Stars: Teagan Croft, Cliff Curtis, Alyla Browne, Josh Lawson, Anna Paquin | Written by Cathy Randall, Rebecca Banner, Sarah Spillane | Directed by Sarah Spillane
An Australian teenager plans to become the youngest sailor to have travelled the world alone. In doing so, the intrepid 16-year-old not only seeks to fulfil her dream, she also faces her greatest fears at the same time.
Even people who are fascinated by sailing are sure to find Sarah Spillane‘s True Spirit to be an extremely cheaply made, tiresome bore that is never quite able to strongly tell the amazing true story of an Australian teenager named Jessica Watson, who was the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop around the world.
There’s a certain quality to this movie that makes it feel like it was made on a college student’s budget, even though this is a Netflix film. The cinematography by Danny Ruhlmann...
An Australian teenager plans to become the youngest sailor to have travelled the world alone. In doing so, the intrepid 16-year-old not only seeks to fulfil her dream, she also faces her greatest fears at the same time.
Even people who are fascinated by sailing are sure to find Sarah Spillane‘s True Spirit to be an extremely cheaply made, tiresome bore that is never quite able to strongly tell the amazing true story of an Australian teenager named Jessica Watson, who was the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop around the world.
There’s a certain quality to this movie that makes it feel like it was made on a college student’s budget, even though this is a Netflix film. The cinematography by Danny Ruhlmann...
- 2/10/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Josh Lawson, Anna Paquin, and Cliff Curtis have been added to the cast of Sarah Spillane’s True Spirit, which is set to begin filming for Netflix later this year.
They will join Teagan Croft in the adaptation of Jessica Watson’s memoir, with the story to detail the then 16-year-old’s 2010 journey to become the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around the world.
Paquin and Lawson will play Watson’s parents, Julie and Roger Watson, while Curtis is set to portray her coach Ben Bryant.
Lawson most recently starred in New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat, while New Zealand actors Curtis and Paquin have also garnered international attention throughout their careers, most recently through roles in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and The Irishman, respectively.
For True Spirit, the trio is set to film on location in Queensland and Sydney, with the former to house the majority of production.
They will join Teagan Croft in the adaptation of Jessica Watson’s memoir, with the story to detail the then 16-year-old’s 2010 journey to become the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around the world.
Paquin and Lawson will play Watson’s parents, Julie and Roger Watson, while Curtis is set to portray her coach Ben Bryant.
Lawson most recently starred in New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat, while New Zealand actors Curtis and Paquin have also garnered international attention throughout their careers, most recently through roles in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and The Irishman, respectively.
For True Spirit, the trio is set to film on location in Queensland and Sydney, with the former to house the majority of production.
- 7/21/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Mitzi Ruhlmann.
Mitzi Ruhlmann was five years old when she saw Phillip Noyce’s Stolen Generation drama Rabbit-Proof Fence, perhaps not an ideal experience for someone so young, but it had a profound impact.
From that moment on she was determined to become an actor, not a far-fetched ambition for a girl who spent a lot of time on film and TV sets watching her dad, cinematographer Danny Ruhlmann, at work.
(Ruhlmann Senior’s credits include the features The Nugget, The Night We Called It a Day and Little Fish and, most recently, the Netflix series Messiah, created by Aussie Michael Petroni and co-directed by Kate Woods, and Jupiter’s Legacy.)
Last month the 21-year-old came home after seven months in La auditioning for numerous roles. She’ll go back in February for pilot season.
Since she was 12 she has had a manager in the Us, Jennifer Gabler Rawlings, whom she...
Mitzi Ruhlmann was five years old when she saw Phillip Noyce’s Stolen Generation drama Rabbit-Proof Fence, perhaps not an ideal experience for someone so young, but it had a profound impact.
From that moment on she was determined to become an actor, not a far-fetched ambition for a girl who spent a lot of time on film and TV sets watching her dad, cinematographer Danny Ruhlmann, at work.
(Ruhlmann Senior’s credits include the features The Nugget, The Night We Called It a Day and Little Fish and, most recently, the Netflix series Messiah, created by Aussie Michael Petroni and co-directed by Kate Woods, and Jupiter’s Legacy.)
