Studiocanal has boarded the big screen adaptation of Australian author’s Craig Silvey’s award-winning 2002 bestseller Runt, about the friendship between a young girl and a stray dog she takes under her wing.
Child actress Lily Latorre, whose credits include feature Run Rabbit Run and TV series The Clearing, has been signed for the lead role, to star alongside by a rescue dog called Squid.
The actress’s real-life sibling Jack Latorre will also join her in his big screen debut as a daredevil younger brother.
The all-Australian adult cast includes Jai Courtney, Celeste Barber, Deborah Mailman, Matt Day and Jack Thompson.
Set in the country-town of Upson Down, the comedy drama follows eleven-year-old Annie Shearer and her adopted stray dog Runt, as they try to save the family farm by competing in the Agility Course Grand
The production is led by Sydney and Perth-based See Pictures, with the backing of Screen Australia,...
Child actress Lily Latorre, whose credits include feature Run Rabbit Run and TV series The Clearing, has been signed for the lead role, to star alongside by a rescue dog called Squid.
The actress’s real-life sibling Jack Latorre will also join her in his big screen debut as a daredevil younger brother.
The all-Australian adult cast includes Jai Courtney, Celeste Barber, Deborah Mailman, Matt Day and Jack Thompson.
Set in the country-town of Upson Down, the comedy drama follows eleven-year-old Annie Shearer and her adopted stray dog Runt, as they try to save the family farm by competing in the Agility Course Grand
The production is led by Sydney and Perth-based See Pictures, with the backing of Screen Australia,...
- 10/23/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Best-selling Australian novel, Runt” is to be adapted as a feature movie that will begin shooting from next month. Studiocanal is handling international rights sales and local distribution in Australia and New Zealand.
The story is a heartfelt, contemporary Australian tale, set in the country town of Upson Downs, where eleven-year-old Annie Shearer and her best friend, an adopted stray dog called Runt, try to save their family farm by competing in the Agility Course Grand Championships at the prestigious Krumpets Dog Show in London.
The book was released in 2022 and won a clean sweep of the major Australian literary awards including the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s book of the year for young readers, book of the year for younger children at the Australian Book Industry Awards, and overall book of the year at the Australian Indie Book Awards.
The movie is adapted for the screen by...
The story is a heartfelt, contemporary Australian tale, set in the country town of Upson Downs, where eleven-year-old Annie Shearer and her best friend, an adopted stray dog called Runt, try to save their family farm by competing in the Agility Course Grand Championships at the prestigious Krumpets Dog Show in London.
The book was released in 2022 and won a clean sweep of the major Australian literary awards including the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s book of the year for young readers, book of the year for younger children at the Australian Book Industry Awards, and overall book of the year at the Australian Indie Book Awards.
The movie is adapted for the screen by...
- 10/23/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Studiocanal handles international sales.
Jai Courtney, Celeste Barber, Deborah Mailman, Matt Day, Tom Budge, Genevieve Lemon and Jack Thompson have been cast in director John Sheedy’s second feature Runt, with cameras rolling on Monday (October 23) in Western Australia.
However it is Lily Latorre, who plays 11-year-old Annie, and adopted stray dog Squid in the title role of Runt, who will be the stand-out stars as their characters make up the champion dog agility double-act that might just save the family’s sheep farm. Latorre’s brother Jack is also in the cast.
Prolific author Craig Silvey wrote the script...
Jai Courtney, Celeste Barber, Deborah Mailman, Matt Day, Tom Budge, Genevieve Lemon and Jack Thompson have been cast in director John Sheedy’s second feature Runt, with cameras rolling on Monday (October 23) in Western Australia.
However it is Lily Latorre, who plays 11-year-old Annie, and adopted stray dog Squid in the title role of Runt, who will be the stand-out stars as their characters make up the champion dog agility double-act that might just save the family’s sheep farm. Latorre’s brother Jack is also in the cast.
Prolific author Craig Silvey wrote the script...
