as high as the second base camp.
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A team of Sherpas working with an Australian documentary crew was just metres away when the devastating avalanche struck Mount Everest last week, killing at least 13 Nepali guides.
Fortunately none was injured and the crew is remaining on the mountain to continue work on Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain. Co-produced by Bridget Ikin and John Maynard.s Felix Media and John Smithson of London-based Arrow Media, the feature-length film will follow an Everest expedition from the viewpoints of the Sherpas and their sometimes uneasy relationships with foreign climbers. .We will continue to cover whatever happens, as we are covering the Sherpa point of view,. writer/director Jennifer Peedom told If from the base camp on Monday.
Peedom is an experienced climber who worked at high altitudes as the director of the Discovery series Everest Beyond the Limit and is licensed to go as high as the second base camp.
- 4/21/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Producer Bridget Ikin sets off for Nepal next week to shoot a feature documentary knowing she has already scaled one mountain: a Us studio has bought worldwide rights to Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain.
Co-produced by Ikin and John Maynard.s Felix Media and John Smithson of London-based Arrow Media, the film will follow an Everest expedition from the viewpoints of the Sherpas and their sometimes uneasy relationships with foreign climbers.
Writer/director Jennifer Peedom approached Smithson, who produced Touching the Void and 127 Hours. He agreed to serve as co-producer and introduced Ikin and Peedom to the Us studio.
That studio has yet to announce the deal but it guarantees worldwide cinema release excluding Australia and New Zealand, where Maynard and Rob Connolly.s Footprint Films retains the rights.
Peedom had been thinking about a docu on the Sherpas given the unrest among their ranks and the idea...
Co-produced by Ikin and John Maynard.s Felix Media and John Smithson of London-based Arrow Media, the film will follow an Everest expedition from the viewpoints of the Sherpas and their sometimes uneasy relationships with foreign climbers.
Writer/director Jennifer Peedom approached Smithson, who produced Touching the Void and 127 Hours. He agreed to serve as co-producer and introduced Ikin and Peedom to the Us studio.
That studio has yet to announce the deal but it guarantees worldwide cinema release excluding Australia and New Zealand, where Maynard and Rob Connolly.s Footprint Films retains the rights.
Peedom had been thinking about a docu on the Sherpas given the unrest among their ranks and the idea...
- 3/19/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Anton Corbijn’s Life also set to get direct government investment from Screen Australia.
Many Australian filmgoers were today thrilled to hear that director Clayton Jacobson and his brother, the actor Shane Jacobson, the two brains behind the good-natured local box office hit Kenny [pictured], are finally going to be making a followup.
The family movie Oddball is one of two features to get direct government investment from Screen Australia, it was announced today. In the other, the official co-production Life, starring Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame, Australia and Germany are minority partners alongside Canada.
“Oddball has the perfect mix to really carry across to an international audience,” Clayton Jacobson told Screendaily. “It is your classic four quadrant film. Both Shane and I were invited on board for the ride… We are thrilled to be able to work together again. It’s not every day someone pays you to hang out with family.”
Kenny was made...
Many Australian filmgoers were today thrilled to hear that director Clayton Jacobson and his brother, the actor Shane Jacobson, the two brains behind the good-natured local box office hit Kenny [pictured], are finally going to be making a followup.
The family movie Oddball is one of two features to get direct government investment from Screen Australia, it was announced today. In the other, the official co-production Life, starring Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame, Australia and Germany are minority partners alongside Canada.
“Oddball has the perfect mix to really carry across to an international audience,” Clayton Jacobson told Screendaily. “It is your classic four quadrant film. Both Shane and I were invited on board for the ride… We are thrilled to be able to work together again. It’s not every day someone pays you to hang out with family.”
Kenny was made...
- 12/5/2013
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Screen Australia board.s first meeting since Graeme Mason was hired as CEO was eventful as the agency approved $11 million investment in four feature films, four adult dramas and one children.s series.
All told, that will trigger $70 million in production. The features include family film Oddball from the team who made Kenny, starring Shane Jacobson and directed by his brother Clayton; and See-Saw Films. Life, which stars Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson.
Two theatrical documentaries were funded: Only the Dead, which explores the career of Australian war correspondent Michael Ware; and Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain, which looks at the drama of a high altitude Everest expedition from the point of view of the Sherpas.
.This is a strong line-up of character-driven feature projects coming from an incredibly talented mix of filmmakers,. said Mason.
Scripted by Peter Ivan, Oddball centres on an eccentric chicken farmer who saves...
All told, that will trigger $70 million in production. The features include family film Oddball from the team who made Kenny, starring Shane Jacobson and directed by his brother Clayton; and See-Saw Films. Life, which stars Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson.
