A spin-off of High Maintenance, starring Yael Stone, and a comedic crime series from Jungle Entertainment are among the 21 projects that will share in more than $600,000 in story development funding from Screen Australia.
The slate includes 14 feature films, six television dramas and an online project, with 11 titles supported through the Generate Fund and 10 through the Premium Fund.
Screen Australia’s head of development Nerida Moore, who will depart the agency in December after nine years, said she felt privileged to support more many creative projects and people during the time she has left in the role.
“This is an exciting mix of projects and it’s great to support creatives expand on their careers and take on new challenges, including producer Alex White working on her first TV series, and writer Arka Das and writer/director Hannah Hilliard on their debut feature films,” he said.
“The shared vision we are...
The slate includes 14 feature films, six television dramas and an online project, with 11 titles supported through the Generate Fund and 10 through the Premium Fund.
Screen Australia’s head of development Nerida Moore, who will depart the agency in December after nine years, said she felt privileged to support more many creative projects and people during the time she has left in the role.
“This is an exciting mix of projects and it’s great to support creatives expand on their careers and take on new challenges, including producer Alex White working on her first TV series, and writer Arka Das and writer/director Hannah Hilliard on their debut feature films,” he said.
“The shared vision we are...
- 10/18/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The Sessions writer-director Ben Lewin is attached to helm Blue Rose, a biopic about the self-described .sex crazed. Australian composer and pianist Percy Grainger.
La-based Jeffrey Walker will return to Oz a to direct Dance Academy: The Comeback., a spin-off of Werner Film Productions. popular TV series, which will follow a young ballerina who dreams of being a star.
Following Ruin and Hail, Amiel Courtin-Wilson is to write, produce and direct Hawkwood, a thriller set in the backwaters of Africa which tells of ageing mercenary.s journey from chaos to grace.
These are among 16 feature projects which are receiving more than $620,000 in development funding from Screen Australia.
Lewin will write Blue Rose with Wain Fimeri for producers Chryssy Tintner, Jan Eymann, Judi Levine and Arclight.s Mark Lazarus and Gary Hamilton. His next film is Us indie romantic drama Purple Hearts, which will star Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez...
La-based Jeffrey Walker will return to Oz a to direct Dance Academy: The Comeback., a spin-off of Werner Film Productions. popular TV series, which will follow a young ballerina who dreams of being a star.
Following Ruin and Hail, Amiel Courtin-Wilson is to write, produce and direct Hawkwood, a thriller set in the backwaters of Africa which tells of ageing mercenary.s journey from chaos to grace.
These are among 16 feature projects which are receiving more than $620,000 in development funding from Screen Australia.
Lewin will write Blue Rose with Wain Fimeri for producers Chryssy Tintner, Jan Eymann, Judi Levine and Arclight.s Mark Lazarus and Gary Hamilton. His next film is Us indie romantic drama Purple Hearts, which will star Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez...
- 4/21/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Documentaries on the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, mining uranium and road train drivers traversing the Outback have received funding from Screen Australia.
Other recipients of the International Documentary Program are a second series of ABC-tv.s Redesign My Brain and Death or Liberty, an account of how political radicals exiled to Australia in the 19th century helped to create the world's first true democracy.
All told the agency is investing more than $1.7 million in the five projects, triggering more than $6.8 million worth of production.
.With two single-hour projects, two series and a feature-length project funded this round, it is a strong and diverse finish for the end of the financial year,. said Liz Stevens, Screen Australia senior manager documentary.
.In addition, working with international partners is a great way to grow the pie for Australian producers. These producers will work with American, Irish, English and German broadcasters on some exceptional programs.
Other recipients of the International Documentary Program are a second series of ABC-tv.s Redesign My Brain and Death or Liberty, an account of how political radicals exiled to Australia in the 19th century helped to create the world's first true democracy.
All told the agency is investing more than $1.7 million in the five projects, triggering more than $6.8 million worth of production.
.With two single-hour projects, two series and a feature-length project funded this round, it is a strong and diverse finish for the end of the financial year,. said Liz Stevens, Screen Australia senior manager documentary.