- 10/22/2023
- by Sandy George
- ScreenDaily
Upcoming titles handled by Embankment, Protagonist, Goodfellas and Studiocanal to receive a share of production funding.
Screen Australia is to allocate more than Aud$10m ($6.4m) of production funding to a raft of upcoming film and TV projects.
The national screen body will support six features including Sophie Hyde’s An Ideal Woman, starring Emilia Clarke; Dario Russo’s The Fox, starring Jai Courtney and from the producers of horror hit Talk to Me; and Charles Williams’ Inside, starring Guy Pearce. Further films to receive a share of the funding include David Vincent Smith drama He Ain’t Heavy, John Sheedy...
Screen Australia is to allocate more than Aud$10m ($6.4m) of production funding to a raft of upcoming film and TV projects.
The national screen body will support six features including Sophie Hyde’s An Ideal Woman, starring Emilia Clarke; Dario Russo’s The Fox, starring Jai Courtney and from the producers of horror hit Talk to Me; and Charles Williams’ Inside, starring Guy Pearce. Further films to receive a share of the funding include David Vincent Smith drama He Ain’t Heavy, John Sheedy...
- 9/25/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Hopscotch Features’ Troy Lum and Andrew Mason have joined forces with UK producer Gabrielle Tana to form a new production house, Brouhaha Entertainment.
The company combines their respective slates, with upcoming projects including Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, starring Michelle Williams; Kate Dennis’ All That I Am, based on the novel by Anna Funder; Lee Tamahori’s The Convert; Richard E. Grant’s Majesty and Patrick Dickinson’s Cottontail.
To be based across Sydney and London, the company has received investment via the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which was launched in June 2019 in association with the British Film Institute (BFI).
The fund aims to support the growth of dynamic and ambitious UK companies, and has also backed the likes of Wonderhood Studios, Raindog Films, Maze Theory and Maven Screen Media.
Tana is the producer of the Oscar-nominated Philomena, The Invisible Woman and most recently, Netflix’s The Dig, from Australian director Simon Stone.
The company combines their respective slates, with upcoming projects including Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, starring Michelle Williams; Kate Dennis’ All That I Am, based on the novel by Anna Funder; Lee Tamahori’s The Convert; Richard E. Grant’s Majesty and Patrick Dickinson’s Cottontail.
To be based across Sydney and London, the company has received investment via the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which was launched in June 2019 in association with the British Film Institute (BFI).
The fund aims to support the growth of dynamic and ambitious UK companies, and has also backed the likes of Wonderhood Studios, Raindog Films, Maze Theory and Maven Screen Media.
Tana is the producer of the Oscar-nominated Philomena, The Invisible Woman and most recently, Netflix’s The Dig, from Australian director Simon Stone.
- 7/21/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
“It’s something we have in our soul,” says León Larregui, the frontman of Mexico’s celebrated alt-rock band Zoé. “We’re telepathically connected, even from far away and without speaking.” That uncanny bond between Larregui and his bandmates — one he calls a “karmic sonic identity” — informed the band’s seventh album, Sonidos de Karmática Resonancia (or Sounds of Karmic Resonance), out April 16th. “Our songs, some of which we wrote separately, would even have the same notes,” he continues. “It’s like we’re channeling from the same source.
- 4/14/2021
- by Isabela Raygoza
- Rollingstone.com
M. Ward will release his 10th solo album, Migration Stories, on April 3rd, 2020 via Anti Records. The singer-songwriter will promote the record on a North American tour that launches April 17th in Philadelphia and wraps May 22nd in Los Angeles.
Ward previewed the LP, which follows 2018’s What a Wonderful Industry, with new song “Migration of Souls.” The track follows the singer’s gravely voice as it glides over strummed acoustic guitars, melodic bass, breathy saxophones and reverb-kissed harmonies. “Sailing on past space and time,” he sings. “That’s how...
