The impact of Covid-19 and the impending removal of the Gallipoli clause from the Producer Offset have been a double blow for Australian productions aiming to film overseas across the past 18 months.
Add in a cyclone season and the process becomes even harder to navigate.
Such is the scenario for Jo-Anne Brechin’s Gardens of War, an Australian production to be filmed in Vanuatu, now at the mercy of government leniency after more than a year in development limbo.
The story follows a TV producer who leads her film crew into a remote mountain valley to discover the story of her father’s disappearance 30 years before, only to disturb his ghost and unleash havoc on the valley and her crew.
Sydney-based producer Bill Leimbach (Beneath Hill 60) penned the script with Brechin and Reg Cribb (Last Cab to Darwin), and is also producing with Bill Mulham and Ashley Burgess.
Financing was...
Add in a cyclone season and the process becomes even harder to navigate.
Such is the scenario for Jo-Anne Brechin’s Gardens of War, an Australian production to be filmed in Vanuatu, now at the mercy of government leniency after more than a year in development limbo.
The story follows a TV producer who leads her film crew into a remote mountain valley to discover the story of her father’s disappearance 30 years before, only to disturb his ghost and unleash havoc on the valley and her crew.
Sydney-based producer Bill Leimbach (Beneath Hill 60) penned the script with Brechin and Reg Cribb (Last Cab to Darwin), and is also producing with Bill Mulham and Ashley Burgess.
Financing was...
- 6/2/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Baz Luhrmann.
A new feature film from Baz Luhrmann, set in a small Australian country town, is among the 18 projects to recently receive story development funding from Screen Australia.
The agency announced today it will share $620,000 between 11 films, five TV series and two online projects.
These projects come from both the existing Premium and Generate development funds. Generate Fund is for lower budget projects with an emphasis on new and emerging talent, or experienced talent wanting to take creative risks. The Premium Fund is for higher budget projects of ambition and scale from successful screen content makers.
Projects pitched for Premium Plus funds – the additional development funding the agency announced in response to Covid-19 – are still being assessed.
Screen Australia head of development Nerida Moore said: “With many productions temporarily halted it is more important than ever for us to support the development of Australian stories for all platforms. I...
A new feature film from Baz Luhrmann, set in a small Australian country town, is among the 18 projects to recently receive story development funding from Screen Australia.
The agency announced today it will share $620,000 between 11 films, five TV series and two online projects.
These projects come from both the existing Premium and Generate development funds. Generate Fund is for lower budget projects with an emphasis on new and emerging talent, or experienced talent wanting to take creative risks. The Premium Fund is for higher budget projects of ambition and scale from successful screen content makers.
Projects pitched for Premium Plus funds – the additional development funding the agency announced in response to Covid-19 – are still being assessed.
Screen Australia head of development Nerida Moore said: “With many productions temporarily halted it is more important than ever for us to support the development of Australian stories for all platforms. I...
- 5/12/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’.
Australia and Korea have had an official co-production treaty in place for five years now, though a project has yet to eventuate from it.
Of course, co-productions – particularly official ones under government treaties or MOUs – aren’t easy and can take a long time to come to fruition. The challenges are often numerable: finding the right partner, nuances involved in cross-cultural creative and financial collaboration, language barriers, managing talent and shoots across countries, and a lot of paperwork.
But co-productions also offer many creative and financial benefits, particularly as the marketplace for content grows increasingly global.
Collaboration between Australia and Korea’s screen industries will form a focus at tomorrow’s Asia Pacific Screen Forum in Brisbane – a new adjunct to the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) – in a session supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat)’s Australia-Korean Foundation.
Speaking on the...
Australia and Korea have had an official co-production treaty in place for five years now, though a project has yet to eventuate from it.
Of course, co-productions – particularly official ones under government treaties or MOUs – aren’t easy and can take a long time to come to fruition. The challenges are often numerable: finding the right partner, nuances involved in cross-cultural creative and financial collaboration, language barriers, managing talent and shoots across countries, and a lot of paperwork.
But co-productions also offer many creative and financial benefits, particularly as the marketplace for content grows increasingly global.
Collaboration between Australia and Korea’s screen industries will form a focus at tomorrow’s Asia Pacific Screen Forum in Brisbane – a new adjunct to the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) – in a session supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat)’s Australia-Korean Foundation.
Speaking on the...
- 11/19/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Pong Su (Photo credit: ABC).
The infamous case of the North Korean cargo ship involved in Australia’s largest drug bust will be dramatised in a feature film, potentially as the first official Australian-Korean co-production.
Reg Cribb is writing the first draft of action drama The Pong Su for the producers, Unicorn Films’ Lizzette Atkins and Jonathan Kim of Korea’s Hanmac Culture Group.
The cargo ship was used to smuggle 150 kilograms of heroin into Victoria in April 2003. The Australian Federal Police monitored the operation and the ship was seized off the coast of Nsw on the orders of Prime Minister John Howard.
The film will follow eccentric defence lawyer Ian Hayden, his Korean interpreter Yuna and their relationship with their charismatic client, the ship’s master, North Korean Captain Song.
“In a story full of contradictions and moral ambiguity, the defence team is determined to see justice done,” Atkins says.
The infamous case of the North Korean cargo ship involved in Australia’s largest drug bust will be dramatised in a feature film, potentially as the first official Australian-Korean co-production.
Reg Cribb is writing the first draft of action drama The Pong Su for the producers, Unicorn Films’ Lizzette Atkins and Jonathan Kim of Korea’s Hanmac Culture Group.
The cargo ship was used to smuggle 150 kilograms of heroin into Victoria in April 2003. The Australian Federal Police monitored the operation and the ship was seized off the coast of Nsw on the orders of Prime Minister John Howard.
The film will follow eccentric defence lawyer Ian Hayden, his Korean interpreter Yuna and their relationship with their charismatic client, the ship’s master, North Korean Captain Song.
“In a story full of contradictions and moral ambiguity, the defence team is determined to see justice done,” Atkins says.