.In addition, working with international partners is a great way to grow the pie for Australian producers. These producers will work with American, Irish, English and German broadcasters on some exceptional programs.
- 4/22/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Daniel Nettheim’s The Hunter is a dark, brooding film that depends just as much on scenes of silence as it does on scenes of dialogue. Half of the film is simply a man hunting in the woods, setting traps and trying to find signs of his prey, while the other half incorporates a more human element into the story. Both of these are interesting parts of the story, which makes it unfortunate when they don’t end up getting put together particularly well.
Martin David (Willem Dafoe) has been hired by a company to travel to the outback of Tasmania, Australia in order to hunt the last known Tasmanian Tiger from which he’s supposed to collect samples and then destroy the rest. While there, he stays with Lucy (Frances O’Connor) and her two kids. Lucy’s husband mysteriously disappeared in the wilderness not long before Martin’s arrival,...
Martin David (Willem Dafoe) has been hired by a company to travel to the outback of Tasmania, Australia in order to hunt the last known Tasmanian Tiger from which he’s supposed to collect samples and then destroy the rest. While there, he stays with Lucy (Frances O’Connor) and her two kids. Lucy’s husband mysteriously disappeared in the wilderness not long before Martin’s arrival,...
- 7/3/2012
- by Jeff Beck
- We Got This Covered
Director: Daniel Nettheim. Writers: Julia Leigh, Alice Addison, and Wain Fimeri. Cast: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Frances O'Connor, Callan Mulvey, and Sullivan Stapleton. The Hunter is a film that will likely create some strong emotions in viewers. There is a haunting soundtrack that fills some of the painful scenes. Much of that pain is seen by Martin played by Willem Dafoe. He is a man in search of the last remaining Tasmanian Tiger. His dealings with bipedal creatures are perhaps more dangerous than hunting this elusive beast. The film begins with Martin contracted to find the tiger in the deep Tasmanian brush. A pharmaceutical company wants the creature's DNA for research and study. The clash between capitalism and preservation begins early. Martin then heads out on his hunting trip after meeting with the Armstrong family. The father of the clan is missing and the mother is too depressed from grief to wake.
- 6/15/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Sam Worthington has kinda fallen off the map after breaking out in "Avatar," with a few indies ("The Debt," "Man On A Ledge") and the whole 'Clash Of The Titans' thing not exactly raising his profile -- though the latter probably bought him a new house or two. He does have a '70s surfing-drama, "Drift," on the way, but it looks like he's now getting behind a project closer to home, signing up to co-produce and possibly star in a cable miniseries depicting the Wwi Battle Of Gallipoli that teamed Australia, New Zealand and British forces to capture Istanbul.
Set up with Aussie cable TV platform Foxtel, the project is being plotted as a six-hour mini-series that will chronicle how a team of Australian and English journalists who covered the infamous World War I battle in Gallipoli were instrumental in the decision to end the campaign against Turkish forces.
Set up with Aussie cable TV platform Foxtel, the project is being plotted as a six-hour mini-series that will chronicle how a team of Australian and English journalists who covered the infamous World War I battle in Gallipoli were instrumental in the decision to end the campaign against Turkish forces.
- 6/14/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
Matchbox Pictures will produce a new six-hour mini-series about Australian and English journalists covering the battle of Gallipoli with actor Sam Worthington to co-produce, and possibly star in. Among the journalists to be portrayed is Keith Murdoch, father of Rupert Murdoch.
Keith Murdoch’s endeavours in covering Gallipoli is near legendary, credited in some quarters with being a turning point in what had been a badly run campaign.
Penny Chapman of Matchbox Pictures, producers of The Slap and The Straits, told Encore Worthington and his FullClip Productions partner John Schwarz brought the project to NBCUniversal which FullClip is in talks with on other productions, and which owns a major interest in Matchbox Pictures.
The untitled project has received development funding by Foxtel.
The mini-series follows three embedded journalists who see the war going wrong but can’t report on it; Charles Bean, British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett and Rupert Murdoch...
Keith Murdoch’s endeavours in covering Gallipoli is near legendary, credited in some quarters with being a turning point in what had been a badly run campaign.