Ward previewed the LP, which follows 2018’s What a Wonderful Industry, with new song “Migration of Souls.” The track follows the singer’s gravely voice as it glides over strummed acoustic guitars, melodic bass, breathy saxophones and reverb-kissed harmonies. “Sailing on past space and time,” he sings. “That’s how...
- 12/3/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Genevieve Hegney and Tim Minchin in ‘Upright’ (Photo credit: Foxtel).
Playing strangers who meet half way across the Nullarbor and have a brief but passionate encounter in Foxtel’s upcoming series Upright was a lot of fun for Tim Minchin and Genevieve Hegney.
Friends since they attended the University of Western Australia and its dramatic society Uds, they had not been on stage or screen together before, although she did direct him in a Uds production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in which he played The Player.
In Upright Hegney’s character Frankie is travelling from Perth while Minchin’s Flynn is coming from Sydney with teenage runaway Meg (Milly Alcock) as they lug a piano across the country.
“We were both good sports about the love scene,” she tells If. “After 20 years in the business we were being very technical, like ‘you put your hand...
Playing strangers who meet half way across the Nullarbor and have a brief but passionate encounter in Foxtel’s upcoming series Upright was a lot of fun for Tim Minchin and Genevieve Hegney.
Friends since they attended the University of Western Australia and its dramatic society Uds, they had not been on stage or screen together before, although she did direct him in a Uds production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in which he played The Player.
In Upright Hegney’s character Frankie is travelling from Perth while Minchin’s Flynn is coming from Sydney with teenage runaway Meg (Milly Alcock) as they lug a piano across the country.
“We were both good sports about the love scene,” she tells If. “After 20 years in the business we were being very technical, like ‘you put your hand...
- 9/1/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
We’re in that weird pause between the end of summer releases and the onslaught of the fall festival season, so it’s a pretty good time to look and see what offerings there are abroad. And one movie that’s piqued our curiosity is “Jasper Jones.”
Described as Australia’s “Stand By Me,” based on the best-seller by Craig Silvey, and starring Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Levi Miller and Angourie Rice, the story follows a 14-year-old who takes on solving a mysterious murder when his friend discovers a dead body.
Continue reading ‘Jasper Jones’ Trailer: Australia’s ‘Stand By Me’ Starring Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving & Angourie Rice at The Playlist.
Described as Australia’s “Stand By Me,” based on the best-seller by Craig Silvey, and starring Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Levi Miller and Angourie Rice, the story follows a 14-year-old who takes on solving a mysterious murder when his friend discovers a dead body.
Continue reading ‘Jasper Jones’ Trailer: Australia’s ‘Stand By Me’ Starring Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving & Angourie Rice at The Playlist.
- 8/21/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Mubi has acquired the U.S., U.K. and Ireland rights to Philippe Garrel’s “Lover for a Day” (“L’Amant d’un jour”), which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Sacd prize from the French Writers and Directors Guild, shared with Claire Denis’ “Let the Sunshine In.”...
– Mubi has acquired the U.S., U.K. and Ireland rights to Philippe Garrel’s “Lover for a Day” (“L’Amant d’un jour”), which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Sacd prize from the French Writers and Directors Guild, shared with Claire Denis’ “Let the Sunshine In.”...
- 6/2/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Film Movement has secured all U.S. rights to Jasper Jones, an Australian drama from director Rachel Perkins. Adapted from Craig Silvey’s novel, the film will be released this winter. Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Levi Miller, Angourie Rice, Dan Wyllie and Aaron McGrath co-star in the pic that follows Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14 who lives in a small town in Western Australia. One night during the scorching summer of 1969, Charlie is awoken by local part-Aboriginal…...
- 6/1/2017
- Deadline
Kong: Skull Island (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures).
Warner Bros. King Kong reboot, Kong: Skull Island, has stomped its box office competition, debuting on $4.7 million from 401 screens; an average of $11,759..
The film, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and partly shot on the Gold Coast, just pipped last week.s number one, Fox's Logan..The Hugh Jackman blockbuster.took $4.5 million, and now sits on a total of $14.9 million after two weeks..
