Darlene Johnson. A new initiative from the National Association of Cinema Operators (Naco) and the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (Mpdaa) will give two emerging Indigenous filmmakers the opportunity to attend Aimc 2016.. . Darlene Johnson is a writer/director from the Dunghutti clan from the Nsw mid-north coast. A graduate of Uts and Aftrs,.Johnson.s short films and documentaries have won numerous awards, including an Emmy nomination in 2001 (Best Documentary Stolen Generations). . She has two feature films currently in development, with Phillip Noyce attached as an Ep to one and David Gulpilil attached as a cast member and cultural advisor on the other. . Ian Ludwick is a Bulgun Warra man from Hopevale, Queensland. Formerly a policeman and paramedic,.Ludwick.turned to writing and producing in 2009.. He completed the Indigenous Producers Initiative with Screen Australia and an attachment to Arclight Films earlier this year. He also recently attended the Toronto...
- 9/29/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Greg Coote was remembered as the .heart and soul. of the Australian film renaissance of the 1970s and 80s at a celebration of his life and career on Sunday. Hundreds of family, friends and former colleagues gathered at Village Roadshow.s Sydney offices to pay homage to the film and TV industry executive and producer who died at his home in Los Angeles on June 27, aged 72. .Like so many filmmakers I owe my career to Greg Coote,. said Newsfront director Phillip Noyce in a message read by David Elfick, who produced that 1978 classic.
Noyce credited Coote with championing the film from the script stage right through the shoot, editing and the theatrical release. .He was the heart and soul of the new wave of Australian cinema in the 1970s and 80s,. the director said. Village Roadshow co-chairman/co-ceo Graham Burke noted that his long-time friend and former colleague spent 58 years in the screen industry,...
Noyce credited Coote with championing the film from the script stage right through the shoot, editing and the theatrical release. .He was the heart and soul of the new wave of Australian cinema in the 1970s and 80s,. the director said. Village Roadshow co-chairman/co-ceo Graham Burke noted that his long-time friend and former colleague spent 58 years in the screen industry,...
- 7/20/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has granted more than $276,000 in funding to support the development of 10 feature films, including projects by the co-writer of local smash The Sapphires and the team behind Wish You Were Here.
It is a small financial lifeline for the industry which is no longer receiving drama production investment from the national government agency after it spent its entire annual $42 million budget in just six months.
Among the new feature film projects to receive funding is comedy-drama The Grip, written by Tony Briggs (The Sapphires). It follows five young Australian businessmen who discover the secret to winning the pokies and develop Robin Hood-like reputations. David Field (The Combination) will direct.
Writer Felicity Price and director Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here) have also received funding to develop a new (as yet) untitled thriller. It follows social misfit Vincent, who holds a flame for 17-year-old Amber, but when his hopes are crushed he acts impulsively,...
It is a small financial lifeline for the industry which is no longer receiving drama production investment from the national government agency after it spent its entire annual $42 million budget in just six months.
Among the new feature film projects to receive funding is comedy-drama The Grip, written by Tony Briggs (The Sapphires). It follows five young Australian businessmen who discover the secret to winning the pokies and develop Robin Hood-like reputations. David Field (The Combination) will direct.
Writer Felicity Price and director Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here) have also received funding to develop a new (as yet) untitled thriller. It follows social misfit Vincent, who holds a flame for 17-year-old Amber, but when his hopes are crushed he acts impulsively,...
- 3/3/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
John Polson, Robert Connolly and Catriona McKenzie are among the filmmakers to receive development funding from Screen Australia, announced today.
The funding, worth $275,000 is for the development of 10 feature film projects.
Polson has received matched funding to develop his Sydney Project, a collection of short films in s similar vein to Paris Je T’aime and New York I Love You, while Robert Connolly will develop his film Paper Planes and Catriona McKenzie will work on new project One White Crow.
Writer John Ratchford will travel to London for a six month internship with Dominic Minghella, writer of Doc Martin and Robin Hood and Island Pictures.
Full List of Single-funded projects
Aussie Gals
Genre Comedy
Writer Josephine Emery
Synopsis Georgie and Kylie are sisters. When Georgie’s boyfriend cons her into pulling a job for him and the heat is on her, Kylie has to risk everything she has to...
The funding, worth $275,000 is for the development of 10 feature film projects.
Polson has received matched funding to develop his Sydney Project, a collection of short films in s similar vein to Paris Je T’aime and New York I Love You, while Robert Connolly will develop his film Paper Planes and Catriona McKenzie will work on new project One White Crow.
Writer John Ratchford will travel to London for a six month internship with Dominic Minghella, writer of Doc Martin and Robin Hood and Island Pictures.
Full List of Single-funded projects
Aussie Gals
Genre Comedy
Writer Josephine Emery
Synopsis Georgie and Kylie are sisters. When Georgie’s boyfriend cons her into pulling a job for him and the heat is on her, Kylie has to risk everything she has to...
- 1/25/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has invested $275,000 in funding to support the development of 10 feature film projects, it was announced today.
