Michael Caton and 2015 Young Filmmaker of the Year winner Lauren Brunswick
Nominees have been announced for the West Australian Screen Awards (Wasa) Young Filmmaker of the Year and include Briege Whitehead, Jess Black, Hayden Fortescue and Jordon Prince-Wright.
The winner will receive a cash prize of $5000 and a custom-made Geoffrey Drake-Brockman Wasa trophy..
Last year.s winner, producer Lauren Brunswick (Top Knot Detective) said the value of the award lived within its ability to empower other emerging filmmakers to feel they could achieve their ambitions.
"The feat of beginning a career becomes more manageable when we feel someone has tackled it before us. A spotlight of this nature allowed me to meet more people within the film community, feel the enormous support they offer, and remember to whittle the pressures of our aspirations down to a series of steps that we must collectively be brave to undertake,". she said.
Nominees have been announced for the West Australian Screen Awards (Wasa) Young Filmmaker of the Year and include Briege Whitehead, Jess Black, Hayden Fortescue and Jordon Prince-Wright.
The winner will receive a cash prize of $5000 and a custom-made Geoffrey Drake-Brockman Wasa trophy..
Last year.s winner, producer Lauren Brunswick (Top Knot Detective) said the value of the award lived within its ability to empower other emerging filmmakers to feel they could achieve their ambitions.
"The feat of beginning a career becomes more manageable when we feel someone has tackled it before us. A spotlight of this nature allowed me to meet more people within the film community, feel the enormous support they offer, and remember to whittle the pressures of our aspirations down to a series of steps that we must collectively be brave to undertake,". she said.
- 6/23/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Producer Hayden Fortescue believes his action comedy Broken Contract is the first Wa-shot feature to have been shot almost entirely without paper.
Christopher Morris (Offspring, Crownies) plays Max, a down-on-his-luck club owner who hires a hit man for protection after a local gang threatens his livelihood and his family.
Esther Anderson (Siberia, Home and Away) plays the detective who gets involved after Max.s friends and enemies start disappearing.
Fortescue set out to save money by emailing contracts, Oh&S and medical reports and call sheets, and issuing digital invoices and receipts.
During the shoot in Perth in April/May, writer-director James Pentecost used an iPad that held everything he needed . script, schedules, notes and an app that allowed him to pre-plan the set-ups for every scene.
Dispensing with traditional storyboards, he and DoP Ross Metcalf used the app, Hollywood Shot Designer, to figure out when and where every light,...
Christopher Morris (Offspring, Crownies) plays Max, a down-on-his-luck club owner who hires a hit man for protection after a local gang threatens his livelihood and his family.
Esther Anderson (Siberia, Home and Away) plays the detective who gets involved after Max.s friends and enemies start disappearing.
Fortescue set out to save money by emailing contracts, Oh&S and medical reports and call sheets, and issuing digital invoices and receipts.
During the shoot in Perth in April/May, writer-director James Pentecost used an iPad that held everything he needed . script, schedules, notes and an app that allowed him to pre-plan the set-ups for every scene.
Dispensing with traditional storyboards, he and DoP Ross Metcalf used the app, Hollywood Shot Designer, to figure out when and where every light,...
- 10/26/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
A scene from The Fan..
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Tim Winton.s The Turning was named best feature at the 26th annual Wa Screen Awards presented in Perth on Monday night.
Drift was recognised for best actor Myles Pollard, Tim Duffy.s screenplay and for Glenn Dillon.s sound.
Emily Rose Brennan.s performance in the online series The Legend of Gavin Tanner: Episode 5 - The Big Fight, earned her the best actress award. The comedy also took the People.s Choice Award for the Mad Kids team of writer/star Matt Lovkis, director Henry Inglis and producer Lauren Elliott.
Nicholas Dunlop was honoured as best director for Comic Book Heroes, the ABC documentary about the quest by Australian comic book creators Wolfgang Byslma and Skye Walker Ogden to penetrate the Us market by travelling to Comic-Con International in San Diego; it also won best factual TV production.
