Eight Act creatives from a variety of disciplines will receive support to reach the next level in their career after being announced as the recipients of this year’s Act Screen Arts Fund.
Raqiyah Patel, James Foulds, Dan Jobson, Hannah De Feyter, Adele Chynoweth, Jacob Kilner, Greg Gould, and Julie McKay are at different stages of development with their respective projects, which range from a long-form interactive fiction game to a bilingual podcast series.
Part of the artsACT’s Arts Activities Funding program, the Act Screen Arts Fund is administered by the Screen Canberra on behalf of artsACT and the Act Government.
The fund focuses on projects that develop Act-based screen artists, supporting all narrative screen art forms. including film, television, documentary, short film, VR, games, apps and digital media.
In announcing this year’s recipients, Act Arts Minister Tara Cheyne reiterated the importance of nurturing Canberra screen artists.
“Screen...
Raqiyah Patel, James Foulds, Dan Jobson, Hannah De Feyter, Adele Chynoweth, Jacob Kilner, Greg Gould, and Julie McKay are at different stages of development with their respective projects, which range from a long-form interactive fiction game to a bilingual podcast series.
Part of the artsACT’s Arts Activities Funding program, the Act Screen Arts Fund is administered by the Screen Canberra on behalf of artsACT and the Act Government.
The fund focuses on projects that develop Act-based screen artists, supporting all narrative screen art forms. including film, television, documentary, short film, VR, games, apps and digital media.
In announcing this year’s recipients, Act Arts Minister Tara Cheyne reiterated the importance of nurturing Canberra screen artists.
“Screen...
- 5/20/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
This year’s MPA Apsa Academy Film Fund has been launched in Vietnam, with the jury announced for the selection process.
A joint initiative of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (Apsa) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), the US$100,000 fund is designed to provide support for new feature film projects from members of the academy.
The winners of the four US$25,000 grants wholly supported by the MPA will be announced at the 2021 Asia Pacific Screen Awards Ceremony on Thursday, November 11 as the annual Asia Pacific Screen Forum opens.
The jury for this year’s fund includes film distributor, historian, and documentary filmmaker Andrew Pike, in what is his 12th year as part of the selection panel.
He is joined by 2019 MPA Apsa Academy Film Fund recipient and producer Catherine Fitzgerald and Screen Australia’s head of Indigenous, Penny Smallacombe.
Chair of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy Tracey Vieira said the...
A joint initiative of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (Apsa) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), the US$100,000 fund is designed to provide support for new feature film projects from members of the academy.
The winners of the four US$25,000 grants wholly supported by the MPA will be announced at the 2021 Asia Pacific Screen Awards Ceremony on Thursday, November 11 as the annual Asia Pacific Screen Forum opens.
The jury for this year’s fund includes film distributor, historian, and documentary filmmaker Andrew Pike, in what is his 12th year as part of the selection panel.
He is joined by 2019 MPA Apsa Academy Film Fund recipient and producer Catherine Fitzgerald and Screen Australia’s head of Indigenous, Penny Smallacombe.
Chair of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy Tracey Vieira said the...
- 4/29/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Jenny Woods.
Friends and former colleagues are paying tribute to Jenny Woods, a long-time executive at Film Finances Australasia, as a consummate professional and champion of Australian films and documentaries.
Woods, who died on July 31, aged 75, retired last year after more than five decades in the screen industry, the last 25 years as the documentary representative at Film Finances.
A former general manager of the New South Wales Film Corp., she joined the completion bond company in 1993 at the invitation of then head Sue Milliken and supervised the delivery of more than 400 documentaries.
“In all my years as a distributor we had one film, a feature documentary, which went seriously astray and the investors left responsibility to me to bring in the completion guarantor,” Ronin Films MD Andrew Pike tells If.
“The guarantor was represented by Jenny and she was fabulous – she guided me through the whole difficult process with humour...
Friends and former colleagues are paying tribute to Jenny Woods, a long-time executive at Film Finances Australasia, as a consummate professional and champion of Australian films and documentaries.
Woods, who died on July 31, aged 75, retired last year after more than five decades in the screen industry, the last 25 years as the documentary representative at Film Finances.