Two theatrical documentaries were funded: Only the Dead, which explores the career of Australian war correspondent Michael Ware; and Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain, which looks at the drama of a high altitude Everest expedition from the point of view of the Sherpas.
.This is a strong line-up of character-driven feature projects coming from an incredibly talented mix of filmmakers,. said Mason.
Scripted by Peter Ivan, Oddball centres on an eccentric chicken farmer who saves...
- 12/5/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Sam Worthington, Anthony Lapaglia and Ed Oxenbould are starring in writer-director Robert Connolly.s Paper Planes, a family film about an Australian boy.s passion for flight.
Connolly.s Arenamedia is producing the 3D film, which did second unit shooting in Tokyo last week and is now shooting in Perth. Korea.s Emig is providing some 3D services.
Inspired by true events, the screenplay is by Connolly and author Steve Worland. The plot follows 11-year old Dylan (Oxenbould), who is brought up by his father (Worthington) in a remote town in country Australia.
Dylan.s life changes when he wins a place in the regional Paper Plane Championships in Sydney. Battling nerves and his nemesis, private schoolboy Jason (Nicholas Bakopoulos), for a spot at the World Championships in Japan, his greatest challenge seems himself. Wisdom arrives from a most unlikely source when he meets Kimi (Ena Imai), the junior Japanese champion.
Connolly.s Arenamedia is producing the 3D film, which did second unit shooting in Tokyo last week and is now shooting in Perth. Korea.s Emig is providing some 3D services.
Inspired by true events, the screenplay is by Connolly and author Steve Worland. The plot follows 11-year old Dylan (Oxenbould), who is brought up by his father (Worthington) in a remote town in country Australia.
Dylan.s life changes when he wins a place in the regional Paper Plane Championships in Sydney. Battling nerves and his nemesis, private schoolboy Jason (Nicholas Bakopoulos), for a spot at the World Championships in Japan, his greatest challenge seems himself. Wisdom arrives from a most unlikely source when he meets Kimi (Ena Imai), the junior Japanese champion.
- 11/10/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Eric Bana is teaming up with Robert Connolly.s CinemaPlus to jointly distribute Closed Circuit, a London-set conspiracy thriller that stars Bana and Rebecca Hall, in Australia.
The film will open on December 5, with Bana taking part in Q&A screenings around the country, emulating the successful event cinema concept pioneered by Connolly on Tim Winton.s The Turning and Underground: The Julian Assange Story.
Bana.s Pick Up Truck Pictures will co-distribute the film, in which he and Hall play defence lawyers who represent a terrorist (Denis Moschitto) charged with blowing up London.s Borough Market. The former lovers discover a conspiracy which puts their lives in danger. Jim Broadbent, Julia Stiles and Ciaran Hinds co-star.
Pick Up Truck Pictures co-produced Richard Roxburgh's Romulus, My Father,. which starred Bana and was produced by Connolly and John Maynard; and Bana.s directorial debut Love The Beast. Bana negotiated the...
The film will open on December 5, with Bana taking part in Q&A screenings around the country, emulating the successful event cinema concept pioneered by Connolly on Tim Winton.s The Turning and Underground: The Julian Assange Story.
Bana.s Pick Up Truck Pictures will co-distribute the film, in which he and Hall play defence lawyers who represent a terrorist (Denis Moschitto) charged with blowing up London.s Borough Market. The former lovers discover a conspiracy which puts their lives in danger. Jim Broadbent, Julia Stiles and Ciaran Hinds co-star.
Pick Up Truck Pictures co-produced Richard Roxburgh's Romulus, My Father,. which starred Bana and was produced by Connolly and John Maynard; and Bana.s directorial debut Love The Beast. Bana negotiated the...
- 10/7/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Matt Nable ("Riddick," "Underbelly: Badness") and Daniel Henshall ("Snowtown," "Any Questions for Ben?") will star in the two lead roles in the Australian revenge and redemption drama "Fell" from Felixmedia and Transmission Films.
Nable plays Thomas Ryan, a man frozen in grief after his daughter is killed in a hit-and-run incident by Luke Simpson (Henshall).
When Luke is released from prison, Thomas changes his identity, abandons his corporate life and relocates to the remote outpost where Luke now works as tree feller.
Jacqueline McKenzie also stars as Thomas' wife. Filming commenced today in the southern Victorian Alps.
Accomplished short film director Kasimir Burgess ("Lily") makes his directorial feature debut on the film from a script by Natasha Pincus. John Maynard and Mary Minas are producing.
