Production and distribution company Arcadia Films is set to expand with two new appointments to its management team in Bec Janek and Anna Dadic.
The duo will steer the company with founding partners, producer Lisa Shaunessy and head of distribution Alexandra Burke.
Janek will be Arcadia’s head of production, having already worked as a co-producer on its sci-fi 2067 and line producer for upcoming film Sissy. A former executive at Russell Crowe’s Ssm, her credits also include the Cannes-selected short film, Dots.
Of her new role, she said: “I have known Lisa and Alex for many years and I’m excited to join this dynamic and creative company in this role to advance their bold and exciting production output.”
A former theatrical agent at Hla, Dadic will be head of development, managing the current feature slate and expanding slate of scripted television.
Already underway in development under Dadic is...
The duo will steer the company with founding partners, producer Lisa Shaunessy and head of distribution Alexandra Burke.
Janek will be Arcadia’s head of production, having already worked as a co-producer on its sci-fi 2067 and line producer for upcoming film Sissy. A former executive at Russell Crowe’s Ssm, her credits also include the Cannes-selected short film, Dots.
Of her new role, she said: “I have known Lisa and Alex for many years and I’m excited to join this dynamic and creative company in this role to advance their bold and exciting production output.”
A former theatrical agent at Hla, Dadic will be head of development, managing the current feature slate and expanding slate of scripted television.
Already underway in development under Dadic is...
- 8/5/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Australian producer-distributor Arcadia, whose recent credits include Netflix pic 2067 with Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ryan Kwanten, has made two hires and revealed its upcoming distribution and development slates.
Bec Janek is joining as Head of Production and Anna Dadic will take the role of Head of Development.
Janek comes into the role after a close collaboration with Arcadia, more recently as a co-producer on sci fi feature 2067 and line producer on Sissy, starring Aisha Dee (The Bold Type). Prior to those films, Janek produced Cannes 2018 shhort Dots and was a former executive at Russell Crowe’s Ssm.
Janek will be responsible for shepherding projects into production and will take the lead on select projects.
Dadic, a former theatrical agent at Hla Management, will manage Arcadia’s feature development slate and expand Arcadia’s slate of scripted TV.
Already underway in development under Dadic are the sci-fi series The Immaculate Void,...
Bec Janek is joining as Head of Production and Anna Dadic will take the role of Head of Development.
Janek comes into the role after a close collaboration with Arcadia, more recently as a co-producer on sci fi feature 2067 and line producer on Sissy, starring Aisha Dee (The Bold Type). Prior to those films, Janek produced Cannes 2018 shhort Dots and was a former executive at Russell Crowe’s Ssm.
Janek will be responsible for shepherding projects into production and will take the lead on select projects.
Dadic, a former theatrical agent at Hla Management, will manage Arcadia’s feature development slate and expand Arcadia’s slate of scripted TV.
Already underway in development under Dadic are the sci-fi series The Immaculate Void,...
- 8/5/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Australians in Film (AiF) has announced the 10 ambassadors for its inaugural Untapped professional development program.
Corrie Chen, Jub Clerc, Brooke Goldfinch, Liv Hewson, Julie Kalceff, Gemma Bird Matheson, Daniel Monks, Mitchell Stanley, Nicholas Verso and Steve Vidler will front the selection committee for the initiative, which is supported by Screen Australia and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Geared towards undiscovered and underrepresented members of the Australian screen industry, the program features a series of masterclasses by filmmakers, including Taika Waititi, Alma Ha’rel (Honey Boy), and Warwick Thornton, as well as a four-month development lab with production companies, such as LuckyChap Entertainment, Blossom Films and Made Up Stories.
AiF executive director Peter Ritchie said the ambassadors were “changing the face” of the Australian industry, internationally and at home, with their work.
“We couldn’t be prouder to have supported them in their careers, in some small way, and are so...
Corrie Chen, Jub Clerc, Brooke Goldfinch, Liv Hewson, Julie Kalceff, Gemma Bird Matheson, Daniel Monks, Mitchell Stanley, Nicholas Verso and Steve Vidler will front the selection committee for the initiative, which is supported by Screen Australia and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Geared towards undiscovered and underrepresented members of the Australian screen industry, the program features a series of masterclasses by filmmakers, including Taika Waititi, Alma Ha’rel (Honey Boy), and Warwick Thornton, as well as a four-month development lab with production companies, such as LuckyChap Entertainment, Blossom Films and Made Up Stories.
AiF executive director Peter Ritchie said the ambassadors were “changing the face” of the Australian industry, internationally and at home, with their work.
“We couldn’t be prouder to have supported them in their careers, in some small way, and are so...
- 3/14/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
"You won't be able to see it until it's about to hit." It's the end of the world as we know it... and I feel fine! How about some apocalyptic cinema to relax you? This short film Red Rover originally premiered in 2015, but is just now being featured online thanks to a feature from Short of the Week. It's written & directed by Australian filmmaker Brooke Goldfinch, who was inspired by the news of a cult predicting the end of the world, so she started asking her friends "how they would spend their final hours." It follows two teenagers from a remote religious community who head to town looking for others after their Evangelical parents tell them an asteroid will soon destroy the Earth. Starring Natalie Racoosin and Christopher M. Gray as Lauren and Conrad. This film is especially melancholic, but has a beautifully tragic ending that makes it all worth it.
- 2/25/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
(L-r): Monica Zanetti, Mithila Gupta, Julie Kalceff, Darlene Johnson and Brooke Goldfinch.
Mithila Gupta, Brooke Goldfinch, Darlene Johnson, Julie Kalceff and Monica Zanetti have been selected by Screen Nsw and Australians in Film (AiF) to participate in a two-stage professional development lab designed to foster career pathways and networks in the US industry.
Known as the Charlie’s Talent Escalator Lab, the initiative is supported by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Each of the five filmmakers have already completed the first stage: a customised five-day virtual lab, which saw them paired with an industry mentor in LA, and given access to executives at US networks, streamers and studios, as well as writers, directors and producers.
For stage two, to be held in 2021 when health guidelines permit, participants will then travel to LA to meet their mentors, spend time in the field, attend meetings and network at Charlie’s in Raleigh Studios.