- 10/17/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
(L-r) Jon Bell, Catriona McKenzie and Andrew Dillon (Photo credit: Mark Rogers).
To his direct descendants and the wider Aboriginal community, Pemulwuy, Australia’s first Indigenous resistance fighter, was a martyr, a leader, a patriot and a warrior.
Putting the man and his deeds in a contemporary context, writer Jon Bell says: “If Australia was invaded tomorrow and one man managed to keep those invading forces confined to the city areas for 10 years, he would be enshrined in Australian lore and there would be a national holiday.”
Bell is part of a creative team of leading black and white figures who are preparing a biopic on Pemulwuy, a member of the Bidjigal clan who led the opposition to British forces’ attempts to take over traditional hunting grounds from the early years of the colony until he was shot dead in 1802.
Phillip Noyce, who has wanted to tell this story for...
To his direct descendants and the wider Aboriginal community, Pemulwuy, Australia’s first Indigenous resistance fighter, was a martyr, a leader, a patriot and a warrior.
Putting the man and his deeds in a contemporary context, writer Jon Bell says: “If Australia was invaded tomorrow and one man managed to keep those invading forces confined to the city areas for 10 years, he would be enshrined in Australian lore and there would be a national holiday.”
Bell is part of a creative team of leading black and white figures who are preparing a biopic on Pemulwuy, a member of the Bidjigal clan who led the opposition to British forces’ attempts to take over traditional hunting grounds from the early years of the colony until he was shot dead in 1802.
Phillip Noyce, who has wanted to tell this story for...
- 8/15/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Reg Cribb.
Last Cab to Darwin scribe Reg Cribb is Dendy Direct's Guest Curator for August 2016.
Each month, Dendy Direct invites a guest curator to pick their favourite titles available via the VOD service, with No Activity's Patrick Brammall and The Rover's David Michôd two recent participants.
Cribb, who is currently working on a feature film adaptation of his play.The Damned, winner of the 2012 Nsw Premier.s Literary Award, said his choices were dictated by his upbringing on an isolated coastal town in Western Australia called Esperance.
.In the early 70.s, we had no TV infiltrating our lives. When I wasn.t reading voraciously, our whole family would pack up the Holden and visit one of the two drive-in theatres on the outskirts of town, at least three times a week. Many of the films I have chosen were devoured by me on the big screen at...
Last Cab to Darwin scribe Reg Cribb is Dendy Direct's Guest Curator for August 2016.
Each month, Dendy Direct invites a guest curator to pick their favourite titles available via the VOD service, with No Activity's Patrick Brammall and The Rover's David Michôd two recent participants.
Cribb, who is currently working on a feature film adaptation of his play.The Damned, winner of the 2012 Nsw Premier.s Literary Award, said his choices were dictated by his upbringing on an isolated coastal town in Western Australia called Esperance.
.In the early 70.s, we had no TV infiltrating our lives. When I wasn.t reading voraciously, our whole family would pack up the Holden and visit one of the two drive-in theatres on the outskirts of town, at least three times a week. Many of the films I have chosen were devoured by me on the big screen at...
- 8/1/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Reg Cribb.
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Playwright and screenwriter Reg Cribb is set to share his career highlights and talk about his current projects at a Screenworks event in Byron Bay.
Cribb, who recently won the Aacta award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film adaptation of Last Cab to Darwin, will spend an evening .In Conversation. with local screenwriter and script editor Charlie de Salis at Sae Creative Institute on April 14.
Cribb will also talk about two projects he is currently working on in the Northern Rivers. .
Screenworks general manager, Ken Crouch, said there were many people in the community that would benefit from an evening with Reg Cribb.
.His numerous box office hits on stage and screen are evidence of how much Australian audiences love his work and we are very fortunate to have this talented writer take the time to talk with us about his craft and his career,. he said.
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Playwright and screenwriter Reg Cribb is set to share his career highlights and talk about his current projects at a Screenworks event in Byron Bay.
Cribb, who recently won the Aacta award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film adaptation of Last Cab to Darwin, will spend an evening .In Conversation. with local screenwriter and script editor Charlie de Salis at Sae Creative Institute on April 14.
Cribb will also talk about two projects he is currently working on in the Northern Rivers. .
Screenworks general manager, Ken Crouch, said there were many people in the community that would benefit from an evening with Reg Cribb.
.His numerous box office hits on stage and screen are evidence of how much Australian audiences love his work and we are very fortunate to have this talented writer take the time to talk with us about his craft and his career,. he said.
- 3/31/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Steve Le Marquand in Broke.
The 14th annual Gold Coast Film Festival will screen Australian features Spear, Broke, A Month of Sundays, Girl Asleep, Crushed, Observance and The Hunters Club, and play host to guests including Reg Cribb, David Stratton, Claudia Karvan and Gracie Otto.
Director Stephen Page will also make his debut at the fest..
Page and his leading man (and son) Hunter Page-Lochard, star of the upcoming ABC-tv series Cleverman, will attend a screening of Spear, followed by a Q&A session.
The team behind Broke - director Heath Davis, producer Luke Graham and actors Steve Le Marquand and Max Cullen - will attend the film's Queensland premiere.
The film follows the story of disgraced rugby league star and gambling addict, Ben .Bk. Kelly, who attempts to turn his life around with the support of his two biggest fans..
Writer Reg Cribb (Last Cab to Darwin) will attend...
The 14th annual Gold Coast Film Festival will screen Australian features Spear, Broke, A Month of Sundays, Girl Asleep, Crushed, Observance and The Hunters Club, and play host to guests including Reg Cribb, David Stratton, Claudia Karvan and Gracie Otto.
Director Stephen Page will also make his debut at the fest..
Page and his leading man (and son) Hunter Page-Lochard, star of the upcoming ABC-tv series Cleverman, will attend a screening of Spear, followed by a Q&A session.
The team behind Broke - director Heath Davis, producer Luke Graham and actors Steve Le Marquand and Max Cullen - will attend the film's Queensland premiere.
The film follows the story of disgraced rugby league star and gambling addict, Ben .Bk. Kelly, who attempts to turn his life around with the support of his two biggest fans..