Fellow Fox title Hidden Figures, now in its fourth week, rang up $1.3 million — a drop of only 27 per cent. It now sits on $13.7 million overall..
No other film cracked the million dollar mark this week. However, Lion.s takings of $671,227 pushed its cume to $27.7 million. The Transmission film is now the sixth highest grossing Australian film of all time, and needs only a paltry $5,000 or so to overtake Moulin Rouge and squeeze into the top five..
Behind Lion was another Aussie title,...
Warner Bros. King Kong reboot, Kong: Skull Island, has stomped its box office competition, debuting on $4.7 million from 401 screens; an average of $11,759..
The film, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and partly shot on the Gold Coast, just pipped last week.s number one, Fox's Logan..The Hugh Jackman blockbuster.took $4.5 million, and now sits on a total of $14.9 million after two weeks..
Fellow Fox title Hidden Figures, now in its fourth week, rang up $1.3 million — a drop of only 27 per cent. It now sits on $13.7 million overall..
No other film cracked the million dollar mark this week. However, Lion.s takings of $671,227 pushed its cume to $27.7 million. The Transmission film is now the sixth highest grossing Australian film of all time, and needs only a paltry $5,000 or so to overtake Moulin Rouge and squeeze into the top five..
Behind Lion was another Aussie title,...
- 3/13/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Silvey on set with stars Levi Miller and Angourie Rice.
'Jasper Jones' author Craig Silvey came on board to adapt his own novel after multiple drafts had been penned by Shaun Grant ('Snowtown', 'Berlin Syndrome')..
How involved were you in the development process?
I was the second screenwriter to come on board. I was more or less a consultant for a few years [beforehand] while I was touring the book and working on other things. Pre-production tends to move quite slowly. I came on board in a much more influential way later in the process..
Was it strange, returning to a story you thought you had put to bed?
It.s a process of identifying the key elements of the story. I had a really good opportunity to know what those were, simply because I.d toured the book so much and talked to so...
'Jasper Jones' author Craig Silvey came on board to adapt his own novel after multiple drafts had been penned by Shaun Grant ('Snowtown', 'Berlin Syndrome')..
How involved were you in the development process?
I was the second screenwriter to come on board. I was more or less a consultant for a few years [beforehand] while I was touring the book and working on other things. Pre-production tends to move quite slowly. I came on board in a much more influential way later in the process..
Was it strange, returning to a story you thought you had put to bed?
It.s a process of identifying the key elements of the story. I had a really good opportunity to know what those were, simply because I.d toured the book so much and talked to so...
- 3/12/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Hugh Jackman in 'Logan'.
Hugh Jackman's final outing as Wolverine pulled in the punters over the weekend off the back of strong reviews and little in the way of fresh competition.
Fox's Logan, directed by James Mangold (The Wolverine), pulled in $7.8 million over its first weekend from 414 screens.—.a whopping screen average of $18,966.
Logan's closest competition, but not really, was Hidden Figures, taking $1.8 million over the weekend. Also from Fox, the Oscar-nominated crowdpleaser has racked up $11.7 million after three weeks, dropping a mere 34 per cent over the weekend.
Transmission's Lion came in third, down only 32 per cent after seven weeks in release to take more than $1 million over the weekend. The See-Saw film has made $26.6 million in Oz so far and is still on 316 screens.
Jasper Jones, Madman's adaptation of the beloved novel by Craig Silvey, debuted in fourth spot with $632,538 over the weekend, bringing its...
Hugh Jackman's final outing as Wolverine pulled in the punters over the weekend off the back of strong reviews and little in the way of fresh competition.
Fox's Logan, directed by James Mangold (The Wolverine), pulled in $7.8 million over its first weekend from 414 screens.—.a whopping screen average of $18,966.
Logan's closest competition, but not really, was Hidden Figures, taking $1.8 million over the weekend. Also from Fox, the Oscar-nominated crowdpleaser has racked up $11.7 million after three weeks, dropping a mere 34 per cent over the weekend.
