Short films Two Sands and In Australia have snared the lion’s share of nominations for the Wa Screen Culture Awards, recognised across both the innovation and outstanding achievement award categories.
Now in its second year, the WASCAs are presented and produced by the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Wa screen industry, to recognise new, established, and emerging screen practitioners across a variety of disciplines.
Of this year’s nominees, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger’s Two Sands is the most represented with eight nods, while Miley Tunnecliffe’s In Australia has seven.
There is also good news for Rush Films, with Gracie Otto’s Under the Volcano, Frances Elliott and Samantha Marlow’s Girl Like You, and Jacqueline Pelczar’s Sparkles all scoring multiple nominations.
Revelation Film Festival director Richard Sowada said he couldn’t wait to reveal the deliberations of the 36 screen professionals that make up the jury for the awards.
Now in its second year, the WASCAs are presented and produced by the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Wa screen industry, to recognise new, established, and emerging screen practitioners across a variety of disciplines.
Of this year’s nominees, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger’s Two Sands is the most represented with eight nods, while Miley Tunnecliffe’s In Australia has seven.
There is also good news for Rush Films, with Gracie Otto’s Under the Volcano, Frances Elliott and Samantha Marlow’s Girl Like You, and Jacqueline Pelczar’s Sparkles all scoring multiple nominations.
Revelation Film Festival director Richard Sowada said he couldn’t wait to reveal the deliberations of the 36 screen professionals that make up the jury for the awards.
- 11/24/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Monica Zanetti’s screenplay of Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt), Ben Lawrence and Beatrix Christian’s Hearts and Bones and Ally Burnham’s Unsound have been nominated for best original feature in the 53rd annual Awgie Awards.
The contenders for the feature film adaptation prize are Thomas M. Wright and Erik Jensen’s Acute Misfortune, Lisa Hoppe’s H is for Happiness, Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps’ Penguin Bloom and C.S. McMullen’s The Other Lamb.
The TV series prize promises to be a close race between episodes of Glen Dolman’s Bloom, Michael Petroni’s Messiah for Netflix, Belinda Chayko’s Stateless, Samantha Strauss’ The End and Pip Karmel’s Total Control.
Timothy Hobart, John Ridley, Jeremy Nguyen, Alan Nguyen and Michele Lee’s Hungry Ghosts will square off against Matthew Cormack and Niki Aken’s The Hunting for best miniseries.
In the TV serial category it must...
The contenders for the feature film adaptation prize are Thomas M. Wright and Erik Jensen’s Acute Misfortune, Lisa Hoppe’s H is for Happiness, Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps’ Penguin Bloom and C.S. McMullen’s The Other Lamb.
The TV series prize promises to be a close race between episodes of Glen Dolman’s Bloom, Michael Petroni’s Messiah for Netflix, Belinda Chayko’s Stateless, Samantha Strauss’ The End and Pip Karmel’s Total Control.
Timothy Hobart, John Ridley, Jeremy Nguyen, Alan Nguyen and Michele Lee’s Hungry Ghosts will square off against Matthew Cormack and Niki Aken’s The Hunting for best miniseries.
In the TV serial category it must...
- 9/25/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jacob Junior Nayinggul and Simon Baker at the Berlin premiere.
The Samuel Goldwyn Co. has nabbed Us rights to Stephen Johnson’s Western High Ground which received rave reviews after the world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The deal continues Goldwyn’s relationship with Bunya Productions’ David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin after the distributor released Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country in 2018.
Last year Goldwyn acquired Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding, which premiered on VOD on February 21, Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy and Punch, which will get a limited theatrical release on April 24, and Koko: A Red Dog Story, the third edition of the franchise written and directed by Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce,
Bunya produced High Ground with Maggie Miles, Johnson and Yothu Yindi co-founder Witiyana Marika, scripted by Chris Anastassiades.
The Us deal was brokered by Samuel Goldwyn’s CEO Peter Goldwyn and Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, CEO of the international sales agent Playtime.