Last month the 21-year-old came home after seven months in La auditioning for numerous roles. She’ll go back in February for pilot season.
Since she was 12 she has had a manager in the Us, Jennifer Gabler Rawlings, whom she...
- 12/16/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road), the late Andrew Lesnie (The Water Diviner) and Benjamin Shirley (The Pack) shared the prize for best cinema feature at the 2015 Nsw/Act annual awards for cinematography.
Seale also collected the Ross Wood senior judges award for 2015 best entry.
The prize for drama or comedy series and telefeature went to Jules O'Loughlin for Black Sails episode 16 and Bruce Young for The Code episode 4.
Steve Arnold ( JFK - Smoking Gun) and Dave Cameron (The Monster of Mangatiti) shared the dramatised documentaries gong.
The awards were presented on Saturday at the Sydney Masonic Centre hosted by Ray Martin, with Gillian Armstrong as guest of honour. The winners from each of the Acs branch awards will compete for national awards in Adelaide next year, where there is a gold tripod award for each category. From those, the Milli Award for Australian cinematographer of the year is selected...
Seale also collected the Ross Wood senior judges award for 2015 best entry.
The prize for drama or comedy series and telefeature went to Jules O'Loughlin for Black Sails episode 16 and Bruce Young for The Code episode 4.
Steve Arnold ( JFK - Smoking Gun) and Dave Cameron (The Monster of Mangatiti) shared the dramatised documentaries gong.
The awards were presented on Saturday at the Sydney Masonic Centre hosted by Ray Martin, with Gillian Armstrong as guest of honour. The winners from each of the Acs branch awards will compete for national awards in Adelaide next year, where there is a gold tripod award for each category. From those, the Milli Award for Australian cinematographer of the year is selected...
- 11/8/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
The Australian Cinematographers Society has announced the 2012 award winners for New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
Held on November 17 at new venue, the Masonic Centre, Sydney, the 2012 Nsw & Act Annual Awards attracted more than 180 members, sponsors and guests.
The 19 different award categories included student cinematography, current affairs, telefeatures, TV drama and mini-series, music videos and features cinema.
The Ross Wood Snr Acs Memorial Judges Award for 2012 Best Entry was awarded to Toby Oliver.for his work on Beaconsfield.
A list of all winners.can be found.below.
1 - Student Cinematography presented by the Aftrs Bronze Patrick Jaeger "Maquisard" Silver Damian Smith GetUP "It's Time" Gold Tim Barnsley "Inferno" Gold Dimitri Zaunders "Look At Me"
2 - Experimental & Specialised presented by Adept Turnkey & Airview Xtreme Silver Zoe White Gail Sorronda "Oh My Goth" Gold Judd Overton "Door Chair Bed Stair"
3 - John Bowring Acs TV Station Breaks & Promos presented by...
Held on November 17 at new venue, the Masonic Centre, Sydney, the 2012 Nsw & Act Annual Awards attracted more than 180 members, sponsors and guests.
The 19 different award categories included student cinematography, current affairs, telefeatures, TV drama and mini-series, music videos and features cinema.
The Ross Wood Snr Acs Memorial Judges Award for 2012 Best Entry was awarded to Toby Oliver.for his work on Beaconsfield.
A list of all winners.can be found.below.
1 - Student Cinematography presented by the Aftrs Bronze Patrick Jaeger "Maquisard" Silver Damian Smith GetUP "It's Time" Gold Tim Barnsley "Inferno" Gold Dimitri Zaunders "Look At Me"
2 - Experimental & Specialised presented by Adept Turnkey & Airview Xtreme Silver Zoe White Gail Sorronda "Oh My Goth" Gold Judd Overton "Door Chair Bed Stair"
3 - John Bowring Acs TV Station Breaks & Promos presented by...
- 11/18/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
The Australian Cinematographers Society has announced the 2012 award winners for New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
Held on November 17 at new venue, the Masonic Centre, Sydney, the 2012 Nsw & Act Annual Awards attracted more than 180 members, sponsors and guests.
The 19 different award categories included student cinematography, current affairs, telefeatures, TV drama and mini-series, music videos and features cinema.