Mithila Gupta, Brooke Goldfinch, Darlene Johnson, Julie Kalceff and Monica Zanetti have been selected by Screen Nsw and Australians in Film (AiF) to participate in a two-stage professional development lab designed to foster career pathways and networks in the US industry.
Known as the Charlie’s Talent Escalator Lab, the initiative is supported by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Each of the five filmmakers have already completed the first stage: a customised five-day virtual lab, which saw them paired with an industry mentor in LA, and given access to executives at US networks, streamers and studios, as well as writers, directors and producers.
For stage two, to be held in 2021 when health guidelines permit, participants will then travel to LA to meet their mentors, spend time in the field, attend meetings and network at Charlie’s in Raleigh Studios.
- 8/26/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Corrie Chen (left) is part of the creative team behind ‘Attempts’, one of the recipients of funding via the Half Hour Drama Development Initiative.
Create Nsw and the ABC have unveiled the recipients of $445,000 in funding, spanning across three different drama initiatives and expected to create 530 jobs in Nsw.
This includes $225,000 towards the Digital First Comedy Initiative, run between the agency, the broadcaster and Western Sydney creative hub I.C.E (Information+Cultural Exchange). This will fund the production of three shorts from teams that include a Western Sydney-based key creative, set to premiere on ABC iview later this year. The shorts cover carpark adventures of three women in Western Sydney, the tales of hijabis enduring culture clash and vampire slayers in Parramatta.
Another $100,000 has been put towards the Half Hour Drama Development Initiative, supporting four Nsw-based teams to develop distinctive character driven 30-minute drama series “with heart and humour...
Create Nsw and the ABC have unveiled the recipients of $445,000 in funding, spanning across three different drama initiatives and expected to create 530 jobs in Nsw.
This includes $225,000 towards the Digital First Comedy Initiative, run between the agency, the broadcaster and Western Sydney creative hub I.C.E (Information+Cultural Exchange). This will fund the production of three shorts from teams that include a Western Sydney-based key creative, set to premiere on ABC iview later this year. The shorts cover carpark adventures of three women in Western Sydney, the tales of hijabis enduring culture clash and vampire slayers in Parramatta.
Another $100,000 has been put towards the Half Hour Drama Development Initiative, supporting four Nsw-based teams to develop distinctive character driven 30-minute drama series “with heart and humour...
- 2/28/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Tegan Higginbotham.
Screen Australia is providing more than $400,000 in story development funding for 16 projects including feature films, television and online series, featuring such talent as Bruna Papandrea, Nick Verso, Priscilla Cameron, Lisa Shaunessy, Anthony Mullins, Kodie Bedford and Tegan Higginbotham.
The slate includes The Agency, a musical comedy about moral corruption in the advertising industry, comedic horror Gnomes centered on grudge-bearing garden gnomes in a fictional regional town, and the feature Misfit, which looks at a woman who suffers from an identity disorder.
Eleven projects were funded through the Generate fund, two via the Premium fund and three through the legacy development program which has been discontinued.
Head of development Nerida Moore said: “The new development guidelines have now been in action for five months. We drastically reduced eligibility barriers and will now fund projects for any screen platform. We’ve had a fantastic response from the industry and the...
Screen Australia is providing more than $400,000 in story development funding for 16 projects including feature films, television and online series, featuring such talent as Bruna Papandrea, Nick Verso, Priscilla Cameron, Lisa Shaunessy, Anthony Mullins, Kodie Bedford and Tegan Higginbotham.
The slate includes The Agency, a musical comedy about moral corruption in the advertising industry, comedic horror Gnomes centered on grudge-bearing garden gnomes in a fictional regional town, and the feature Misfit, which looks at a woman who suffers from an identity disorder.
Eleven projects were funded through the Generate fund, two via the Premium fund and three through the legacy development program which has been discontinued.
Head of development Nerida Moore said: “The new development guidelines have now been in action for five months. We drastically reduced eligibility barriers and will now fund projects for any screen platform. We’ve had a fantastic response from the industry and the...
- 11/21/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Emily Avila, Lara Kose, Goran Stolevski and Thomas Baricevic are the four recipients of Sydney Film Festival.s 2017 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship.
Each filmmaker will receive $50,000 to make a short to premiere at next year.s festival..
Actor-director David Wenham, who presided over the fellowship.s selection process as jury chair, said each of the four had shown "considerable tenacity" and drive in the early years of their careers..
.What is really exciting is each filmmaker.s strong commitment to telling diverse stories. I.m thrilled we have four young talented Australian filmmakers with such unique perspectives and a passion to create meaningful works that will connect and resonate with Australian and global audiences,. he said.
The fellows were selected from a shortlist of over 20 emerging filmmakers. Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley said the jury believed the chosen fellows were ready to take the next step in their careers.
Each filmmaker will receive $50,000 to make a short to premiere at next year.s festival..
Actor-director David Wenham, who presided over the fellowship.s selection process as jury chair, said each of the four had shown "considerable tenacity" and drive in the early years of their careers..
.What is really exciting is each filmmaker.s strong commitment to telling diverse stories. I.m thrilled we have four young talented Australian filmmakers with such unique perspectives and a passion to create meaningful works that will connect and resonate with Australian and global audiences,. he said.
The fellows were selected from a shortlist of over 20 emerging filmmakers. Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley said the jury believed the chosen fellows were ready to take the next step in their careers.
- 6/14/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Warwick Thornton.s doco.'We Don't Need A Map' will open the 2017 Sydney Film Festival..
Warwick Thornton.s We Don.t Need A Map will open this year.s Sydney Film Festival, with the event also marking the documentary.s world premiere..
The latest film from the Samson and Delilah director explores Australia.s relationship to the Southern Cross through colonial and indigenous history through to the present day..
We Don't Need A Map will compete in the festival.s Official Competition. Among the 12 films in the running for the $60,000 prize are Aussie theatre director Benedict Andrew.s debut feature Una, which stars Ben Mendelsohn, as well as Sofia Coppola.s Beguiled.and Michael Haneke.s Happy End, both of which will come to the festival from Cannes.
Overall the festival program boasts 288 films from 59 countries, including 37 world premieres. Bookending the fest will be Korean director Bong Joon-ho.s Cannes film.Okja,...
