Jason van Genderen at Sundance London
Terrigal based filmmaker Jason van Genderen has won first prize in the Nokia Music sponsored Sundance London competition for his six-minute short..
Shot entirely on a Nokia Lumia 920 Smartphone, van Genderen.s film Red Earth Hip Hop explores how hip hop music is helping preserve Indigenous local languages and stories in remote communities. The film was made after Nokia Music and Sundance asked filmmakers from all over the world to submit a 60 second trailer pitching an underground music story. Of over 280 films, van Genderen and Glasgow.s Bartosz Madejski were selected as the two global finalists. They were each awarded $5000 and two Nokia Lumia 290 smartphones with which to complete their film (with only a week to do it). Both short films premiered and Sundance London, with Red Earth Hip Hop declared as the overall winner. .I was blown away, it was just incredible,. van Genderen says.
Terrigal based filmmaker Jason van Genderen has won first prize in the Nokia Music sponsored Sundance London competition for his six-minute short..
Shot entirely on a Nokia Lumia 920 Smartphone, van Genderen.s film Red Earth Hip Hop explores how hip hop music is helping preserve Indigenous local languages and stories in remote communities. The film was made after Nokia Music and Sundance asked filmmakers from all over the world to submit a 60 second trailer pitching an underground music story. Of over 280 films, van Genderen and Glasgow.s Bartosz Madejski were selected as the two global finalists. They were each awarded $5000 and two Nokia Lumia 290 smartphones with which to complete their film (with only a week to do it). Both short films premiered and Sundance London, with Red Earth Hip Hop declared as the overall winner. .I was blown away, it was just incredible,. van Genderen says.
- 5/2/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Terrigal-based filmmaker Jason van Genderen has been announced as one of two finalists of the Sundance Nokia Music competition. As a result, his short film Red Earth Hip Hop will premiere at Sundance London, held from the 25-28 April at Cineworld at the O2. Van Genderen first heard about the competition, which calls for the submission of a 60-second trailer capturing an underground music story, via social media. .Someone sent me a link for this trailer competition and I thought, .What a fantastic way to test the content,.. he says. .Then later I was talking with friends and someone mentioned how an indigenous hip hop scene starting to grow and mature..
A meeting with a Triple J producer put van Genderen in contact with Melbourne based Hip Hop artist Morganics and the idea for Red Earth Hip Hop was born..
The film . which van Genderen is currently in the midst...
A meeting with a Triple J producer put van Genderen in contact with Melbourne based Hip Hop artist Morganics and the idea for Red Earth Hip Hop was born..
The film . which van Genderen is currently in the midst...
- 4/16/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has selected five teams to take part in this year's Springboard: Short Film Initiative and potentially receive $150,000 production funding.
The five directors - Christopher Weekes, Hannah Moon, Tom McKeith, Darlene Johnson and Liselle Mei - and their teams will now develop a short film script that will showcase their developed feature film screenplay. Three of the shorts will then receive $150,000 funding.
Weekes is perhaps the best known after making his debut feature Bitter & Twisted in 2008, which he followed by topping the influential Black List (which ranks Hollywood film executives. views on the best unproduced movie scripts) in 2009 with The Muppet Man. His Springboard feature project Pest Control is a family comedy about a city that gets overrun by monsters.
Hannah Moon's project Starfish, is a comedy, which she is co-writing with Robin Geradts-Gill and Stephen Sholl. Tom McKeith.s project Boxer is a thriller and is currently...
The five directors - Christopher Weekes, Hannah Moon, Tom McKeith, Darlene Johnson and Liselle Mei - and their teams will now develop a short film script that will showcase their developed feature film screenplay. Three of the shorts will then receive $150,000 funding.
Weekes is perhaps the best known after making his debut feature Bitter & Twisted in 2008, which he followed by topping the influential Black List (which ranks Hollywood film executives. views on the best unproduced movie scripts) in 2009 with The Muppet Man. His Springboard feature project Pest Control is a family comedy about a city that gets overrun by monsters.
Hannah Moon's project Starfish, is a comedy, which she is co-writing with Robin Geradts-Gill and Stephen Sholl. Tom McKeith.s project Boxer is a thriller and is currently...
- 3/12/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
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