The Samuel Goldwyn Co. has nabbed Us rights to Stephen Johnson’s Western High Ground which received rave reviews after the world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The deal continues Goldwyn’s relationship with Bunya Productions’ David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin after the distributor released Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country in 2018.
Last year Goldwyn acquired Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding, which premiered on VOD on February 21, Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy and Punch, which will get a limited theatrical release on April 24, and Koko: A Red Dog Story, the third edition of the franchise written and directed by Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce,
Bunya produced High Ground with Maggie Miles, Johnson and Yothu Yindi co-founder Witiyana Marika, scripted by Chris Anastassiades.
The Us deal was brokered by Samuel Goldwyn’s CEO Peter Goldwyn and Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, CEO of the international sales agent Playtime.
- 2/23/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Koko: A Red Dog Story.’
Alternate content releases Koko: A Red Dog Story, Standing Up for Sunny and A Boy Called Sailboat premiered in Australian cinemas last weekend, together with the conventionally-released Kairos.
It is difficult to judge the box office results given the limited number of sessions and screens, but all faced the challenge of going into the market with minimal marketing support and publicity.
The third edition of the Red Dog franchise from writers and directors Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce had the widest release on more than 80 screens, distributed by Roadshow Films and producer Nelson Woss’s Good Dog Distribution.
Last week Woss told If he was encouraged by the responses from test screenings in Indianapolis and charity previews in Perth. But he acknowledged there were no ads on TV or in newspapers and no billboards, bus shelters or buses for the the low-budget film co-funded by Screen Australia,...
Alternate content releases Koko: A Red Dog Story, Standing Up for Sunny and A Boy Called Sailboat premiered in Australian cinemas last weekend, together with the conventionally-released Kairos.
It is difficult to judge the box office results given the limited number of sessions and screens, but all faced the challenge of going into the market with minimal marketing support and publicity.
The third edition of the Red Dog franchise from writers and directors Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce had the widest release on more than 80 screens, distributed by Roadshow Films and producer Nelson Woss’s Good Dog Distribution.
Last week Woss told If he was encouraged by the responses from test screenings in Indianapolis and charity previews in Perth. But he acknowledged there were no ads on TV or in newspapers and no billboards, bus shelters or buses for the the low-budget film co-funded by Screen Australia,...
- 12/9/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Top End Wedding.’
Americans will have the chance to see Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding early next year, but only on VOD and other digital platforms.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the Us rights to the romantic comedy which raked in $5.26 million in Australian cinemas, the year’s second highest grosser behind Ride Like a Girl’s $11.5 million.
The specialty distributor plans a multi-platform release on February 21, its third recent Oz acquisition following Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy & Punch and Koko: A Red Dog Story, the third edition of the franchise written and directed by Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce, which opens here on 80 screens tomorrow.
“Top End Wedding is a delightfully fun romantic comedy that also showcases the breathtaking beauty of Australia,” says Meg Longo of Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight, who produced with Kylie du Fresne and Kate Croser, added: “The team at Samuel Goldwyn are passionate...
Americans will have the chance to see Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding early next year, but only on VOD and other digital platforms.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the Us rights to the romantic comedy which raked in $5.26 million in Australian cinemas, the year’s second highest grosser behind Ride Like a Girl’s $11.5 million.
The specialty distributor plans a multi-platform release on February 21, its third recent Oz acquisition following Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy & Punch and Koko: A Red Dog Story, the third edition of the franchise written and directed by Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce, which opens here on 80 screens tomorrow.
“Top End Wedding is a delightfully fun romantic comedy that also showcases the breathtaking beauty of Australia,” says Meg Longo of Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight, who produced with Kylie du Fresne and Kate Croser, added: “The team at Samuel Goldwyn are passionate...
- 12/3/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Koko: A Red Dog Story.
Nelson Woss made a crazy-brave decision when audiences went wild for Koko: A Red Dog Story at three packed test screenings in Indianapolis in September: He wanted Australian cinemagoers to see the third chapter of the Red Dog franchise this year.
