Screen Tasmania has launched Comedy Concentrate, a short-form comedy development program for emerging screen practitioners.
The program is a match-funded intiative, with approximately $40,000 from Screen Australia and $50,000 from Screen Tasmania.
Comedy Concentrate will run from October until March next year, and will involve a number of high profile experts working with emerging Tasmanian comedy makers to develop and shoot pilots for short-form comedy series.
Initially up to 15 teams will take part in a two day workshop run by comedy experts including ABC head of comedy Rick Kalowski, Doug Anthony All-Star and author of The Cheeky Monkey Tim Ferguson, alongside Screen Australia.s interactive and multiplatform investment manager, Mike Cowap.
The best projects will be selected to work with mentor producers Kacie Anning (Fragments of Friday, The Minister for Men) and Nathan Earl (Plonk, The Checkout, Review with Myles Barlow), and they will ultimately be given a production budget to shoot a pilot.
The program is a match-funded intiative, with approximately $40,000 from Screen Australia and $50,000 from Screen Tasmania.
Comedy Concentrate will run from October until March next year, and will involve a number of high profile experts working with emerging Tasmanian comedy makers to develop and shoot pilots for short-form comedy series.
Initially up to 15 teams will take part in a two day workshop run by comedy experts including ABC head of comedy Rick Kalowski, Doug Anthony All-Star and author of The Cheeky Monkey Tim Ferguson, alongside Screen Australia.s interactive and multiplatform investment manager, Mike Cowap.
The best projects will be selected to work with mentor producers Kacie Anning (Fragments of Friday, The Minister for Men) and Nathan Earl (Plonk, The Checkout, Review with Myles Barlow), and they will ultimately be given a production budget to shoot a pilot.
- 8/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Plonk, a satirical look at the trials and tribulations of making a serious wine show, screened on Eleven last year after premiering on YouTube.
Now there.s a second series of six-half episodes which will premiere on Svod service Stan in June.
Produced by One Stone Pictures and ITV Studios Australia, the comedy stars The Chaser.s Chris Taylor, Joshua Tyler and creator/co-executive producer Nathan Earl.
Shot in Adelaide, the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Coonawarra and the Adelaide Hills, the sequel picks up 12 months after the cancellation of the fictitious Plonk program at the end of season one.
There will be cameos from foodie Maggie Beer, sommelier Matt Skinner, comedian Greg Fleet and Sa Premier Jay Weatherill.
Screen Australia, the South Australian Tourism Commission and the South Australian Film Corporation are supporting the production.
Graeme Mason, Screen Australia CEO, said: .We.re proud to support Nathan and...
Now there.s a second series of six-half episodes which will premiere on Svod service Stan in June.
Produced by One Stone Pictures and ITV Studios Australia, the comedy stars The Chaser.s Chris Taylor, Joshua Tyler and creator/co-executive producer Nathan Earl.
Shot in Adelaide, the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Coonawarra and the Adelaide Hills, the sequel picks up 12 months after the cancellation of the fictitious Plonk program at the end of season one.
There will be cameos from foodie Maggie Beer, sommelier Matt Skinner, comedian Greg Fleet and Sa Premier Jay Weatherill.
Screen Australia, the South Australian Tourism Commission and the South Australian Film Corporation are supporting the production.
Graeme Mason, Screen Australia CEO, said: .We.re proud to support Nathan and...
- 3/9/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Australian Director’s Guild has announced its nominees for the 2012 Adg Awards
Across the various categories, the nominations include Justin Kurzel for Snowtown, Matthew Saville for The Slap, Tony Krawitz for The Tall Man, Paul Scott for documentary series Outback Fight Club and Bruce Hunt for Subaru Xv’s Carwash.
The ceremony will be held as part of the Adg’s 30th anniversary at the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney on May 11.
Kingston Anderson, general manager of the Adg said: “This will be the largest celebration and Awards ceremony the Adg has ever hosted and will be an opportunity to highlight the many achievements of Adg members over the past 30 years and the significant role they have played in the development of the Australian screen industry, as well as to honour the best directors of 2012.”
The nominations are:
Feature film
Brendan Fletcher - Mad Bastards
Justin Kurzel – Snowtown
Julia Leigh...
Across the various categories, the nominations include Justin Kurzel for Snowtown, Matthew Saville for The Slap, Tony Krawitz for The Tall Man, Paul Scott for documentary series Outback Fight Club and Bruce Hunt for Subaru Xv’s Carwash.
The ceremony will be held as part of the Adg’s 30th anniversary at the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney on May 11.
Kingston Anderson, general manager of the Adg said: “This will be the largest celebration and Awards ceremony the Adg has ever hosted and will be an opportunity to highlight the many achievements of Adg members over the past 30 years and the significant role they have played in the development of the Australian screen industry, as well as to honour the best directors of 2012.”
The nominations are:
Feature film
Brendan Fletcher - Mad Bastards
Justin Kurzel – Snowtown
Julia Leigh...
- 4/16/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Gregor Jordan (Two Hands, Unthinkable) will be the series director of a new 22 part comedy series part-funded by Qantas and Tourism New Zealand.
The Great Crusade is a based on Toby Withers, a 39 year-old former squash champion and sports journalist for Highly Strung Magazine, a publication for ‘non-tennis racquet sports’, that has decided to broaden its horizons into rugby, and into television, just in time for New Zealand’s Rugby World Cup.
The show will produced as 22 episodes in forty days with a team including Nathan Earl (The Chasers War on Everything), Nick Hayden and Nick McDougal (both of Hungry Beast) and will star Phil Lloyd (Review with Myles Barlow, At Home With Julia) who will also co-write the episodes.
Named after and set around the Great Crusade, a 25 deep convoy of luxury campers, episodes will include real Wallabies supporters, ex-wallabies, musicians, comedians and competition winners who won their slot...
The Great Crusade is a based on Toby Withers, a 39 year-old former squash champion and sports journalist for Highly Strung Magazine, a publication for ‘non-tennis racquet sports’, that has decided to broaden its horizons into rugby, and into television, just in time for New Zealand’s Rugby World Cup.
The show will produced as 22 episodes in forty days with a team including Nathan Earl (The Chasers War on Everything), Nick Hayden and Nick McDougal (both of Hungry Beast) and will star Phil Lloyd (Review with Myles Barlow, At Home With Julia) who will also co-write the episodes.
Named after and set around the Great Crusade, a 25 deep convoy of luxury campers, episodes will include real Wallabies supporters, ex-wallabies, musicians, comedians and competition winners who won their slot...
- 9/6/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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