Writer Reg Cribb (Last Cab to Darwin) will attend...
- 3/7/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Glenn here. As expected, it was a big night for Oscar hopeful Mad Max: Fury Road at the Aacta Awards last night, while Cate Blanchett gave yet another wonderful speech upon winning the Longford Lyell Award for outstanding achievement to Australian screen. Split over two ceremonies in Sydney, this year’s “Australian Oscars” were honouring the most successful year for Australian film on record – yes, that means of all time (inflation not included) – as well as television. Miller’s film picked up eight trophies all up, bringing the total number of AFI/Aacta Awards won by the franchise to 16, while Miller has now amassed 8 career statues. Yes, eight!!
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s homegrown phenomenon The Dressmaker was also a hit winning five including for actors Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, and Hugo Weaving as well as the audience choice award, which goes to show just how popular that period western has been...
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s homegrown phenomenon The Dressmaker was also a hit winning five including for actors Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, and Hugo Weaving as well as the audience choice award, which goes to show just how popular that period western has been...
- 12/9/2015
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
George Miller’s action-epic scoops eight awards including best film and best director.Scroll down for the full list
Mad Max: Fury Road has scooped the pool at Australia’s top film awards, the AACTAs, with George Miller’s high-action epic scoring wins in eight of its 11 nominated categories, including best film and best director.
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s retro western The Dressmaker won the Aacta People’s Choice Award at the Sydney event, and Kate Winslet won the Best Actress award for her lead performance (and convincing accent) as a spiteful Aussie seamstress in outback 1950s Australia. Winslet accepted her award via smartphone video selfie.
Her onscreen mum, Judy Davis, was the odds-on favourite to win Best Supporting Actress, which she did. In another acting gong for The Dressmaker, Hugo Weaving seemed as surprised as everyone else when his name was called to the stage of Sydney’s The Star casino complex.
In other awards...
Mad Max: Fury Road has scooped the pool at Australia’s top film awards, the AACTAs, with George Miller’s high-action epic scoring wins in eight of its 11 nominated categories, including best film and best director.
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s retro western The Dressmaker won the Aacta People’s Choice Award at the Sydney event, and Kate Winslet won the Best Actress award for her lead performance (and convincing accent) as a spiteful Aussie seamstress in outback 1950s Australia. Winslet accepted her award via smartphone video selfie.
Her onscreen mum, Judy Davis, was the odds-on favourite to win Best Supporting Actress, which she did. In another acting gong for The Dressmaker, Hugo Weaving seemed as surprised as everyone else when his name was called to the stage of Sydney’s The Star casino complex.
In other awards...
- 12/9/2015
- ScreenDaily
George Miller’s action-epic scoops eight awards including best film and best director.Scroll down for the full list
Mad Max: Fury Road has scooped the pool at Australia’s top film awards, the AACTAs, with George Miller’s high-action epic scoring wins in eight of its 11 nominated categories, including best film and best director.
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s retro western The Dressmaker won the Aacta People’s Choice Award at the Sydney event, and Kate Winslet won the Best Actress award for her lead performance (and convincing accent) as a spiteful Aussie seamstress in outback 1950s Australia. Winslet accepted her award via smartphone video selfie.
Her onscreen mum, Judy Davis, was the odds-on favourite to win Best Supporting Actress, which she did. In another acting gong for The Dressmaker, Hugo Weaving seemed as surprised as everyone else when his name was called to the stage of Sydney’s The Star casino complex.
In other awards...
Mad Max: Fury Road has scooped the pool at Australia’s top film awards, the AACTAs, with George Miller’s high-action epic scoring wins in eight of its 11 nominated categories, including best film and best director.
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s retro western The Dressmaker won the Aacta People’s Choice Award at the Sydney event, and Kate Winslet won the Best Actress award for her lead performance (and convincing accent) as a spiteful Aussie seamstress in outback 1950s Australia. Winslet accepted her award via smartphone video selfie.
Her onscreen mum, Judy Davis, was the odds-on favourite to win Best Supporting Actress, which she did. In another acting gong for The Dressmaker, Hugo Weaving seemed as surprised as everyone else when his name was called to the stage of Sydney’s The Star casino complex.
In other awards...
- 12/9/2015
- ScreenDaily
Leading Tvc production house Revolver and former Screen Australia and Goalpost Pictures executive Martha Coleman have launched film and TV production banner Revlover.
The new company is developing a big slate of projects with entities such as Goalpost, Foxtel, eOne and Transmission Films.
Christopher Sharp, former director of development at Screen Queensland and development executive at Screen Australia, is Revlover.s head of development.
Founded in the 1990s and owned by Steve Rogers and Michael Ritchie, Revolver represents Justin Kurzel, The Glue Society.s Matt Devine and Gary Freedman, Rogers, Simon McQuoid, Tim Godsall and a number of other directors with whom Coleman is keen to work.
.Michael and Steve have been wanting to expand into long form film and television for some time but they know that many commercials companies who try to cross over fail because they work outside of the industry, not within it, . says Coleman, a...
The new company is developing a big slate of projects with entities such as Goalpost, Foxtel, eOne and Transmission Films.
Christopher Sharp, former director of development at Screen Queensland and development executive at Screen Australia, is Revlover.s head of development.
Founded in the 1990s and owned by Steve Rogers and Michael Ritchie, Revolver represents Justin Kurzel, The Glue Society.s Matt Devine and Gary Freedman, Rogers, Simon McQuoid, Tim Godsall and a number of other directors with whom Coleman is keen to work.
.Michael and Steve have been wanting to expand into long form film and television for some time but they know that many commercials companies who try to cross over fail because they work outside of the industry, not within it, . says Coleman, a...
- 11/2/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
★★★★☆ If there's one thing that Australia has in spades it's miles and miles of open road. Be it tarmacked or dust and dirt, lifelong cab driver, Rex (Michael Caton), covers a fair amount of both driving from Broken Hill, Nsw, through Oz's barren Red Centre, to Darwin at the tip of the Northern Territory. His objective in Jeremy Sims' film: to take advantage of new euthanasia laws and cut short the three months he has been given to live after the recurrence of stomach cancer. "No fuckin' hospitals," says Rexy. He's going out on his own terms and that's that. Adapted from Reg Cribb's play by playwright and director, Last Cab to Darwin raises the right-to-die/euthanasia debate, as well as posing questions of inherent racism.