Nable plays Thomas Ryan, a man frozen in grief after his daughter is killed in a hit-and-run incident by Luke Simpson (Henshall).
When Luke is released from prison, Thomas changes his identity, abandons his corporate life and relocates to the remote outpost where Luke now works as tree feller.
Jacqueline McKenzie also stars as Thomas' wife. Filming commenced today in the southern Victorian Alps.
Accomplished short film director Kasimir Burgess ("Lily") makes his directorial feature debut on the film from a script by Natasha Pincus. John Maynard and Mary Minas are producing.
- 7/29/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Children.s movie Paper Planes, Cambodian-set romantic drama Ruin and art-house drama Partisan received investment from Screen Australia at Tuesday's board meeting.
The agency is investing almost $15.5 million in the three features, five adult drama series, one telemovie and three children.s series, triggering production worth almost $84 million.
Writer/director/producer Robert Connolly.s Paper Planes is a drama about a young boy from a small outback town who dreams of competing in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan. The writers are Connolly and Steve Worland, produced by Maggie Miles and Liz Kearney.
Connolly told If, .We don.t make this kind of film any more in Australia, where the hero is an Australian kid. If kids don.t grow up watching Australian films we are not building a future..
The film will shoot in Perth later this year. Connolly and John Maynard.s Footprint Films will release in...
The agency is investing almost $15.5 million in the three features, five adult drama series, one telemovie and three children.s series, triggering production worth almost $84 million.
Writer/director/producer Robert Connolly.s Paper Planes is a drama about a young boy from a small outback town who dreams of competing in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan. The writers are Connolly and Steve Worland, produced by Maggie Miles and Liz Kearney.
Connolly told If, .We don.t make this kind of film any more in Australia, where the hero is an Australian kid. If kids don.t grow up watching Australian films we are not building a future..
The film will shoot in Perth later this year. Connolly and John Maynard.s Footprint Films will release in...
- 6/26/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Two Australian actors who are emerging on the international scene have been cast as the leads in Fell, the first feature from director Kasimir Burgess. Matt Nable will play a guy whose daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Daniel Henshall will play Luke, the driver who is sent to jail for five years. When Luke is released, Nable.s character changes his identity and plots revenge. The screenplay is by Natasha Pincus, based on a story she wrote with Burgess, whose short film Lily won the Crystal Bear at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival. The producers are John Maynard and Mary Minas, with Bridget Ikin as executive producer. The nine-week shoot starts at the end of July in and around Warburton in country Victoria. Nable has just completed roles in the movie Riddick, the third instalment in The Chronicles of Riddick series which stars Vin Diesel and Karl Urban,...
- 6/19/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia says it has not mismanaged its finances by spending its annual production funding in just six months - a state of affairs which it says reflects the strength of the local film industry.
The government screen agency revealed in mid-December 2012 that it had spent its entire annual $42 million drama production allocation due to the unprecedented number of quality feature film and television projects seeking support. The shock announcement was reminiscent of the agency's abrupt decision to cut its investment cap in 2009 while several films were mid-financed. That decision.threw several major Australian productions into dissaray including The Tree and the biggest box office hit of.2010, Tomorrow When the War Began (Omnilab Media had to increase its investment at the last minute to ensure production).
Overspending on such a scale has never occurred before, even going back to the era of Screen Australia.s predecessor funding arm, the Film Finance Corporation.
The government screen agency revealed in mid-December 2012 that it had spent its entire annual $42 million drama production allocation due to the unprecedented number of quality feature film and television projects seeking support. The shock announcement was reminiscent of the agency's abrupt decision to cut its investment cap in 2009 while several films were mid-financed. That decision.threw several major Australian productions into dissaray including The Tree and the biggest box office hit of.2010, Tomorrow When the War Began (Omnilab Media had to increase its investment at the last minute to ensure production).
Overspending on such a scale has never occurred before, even going back to the era of Screen Australia.s predecessor funding arm, the Film Finance Corporation.
- 2/6/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The Devil’s Playground
A series which picks up the story of classic feature film The Devil’s Playground 35 years on, is among 11 productions to receive Screen Australia funding.
Return to the Devil’s Playground is a six-part series produced by Matchbox Pictures’ Helen Bowden and Blake Ayshford and directed by The Strait’s Rachel Ward and Dead Europe’s Tony Krawitz.
Writers on the production are Ayshford, Cate Shortland, Alice Addison and Tommy Murphy.
The series picks up the story in 1988, 35 years after Fred Schepisi’s The Devil’s Playground, where main character Tom Allen, a psychiatrist and a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, becomes entangled in political and theological intrigue.