Transmission's Lion came in third, down only 32 per cent after seven weeks in release to take more than $1 million over the weekend. The See-Saw film has made $26.6 million in Oz so far and is still on 316 screens.
Jasper Jones, Madman's adaptation of the beloved novel by Craig Silvey, debuted in fourth spot with $632,538 over the weekend, bringing its...
- 3/7/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Hugo Weaving and Toni Collette lead the filmic adaptation of Craig Silvey’s beloved novel, which director Rachel Perkins has handled with care
Craig Silvey’s bestselling 2009 novel Jasper Jones was greeted with none-too-faint praise, lauded in some circles as Australia’s own To Kill a Mockingbird. The arrival of a feature film from the director Rachel Perkins – on the heels of several successful stage adaptations – raises the question: can the same be said of the movie adaptation? Is this our Mockingbird?
I prefer to think of it as Stand By Me down under, with a bit of Boo Radley and Tom Robinson thrown in.
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Craig Silvey’s bestselling 2009 novel Jasper Jones was greeted with none-too-faint praise, lauded in some circles as Australia’s own To Kill a Mockingbird. The arrival of a feature film from the director Rachel Perkins – on the heels of several successful stage adaptations – raises the question: can the same be said of the movie adaptation? Is this our Mockingbird?
I prefer to think of it as Stand By Me down under, with a bit of Boo Radley and Tom Robinson thrown in.
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- 3/1/2017
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Leah Purcell at Sydney's Belvoir Theatre. (Photo credit: Anthony Johnson).
Projects from the likes of Jocelyn Moorhouse, Leah Purcell, Vicki Madden, Rachel Perkins, Luke Davies, Sophie Hyde, Nicholas Verso, Abe Forsythe, Craig Silvey and Corrie Chen have received development funding from Screen Australia.
.This round of development funding reflects the vibrancy of the story landscape in Australia with thrillers and romance, crime and comedies, sports dramas and musicals,. said Screen Australia's Senior Development Manager Nerida Moore..
.We have projects from both seasoned storytellers and an exciting group of up-and-coming talents. And we are also seeing a greater mix of platforms from traditional features and high-end television to the ever-growing online drama and narrative Vr spaces..
Among the projects funded, which include 24 features, five online series and two "high-end" television projects, are:
Tasmanian-set gothic crime show The Gloaming, created and written by The Kettering Incident's Vicki Madden, who will produce...
Projects from the likes of Jocelyn Moorhouse, Leah Purcell, Vicki Madden, Rachel Perkins, Luke Davies, Sophie Hyde, Nicholas Verso, Abe Forsythe, Craig Silvey and Corrie Chen have received development funding from Screen Australia.
.This round of development funding reflects the vibrancy of the story landscape in Australia with thrillers and romance, crime and comedies, sports dramas and musicals,. said Screen Australia's Senior Development Manager Nerida Moore..
.We have projects from both seasoned storytellers and an exciting group of up-and-coming talents. And we are also seeing a greater mix of platforms from traditional features and high-end television to the ever-growing online drama and narrative Vr spaces..
Among the projects funded, which include 24 features, five online series and two "high-end" television projects, are:
Tasmanian-set gothic crime show The Gloaming, created and written by The Kettering Incident's Vicki Madden, who will produce...
- 2/13/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
"We don't know who's out there!" The first trailer has debuted for an Australian coming-of-age drama titled Jasper Jones, adapted from Craig Silvey’s bestselling Australian novel of the same name. The film stars Levi Miller as a 14-year-old boy living in a small town, who is awoken by a local man named Jasper Jones, played by Aaron L. McGrath. Jasper leads him deep into the forest and shows him something that will change his life forever, setting them both on a dangerous journey to solve a mystery that will consume the entire community. This kind of sounds a bit like Stand by Me by way of Australia, and the trailer has a bit of that feeling. This also stars Hugo Weaving, Toni Collette, Angourie Rice, Matt Nable, Dan Wyllie, and Myles Pollard. Not sure when this film will show up in the Us, but it actually looks pretty damn good.