- 9/22/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Exclusive: Australian box office hit Last Cab To Darwin has been flagged down by distributors in Asia and Latin America.
Following its first P&I screening at the Toronto International Film Festival yesterday (Sept 14), Films Distribution has sold the road movie to Japan (Fine Films), Korea (T-Cast), Colombia and Venezuela (Cineplex) and Turkey (Fabula Films).
Directed by Jeremy Sims, the film is an adaptation of the successful stage play by Reg Cribb in which a 70-year-old taxi driver diagnosed with terminal cancer undertakes a 3,000-mile journey to visit a pioneering physician in Darwin.
Last Cab To Darwin has taken more than $3.2m since its August 6 release, putting it just below the takings of Disney heavyweight Tomorrowland in Australia.
Films Distribution’s Tiff slate includes Brazilian world premiere Campo Grande, Eva Husson’s Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story), Venice title Mountain and Cannes titles Son of Saul, Mia Madre and Lamb.
Following its first P&I screening at the Toronto International Film Festival yesterday (Sept 14), Films Distribution has sold the road movie to Japan (Fine Films), Korea (T-Cast), Colombia and Venezuela (Cineplex) and Turkey (Fabula Films).
Directed by Jeremy Sims, the film is an adaptation of the successful stage play by Reg Cribb in which a 70-year-old taxi driver diagnosed with terminal cancer undertakes a 3,000-mile journey to visit a pioneering physician in Darwin.
Last Cab To Darwin has taken more than $3.2m since its August 6 release, putting it just below the takings of Disney heavyweight Tomorrowland in Australia.
Films Distribution’s Tiff slate includes Brazilian world premiere Campo Grande, Eva Husson’s Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story), Venice title Mountain and Cannes titles Son of Saul, Mia Madre and Lamb.
- 9/15/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The grassroots campaign for Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin has paid off handsomely as the drama starring Michael Caton, Mark Coles Smith, Jacki Weaver and Ningali Lawford-Wolf opened strongly last weekend.
Benefitting from extensive Q&A screenings across the country following the Sydney Film Festival premiere, the road movie starring Caton as a Broken Hill cabbie who learns he doesn.t have long to live and sets off for Darwin, fetched $1.14 million on 221 screens.
Adding $229,000 from previews, the total is nearly $1.4 million and the film ranked fourth behind Trainwreck, the second weekend of Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation and Fantastic Four.
.We.re thrilled the film has found the audience we hoped it would find and we.re hoping it will have long legs,. says Sims, who spent seven years developing, producing, directing and co-writing the film with Reg Cribb.
Sims and Caton took part in nearly 50 screenings in six...
Benefitting from extensive Q&A screenings across the country following the Sydney Film Festival premiere, the road movie starring Caton as a Broken Hill cabbie who learns he doesn.t have long to live and sets off for Darwin, fetched $1.14 million on 221 screens.
Adding $229,000 from previews, the total is nearly $1.4 million and the film ranked fourth behind Trainwreck, the second weekend of Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation and Fantastic Four.
.We.re thrilled the film has found the audience we hoped it would find and we.re hoping it will have long legs,. says Sims, who spent seven years developing, producing, directing and co-writing the film with Reg Cribb.
Sims and Caton took part in nearly 50 screenings in six...
- 8/10/2015
- by Don Groves
- 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
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
Emma Slade, Steve Kearney, Briget Callow-Wright heading for the UK’s Production Finance Market.
Sales agents from across the world yesterday voted New Zealand’s Emma Slade as the producer at the 37º South Market who most deserves a spot at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October, plus $1,860 (A$2,000) in travel assistance.
Runner-ups Steve Kearney and Bridget Callow-Wright from Australia also won places – but no cash.
Organizers said 2,203 meetings were held as part of the eighth edition of the co-financing film market, which is part of the business arm of the Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff).
Slade will be seeking a sales agent for The Love Of Humankind, the lead project in her slate, during her visit to London.
The “vodka-fuelled tragicomedy about unrequited love” is to be directed by comedian Danny Mulheron (Fresh Meat) from a script by he and Brian Sergent.
Based on a stage play, her one-liner...
Sales agents from across the world yesterday voted New Zealand’s Emma Slade as the producer at the 37º South Market who most deserves a spot at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October, plus $1,860 (A$2,000) in travel assistance.
Runner-ups Steve Kearney and Bridget Callow-Wright from Australia also won places – but no cash.
Organizers said 2,203 meetings were held as part of the eighth edition of the co-financing film market, which is part of the business arm of the Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff).
Slade will be seeking a sales agent for The Love Of Humankind, the lead project in her slate, during her visit to London.
The “vodka-fuelled tragicomedy about unrequited love” is to be directed by comedian Danny Mulheron (Fresh Meat) from a script by he and Brian Sergent.
Based on a stage play, her one-liner...
- 8/4/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
UK-based Australian actress Emma Hamilton and The Gods of Wheat Street.s Mark Coles Smith have joined the cast of Last Cab to Darwin, Jeremy Sims. road movie drama about a man who is told he doesn.t have long to live and embarks on an epic drive from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms. On his journey he discovers that before you can end your life you have to live it and to live it, you have to share it.
Shooting is due to start in Broken Hill in early May, with Greg Duffy and Lisa Duff producing and Michael Caton in the lead. Reg Cribb (Bran Nue Dae, Last Train to Freo) and Jeremy Sims wrote the screenplay, which was inspired by the cases of Max Bell and Bob Dent. Bell was a terminally ill cab driver who drove 3,000 km from his home in...
