Toni Collette will star in Fred Schepisi's 'Andorra' (Photo: Eva Rinaldi).
Seventeen film, TV, online and documentary projects will share in over $2.4 million in funding, thanks to the latest round of Film Victoria.s Assigned Production Investment program and the Victorian Content Initiative.
The combined projects will inject $23 million into the Victorian economy, according to a statement from Film Vic.
Film Victoria CEO Jenni Tosi said the latest projects to be supported capped off a terrific year of screen production in Victoria, with .2017 set to be bumper year with this diverse range of projects joining others already scheduled to go into production..
Projects supported through the Assigned Production Investment program include:
– Essential Media will partner with Carver Films to produce Sunshine for Sbs. The mini-series is.a crime drama that explores the world of South Sudanese refugees in Melbourne, and a young basketball star forced to fight...
Seventeen film, TV, online and documentary projects will share in over $2.4 million in funding, thanks to the latest round of Film Victoria.s Assigned Production Investment program and the Victorian Content Initiative.
The combined projects will inject $23 million into the Victorian economy, according to a statement from Film Vic.
Film Victoria CEO Jenni Tosi said the latest projects to be supported capped off a terrific year of screen production in Victoria, with .2017 set to be bumper year with this diverse range of projects joining others already scheduled to go into production..
Projects supported through the Assigned Production Investment program include:
– Essential Media will partner with Carver Films to produce Sunshine for Sbs. The mini-series is.a crime drama that explores the world of South Sudanese refugees in Melbourne, and a young basketball star forced to fight...
- 12/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Fancy Boy.
New six-part sketch comedy show.Fancy Boy.commences production in Melbourne this week.
The show stars John Campbell, Stuart Daulman, Greg Larsen, Henry Stone, Jonathan Schuster and Anne Edmonds.
.Fancy Boy made their name as a transgressive and weird live act, willing to go to places others wouldn.t", ABC.s Head of Entertainment Jon Casimir said.
"But what really marks their work is not just the boldness of their intent, it.s the heart and insight that underpins it. Fancy Boy sketches make you laugh but surprisingly, they also make you feel..
Evan Shapiro, the Executive Vice President at NBCUniversal.s Digital Enterprises and head of Us streaming comedy channel Sees, said that .The Fancy Boys are the freshest set of sketch voices I.ve seen in a long time - they are a whole new level of weird, even by Australian standards."
A December Media production...
New six-part sketch comedy show.Fancy Boy.commences production in Melbourne this week.
The show stars John Campbell, Stuart Daulman, Greg Larsen, Henry Stone, Jonathan Schuster and Anne Edmonds.
.Fancy Boy made their name as a transgressive and weird live act, willing to go to places others wouldn.t", ABC.s Head of Entertainment Jon Casimir said.
"But what really marks their work is not just the boldness of their intent, it.s the heart and insight that underpins it. Fancy Boy sketches make you laugh but surprisingly, they also make you feel..
Evan Shapiro, the Executive Vice President at NBCUniversal.s Digital Enterprises and head of Us streaming comedy channel Sees, said that .The Fancy Boys are the freshest set of sketch voices I.ve seen in a long time - they are a whole new level of weird, even by Australian standards."
A December Media production...
- 5/30/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The Railway Man and Rake took the top film and TV drama awards while Playmaker Media was named media super production business of the year at the 14th annual Screen Producers Australia Awards on Tuesday night. Jungleboys. The Moodys was feted as best comedy, Matchbox Pictures. Nowhere Boys took the children.s production gong and Artemis Productions. Who Do You Think You Are?. was best TV documentary. Carbon Media, which produced the first Australian indigenous segment ever aired on Sesame Street and is now co-producing Camp Crazy, a childrens. series with Essential Media & Entertainment, was named breakthrough business of the year. The Natalie Miller Fellowship was awarded to Deluxe Australia.s Rebecca Hammond, who will undertake a women in leadership program at the University of Nsw. . The $300,000 Kickstart prize went to Jessica Leslie from the Northern Territory, who will make a TV series for Foxtel.s Studio channel entitled Renassiance Man,...
