“6 Festivals,” a music drama film that marks the first Australian feature movie to be commissioned by Paramount+, is to get a local theatrical release.
The picture is the story of three teenage best friends who try to attend six music festivals in as many months. It gets its world premiere on Friday at the Sydney Film Festival, as part of the Sff’s Sounds on Screen section.
The picture will have a limited theatrical release in Australia through Bonsai Films from Aug. 11, 2022. Global accessibility on Paramount+ will follow at an unspecified date later in the year.
Parent company, ViacomCBS also owns Australian linear network Channel 10. Together they gave the Paramount+ platform a local launch last August by including 10’s pre-existing streaming offering, 10 All Access.
“6 Festivals” was written by Sean Nash, Macario De Souza and Lou Sanz and directed by de Souza (“Bra Boys”), who also works as recording artist Kid Mac.
The picture is the story of three teenage best friends who try to attend six music festivals in as many months. It gets its world premiere on Friday at the Sydney Film Festival, as part of the Sff’s Sounds on Screen section.
The picture will have a limited theatrical release in Australia through Bonsai Films from Aug. 11, 2022. Global accessibility on Paramount+ will follow at an unspecified date later in the year.
Parent company, ViacomCBS also owns Australian linear network Channel 10. Together they gave the Paramount+ platform a local launch last August by including 10’s pre-existing streaming offering, 10 All Access.
“6 Festivals” was written by Sean Nash, Macario De Souza and Lou Sanz and directed by de Souza (“Bra Boys”), who also works as recording artist Kid Mac.
- 6/8/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
After handing over the reins at Endemol Shine Australia last year, Mark Fennessy has officially launched his next venture, Helium.
The Sydney-based company will comprise three arms – Helium Studios, Helium Pictures and Helium Records – blending the producer’s passions of film/TV and music.
As an independent production label, Helium will have a primary focus on premium scripted and premium factual. Fennessy, who will act as the company’s chief creative officer, tells If his focus is on the “premium, contemporary, noisy, disruptive”.
“Via a growing stable of artists and creative talent, coupled with a unique network of storytellers, writers, and producers, we’re committed to building sustainable and truly rewarding partnerships,” he says.
On the Helium launch slate is the previously announced Last King of the Cross, in pre-production for Paramount+; feature film 6 Festivals, also for Paramount+, and crime thriller series Sex and Thugs and Rock n Roll, in advanced development.
The Sydney-based company will comprise three arms – Helium Studios, Helium Pictures and Helium Records – blending the producer’s passions of film/TV and music.
As an independent production label, Helium will have a primary focus on premium scripted and premium factual. Fennessy, who will act as the company’s chief creative officer, tells If his focus is on the “premium, contemporary, noisy, disruptive”.
“Via a growing stable of artists and creative talent, coupled with a unique network of storytellers, writers, and producers, we’re committed to building sustainable and truly rewarding partnerships,” he says.
On the Helium launch slate is the previously announced Last King of the Cross, in pre-production for Paramount+; feature film 6 Festivals, also for Paramount+, and crime thriller series Sex and Thugs and Rock n Roll, in advanced development.
- 10/6/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Yasmin Honeychurch, Rory Potter, Rasmus King, and newcomer Guyala Bayles lead the cast of writer-director Macario de Souza’s Paramount+ feature, 6 Festivals.
An Invisible Republic and Hype Republic film, 6 Festivals follows a group of three best friends, Maxie, Summer and James, who ‘bucket-list’ six music festivals over six months while coming to terms with James’ cancer diagnosis.
Bayles, a poet, model and recording artist plays Marley, an up-and-coming musician.
The film will feature a slew of Australian music acts, some of whom will feature in cameo appearances (as themselves), including G Flip, Dune Rats, Alison Wonderland, Bliss n Eso, Peking Duk, Pnau, Example, Hooligan Hefs, The Amity Affliction, JessB, B Wise and Running Touch.
Filming started earlier this year at music festivals across Wollongong and the Sunshine Coast.
For de Souza, making 6 Festivals is the realisation of his childhood and professional experiences to date.
“Music festivals have had a profound impact on my life.
An Invisible Republic and Hype Republic film, 6 Festivals follows a group of three best friends, Maxie, Summer and James, who ‘bucket-list’ six music festivals over six months while coming to terms with James’ cancer diagnosis.