Shooting is due to start in Broken Hill in early May, with Greg Duffy and Lisa Duff producing and Michael Caton in the lead. Reg Cribb (Bran Nue Dae, Last Train to Freo) and Jeremy Sims wrote the screenplay, which was inspired by the cases of Max Bell and Bob Dent. Bell was a terminally ill cab driver who drove 3,000 km from his home in...
- 2/27/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
A plan depicting the Perth Film Studios..
A film studio with three sound stages will be built on the campus of Murdoch University, intended to become a hub for production in Western Australia, according to plans revealed today.
The Perth Film Studios would be part of a major commercial development which would include a 180-room hotel, conference centre, bars, gymnasium and a cinema.
The development is a joint venture between Stephen Van Mil.s Impian Films and the UK.s Extraordinary Group. Van Mil, who is interim CEO of the project, told If he estimates the studio would cost about $50 million. He hopes construction will start in early 2014 after planning approval is granted and that the studio will open within two years.
He says the Murdoch University, which supports the concept, plans to open a film and TV training facility on the site.
Acknowledging that studios per se are an unprofitable business,...
A film studio with three sound stages will be built on the campus of Murdoch University, intended to become a hub for production in Western Australia, according to plans revealed today.
The Perth Film Studios would be part of a major commercial development which would include a 180-room hotel, conference centre, bars, gymnasium and a cinema.
The development is a joint venture between Stephen Van Mil.s Impian Films and the UK.s Extraordinary Group. Van Mil, who is interim CEO of the project, told If he estimates the studio would cost about $50 million. He hopes construction will start in early 2014 after planning approval is granted and that the studio will open within two years.
He says the Murdoch University, which supports the concept, plans to open a film and TV training facility on the site.
Acknowledging that studios per se are an unprofitable business,...
- 10/24/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia is investing $5.4 million in six feature films from directors Gillian Armstrong,. Jeremy Sims and Paul Cox and rising filmmakers Kim Farrant, Mark Grentell and Alexs Stadermann.
Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving will star in Farrant.s Strangerland, a mystery drama about a couple whose lives unravel after their two teenage children go missing in the harsh Australian desert.
Michael Caton and Jacki Weaver are attached to star in Sims. Last Cab to Darwin, a comedy-drama about a dying man.s final journey based on Reg Cribb's play Last Cab to Darwin.
Caton will play Rex, a terminally ill cab driver who drove 3,000 km from his home in Broken Hill to Darwin in the early 1990s in hopes of taking advantage of the Northern Territory's voluntary euthanasia laws. Ningali Lawford has been cast as Polly, an Aboriginal woman who is Rex.s next door neighbour and occasional lover,...
Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving will star in Farrant.s Strangerland, a mystery drama about a couple whose lives unravel after their two teenage children go missing in the harsh Australian desert.
Michael Caton and Jacki Weaver are attached to star in Sims. Last Cab to Darwin, a comedy-drama about a dying man.s final journey based on Reg Cribb's play Last Cab to Darwin.
Caton will play Rex, a terminally ill cab driver who drove 3,000 km from his home in Broken Hill to Darwin in the early 1990s in hopes of taking advantage of the Northern Territory's voluntary euthanasia laws. Ningali Lawford has been cast as Polly, an Aboriginal woman who is Rex.s next door neighbour and occasional lover,...
- 10/20/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Michael Caton and Jacki Weaver are attached to star in Last Cab, a comedy-drama about a dying man.s final journey.
The film is based on Reg Cribb play.s Last Cab to Darwin, which in turn was inspired by the cases of Max Bell and Bob Dent.
Bell was a terminally ill cab driver who drove 3,000 km from his home in Broken Hill to Darwin in the early 1990s in hopes of taking advantage of the Northern Territory's voluntary euthanasia laws. Dent was the first Australian to die from a legal, voluntary lethal injection in the Northern Territory in 1996.
Director Jeremy Sims aims to start shooting on location next March/April, with Greg Duffy as the producer, if the project succeeds in gaining investment from Screen Australia at its October board meeting.
Caton will play a character named Rex, who is an amalgam of Bell and Dent. Ningali Lawford has been cast as Polly,...
The film is based on Reg Cribb play.s Last Cab to Darwin, which in turn was inspired by the cases of Max Bell and Bob Dent.
Bell was a terminally ill cab driver who drove 3,000 km from his home in Broken Hill to Darwin in the early 1990s in hopes of taking advantage of the Northern Territory's voluntary euthanasia laws. Dent was the first Australian to die from a legal, voluntary lethal injection in the Northern Territory in 1996.
Director Jeremy Sims aims to start shooting on location next March/April, with Greg Duffy as the producer, if the project succeeds in gaining investment from Screen Australia at its October board meeting.
Caton will play a character named Rex, who is an amalgam of Bell and Dent. Ningali Lawford has been cast as Polly,...
- 9/18/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Stephen Van Mil.s Impian Films will produce The Damned, a film based on the true story of two Western Australian teenagers who murdered a girl they had befriended.
Reg Cribb has written the screenplay based on his 2011 play. Andrew Lewis, who directed the play for the Black Swan State Theatre Company, will make his feature directing debut.
Lewis is associate professor at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. Cribb and Lewis received development funding from Screen West before Van Mil became involved.
Van Mil describes the subject as .confronting,. viewing it as an essay on disaffected young people.
The play is based on a case in 2006, looking at two16-year-old girls who lived in the town of Collie. They befriended a girl of the same age; the victim was strangled. The girls subsequently walked into police stations 250 km apart, confessed to the crime and...
Reg Cribb has written the screenplay based on his 2011 play. Andrew Lewis, who directed the play for the Black Swan State Theatre Company, will make his feature directing debut.
Lewis is associate professor at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. Cribb and Lewis received development funding from Screen West before Van Mil became involved.
Van Mil describes the subject as .confronting,. viewing it as an essay on disaffected young people.
The play is based on a case in 2006, looking at two16-year-old girls who lived in the town of Collie. They befriended a girl of the same age; the victim was strangled. The girls subsequently walked into police stations 250 km apart, confessed to the crime and...
- 7/19/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Wolf Creek director Greg McLean has received development support from Screen Australia for a new film set in Vietnam.