The money will be used toward the development of films including a new feature from Balibo director Robert Connolly and John Polson's mysteriously titled 'Sydney Project.'
Connolly is attached to write, direct and co-produce Paper Planes, the story of a young boy with such a love flight, that he is compelled to compete in the world paper plane championships.
Details surrounding Tropfest creator John Polson's Sydney project are few. When announced last June, it was said to be a collection of 12 short films set in each month of the year that paid tribute to the city.
Other films that have received funding include Kingdom Come, an action thriller to be directed by Marc Furmie and One White Crow, from writer/director Catriona McKenzie.
Kingdom Come features an Australian Federal...
The money will be used toward the development of films including a new feature from Balibo director Robert Connolly and John Polson's mysteriously titled 'Sydney Project.'
Connolly is attached to write, direct and co-produce Paper Planes, the story of a young boy with such a love flight, that he is compelled to compete in the world paper plane championships.
Details surrounding Tropfest creator John Polson's Sydney project are few. When announced last June, it was said to be a collection of 12 short films set in each month of the year that paid tribute to the city.
Other films that have received funding include Kingdom Come, an action thriller to be directed by Marc Furmie and One White Crow, from writer/director Catriona McKenzie.
Kingdom Come features an Australian Federal...
- 1/25/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
Brendan Cowell (Love My Way, Beneath Hill 60), Ella Scott Lynch (Crownies) and Toby Schmitz (Griff the Invisible, Lbf) will headline a cast for Cockatoo Island’s In The Raw screenplay presentation of psychological thriller Metamorphosis.
The In The Raw presentations help give filmmakers a better understanding on how the film will read while an industry panel give feedback.
Allanah Zitserman, creative director of Cockatoo Island Film Festival, said “Metamorphosis is a new psychological thriller and that the script reading will present a unique opportunity for audiences and the industry panel (including established film directors Samantha Lang and Elissa Down) to provide valuable feedback regarding its development.”
The film is written by Kris Wyld (East West 101, White Collar Blue, Wildside) and will be produced by David Elfick (Rabbit Proof Fence, Newsfront).
The event is Monday 26 September at 6pm at Aftrs Theatre, 130 Bent St, The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.
Admission...
The In The Raw presentations help give filmmakers a better understanding on how the film will read while an industry panel give feedback.
Allanah Zitserman, creative director of Cockatoo Island Film Festival, said “Metamorphosis is a new psychological thriller and that the script reading will present a unique opportunity for audiences and the industry panel (including established film directors Samantha Lang and Elissa Down) to provide valuable feedback regarding its development.”
The film is written by Kris Wyld (East West 101, White Collar Blue, Wildside) and will be produced by David Elfick (Rabbit Proof Fence, Newsfront).
The event is Monday 26 September at 6pm at Aftrs Theatre, 130 Bent St, The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.
Admission...
- 9/22/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
SYDNEY -- Director Jane Campion's latest feature, Bright Star, received the green light for funding from the Film Finance Corp. Australia on Thursday. It's part of an eclectic slate that will usher in the final year of the agency's operations.
Bright Star, an Australian-British co-production that charts the ill-fated love affair between 18-year-old Fanny Brawne and the English romantic poet John Keats, will see Campion reignite her partnership with producer Jan Chapman, with whom she won the 1993 Palme d'Or with The Piano.
Co-producing Bright Star is U.K. producer Caroline Hewitt, while Hopscotch Films and Pathe Films are distributing.
The new FFC slate, which marks the beginning of the final year before it merges with the Australian Film Commission and Film Australia in July 2008, includes four other features, five adult TV dramas, three children's dramas and nine documentaries.
Among those receiving funding is Two Fists, One Heart, a biopic about boxer Rai Fazio, who has co-written the screenplay with Jan Sardi. David Elfick is producing through his Palm Beach Pictures shingle, hiring helmer Shawn Seet for his debut feature.
Bright Star, an Australian-British co-production that charts the ill-fated love affair between 18-year-old Fanny Brawne and the English romantic poet John Keats, will see Campion reignite her partnership with producer Jan Chapman, with whom she won the 1993 Palme d'Or with The Piano.
Co-producing Bright Star is U.K. producer Caroline Hewitt, while Hopscotch Films and Pathe Films are distributing.
The new FFC slate, which marks the beginning of the final year before it merges with the Australian Film Commission and Film Australia in July 2008, includes four other features, five adult TV dramas, three children's dramas and nine documentaries.
Among those receiving funding is Two Fists, One Heart, a biopic about boxer Rai Fazio, who has co-written the screenplay with Jan Sardi. David Elfick is producing through his Palm Beach Pictures shingle, hiring helmer Shawn Seet for his debut feature.
- 7/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"Rabbit-Proof Fence", from Australian director Phillip Noyce, tackles the issues of Aboriginal Australia head-on. Discussions rage here about the so-called "Stolen Generation" -- a cohort of Aboriginal Australians taken by the government from their families, "for their own good," to be integrated into white society through work as household domestics -- and the government's debt of apology to them. With this film, Noyce has walked into the middle of the fray; using his gifts as a creator of expertly crafted, highly accomplished commercial successes, he has made a movie as exciting and accessible as it is timely.