The series is executive produced by Penny Chapman, Simon Burke, who played the original character of Tom Allen and is the current Actor’s Equity president, and Penny Win.
Screen Australia’s overall investment across the 11 productions...
A series which picks up the story of classic feature film The Devil’s Playground 35 years on, is among 11 productions to receive Screen Australia funding.
Return to the Devil’s Playground is a six-part series produced by Matchbox Pictures’ Helen Bowden and Blake Ayshford and directed by The Strait’s Rachel Ward and Dead Europe’s Tony Krawitz.
Writers on the production are Ayshford, Cate Shortland, Alice Addison and Tommy Murphy.
The series picks up the story in 1988, 35 years after Fred Schepisi’s The Devil’s Playground, where main character Tom Allen, a psychiatrist and a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, becomes entangled in political and theological intrigue.
The series is executive produced by Penny Chapman, Simon Burke, who played the original character of Tom Allen and is the current Actor’s Equity president, and Penny Win.
Screen Australia’s overall investment across the 11 productions...
- 12/17/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has today announced it will invest over $11.4 million in five feature films and six television series, one of which is for children.
The feature projects include Kill Me Three Times from Red Dog director Kriv Stenders, The Darkside from writer/director Warwick Thornton, debut feature Fell from Kasimir Burgess, crime-thriller Cut Snake from director Tony Ayres (Home Song Stories) and comedy Now Add Honey from successful comedy team Wayne Hope and Robyn Butler (The Librarians).
Screen Australia.s Chief Executive Ruth Harley said, .It.s great to end the year investing in such a dynamic range of feature films from a good mix of experienced practitioners and emerging talent.
.I.m thrilled to announce Warwick Thornton.s highly creative and resonant Indigenous story, The Darkside. The smart and stylish thriller Cut Snake comes from a talented and experienced team and Kill Me Three Times is a well-told tale...
The feature projects include Kill Me Three Times from Red Dog director Kriv Stenders, The Darkside from writer/director Warwick Thornton, debut feature Fell from Kasimir Burgess, crime-thriller Cut Snake from director Tony Ayres (Home Song Stories) and comedy Now Add Honey from successful comedy team Wayne Hope and Robyn Butler (The Librarians).
Screen Australia.s Chief Executive Ruth Harley said, .It.s great to end the year investing in such a dynamic range of feature films from a good mix of experienced practitioners and emerging talent.
.I.m thrilled to announce Warwick Thornton.s highly creative and resonant Indigenous story, The Darkside. The smart and stylish thriller Cut Snake comes from a talented and experienced team and Kill Me Three Times is a well-told tale...
- 12/17/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Australian feature film Coral: Rekindling Venus has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
The announcement:
The feature project Coral: Rekindling Venus, written and directed by Australian installation artist Lynette Wallworth and produced by John Maynard, has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
Coral: Rekindling Venus, an immersive fulldome film experience, has been produced to screen exclusively in fulldome cinemas and planetariums. The film project has been selected to screen in Sundance’s New Frontier program, which celebrates experimental and innovative screen work. New Frontier will also be showcasing Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight, the companion work to Coral: Rekindling Venus. Screen Australia is the principal investor in both projects.
Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm said, “Coral: Rekindling Venusis a groundbreaking Australian film project and it’s great that Sundance, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is able...
The announcement:
The feature project Coral: Rekindling Venus, written and directed by Australian installation artist Lynette Wallworth and produced by John Maynard, has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
Coral: Rekindling Venus, an immersive fulldome film experience, has been produced to screen exclusively in fulldome cinemas and planetariums. The film project has been selected to screen in Sundance’s New Frontier program, which celebrates experimental and innovative screen work. New Frontier will also be showcasing Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight, the companion work to Coral: Rekindling Venus. Screen Australia is the principal investor in both projects.
Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm said, “Coral: Rekindling Venusis a groundbreaking Australian film project and it’s great that Sundance, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is able...
- 11/30/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
Feature project Coral: Rekindling Venus has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
Written and directed by Australian installation artist Lynette Wallworth and produced by John Maynard, Coral: Rekindling Venus is an immersive fulldome film experience, and will screen exclusively in fulldome cinemas and planetariums.
The project has been chosen to screen in Sundance.s New Frontier Program, which is dedicated to celebrating original, experimental work.
Also screening at New Frontier is Rekindling Venus: in Plain Sight, which is the sister work to Coral: Rekindling Venus.
Wallworth spent five years developing the project, which principal investor, Screen Australia, describes as, .an immersive, kaleidoscopic journey through the glowing underwater coral cities of Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia..
