Comedian, author and Archibald Finalist Anh Do returns to the ABC for season six of Anh’s Brush with Fame, premiering on March 30 at 8.00pm on ABC and ABC iview.
This series will see Do paint and interview Jamie Durie, Dr Harry Cooper, Missy Higgins, Kate Ritchie, Peter Garrett, former Justice of the High Court, Michael Kirby and Gai Waterhouse.
Anh’s Brush With Fame is a Screentime production.
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This series will see Do paint and interview Jamie Durie, Dr Harry Cooper, Missy Higgins, Kate Ritchie, Peter Garrett, former Justice of the High Court, Michael Kirby and Gai Waterhouse.
Anh’s Brush With Fame is a Screentime production.
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- 3/3/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Peter Greste.
The arrest and conviction on spying charges and eventual acquittal of Australian-born foreign correspondent Peter Greste in Cairo in 2013 will be adapted into a feature film by Peter Duncan.
Pop Family Entertainment’s Carmel Travers will produce The First Casualty, based on Greste’s book published in 2017.
Now a professor at the University of Queensland, Greste spent more than 400 days in jail before being released after international condemnation and quickly became a champion of press freedom.
“It has long been our intention to develop projects across the breadth of film and television production and we are very pleased to bring The First Casualty to the screen,” said Travers, who launched her production company in 2017.
“It is a joy and privilege to be working with two great storytellers – Peter Greste, whose passion for truth-telling knows no bounds, and Peter Duncan, who writes with flair, imagination and wit.”
Duncan said:...
The arrest and conviction on spying charges and eventual acquittal of Australian-born foreign correspondent Peter Greste in Cairo in 2013 will be adapted into a feature film by Peter Duncan.
Pop Family Entertainment’s Carmel Travers will produce The First Casualty, based on Greste’s book published in 2017.
Now a professor at the University of Queensland, Greste spent more than 400 days in jail before being released after international condemnation and quickly became a champion of press freedom.
“It has long been our intention to develop projects across the breadth of film and television production and we are very pleased to bring The First Casualty to the screen,” said Travers, who launched her production company in 2017.
“It is a joy and privilege to be working with two great storytellers – Peter Greste, whose passion for truth-telling knows no bounds, and Peter Duncan, who writes with flair, imagination and wit.”
Duncan said:...
- 10/8/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
It’s been more than a decade since “Crocodile Hunter” star Steve Irwin died, and his wife Terri is still dealing with the heartbreaking tragedy. In a new interview with Australian star Anh Do’s ABC show, “Anh’s Brush With Fame“, 53-year-old Terri breaks down while talking about the moment she was told Steve had died. The beloved conservationist died in...
- 7/18/2018
- by Ethan Cohen
- ET Canada
From left: Tanya Denning-Orman, Joseph Maxwell, session moderator Brendan Dahill, Brian Walsh, and Steve Bibb.
The changing screen landscape means broadcasters are looking for creative ways to draw audiences to factual content, and for bold .cut through. commissions that help build brand identity.
These are some of the key messages from a panel which brought together the country.s leading factual commissioners at this week.s Australian International Documentary Conference.
In order to compete with the likes of Netflix, ABC head of factual Steve Bibb said the national broadcaster was looking increasingly to event television like its upcoming Stargazing Live.— shows that can be stripped across multiple nights and .binged..
Event programming is also a key focus for Sbs. While the broadcaster does have key slots with clearly defined briefs — Sunday 8.30pm is blue-chip science and history, and Wednesday 8.30pm is contemporary documentary — head of documentaries Joseph Maxwell said that Sbs remains flexible.
The changing screen landscape means broadcasters are looking for creative ways to draw audiences to factual content, and for bold .cut through. commissions that help build brand identity.
These are some of the key messages from a panel which brought together the country.s leading factual commissioners at this week.s Australian International Documentary Conference.
In order to compete with the likes of Netflix, ABC head of factual Steve Bibb said the national broadcaster was looking increasingly to event television like its upcoming Stargazing Live.— shows that can be stripped across multiple nights and .binged..
Event programming is also a key focus for Sbs. While the broadcaster does have key slots with clearly defined briefs — Sunday 8.30pm is blue-chip science and history, and Wednesday 8.30pm is contemporary documentary — head of documentaries Joseph Maxwell said that Sbs remains flexible.
- 3/9/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Tim Ferguson, Sofya Gollan and Paul Nunnari.