A former general manager of the New South Wales Film Corp., she joined the completion bond company in 1993 at the invitation of then head Sue Milliken and supervised the delivery of more than 400 documentaries.
“In all my years as a distributor we had one film, a feature documentary, which went seriously astray and the investors left responsibility to me to bring in the completion guarantor,” Ronin Films MD Andrew Pike tells If.
“The guarantor was represented by Jenny and she was fabulous – she guided me through the whole difficult process with humour...
- 8/5/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The jury for the Mpa's Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) Academy Film Fund was announced Friday at Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff).
Joining Tiff programming director Yoshi Yatabe on the jury will be Andrew Pike, Indian actress Tannishtha Chatterjee and Chinese film producer and distributor Alexandra Sun. The jury will award four $25,000 grants to support, at script stage, new feature film projects from Apsa Academy members.
Recipients of the eighth round of the grants, funded by the Motion Picture Association, will be announced during the 11th Asia Pacific Screen Awards on Nov. 23 in Brisbane, Australia.
"The 28 projects funded...
Joining Tiff programming director Yoshi Yatabe on the jury will be Andrew Pike, Indian actress Tannishtha Chatterjee and Chinese film producer and distributor Alexandra Sun. The jury will award four $25,000 grants to support, at script stage, new feature film projects from Apsa Academy members.
Recipients of the eighth round of the grants, funded by the Motion Picture Association, will be announced during the 11th Asia Pacific Screen Awards on Nov. 23 in Brisbane, Australia.
"The 28 projects funded...
- 10/27/2017
- by Gavin J. Blair
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rolf de Heer..
Award-winning director Rolf de Heer (Twelve Canoes, Charlie.s Country) has been named one of four recipients of this year's Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund, designed to support new feature film projects at script stage.
Announced by the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) at the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) in Brisbane last week, de Heer will receive a $25,000 Usd grant to develop his script Mr Ward.s Incredible Journey.
De Heer's screenplay follows the true story of Aboriginal elder Mr Ward, who tragically died in the back of a police van in the outback in 2008. De Heer will once again collaborate with David Gulpilil on the film.
The jury described the script as both .elegiac and timely. and commended de Heer and his Gulpilil for their .courage in taking on such a critical story in the ongoing history of the race relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia today.
Award-winning director Rolf de Heer (Twelve Canoes, Charlie.s Country) has been named one of four recipients of this year's Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund, designed to support new feature film projects at script stage.
Announced by the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) at the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) in Brisbane last week, de Heer will receive a $25,000 Usd grant to develop his script Mr Ward.s Incredible Journey.
De Heer's screenplay follows the true story of Aboriginal elder Mr Ward, who tragically died in the back of a police van in the outback in 2008. De Heer will once again collaborate with David Gulpilil on the film.
The jury described the script as both .elegiac and timely. and commended de Heer and his Gulpilil for their .courage in taking on such a critical story in the ongoing history of the race relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia today.
- 11/29/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Courtney Botfield and Tracey Mair.
The Goodship Agency, a new venture by film distribution and marketing specialists Tracey Mair and Courtney Botfield, is one of 13 screen businesses supported by Screen Australia.s Gender Matters: Brilliant Careers fund.
Goodship designs and implements innovative pathways for the financing, distribution and marketing of Australian film, television and on-line productions — both narrative drama and documentary..
According to the founders, the Screen Australia funding will enable the company to employ a brand integration specialist to create funding and marketing partnerships between screen content and corporates and brands.
Goodship focuses on productions with strong social change messaging and those that offer opportunities for brand alignment.
.We.ve identified a gap in the market that weaves traditional film distribution with impact producing and corporate brand partnerships with the ultimate goal of building audiences for Australian screen content,. Botfield says.
Botfield is the former Gm of Transmission Films...
The Goodship Agency, a new venture by film distribution and marketing specialists Tracey Mair and Courtney Botfield, is one of 13 screen businesses supported by Screen Australia.s Gender Matters: Brilliant Careers fund.
Goodship designs and implements innovative pathways for the financing, distribution and marketing of Australian film, television and on-line productions — both narrative drama and documentary..