Bayles, a poet, model and recording artist plays Marley, an up-and-coming musician.
The film will feature a slew of Australian music acts, some of whom will feature in cameo appearances (as themselves), including G Flip, Dune Rats, Alison Wonderland, Bliss n Eso, Peking Duk, Pnau, Example, Hooligan Hefs, The Amity Affliction, JessB, B Wise and Running Touch.
Filming started earlier this year at music festivals across Wollongong and the Sunshine Coast.
For de Souza, making 6 Festivals is the realisation of his childhood and professional experiences to date.
“Music festivals have had a profound impact on my life.
- 7/28/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
‘Back of the Net.’
The Disney Channel has acquired the Us rights to Louise Alston’s young adult drama Back of the Net, which stars Sofia Wylie.
Produced by the Steve Jaggi Company, the film follows Wylie as American science student Cory Bailey, who finds herself stuck at a soccer academy in Sydney for the summer.
Despite her lack of interest in the sport she is determined to end her team’s losing streak and beat the school’s mean girl Evie (Tiarnie Coupland).
Scripted by Us writers Casie Tabanou and Alison Spuck McNeeley and also featuring Trae Robin, Gemma Chua-Tran, Ashleigh Maree Ross, Yasmin Honeychurch, Christopher Kirby and Kate Box, it will premiere on the Disney Channel and DisneyNow at 8 pm Edt/Pdt on Saturday June 15.
The network was the natural home for the movie as Wylie starred as Buffy Driscoll in Disney Channel’s Andi Mack series. She...
The Disney Channel has acquired the Us rights to Louise Alston’s young adult drama Back of the Net, which stars Sofia Wylie.
Produced by the Steve Jaggi Company, the film follows Wylie as American science student Cory Bailey, who finds herself stuck at a soccer academy in Sydney for the summer.
Despite her lack of interest in the sport she is determined to end her team’s losing streak and beat the school’s mean girl Evie (Tiarnie Coupland).
Scripted by Us writers Casie Tabanou and Alison Spuck McNeeley and also featuring Trae Robin, Gemma Chua-Tran, Ashleigh Maree Ross, Yasmin Honeychurch, Christopher Kirby and Kate Box, it will premiere on the Disney Channel and DisneyNow at 8 pm Edt/Pdt on Saturday June 15.
The network was the natural home for the movie as Wylie starred as Buffy Driscoll in Disney Channel’s Andi Mack series. She...
- 5/20/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Back of the Net’
Facing zero competition from the new releases, New Line/DC Entertainment’s family superhero adventure Shazam! continued its reign at Australian cinemas last weekend.
Lionsgate’s Hellboy reboot, Universal’s comedy Little, Fox’s romantic drama The Aftermath and Laika Studios/Roadshow’s stop-motion animated comedy Missing Link all struggled, generally mirroring their Us results.
Meanwhile Umbrella’s Back of the Net, a young adult drama directed by Louise Alston and scripted by Casie Tabanou and Alison Spuck, launched in Queensland and Victoria, netting $14,000 from limited sessions on 38 screens.
Don’t read too much into that because the film starring Sofia Wylie (the Disney Channel’s Andi Mack) as a soccer academy student who locks horns with the school’s star player Evie (Tiarnie Coupland) is rolling out over the next few weeks, dated for the school holidays.
Also, producer Steve Jaggi is soon expected to...
Facing zero competition from the new releases, New Line/DC Entertainment’s family superhero adventure Shazam! continued its reign at Australian cinemas last weekend.
Lionsgate’s Hellboy reboot, Universal’s comedy Little, Fox’s romantic drama The Aftermath and Laika Studios/Roadshow’s stop-motion animated comedy Missing Link all struggled, generally mirroring their Us results.
Meanwhile Umbrella’s Back of the Net, a young adult drama directed by Louise Alston and scripted by Casie Tabanou and Alison Spuck, launched in Queensland and Victoria, netting $14,000 from limited sessions on 38 screens.
Don’t read too much into that because the film starring Sofia Wylie (the Disney Channel’s Andi Mack) as a soccer academy student who locks horns with the school’s star player Evie (Tiarnie Coupland) is rolling out over the next few weeks, dated for the school holidays.
Also, producer Steve Jaggi is soon expected to...
- 4/15/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
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