- 11/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
If the 3rd annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards could be categorised as a David vs Goliath battle between The Rocket and The Great Gatsby, Goliath is the hands-down winner.
Baz Luhrmann.s opulent romantic drama won six awards tonight, for best film, director, adapted screenplay, lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio, supporting actor Joel Edgerton and supporting actress Elizabeth Debicki.
That.s in addition to the six awards in craft categories plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects bestowed on Luhrmann.s film on Tuesday.
Kim Mordaunt's The Rocket, which had 12 nominations versus 14 for Gatsby, had to be content with just one trophy, for Mordaunt.s original screenplay.
The outcome is likely to reignite the debate about the near-impossibility of comparing a lavishly-mounted 3D film financed by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, which cost $160 million, with an independently-funded Lao-set film from a first-time director budgeted at about $2 million.
Baz Luhrmann.s opulent romantic drama won six awards tonight, for best film, director, adapted screenplay, lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio, supporting actor Joel Edgerton and supporting actress Elizabeth Debicki.
That.s in addition to the six awards in craft categories plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects bestowed on Luhrmann.s film on Tuesday.
Kim Mordaunt's The Rocket, which had 12 nominations versus 14 for Gatsby, had to be content with just one trophy, for Mordaunt.s original screenplay.
The outcome is likely to reignite the debate about the near-impossibility of comparing a lavishly-mounted 3D film financed by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, which cost $160 million, with an independently-funded Lao-set film from a first-time director budgeted at about $2 million.
- 1/30/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The first round of Aacta award winners were announced yesterday in Sydney at the 2nd Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Luncheon. Held at the Sydney.s The Star Event Centre and hosted by Adam Elliot, the luncheon drew a host of industry representatives including actors Damon Herriman, Daniel Henshall and Felicity Price. The Sapphires was a favourite of the day, taking home five coveted gongs in total for cinematography (Warwick Thornton), editing (Dany Cooper Ase), sound (Andrew Plain, Bry Jones, Pete Smith, Ben Osmo and John Simpson), costume design (Tess Schofield) and production design in a feature film (Melinda Doring.) A jovial Thornton told media working with Sapphires director Wayne Blair wasn.t exactly a walk in the park. .He.s an incredibly hard task master,. he said. .You can.t pull the wool over his eyes when you feel like being lazy.. Cooper spoke of the...
- 1/28/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
The Sapphires looks set to dominate this year’s Aacta Awards after dominating the categories announced at yesterday’s awards lunch.
The AACTAs – the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts – were held for the first time last year. Yesterday’s lunch at the Star casino in Sydney comes ahead of tomorrow night’s main Aacta ceremony.
The Sapphires won in five of the early categories, including best editing, sound and cinematography.
The event also paid tribute to producer Al Clark with the Raymond Longford Award. Clark was behind films including The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Absolute Beginners and Nineteen Eighty Four.
Tributes were also paid to producer Pat Lovell, who died over the weekend. Lovell was a producer on films including Picnic At Hanging Rock and Gallipoli.
The winners:
Aacta Raymond Longford Award
Al Clark
Aacta Award For Best Visual Effects
Iron Sky. Samuli Torssonen, Jussi Lehtiniemi,...
The AACTAs – the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts – were held for the first time last year. Yesterday’s lunch at the Star casino in Sydney comes ahead of tomorrow night’s main Aacta ceremony.
The Sapphires won in five of the early categories, including best editing, sound and cinematography.
The event also paid tribute to producer Al Clark with the Raymond Longford Award. Clark was behind films including The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Absolute Beginners and Nineteen Eighty Four.
Tributes were also paid to producer Pat Lovell, who died over the weekend. Lovell was a producer on films including Picnic At Hanging Rock and Gallipoli.
The winners:
Aacta Raymond Longford Award
Al Clark
Aacta Award For Best Visual Effects
Iron Sky. Samuli Torssonen, Jussi Lehtiniemi,...
- 1/28/2013
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
Adam Zwar returns to ABC1 with his agony aunts and uncles giving advice on Wednesday February 6 from 9pm.
The new series The Agony of Life is a light entertainment series which continues on from his two series of last year with life advice from comedians and media personalities.