The Ross Wood Snr Acs Memorial Judges Award for 2012 Best Entry was awarded to Toby Oliver.for his work on Beaconsfield.
A list of all winners.can be found.below.
1 - Student Cinematography presented by the Aftrs Bronze Patrick Jaeger "Maquisard" Silver Damian Smith GetUP "It's Time" Gold Tim Barnsley "Inferno" Gold Dimitri Zaunders "Look At Me"
2 - Experimental & Specialised presented by Adept Turnkey & Airview Xtreme Silver Zoe White Gail Sorronda "Oh My Goth" Gold Judd Overton "Door Chair Bed Stair"
3 - John Bowring Acs TV Station Breaks & Promos presented by...
Held on November 17 at new venue, the Masonic Centre, Sydney, the 2012 Nsw & Act Annual Awards attracted more than 180 members, sponsors and guests.
The 19 different award categories included student cinematography, current affairs, telefeatures, TV drama and mini-series, music videos and features cinema.
The Ross Wood Snr Acs Memorial Judges Award for 2012 Best Entry was awarded to Toby Oliver.for his work on Beaconsfield.
A list of all winners.can be found.below.
1 - Student Cinematography presented by the Aftrs Bronze Patrick Jaeger "Maquisard" Silver Damian Smith GetUP "It's Time" Gold Tim Barnsley "Inferno" Gold Dimitri Zaunders "Look At Me"
2 - Experimental & Specialised presented by Adept Turnkey & Airview Xtreme Silver Zoe White Gail Sorronda "Oh My Goth" Gold Judd Overton "Door Chair Bed Stair"
3 - John Bowring Acs TV Station Breaks & Promos presented by...
- 11/18/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
‘whatever’s comfortable’
Naked Communications has launched the first local campaign for Brown Forman Australian liqueur brand Southern Comfort in over a decade.
The ad features a man who can’t stop body popping, a form of dance, with the tagline ‘whatever’s comfortable.’
Tim Kirby, business lead at Naked Communications, said: “The new positioning for Southern Comfort is refreshingly honest. Our challenge was to change people’s behaviour from just following the herd to having the confidence to just rock their thing, no matter what that ‘thing’ is. The stories we’re telling in this campaign show people that bring that attitude to life.”
The execution will run across both TV and cinema, and is supported by print, online, digital and social media.
Credits:
Brown Forman Australia
Marketing Director Australia: Sarah Nichols Regional Brand Director Apac: Jonny Croft Senior Brand Manager: Meghan Murray
Naked Communications
Business Lead: Tim Kirby...
Naked Communications has launched the first local campaign for Brown Forman Australian liqueur brand Southern Comfort in over a decade.
The ad features a man who can’t stop body popping, a form of dance, with the tagline ‘whatever’s comfortable.’
Tim Kirby, business lead at Naked Communications, said: “The new positioning for Southern Comfort is refreshingly honest. Our challenge was to change people’s behaviour from just following the herd to having the confidence to just rock their thing, no matter what that ‘thing’ is. The stories we’re telling in this campaign show people that bring that attitude to life.”
The execution will run across both TV and cinema, and is supported by print, online, digital and social media.
Credits:
Brown Forman Australia
Marketing Director Australia: Sarah Nichols Regional Brand Director Apac: Jonny Croft Senior Brand Manager: Meghan Murray
Naked Communications
Business Lead: Tim Kirby...
- 11/2/2012
- by Georgina Pearson
- Encore Magazine
Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne was named agency of the year at the Melbourne Advertising & Design Club Awards tonight.
The agency won top honours for the second year running. However, rival Gpy&R Melbourne – which won more lions at Cannes this year than any Australian agency – did not enter for the second consecutive year. Last year, Patts Ecd Ben Coulson cited cost reasons for not supporting the event, which is Melbourne’s top awards show.
The awards list in full:
The Adstream Award for Agency of the Year
Winner
Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne
The Madc Award for Best in Show
Winner
Guilt Trips V/Line Agency McCann
The Madc Award for Lifetime Achievement
Winner
Scott Whybin, Whybin Tbwa
The Blackley Award for Creative Leader of the Year
Winner
Jason Williams, Leo Burnett
The Madc Award for Client of the Year
Winner
Carlton United Brewers
The Exit Films Award for Best Junior
Winners
Jono...
