The Australian International Screen Forum, in partnership with the American Australian Association, has awarded its annual scholarship to Sydney-based filmmaker Charlotte Mars.
With the scholarship designed to support support an emerging filmmaker in
breaking into the international market, Mars has been awarded $US10,000, facilitating travel to the US in early 2022 for a development program that has been designed and managed by Australian International Screen Forum through industry networks.
A filmmaker working across fiction and documentary, Mars’ work has a focus on stories exploring queer identity and the lives of women. They have been a mentee to director Cate Shortland, their recent short Girl and Body premiered In Competition at Berlinale 2020, and they were a 2016 Women’s International Film & Television Society Honouree for producing and co-writing Gayby Baby.
In 2019, Mars was awarded the SheDoc Fellowship by Documentary Australia Foundation for upcoming feature doc Muscle.
Mars said: “I’m stoked and incredibly honoured to receive this award.
With the scholarship designed to support support an emerging filmmaker in
breaking into the international market, Mars has been awarded $US10,000, facilitating travel to the US in early 2022 for a development program that has been designed and managed by Australian International Screen Forum through industry networks.
A filmmaker working across fiction and documentary, Mars’ work has a focus on stories exploring queer identity and the lives of women. They have been a mentee to director Cate Shortland, their recent short Girl and Body premiered In Competition at Berlinale 2020, and they were a 2016 Women’s International Film & Television Society Honouree for producing and co-writing Gayby Baby.
In 2019, Mars was awarded the SheDoc Fellowship by Documentary Australia Foundation for upcoming feature doc Muscle.
Mars said: “I’m stoked and incredibly honoured to receive this award.
- 3/29/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Charlotte Mars, Vera Hong and Philippa Bateman.
Create Nsw, Documentary Australia Foundation and RØDE Microphones today announced Charlotte Mars, Philippa Bateman and Vera Hong as the recipients of this year’s SheDoc funding.
SheDoc is a targeted initiative to support female documentary filmmakers with up to $20,000, to be used as a grant to support their project’s travel, research, development, and/or other related expenses.
“The SheDoc program aims to make a pivotal intervention in a woman’s filmmaking career. By offering funding to facilitate opportunities that are self-directed and of benefit, our intention is to offer opportunities that would be difficult to undertake without our support,” said Documentary Australia Foundation CEO Mitzi Goldman.
“We’re very excited to bring SheDoc back this year. The selection of the final three recipients was a tough decision because there were many fantastic applicants. We encourage women to continuously seek opportunities to develop themselves professionally,...
Create Nsw, Documentary Australia Foundation and RØDE Microphones today announced Charlotte Mars, Philippa Bateman and Vera Hong as the recipients of this year’s SheDoc funding.
SheDoc is a targeted initiative to support female documentary filmmakers with up to $20,000, to be used as a grant to support their project’s travel, research, development, and/or other related expenses.
“The SheDoc program aims to make a pivotal intervention in a woman’s filmmaking career. By offering funding to facilitate opportunities that are self-directed and of benefit, our intention is to offer opportunities that would be difficult to undertake without our support,” said Documentary Australia Foundation CEO Mitzi Goldman.
“We’re very excited to bring SheDoc back this year. The selection of the final three recipients was a tough decision because there were many fantastic applicants. We encourage women to continuously seek opportunities to develop themselves professionally,...
- 5/20/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Gayby Baby will have its La premiere on Thursday, April 28 at the Chaplin Theatre at Raleigh Studios.
The Us rollout comes at an interesting time, with the last Us state holding out on allowing adoption by same-sex couples recently passing it, making it legal nationwide.
In addition to Los Angeles, the film's New York City premiere will take place May 1 at The Center, co-Presented by Newfest.
An encore screening will also take May 4th at 7pm at The Lang Center hosted by The New School..
Director Maya Newell and producer Charlotte Mars will be stateside from approximately April 28-May 4, to coincide with the film's roadshow rollout and a VOD/Est release May 1.
The film is being released in the States by Supergravity Pictures.
.We have a truly special film here,. said Supergravity founder Marc Hustvedt..
.Supergravity is honored to bring this groundbreaking documentary to audiences across the globe and help...
The Us rollout comes at an interesting time, with the last Us state holding out on allowing adoption by same-sex couples recently passing it, making it legal nationwide.
In addition to Los Angeles, the film's New York City premiere will take place May 1 at The Center, co-Presented by Newfest.
An encore screening will also take May 4th at 7pm at The Lang Center hosted by The New School..
Director Maya Newell and producer Charlotte Mars will be stateside from approximately April 28-May 4, to coincide with the film's roadshow rollout and a VOD/Est release May 1.
The film is being released in the States by Supergravity Pictures.
.We have a truly special film here,. said Supergravity founder Marc Hustvedt..
.Supergravity is honored to bring this groundbreaking documentary to audiences across the globe and help...