Produced by Zwar and Nicole Minchin for High Wire Films production, the 8-part series is also written, directed and narrated by Zwar.
The aunts and uncles offering advice include Yumi Stynes, Mirka Mora, Dave Thornton, Sam Pang, Myf Warhurst, Waleed Aly and Lawrence Mooney.
The episodes will cover the cycle of life childhood, teenager years, plus 20s and 30s, family career, retirement and deathbed revelations.
Agony Aunts has been nominated for Best Light Entertainment Comedy Series, at the forthcoming Aacta Awards.
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The new series The Agony of Life is a light entertainment series which continues on from his two series of last year with life advice from comedians and media personalities.
Produced by Zwar and Nicole Minchin for High Wire Films production, the 8-part series is also written, directed and narrated by Zwar.
The aunts and uncles offering advice include Yumi Stynes, Mirka Mora, Dave Thornton, Sam Pang, Myf Warhurst, Waleed Aly and Lawrence Mooney.
The episodes will cover the cycle of life childhood, teenager years, plus 20s and 30s, family career, retirement and deathbed revelations.
Agony Aunts has been nominated for Best Light Entertainment Comedy Series, at the forthcoming Aacta Awards.
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- 1/8/2013
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Hit musical drama The Sapphires has scored 12 nominations at the 2012 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Awards including in the coveted best feature film category.
The Sapphires, which follows four indigenous singers during the Vietnam war, has grossed more than $14 million in Australia to become the biggest local film of the year.
Three other films will be also be vying for the best feature film award: Burning Man (10 nominations in total), Lore (eight nominations in total) and Wish You Were Here (eight nominations in total) at the main Aacta ceremony, which will be held on January 30, 2013, at The Star Event Centre. Last year's event was held at the iconic Sydney Opera House.
P.J. Hogan's Mental also scored eight nominations including Best Lead Actress (Toni Collette), Best Supporting Actor (Liev Schreiber) Best Young Actor (Lily Sullivan) and Best Supporting Actress for Rebecca Gibney and Deborah Mailman.
Not Suitable for Children...
The Sapphires, which follows four indigenous singers during the Vietnam war, has grossed more than $14 million in Australia to become the biggest local film of the year.
Three other films will be also be vying for the best feature film award: Burning Man (10 nominations in total), Lore (eight nominations in total) and Wish You Were Here (eight nominations in total) at the main Aacta ceremony, which will be held on January 30, 2013, at The Star Event Centre. Last year's event was held at the iconic Sydney Opera House.
P.J. Hogan's Mental also scored eight nominations including Best Lead Actress (Toni Collette), Best Supporting Actor (Liev Schreiber) Best Young Actor (Lily Sullivan) and Best Supporting Actress for Rebecca Gibney and Deborah Mailman.
Not Suitable for Children...
- 12/3/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The Sapphires has led the Academy of Australian Cinema and Television Arts Awards nominations being nominated in 12 categories.
Awards will be handed out over two events, with an awards luncheon, focused on craft categories on Monday January 28 and the main event on January 30. Both events will be held at the Star Event Centre, the first public events for the venue.
The Sapphires, distributed by Hopscotch/eOne has been nominated for Best Film, Best Direction and best adapted screenplay as well as Best Lead Actor and Actress for Chris O’Dowd and Deborah Mailman, and Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Mauboy.
Burning Man was not far behind on 10 nominations including best film and best direction as well as best lead actor for Matthre Goode and Best Supporting Actress for Essie Davis.
Three more films, Lore, Mental and Wish You Were Here received eight nominations while Not Suitable For Children received four.
Awards will be handed out over two events, with an awards luncheon, focused on craft categories on Monday January 28 and the main event on January 30. Both events will be held at the Star Event Centre, the first public events for the venue.
The Sapphires, distributed by Hopscotch/eOne has been nominated for Best Film, Best Direction and best adapted screenplay as well as Best Lead Actor and Actress for Chris O’Dowd and Deborah Mailman, and Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Mauboy.
Burning Man was not far behind on 10 nominations including best film and best direction as well as best lead actor for Matthre Goode and Best Supporting Actress for Essie Davis.