- 12/16/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In Rachel Perkins’ new adaptation of Craig Silvey’s award-winning novel, a girl goes missing in an isolated and racially divided Australian town. Expecting to be blamed for her murder, 14-year-old Indigenous outcast Jasper Jones (Aaron McGrath) enlists schoolmate Charlie Bucktin (Levi Miller) to help him solve the crime.
With Toni Collette as Charlie’s mother Ruth, and Hugo Weaving as Mad Jack Lionel, the film will be out in Australia on 2 March 2017
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With Toni Collette as Charlie’s mother Ruth, and Hugo Weaving as Mad Jack Lionel, the film will be out in Australia on 2 March 2017
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- 12/15/2016
- by Guardian Australia
- The Guardian - Film News
The Code. . Shelley Birse has taken out the top prize at this year.s Awgie Awards, winning the Major Award for the second season of ABC cyber-thriller The Code..
The first season of The Code also took out the Australian Writers. Guild Major Award in 2014. This year.s award makes it the only series to have been recognised by two Major Awards for both of its seasons. The Code also received the Awgie Award for the Television: Miniseries — Original category.
Overall, more than 25 Australian writers —.from radio, television, film, theatre and interactive media — were honoured at this year.s Awgie Awards, held in Sydney on Friday evening.
Andrew Knight and Osamah Sami.s Ali.s Wedding took out the award for most outstanding script for an original feature, while Shaun Grant and Craig Silvey received the award for most outstanding feature adaptation for Jasper Jones.
Samantha Strauss was honoured for her original telemovie,...
The first season of The Code also took out the Australian Writers. Guild Major Award in 2014. This year.s award makes it the only series to have been recognised by two Major Awards for both of its seasons. The Code also received the Awgie Award for the Television: Miniseries — Original category.
Overall, more than 25 Australian writers —.from radio, television, film, theatre and interactive media — were honoured at this year.s Awgie Awards, held in Sydney on Friday evening.
Andrew Knight and Osamah Sami.s Ali.s Wedding took out the award for most outstanding script for an original feature, while Shaun Grant and Craig Silvey received the award for most outstanding feature adaptation for Jasper Jones.
Samantha Strauss was honoured for her original telemovie,...
- 10/17/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The cast is uniformly good and only enriched by the consistently wonderful talents of Hugo Weaving and Toni Collette
Craig Silvey’s 2009 coming-of-age novel, Jasper Jones, has enjoyed a recent renaissance, with Kate Mulvany’s stage adaptation seeing three separate productions in as many years: at Perth’s Barking Gecko in 2014; at Sydney’s Belvoir Theatre earlier this year; now at Melbourne Theatre Company, where it runs until 1 September.
But it was a feature film adaptation that premiered to an enthusiastic home field audience on Wednesday night at the opening of Western Australian film festival CinefestOz, in Busselton.
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Craig Silvey’s 2009 coming-of-age novel, Jasper Jones, has enjoyed a recent renaissance, with Kate Mulvany’s stage adaptation seeing three separate productions in as many years: at Perth’s Barking Gecko in 2014; at Sydney’s Belvoir Theatre earlier this year; now at Melbourne Theatre Company, where it runs until 1 September.
But it was a feature film adaptation that premiered to an enthusiastic home field audience on Wednesday night at the opening of Western Australian film festival CinefestOz, in Busselton.
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- 8/25/2016
- by James Robert Douglas
- The Guardian - Film News
Jacki Weaver and Ivan Sen on the Goldstone set.
Ivan Sen.s.Goldstone opened the 2016 Sydney Film Festival before Transmisison released it nationally on July 7, and will make its international premiere at Tiff next month.
The film reunites Sen and his longtime producing partner David Jowsey with actor Aaron Pederson, who reprises the role of Outback detective Jay Swan, first seen in Sen.s 2013 feature Mystery Road.