McLean’s project Black Echoes is among 13 projects to have been selected in the latest round of funding from the national screen agency.
Set in in the Vietnamese countryside, the film is about a group of tourists who go on an adventure into Viet Cong tunnels more claustrophic and scary than the famous Cu Chi tunnels.
Other projects to receive funding include The Outrageous Barry Rush, directed by Red Dog’s Kriv Stenders, written by Andy Cox and produced by Alan Harris, The Dressmaker by written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and produced by Sue Maslin and the sequel to last year’s online hit, The Tunnel, called The Tunnel: Dead End by Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey.
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McLean’s project Black Echoes is among 13 projects to have been selected in the latest round of funding from the national screen agency.
Set in in the Vietnamese countryside, the film is about a group of tourists who go on an adventure into Viet Cong tunnels more claustrophic and scary than the famous Cu Chi tunnels.
Other projects to receive funding include The Outrageous Barry Rush, directed by Red Dog’s Kriv Stenders, written by Andy Cox and produced by Alan Harris, The Dressmaker by written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and produced by Sue Maslin and the sequel to last year’s online hit, The Tunnel, called The Tunnel: Dead End by Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey.
Single-project Development: Feature Development
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Genre Romantic Comedy
Producers Bruna Papandrea, Cristina Pozzan...
- 3/2/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The story of Australia’s most famous gold heist is due to premiere on TV on 11 March.
Nine has announced The Great Mint Swindle produced by Cordell Jigsaw will air Sunday 11 March at 8:30pm.
Directed by Geoff Bennett and written by Reg Cribb and Paul Bennett, the telemovie based on real events, stars Grant Bowler, Tod Lasance and Josh Quong Tart as brothers Ray, Peter and Brian Mickelberg, three Perth brothers accused of orchestrating the robbery of 49 gold bars from the city’s mint.
Filmed around Perth and Fremantle, the project carries an estimated $3m budget.
It’s the first of a string of high profile, factual telemovies expected for Nine including Beaconsfield about the Tasmanian mining disaster, Howzat based around the rise of Kerry Packer’s International One Day Test series.
This week Cordell Jigsaw announced a merger with Andrew Denton and Anita Jacoby’s Zapruder’s Other Films,...
Nine has announced The Great Mint Swindle produced by Cordell Jigsaw will air Sunday 11 March at 8:30pm.
Directed by Geoff Bennett and written by Reg Cribb and Paul Bennett, the telemovie based on real events, stars Grant Bowler, Tod Lasance and Josh Quong Tart as brothers Ray, Peter and Brian Mickelberg, three Perth brothers accused of orchestrating the robbery of 49 gold bars from the city’s mint.
Filmed around Perth and Fremantle, the project carries an estimated $3m budget.
It’s the first of a string of high profile, factual telemovies expected for Nine including Beaconsfield about the Tasmanian mining disaster, Howzat based around the rise of Kerry Packer’s International One Day Test series.
This week Cordell Jigsaw announced a merger with Andrew Denton and Anita Jacoby’s Zapruder’s Other Films,...
- 3/2/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
A sequel to last year.s successful low-budget horror film The Tunnel is currently in the works.
The sequel . titled The Tunnel: Dead End . received development funding from Screen Australia earlier this month and will pick up the story years down the track. No shoot date has been set for the horror flick.
It.s a sequel creators Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey weren.t planning on. .Initially, we weren.t anticipating doing another Tunnel film but the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the original . as well as our fans clamouring for another on an almost daily basis . made us go back and give it a second thought,. Tedeschi and Harvey, of Distracted Media, said in a joint statement.
.We weren't going to go ahead unless we could find a story we were 100 per cent behind, which we now have, and are thrilled to have the support of Screen Australia.
The sequel . titled The Tunnel: Dead End . received development funding from Screen Australia earlier this month and will pick up the story years down the track. No shoot date has been set for the horror flick.
It.s a sequel creators Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey weren.t planning on. .Initially, we weren.t anticipating doing another Tunnel film but the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the original . as well as our fans clamouring for another on an almost daily basis . made us go back and give it a second thought,. Tedeschi and Harvey, of Distracted Media, said in a joint statement.
.We weren't going to go ahead unless we could find a story we were 100 per cent behind, which we now have, and are thrilled to have the support of Screen Australia.
- 2/29/2012
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
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
Bran Nue Dae, directed by Rachel Perkins and written by Ms. Perkins, Mr. Chi and Reg Cribb, follows the rebellious odyssey of Willie (Rocky McKenzie), a goody-goody Aboriginal teenager who runs away from the Catholic boarding school in Perth where he is the pet student of its insufferably paternalistic priest, Father Benedictus (a silly Geoffrey Rush).
Once Willie flees, Bran Nue Dae turns into a singing and dancing road movie whose Oz-like destination is his hometown of Broome, 3,000 miles away in western Australia. Father Benedictus, who gives chase in his Mercedes, suffers sundry comic humiliations while on the road. To reach Broome, Willie teams up with Annie (Missy Higgins) and Slippery (Tom Budge), a hippie couple in a van winding their way through the Australian outback.
Accompanying them is Uncle Tadpole (Ernie Dingo), a free-spirited old drunk whom Willie meets at a homeless camp. Tadpole might be described as the story.s tipsy,...
Once Willie flees, Bran Nue Dae turns into a singing and dancing road movie whose Oz-like destination is his hometown of Broome, 3,000 miles away in western Australia. Father Benedictus, who gives chase in his Mercedes, suffers sundry comic humiliations while on the road. To reach Broome, Willie teams up with Annie (Missy Higgins) and Slippery (Tom Budge), a hippie couple in a van winding their way through the Australian outback.
Accompanying them is Uncle Tadpole (Ernie Dingo), a free-spirited old drunk whom Willie meets at a homeless camp. Tadpole might be described as the story.s tipsy,...