.As Coral: Rekindling Venus is designed for fulldome cinemas, the project will screen in a portable fulldome cinema in Park City and at the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City before rolling out,...
Written and directed by Australian installation artist Lynette Wallworth and produced by John Maynard, Coral: Rekindling Venus is an immersive fulldome film experience, and will screen exclusively in fulldome cinemas and planetariums.
The project has been chosen to screen in Sundance.s New Frontier Program, which is dedicated to celebrating original, experimental work.
Also screening at New Frontier is Rekindling Venus: in Plain Sight, which is the sister work to Coral: Rekindling Venus.
Wallworth spent five years developing the project, which principal investor, Screen Australia, describes as, .an immersive, kaleidoscopic journey through the glowing underwater coral cities of Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia..
.As Coral: Rekindling Venus is designed for fulldome cinemas, the project will screen in a portable fulldome cinema in Park City and at the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City before rolling out,...
- 11/29/2012
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Australian feature project, Coral: Rekindling Venus has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
The annoucement:
The feature project Coral: Rekindling Venus, written and directed by Australian installation artist Lynette Wallworth and produced by John Maynard, has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
Coral: Rekindling Venus, an immersive fulldome film experience, has been produced to screen exclusively in fulldome cinemas and planetariums. The film project has been selected to screen in Sundance’s New Frontier program, which celebrates experimental and innovative screen work. New Frontier will also be showcasing Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight, the companion work to Coral: Rekindling Venus. Screen Australia is the principal investor in both projects.
Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm said, “Coral: Rekindling Venus is a groundbreaking Australian film project and it’s great that Sundance, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is...
The annoucement:
The feature project Coral: Rekindling Venus, written and directed by Australian installation artist Lynette Wallworth and produced by John Maynard, has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
Coral: Rekindling Venus, an immersive fulldome film experience, has been produced to screen exclusively in fulldome cinemas and planetariums. The film project has been selected to screen in Sundance’s New Frontier program, which celebrates experimental and innovative screen work. New Frontier will also be showcasing Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight, the companion work to Coral: Rekindling Venus. Screen Australia is the principal investor in both projects.
Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm said, “Coral: Rekindling Venus is a groundbreaking Australian film project and it’s great that Sundance, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is...
- 11/29/2012
- by Georgina Pearson
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has committed more than $450,000 in development funding across 19 feature films.
Of the 19 projects, six are new to Screen Australia.s developmental slate, while the other 13 will continue to receive support.
The new projects include the drama script Clive, about a privileged man whose life is transformed after a serious accident, and Em, a comedic take on Jane Austen.s classic Emma.
Clive comes from writer/director Natasha Pincus, producer Bridget Ikin and executive producer John Maynard.
Em will be set in 1950s rural Australia and comes from writer Matthew Dabner, director Kate Riedl and producers Karen Radzyner and Anna Vincent.
Psychological thriller Lonely Girl will also receive developmental support. Written by Lynne Vincent McCarthy and produced by Samantha Jennings, the project was also supported through Screen Australia.s Springboard Program.
The crime drama My Country, written by Sam Meikle and Serhat Caradee and produced by Matthew Dabner, will also receive funding.
Of the 19 projects, six are new to Screen Australia.s developmental slate, while the other 13 will continue to receive support.
The new projects include the drama script Clive, about a privileged man whose life is transformed after a serious accident, and Em, a comedic take on Jane Austen.s classic Emma.
Clive comes from writer/director Natasha Pincus, producer Bridget Ikin and executive producer John Maynard.
Em will be set in 1950s rural Australia and comes from writer Matthew Dabner, director Kate Riedl and producers Karen Radzyner and Anna Vincent.
Psychological thriller Lonely Girl will also receive developmental support. Written by Lynne Vincent McCarthy and produced by Samantha Jennings, the project was also supported through Screen Australia.s Springboard Program.
The crime drama My Country, written by Sam Meikle and Serhat Caradee and produced by Matthew Dabner, will also receive funding.
- 11/19/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Over $450 000 in funding will be spread across 19 feature films following an announcement from Screen Australia today.
Of the 19 projects, six are new to Screen Australia.s developmental slate, while the other 13 will continue to receive support.
The new projects include the drama script Clive, about a privileged man whose life is transformed after a serious accident, and Em, a comedic take on Jane Austen.s classic Emma.
Clive comes from writer/director Natasha Pincus, producer Bridget Ikin and executive producer John Maynard.
Em will be set in 1950s rural Australia and comes from writer Matthew Dabner, director Kate Riedl and producers Karen Radzyner and Anna Vincent.