Three more films, Lore, Mental and Wish You Were Here received eight nominations while Not Suitable For Children received four.
- 12/3/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
A second series of ABC sitcom Twentysomething has received funding from Screen Australia as part of the agency’s Multi-Platform Production Program.
Created and written by Jess Harris, Twentysomething episodes will be directed by Harris and Mika Tran and is produced by Lowdown’s Nicole Minchin of High Wire Films.
The first season aired last year on ABC2. This season will pick up with friends Jess, played by Harris, and Josh, played by Josh Schmidt, returning from abroad as thirtysomething looms.
Twentysomething is among four projects to receive the funding. Included also is an interactive animation for tablets called A Cautionary Tail, an interactive documentary called Ringbalin: River Stories and a serious game called The Voyage.
Screen Australia’ CEO Ruth Harley said: “These four titles join a growing list of dynamic, original Screen Australia–supported projects that capitalise on the changing landscape for content creation. We have both established players...
Created and written by Jess Harris, Twentysomething episodes will be directed by Harris and Mika Tran and is produced by Lowdown’s Nicole Minchin of High Wire Films.
The first season aired last year on ABC2. This season will pick up with friends Jess, played by Harris, and Josh, played by Josh Schmidt, returning from abroad as thirtysomething looms.
Twentysomething is among four projects to receive the funding. Included also is an interactive animation for tablets called A Cautionary Tail, an interactive documentary called Ringbalin: River Stories and a serious game called The Voyage.
Screen Australia’ CEO Ruth Harley said: “These four titles join a growing list of dynamic, original Screen Australia–supported projects that capitalise on the changing landscape for content creation. We have both established players...
- 12/3/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
ABC2 multi-platform comedy twentysomething has been commissioned for a second series while short animated film A Cautionary Tail will be made into an interactive app for tablets.
They are two of four projects to receive funding through Screen Australia's latest Multi-platform Production Program funding round. The other two are: The Voyage, a serious game for the Australian National Maritime Museum, which will give players the chance to captain a convict ship to Van Diemen.s Land in the early 1800s; and Ringbalin, an interactive documentary which will take users on a virtual pilgrimage along the Murray, telling the river.s history through Indigenous eyes.
Screen Australia chief executive Ruth Harley said: .These four titles join a growing list of dynamic, original Screen Australia-supported projects that capitalise on the changing landscape for content creation. We have both established players and new talent collaborating and telling stories through interactive documentary,...
They are two of four projects to receive funding through Screen Australia's latest Multi-platform Production Program funding round. The other two are: The Voyage, a serious game for the Australian National Maritime Museum, which will give players the chance to captain a convict ship to Van Diemen.s Land in the early 1800s; and Ringbalin, an interactive documentary which will take users on a virtual pilgrimage along the Murray, telling the river.s history through Indigenous eyes.
Screen Australia chief executive Ruth Harley said: .These four titles join a growing list of dynamic, original Screen Australia-supported projects that capitalise on the changing landscape for content creation. We have both established players and new talent collaborating and telling stories through interactive documentary,...
- 12/3/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Two Us films by Australian directors have opened at the local box office this weekend, both taking a moderate haul with a $4,000 screen average.
Lawless, directed by John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave did best, taking $843,377 across 211 screens for a screen average of $3,997.
The film is distributed by Roadshow with a cast that includes Australians Guy Pearce, Jason Clarke, Noah Taylor and Mia Wasikowska as well as Shia Labeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and Jessica Chastain. The film is about a family of bootlegging gangsters in depression-era Virginia.
Hillcoat and Cave were the directing and writing team behind Australian western The Proposition, starring Pearce. Hillcoat also directed The Road.
Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt and Australian Ben Mendelsohn, took $664,500 across 165 screens for a $4,028 screen average.
The film, originally titled Cogan’s Trade sees Pitt as a stand over man investigating the heist of a mob-protected...
Lawless, directed by John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave did best, taking $843,377 across 211 screens for a screen average of $3,997.
The film is distributed by Roadshow with a cast that includes Australians Guy Pearce, Jason Clarke, Noah Taylor and Mia Wasikowska as well as Shia Labeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and Jessica Chastain. The film is about a family of bootlegging gangsters in depression-era Virginia.