- 9/14/2010
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"Bran Nue Dae" starring Geoffrey Rush, will be distributed on U.S. soil via Freestyle Releasing. The Australian musical will see a platform release in September and then followed by a nationwide rollout. Film is based on a successful Australian stage musical and helmed by Rachel Perkins ("One Night the Moon"). The story follows the romantic adventures of a young Aboriginal couple. Also starring are Jessica Mauboy (2008 "Australian Idol" winner), Magda Szubanski, Rocky Mackenzie and Missy Higgins. Musical is a hit in Australia and premiered in the U.S. at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Perkins and Reg Cribb co-wrote. Music is by Jimmy Chi, Kuckles, Patrick Suttoo Bin Amat, Michael Manolis Mavromatis and Stephen Pigram. Robyn Kershaw produced.
- 6/23/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Rachel Perkins and Reg Cribb's musical romp "Bran Nue Dae" has a deal with Freestyle Releasing for Us theatrical distribution, it was announced today. Freestyle plans a select theater release for the film this September, followed by a nationwide rollout. Starring Geoffrey Rush, the musical is based on an Australian stage musical of the same name, and centers around the romantic adventures of a young Aboriginal couple. The film has already ...
- 6/23/2010
- Indiewire
Freestyle Releasing will distribute the Australian musical "Bran Nue Dae," starring Geoffrey Rush, in the U.S. It will begin with a platform release in September, followed by a nationwide rollout.
Its marketing will be overseen by Cinemarket's Peter D. Graves in conjunction with specialized film veteran Steven Raphael's Required Viewing.
Based on a successful Australian stage musical, the movie, directed by Rachel Perkins, revolves around the romantic adventures of a young Aboriginal couple.
Along with Rush, it stars Jessica Mauboy (winner of the 2008 edition of "Australian Idol"), Rocky Mackenzie, Magda Szubanski and singer-songwriter Missy Higgins.
A hit at the Australian boxoffice, the indigenous musical has grossed more than $7.5 million. It had its U.S. premiere at January's Sundance Film Festival.
Financed by Omnilab Media, "Dae" was co-written by Perkins and Reg Cribb and features music by Jimmy Chi, Kuckles, Patrick Suttoo Bin Amat, Michael Manolis Mavromatis and Stephen Pigram.
Its marketing will be overseen by Cinemarket's Peter D. Graves in conjunction with specialized film veteran Steven Raphael's Required Viewing.
Based on a successful Australian stage musical, the movie, directed by Rachel Perkins, revolves around the romantic adventures of a young Aboriginal couple.
Along with Rush, it stars Jessica Mauboy (winner of the 2008 edition of "Australian Idol"), Rocky Mackenzie, Magda Szubanski and singer-songwriter Missy Higgins.
A hit at the Australian boxoffice, the indigenous musical has grossed more than $7.5 million. It had its U.S. premiere at January's Sundance Film Festival.
Financed by Omnilab Media, "Dae" was co-written by Perkins and Reg Cribb and features music by Jimmy Chi, Kuckles, Patrick Suttoo Bin Amat, Michael Manolis Mavromatis and Stephen Pigram.
- 6/22/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Spotlight section (replacing the awkward Spectrum sidebar) is a place where the festival will showcase some great finds on the festival circuit. And let me tell you, there is some great stuff here especially with Tiff/Venice titles such as I am Love, Lourdes, Mother & Child, A Prophet and Women Without Men. - The Spotlight section (replacing the awkward Spectrum sidebar) is a place where the festival will showcase some great finds on the festival circuit. And let me tell you, there is some great stuff here especially with Tiff/Venice titles such as I am Love, Lourdes, Mother & Child, A Prophet and Women Without Men. The list includes some Cannes fair in Safdie Bros.' Daddy Longlegs (formerly known as Go Get Some Rosemary) and Noe's Enter the Void. Having already seen a good number of these pics, also means, less films for me to worry about.
- 12/13/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
On Wednesday the Sundance Film Festival unveiled the films competing in late January 2010. Yesterday they announced the rest of the line-up of independent films vying for attention for industry types and the curious public.
The entire list of 53 films is below, but here are a few that stood out to me from the premieres alone:
Mumblecore directors the Duplass Brothers, have a new, untitled movie starring an unusually high-profile cast compared to their usual improvisational crew. John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, and Catherine Keener. Reilly and Keener are actually in two films at the 2010 festival.
The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Rosemarie DeWitt about corporate downsizing.
Rodrigo Cortes’ Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds as a man buried alive in a coffin. I’ve read the script and its great. More on that as soon as I can.
The Runaways, the...
The entire list of 53 films is below, but here are a few that stood out to me from the premieres alone:
Mumblecore directors the Duplass Brothers, have a new, untitled movie starring an unusually high-profile cast compared to their usual improvisational crew. John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, and Catherine Keener. Reilly and Keener are actually in two films at the 2010 festival.
The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Rosemarie DeWitt about corporate downsizing.
Rodrigo Cortes’ Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds as a man buried alive in a coffin. I’ve read the script and its great. More on that as soon as I can.
The Runaways, the...
- 12/5/2009
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Sundance 2010: Spotlight (Narrative) Sylvie Testud in Lourdes Film info from the Sundance press release. Bran Nue Dae / Australia (Director: Rachel Perkins; Screenwriters: Reg Cribb, Rachel Perkins, and Jimmy Chi) — In the summer of 1965, a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome — fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. Cast: Rocky McKenzie, Jessica Mauboy, Geoffrey Rush, Ernie Dingo. U.S. Premiere Daddy Longlegs / USA (Directors and Screenwriters: Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie) — A swan song to excuses and responsibilities, to fatherhood and self-created experiences, and to what it’s like to be truly torn between being a child and being an [...]...
- 12/4/2009
- by Michele Colbert
- Alt Film Guide
We are 49 days out and counting down to Sundance 2010. Yesterday, we unveiled the list of competition films for the upcoming festival. Today, we have your list of out-of-competition films which include Premieres, Spotlight, New Frontier, and, my personal favorite, Park City at Midnight, which has featured past entries like Black Dynamite, The Descent, and Saw.
Check out next year’s lineup for the out-of-competition films:
Premieres
To showcase the diversity to contemporary independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section offers the latest work from American and international directors as well as world premieres of highly anticipated films. Presented by Entertainment Weekly.