The agency won top honours for the second year running. However, rival Gpy&R Melbourne – which won more lions at Cannes this year than any Australian agency – did not enter for the second consecutive year. Last year, Patts Ecd Ben Coulson cited cost reasons for not supporting the event, which is Melbourne’s top awards show.
The awards list in full:
The Adstream Award for Agency of the Year
Winner
Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne
The Madc Award for Best in Show
Winner
Guilt Trips V/Line Agency McCann
The Madc Award for Lifetime Achievement
Winner
Scott Whybin, Whybin Tbwa
The Blackley Award for Creative Leader of the Year
Winner
Jason Williams, Leo Burnett
The Madc Award for Client of the Year
Winner
Carlton United Brewers
The Exit Films Award for Best Junior
Winners
Jono...
- 10/4/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
A new campaign for Nutella aims to tap in to daily breakfast time rituals with a new TV ad by Bmf.
The work, directed by Sng Tong Beng, shows people in sunlit scenes surfing, picnicking, making coffee and other morning activities while sharing Nutella.
It is the first work for the brand by Bmf since winning the Ferrero portfolio in April 2011, and the first time in eight years the brand has used an Australian TV ad in market in eight years.
The 30-second Tvc first aired last night. The 60-second version will screen in cinemas. The campaign will be supported by social media, online and point of sale activations.
Ferrero marketing director, Yannick Durand, said, “We are very excited by the new Nutella communication. It clearly moves us into the emotional dimension of the brand. The Bmf team and director Tong Beng have done a beautiful job, of bringing this to life,...
The work, directed by Sng Tong Beng, shows people in sunlit scenes surfing, picnicking, making coffee and other morning activities while sharing Nutella.
It is the first work for the brand by Bmf since winning the Ferrero portfolio in April 2011, and the first time in eight years the brand has used an Australian TV ad in market in eight years.
The 30-second Tvc first aired last night. The 60-second version will screen in cinemas. The campaign will be supported by social media, online and point of sale activations.
Ferrero marketing director, Yannick Durand, said, “We are very excited by the new Nutella communication. It clearly moves us into the emotional dimension of the brand. The Bmf team and director Tong Beng have done a beautiful job, of bringing this to life,...
- 8/13/2012
- by Cathie McGinn
- Encore Magazine
Seinfeld: dropped
Greater Building Society has dispensed with brand spokesman Jerry Seinfeld in its latest campaign to celebrate the ‘greater moments’ in life.
The company’s spokesman John Church told Mumbrella: “Jerry’s contract expired. It was a three-year deal that was renewed on an annual basis. But the market has changed, business has changed, and we wanted to take a fresh slice-of-life approach.”
“The campaign with Jerry was enormously successful, we saw terrific growth over those three years. The Seinfeld campaign did what it needed to do in building awareness for our brand. Job done,” he added.
The latest ad, created by ad agency Loud, was directed by Scott Pickett through Jungleboys.
Seinfeld’s last outing for Greater Building Society came in May last year in which he wrestled with a crocodile, rolled around in on a sand dune and hacked through a jungle with a machete.
The latest campaign also involves radio,...
Greater Building Society has dispensed with brand spokesman Jerry Seinfeld in its latest campaign to celebrate the ‘greater moments’ in life.
The company’s spokesman John Church told Mumbrella: “Jerry’s contract expired. It was a three-year deal that was renewed on an annual basis. But the market has changed, business has changed, and we wanted to take a fresh slice-of-life approach.”
“The campaign with Jerry was enormously successful, we saw terrific growth over those three years. The Seinfeld campaign did what it needed to do in building awareness for our brand. Job done,” he added.
The latest ad, created by ad agency Loud, was directed by Scott Pickett through Jungleboys.
Seinfeld’s last outing for Greater Building Society came in May last year in which he wrestled with a crocodile, rolled around in on a sand dune and hacked through a jungle with a machete.
The latest campaign also involves radio,...