Hillcoat and Cave were the directing and writing team behind Australian western The Proposition, starring Pearce. Hillcoat also directed The Road.
Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt and Australian Ben Mendelsohn, took $664,500 across 165 screens for a $4,028 screen average.
The film, originally titled Cogan’s Trade sees Pitt as a stand over man investigating the heist of a mob-protected...
- 10/15/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
When Wilfred and.Lowdown co-creator Adam Zwar was in high school and university, he was fairly sure he must be deformed or charmless. Perhaps even both. At least in the eyes of women.
"All I was hearing were stories of success, while I was just going through failure after failure," he says. "It wasn't until later in life that I realised that all guys feel like that, and I think it's important that guys know they're not alone when they luck out."
Fast forward to 2012 and Zwar's production company has created Agony Uncles, a six-part series with the tagline 'When you have absolutely no-one else to turn to.'
The series, which is executive produced by Zwar alongisde Amanda Brotchie and Nicole Minchin, features 18 men including animator Adam Elliott, academic Waleed Ali and actor Josh Lawson, discussing everything from picking up and the first date to getting your heart broken and moving on again.
"All I was hearing were stories of success, while I was just going through failure after failure," he says. "It wasn't until later in life that I realised that all guys feel like that, and I think it's important that guys know they're not alone when they luck out."
Fast forward to 2012 and Zwar's production company has created Agony Uncles, a six-part series with the tagline 'When you have absolutely no-one else to turn to.'
The series, which is executive produced by Zwar alongisde Amanda Brotchie and Nicole Minchin, features 18 men including animator Adam Elliott, academic Waleed Ali and actor Josh Lawson, discussing everything from picking up and the first date to getting your heart broken and moving on again.
- 3/20/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
When Wilfred and.Lowdown co-creator Adam Zwar was in high school and university, he was fairly sure he must be deformed or charmless. Perhaps even both. At least in the eyes of women. "All I was hearing were stories of success, while I was just going through failure after failure," he says. "It wasn't until later in life that I realised that all guys feel like that, and I think it's important that guys know they're not alone when they luck out." Fast forward to 2012 and Zwar's production company has created Agony Uncles, a six-part series with the tagline 'When you have absolutely no-one else to turn to.' The series, which is executive produced by Zwar alongisde Amanda Brotchie and Nicole Minchin, features 18 men including animator...
- 3/20/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
The Hunter has lead the Aacta Awards with 14 nominations including best film.
The film, by Daniel Nettheim, is also up for best direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, production design, costume, original music score, and visual effects. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Sam Neill and Morgana Davies are all up for acting awards.
The film has currently made just over $1m at the local box office.
It’s the first year for the re-launched AACTAs, formerly the AFI awards.
The technical awards will be given out at a luncheon on 15 January at the Sydney Opera House, with an evening ceremony for the more ‘public-friendly’ awards held at the Opera House on 31 January.
Running against The Hunter for best film is Red Dog, Mad Bastards, The Eye of the Storm, Snowtown and Oranges and Sunshine.
The Eye of the Storm, was second in the nominations race with 12, of which six are...
The film, by Daniel Nettheim, is also up for best direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, production design, costume, original music score, and visual effects. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Sam Neill and Morgana Davies are all up for acting awards.
The film has currently made just over $1m at the local box office.
It’s the first year for the re-launched AACTAs, formerly the AFI awards.
The technical awards will be given out at a luncheon on 15 January at the Sydney Opera House, with an evening ceremony for the more ‘public-friendly’ awards held at the Opera House on 31 January.
Running against The Hunter for best film is Red Dog, Mad Bastards, The Eye of the Storm, Snowtown and Oranges and Sunshine.
The Eye of the Storm, was second in the nominations race with 12, of which six are...
- 11/30/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Actors Josh Lawson and Isabel Lucas have been named Best Hollywood Newcomers at the Beverly Hills Film, TV and New Media Festival for their roles in an Australian film which is yet to get distribution two years after being made.
Despite gaining recognition at a number of festivals including picking up the Melbourne International Film Festival audience award, it now looks like The Wedding Party will not get a release this year.