Screen Nsw has launched Screenability Nsw, a new program to create opportunities in the screen industry for people with disabilities. . Screenability Nsw is a partnership between Screen Nsw, Ai-Media, Aftrs, Carriageworks and Bus Stop Films, and involves a program of initiatives aimed at delivering on Screen Nsw's policy commitment to work with industry to grow the participation of people with disabilities in the screen sector. . Upcoming Screenability Nsw initiatives include: . –... An annual film festival at Carriageworks –... A short film-making initiative to finance and deliver films for premiere at the festival, for travelling around Australia and the world, and for screening online –... A long-term job placement scheme . The first initiative will be the Screenability Nsw Internship Program, a series of up to eight paid internships on some of Australian TV shows and feature films. Interns will work with some of Australia.s leading production companies,...
Screen Nsw has launched Screenability Nsw, a new program to create opportunities in the screen industry for people with disabilities. . Screenability Nsw is a partnership between Screen Nsw, Ai-Media, Aftrs, Carriageworks and Bus Stop Films, and involves a program of initiatives aimed at delivering on Screen Nsw's policy commitment to work with industry to grow the participation of people with disabilities in the screen sector. . Upcoming Screenability Nsw initiatives include: . –... An annual film festival at Carriageworks –... A short film-making initiative to finance and deliver films for premiere at the festival, for travelling around Australia and the world, and for screening online –... A long-term job placement scheme . The first initiative will be the Screenability Nsw Internship Program, a series of up to eight paid internships on some of Australian TV shows and feature films. Interns will work with some of Australia.s leading production companies,...
- 9/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
A Playmaker Media drama starring Jessica Marais and a reality series which reunites people with long-lost family members are among six new Australian shows for Network Ten in 2016.
The line-up includes Australian Survivor, All Star Family Feud, the spin-off I.m A Celebrity. Get Me Out Of Here! Now, and the previously announced telemovie Brock.
Ten said more new local series will be announced next year as it strives to build the momentum which saw the broadcaster record its highest commercial prime time shares since 2011 as audiences increased by 15 per cent this year.
In Playmaker Media's The Wrong Girl, Love Child star Marais will play Lily, a modern woman caught between two guys — one too good to be true and the other so wrong he might be Mr. Right.. Lily and her flatmate Simone are supposed to be taking a sabbatical from men but Lily falls in love with Jack,...
The line-up includes Australian Survivor, All Star Family Feud, the spin-off I.m A Celebrity. Get Me Out Of Here! Now, and the previously announced telemovie Brock.
Ten said more new local series will be announced next year as it strives to build the momentum which saw the broadcaster record its highest commercial prime time shares since 2011 as audiences increased by 15 per cent this year.
In Playmaker Media's The Wrong Girl, Love Child star Marais will play Lily, a modern woman caught between two guys — one too good to be true and the other so wrong he might be Mr. Right.. Lily and her flatmate Simone are supposed to be taking a sabbatical from men but Lily falls in love with Jack,...
- 11/19/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
From Nicole Kidman on a BMX to Collingwood on the big screen, our pick of the best sport films
1) Save Your Legs
There are a couple of pretty fail-safe ways to stop a conversation dead in its tracks, but one of the best is to try and convince someone that they need to go and see an Australian movie. If that Australian movie happened to be about a cricket team, it wouldn't be out of the question to suggest that your co-conversationalist might just turn and walk at pace. Which brings us to Save Your Legs, surely one of the least-loved Australian films of recent times and with no good reason; this film is actually half-decent.
It's quite admirable that an Australian filmmaker would multiply their odds of failure by making a film like this one. We're often told that cricket is the sport with the richest and most voluminous literary canon,...
1) Save Your Legs
There are a couple of pretty fail-safe ways to stop a conversation dead in its tracks, but one of the best is to try and convince someone that they need to go and see an Australian movie. If that Australian movie happened to be about a cricket team, it wouldn't be out of the question to suggest that your co-conversationalist might just turn and walk at pace. Which brings us to Save Your Legs, surely one of the least-loved Australian films of recent times and with no good reason; this film is actually half-decent.
It's quite admirable that an Australian filmmaker would multiply their odds of failure by making a film like this one. We're often told that cricket is the sport with the richest and most voluminous literary canon,...
- 9/10/2013
- by Russell Jackson
- The Guardian - Film News
Alex Williams as a young Julian Assange
A tele-movie about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange rated with a hefty 1.336m for struggling broadcaster Ten last night.
The Matchbox Films-produced show, called Underground – The Julian Assange Story, went out at 8.30pm, smashing Nine’s House Husbands, which rated with 961,000 and Killing Time on Seven, which rated 730,000.