According to the founders, the Screen Australia funding will enable the company to employ a brand integration specialist to create funding and marketing partnerships between screen content and corporates and brands.
Goodship focuses on productions with strong social change messaging and those that offer opportunities for brand alignment.
.We.ve identified a gap in the market that weaves traditional film distribution with impact producing and corporate brand partnerships with the ultimate goal of building audiences for Australian screen content,. Botfield says.
Botfield is the former Gm of Transmission Films...
- 9/1/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
A version of this story first appeared in the Jan. 29 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. It's early January and Alex Israel, the buzziest figure in L.A.'s white-hot art scene, is prepping his next show — debuting at Beverly Hills' blue-chip Gagosian Gallery three days before the Oscars — in his small studio steps from Conan O'Brien's production office at the far southern end of Warner Bros.' Burbank backlot. Up until six months ago, he and his designated assistant, Andrew Pike, the studio's last remaining full-
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- 1/22/2016
- by Gary Baum
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Australian documentary Putuparri and the Rainmakers has now raked in more than $100,000 at the box office..
The film opened at Cinema Nova in Melbourne on October 1 and has had successful seasons at other key locations across the country and is still playing at Cinema Paradiso in Perth and the Cameo Cinema in Belgrave, Victoria.
The film is directed by Nicole Ma, produced by John Moore and distributed by Ronin Films.
Ronin Films managing director, Andrew Pike said it was a robust film about a delicate subject - the fragile line by which Indigenous culture is passed on from generation to generation.
"It is heartening to see such a subject reach a wide audience through Australian cinemas," he said..
"It.s success demonstrates that invaluable goodwill exists in Australian cinemas for feature-length documentaries..
"It.s a niche market that can sustain a commercially viable release..
The film introduces the audience to...
The film opened at Cinema Nova in Melbourne on October 1 and has had successful seasons at other key locations across the country and is still playing at Cinema Paradiso in Perth and the Cameo Cinema in Belgrave, Victoria.
The film is directed by Nicole Ma, produced by John Moore and distributed by Ronin Films.
Ronin Films managing director, Andrew Pike said it was a robust film about a delicate subject - the fragile line by which Indigenous culture is passed on from generation to generation.
"It is heartening to see such a subject reach a wide audience through Australian cinemas," he said..
"It.s success demonstrates that invaluable goodwill exists in Australian cinemas for feature-length documentaries..
"It.s a niche market that can sustain a commercially viable release..
The film introduces the audience to...
- 12/17/2015
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The National Film and Sound Archive will host the new look 2015 Canberra International Film Festival.
Act Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, launched the festival today at the National Film and Sound Archive in Acton..
Feature film Neon, by film-maker Lawrence Johnson and local production company, WildBear Entertainment, will open The festival.
It will run from November 5-15.
Now in its 19th year, the Ciff program includes thirty international and Australian films screening exclusively at the National Film and Sound Archive in Arc Cinema..
Special guests include film historian and Movie Show favourite David Stratton and a range of international and Australian film-makers.
Festival manager, Andrew Pike, said he wanted the community to "again" fall in love with the festival.
.The 2015 program is not standard cinema fare. These aren.t the sort of films you could wander into a normal Friday night session and see," he said..
.For the first time, we...
Act Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, launched the festival today at the National Film and Sound Archive in Acton..
Feature film Neon, by film-maker Lawrence Johnson and local production company, WildBear Entertainment, will open The festival.
It will run from November 5-15.
Now in its 19th year, the Ciff program includes thirty international and Australian films screening exclusively at the National Film and Sound Archive in Arc Cinema..
Special guests include film historian and Movie Show favourite David Stratton and a range of international and Australian film-makers.
Festival manager, Andrew Pike, said he wanted the community to "again" fall in love with the festival.
.The 2015 program is not standard cinema fare. These aren.t the sort of films you could wander into a normal Friday night session and see," he said..
.For the first time, we...
