‘Allie’.
Tropfest has unveiled the 16 finalists for this year’s festival, which will be held on February 9.
Each film selected has referenced the 2019 Tropfest Signature Item (Tsi): ‘candle’. Organisers state this year’s films represent storytelling focused on diverse issues and people, with films such as Crush, following a lovestruck queer teen who racks up a hefty bill courting a cute shop girl; Comican’t, which stars a cast of actors with disability, and Allie, about the friendship between a car enthusiast and a young girl with disability.
The winner of Tropfest 2019 will be awarded a Equinox Ls+ valued at $32,000; a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of Kennedy Miller Mitchell; a $500 Camera Hire voucher, a 12 month Gold Pass courtesy of Event Cinemas; and a Professional Subscription to Digiital Pigeon.
They’ll also earn a film immersion course and week of meetings in Los Angeles with agents, studio executives and other industry...
Tropfest has unveiled the 16 finalists for this year’s festival, which will be held on February 9.
Each film selected has referenced the 2019 Tropfest Signature Item (Tsi): ‘candle’. Organisers state this year’s films represent storytelling focused on diverse issues and people, with films such as Crush, following a lovestruck queer teen who racks up a hefty bill courting a cute shop girl; Comican’t, which stars a cast of actors with disability, and Allie, about the friendship between a car enthusiast and a young girl with disability.
The winner of Tropfest 2019 will be awarded a Equinox Ls+ valued at $32,000; a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of Kennedy Miller Mitchell; a $500 Camera Hire voucher, a 12 month Gold Pass courtesy of Event Cinemas; and a Professional Subscription to Digiital Pigeon.
They’ll also earn a film immersion course and week of meetings in Los Angeles with agents, studio executives and other industry...
- 1/24/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Flickerfest has revealed the 53 films selected to screen as part of the festival's competitive program in its 25th anniversary year.
The films were chosen from more than 2300 entries.
This year.s official Australian Competition features 18 world premieres, six Australian premieres and 10 Nsw premieres..
Twenty-one female directors are represented across the official Australian competition.
The best of the australian films will be shown over seven sessions.
They will be competing for prizes across all areas of the filmmaking craft including the Academy Accredited Virgin Australia Award for Best Australian Film, the Canon Award for Best Direction and the Yoram Gross Award for Best Australian Animation.
Flickerfest is Australia.s only Academy accredited and BAFTA recognised festvial and runs from Friday January 8-17. .
Festival director Bronwyn Kidd, steering her 19th festival, said she was thrilled that Flickerfest was once again a platform for the Australia's most exciting, creative and talented short filmmakers.
The films were chosen from more than 2300 entries.
This year.s official Australian Competition features 18 world premieres, six Australian premieres and 10 Nsw premieres..
Twenty-one female directors are represented across the official Australian competition.
The best of the australian films will be shown over seven sessions.
They will be competing for prizes across all areas of the filmmaking craft including the Academy Accredited Virgin Australia Award for Best Australian Film, the Canon Award for Best Direction and the Yoram Gross Award for Best Australian Animation.
Flickerfest is Australia.s only Academy accredited and BAFTA recognised festvial and runs from Friday January 8-17. .
Festival director Bronwyn Kidd, steering her 19th festival, said she was thrilled that Flickerfest was once again a platform for the Australia's most exciting, creative and talented short filmmakers.
- 12/14/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
This is a golden era for Australian feature documentaries as typified by the five critically-acclaimed titles in contention for the best feature doc prize at the fifth Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.
Maya Newell.s Gayby Baby, Michael Ware and Bill Guttentag.s Only the Dead, Jen Peedom.s Sherpa, Damon Gameau.s That Sugar Film and Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed are the nominees.
The Aacta Awards will be presented in Sydney in December, with the Seven Network telecasting the major awards on December 9.
Also revealed today were the nominees for best short animation and best short fiction film. In the running for the former are Adam Elliot.s Ernie Biscuit, Joe Brumm.s The Meek, Mikey Hill.s The Orchestra and Janette Goodey and John Lewis. The Story of Percival Pilts.
The nominees for best short fiction are Matt Holcomb.s Flat Daddy,...
Maya Newell.s Gayby Baby, Michael Ware and Bill Guttentag.s Only the Dead, Jen Peedom.s Sherpa, Damon Gameau.s That Sugar Film and Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed are the nominees.
The Aacta Awards will be presented in Sydney in December, with the Seven Network telecasting the major awards on December 9.
Also revealed today were the nominees for best short animation and best short fiction film. In the running for the former are Adam Elliot.s Ernie Biscuit, Joe Brumm.s The Meek, Mikey Hill.s The Orchestra and Janette Goodey and John Lewis. The Story of Percival Pilts.