.He.s a guy from an Indigenous background who.s defending and upholding white law, which has been in conflict with the white establishment for such a long time,. says Sen.
.He.s very divisive, no matter where he goes. He.s loaded with all kinds of political, social connotations. The situations you could put him in and have something quite deep and meaningful come out [of] his experiences are endless..
Goldstone revisits Swan after the loss of his daughter, whose death occurred at...
Ivan Sen.s.Goldstone opened the 2016 Sydney Film Festival before Transmisison released it nationally on July 7, and will make its international premiere at Tiff next month.
The film reunites Sen and his longtime producing partner David Jowsey with actor Aaron Pederson, who reprises the role of Outback detective Jay Swan, first seen in Sen.s 2013 feature Mystery Road.
.He.s a guy from an Indigenous background who.s defending and upholding white law, which has been in conflict with the white establishment for such a long time,. says Sen.
.He.s very divisive, no matter where he goes. He.s loaded with all kinds of political, social connotations. The situations you could put him in and have something quite deep and meaningful come out [of] his experiences are endless..
Goldstone revisits Swan after the loss of his daughter, whose death occurred at...
- 8/12/2016
- by Alice McCredie-Dando
- IF.com.au
Shaun Grant.
The Australian Writers. Guild has unveiled the nominees for the 49th Annual Awgie Awards.
Writers from the upcoming Australian films Boys in the Trees and Ali.s Wedding are nominated alongside the scribes behind Cleverman, Wentworth, Wolf Creek, Please Like Me and Glitch.
Hopscotch's John Collee is nominated twice, for Tanna (with Bentley Dean, Martin Butler and the.Yakel tribe of Tanna Island) and, in the feature film-adaptation category, for The Patriarch.
So is Shaun Grant, for both Berlin Syndrome and Jasper Jones, the latter of which he co-wrote with novelist Craig Silvey..
In a first for the awards, the newly introduced Short Form category received more than 30 entries, the highest number of any category..
23 AWGIEs will be awarded across categories covering the full spectrum of performance writing in radio, television, film, theatre and interactive media. . . . ..
For 49 years, the Australian Writers. Guild has presented the Awgie Awards to...
The Australian Writers. Guild has unveiled the nominees for the 49th Annual Awgie Awards.
Writers from the upcoming Australian films Boys in the Trees and Ali.s Wedding are nominated alongside the scribes behind Cleverman, Wentworth, Wolf Creek, Please Like Me and Glitch.
Hopscotch's John Collee is nominated twice, for Tanna (with Bentley Dean, Martin Butler and the.Yakel tribe of Tanna Island) and, in the feature film-adaptation category, for The Patriarch.
So is Shaun Grant, for both Berlin Syndrome and Jasper Jones, the latter of which he co-wrote with novelist Craig Silvey..
In a first for the awards, the newly introduced Short Form category received more than 30 entries, the highest number of any category..
23 AWGIEs will be awarded across categories covering the full spectrum of performance writing in radio, television, film, theatre and interactive media. . . . ..
For 49 years, the Australian Writers. Guild has presented the Awgie Awards to...
- 8/1/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Angourie Rice in Cannes.
Australian actress Angourie Rice has been cast in the next Spiderman film, currently shooting in Atlanta, Georgia.
Rice was singled out by critics for her performance in Shane Black's The Nice Guys, in which she starred alongside Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.
The Melbourne native has previously appeared in Walking with Dinosaurs 3D and These Final Hours in 2013, The Doctor Blake Mysteries in 2014 and Nowhere Boys: Book of Shadows.earlier this year.
As first reported by THR, Rice's role in Spider-Man: Homecoming is being kept under wraps.
The film is the first Spiderman film made under the aegis of Marvel, and stars In the Heart of the Sea's Tom Holland as Peter Parker.
The Jon Watts-directed blockbuster is slated to hit cinemas July 7 next year.