Penny Chapman of Matchbox Pictures, producers of The Slap and The Straits, told Encore Worthington and his FullClip Productions partner John Schwarz brought the project to NBCUniversal which FullClip is in talks with on other productions, and which owns a major interest in Matchbox Pictures.
The untitled project has received development funding by Foxtel.
The mini-series follows three embedded journalists who see the war going wrong but can’t report on it; Charles Bean, British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett and Rupert Murdoch...
- 6/14/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Sam Worthington will co-produce and potentially star in a six-hour miniseries dealing with a group of journalists who covered the famous failed Wwi Gallipoli campaign reports Deadline.
Over almost a year of fighting took place on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in 1915 as a joint British and French operation set out to capture Constantinople from the control of the Ottoman Empire.
The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on both sides. It was also the first major battle undertaken by the Anzacs (the Australian and New Zealand armies).
The story of the mini will follow a team of Australian and English journalists who covered the battle and were instrumental in the decision to end the campaign against Turkish forces.
FullClip and Matchbox Pictures will produce for cable provider Foxtel which commissioned the series. Foxtel is owned by Rupert Murdoch who also happens to be the son of one of the aforementioned journalists - Keith Murdoch.
Over almost a year of fighting took place on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in 1915 as a joint British and French operation set out to capture Constantinople from the control of the Ottoman Empire.
The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on both sides. It was also the first major battle undertaken by the Anzacs (the Australian and New Zealand armies).
The story of the mini will follow a team of Australian and English journalists who covered the battle and were instrumental in the decision to end the campaign against Turkish forces.
FullClip and Matchbox Pictures will produce for cable provider Foxtel which commissioned the series. Foxtel is owned by Rupert Murdoch who also happens to be the son of one of the aforementioned journalists - Keith Murdoch.
- 6/13/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Freelance journalist Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney Sam Worthington will co-produce and possibly star in a six-hour miniseries that chronicles how a team of Australian and English journalists who covered the infamous World War I battle in Gallipoli were instrumental in the decision to end the campaign against Turkish forces. Worthington’s production company FullClip will produce with Matchbox Pictures, part-owned by NBCUniversal International Television Production, which has first and last rights on all Matchbox’s output. Australian pay-tv platform Foxtel, part-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, commissioned the mini, which is due to go into production in the second half of 2013 and will air in Australia in 2015 — which marks the 100th anniversary of the Turkey-set battle. Among the casualties were 43,000 British troops, 15,000 French, 8,700 Australians and 2,700 New Zealanders. Co-incidentally, one of the journalists involved was Keith Murdoch, Rupert’s father. Matchbox’s Penny Chapman tells...
- 6/13/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Directed by: Daniel Nettheim
Written by: Alice Addison and Wain Fimeri, from the book by Julia Leigh
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor, Sam Neill
The Hunter gets lost in a wilderness of its own self-importance.
It’s a scenic wilderness. I’ll give it that much. The Hunter director, Daniel Nettheim, uses his camera lens as a love-letter to Tasmania’s wilds.
If he, or the script by Alice Addison and Wain Fimeri, paid half as much affection to human behavior, The Hunter would have been a swell film.
Instead, majestic actors shamble through threadbare character studies, serving only to nudge forward a plot that frays under the weight of its own message. That, not the demise of the Tasmanian tiger, is the real tragedy of The Hunter: Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor and Sam Neill pitting their ferocious talent to the task of filling their empty archetypes with some human character,...
Written by: Alice Addison and Wain Fimeri, from the book by Julia Leigh
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor, Sam Neill
The Hunter gets lost in a wilderness of its own self-importance.
It’s a scenic wilderness. I’ll give it that much. The Hunter director, Daniel Nettheim, uses his camera lens as a love-letter to Tasmania’s wilds.
If he, or the script by Alice Addison and Wain Fimeri, paid half as much affection to human behavior, The Hunter would have been a swell film.
Instead, majestic actors shamble through threadbare character studies, serving only to nudge forward a plot that frays under the weight of its own message. That, not the demise of the Tasmanian tiger, is the real tragedy of The Hunter: Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor and Sam Neill pitting their ferocious talent to the task of filling their empty archetypes with some human character,...