Warwick Thornton.s We Don.t Need A Map will open this year.s Sydney Film Festival, with the event also marking the documentary.s world premiere..
The latest film from the Samson and Delilah director explores Australia.s relationship to the Southern Cross through colonial and indigenous history through to the present day..
We Don't Need A Map will compete in the festival.s Official Competition. Among the 12 films in the running for the $60,000 prize are Aussie theatre director Benedict Andrew.s debut feature Una, which stars Ben Mendelsohn, as well as Sofia Coppola.s Beguiled.and Michael Haneke.s Happy End, both of which will come to the festival from Cannes.
Overall the festival program boasts 288 films from 59 countries, including 37 world premieres. Bookending the fest will be Korean director Bong Joon-ho.s Cannes film.Okja,...
- 5/10/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
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Tickets are now on sale for the world premiere of four short films directed by the recipients of the 2016 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship. Anya Beyersdorf, Brooke Goldfinch, Alex Ryan and Alex Murawski will screen their films at Dendy Opera Quays on June 13 during this year.s Sydney Film Festival..The next crop of Fellows to receive $50,000 will be announced on the night.
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If checked in with Goldfinch earlier this year, as the filmmaker was editing her film, 'Outbreak Generation', about a woman who finds herself the sole carer of an eight-year-old boy in the middle of a global epidemic. Goldfinch previously directed short 'Red Rover' in the States while studying filmmaking at Nyu, and completed a director.s attachment on the set of 'Alien: Covenant' with Ridley Scott last year.
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Where did you shoot Outbreak Generation, and how many days did you have?...
Tickets are now on sale for the world premiere of four short films directed by the recipients of the 2016 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship. Anya Beyersdorf, Brooke Goldfinch, Alex Ryan and Alex Murawski will screen their films at Dendy Opera Quays on June 13 during this year.s Sydney Film Festival..The next crop of Fellows to receive $50,000 will be announced on the night.
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If checked in with Goldfinch earlier this year, as the filmmaker was editing her film, 'Outbreak Generation', about a woman who finds herself the sole carer of an eight-year-old boy in the middle of a global epidemic. Goldfinch previously directed short 'Red Rover' in the States while studying filmmaking at Nyu, and completed a director.s attachment on the set of 'Alien: Covenant' with Ridley Scott last year.
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Where did you shoot Outbreak Generation, and how many days did you have?...
- 4/20/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
(l-r) Lisa Shaunessy and Leonie Mansfield (photo credit: Nick Prokop).
Experienced producers Lisa Shaunessy ('Killing Ground') and Leonie Mansfield ('Kick-Ass 2')] recently formed a new venture, Arcadia. The company was created with the aim to produce projects with 80 per cent female writers, directors and protagonists.
They work alongside former international sales agent Alexandra Burke, who runs Arcadia.s distribution arm. Shaunessy and Mansfield talk to Jackie Keast about their decision to come together. ..
Lisa Shaunessy:.
The start of Arcadia was so organic, it took us all by surprise. A casual dinner, some red wine, a desire to tell women.s stories, work with great filmmakers, reach international audiences. You know, the usual.
I feel like I was looking for my tribe for such a long time and these two incredibly talented, smart, internationally experienced, similarly-thinking women just walked into my life at the right time.
Experienced producers Lisa Shaunessy ('Killing Ground') and Leonie Mansfield ('Kick-Ass 2')] recently formed a new venture, Arcadia. The company was created with the aim to produce projects with 80 per cent female writers, directors and protagonists.
They work alongside former international sales agent Alexandra Burke, who runs Arcadia.s distribution arm. Shaunessy and Mansfield talk to Jackie Keast about their decision to come together. ..
Lisa Shaunessy:.
The start of Arcadia was so organic, it took us all by surprise. A casual dinner, some red wine, a desire to tell women.s stories, work with great filmmakers, reach international audiences. You know, the usual.
I feel like I was looking for my tribe for such a long time and these two incredibly talented, smart, internationally experienced, similarly-thinking women just walked into my life at the right time.
- 3/24/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
(l-r) Lisa Shaunessy and Leonie Mansfield (photo credit: Nick Prokop).
Experienced producers Lisa Shaunessy ('Killing Ground') and Leonie Mansfield ('Kick-Ass 2')] recently formed a new venture, Arcadia Films. The company was created with the aim to produce projects with 80 per cent female writers, directors and protagonists.
They work alongside former international sales agent Alexandra Burke, who runs Arcadia.s distribution arm. Shaunessy and Mansfield talk to Jackie Keast about their decision to come together. ..
Lisa Shaunessy:.
The start of Arcadia was so organic, it took us all by surprise. A casual dinner, some red wine, a desire to tell women.s stories, work with great filmmakers, reach international audiences. You know, the usual.
I feel like I was looking for my tribe for such a long time and these two incredibly talented, smart, internationally experienced, similarly-thinking women just walked into my life at the right time.
Experienced producers Lisa Shaunessy ('Killing Ground') and Leonie Mansfield ('Kick-Ass 2')] recently formed a new venture, Arcadia Films. The company was created with the aim to produce projects with 80 per cent female writers, directors and protagonists.
They work alongside former international sales agent Alexandra Burke, who runs Arcadia.s distribution arm. Shaunessy and Mansfield talk to Jackie Keast about their decision to come together. ..
Lisa Shaunessy:.
The start of Arcadia was so organic, it took us all by surprise. A casual dinner, some red wine, a desire to tell women.s stories, work with great filmmakers, reach international audiences. You know, the usual.
I feel like I was looking for my tribe for such a long time and these two incredibly talented, smart, internationally experienced, similarly-thinking women just walked into my life at the right time.
- 3/24/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Recently launched Arcadia heads to Utah with survival thriller.
Recently launched Australian production and sales outfit Arcadia has signed Sundance 2016 romance-drama First Girl I Loved for world sales.
Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), star in writer-director Kerem Sanga’s film, which won an Audience Award in Park City.
The coming of age story follows Anne (Gelula), a seventeen-year-old who fallsl in love with Sasha (Hildebrand), the most popular girl at her La public high school.