Directed by Amanda Jane and produced by Nicole Minchin, The Wedding Party opened Miff last year.
In late May, Minchin told Encore: “We are looking forward to a local release in the second half of this year with an announcement in the coming weeks.”
However, she today told Encore: “The thing is, we haven’t struggled to get distribution, it’s about finding the best distribution plan. It’s an audience film, as our Miff win shows, so...
Despite gaining recognition at a number of festivals including picking up the Melbourne International Film Festival audience award, it now looks like The Wedding Party will not get a release this year.
Directed by Amanda Jane and produced by Nicole Minchin, The Wedding Party opened Miff last year.
In late May, Minchin told Encore: “We are looking forward to a local release in the second half of this year with an announcement in the coming weeks.”
However, she today told Encore: “The thing is, we haven’t struggled to get distribution, it’s about finding the best distribution plan. It’s an audience film, as our Miff win shows, so...
- 11/2/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Wedding Party producer, Nicole Minchin, says a re-cut version of the film has received a positive response from potential buyers at the Cannes International Film Festival. The film, which had its premiere at last year.s Melbourne International Film Festival, is now running about 20 minutes shorter than the original version after advice from editor Jill Bilcock. The Wedding Party director, Amanda Jane, said Bilcock.s expertise and advice added much to the film. .It is the same film, it just has a dynamic new pace,. she said in a statement. Minchin said the team is excited to be working with Arclight and "are thrilled with the response to the Cannes screening.. The film stars Josh Lawson as Steve Thompson, who, in a bid to save himself...
- 5/31/2011
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The Wedding Party won Best Film at the Los Angeles Movie Awards over the weekend.
Lead actor Josh Lawson won Best Actor while the film picked up Best Screenplay and Best Production Design.
After last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival the film was re-edited for release with consulting editor Jill Billcock, cutting the film by 20 minutes.
Signing with Arclight Films for international sales, The Wedding Party had its market debut at Cannes this month.
Producer Nicole Minchin said of Cannes, “The film went well with two screenings and a really positive response including interest from United States, Canda, France, Italy and airlines.”
“We are looking forward to a local release in the second half of this year with an announcement in the coming weeks.”
Starring Josh Lawson, Isabel Lucas, Steve Bisley, and Essie Davis, The Wedding Party was also awarded Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay and Best Ensemble...
Lead actor Josh Lawson won Best Actor while the film picked up Best Screenplay and Best Production Design.
After last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival the film was re-edited for release with consulting editor Jill Billcock, cutting the film by 20 minutes.
Signing with Arclight Films for international sales, The Wedding Party had its market debut at Cannes this month.
Producer Nicole Minchin said of Cannes, “The film went well with two screenings and a really positive response including interest from United States, Canda, France, Italy and airlines.”
“We are looking forward to a local release in the second half of this year with an announcement in the coming weeks.”
Starring Josh Lawson, Isabel Lucas, Steve Bisley, and Essie Davis, The Wedding Party was also awarded Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay and Best Ensemble...
- 5/31/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Film Victoria has invested $450,000 in the second series of the ABC comedy Lowdown, a third series of Anatomy, and the documentary feature Gnarly – The Ben Pappas Story.
The funded projects are:
Lowdown Series 2 (12 episodes)
• High Wire Films Pty Ltd.
• Nicole Minchin, Producer; Adam Zwar and Amanda Brotchie, Writers; Amanda Brotchie, Director.
• An estimated 96 percent of the budget will be spent in Victoria
Alex Burchill writes the Lowdown column for struggling tabloid newspaper, the Sunday Sun. Circulation is in decline and the paper is downsizing and adapting to the brutal economic climate, and Alex’s methods for unearthing stories become increasingly desperate. Each week he must come up with a shock-and-awe story for the embattled paper, and each week that shock-and-awe story somehow ruins his own life.
Anatomy Series Three (three episodes)
• Matchbox Pictures Pty Ltd.
• Michael McMahon and Tony Ayres, Producers; Directors: Paola Morabito (“Hair”), Alethea Jones (“Tissue”), Kim Munro...