So the producer’s Good Dog Distribution and distribution partner Roadshow Films have booked the film from writers/directors Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce as an alternate content release on 80 screens this Thursday.
With no ads on TV or in newspapers, no billboards, bus shelters or buses, the low-budget film co-funded by Screen Australia, Screenwest and Lotterywest is up against the premieres of Universal’s The Addams Family and Pinnacle’s Oz drama Kairos and the second weekend of Disney’s Frozen 2.
“There is no guarantee of success but what we have is a film with heart and soul that plays like gangbusters,” Woss...
Nelson Woss made a crazy-brave decision when audiences went wild for Koko: A Red Dog Story at three packed test screenings in Indianapolis in September: He wanted Australian cinemagoers to see the third chapter of the Red Dog franchise this year.
So the producer’s Good Dog Distribution and distribution partner Roadshow Films have booked the film from writers/directors Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce as an alternate content release on 80 screens this Thursday.
With no ads on TV or in newspapers, no billboards, bus shelters or buses, the low-budget film co-funded by Screen Australia, Screenwest and Lotterywest is up against the premieres of Universal’s The Addams Family and Pinnacle’s Oz drama Kairos and the second weekend of Disney’s Frozen 2.
“There is no guarantee of success but what we have is a film with heart and soul that plays like gangbusters,” Woss...
- 12/2/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Aaron McCann (1983, Ireland) studied Film & TV at the Central Institute of Technology in Perth, Australia. There, he met Henry Inglis, with whom he started producing and starring in a comedic series of digital shorts, called Henry & Aaron, since 2009. These shorts became an international success online, leading him to the premiere of his horror short Perished (2011) at SXSW. McCann has worked as a producer, director, camera operator, assistant director, actor, and writer on a variety of projects in a variety of platforms since 2001. Top Knot Detective (2017) is his first feature film, a co-direction with Dominic Pearce.
Dominic Pearce (Australia), raised in Singapore, is a multi-award winning director and editor. He has also worked as leading digital compositor, colourist and musician. Pearce is one of the founders and the managing director of independent production company Blue Forest Media. This production company creates work for television, advertising, music video’s and contemporary and public art projects.
Dominic Pearce (Australia), raised in Singapore, is a multi-award winning director and editor. He has also worked as leading digital compositor, colourist and musician. Pearce is one of the founders and the managing director of independent production company Blue Forest Media. This production company creates work for television, advertising, music video’s and contemporary and public art projects.
- 2/27/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Among the series of dramatic, to the point of heartbreak, documentaries I have watched recently, the mockumentary that is “Top Knot Detective” is a breath of fresh air, both for its main theme (a fictional 90’s Japanese TV show Ronin Suiri Tentai (Deductive Reasoning Ronin) and its creator, Takashi Takamoto, and its incredible presentation.
“Top Knot Detective” is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam, that will be on January 24 until February 4.
For starters, let me say that Dominic Pearce and Aaron McCann have created a mockumentary so thorough and filled with information, that even knowing the whole concept is fictional, I still have troubled believing it. Starting with the reaction of the Australian audience to the screening of the film, continuing to the events that led to its creation and the company behind it, to the story of deviser, director, writer, producer and protagonist Takashi Takamoto and the interviews with the other protagonists,...
“Top Knot Detective” is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam, that will be on January 24 until February 4.
For starters, let me say that Dominic Pearce and Aaron McCann have created a mockumentary so thorough and filled with information, that even knowing the whole concept is fictional, I still have troubled believing it. Starting with the reaction of the Australian audience to the screening of the film, continuing to the events that led to its creation and the company behind it, to the story of deviser, director, writer, producer and protagonist Takashi Takamoto and the interviews with the other protagonists,...