When Anne tells her best friend Clifton about the romance he does his best to get in the way.
The deal was negotiated by producers Psh Collective and Arcadia’s Alexandra Burke, who commented: “We’re thrilled to have this beautiful film by Kerem Sanga and the great team at Psh Collective. It marks the new wave of teen films, and judging by its success at Sundance Film Festival alongside the Us theatrical and VOD release, plus outstanding...
Recently launched Australian production and sales outfit Arcadia has signed Sundance 2016 romance-drama First Girl I Loved for world sales.
Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), star in writer-director Kerem Sanga’s film, which won an Audience Award in Park City.
The coming of age story follows Anne (Gelula), a seventeen-year-old who fallsl in love with Sasha (Hildebrand), the most popular girl at her La public high school.
When Anne tells her best friend Clifton about the romance he does his best to get in the way.
The deal was negotiated by producers Psh Collective and Arcadia’s Alexandra Burke, who commented: “We’re thrilled to have this beautiful film by Kerem Sanga and the great team at Psh Collective. It marks the new wave of teen films, and judging by its success at Sundance Film Festival alongside the Us theatrical and VOD release, plus outstanding...
- 12/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Recently launched Arcadia heads to Utah with survival thriller.
Recently launched Australian production and sales outfit Arcadia has signed Sundance 2016 romance-drama First Girl I Loved for world sales.
Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), star in writer-director Kerem Sanga’s film, which won an Audience Award in Park City.
The coming of age story follows Anne (Gelula), a seventeen-year-old who fallsl in love with Sasha (Hildebrand), the most popular girl at her La public high school.
When Anne tells her best friend Clifton about the romance he does his best to get in the way.
The deal was negotiated by producers Psh Collective and Arcadia’s Alexandra Burke, who commented: “We’re thrilled to have this beautiful film by Kerem Sanga and the great team at Psh Collective. It marks the new wave of teen films, and judging by its success at Sundance Film Festival alongside the Us theatrical and VOD release, plus outstanding...
Recently launched Australian production and sales outfit Arcadia has signed Sundance 2016 romance-drama First Girl I Loved for world sales.
Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), star in writer-director Kerem Sanga’s film, which won an Audience Award in Park City.
The coming of age story follows Anne (Gelula), a seventeen-year-old who fallsl in love with Sasha (Hildebrand), the most popular girl at her La public high school.
When Anne tells her best friend Clifton about the romance he does his best to get in the way.
The deal was negotiated by producers Psh Collective and Arcadia’s Alexandra Burke, who commented: “We’re thrilled to have this beautiful film by Kerem Sanga and the great team at Psh Collective. It marks the new wave of teen films, and judging by its success at Sundance Film Festival alongside the Us theatrical and VOD release, plus outstanding...
- 12/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
2016 Short Film Fellowship recipients Brooke Goldfinch, Anya Beyersdorf, Alex Ryan and Alex Murawski..
Submissions are now open for the 2017 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship, which gives four emerging filmmakers $50,000 each to produce a short to premiere at the 2018 Sydney Film Festival.
The $200,000 fellowship is the largest cash fellowship for short film in Australia.
Judy Davis, 2016 jury chair, said the fellowship offers investment in the next generation of Australian film industry achievers.
.It was an honour to be involved in selecting the four winners of the Fellowship last year: Anya Beyersdorf, Brook Goldfinch, Alex Murawski and Alex Ryan, who are in the process of creating four incredibly exciting films to premiere at the 2017 Sydney Film Festival,. said Davis.
–... Read If.s interview with Judy Davis about the process of selecting the 2016 Short Film Fellowship recipients
A panel will curate 20 finalists, who will then be whittled down to four winners by the Short Film Fellowship Jury.
Submissions are now open for the 2017 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship, which gives four emerging filmmakers $50,000 each to produce a short to premiere at the 2018 Sydney Film Festival.
The $200,000 fellowship is the largest cash fellowship for short film in Australia.
Judy Davis, 2016 jury chair, said the fellowship offers investment in the next generation of Australian film industry achievers.
.It was an honour to be involved in selecting the four winners of the Fellowship last year: Anya Beyersdorf, Brook Goldfinch, Alex Murawski and Alex Ryan, who are in the process of creating four incredibly exciting films to premiere at the 2017 Sydney Film Festival,. said Davis.
–... Read If.s interview with Judy Davis about the process of selecting the 2016 Short Film Fellowship recipients
A panel will curate 20 finalists, who will then be whittled down to four winners by the Short Film Fellowship Jury.
- 10/18/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Screen Women Series (photo credit: Emma Leslie).
Film Fatales is a network of female filmmakers who meet regularly to mentor each other, share resources, collaborate on projects and build a supportive community in which to make their films. The Sydney chapter was started by Brooke Goldfinch and is now co-run by Megan Riakos..
Brooke Goldfinch:.
Film Fatales was started by writer/director Leah Meyerhoff. She was making her first feature I Believe in Unicorns and she invited a bunch of veteran female directors to her house for dinner to ask their advice. The evening was so productive that Leah decided to start an organisation, in which groups of women directors would meet monthly at someone.s house to discuss filmmaking. It.s a simple, grass-roots concept that has become a powerful global movement, with chapters all over the world. I knew Leah from the grad film program at Nyu where I got my Mfa.
Film Fatales is a network of female filmmakers who meet regularly to mentor each other, share resources, collaborate on projects and build a supportive community in which to make their films. The Sydney chapter was started by Brooke Goldfinch and is now co-run by Megan Riakos..
Brooke Goldfinch:.
Film Fatales was started by writer/director Leah Meyerhoff. She was making her first feature I Believe in Unicorns and she invited a bunch of veteran female directors to her house for dinner to ask their advice. The evening was so productive that Leah decided to start an organisation, in which groups of women directors would meet monthly at someone.s house to discuss filmmaking. It.s a simple, grass-roots concept that has become a powerful global movement, with chapters all over the world. I knew Leah from the grad film program at Nyu where I got my Mfa.
- 8/28/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Gillian Armstrong, Tania Chambers, Rosemary Blight and Sacha Horler at the Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories and Brilliant Careers launch.