The funded projects are:
Lowdown Series 2 (12 episodes)
• High Wire Films Pty Ltd.
• Nicole Minchin, Producer; Adam Zwar and Amanda Brotchie, Writers; Amanda Brotchie, Director.
• An estimated 96 percent of the budget will be spent in Victoria
Alex Burchill writes the Lowdown column for struggling tabloid newspaper, the Sunday Sun. Circulation is in decline and the paper is downsizing and adapting to the brutal economic climate, and Alex’s methods for unearthing stories become increasingly desperate. Each week he must come up with a shock-and-awe story for the embattled paper, and each week that shock-and-awe story somehow ruins his own life.
Anatomy Series Three (three episodes)
• Matchbox Pictures Pty Ltd.
• Michael McMahon and Tony Ayres, Producers; Directors: Paola Morabito (“Hair”), Alethea Jones (“Tissue”), Kim Munro...
- 4/6/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
<p><a href="http://www.encoremagazine.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/The-Sapphires.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-3055 alignright" title="Farmer and Anu in the current stage version of The Sapphires" src="http://www.encoremagazine.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/The-Sapphires-150x150.jpg" alt="Farmer and Anu in the current stage version of The Sapphires" width="150" height="150" /></a>Screen Australia announced its last investment round for 2010, with almost $18m for five features, three drama series, two low budget TV dramas, a children’s TV series, and 17 docos.</p> <p>The films include the musical <em>The Sapphires </em>(dir. Wayne Blair),<em> The King is Dead!</em> (dir. Rolf de Heer), <em>Dead Europe</em> (dir. Tony Krawitz), <em>Venice </em>(dir. Miro Bilbrough) and <em>Summer Coda</em> (dir. Richard Gray).<span id="more-6142"></span></p> <p><em>Summer Coda </em>was released in October, and today’s announcement by Screen Australia refers to a September decision that provided the film with post-production funding.</p> <p>The projects are:<br /> Feature Drama<br /> <strong>Dead Europe</strong><br /> See Saw Films Pty Ltd<br /> Producers Emile Sherman, Iain Canning<br /> Writer Louise Fox<br /> Director Tony Krawitz<br /> Sales and Distribution Cross City Sales, Wild Bunch International Sales, Transmission Films<br /> Synopsis Isaac, a late 20s Greek Australian, spirals out of control when he’s forced to confront<br /> his own family’s cursed legacy on his first trip to...
- 12/2/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Remember that one year (2001) when the list-happy AFI (American Film Institute) decided to compete with the Globes and the Oscars in year end prizes? No, that didn't last long. But there's another AFI, The Australian Film Institute, that has been around for a long time and is in no such danger of being a one-off. This year, they're all about the amazing family crime drama Animal Kingdom which they awarded with a record breaking 18 nominations. Sure, the film is in danger of being way overhyped for people who are coming to it late (which is just about everyone given the sorry state of international distribution for dramas of virtually any kind) but for those who can slough off the "omg" raves, I guarantee you'll think it at least an insinuating and well executed crime drama.
AFI Favorites with multiple nominations
Its main competition for the coveted prizes, if you go by nomination counts,...
AFI Favorites with multiple nominations
Its main competition for the coveted prizes, if you go by nomination counts,...
- 10/29/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Animal Kingdom received 18 nominations for this year’s Australian Film Institute Awards, followed by Beneath Hill 60 (12), Bright Star (11), Tomorrow, When the War Began (8), The Tree, Bran Nue Dae (7 each) and The Boys Are Back (4)
The Best Film category will see Animal Kingdom competing against Beneath Hill 60, Bright Star, Bran Nue Dae, The Tree and Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Australia’s top rated drama productions – Packed to the Rafters and Underbellly: The Golden Mile – were both absent from the main Television categories (except for Underbelly‘s two acting nods).
The winners will be revealed on December 10 (Industry Awards) and 11 (main Awards Ceremony) in Melbourne.
This is the full list of nominees:
AFI Members’ Choice Award
Animal Kingdom. Liz Watts. Beneath Hill 60. Bill Leimbach. Bran Nue Dae. Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac. Bright Star. Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt. The Boys Are Back. Greg Brenman, Tim White. Tomorrow When The War Began.