- 2/28/2012
- by M C Funk
- Planet Fury
Sound On Sight will once again be covering the SXSW Film Festival this year, making it our second time attending. 130 feature films will screen at the Austin, Texas fest taking place March 9-17, including 65 World Premieres, 17 North American Premieres and 10 U.S. Premieres. As previously announced, Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods will have the honours of opening the festival, and now they have released the full list of films – and it’s looking pretty amazing. Enjoy!
Narrative Feature Competition
This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,112 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are:
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted.
Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty, Brian McGrail (World Premiere)
Eden
Director: Megan Griffiths,...
Narrative Feature Competition
This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,112 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are:
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted.
Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty, Brian McGrail (World Premiere)
Eden
Director: Megan Griffiths,...
- 2/3/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry, shot by Bob Gruen in 1977
Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
screens as part of 24 Beats per Second
SXSW Film has just announced its features lineup for the 2012 edition, running March 9 through 17. We already knew that the Opening Night Film would be Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods. For its Closing Night Film, the festival will host the world premiere of of Emmett Malloy’s documentary Big Easy Express (more below). The lineup, with descriptions from the festival:
Narrative Feature Competition
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin. When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty, Brian McGrail. (World Premiere)
Eden
Director: Megan Griffiths, Screenwriters: Richard B. Phillips, Megan Griffiths, Story by: Richard B. Phillips & Chong Kim.
Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
screens as part of 24 Beats per Second
SXSW Film has just announced its features lineup for the 2012 edition, running March 9 through 17. We already knew that the Opening Night Film would be Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods. For its Closing Night Film, the festival will host the world premiere of of Emmett Malloy’s documentary Big Easy Express (more below). The lineup, with descriptions from the festival:
Narrative Feature Competition
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin. When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty, Brian McGrail. (World Premiere)
Eden
Director: Megan Griffiths, Screenwriters: Richard B. Phillips, Megan Griffiths, Story by: Richard B. Phillips & Chong Kim.
- 2/1/2012
- MUBI
With Sundance 2012 Film Festival over, the next big one on the horizon is South by Southwest, which we’ll be heavily covering. The biggest chunk of the line-up has been announced today, which has some great premieres including 21 Jump Street, Tiff and Sundance hit The Raid, Will Ferrell‘s Casa de mi Padre, the documentary Girl Model (which we liked at Tiff), as well as the next from Broken Lizard, The Babymakers. There are many other promising titles included and you can see them all below. Check back for our coverage for the fest, kicking off March 9th.
Narrative Feature Competition
This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,112 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are:
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted.
Narrative Feature Competition
This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,112 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are:
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted.
- 2/1/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
South by Southwest, the annual festival held in Austin, TX, has just released its 2012 film lineup. Headliners include Joss Whedon's anticipated horror flick, "The Cabin in the Woods," (previously announced), '80s reboot "21 Jump Street" and black comedy "Killer Joe." Also on the list are "The Babymakers" starring Paul Schneider and Olivia Munn, and "Small Apartments" with the surprising trio of Billy Crystal, James Caan and Johnny Knoxville. You can check out the rest of the bigger headliners and feature films below. For the full list, head to SXSW.com. Headliners 21 Jump Street Directed by: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, Screenplay by: Michael Bacall, Story by: Michael Bacall & Jonah Hill Police officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) get sent back to high school as undercover cops in the action-comedy 21 Jump Street. Cast: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle, with Ice Cube (World Premiere) Big Easy...
- 2/1/2012
- by Alex Suskind
- Moviefone
Attendees of South by Southwest 2012 are in for a treat. 130 feature films will screen at the Austin, Texas festival taking place March 9-17. Among them are 65 World Premieres, 17 North American Premieres and 10 U.S. Premieres. The organization already announced [1] Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods would open the festival (the movie is phenomenal [2]) and today the majority of the remaining line up has been revealed. One of the highlights is the unbelievably smart and hilarious 21 Jump Street, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller. Both of those are World Premieres. Other highlights include The Hunter, Killer Joe, The Babymakers, frankie goes boom, God Bless America, The Imposter, The Raid, Bernie and Casa de mi Padre just to name a few. After the jump, read descriptions of all the films that have been announced so far. Before I copy and paste the rest of the list, a few minor notes.