It was the top show of the night in the key advertising demographics 18-49, 16-39 and 25-54.
But it was Seven’s Anh Does Vietnam which won the night, with 1.678m.
The show, which follows comedian Anh Do as he rediscovers the place of his birth, aired at 7.30pm, up against 60 Minutes on Nine and Modern Family on Ten.
It was second to Ten’s Assange show in all three key advertising demos.
Seven’s coverage of the V8 Supercars races from Bathurst pulled in 1.253m. Reporting from the podium after the race rated with 1.051m,...
A tele-movie about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange rated with a hefty 1.336m for struggling broadcaster Ten last night.
The Matchbox Films-produced show, called Underground – The Julian Assange Story, went out at 8.30pm, smashing Nine’s House Husbands, which rated with 961,000 and Killing Time on Seven, which rated 730,000.
It was the top show of the night in the key advertising demographics 18-49, 16-39 and 25-54.
But it was Seven’s Anh Does Vietnam which won the night, with 1.678m.
The show, which follows comedian Anh Do as he rediscovers the place of his birth, aired at 7.30pm, up against 60 Minutes on Nine and Modern Family on Ten.
It was second to Ten’s Assange show in all three key advertising demos.
Seven’s coverage of the V8 Supercars races from Bathurst pulled in 1.253m. Reporting from the podium after the race rated with 1.051m,...
- 10/7/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
Seven is attempting to promote Sunday night in a fortnight’s time as a “massive” day in its schedule.
The network has started to promote its October 7 programming around three pieces of content – the V8 Supercars Bathurst 1000, the network’s showing of Killing Time, which first aired on TV1 last year, and a Vietnam travelog with comedian Anh Do.
Dr Mumbo will be interested to see whether viewers agree with this definition of the word “massive”.
The network has started to promote its October 7 programming around three pieces of content – the V8 Supercars Bathurst 1000, the network’s showing of Killing Time, which first aired on TV1 last year, and a Vietnam travelog with comedian Anh Do.
Dr Mumbo will be interested to see whether viewers agree with this definition of the word “massive”.
- 9/21/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
SYDNEY -- The winner of the inaugural Australian Project Greenlight scriptwriting contest has watched one too many Las Vegas-set crime thrillers. Or maybe not enough good ones. Morgan O'Neill, a 32-year-old TV actor making his writing and directing debut with Solo, might have transplanted the fear and loathing to the streets of inner-city Sydney, but the gambling dens, flophouses and neon-lit strip joints, the smoky jazz soundtrack and the cast of shady players are all too familiar.
This somewhat contrived retread, about the efforts of a jaded hitman to extract himself from the Sydney underworld, should arouse some local curiosity (it opens July 6 in Australian theaters) but regular moviegoers will feel as if they have seen it all before.
Lending some authority to the production is Colin Friels (Malcolm, A Good Man in Africa), a veteran actor who has grown into his good looks, much like an antipodean Dennis Quaid.
He plays silver-haired Jack Barrett, an old-school enforcer who works for a group of sketchy operators called the Gentlemen. We meet him up to his elbows in blood, clutching a chainsaw and retching as he dumps body parts over the side of a boat. Rough day at the office, he explains afterward in the first of several wry one-liners.
At 53, Barrett has developed a conscience, possibly after discovering that he orphaned two children with his most recent job, and the work is literally making him sick. He wants out. Naturally, it's not that easy.
As Barrett works to disentangle himself from his life of crime, the plot snarls up with the number of low-lifes lining up to off him, from a coke-snorting cop (Vince Colosimo) to his latest victim's Vietnamese associate (Anh Do) to the Gentlemen themselves.
This is where the plot takes a sharp turn into implausibility.
A young university student named Billie (promising newcomer Bojana Novakovic) is researching a thesis on organized crime and it seems she is getting a little too close for the comfort of the Gentlemen who, despite presumably having faced down their share of drug-dealers, contract killers and cops, are made to quiver in their boots by this twentysomething's questioning.
They agree to cut Barrett Loose provided he does one last job -- bump off Billie. O'Neill, who shot his film in 21 days, sets up an effectively off-key dynamic between Barrett and Billie, but clearly manipulative plot twists dilute the power of the "surprise" ending.
Australian pay TV channel the Movie Network -- which funded the local offshoot of the Project Greenlight competition created in the U.S. by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and American Pie producer Chris Moore -- gave O'Neill AUS$1 million ($763,000) and he has turned out a polished production on that modest budget, bringing on board Academy Award nominee Marcus D'Arcy (Babe) as editor and Ben Osmo (Rabbit-Proof Fence, Strictly Ballroom) to do sound.