The Best Film category will see Animal Kingdom competing against Beneath Hill 60, Bright Star, Bran Nue Dae, The Tree and Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Australia’s top rated drama productions – Packed to the Rafters and Underbellly: The Golden Mile – were both absent from the main Television categories (except for Underbelly‘s two acting nods).
The winners will be revealed on December 10 (Industry Awards) and 11 (main Awards Ceremony) in Melbourne.
This is the full list of nominees:
AFI Members’ Choice Award
Animal Kingdom. Liz Watts. Beneath Hill 60. Bill Leimbach. Bran Nue Dae. Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac. Bright Star. Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt. The Boys Are Back. Greg Brenman, Tim White. Tomorrow When The War Began.
- 10/27/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Film Victoria will invest $1,389,871 on three documentaries, three TV series and two features.
Beneficiaries include an apocalyptic film produced by Antony Ginnane, a factual/fiction hybried by Amiel Courtin-Wilson, and a mini-series produced by Nicole Minchin (The Wedding Party, Lowdown).
The projects are:
Features
Last Dance, Fg Film Productions: Antony I Ginnane, Producer; Terence Hammond, Writer; David Pulbrook, Director. Past and present collide in this fiction feature, when holocaust survivor Ulah Lippmann is held hostage by Sadiq Mohammed, a Palestinian terrorist on the run after a Melbourne bombing.
Hail, Flood Projects: Michael Cody, Producer; Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Producer/Writer/Director. This hybrid factual/fiction feature explores the darkness that befalls a man who has the love of his life ripped away from him.
TV
Woodley, Bucket Tree: Simon Wright and Andy Walker, Producers; Frank Woodley, Writer/Producer. A visual comedy mini-series about a hapless 40-year-old divorcee who shares custody of his...
Beneficiaries include an apocalyptic film produced by Antony Ginnane, a factual/fiction hybried by Amiel Courtin-Wilson, and a mini-series produced by Nicole Minchin (The Wedding Party, Lowdown).
The projects are:
Features
Last Dance, Fg Film Productions: Antony I Ginnane, Producer; Terence Hammond, Writer; David Pulbrook, Director. Past and present collide in this fiction feature, when holocaust survivor Ulah Lippmann is held hostage by Sadiq Mohammed, a Palestinian terrorist on the run after a Melbourne bombing.
Hail, Flood Projects: Michael Cody, Producer; Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Producer/Writer/Director. This hybrid factual/fiction feature explores the darkness that befalls a man who has the love of his life ripped away from him.
TV
Woodley, Bucket Tree: Simon Wright and Andy Walker, Producers; Frank Woodley, Writer/Producer. A visual comedy mini-series about a hapless 40-year-old divorcee who shares custody of his...
- 9/2/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Amanda Jane’s comedy The Wedding Party (previously known as Kin) will open this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival.
“We had the title in the back of our minds for a long time, as an alternative title. We decided to change it because the film is entertaining, fun, and we wanted a title that suited those aspects more. It’s full of music, a fantastic cast and great comic actors,” director Amanda Jane told Encore.
Written by Christine Bartlett and produced by Nicole Minchin (ABC TV’s Lowdown), The Wedding Party received support from the Miff Premiere Fund.
The film is set for distribution by Arkles Entertainment. When the company shut down its New Zealand operation in early March, MD John Davies told Encore that “Arkles Australia remains and goes on, and The Wedding Party is still contracted with us. We are in the market for a partner on...
“We had the title in the back of our minds for a long time, as an alternative title. We decided to change it because the film is entertaining, fun, and we wanted a title that suited those aspects more. It’s full of music, a fantastic cast and great comic actors,” director Amanda Jane told Encore.
Written by Christine Bartlett and produced by Nicole Minchin (ABC TV’s Lowdown), The Wedding Party received support from the Miff Premiere Fund.
The film is set for distribution by Arkles Entertainment. When the company shut down its New Zealand operation in early March, MD John Davies told Encore that “Arkles Australia remains and goes on, and The Wedding Party is still contracted with us. We are in the market for a partner on...
- 6/8/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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