.Pyschological thriller Lonely Girl will also receive developmental support. Written by Lynne Vincent McCarthy and produced by Samantha Jennings, the project was also supported through Screen Australia.s Springboard Program.
The crime drama My Country, written by Sam Meikle and Serhat Caradee and produced by Matthew Dabner,...
Of the 19 projects, six are new to Screen Australia.s developmental slate, while the other 13 will continue to receive support.
The new projects include the drama script Clive, about a privileged man whose life is transformed after a serious accident, and Em, a comedic take on Jane Austen.s classic Emma.
Clive comes from writer/director Natasha Pincus, producer Bridget Ikin and executive producer John Maynard.
Em will be set in 1950s rural Australia and comes from writer Matthew Dabner, director Kate Riedl and producers Karen Radzyner and Anna Vincent.
.Pyschological thriller Lonely Girl will also receive developmental support. Written by Lynne Vincent McCarthy and produced by Samantha Jennings, the project was also supported through Screen Australia.s Springboard Program.
The crime drama My Country, written by Sam Meikle and Serhat Caradee and produced by Matthew Dabner,...
- 11/19/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Brendan Cowell
Writer and actor Brendan Cowell will make his feature film directorial debut with the adaptation of his play Ruben Guthrie - the story of a wild-boy agency creative who burns himself out.
Cowell’s project is among 19 films to receive a cut of the $450,000 development support from Screen Australia.
Cowell has teamed up with Yael Bergman, producer of I Love You Too, which starred Cowell, and executive producers Laura Waters and Andrea Denholm.
The film’s synopsis reads: “By day, 29-year-old Ruben Guthrie is the wunderkind creative at one of Sydney’s hottest boutique ad agencies; by night, he is one of Sydney’s most notorious party boys until he jumps off a hotel roof into a wading pool and nearly kills himself. Over the next 12 months, Ruben tries to build a life around AA, cups of tea, inner growth and sex with a reformed addict. His friends,...
Writer and actor Brendan Cowell will make his feature film directorial debut with the adaptation of his play Ruben Guthrie - the story of a wild-boy agency creative who burns himself out.
Cowell’s project is among 19 films to receive a cut of the $450,000 development support from Screen Australia.
Cowell has teamed up with Yael Bergman, producer of I Love You Too, which starred Cowell, and executive producers Laura Waters and Andrea Denholm.
The film’s synopsis reads: “By day, 29-year-old Ruben Guthrie is the wunderkind creative at one of Sydney’s hottest boutique ad agencies; by night, he is one of Sydney’s most notorious party boys until he jumps off a hotel roof into a wading pool and nearly kills himself. Over the next 12 months, Ruben tries to build a life around AA, cups of tea, inner growth and sex with a reformed addict. His friends,...
- 11/19/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
A sequel to last year.s successful low-budget horror film The Tunnel is currently in the works.
The sequel . titled The Tunnel: Dead End . received development funding from Screen Australia earlier this month and will pick up the story years down the track. No shoot date has been set for the horror flick.
It.s a sequel creators Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey weren.t planning on. .Initially, we weren.t anticipating doing another Tunnel film but the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the original . as well as our fans clamouring for another on an almost daily basis . made us go back and give it a second thought,. Tedeschi and Harvey, of Distracted Media, said in a joint statement.
.We weren't going to go ahead unless we could find a story we were 100 per cent behind, which we now have, and are thrilled to have the support of Screen Australia.
The sequel . titled The Tunnel: Dead End . received development funding from Screen Australia earlier this month and will pick up the story years down the track. No shoot date has been set for the horror flick.
It.s a sequel creators Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey weren.t planning on. .Initially, we weren.t anticipating doing another Tunnel film but the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the original . as well as our fans clamouring for another on an almost daily basis . made us go back and give it a second thought,. Tedeschi and Harvey, of Distracted Media, said in a joint statement.
.We weren't going to go ahead unless we could find a story we were 100 per cent behind, which we now have, and are thrilled to have the support of Screen Australia.
- 2/29/2012
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
Jonathan Teplitzky’s The Railway Man, starring Colin Firth, was one of three films to receive production investment funding from Screen Australia.
The Railway Man, adapted from Eric Lomax’s novel about confronting his World War II torturer 30 years on.
Produced by Teplitzky’s Burning Man partner Andy Paterson, as well as Chris Brown, it is written by Frank Cottrel Boyce and Andy Paterson. The film will be distributed locally through Transmission/Paramount and international sales through Lionsgate.
Screen Australia Chief executive Ruth Harley said of The Railway Man investment, “This is a wonderful opportunity for one of our country’s rising directors, Jonathan Teplitzky, to work with one of the world’s finest actors, Colin Firth. The film will also provide great exposure for Australian talent on the world stage.”