Last month saw Screen Australia unveil the recipients of its Gender Matters funding, with a who.s who of the local industry gathered at Sa.s Ultimo headquarters. A couple of weeks later, Screen Nsw announced that any TV dramas hoping to secure financial backing would need to have a female writer, director, or producer onboard to qualify. All the talk about correcting the stats is no longer empty politesse: it.s happening.
With that in mind, there.s never been a better time to unveil If.s very first women in film and TV issue. Inside, we check in with Foxtel.s Head of Drama Penny Win and Goalpost Pictures. Kylie du Fresne and Rosemary Blight. There.s a wide-ranging chat with eOne Australia.s acquisitions and development team and...
Last month saw Screen Australia unveil the recipients of its Gender Matters funding, with a who.s who of the local industry gathered at Sa.s Ultimo headquarters. A couple of weeks later, Screen Nsw announced that any TV dramas hoping to secure financial backing would need to have a female writer, director, or producer onboard to qualify. All the talk about correcting the stats is no longer empty politesse: it.s happening.
With that in mind, there.s never been a better time to unveil If.s very first women in film and TV issue. Inside, we check in with Foxtel.s Head of Drama Penny Win and Goalpost Pictures. Kylie du Fresne and Rosemary Blight. There.s a wide-ranging chat with eOne Australia.s acquisitions and development team and...
- 8/5/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Judy Davis on the Sff red carpet with the winners of the Lexus Short Film Fellowship.
As the Lexus Short Film Fellowship jury chair, Judy Davis last week selected four young filmmakers - Alex Ryan, Anya Beyersdorf, Alex Murawski and Brooke Goldfinch - to receive $50,000 each to make a short that will premiere at next year's Sydney Film Festival.
The gender parity of the winners was a coincidence, Davis told If.
"On this jury, there was no quota, and I chose the films I liked. But as the afternoon wore on, it became clear it was looking like two and two. And one of the other members of the jury said, 'that's really good'."
Asked for her opinion on quotas, Davis said she wonders whether they might "breed resentment and mistrust", and argued instead for a shift in mindset: "that gradual but inevitable realisation that the female voice can be a profound voice,...
As the Lexus Short Film Fellowship jury chair, Judy Davis last week selected four young filmmakers - Alex Ryan, Anya Beyersdorf, Alex Murawski and Brooke Goldfinch - to receive $50,000 each to make a short that will premiere at next year's Sydney Film Festival.
The gender parity of the winners was a coincidence, Davis told If.
"On this jury, there was no quota, and I chose the films I liked. But as the afternoon wore on, it became clear it was looking like two and two. And one of the other members of the jury said, 'that's really good'."
Asked for her opinion on quotas, Davis said she wonders whether they might "breed resentment and mistrust", and argued instead for a shift in mindset: "that gradual but inevitable realisation that the female voice can be a profound voice,...
- 6/22/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
(l-r) Jurors Judy Davis, Lexus' Adrian Weimers and Sff director Nashen Moodley.
The winners of the inaugural Lexus Short Film Fellowship were announced last night at the Sydney Film Festival, with jury chair Judy Davis touting the promise of the next generation of Aussie filmmakers..
The four winners will receive $50,000 each to make a short..
They are Anya Beyersdorf, Alex Ryan, Brooke Goldfinch and Alex Murawski, who were chosen from a shortlist of 21 filmmakers, whittled down to four by Davis, Sff director Nashen Moodley, Lexus Australia's Adrian Weimers, Jan Chapman and Darren Dale.
"We spent the day in a big office in Sydney", Davis told If..
"I just found it very impressive that a writer can distill what they're saying, then communicate it effectively in ten or twelve minutes and, at times, achieve great complexity", Davis said.
"That really impressed me, and I felt very privileged to be able to read them, because normally I would never get to read a short film script. I've never been offered a short film."
The even gender split of the winners was an accident, Davis said.
"At the end of the process, one of the other jurors said, this is good because it's looking like two [men], two [women]. And I'll be honest, for me, it wouldn't make any difference.".
"I would just pick the four I thought were the best. If it had ended up being four men, I might have gone: oops. But still you've got to choose the four best. In this particular case, the two scripts that the women wrote are beautiful. It was not a painful decision.".
The four films tendered by the winners will premiere at next year's Sff, with a maximum length of fifteen minutes.
Uts and Aftrs grad Alex Ryan is making a short loosely inspired by the story of Brazilian student Roberto Curti, who was tasered by police and died in 2012, while Goldfinch's film is "a sci-fi thriller set in Woolongong with a female protagonist".
Aftrs grad Murawski aims to make a film "about a boy who leaves his friend behind after an accident and has to deal with the guilt of that situation"..
"It centers on grief and separation and the end of childhood", Murawski said. "It's called Snow."
Titled How the Light Gets In, Beyersdorf's short will reunite the team behind her previous film Vampir..
The idea for the film, "a meditation on terminal illness in a close-knit family", came to the director in the middle of the night.
"I woke up one night and thought, imagine if my fingers and hands were glowing. And I thought, what if there was a way you could represent an illness not as an illness but as this beautiful glow that's threatening to envelope you. So that's the crazy idea I had, and I wrote it for this very quickly."
Davis announced the four winners before a screening of Damian Walshe-Howling's MESSiAH, one of four winners of the International Lexus Short Films initiative.
The winners of the inaugural Lexus Short Film Fellowship were announced last night at the Sydney Film Festival, with jury chair Judy Davis touting the promise of the next generation of Aussie filmmakers..
The four winners will receive $50,000 each to make a short..
They are Anya Beyersdorf, Alex Ryan, Brooke Goldfinch and Alex Murawski, who were chosen from a shortlist of 21 filmmakers, whittled down to four by Davis, Sff director Nashen Moodley, Lexus Australia's Adrian Weimers, Jan Chapman and Darren Dale.
"We spent the day in a big office in Sydney", Davis told If..
"I just found it very impressive that a writer can distill what they're saying, then communicate it effectively in ten or twelve minutes and, at times, achieve great complexity", Davis said.
"That really impressed me, and I felt very privileged to be able to read them, because normally I would never get to read a short film script. I've never been offered a short film."
The even gender split of the winners was an accident, Davis said.