Abel / Mexico, USA (Director: Diego Luna; Screenwriters: Diego Luna and Agusto Mendoza)–A peculiar young boy, blurring reality and fantasy, assumes the responsibilities of a family man in his father’s absence. Cast: Jose Maria Yazpik, Karina Gidi, Carlos Aragon, Christopher Ruiz-Esparza, Gerardo Ruiz-Esparza. World Premiere
Cane Toads:...
Check out next year’s lineup for the out-of-competition films:
Premieres
To showcase the diversity to contemporary independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section offers the latest work from American and international directors as well as world premieres of highly anticipated films. Presented by Entertainment Weekly.
Abel / Mexico, USA (Director: Diego Luna; Screenwriters: Diego Luna and Agusto Mendoza)–A peculiar young boy, blurring reality and fantasy, assumes the responsibilities of a family man in his father’s absence. Cast: Jose Maria Yazpik, Karina Gidi, Carlos Aragon, Christopher Ruiz-Esparza, Gerardo Ruiz-Esparza. World Premiere
Cane Toads:...
- 12/4/2009
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Yesterday we got the list for the films playing in competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and today we get the rest of the films that will be featured and there are quite a few that make 2010 look much stronger based on pedigree alone than I have seen in quite some time. Variety has a big write-up detailing the categories and more on the festival right here, but I am just going to offer up the titles and let you sort it all out.
The titles already in the RopeofSilicon database are linked.
Premieres
All films are from the United States unless otherwise noted Abel (Mexico-u.S.), the directorial debut of actor Diego Luna, written by Luna and Agusto Mendoza, about a peculiar young boy who, as he blurs reality and fantasy, takes over the responsibilities of a family man in his father's absence. With Jose Maria Yazpik, Karina Gidi,...
The titles already in the RopeofSilicon database are linked.
Premieres
All films are from the United States unless otherwise noted Abel (Mexico-u.S.), the directorial debut of actor Diego Luna, written by Luna and Agusto Mendoza, about a peculiar young boy who, as he blurs reality and fantasy, takes over the responsibilities of a family man in his father's absence. With Jose Maria Yazpik, Karina Gidi,...
- 12/3/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
In addition to the competition titles which were announced yesterday, Sundance has announced the remainder of their line-up and it includes some titles we’re already familiar with along with a huge number of premieres.
Also on the docket are two new series: Next which showcases low/no budget films and Spotlight which highlights films which festival programmers deem worthy of extra love including Enter the Void (review) and Lourdes (the trailer for which I really liked).
I’m particularly excited to see some of the titles in the New Frontier program but overall, the line-up is an impressive one but the Kristen Stewart fan in me is excited to see her turn as Joan Jett in The Runaways and I think it’s fair to say we’re all dying to see Vincenzo Natali’s hotly anticipated Splice (trailer).
In the Midnight section, Adam Green's Frozen is sounding mighty find,...
Also on the docket are two new series: Next which showcases low/no budget films and Spotlight which highlights films which festival programmers deem worthy of extra love including Enter the Void (review) and Lourdes (the trailer for which I really liked).
I’m particularly excited to see some of the titles in the New Frontier program but overall, the line-up is an impressive one but the Kristen Stewart fan in me is excited to see her turn as Joan Jett in The Runaways and I think it’s fair to say we’re all dying to see Vincenzo Natali’s hotly anticipated Splice (trailer).
In the Midnight section, Adam Green's Frozen is sounding mighty find,...
- 12/3/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Sundance released their slate for 2010. It includes:43 documentaries on the Middle East12 films about friends who 'discover' something33 movies about people you've never heard about1 comedyHopefully the lineup this year is strong but it doesn't look that way compared to last year. Last year we had Push (Precious), that Lil Wayne documentary that never went anywhere, Mystery Team which might make my top ten, Moon, Mike Tyson documentary, Cold Souls. Just so much last January that was excellent. I hope I don't go out therer and freeze my tail off just to see...I don't know, a documentary about a former Pakistani prime minister or something silly like that.Here's the lineup so far: Premieres To showcase the diversity to contemporary independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section offers the latest work from American and international directors as well as world premieres of highly anticipated films. Presented by Entertainment Weekly.
- 12/3/2009
- LRMonline.com
From the Sundance Institute: “New for 2010, the Spotlight section is a tribute to the cinema we love. Regardless of where these impressive films have played throughout the world, the Sundance Film Festival is thrilled to light a marquee for them.” Narrative Bran Nue Dae/Australia (Director: Rachel Perkins; Screenwriters: Reg Cribb, Rachel Perkins and Jimmy Chi)—In the summer of 1965, a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic …...
- 12/3/2009
- Indiewire
The Sundance Film Festival's competition lineup for 2010, announced Wednesday, might demand that audiences wear their serious caps. But the out-of-competition selections allow programmers and viewers to cut loose a little.
The 53 films that populate this year's Premieres, Next, Spotlight, Park City at Midnight and New Frontier sections run the gamut from the cosmically experimental to the star-studded and silly. There is indeed something for everyone at this year's event, which runs Jan. 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
As usual, Premieres collects work involving the industry's higher-profile talent, none more so than John Wells' feature directorial debut, "The Company Men," which stars Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper. Mexican actor Diego Luna's directorial debut, "Abel," will screen, as will Philip Seymour Hoffman's "Jack Goes Boating."
Michael Winterbottom has the rare distinction of having two films in...
The 53 films that populate this year's Premieres, Next, Spotlight, Park City at Midnight and New Frontier sections run the gamut from the cosmically experimental to the star-studded and silly. There is indeed something for everyone at this year's event, which runs Jan. 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
As usual, Premieres collects work involving the industry's higher-profile talent, none more so than John Wells' feature directorial debut, "The Company Men," which stars Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper. Mexican actor Diego Luna's directorial debut, "Abel," will screen, as will Philip Seymour Hoffman's "Jack Goes Boating."
Michael Winterbottom has the rare distinction of having two films in...
- 12/3/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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