- 4/20/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Gayby Baby.
Us-based Supergravity Pictures have acquired Maya Newell's feature documentary.Gayby Baby and will release the film in the Us, UK and Ireland next month, in partnership with music label and digital media agency Heard Well.
Event-style theatrical screenings of the film will begin in over fifty Us cities from April 1, ahead of a VOD/Est release May 1.
The timing of the May 1 release coincides with International Family Equality Day..
Produced by Charlotte Mars, Gayby Baby screened at the Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Doc NYC and Hot Docs in Toronto over the past year, picking up the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Sff and a nomination for best documentary at the Aacta awards.
.We have a truly special film here,. said Supergravity founder Marc Hustvedt..
.Supergravity is honored to bring this groundbreaking documentary to audiences across the globe and help amplify the conversation around family equality.
Us-based Supergravity Pictures have acquired Maya Newell's feature documentary.Gayby Baby and will release the film in the Us, UK and Ireland next month, in partnership with music label and digital media agency Heard Well.
Event-style theatrical screenings of the film will begin in over fifty Us cities from April 1, ahead of a VOD/Est release May 1.
The timing of the May 1 release coincides with International Family Equality Day..
Produced by Charlotte Mars, Gayby Baby screened at the Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Doc NYC and Hot Docs in Toronto over the past year, picking up the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Sff and a nomination for best documentary at the Aacta awards.
.We have a truly special film here,. said Supergravity founder Marc Hustvedt..
.Supergravity is honored to bring this groundbreaking documentary to audiences across the globe and help amplify the conversation around family equality.
- 3/21/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Sonya Pemberton.s Uranium — Twisting the Dragon.s Tail won three prizes at the 2015 Atom Awards presented in Melbourne on Thursday night.
The Genepool Productions documentary, which chronicles the cultural, scientific and natural history of uranium, was lauded as best documentary- history, TV factual series and best documentary — science, technology and the environment.
Director Maya Newell and producer Charlotte Mars. Gayby Baby was named best documentary-general at the awards for tertiary and general/open categories held at Lux Melbourne on Chapel Street, hosted by Brian Nankervis from RocKwiz.
Best documentary- biography went to Remembering the Man, Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe.s. film on Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, whose story was told in Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man.
Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed, produced by Damien Parer, was best documentary - arts.
Best docudrama was The War That Changed Us, which chronicled how WW1 impacted the soldiers and their families,...
The Genepool Productions documentary, which chronicles the cultural, scientific and natural history of uranium, was lauded as best documentary- history, TV factual series and best documentary — science, technology and the environment.
Director Maya Newell and producer Charlotte Mars. Gayby Baby was named best documentary-general at the awards for tertiary and general/open categories held at Lux Melbourne on Chapel Street, hosted by Brian Nankervis from RocKwiz.
Best documentary- biography went to Remembering the Man, Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe.s. film on Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, whose story was told in Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man.
Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed, produced by Damien Parer, was best documentary - arts.
Best docudrama was The War That Changed Us, which chronicled how WW1 impacted the soldiers and their families,...
- 11/26/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Controversial Australian film Gayby Baby has expanded its theatrical season due to popular demand.
The film will launch at Palace Electric in Canberra and Palace Centro in Brisbane and will add a second screen in Melbourne at The Sun Theatre in Yarraville from 17 September. .
The Sydney season will also expand with a second screen at the Randwick Ritz from 22 September.
The film has already grossed $58,868 in just one week on three screens only, plus a number of one-off cinema event screenings around the country.
The film first launched and continues to screen at Cinema Nova in Melbourne and at Dendy Newtown in Sydney on September 3, with special filmmaker Q and A screenings and Tugg/cinema on demand screenings across the country.
Despite being banned from screening in Nsw schools, the film has just been nominated for an Australian Teachers of Media (Atom) Award.
Recently nominated for an Aacta and Awgie Award,...
The film will launch at Palace Electric in Canberra and Palace Centro in Brisbane and will add a second screen in Melbourne at The Sun Theatre in Yarraville from 17 September. .
The Sydney season will also expand with a second screen at the Randwick Ritz from 22 September.
The film has already grossed $58,868 in just one week on three screens only, plus a number of one-off cinema event screenings around the country.
The film first launched and continues to screen at Cinema Nova in Melbourne and at Dendy Newtown in Sydney on September 3, with special filmmaker Q and A screenings and Tugg/cinema on demand screenings across the country.
Despite being banned from screening in Nsw schools, the film has just been nominated for an Australian Teachers of Media (Atom) Award.
Recently nominated for an Aacta and Awgie Award,...
- 9/10/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Dendy Newtown is offering reduced student ticket prices to new Australian film Gayby Baby after the state government banned the screening of the movie during school hours.
The Cinemas will offer a reduced ticket price to all students who present their student cards on opening weekend.