- 9/28/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The Canberra International Film Festival returns this year with a stronger grassroots focus on films at a new home: the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Nfsa), running from November 5-15. The festival will be curated by volunteer film enthusiasts who specialise in local, Indigenous, Asian, education and documentary genres, convened by Andrew Pike, Ronin Films founder and Electric Shadows cinema former manager. .We aim to inform, stimulate and engage Canberra film-goers through a carefully selected mix of high quality and distinctive films that we are passionate about and want to share with the Ciff audience,. Dr Pike said. The fellow programmers are Nfsa.s head of education and Canberra Times film critic Cris Kennedy, producer Alice Taylor from the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, and Olivier Krischer from the Anu.s Centre for China in the World. .Drawing on our expertise, we are curating a unique festival program...
- 8/12/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
The independent documentary filmmaker Margaret Anne Smith passed away in Sydney on May 18 after a long illness. She was 69.
Margaret was a significant part of our life at Ronin Films. I knew her for maybe close to 50 years, from student days at the Anu onwards. She was a tenacious battler, holding strong principles and doing her best as a lone artist to stand by those principles.
She always did things her own way no matter what, and though she never gained the institutional support that her work deserved, she was never bitter: she took rejections philosophically and remained determined to get the results she wanted by herself.
Through her own business, Smith Street Films, Margaret had made films for broadcast and the education market since l987, when her first five minute short film Eora was bought by ABC TV.
She grew up in Sydney and studied for an Arts (Hons) degree at Sydney University,...
Margaret was a significant part of our life at Ronin Films. I knew her for maybe close to 50 years, from student days at the Anu onwards. She was a tenacious battler, holding strong principles and doing her best as a lone artist to stand by those principles.
She always did things her own way no matter what, and though she never gained the institutional support that her work deserved, she was never bitter: she took rejections philosophically and remained determined to get the results she wanted by herself.
Through her own business, Smith Street Films, Margaret had made films for broadcast and the education market since l987, when her first five minute short film Eora was bought by ABC TV.
She grew up in Sydney and studied for an Arts (Hons) degree at Sydney University,...
- 5/21/2015
- by Andrew Pike*
- IF.com.au
Shearsmith and Pemberton transport us to the 17th century for a witch trial this week in an episode high on quotability and absurdity...
This review contains spoilers.
2.3 The Trial Of Elizabeth Gadge.
“Sit in a theatre to see/A play of hopes and fears/While the orchestra breathes fitfully/The music of the spheres” – Quote from Witchfinder General (1968)
“It’s like The Crucible, but with a few extra gags thrown in” – Steve Pemberton on this week’s episode
The third instalment of this series of Inside No. 9 took us back to a perilous, and ridiculous, time in British history – the witch trials of the 17th century. In the small town of Little Happens, witchfinders Mr Warren (Shearsmith) and Mr Clarke (Pemberton) arrive to trial local woman Elizabeth Gadge for the crime of witchcraft. Employed by Justice of the Peace Sir Andrew Pike to find her guilty (or innocent. But,...
This review contains spoilers.
2.3 The Trial Of Elizabeth Gadge.
“Sit in a theatre to see/A play of hopes and fears/While the orchestra breathes fitfully/The music of the spheres” – Quote from Witchfinder General (1968)
“It’s like The Crucible, but with a few extra gags thrown in” – Steve Pemberton on this week’s episode
The third instalment of this series of Inside No. 9 took us back to a perilous, and ridiculous, time in British history – the witch trials of the 17th century. In the small town of Little Happens, witchfinders Mr Warren (Shearsmith) and Mr Clarke (Pemberton) arrive to trial local woman Elizabeth Gadge for the crime of witchcraft. Employed by Justice of the Peace Sir Andrew Pike to find her guilty (or innocent. But,...
- 4/9/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Successful scripted comedy is, for the most part, built on firmly established characters that an audience grows to loathe, love or basically care one jot about. Which is why Inside No 9 is such a wonderful anomaly.
The BBC Two anthology series – written by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith – invites the audience into six standalone and terrifyingly bonkers worlds where the only constant is the number on the door of the house / booth / train carriage.
The first episode in the returning series, which begins tonight, is every bit as farcical, dark and hilarious as the comedy we've come to expect from Pemberton and Shearsmith.
'La Couchette' sees irritable Dr Maxwell (Shearsmith) trying and failing to fall asleep on an overnight train from Paris to Bourg St Maurice. He has an important job interview the following morning at the World Health Organisation.
Any chance of actually getting to sleep is thwarted by...