Starring alongside Rice and Holland are Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Community's Donald Glover and Prometheus star Logan Marshall-Green.
Australian actress Angourie Rice has been cast in the next Spiderman film, currently shooting in Atlanta, Georgia.
Rice was singled out by critics for her performance in Shane Black's The Nice Guys, in which she starred alongside Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.
The Melbourne native has previously appeared in Walking with Dinosaurs 3D and These Final Hours in 2013, The Doctor Blake Mysteries in 2014 and Nowhere Boys: Book of Shadows.earlier this year.
As first reported by THR, Rice's role in Spider-Man: Homecoming is being kept under wraps.
The film is the first Spiderman film made under the aegis of Marvel, and stars In the Heart of the Sea's Tom Holland as Peter Parker.
The Jon Watts-directed blockbuster is slated to hit cinemas July 7 next year.
Starring alongside Rice and Holland are Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Community's Donald Glover and Prometheus star Logan Marshall-Green.
- 7/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Simon Baker as Sando with Samsom Coulter (Pikelet) and Ben Spence (Loonie) in Breath.
The Western Australian Government has pumped $16 million worth of funding into the state's screen industry as part of new regional film fund.
The fund will aim to attract signficant levels of production from Australia and internationally.
The funding comes from the state government's Royalties for Regions scheme, a $1 billion program that underpins the government's commitment to developing Western Australia's regional areas into vibrant communities that are desirable places to live, work and invest..
The Western Australian Regional Film Fund will provide strategic finance that will stimulate regional screen industry activity and will be available to Australian and international film or television productions..
Productions must meet several quality criteria including minimum production spend in the regions and State, and likely audience reach..
Applications will be considered on a case by case basis that meet agreed thresholds of...
The Western Australian Government has pumped $16 million worth of funding into the state's screen industry as part of new regional film fund.
The fund will aim to attract signficant levels of production from Australia and internationally.
The funding comes from the state government's Royalties for Regions scheme, a $1 billion program that underpins the government's commitment to developing Western Australia's regional areas into vibrant communities that are desirable places to live, work and invest..
The Western Australian Regional Film Fund will provide strategic finance that will stimulate regional screen industry activity and will be available to Australian and international film or television productions..
Productions must meet several quality criteria including minimum production spend in the regions and State, and likely audience reach..
Applications will be considered on a case by case basis that meet agreed thresholds of...
- 5/6/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Toni Collette has joined Levi Miller, Aaron McGrath and Angourie Rice on the cast of Rachel Perkins' Australian feature film Jasper Jones..
Jasper Jones is the film adaptation of the award winning coming of age mystery novel by Craig Silvey.
Collette will play the role of Ruth Bucktin, mother to Charlie Bucktin (Miller)..
The film is set over one eventful summer in 1965 when Charlie, lured by adventure and mystery, experiences the trials of teenage love and discovers what it means to be truly courageous..
Aaaron McGrath has been cast as the titular character Jasper Jones and Rice as the intelligent and mysterious Eliza Wishart, who is also the object of Charlie.s affections.
Producer, Vincent Sheehan said Toni Collette was, quite simply, one of the greatest actors of her generation.
"The depth and insight she will bring to the unique role of Ruth Bucktin and having her work alongside...
Jasper Jones is the film adaptation of the award winning coming of age mystery novel by Craig Silvey.
Collette will play the role of Ruth Bucktin, mother to Charlie Bucktin (Miller)..
The film is set over one eventful summer in 1965 when Charlie, lured by adventure and mystery, experiences the trials of teenage love and discovers what it means to be truly courageous..
Aaaron McGrath has been cast as the titular character Jasper Jones and Rice as the intelligent and mysterious Eliza Wishart, who is also the object of Charlie.s affections.
Producer, Vincent Sheehan said Toni Collette was, quite simply, one of the greatest actors of her generation.
"The depth and insight she will bring to the unique role of Ruth Bucktin and having her work alongside...
- 9/28/2015
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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