The nominees for best short fiction are Matt Holcomb.s Flat Daddy,...
- 7/14/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Producer Annie Kinnane expresses a common complaint in the industry: Often by the time she and her friends hear about a new Australian film it.s been yanked off screens before they had a chance to see it.
Instead of just griping, she.s doing her bit to increase awareness by launching a Facebook page this week, entitled Australian Films You Will Want to See.
She.s encouraging her Fb friends and the wider industry to post an item as soon as they.ve seen a film they can recommend.
That initiative is in a similar vein to When Did You Last Pay to See an Australian Film at the Cinema?, a Fb page created earlier this month by My Mistress producer Leanne Tonkes.
Tonkes is asking her industry peers to nominate the last Aussie film they paid to see, as opposed to freebie previews, Aacta, funding body or post house screenings,...
Instead of just griping, she.s doing her bit to increase awareness by launching a Facebook page this week, entitled Australian Films You Will Want to See.
She.s encouraging her Fb friends and the wider industry to post an item as soon as they.ve seen a film they can recommend.
That initiative is in a similar vein to When Did You Last Pay to See an Australian Film at the Cinema?, a Fb page created earlier this month by My Mistress producer Leanne Tonkes.
Tonkes is asking her industry peers to nominate the last Aussie film they paid to see, as opposed to freebie previews, Aacta, funding body or post house screenings,...
- 10/22/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Producer Annie Kinnane expresses a common complaint in the industry: Often by the time she and her friends hear about a new Australian film it.s been yanked off screens before they had a chance to see it.
Instead of just griping, she.s doing her bit to increase awareness by launching a Facebook page this week, entitled Australian Films You Will Want to See.
She.s encouraging her Fb friends and the wider industry to post an item as soon as they.ve seen a film they can recommend.
That initiative is not unlike When Did You Last Pay to See an Australian Film at the Cinema?, a Fb page created earlier this month by My Mistress producer Leanne Tonkes.
Tonkes is asking her industry peers to nominate the last Aussie film they paid to see, as opposed to freebie previews, Aacta, funding body or post house screenings, and...
Instead of just griping, she.s doing her bit to increase awareness by launching a Facebook page this week, entitled Australian Films You Will Want to See.
She.s encouraging her Fb friends and the wider industry to post an item as soon as they.ve seen a film they can recommend.
That initiative is not unlike When Did You Last Pay to See an Australian Film at the Cinema?, a Fb page created earlier this month by My Mistress producer Leanne Tonkes.
Tonkes is asking her industry peers to nominate the last Aussie film they paid to see, as opposed to freebie previews, Aacta, funding body or post house screenings, and...
- 10/22/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Wolf Creek star, John Jarratt, has joined the cast of Melbourne crime film Pinball. He joins a diverse cast that already includes hip-hop singer Brad Strut, recent Vca graduate Kevin Kiernan-Molloy and ex-criminal Mark .Chopper. Read. .John is one of this country.s great character actors," the film.s writer-director, Matt Holcomb, said in a statement. "I.m not surprised that he.s Quentin Tarantino.s favourite Australian actor. It.s an honour, a privilege and a boon to have someone like John as a key member of the Pinball cast."
Jarratt is currently shooting Quentin Tarantino.s latest film Django Unchained, which stars Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz. However, he will return to Melbourne when the second block of filming for Pinball begins this winter.
Pinball, which is the first feature from Holcomb, tells the story of Clint Thorp (Kiernan-Molloy), a former Australian Rules footballer-turned-criminal left for...
Jarratt is currently shooting Quentin Tarantino.s latest film Django Unchained, which stars Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz. However, he will return to Melbourne when the second block of filming for Pinball begins this winter.
Pinball, which is the first feature from Holcomb, tells the story of Clint Thorp (Kiernan-Molloy), a former Australian Rules footballer-turned-criminal left for...
- 4/11/2012
- by Danii Logue
- IF.com.au
Notorious ex-criminal and author Mark "Chopper" Read has joined the cast of Melbourne-based crime film Pinball. Read will be playing himself in the modern day retelling of the biblical Cain and Abel story, which will mark the feature film debut of brothers Matt and Trevor Holcomb. Earlier this year, Read also had a cameo role as a biker in the upcoming feature film The Groomless Bride. Writer-director Matt Holcomb said having.Read join the cast was a coup. .Pinball was designed to be a relentlessly gritty and authentic-feeling crime film, but one not based on a true crime story," he said in a statement. "In the absence of a true crime-based narrative, I thought the next best thing would be to try and cast a real (and former) underworld identity...
- 12/2/2011
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
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