- 2/2/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Just to be up front, I am generally a fan of media based mockumentaries, and Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce's Top Knot Detective is one of the best and funniest examples of the form in a while. The film explores the cult following of the eponymous Japanese samurai TV series from the '70s in the filmmakers native Australia and dives deep into the show's creators, their personal lives, and the cultural force that was Top Knot Detective, a TV program that never existed. The basic premise behind the show within the film mirrors any number of sleazy '70s jidai geki samurai/ronin films and TV shows. A samurai's master meets a violent end and the wronged pupil traverses the countryside looking for revenge and picking up...
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- 10/11/2017
- Screen Anarchy
'Watch the Sunset'..
Revelation Perth International Film Festival.s 20th incarnation promises to be its biggest to date, with 200 films set to screen - among them 15 world premieres and 41 Australian premieres.
The festival will open with Josh Greenbaum.s.Becoming Bond, a documentary about the life of Australia.s James Bond, George Lazenby. Lazenby-starrer On Her Majesty.s Secret Service is also set to screen, with the actor in attendance for a Q&A.
Australian film Watch the Sunset, from Tristian Barr and Michael Godsen, will make its world debut at the festival with cast and crew to appear in Q&A. Other Aussie features to screen include Michael Jones. Lazybones and Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce.s Top Knot Detective.
Local documentaries will get a good showing, with a line-up that includes Kriv Stenders. The Go Betweens: Right Here, Mat de Koning.s Meal Tickets, and Kate Hickey.s Roller Dreams.
Revelation Perth International Film Festival.s 20th incarnation promises to be its biggest to date, with 200 films set to screen - among them 15 world premieres and 41 Australian premieres.
The festival will open with Josh Greenbaum.s.Becoming Bond, a documentary about the life of Australia.s James Bond, George Lazenby. Lazenby-starrer On Her Majesty.s Secret Service is also set to screen, with the actor in attendance for a Q&A.
Australian film Watch the Sunset, from Tristian Barr and Michael Godsen, will make its world debut at the festival with cast and crew to appear in Q&A. Other Aussie features to screen include Michael Jones. Lazybones and Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce.s Top Knot Detective.
Local documentaries will get a good showing, with a line-up that includes Kriv Stenders. The Go Betweens: Right Here, Mat de Koning.s Meal Tickets, and Kate Hickey.s Roller Dreams.
- 6/13/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
It was back in 2015 that we first wrote about the Top Knot Detective. Also known by the more literal title of Deductive Reasoning Ronin, Top Knot Detective was a cult Japanese television series explored in a documentary TV series by Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce on Australian television. Or was it? This ‘documentary’ unravels the tale of how ‘Ronin Suiri Tantai’ made it to Australian screens back in the late 90’s, retitled as Top Knot Detective, and what really happened behind the scenes of this outrageous show. The original Japanese series was legendary in its home country as being a cultural train-wreck, led by its insane writer/director/star, Takashi Takamoto. The rivalry between Takashi and costar, Haruto Koike, is just the tip of this conspiratorial...
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- 3/27/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Artist Ian Strange first became captivated by the idea of home once he left his own, moving to New York from Perth over eight years ago..
Home has formed the running theme in the multidisciplinarian artist's work since. He built a full-scale replica of his childhood home from memory on Sydney.s Cockatoo Island in 2011, and has gone on to create installation works using homes in post-gfc America and post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand.
The artist's conception of home as an idea has changed throughout the process, he told If.
.I began to realise that as an adolescent, feeling isolated by the stability of suburbia was actually quite a luxury. There are a lot people who are feeling isolated because of its instability and how tenous it can actually be."
The last eight years of Strange.s work have been documented in a six part web series now availabe on ABC iview,...
Home has formed the running theme in the multidisciplinarian artist's work since. He built a full-scale replica of his childhood home from memory on Sydney.s Cockatoo Island in 2011, and has gone on to create installation works using homes in post-gfc America and post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand.
The artist's conception of home as an idea has changed throughout the process, he told If.
.I began to realise that as an adolescent, feeling isolated by the stability of suburbia was actually quite a luxury. There are a lot people who are feeling isolated because of its instability and how tenous it can actually be."
The last eight years of Strange.s work have been documented in a six part web series now availabe on ABC iview,...