The BBC Two anthology series – written by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith – invites the audience into six standalone and terrifyingly bonkers worlds where the only constant is the number on the door of the house / booth / train carriage.
The first episode in the returning series, which begins tonight, is every bit as farcical, dark and hilarious as the comedy we've come to expect from Pemberton and Shearsmith.
'La Couchette' sees irritable Dr Maxwell (Shearsmith) trying and failing to fall asleep on an overnight train from Paris to Bourg St Maurice. He has an important job interview the following morning at the World Health Organisation.
Any chance of actually getting to sleep is thwarted by...
- 3/26/2015
- Digital Spy
Umbrella Entertainment is restoring Australian classic Jedda plus Angel Baby and Burke & Wills for re-issue in HD on DVD and VOD platforms as part of an ongoing preservation program.
The distributor is also working with producer Jane Scott and distributor Andrew Pike on an HD version of Scott Hicks. Shine, and with Scott on Goodbye Paradise.
As part of its restoration program which covers around 200 titles, Umbrella plans to release on one DVD two musical films produced by Peter Clifton, one on The Easybeats. tour of England in 1967, the other looking at a concert by The Rolling Stones at Sydney Showground in 1966, hosted by DJ Ward ..Pally.. Austin.
Shot in 1955, Jedda was the last film from Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel, who died four years later. The first Australian feature made in colour, it starred Indigenous actors Robert Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth in the saga of an Aboriginal woman who is...
The distributor is also working with producer Jane Scott and distributor Andrew Pike on an HD version of Scott Hicks. Shine, and with Scott on Goodbye Paradise.
As part of its restoration program which covers around 200 titles, Umbrella plans to release on one DVD two musical films produced by Peter Clifton, one on The Easybeats. tour of England in 1967, the other looking at a concert by The Rolling Stones at Sydney Showground in 1966, hosted by DJ Ward ..Pally.. Austin.
Shot in 1955, Jedda was the last film from Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel, who died four years later. The first Australian feature made in colour, it starred Indigenous actors Robert Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth in the saga of an Aboriginal woman who is...
- 3/23/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The future of the Queensland-based Asia Pacific Screen Awards remains in doubt as the government considers future funding. Oscar-winning producer Melanie Coombs argues that Apsa make a significant contribution to the industry which should be protected..
The annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards event is so much more than an awards night. As we enter the 'Asian Century', the APSAs connect Australian filmmakers with our peers in our region. The insights and cultural understandings that come from this bringing together of internationally awarded and celebrated filmmakers are invaluable to me as an Australia filmmaker and to my peers.
The Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund is the most obvious example of this: it has awarded eight development grants in two years and seven of those projects have been made . one of which is the Oscar-winning A Separation. This makes it the most successful film development fund probably in the world, but certainly in Australia.
The annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards event is so much more than an awards night. As we enter the 'Asian Century', the APSAs connect Australian filmmakers with our peers in our region. The insights and cultural understandings that come from this bringing together of internationally awarded and celebrated filmmakers are invaluable to me as an Australia filmmaker and to my peers.
The Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund is the most obvious example of this: it has awarded eight development grants in two years and seven of those projects have been made . one of which is the Oscar-winning A Separation. This makes it the most successful film development fund probably in the world, but certainly in Australia.
- 12/4/2012
- by Melanie Coombs, producer
- IF.com.au
ScreenACT has announced the top ten feature film projects in the running for its Low Budget Feature Pod funding program.
The ten projects were selected from 42 participants who took part in a seven-day workshop run by international script consultant Stephen Cleary. Participants also received feedback from Titan View managing director John L. Simpson (who will distribute the final film), Ronin Films managing director Andrew Pike, Arclight head of production Michael Wrenn, and The Sapphires producer Kylie De Fresne.
The top ten are:
Ariadne's Fate (Geraldine Martin; Science Fiction) Beneath the Sunny Skies (Susan Thwaites; Drama) Blue World Order (Che Baker, Dallas Bland; Science Fiction) Exchange (Declan Shrubb; Horror/Zombie) Flesh and Blood (George Jenkins; Drama) Oil and Water (Ian Hart; Drama) Payday (Kris Kerehona; Drama) The Farmer (Andrew Einspruch & Billie Dean; Comedy/drama) The Mission (Doug Kirk, Andrew Marriott; Science Fiction) Waiting for Robbo (Simon Weaving; Comedy/thriller)
.Low Budget...