"At the end of the process, one of the other jurors said, this is good because it's looking like two [men], two [women]. And I'll be honest, for me, it wouldn't make any difference.".
"I would just pick the four I thought were the best. If it had ended up being four men, I might have gone: oops. But still you've got to choose the four best. In this particular case, the two scripts that the women wrote are beautiful. It was not a painful decision.".
The four films tendered by the winners will premiere at next year's Sff, with a maximum length of fifteen minutes.
Uts and Aftrs grad Alex Ryan is making a short loosely inspired by the story of Brazilian student Roberto Curti, who was tasered by police and died in 2012, while Goldfinch's film is "a sci-fi thriller set in Woolongong with a female protagonist".
Aftrs grad Murawski aims to make a film "about a boy who leaves his friend behind after an accident and has to deal with the guilt of that situation"..
"It centers on grief and separation and the end of childhood", Murawski said. "It's called Snow."
Titled How the Light Gets In, Beyersdorf's short will reunite the team behind her previous film Vampir..
The idea for the film, "a meditation on terminal illness in a close-knit family", came to the director in the middle of the night.
"I woke up one night and thought, imagine if my fingers and hands were glowing. And I thought, what if there was a way you could represent an illness not as an illness but as this beautiful glow that's threatening to envelope you. So that's the crazy idea I had, and I wrote it for this very quickly."
Davis announced the four winners before a screening of Damian Walshe-Howling's MESSiAH, one of four winners of the International Lexus Short Films initiative.
- 6/15/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
City Of Port Phillip Councillor Andrew Bond and Audience Choice Award winner Nikki Richardson.
The 2016 St Kilda Film Festival has wrapped up with 18 winners across all categories.
Death in Bloom, directed by Dael Oates, took out Best Short Film, while Nikki Richardson's We're Here Now won this year's Audience Choice Award.
Death in Bloom also nabbed Best Comedy and Best Achievement in Editing.
Red Rover's Brooke Goldfinch was awarded Best Director, and You Better Take Cover, directed by Harry Hayes, won Best Documentary.
The full list:
Best Short Film Winner
Death In Bloom
Director: Dael Oats
Producer: Jonas Maclallen
Screenplay: Dael Oats
Best Achievement In Cinematography Winner
Burak Oguz Saguner
Film: Driftwood Dustmites
Best Animation Winner
The Orchestra
Director: Mikey Hill
Producer: Melanie Brunt
Craft Award Winner
Little Boy Blue
Director: Nathan Keene
Producers: Will Faulkner, Joy Baines
Screenplay: Will Faulkner, Nathan Keene
Best Comedy Winner
Death In Bloom...
The 2016 St Kilda Film Festival has wrapped up with 18 winners across all categories.
Death in Bloom, directed by Dael Oates, took out Best Short Film, while Nikki Richardson's We're Here Now won this year's Audience Choice Award.
Death in Bloom also nabbed Best Comedy and Best Achievement in Editing.
Red Rover's Brooke Goldfinch was awarded Best Director, and You Better Take Cover, directed by Harry Hayes, won Best Documentary.
The full list:
Best Short Film Winner
Death In Bloom
Director: Dael Oats
Producer: Jonas Maclallen
Screenplay: Dael Oats
Best Achievement In Cinematography Winner
Burak Oguz Saguner
Film: Driftwood Dustmites
Best Animation Winner
The Orchestra
Director: Mikey Hill
Producer: Melanie Brunt
Craft Award Winner
Little Boy Blue
Director: Nathan Keene
Producers: Will Faulkner, Joy Baines
Screenplay: Will Faulkner, Nathan Keene
Best Comedy Winner
Death In Bloom...
- 5/30/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Brooke Goldfinch.
Brooke Goldfinch is one of 21 emerging filmmakers shortlisted for the Lexus Short Film Fellowship, set to be announced at next month's Sydney Film Festival.
The four winners will receive $50,000 each to make a short, which will then premiere at the 2017 festival.
Goldfinch studied filmmaking at Nyu, and her short, Red Rover, won her the award for best direction in an Australian short at Flickerfest earlier this year.
In what is shaping up as a banner twelve months, she also beat out a record number of applicants to become one of two director's attachments on the set of Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott's sequel currently shooting in Sydney.
"Last week we were doing night shoots and it was so cold", Goldfinch told If..
"My wardrobe is becoming better at dealing with the cold weather. I don't know why four and a half years in New York didn't teach me...
Brooke Goldfinch is one of 21 emerging filmmakers shortlisted for the Lexus Short Film Fellowship, set to be announced at next month's Sydney Film Festival.
The four winners will receive $50,000 each to make a short, which will then premiere at the 2017 festival.
Goldfinch studied filmmaking at Nyu, and her short, Red Rover, won her the award for best direction in an Australian short at Flickerfest earlier this year.
In what is shaping up as a banner twelve months, she also beat out a record number of applicants to become one of two director's attachments on the set of Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott's sequel currently shooting in Sydney.
"Last week we were doing night shoots and it was so cold", Goldfinch told If..
"My wardrobe is becoming better at dealing with the cold weather. I don't know why four and a half years in New York didn't teach me...
- 5/25/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Things are looking pretty rough over on the Sydney, Australia set of "Alien: Covenant." A new batch of set photos from The Daily Mail show at least one massive intergalactic war zone, filled with literally twisted bodies crying out for help. Covered in ashes and seemingly frozen in time, it looks a bit like a scene pulled right out of Pompeii. Are there volcanoes on this alien planet, or did someone just pop up with a tremendous amount of firepower? Either way, it looks like at least some of the characters present in the newest "Alien" feature are in for a very cruel death. Read More: 'Alien: Covenant' First Look Picture: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Image Shows Crew Badge Other shots show off giant, crushed and cracked stone statues and what look like huge hacked down trees. So, it's not a feel-good film? Ridley Scott is directing the...
- 5/20/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Brooke Goldfinch and Catriona McKenzie have been chosen as the director.s attachments on Sir Ridley Scott.s Alien: Covenant..
They will work on the project for five weeks while the production films in Australia.
The Director.s Attachment Scheme is an incentive program funded by Screen Australia and managed by the Adg for emerging directors to develop their craft.