- 2/1/2012
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Screen Australia has announced a new round of funding for 18 filmmaking teams to develop feature projects including teams led by producer Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech), director Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) and director Gillian Armstrong.
The funding totals $500,000.
Sherman is working with Clayton Jacobsen (Kenny) to develop crime film The Docks with writers Jamie Browne and Kris Mrksa.
Auteur director and cancer sufferer Paul Cox is working with executive producer Shaun Miller and producer Maggie Miles to develop his own memoir Tales from the Cancer Ward into drama script Force of Destiny.
Screen Australia also continues its investment in producer Marian Macgowan’s The Great, with writer Tony McNamara and director Gillian Armstrong on the adaptation of McNamara’s play of the same name.
Red Dog director Kriv Stenders works with his Lucky Country writer Andy Cox to develop their comic romance script F*****! A Romance.
Screen Australia has...
The funding totals $500,000.
Sherman is working with Clayton Jacobsen (Kenny) to develop crime film The Docks with writers Jamie Browne and Kris Mrksa.
Auteur director and cancer sufferer Paul Cox is working with executive producer Shaun Miller and producer Maggie Miles to develop his own memoir Tales from the Cancer Ward into drama script Force of Destiny.
Screen Australia also continues its investment in producer Marian Macgowan’s The Great, with writer Tony McNamara and director Gillian Armstrong on the adaptation of McNamara’s play of the same name.
Red Dog director Kriv Stenders works with his Lucky Country writer Andy Cox to develop their comic romance script F*****! A Romance.
Screen Australia has...
- 12/12/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has invested $2.4m across seven documentaries to create what it says will be $6.5m worth of production.
Cordell Jigsaw will return with a second series of Sbs’s successful Go Back to Where You Came From to test six Australians about their preconcieved notions of asylum seekers by visiting refugees from regions not previously covered.
Producer Tristram Miall and writer/director Robin Hughes will create a six-part series called Creative Minds, exploring the lives of six Australia artists who have significantly contributed to the nation’s cultural landscape.
Using the ‘new science of happiness’ principles, experts will see if science can help couples save their relationships in Making Couples Happy, a four-part ABC series.
Photographer Murray Fredericks captures the Greenland Icecap in Nothing on Earth, produced, directed and written by the team behind award winning documentary, Salt.
Coming out of the National Documentary Program, Raising the Curtain traces...
Cordell Jigsaw will return with a second series of Sbs’s successful Go Back to Where You Came From to test six Australians about their preconcieved notions of asylum seekers by visiting refugees from regions not previously covered.
Producer Tristram Miall and writer/director Robin Hughes will create a six-part series called Creative Minds, exploring the lives of six Australia artists who have significantly contributed to the nation’s cultural landscape.
Using the ‘new science of happiness’ principles, experts will see if science can help couples save their relationships in Making Couples Happy, a four-part ABC series.
Photographer Murray Fredericks captures the Greenland Icecap in Nothing on Earth, produced, directed and written by the team behind award winning documentary, Salt.
Coming out of the National Documentary Program, Raising the Curtain traces...
- 10/12/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Hunting the mythical existence of an animal declared extinct, the filmic adaptation of Julia Leigh’s novel, The Hunter sees Willem Dafoe turn in a tense performance while showing off Tasmania’s striking landscape. Colin Delaney spoke with director Daniel Nettheim and producer Vincent Sheehan.
Set in the wilds of Tasmania, The Hunter follows the covert operation of an international mercenary on the trail of the extinct-turned-mythical Tasmanian tiger. Played tempered yet tense by Willem Dafoe, Martin David is the mysterious hunter, under the guise as a university researcher, seeking the animal for its paralysing poison to use in bio-weaponry.