The ten projects were selected from 42 participants who took part in a seven-day workshop run by international script consultant Stephen Cleary. Participants also received feedback from Titan View managing director John L. Simpson (who will distribute the final film), Ronin Films managing director Andrew Pike, Arclight head of production Michael Wrenn, and The Sapphires producer Kylie De Fresne.
The top ten are:
Ariadne's Fate (Geraldine Martin; Science Fiction) Beneath the Sunny Skies (Susan Thwaites; Drama) Blue World Order (Che Baker, Dallas Bland; Science Fiction) Exchange (Declan Shrubb; Horror/Zombie) Flesh and Blood (George Jenkins; Drama) Oil and Water (Ian Hart; Drama) Payday (Kris Kerehona; Drama) The Farmer (Andrew Einspruch & Billie Dean; Comedy/drama) The Mission (Doug Kirk, Andrew Marriott; Science Fiction) Waiting for Robbo (Simon Weaving; Comedy/thriller)
.Low Budget...
- 9/4/2012
- by Staff reporter
- IF.com.au
The government has appointed executive Gabrielle Trainor as the new chair of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Nfsa).
She will be joined on the board by former Arts Minister Michael Lee . they replace current chair Chris Puplick and outgoing board member Andrew Pike.
Trainor has led several public, government, private and not-for-profit entities including VicUrban, Best Western Australia and Cape York Partnerships. She is on the board of the Barangaroo Delivery Authority, the Gws Giants Australian Football Club and the Whitlam Institute.
Arts minister Simon Crean said the Nfsa is poised to further open up access to Australia.s rich history in film and sound, building networks with philanthropists, community organisations and industry.
.Ms Trainor.s experience across private, public and not-for-profit organisations, including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Youth Orchestra, will provide valuable strategic direction for the organisation and help position it as a...
She will be joined on the board by former Arts Minister Michael Lee . they replace current chair Chris Puplick and outgoing board member Andrew Pike.
Trainor has led several public, government, private and not-for-profit entities including VicUrban, Best Western Australia and Cape York Partnerships. She is on the board of the Barangaroo Delivery Authority, the Gws Giants Australian Football Club and the Whitlam Institute.
Arts minister Simon Crean said the Nfsa is poised to further open up access to Australia.s rich history in film and sound, building networks with philanthropists, community organisations and industry.
.Ms Trainor.s experience across private, public and not-for-profit organisations, including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Youth Orchestra, will provide valuable strategic direction for the organisation and help position it as a...
- 7/10/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) and Motion Picture Association (Mpa) will continue the Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund, as announced at the 1st Beijing International Film Festival on Tuesday.
The fund that was initiated last year supports new films from Asia-Pacific by providing four grants of $25,000 each to four members of the Apsa Academy with film projects in different stages of completion.
The judging panel for the award will be chaired by Andrew Pike, Managing Director of Ronin Films and will comprise Chinese filmmaker Xue Xiaolu, director of Ocean Heaven and Australian filmmaker Tony Ayres, who directed The Home Song Stories.
The recipients of the grants in 2010 were: Lee Chang-dong for Memories of the Blue Hill Club; Sergey Dvortsevoy for Ayka; Peng Tao for Straw Man; and Iran’s Asghar Farhadi for Nader and Simin: A Separation, which won the Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival this year.
The fund that was initiated last year supports new films from Asia-Pacific by providing four grants of $25,000 each to four members of the Apsa Academy with film projects in different stages of completion.
The judging panel for the award will be chaired by Andrew Pike, Managing Director of Ronin Films and will comprise Chinese filmmaker Xue Xiaolu, director of Ocean Heaven and Australian filmmaker Tony Ayres, who directed The Home Song Stories.
The recipients of the grants in 2010 were: Lee Chang-dong for Memories of the Blue Hill Club; Sergey Dvortsevoy for Ayka; Peng Tao for Straw Man; and Iran’s Asghar Farhadi for Nader and Simin: A Separation, which won the Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival this year.