Antony Webb's The Fan...
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Tim Winton.s The Turning was named best feature at the 26th annual Wa Screen Awards presented in Perth on Monday night.
Drift was recognised for best actor Myles Pollard, Tim Duffy.s screenplay and for Glenn Dillon.s sound.
Emily Rose Brennan.s performance in the online series The Legend of Gavin Tanner: Episode 5 - The Big Fight, earned her the best actress award. The comedy also took the People.s Choice Award for the Mad Kids team of writer/star Matt Lovkis, director Henry Inglis and producer Lauren Elliott.
Nicholas Dunlop was honoured as best director for Comic Book Heroes, the ABC documentary about the quest by Australian comic book creators Wolfgang Byslma and Skye Walker Ogden to penetrate the Us market by travelling to Comic-Con International in San Diego; it also won best factual TV production.
Antony Webb's The Fan...
- 7/14/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Esther Anderson..
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After playing policewoman Charlie Buckton in Home and Away for five years, with a one- year gap after her character was killed off and later appeared in a vision, Esther Anderson is playing a cop in Broken Contract, an action comedy now shooting in Perth.
There are similarities between the characters but there is one major difference, apart from the milieu. In Broken Contract she.s a detective who investigates threats from a local gang to Max (Offspring and Crownies. Christopher Morris), a down-on-his luck club owner, and his family. Max.s response is to hire a hit man (Jag Pannu).
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Esther describes her character, Detective Keeling, as .strong, very smart and by-the-book, with a bit of a mouth..
The Los Angeles-based actor and former model didn.t hesitate when writer-director James Pentecost offered her the role, her first feature, which appealed to her as .a fun project,...
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After playing policewoman Charlie Buckton in Home and Away for five years, with a one- year gap after her character was killed off and later appeared in a vision, Esther Anderson is playing a cop in Broken Contract, an action comedy now shooting in Perth.
There are similarities between the characters but there is one major difference, apart from the milieu. In Broken Contract she.s a detective who investigates threats from a local gang to Max (Offspring and Crownies. Christopher Morris), a down-on-his luck club owner, and his family. Max.s response is to hire a hit man (Jag Pannu).
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Esther describes her character, Detective Keeling, as .strong, very smart and by-the-book, with a bit of a mouth..
The Los Angeles-based actor and former model didn.t hesitate when writer-director James Pentecost offered her the role, her first feature, which appealed to her as .a fun project,...
- 5/1/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Janet King/Crownies regular Christopher Morris and Home and Away.s Esther Anderson play the leads in Broken Contract, an action comedy that starts shooting in Perth on April 28.
It.s the second feature from writer-director James Pentecost, whose debut was Twisted Minds, and the third from Jag Pannu Productions, in association with Vcr Media.
The producer is Hayden Fortescue. Jag Pannu Productions made the thrillers Twisted Minds (which stars John Howard, Kyle Morrison and Jessica Hegarty) and Loren Johnson.s Raven.s Cabin.
Morris plays Max, a down-on-his-luck club owner struggling to make ends meet. When a local gang threatens his livelihood and his family, he hires a hit man to protect the ones he loves. However he soon finds himself spinning out of control as friends and enemies alike start disappearing.
Anderson plays Detective Keeling and Jag Pannu portrays the hit man. Anderson recently participated in Siberia, a...
It.s the second feature from writer-director James Pentecost, whose debut was Twisted Minds, and the third from Jag Pannu Productions, in association with Vcr Media.
The producer is Hayden Fortescue. Jag Pannu Productions made the thrillers Twisted Minds (which stars John Howard, Kyle Morrison and Jessica Hegarty) and Loren Johnson.s Raven.s Cabin.
Morris plays Max, a down-on-his-luck club owner struggling to make ends meet. When a local gang threatens his livelihood and his family, he hires a hit man to protect the ones he loves. However he soon finds himself spinning out of control as friends and enemies alike start disappearing.
Anderson plays Detective Keeling and Jag Pannu portrays the hit man. Anderson recently participated in Siberia, a...
- 4/10/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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