The visual styling of production designer Murray Picknett, a two-time AFI Award winner, creates an undertow of menace that accompanies Barrett as he moves within yet apart from a world of seedy stereotypes.
SOLO
Dendy Films pressents a Movie Network Channels/Screentime production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Morgan O'Neill
Producer: Sue Seeary
Executive producers: Sue Milliken, Bob Campbell, Chris Berry, Tony Forrest
Director of photography: Hugh Miller
Production designer: Murray Picknett
Music: Martyn Love, Damian Deboos-Smith
Costume designer: Paula Ryan
Editor: Marcus D'Arcy
Cast:
Jack Barrett: Colin Friels
Billie: Bojana Novakovic
Reno: Linal Haft
Kate: Angie Milliken
Keeling: Vince Colosimo
Kennedy: Bruce Spence
Arkan: Chris Haywood
Louis: Tony Barry
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 98 minutes...
This somewhat contrived retread, about the efforts of a jaded hitman to extract himself from the Sydney underworld, should arouse some local curiosity (it opens July 6 in Australian theaters) but regular moviegoers will feel as if they have seen it all before.
Lending some authority to the production is Colin Friels (Malcolm, A Good Man in Africa), a veteran actor who has grown into his good looks, much like an antipodean Dennis Quaid.
He plays silver-haired Jack Barrett, an old-school enforcer who works for a group of sketchy operators called the Gentlemen. We meet him up to his elbows in blood, clutching a chainsaw and retching as he dumps body parts over the side of a boat. Rough day at the office, he explains afterward in the first of several wry one-liners.
At 53, Barrett has developed a conscience, possibly after discovering that he orphaned two children with his most recent job, and the work is literally making him sick. He wants out. Naturally, it's not that easy.
As Barrett works to disentangle himself from his life of crime, the plot snarls up with the number of low-lifes lining up to off him, from a coke-snorting cop (Vince Colosimo) to his latest victim's Vietnamese associate (Anh Do) to the Gentlemen themselves.
This is where the plot takes a sharp turn into implausibility.
A young university student named Billie (promising newcomer Bojana Novakovic) is researching a thesis on organized crime and it seems she is getting a little too close for the comfort of the Gentlemen who, despite presumably having faced down their share of drug-dealers, contract killers and cops, are made to quiver in their boots by this twentysomething's questioning.
They agree to cut Barrett Loose provided he does one last job -- bump off Billie. O'Neill, who shot his film in 21 days, sets up an effectively off-key dynamic between Barrett and Billie, but clearly manipulative plot twists dilute the power of the "surprise" ending.
Australian pay TV channel the Movie Network -- which funded the local offshoot of the Project Greenlight competition created in the U.S. by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and American Pie producer Chris Moore -- gave O'Neill AUS$1 million ($763,000) and he has turned out a polished production on that modest budget, bringing on board Academy Award nominee Marcus D'Arcy (Babe) as editor and Ben Osmo (Rabbit-Proof Fence, Strictly Ballroom) to do sound.
The visual styling of production designer Murray Picknett, a two-time AFI Award winner, creates an undertow of menace that accompanies Barrett as he moves within yet apart from a world of seedy stereotypes.
SOLO
Dendy Films pressents a Movie Network Channels/Screentime production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Morgan O'Neill
Producer: Sue Seeary
Executive producers: Sue Milliken, Bob Campbell, Chris Berry, Tony Forrest
Director of photography: Hugh Miller
Production designer: Murray Picknett
Music: Martyn Love, Damian Deboos-Smith
Costume designer: Paula Ryan
Editor: Marcus D'Arcy
Cast:
Jack Barrett: Colin Friels
Billie: Bojana Novakovic
Reno: Linal Haft
Kate: Angie Milliken
Keeling: Vince Colosimo
Kennedy: Bruce Spence
Arkan: Chris Haywood
Louis: Tony Barry
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 98 minutes...
- 6/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SYDNEY -- Australia's Colin Friels has signed to star in Solo, recent winner of the Australian version of Project Greenlight. Australian Film Institute Award winner Friels (Malcom, Tom White) will play an enforcer working in Sydney's criminal underworld. Solo, the first feature film for veteran short film actor-director-writer Morgan O'Neill, begins filming in Sydney later this month, with Bojana Novakovic, Angie Milliken, Bruce Spence and Anh Do also starring. It will be executive produced by Sue Milliken, who also headed the industry judging panel for Project Greenlight Australia. Sue Seeary will produce.
- 7/13/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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