- 7/5/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
More than 200 people last night saw director Bruce Beresford launch a much-anticipated history of cinematography in Australia, written and compiled by filmmaker Martha Ansara.
The Shadowcatchers; A History of Cinematography in Australia is nearly 300 pages in length and includes nearly 400 photographs of working cinematographers taken on films sets from 1901 to the present day. It includes carefully researched text, biographies of significant Australian cinematographers, and personal anecdotes.
Ansara, Ron Johanson, national president of the Australian Cinematographers Society (Acs) and Calvin Gardiner, chair of the Acs book committee, all spoke at the event, held at the Australian Film, Television & Radio School. Committee members helped on every aspect of the book.s development, writing, picture selection and production.
Many stills photographers, cinematographers, directors, producers, archivists and others also contributed to the massive effort which was published by the Acs and designed by Armedia.
Video messages from Dean Semler and Don McAlpine were shown,...
The Shadowcatchers; A History of Cinematography in Australia is nearly 300 pages in length and includes nearly 400 photographs of working cinematographers taken on films sets from 1901 to the present day. It includes carefully researched text, biographies of significant Australian cinematographers, and personal anecdotes.
Ansara, Ron Johanson, national president of the Australian Cinematographers Society (Acs) and Calvin Gardiner, chair of the Acs book committee, all spoke at the event, held at the Australian Film, Television & Radio School. Committee members helped on every aspect of the book.s development, writing, picture selection and production.
Many stills photographers, cinematographers, directors, producers, archivists and others also contributed to the massive effort which was published by the Acs and designed by Armedia.
Video messages from Dean Semler and Don McAlpine were shown,...
- 6/1/2012
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Snowtown director Justin Kurzel has directed a new campaign for carsales.com.au aiming to capture the Australian love affair with cars.
The ad was developed in-house, with production company Revolver producing the ad and Carat handling media. The campaign, backed with outdoor, digital and digital, goes to air on Sunday.
The chief marketing officer for carsales.com.au, Vladka Kazda said, “We wanted to explore the fact that from the moment we buy them, our cars become more than just something we drive. They become an extension of our lives. We think our new campaign demonstrates that perfectly.”
Credits:
Chief Marketing Officer Vladka Kazda Marketing Manager Fiona Driver Creative Director James Reilley Writers James Reilley & Doug Bray Producer Beaver Production Company Revolver Director Justin Kurzel Producer Caroline Barry Dop Danny Ruhlmann Post Production The Refinery Editor Peter Sciberras – The Butchery Grade Vincent Taylor Flame Artist Eugene Richards – The Refinery...
The ad was developed in-house, with production company Revolver producing the ad and Carat handling media. The campaign, backed with outdoor, digital and digital, goes to air on Sunday.
The chief marketing officer for carsales.com.au, Vladka Kazda said, “We wanted to explore the fact that from the moment we buy them, our cars become more than just something we drive. They become an extension of our lives. We think our new campaign demonstrates that perfectly.”
Credits:
Chief Marketing Officer Vladka Kazda Marketing Manager Fiona Driver Creative Director James Reilley Writers James Reilley & Doug Bray Producer Beaver Production Company Revolver Director Justin Kurzel Producer Caroline Barry Dop Danny Ruhlmann Post Production The Refinery Editor Peter Sciberras – The Butchery Grade Vincent Taylor Flame Artist Eugene Richards – The Refinery...
- 5/18/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
A sickening bike accident is replayed in reverse in a new campaign by the Transport Accident Commission in Victoria.
The agency behind the campaign was Grey Melbourne, which has handled the Tac account for more than two decades.
Credits:
Client: Tac Marketing Project Manager: Shenagh Macrae Tac Senior Manager, Road Safety & Marketing: John Thompson Agency: CD/Writer: Nigel Dawson Art Director: Peter Becker Producer: Sandi Gracin Ecd: Michael Knox General Manager: Randal Glennon Account Director: Jodi Gubana Production Company: Revolver Films Director: Bruce Hunt Producer: Catherine Jarman Cinematographer: Danny Ruhlmann Editor: Seth Lockwood Editing Company: Method Studios Sound Design/Arrangement: Simon Kate/Song Zu Post Production: Animal Logic Animation/Visual Effects: Animal Logic
Other credits:
Post Production/VFX: Animal Logic VFX Supervisor / Lead Compositor – Morgane Furio VFX Supervisor / Animation – Scott Hunter VFX Producer – Tyrone Estephan Lighting – Andrew Lodge / Manuel Macha / Aaron Hoffman FX – Larry Townsend Modelling / Surfacing – John Saleem Rigging...