Screen Australia have invested $3m across three productions stimulating $21m worth of production. In the statement, Harley also said...
The Railway Man, adapted from Eric Lomax’s novel about confronting his World War II torturer 30 years on.
Produced by Teplitzky’s Burning Man partner Andy Paterson, as well as Chris Brown, it is written by Frank Cottrel Boyce and Andy Paterson. The film will be distributed locally through Transmission/Paramount and international sales through Lionsgate.
Screen Australia Chief executive Ruth Harley said of The Railway Man investment, “This is a wonderful opportunity for one of our country’s rising directors, Jonathan Teplitzky, to work with one of the world’s finest actors, Colin Firth. The film will also provide great exposure for Australian talent on the world stage.”
Screen Australia have invested $3m across three productions stimulating $21m worth of production. In the statement, Harley also said...
- 9/22/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
FairTrade Films and Dili Film Works are using a crowd-funding strategy to raise finance for A Guerra Da Beatriz, which they claim will be East Timor’s first feature film.
John Maynard is one of the producers, and Sbs and the World Movies channel have acquired the film for broadcast in Australia; even the president of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta has already contributed to the project.
A Guerra Da Beatriz is “a powerful love story spanning the years 1975 – 2002, of one woman’s conviction to remain true to the man she loves and the country for which she fought”. It is inspired by a true 16th century French story about Bertrande de Rols and her husband Martin Guerre; in this adaptation the story has been transposed to East Timor on the eve of the Indonesian invasion of the Portuguese colony.
Australian filmmaker John Maynard will produce the film alongside Stella Zammataro and Jose Da Costa.
John Maynard is one of the producers, and Sbs and the World Movies channel have acquired the film for broadcast in Australia; even the president of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta has already contributed to the project.
A Guerra Da Beatriz is “a powerful love story spanning the years 1975 – 2002, of one woman’s conviction to remain true to the man she loves and the country for which she fought”. It is inspired by a true 16th century French story about Bertrande de Rols and her husband Martin Guerre; in this adaptation the story has been transposed to East Timor on the eve of the Indonesian invasion of the Portuguese colony.
Australian filmmaker John Maynard will produce the film alongside Stella Zammataro and Jose Da Costa.
- 5/6/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
The Russian impresario had a profound effect on 1920s film-making, yet he never made a movie himself
Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes sparked a revolution in taste after the first world war, taking modernism out of the salon and into the music hall. The splendid exhibition Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, currently showing at the V&A, covers the impresario's legacy in music, dance, fashion, painting, and literature; but less well documented is the spell he cast over British film. Michael Powell, who drew on 1920s memories of the Diaghilev milieu for The Red Shoes, was just one among a generation of cineastes who found inspiration in the same source.
Ballet sequences held a special appeal for the likes of Anthony Asquith and Thorold Dickinson, who cast the young Audrey Hepburn as a ballerina in Secret People; but their interest went beyond merely recording dance on film.
Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes sparked a revolution in taste after the first world war, taking modernism out of the salon and into the music hall. The splendid exhibition Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, currently showing at the V&A, covers the impresario's legacy in music, dance, fashion, painting, and literature; but less well documented is the spell he cast over British film. Michael Powell, who drew on 1920s memories of the Diaghilev milieu for The Red Shoes, was just one among a generation of cineastes who found inspiration in the same source.
Ballet sequences held a special appeal for the likes of Anthony Asquith and Thorold Dickinson, who cast the young Audrey Hepburn as a ballerina in Secret People; but their interest went beyond merely recording dance on film.
- 12/22/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Arenafilm/Footprint Films producer John Maynard has been appointed as head of producing at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
Maynard will oversee the recently restructured Graduate Diploma in Producing, which director of screen content Graham Thorburn says will keep practice at its core and remain relevant and focused, benefiting from Maynard’s experience.
In a statement, Maynard said he’d bring his experience as a working producer and distributor to “the new Aftrs”, in a “creative adventure’ with a new generation of filmmakers.
Maynard will oversee the recently restructured Graduate Diploma in Producing, which director of screen content Graham Thorburn says will keep practice at its core and remain relevant and focused, benefiting from Maynard’s experience.
In a statement, Maynard said he’d bring his experience as a working producer and distributor to “the new Aftrs”, in a “creative adventure’ with a new generation of filmmakers.
- 6/21/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Balibo has been nominated for 14 gongs at the upcoming Australian Film Institute awards ceremony. The Aussie film, which tells the story of a group of journalists who were killed in East Timor, has received nominations in most of the film categories including 'Best Direction', 'Best Film' and 'Best Actor' for its star, Anthony Lapaglia. The movie's producer John Maynard told the ABC: "It's done extremely well for us. It's a tough film, it's a film that says something. It's had a wonderful impact in East Timor. (more)...