- 4/27/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) and Motion Picture Association (Mpa) have announced the continuation of the Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund to support new films from Asia-Pacific and the panellists who will assess the entries for 2011. Xue Xiaolu and Tony Ayres will join the assessment panel for 2011, which will once again be Chaired by Ronin Films’ Managing Director and member of Apsa’s 2009 International Jury, Andrew Pike.Mpa Asia-Pacific president and managing director Mike Ellis said, "I am delighted to continue our fruitful partnership ...
- 4/25/2011
- BusinessofCinema
After reviewing its original position, the ABC will not air the documentary about the Israel/Palestine conflict Hope in a Slingshot.
Senator Scott Ludlam brought up the issue with ABC director Mark Scott at a recent Senate Estimates hearing, and the final response was negative.
Earlier this year, Ronin Films director Andrew Pike said the ABC had withdrawn a formal offer to acquire the documentary –because it conflicted with the public broadcaster’s policy of impartiality. Ronin is distributing the doco on DVD.
Last month, director Inka Stafrace even created an onilne petition to get her documentary on the air. Yesterday, in a message to media and supporters, Stafrace said that communicatoion with the ABC had been “impossible” during this time: “No emails were ever responded, there was no heads up that they were re-reviewing. There is a more polished and updated version that they never asked to see. This...
Senator Scott Ludlam brought up the issue with ABC director Mark Scott at a recent Senate Estimates hearing, and the final response was negative.
Earlier this year, Ronin Films director Andrew Pike said the ABC had withdrawn a formal offer to acquire the documentary –because it conflicted with the public broadcaster’s policy of impartiality. Ronin is distributing the doco on DVD.
Last month, director Inka Stafrace even created an onilne petition to get her documentary on the air. Yesterday, in a message to media and supporters, Stafrace said that communicatoion with the ABC had been “impossible” during this time: “No emails were ever responded, there was no heads up that they were re-reviewing. There is a more polished and updated version that they never asked to see. This...
- 11/9/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Director Inka Stafrace has created an onilne petition to get her documentary Hope in a Slingshot on the air.
“We were advised to have a healthy petition [for the Senate Estimates on October 18] to help Senator Scott Ludlam fight for Hope‘s broadcast,” said Stafrace.
Earlier this year, Ronin Films director Andrew Pike said the ABC had withdrawn a formal offer to acquire the documentary – about the Israel-Palestinian conflict – because it conflicted with the public broadcaster’s policy of impartiality.
When questioned about the decision, ABC TV director Kim Dalton emailed Encore the following statement, not once referring to Hope in a Slingshot:
ABC Television exercises complete editorial control over all its content decisions for programs acquired, commissioned or produced for broadcast or publication on its channels and platforms. During the process of content production , commissioning and/or acquisition, programs may be rejected based on the requirements of the ABC channel or platform, funding limitations, or the ABC’s Editorial Policies.
“We were advised to have a healthy petition [for the Senate Estimates on October 18] to help Senator Scott Ludlam fight for Hope‘s broadcast,” said Stafrace.
Earlier this year, Ronin Films director Andrew Pike said the ABC had withdrawn a formal offer to acquire the documentary – about the Israel-Palestinian conflict – because it conflicted with the public broadcaster’s policy of impartiality.
When questioned about the decision, ABC TV director Kim Dalton emailed Encore the following statement, not once referring to Hope in a Slingshot:
ABC Television exercises complete editorial control over all its content decisions for programs acquired, commissioned or produced for broadcast or publication on its channels and platforms. During the process of content production , commissioning and/or acquisition, programs may be rejected based on the requirements of the ABC channel or platform, funding limitations, or the ABC’s Editorial Policies.
- 10/5/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Ronin Films managing director Andrew Pike will sit on the judging panel for the inaugural Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund. The announcement was made by Motion Picture Association (Mpa) president and managing director Asia Pacific Mike Ellis from the Australian International Movie Convention (Aimc) on Australia’s Gold Coast. Ellis said that in just two weeks a strong calibre up of submissions had already been received for consideration in the $100,000 script development fund, which was formed earlier this year in partnership with the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa). ...