In Australia, films about the indigenous experience have an unfortunate track record of not communicating on a large scale with local audiences. Although such films as "Dead Heart", "Serenades" and "Yolngu Boy" often strike a chord with critics and art house audiences, recognition on a wider scale is usually lacking. That trend is about to get turned on its head.
Molly, Daisy and Gracie (played by extraordinary new finds Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury and Laura Monaghan, respectively) are Aboriginal girls who feel the sting of governmental interference when torn from their mother and sent to live at a remote mission. Here they will be taught the ways of white Christian Australia and how to work for upper-class families as domestics.
But the fiercely independent Molly is sickened by the repressive mission. She grabs Daisy and Gracie, and the three make their escape. Trailing the enormous rabbit-proof fence (built to save Australia from a crippling rabbit plague) that cuts across the nation, the girls begin a 1,500-mile journey home, pursued by authorities and the chief protector of Aborigines, Mr. A.O. Neville (played superbly by Kenneth Branagh, who adds depth and texture to a role that easily could have become a demonized stereotype).
Although it is a film steeped in politics, one of the finest aspects of "Fence" is its universality. This is a movie about innocence subsumed by outside forces and essentially children in danger, making it a visceral, instantly engrossing film that works from an emotional, rather than dryly intellectual, base.
Noyce puts you inside the plight of his central protagonists, taking the audience on an adrenalized ride that totally skirts the potential preaching a subject like this could have inspired.
Tightly made and richly rewarding (and to be distributed in America by Miramax, which excels with this kind of product), expect "Fence" to cross over to a mainstream audience. This is a powerful film that speaks in universal terms about an important issue while going straight for the heart.
RABBIT-PROOF FENCE
Miramax
Hanway and the Australian Film Corp.
A Rumbalara Films & Olsen Levy production
Producers: John Winter, Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen
Director: Phillip Noyce
Executive producers: David Elfick, Jeremy Thomas, Kathleen McLaughlin
Screenwriter: Christine Olsen
Based on the book "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" by: Doris Pilkington Garimara
Director of photography: Christopher Doyle
Production designer/costume designer: Roger Ford
Editors: John Scott, Veronika Jenet
Color/stereo
Cast:
Molly: Everlyn Sampi
Daisy: Tianna Sansbury
Gracie: Laura Monaghan
Mr. A.O. Neville: Kenneth Branagh
Moodoo: David Gulpilil
Maude: Ningali Lawford
Mavis: Deborah Mailman
Constable Riggs: Jason Clarke
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
In Australia, films about the indigenous experience have an unfortunate track record of not communicating on a large scale with local audiences. Although such films as "Dead Heart", "Serenades" and "Yolngu Boy" often strike a chord with critics and art house audiences, recognition on a wider scale is usually lacking. That trend is about to get turned on its head.
Molly, Daisy and Gracie (played by extraordinary new finds Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury and Laura Monaghan, respectively) are Aboriginal girls who feel the sting of governmental interference when torn from their mother and sent to live at a remote mission. Here they will be taught the ways of white Christian Australia and how to work for upper-class families as domestics.
But the fiercely independent Molly is sickened by the repressive mission. She grabs Daisy and Gracie, and the three make their escape. Trailing the enormous rabbit-proof fence (built to save Australia from a crippling rabbit plague) that cuts across the nation, the girls begin a 1,500-mile journey home, pursued by authorities and the chief protector of Aborigines, Mr. A.O. Neville (played superbly by Kenneth Branagh, who adds depth and texture to a role that easily could have become a demonized stereotype).
Although it is a film steeped in politics, one of the finest aspects of "Fence" is its universality. This is a movie about innocence subsumed by outside forces and essentially children in danger, making it a visceral, instantly engrossing film that works from an emotional, rather than dryly intellectual, base.
Noyce puts you inside the plight of his central protagonists, taking the audience on an adrenalized ride that totally skirts the potential preaching a subject like this could have inspired.
Tightly made and richly rewarding (and to be distributed in America by Miramax, which excels with this kind of product), expect "Fence" to cross over to a mainstream audience. This is a powerful film that speaks in universal terms about an important issue while going straight for the heart.
RABBIT-PROOF FENCE
Miramax
Hanway and the Australian Film Corp.
A Rumbalara Films & Olsen Levy production
Producers: John Winter, Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen
Director: Phillip Noyce
Executive producers: David Elfick, Jeremy Thomas, Kathleen McLaughlin
Screenwriter: Christine Olsen
Based on the book "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" by: Doris Pilkington Garimara
Director of photography: Christopher Doyle
Production designer/costume designer: Roger Ford
Editors: John Scott, Veronika Jenet
Color/stereo
Cast:
Molly: Everlyn Sampi
Daisy: Tianna Sansbury
Gracie: Laura Monaghan
Mr. A.O. Neville: Kenneth Branagh
Moodoo: David Gulpilil
Maude: Ningali Lawford
Mavis: Deborah Mailman
Constable Riggs: Jason Clarke
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/21/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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