- 10/29/2009
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
"Your movie made me physically sick," one audience member told Gary Hustwit (left), the director of Objectified, the eagerly anticipated film about industrial design, last night at a screening in New York.
Far from being miffed, Hustwit grinned. "Maybe that's what we were trying to do," he said slyly.
The film, which chronicles the back story of the people and processes that create the vast array of designed objects that surround us every day, was screened before an audience largely made up of the very folks who toil in front of Cad programs and rapid prototyping machines to churn out those products.
But there's an essential tension at the heart of this story. On the one hand, Hustwit, who created the hugely popular film, Helvetica, celebrates the masters who have created some of the most successful products of our time--Jonathan Ive of Apple; Bill Moggridge, the "father of interactive...
Far from being miffed, Hustwit grinned. "Maybe that's what we were trying to do," he said slyly.
The film, which chronicles the back story of the people and processes that create the vast array of designed objects that surround us every day, was screened before an audience largely made up of the very folks who toil in front of Cad programs and rapid prototyping machines to churn out those products.
But there's an essential tension at the heart of this story. On the one hand, Hustwit, who created the hugely popular film, Helvetica, celebrates the masters who have created some of the most successful products of our time--Jonathan Ive of Apple; Bill Moggridge, the "father of interactive...
- 4/10/2009
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
CBS' Without a Trace is currently in its seventh season, with the next new episode airing on October 14. Entitled “Last Call,” the episode will follow the team as they investigate the case of a missing white-collar criminal who suddenly disappears on his way to testify against a former associate.
Created by Hank Steinberg and executively produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Without a Trace stars Anthony Lapaglia as Jack Malone, Poppy Montgomery as Samantha Spade, Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Vivian Johnson, Enrique Murciano as Danny Taylor, Eric Close as Martin Fitzgerald and Roselyn Sanchez as Elena Delgado.
Meanwhile, the stars of Without a Trace have been working on their individual projects, with Anthony Lapaglia working on the film Balibo. Recently, reports surfaced that the 49-year-old actor was hurt in an accident when an explosive device designed to simulate a gunshot discharged into his arm. The accident took place in July, while they were...
Created by Hank Steinberg and executively produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Without a Trace stars Anthony Lapaglia as Jack Malone, Poppy Montgomery as Samantha Spade, Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Vivian Johnson, Enrique Murciano as Danny Taylor, Eric Close as Martin Fitzgerald and Roselyn Sanchez as Elena Delgado.
Meanwhile, the stars of Without a Trace have been working on their individual projects, with Anthony Lapaglia working on the film Balibo. Recently, reports surfaced that the 49-year-old actor was hurt in an accident when an explosive device designed to simulate a gunshot discharged into his arm. The accident took place in July, while they were...
- 10/7/2008
- by BuddyTV
- buddytv.com
By Michael Atkinson
To each fiery cinema individualist his own honorial DVD box set: here we have a reacquaintance . or initiation, for the babies of the Reagan/Thatcher era . with the unique howl of Derek Jarman, dead in 1994 from AIDS at the age of 52, a career attenuated by the very same fate that ended up giving it such amperage. You'd never know it, but there was a time when British filmmakers, emboldened by punk culture, fueled by hatred for Thatcherite conservatism, and funded by the BFI and the new Channel Four, made outrageous, experimental, high culture vs. low culture collision movies, doped on structuralism and gender-bending and period-picture mockery. Jarman was the moment's jester prince; he never made a film you'd mistake for the work of another, or a film that doesn't manifest on the screen as an unpredictably impish riff on serious matters, Art-making and Sex and Death. Not to mention,...
To each fiery cinema individualist his own honorial DVD box set: here we have a reacquaintance . or initiation, for the babies of the Reagan/Thatcher era . with the unique howl of Derek Jarman, dead in 1994 from AIDS at the age of 52, a career attenuated by the very same fate that ended up giving it such amperage. You'd never know it, but there was a time when British filmmakers, emboldened by punk culture, fueled by hatred for Thatcherite conservatism, and funded by the BFI and the new Channel Four, made outrageous, experimental, high culture vs. low culture collision movies, doped on structuralism and gender-bending and period-picture mockery. Jarman was the moment's jester prince; he never made a film you'd mistake for the work of another, or a film that doesn't manifest on the screen as an unpredictably impish riff on serious matters, Art-making and Sex and Death. Not to mention,...
- 6/24/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
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