.Opening on September 3, Gaybe Baby is a portrait of same-sex families..
Tickets will be $12 on the opening weekend for students. They are usually $16.
Gaybe Baby is enabling high schools from around the country to screen the film ahead of the cinema release, for national Wear It Purple Day, (Aug 28). .
The initiative is a partnership with the youth-led, not-for-profit group Wear It Purple. .However, in response to a story in the Daily Telegraph yesterday, the Nsw Education Minister Adrian Piccoli made the decision to ban the screening of the film during school hours.
Gaybe Baby producer Charlotte Mars said, while she was disappointed with the...
The Cinemas will offer a reduced ticket price to all students who present their student cards on opening weekend.
.Opening on September 3, Gaybe Baby is a portrait of same-sex families..
Tickets will be $12 on the opening weekend for students. They are usually $16.
Gaybe Baby is enabling high schools from around the country to screen the film ahead of the cinema release, for national Wear It Purple Day, (Aug 28). .
The initiative is a partnership with the youth-led, not-for-profit group Wear It Purple. .However, in response to a story in the Daily Telegraph yesterday, the Nsw Education Minister Adrian Piccoli made the decision to ban the screening of the film during school hours.
Gaybe Baby producer Charlotte Mars said, while she was disappointed with the...
- 8/28/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Nine features have been nominated for this year's Awgie Awards for performance writing.
Eight telemovies and miniseries are in contention. The Australian Writers. Guild says nominations in the 25 categories for the 48th Annual Awgie Awards reflect the abundance of outstanding work currently being produced in Australia. Nominees for best original telemovie are Steven McGregor for Redfern Now: Promise Me and Katherine Thomson for House of Hancock, while Christopher Lee.s Gallipoli and Jan Sardi and Mac Gudgeon.s The Secret River contend for best adaptation in a television miniseries. There are four nominees for original television mini-series: The Principal by Alice Addison and Kristen Dunphy; The Kettering Incident by Vicki Madden, Andrew Knight, Cate Shortland and Louise Fox; Deadline Gallipoli by Jacquelin Perske, Stuart Beattie, Shaun Grant and Cate Shortland; and Love Child: Series 2 from Tim Pye, Cathryn Strickland, Chris McCourt, Jane Allen and Tamara Asmar. In the categories...
Eight telemovies and miniseries are in contention. The Australian Writers. Guild says nominations in the 25 categories for the 48th Annual Awgie Awards reflect the abundance of outstanding work currently being produced in Australia. Nominees for best original telemovie are Steven McGregor for Redfern Now: Promise Me and Katherine Thomson for House of Hancock, while Christopher Lee.s Gallipoli and Jan Sardi and Mac Gudgeon.s The Secret River contend for best adaptation in a television miniseries. There are four nominees for original television mini-series: The Principal by Alice Addison and Kristen Dunphy; The Kettering Incident by Vicki Madden, Andrew Knight, Cate Shortland and Louise Fox; Deadline Gallipoli by Jacquelin Perske, Stuart Beattie, Shaun Grant and Cate Shortland; and Love Child: Series 2 from Tim Pye, Cathryn Strickland, Chris McCourt, Jane Allen and Tamara Asmar. In the categories...
- 7/23/2015
- by Staff writer
- 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
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
In a single, extraordinary day more than $2 million in donations was pledged to seven Australian feature-length documentaries on Wednesday.
The scale of the financial support stunned the organisers of the first Good Pitch Australia event, which aids social impact documentaries.
Equally surprised were the recipients. .I am speechless,. said producer Marguerite Grey, who is collaborating with director Belinda Mason on Constance on the Edge, which looks at the struggles of a Sudanese refugee, Constance Okot, and her six children in Wagga Wagga.
The docu was the biggest single recipient with pledges of more than $500,000 for the production and an initial outreach strategy which includes hosted regional film screenings and education and training resources.
Screen Australia provided $15,000 for research and development in March and in September Screen Nsw gave $10,000 for filming a trailer for Good Pitch and for broadcasters to help secure project finance.
However the ABC and Sbs rejected the producer's initial requests for investment,...
The scale of the financial support stunned the organisers of the first Good Pitch Australia event, which aids social impact documentaries.
Equally surprised were the recipients. .I am speechless,. said producer Marguerite Grey, who is collaborating with director Belinda Mason on Constance on the Edge, which looks at the struggles of a Sudanese refugee, Constance Okot, and her six children in Wagga Wagga.
The docu was the biggest single recipient with pledges of more than $500,000 for the production and an initial outreach strategy which includes hosted regional film screenings and education and training resources.
Screen Australia provided $15,000 for research and development in March and in September Screen Nsw gave $10,000 for filming a trailer for Good Pitch and for broadcasters to help secure project finance.
However the ABC and Sbs rejected the producer's initial requests for investment,...
- 10/9/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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