- 8/17/2010
- BusinessofCinema
Filmmaker James Ricketson shares his experience with the ABC’s policy of impartiality, following Andrew Pike’s case last week.
In the interests of debate about the ABC’s commitment to ‘balance’, in its programming, this is a record of my experience with one project presented to the ABC.
My documentary Sleeping with Cambodia was broadcast on the ABC in 1996. The film rated very well. Sleeping with Cambodia was implicitly critical of money-wasting NGOs in Cambodia – one of them the high profile Christian Ngo World Vision. After Sleeping with Cambodia’s screening the ABC was deluged with correspondence from World Vision and other NGOs accusing the documentary of bias.
A long battle of words ensued. I was asked again by the ABC to verify the factual basis of the statements I had made in the film relating to how much it cost World Vision to support one child in a...
In the interests of debate about the ABC’s commitment to ‘balance’, in its programming, this is a record of my experience with one project presented to the ABC.
My documentary Sleeping with Cambodia was broadcast on the ABC in 1996. The film rated very well. Sleeping with Cambodia was implicitly critical of money-wasting NGOs in Cambodia – one of them the high profile Christian Ngo World Vision. After Sleeping with Cambodia’s screening the ABC was deluged with correspondence from World Vision and other NGOs accusing the documentary of bias.
A long battle of words ensued. I was asked again by the ABC to verify the factual basis of the statements I had made in the film relating to how much it cost World Vision to support one child in a...
- 6/4/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Ronin Films director Andrew Pike says the Government sure ensure that the ABC and Sbs can operate without fear of political intervention and repercussions.
“I don’t know how, but it’s very much a Government issue, that the ABC and Sbs as national broadcasters need to be independent in their editorial policy,” Pike told Encore.
Pike sent a letter to Encore, explaining that the ABC had withdrawn its offer to acquire Inka Straface’s documentary Hope in a Slingshot – about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – due to its policy of “impartiality” and not being able to find another program that could balance the opinions expressed in the film.
The distributor went public and media interest helped him get an immediate response.
“I had a phone call from the ABC and they said they would reconsider a suggestion that we made about a film that might be suitable as a balance for the film,...
“I don’t know how, but it’s very much a Government issue, that the ABC and Sbs as national broadcasters need to be independent in their editorial policy,” Pike told Encore.
Pike sent a letter to Encore, explaining that the ABC had withdrawn its offer to acquire Inka Straface’s documentary Hope in a Slingshot – about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – due to its policy of “impartiality” and not being able to find another program that could balance the opinions expressed in the film.
The distributor went public and media interest helped him get an immediate response.
“I had a phone call from the ABC and they said they would reconsider a suggestion that we made about a film that might be suitable as a balance for the film,...
- 5/28/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Ronin Films director Andrew Pike says the ABC changed its mind about a doco on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Why, he wonders?
The ABC has withdrawn a formal offer it made to Ronin Films to acquire a documentary called Hope in a Slingshot, by Australian filmmaker, Inka Stafrace. The offer was accepted by Ronin, but was later cancelled by the ABC on the grounds that the documentary was, in the words of the Head of Television, Kim Dalton, “an opinion program” about a “contentious” subject and that it conflicted with the ABC’s policy of “impartiality”, as required by Clause 6.6.3 of the ABC’s Editorial Policy. Dalton stated that the ABC was unable to find another program that balanced the views expressed in the film.
This cancellation is of concern for several reasons. The film is an exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and makes a propeace statement, strongly and refreshingly expressed.
The ABC has withdrawn a formal offer it made to Ronin Films to acquire a documentary called Hope in a Slingshot, by Australian filmmaker, Inka Stafrace. The offer was accepted by Ronin, but was later cancelled by the ABC on the grounds that the documentary was, in the words of the Head of Television, Kim Dalton, “an opinion program” about a “contentious” subject and that it conflicted with the ABC’s policy of “impartiality”, as required by Clause 6.6.3 of the ABC’s Editorial Policy. Dalton stated that the ABC was unable to find another program that balanced the views expressed in the film.
This cancellation is of concern for several reasons. The film is an exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and makes a propeace statement, strongly and refreshingly expressed.
- 5/28/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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