Both Goldfinch and McKenzie are accomplished directors..
In 2016 Goldfinch was nominated for Best Direction in a Short Film at the Adg Awards..
She is a graduate of the Tisch School for the Arts in New York and was selected to direct a segment of the compendium feature film The Colour of Time, starring James Franco and Jessica Chastain.
McKenzie is Aftrs alumni whose debut feature film, Satellite Boy (2012), won the Crystal Bear Special Mention Award for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival. Catriona.s other credits include Redfern Now and Dance Academy.
They will work on the project for five weeks while the production films in Australia.
The Director.s Attachment Scheme is an incentive program funded by Screen Australia and managed by the Adg for emerging directors to develop their craft.
Both Goldfinch and McKenzie are accomplished directors..
In 2016 Goldfinch was nominated for Best Direction in a Short Film at the Adg Awards..
She is a graduate of the Tisch School for the Arts in New York and was selected to direct a segment of the compendium feature film The Colour of Time, starring James Franco and Jessica Chastain.
McKenzie is Aftrs alumni whose debut feature film, Satellite Boy (2012), won the Crystal Bear Special Mention Award for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival. Catriona.s other credits include Redfern Now and Dance Academy.
- 5/13/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
(L - R) Judy Davis, Adrian Weimers, Nashen Moodley.
The Weinstein Company has shortlisted 21 Australian filmmakers for the Lexus Australian Short Film Fellowship, the largest cash fellowship for short film in Australia.
Judy Davis is presiding over the selection process as jury chair alongside jury members Nashen Moodley (Sydney Film Festival Director) Lexus Australia.s Adrian Weimers, and Australian producers Jan Chapman and Darren Dale..
The jury will select select up to four filmmakers, each of whom will receive a $50,000 Fellowship grant..
The four successful candidates will be announced at the Sydney Film Festival (June 8-19 2016).
The shortlisted filmmakers are:
Alex Murawski (Nsw)
Alex Ryan (Nsw)
Anya Beyersdorf (Nsw)
Billie Pleffer (Nsw)
Brooke Goldfinch (Nsw)
Genevieve Clay-Smith (Nsw)
Hazel Annikki Savolainen (Nsw)
Gene Jacobie Gray (Nsw)
Lucy Gaffy (Nsw)
Tim Russell (Nsw)
Venetia Taylor (Nsw)
Dave Redman (Vic)
David Hansen (Vic)
James Vinson (Vic)
Victoria Thaine (Vic)
Mikey Hill (Vic...
The Weinstein Company has shortlisted 21 Australian filmmakers for the Lexus Australian Short Film Fellowship, the largest cash fellowship for short film in Australia.
Judy Davis is presiding over the selection process as jury chair alongside jury members Nashen Moodley (Sydney Film Festival Director) Lexus Australia.s Adrian Weimers, and Australian producers Jan Chapman and Darren Dale..
The jury will select select up to four filmmakers, each of whom will receive a $50,000 Fellowship grant..
The four successful candidates will be announced at the Sydney Film Festival (June 8-19 2016).
The shortlisted filmmakers are:
Alex Murawski (Nsw)
Alex Ryan (Nsw)
Anya Beyersdorf (Nsw)
Billie Pleffer (Nsw)
Brooke Goldfinch (Nsw)
Genevieve Clay-Smith (Nsw)
Hazel Annikki Savolainen (Nsw)
Gene Jacobie Gray (Nsw)
Lucy Gaffy (Nsw)
Tim Russell (Nsw)
Venetia Taylor (Nsw)
Dave Redman (Vic)
David Hansen (Vic)
James Vinson (Vic)
Victoria Thaine (Vic)
Mikey Hill (Vic...
- 3/23/2016
- by Staff Writer
- 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
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
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes. Arabian Nights has won the top award, the Sydney Film prize, at the 62nd Sydney Film Festival.
The 3-part opus, which draws on the folk tales One Thousand and One Nights to create a portrait of modern-day life in Portugal, took the $62,000 cash prize at the closing night awards at the State Theatre.
Jury president Liz Watts hailed a film of "ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds - and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition..
Journalist Michael Ware and two-time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag received the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian documentary for Only the Dead; with a special mention to The Lost Aviator directed by Andrew Lancaster. .A Single Body directed and written by Sotiris Dounoukos won the best live action short award; Grace Under Water directed and produced by Anthony Lawrence...
The 3-part opus, which draws on the folk tales One Thousand and One Nights to create a portrait of modern-day life in Portugal, took the $62,000 cash prize at the closing night awards at the State Theatre.
Jury president Liz Watts hailed a film of "ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds - and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition..
Journalist Michael Ware and two-time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag received the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian documentary for Only the Dead; with a special mention to The Lost Aviator directed by Andrew Lancaster. .A Single Body directed and written by Sotiris Dounoukos won the best live action short award; Grace Under Water directed and produced by Anthony Lawrence...
- 6/14/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Miguel Gomes’ three-volume epic wins eight on the closing night of the Sydney Film Festival.
Director Miguel Gomes and his three-volume 383-minute film Arabian Nights has won the $48,000 (A$62,000) Sydney Film Prize, it was announced on Sunday, the closing night of the 62nd Sydney Film Festival.
Journalist Michael Ware was awarded the $7,730 (A$10,000) Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary for Only the Dead, about his experiences in Afghanistan. The film was co-directed with Bill Guttentag.
Director Andrew Lancaster’s The Lost Aviator received a special mention for a family story of murder, love and aviation.
Jury president and Australian producer Liz Watts said Arabian Nights, which had its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, was a film of ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds – and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition.
“A subject that is so timely – oppression and exploitation are at...
Director Miguel Gomes and his three-volume 383-minute film Arabian Nights has won the $48,000 (A$62,000) Sydney Film Prize, it was announced on Sunday, the closing night of the 62nd Sydney Film Festival.
Journalist Michael Ware was awarded the $7,730 (A$10,000) Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary for Only the Dead, about his experiences in Afghanistan. The film was co-directed with Bill Guttentag.
Director Andrew Lancaster’s The Lost Aviator received a special mention for a family story of murder, love and aviation.
