Matt Hearn, producer of “Wolf Creek,” one of Australia’s biggest genre exports, is backing “Penny Lane is Dead,” the feature debut of Australian writer-director and makeup artist Mia’kate Russell.
Set up at Melbourne’s Buffalo Media, headed by André Lima, who will produce “Penny Lane is Dead” with Hearn, “Penny Lane” looks like one of the strongest projects being brought onto the market this week at Frontières, in terms of its behind the camera talent package and financing.
“Penny Lane” features among Frontières’ six Forum projects, a program reserved for films in advanced stages of financing.
The film has drawn down “significant funding” from Screen Australia’s Producer Offset program, which means 40 of the film finance is secured, Lima told Variety.
“With the right market partners in place, we estimate that [a further] 20-30 of the production budget can be raised from our federal and state film agencies through their production investment funding programs,...
Set up at Melbourne’s Buffalo Media, headed by André Lima, who will produce “Penny Lane is Dead” with Hearn, “Penny Lane” looks like one of the strongest projects being brought onto the market this week at Frontières, in terms of its behind the camera talent package and financing.
“Penny Lane” features among Frontières’ six Forum projects, a program reserved for films in advanced stages of financing.
The film has drawn down “significant funding” from Screen Australia’s Producer Offset program, which means 40 of the film finance is secured, Lima told Variety.
“With the right market partners in place, we estimate that [a further] 20-30 of the production budget can be raised from our federal and state film agencies through their production investment funding programs,...
- 7/19/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Mrs McCutcheon..
John Sheedy.s Mrs McCutcheon and Claire Randall.s Wolfe are headed to International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, where they will compete in the children and youth competition.
Wolfe won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film in the Generation 14Plus program at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year..The documentary explores a young man.s journey through adolescence with undiagnosed schizophrenia. Randall, the director-producer, made the film with fellow Griffith Film School students Shannen Tunnicliffe, producer, and Lachlan Morton, cinematographer and animator.
Oberhausen marks Mrs McCutcheon.s world premiere. Directed and conceived by Sheedy, the film is the theatre veteran.s first foray into filmmaking, and was written by Ben Young, whose debut feature Hounds of Love won acclaim in Venice last year. .
Mrs McCutcheon follows 10-year-old Tom (Alec Golinger) on a journey of self-discovery. Having always felt he was born in the wrong body,...
John Sheedy.s Mrs McCutcheon and Claire Randall.s Wolfe are headed to International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, where they will compete in the children and youth competition.
Wolfe won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film in the Generation 14Plus program at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year..The documentary explores a young man.s journey through adolescence with undiagnosed schizophrenia. Randall, the director-producer, made the film with fellow Griffith Film School students Shannen Tunnicliffe, producer, and Lachlan Morton, cinematographer and animator.
Oberhausen marks Mrs McCutcheon.s world premiere. Directed and conceived by Sheedy, the film is the theatre veteran.s first foray into filmmaking, and was written by Ben Young, whose debut feature Hounds of Love won acclaim in Venice last year. .
Mrs McCutcheon follows 10-year-old Tom (Alec Golinger) on a journey of self-discovery. Having always felt he was born in the wrong body,...
- 3/30/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
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