ScreenWest has announced sci-fi project These Final Hours, by writer/director Zak Hilditch and producer Liz Kearney, will receive $750,000 in funding from the West Coast Visions initiative, designed to support emerging filmmakers.
These Final Hours is an apocalyptic thriller that follows James, who “while making his way to the party to end all parties on the last day on Earth, ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father, who ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.”
ScreenWest stated that Hilditch and Kearney’s project was a “well-developed and crafted script; that it’s a real page turner that has a unique take on the apocalyptic world.”
Hilditch’s history includes three independently-funded feature films: The Actress, Plum Role and The Toll (left). He won the Young Filmmaker of the Year at the 2006 Wa Screen Awards.
Kearney resume includes the upcoming Cloudstreet mini series, The Circuit,...
These Final Hours is an apocalyptic thriller that follows James, who “while making his way to the party to end all parties on the last day on Earth, ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father, who ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.”
ScreenWest stated that Hilditch and Kearney’s project was a “well-developed and crafted script; that it’s a real page turner that has a unique take on the apocalyptic world.”
Hilditch’s history includes three independently-funded feature films: The Actress, Plum Role and The Toll (left). He won the Young Filmmaker of the Year at the 2006 Wa Screen Awards.
Kearney resume includes the upcoming Cloudstreet mini series, The Circuit,...
- 5/17/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Peter Rowsthorn has joined the cast of the first Perth-based sitcom, Henry & Aaron’s Seven Steps to Superstardom, currently in production in Western Australia.
“I loved the script and I feel very lucky to be involved. It’s great that something like this is being produced in Perth. I’m really looking forward to shooting with Henry and Aaron this week,” said
Rowsthorn.
Henry Inglis and Aaron Mccann won Movie Extra’s Webfest competition, with a $50,000 prize to produce the comedy series, set to be broadcast on YouTube and the Movie Extra channel in June.
The seven-part series will be shot over 18 days and stars Henry and Aaron as two podcasters as well as James Helm as their self-proclaimed producer, ‘Danny Danielson’, who is hell bent on turning the boys into international superstars. Each episode will see them follow his ridiculous advice on how to become famous. Rowsthorn will appear...
“I loved the script and I feel very lucky to be involved. It’s great that something like this is being produced in Perth. I’m really looking forward to shooting with Henry and Aaron this week,” said
Rowsthorn.
Henry Inglis and Aaron Mccann won Movie Extra’s Webfest competition, with a $50,000 prize to produce the comedy series, set to be broadcast on YouTube and the Movie Extra channel in June.
The seven-part series will be shot over 18 days and stars Henry and Aaron as two podcasters as well as James Helm as their self-proclaimed producer, ‘Danny Danielson’, who is hell bent on turning the boys into international superstars. Each episode will see them follow his ridiculous advice on how to become famous. Rowsthorn will appear...
- 5/4/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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