Jury president and Australian producer Liz Watts said Arabian Nights, which had its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, was a film of ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds – and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition.
“A subject that is so timely – oppression and exploitation are at...
- 6/14/2015
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
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
Sneak Peek clips of footage from the dramatic feature "The Color Of Time", written/directed by 12 New York University film-makers including Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Brooke Goldfinch, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Tine Thomasen, Virginia Urreiztieta and Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo. Starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff and Jessica Chastain, now available on DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment:
"...based on 'Pulitzer Prize'-winning poet Ck Williams' "Tar" collection, 'The Color of Time' is a poetic expression of Ck’s life, taking a journey through several decades of American life, from Ck's childhood and adolescence in Detroit in the 1940's and '50's to the early 1980's.
'Ck'(Franco) and his wife 'Catherine' (Kunis) are married with a son. Ck spends his nights struggling to write new poems and haunted by memories of his past. As Ck drives to a reading in New York City,...
"...based on 'Pulitzer Prize'-winning poet Ck Williams' "Tar" collection, 'The Color of Time' is a poetic expression of Ck’s life, taking a journey through several decades of American life, from Ck's childhood and adolescence in Detroit in the 1940's and '50's to the early 1980's.
'Ck'(Franco) and his wife 'Catherine' (Kunis) are married with a son. Ck spends his nights struggling to write new poems and haunted by memories of his past. As Ck drives to a reading in New York City,...
- 2/2/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Paul Thomas Anderson’s legion of fans will get their chance to see the filmmaker’s latest Inherent Vice – at least those in New York and L.A. after a long build-up of anticipation. Studio Warner Bros. is handling the director’s latest, set in a drug-laced L.A. in the 1970s. Barring some unforeseen cataclysm, the feature is easily going to be this week’s b.o. superstar and likely one of the year’s biggest per screen debuts. How it will fare against other fall b.o. knock-outs like Searchlight’s Birdman or TWC’s The Imitation Game remains to be seen. A slew of Specialty openers will coincide with the Inherent Vice juggernaut. A24 will open Oscar-nominated filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s The Captive day and date after an early fall bow in the director’s native Canada. Sundance Selects will expose Free The Nipple in New York...
- 12/12/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Six short films have received support from Screen Australia, it was announced today.
Through its Short Animation and Shorts Completion programs, a production investment of $446,000 has been made to support two animations and four shorts.
Screen Australia.s Head of Production, Sally Caplan, said, .Out of many applications, we are delighted to have been able to support these six projects. The filmmakers are all talented teams from diverse backgrounds, and the projects are an eclectic mix with distinctive stories. We are very much looking forward to seeing the finished works..
The Short Animation program is supporting two projects: My Little Sumo and Revolution.
My Little Sumo comes from South Australian animation directors Ana Maria Mendez Salgado and Carlos Manrique Clavijo, and writer Lee Sellers. Supported by writer/producer Marion Pilowsky, the film follows the plight of Daisy, a little girl with mighty dreams . to become a professional sumo wrestler.
The...
Through its Short Animation and Shorts Completion programs, a production investment of $446,000 has been made to support two animations and four shorts.
Screen Australia.s Head of Production, Sally Caplan, said, .Out of many applications, we are delighted to have been able to support these six projects. The filmmakers are all talented teams from diverse backgrounds, and the projects are an eclectic mix with distinctive stories. We are very much looking forward to seeing the finished works..
The Short Animation program is supporting two projects: My Little Sumo and Revolution.
My Little Sumo comes from South Australian animation directors Ana Maria Mendez Salgado and Carlos Manrique Clavijo, and writer Lee Sellers. Supported by writer/producer Marion Pilowsky, the film follows the plight of Daisy, a little girl with mighty dreams . to become a professional sumo wrestler.
The...
- 6/20/2014
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
For every mainstream studio film that James Franco stars in he seems to make six indie films. Of those indie films, he is usually directing or writing them with mixed results. In the case of Tar, Franco is content to just act for twelve Nyu film students that he likely met during his time at the university. Those directors (Edna Luise Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Shruti Ganguly, Brooke Goldfinch, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Bruce Thierry...
- 11/11/2013
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Starring James Franco in the lead, Tar is a collaborative effort between twelve students that has perhaps the greatest cast of any student film ever made.
The film will be debuting at the International Rome Film Festival next month, and the first two images from the film have surfaced online.
Based on the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, C. K. Williams, the film is written and directed by Edna Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Shruti Ganguly, Brooke Goldfinch, Omar Zuniga Hidalgo, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Tine Thomasen, and Virginia Urreiztieta, with supervision from Franco himself.
Franco stars as C. K. Williams, alongside Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff, Bruce Campbell, and Henry Hopper, who will be playing the younger version of the poet.
Tar will be making its world premiere in Rome next month, and hopefully will be picked up at the festival for distribution elsewhere.
The film will be debuting at the International Rome Film Festival next month, and the first two images from the film have surfaced online.
Based on the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, C. K. Williams, the film is written and directed by Edna Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Shruti Ganguly, Brooke Goldfinch, Omar Zuniga Hidalgo, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Tine Thomasen, and Virginia Urreiztieta, with supervision from Franco himself.
Franco stars as C. K. Williams, alongside Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff, Bruce Campbell, and Henry Hopper, who will be playing the younger version of the poet.
Tar will be making its world premiere in Rome next month, and hopefully will be picked up at the festival for distribution elsewhere.
- 10/23/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
James Franco doesn't stop for one second. Currently filming "As I Lay Dying," Franco has been busy overseeing two other projects this year, omnibus efforts by Nyu grad students, "Tar" and "Black Dog Red Dog," based the poems of C.K. Williams and Stephen Dobyns, respectively. And one of them is ready to see the light day. The Rome Film Festival has announced that "Tar" will make be making its world premiere (as well as a Franco short entitled "Dreams," of course) as it rolls out the red carpet next month. Remember these names -- Edna Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Shruti Ganguly, Brooke Goldfinch, Omar Zuniga Hidalgo, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Tine Thomasen, Virginia Urreiztieta -- because they are students-turned-filmmakers, and undoubtedly some of them will be moving on to even bigger and better things. The project saw Franco working the phones a...
- 10/23/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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