- 3/23/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Top Knot Detective.
Comedy feature Top Knot Detective is set to air as on SBS2 next Wednesday. The film is the debut feature of co-writers and directors Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce.
Lauren Brunswick, winner of the 2015 Wa Young Filmmaker of the Year Award.and one of Spa.s 2015 Ones to Watch, produced. A mockumentary, Top Knot Detective was borne out of Sbs.s 2015 Comedy Runway initiative to find emerging talent. The initial pilot is on Sbs On Demand. Originally commissioned as a web-series, the comedy was turned into a feature in the last few months of post-production. The majority of the film was shot in Wa across 2015 and 2016, with additional principal photography in Japan and Sydney. The film looks behind the scenes at the (fictional) Japanese drama Ronin Suirai Tantei, or as it.s better known in Australia where it was a cult hit, Top Knot Detective - "the...
Comedy feature Top Knot Detective is set to air as on SBS2 next Wednesday. The film is the debut feature of co-writers and directors Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce.
Lauren Brunswick, winner of the 2015 Wa Young Filmmaker of the Year Award.and one of Spa.s 2015 Ones to Watch, produced. A mockumentary, Top Knot Detective was borne out of Sbs.s 2015 Comedy Runway initiative to find emerging talent. The initial pilot is on Sbs On Demand. Originally commissioned as a web-series, the comedy was turned into a feature in the last few months of post-production. The majority of the film was shot in Wa across 2015 and 2016, with additional principal photography in Japan and Sydney. The film looks behind the scenes at the (fictional) Japanese drama Ronin Suirai Tantei, or as it.s better known in Australia where it was a cult hit, Top Knot Detective - "the...
- 9/22/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Documentary musical Prison Songs and animated TV series God Squad each won three trophies at the 27th annual Wa Screen Awards.
Writer-director Jeffory Asselin.s Pinch was the surprise winner of. best feature film . drama, edging out Kill Me Three Times,. Paper Planes and The Reckoning.
The film revolves around a light-fingered teen who attempts to rip off a major drug syndicate to pay for his mother's life saving surgery.
Producer/director Lauren Brunswick received the $5,000 McKenna Hampton Young Filmmaker of the Year award.
Presented by Fti, the awards were handed out at the Heath Ledger Theatre on June 29, hosted by comedian Joel Creasey.
The Beyond West-produced Prison Songs by Kelrick Martin and Harry Bardwell took the prizes for best TV production . factual, best long form editing and sound. Martin also won the award for best long form direction..
God Squad by Troy Zafer and Nicholas Kempt was named best animation,...
Writer-director Jeffory Asselin.s Pinch was the surprise winner of. best feature film . drama, edging out Kill Me Three Times,. Paper Planes and The Reckoning.
The film revolves around a light-fingered teen who attempts to rip off a major drug syndicate to pay for his mother's life saving surgery.
Producer/director Lauren Brunswick received the $5,000 McKenna Hampton Young Filmmaker of the Year award.
Presented by Fti, the awards were handed out at the Heath Ledger Theatre on June 29, hosted by comedian Joel Creasey.
The Beyond West-produced Prison Songs by Kelrick Martin and Harry Bardwell took the prizes for best TV production . factual, best long form editing and sound. Martin also won the award for best long form direction..
God Squad by Troy Zafer and Nicholas Kempt was named best animation,...
- 6/30/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
In Japan he was known as the Deductive Reasoning Ronin but in Australia? In Australia he was the Top Knot Detective and he's being brought back to screens in this documentary web series by Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce. What's it all about? The directors explain:Aaron McCann: Top Knot Detective is a look back at this amazing, obscure early 90's Japanese samurai series that had a huge cult following in Australia in the early 00's. It's a documentary about the show and some of the bizarre behind the scenes antics that it's creator and co-stars got up to, as well as investigating how the main star ended up in jail 20+ years later. The show itself (originally titled "Ronin Suirei Tentai") was a badly put together...
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- 3/25/2015
- Screen Anarchy
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