Based on a novel by Julia Leigh published in 1999, the reclusive tiger represents a catalyst for hope and change. The aging David seeks redemption out of his kill. Lucy, the hillbilly single mother (Frances O’Connor) of two who David stays with, sees a new father-figure for her children, while...
Set in the wilds of Tasmania, The Hunter follows the covert operation of an international mercenary on the trail of the extinct-turned-mythical Tasmanian tiger. Played tempered yet tense by Willem Dafoe, Martin David is the mysterious hunter, under the guise as a university researcher, seeking the animal for its paralysing poison to use in bio-weaponry.
Based on a novel by Julia Leigh published in 1999, the reclusive tiger represents a catalyst for hope and change. The aging David seeks redemption out of his kill. Lucy, the hillbilly single mother (Frances O’Connor) of two who David stays with, sees a new father-figure for her children, while...
- 10/7/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
This week, a teaser trailer for Daniel Nettheim‘s The Hunter, starring Willem Dafoe, hit the web. The Tiff-bound film is based on a novel from Julia Leigh, who made her own film debut this year with the Emily Browning-starring Sleeping Beauty. A pair of scribes — Alice Addison and Wain Fimeri — are credited with adapting Leigh‘s literary work. Though it’s flown mostly under-the-rader until now, The Hunter looks like it could spark some intrigue when it debuts at Toronto. Sam Neill and Frances O’Connor will share the screen with Dafoe. A look at the film’s poster can be found below. [Imp Awards]
We also have the poster for Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, a biographical look at the life French pop star Serge Gainsbourg that has received some healthy early reviews. The film has Joann Sfar‘s name written all over it — not only is he the writer-director,...
We also have the poster for Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, a biographical look at the life French pop star Serge Gainsbourg that has received some healthy early reviews. The film has Joann Sfar‘s name written all over it — not only is he the writer-director,...
- 8/1/2011
- by Danny King
- The Film Stage
<p><a href="http://www.encoremagazine.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/The-Sapphires.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-3055 alignright" title="Farmer and Anu in the current stage version of The Sapphires" src="http://www.encoremagazine.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/The-Sapphires-150x150.jpg" alt="Farmer and Anu in the current stage version of The Sapphires" width="150" height="150" /></a>Screen Australia announced its last investment round for 2010, with almost $18m for five features, three drama series, two low budget TV dramas, a children’s TV series, and 17 docos.</p> <p>The films include the musical <em>The Sapphires </em>(dir. Wayne Blair),<em> The King is Dead!</em> (dir. Rolf de Heer), <em>Dead Europe</em> (dir. Tony Krawitz), <em>Venice </em>(dir. Miro Bilbrough) and <em>Summer Coda</em> (dir. Richard Gray).<span id="more-6142"></span></p> <p><em>Summer Coda </em>was released in October, and today’s announcement by Screen Australia refers to a September decision that provided the film with post-production funding.</p> <p>The projects are:<br /> Feature Drama<br /> <strong>Dead Europe</strong><br /> See Saw Films Pty Ltd<br /> Producers Emile Sherman, Iain Canning<br /> Writer Louise Fox<br /> Director Tony Krawitz<br /> Sales and Distribution Cross City Sales, Wild Bunch International Sales, Transmission Films<br /> Synopsis Isaac, a late 20s Greek Australian, spirals out of control when he’s forced to confront<br /> his own family’s cursed legacy on his first trip to...
- 12/2/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill have signed on to star in Daniel Nettheim’s The Hunter, based on the novel by Julia Leigh. It will present a return to film for Nettheim, whose last feature was the 2000 film, Angst. In between features, the helmer has more recently worked on television series’ directing episodes of The Secret Life of Us, Rush and Headland. Produced by Porchlight Film's Vincent Sheehan (Little Fish) and his most recent credit being executive producer on Animal Kingdom, scripted by Alice Addison and Wain Fimeri, The Hunter is set in Tasmania in the 1920’s and tells the story of about a hunter in pursuit of the last Tasmanian tiger who stumbles across the family of a man missing in the wilderness. The project has a budget of Au$6.7 million being financed by Screen Australia and Screen New South Wales with Madman as the Australian distributor. Here's a...
- 8/4/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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