The agency behind the campaign was Grey Melbourne, which has handled the Tac account for more than two decades.
Credits:
Client: Tac Marketing Project Manager: Shenagh Macrae Tac Senior Manager, Road Safety & Marketing: John Thompson Agency: CD/Writer: Nigel Dawson Art Director: Peter Becker Producer: Sandi Gracin Ecd: Michael Knox General Manager: Randal Glennon Account Director: Jodi Gubana Production Company: Revolver Films Director: Bruce Hunt Producer: Catherine Jarman Cinematographer: Danny Ruhlmann Editor: Seth Lockwood Editing Company: Method Studios Sound Design/Arrangement: Simon Kate/Song Zu Post Production: Animal Logic Animation/Visual Effects: Animal Logic
Other credits:
Post Production/VFX: Animal Logic VFX Supervisor / Lead Compositor – Morgane Furio VFX Supervisor / Animation – Scott Hunter VFX Producer – Tyrone Estephan Lighting – Andrew Lodge / Manuel Macha / Aaron Hoffman FX – Larry Townsend Modelling / Surfacing – John Saleem Rigging...
- 4/26/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
With The Raven heading to cinemas, we met its director, James McTeigue, to talk films, R-ratings, V For Vendetta Masks, pet raccoons, and much more…
Director James McTeigue was responsible for adapting the shadowy world of Alan Moore’s V For Vendetta in 2006, and painted the big screen crimson in the violent Ninja Assassin three years later. Now, McTeigue has brought shadows and gore together for the period serial killer thriller The Raven, which sees Edgar Allan Poe on the trail of a murderer whose crimes are inspired by the author’s tales of the macabre.
Ahead of The Raven’s UK release this Friday, it was a pleasure to sit with McTeigue and talk about Poe, the iconic status of V For Vendetta’s Fawkes mask, R-rated movies, and best of all, pet raccoons…
I wanted to start off, if I may, by talking about raccoons. Was the idea...
Director James McTeigue was responsible for adapting the shadowy world of Alan Moore’s V For Vendetta in 2006, and painted the big screen crimson in the violent Ninja Assassin three years later. Now, McTeigue has brought shadows and gore together for the period serial killer thriller The Raven, which sees Edgar Allan Poe on the trail of a murderer whose crimes are inspired by the author’s tales of the macabre.
Ahead of The Raven’s UK release this Friday, it was a pleasure to sit with McTeigue and talk about Poe, the iconic status of V For Vendetta’s Fawkes mask, R-rated movies, and best of all, pet raccoons…
I wanted to start off, if I may, by talking about raccoons. Was the idea...
- 3/2/2012
- Den of Geek
Director James McTeigue brings us the fictionalised tale of Edgar Allan Poe versus a crazed serial killer in The Raven. Here’s our review…
Baltimore, 1849. A double homicide in mysterious circumstances: two dead women brutally slaughtered in a locked room with no obvious escape route. If it sounds like the stuff of macabre fiction, it is - the killer, it seems, has been inspired by the works of the city’s most famous writer, poet and critic, Edgar Allan Poe.
Detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) is determined to get to the bottom of the case before the killer strikes again, and enlists Poe (John Cusack) to help catch him. Poe, meanwhile, has problems of his own: he’s an alcoholic and drug addict, is suffering from an incurable case of writer’s block which has left him on the point of financial ruin, and the father of his beloved Emily...
Baltimore, 1849. A double homicide in mysterious circumstances: two dead women brutally slaughtered in a locked room with no obvious escape route. If it sounds like the stuff of macabre fiction, it is - the killer, it seems, has been inspired by the works of the city’s most famous writer, poet and critic, Edgar Allan Poe.
Detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) is determined to get to the bottom of the case before the killer strikes again, and enlists Poe (John Cusack) to help catch him. Poe, meanwhile, has problems of his own: he’s an alcoholic and drug addict, is suffering from an incurable case of writer’s block which has left him on the point of financial ruin, and the father of his beloved Emily...
- 3/2/2012
- Den of Geek
After making the most ridiculous movie possible with Ninja Assassin, V for Vendetta director James McTeigue is returning to more semi-serious material with The Raven. Following the last days of Edgar Allen Poe (John Cusack), this could be a fun murder mystery. Right now, the gorgeously bleak cinematography from Danny Ruhlmann is the selling point for me. I’m also looking forward to Alice Eve as the female lead, who hasn’t done much since the underrated She’s Out of My League. Check out the trailer below via Apple for the film also starring Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
Synopsis:
In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack, Being John Malkovich) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans, Immortals) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta,...
Synopsis:
In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack, Being John Malkovich) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans, Immortals) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta,...
- 10/7/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Greig Fraser has taken the Milli Award for Australian Cinematographer of the Year for his work on 2009′s Bright Star, at last Saturday’s Acs National Awards in Adelaide.
Other winners include Dion Beebe for the Us feature Nine, Stephen Windon for The Pacific, and Calvin Gardiner for the dramatised documentary I Spry.
Ron Taylor, Valerie Taylor and Malcolm Richards were inducted into the Acs Hall of Fame. The ceremony was dedicated to the memory of cinematographer and owner of Lemac Film and Digital John Bowring Acs, who passed away last month.
This is the full list of winners:
Student Cinematography
Lonely Chris Miles Gold Award
Experimental & Specialised
Qr National Nathan Tomlinson Award of Distinction
Stop Motion Cinematography
Pascall ‘Pineapple Lumps’ JoAnne Bouzianis-Sellcik Golden Tripod
TV Station Breaks / Promos
Masr elnahrda ‘Egypt Today’ Gamal Elboushi Award of Distinction
Music Clips
Thirsty Merc ‘All My Life’ David Knight Acs Award of...
Other winners include Dion Beebe for the Us feature Nine, Stephen Windon for The Pacific, and Calvin Gardiner for the dramatised documentary I Spry.
Ron Taylor, Valerie Taylor and Malcolm Richards were inducted into the Acs Hall of Fame. The ceremony was dedicated to the memory of cinematographer and owner of Lemac Film and Digital John Bowring Acs, who passed away last month.
This is the full list of winners:
Student Cinematography
Lonely Chris Miles Gold Award
Experimental & Specialised
Qr National Nathan Tomlinson Award of Distinction
Stop Motion Cinematography
Pascall ‘Pineapple Lumps’ JoAnne Bouzianis-Sellcik Golden Tripod
TV Station Breaks / Promos
Masr elnahrda ‘Egypt Today’ Gamal Elboushi Award of Distinction
Music Clips
Thirsty Merc ‘All My Life’ David Knight Acs Award of...
- 5/2/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
SYDNEY -- For his second feature, director Rowan Woods again proves himself a master at creating a strong mood. Despite echoes of the bleak territory visited in his debut feature The Boys, a grim dissection of the violence in Australia's underclass, Little Fish manages moments of great beauty thanks in no small measure to the presence of lead actress Cate Blanchett in her first Australian role since 1997's Oscar and Lucinda.
After a series of high-profile international roles including her Oscar-winning turn in The Aviator, Little Fish sees Blanchett shake off her fondness for period pieces and do something rare: play her age and speak with her own accent. Despite dark themes of crime, moral compromise and drug addiction, this midbudget Australian film from a fine indie team should benefit from Blanchett's presence and see solid boxoffice interest on the international art house circuit. The film will be released in Australia on Sept. 8.
Little Fish is set in Sydney's multicultural southwest, an area rife with drug addiction and organized crime. Woods' talent lies in investing s unlikable characters with a huge well of heart and soul. Tracy Heart (Blanchett) is doing it tough. She's kicked a serious drug habit, but the dark, tenuous world of addiction is all around her.
The streets are littered with junkies: Her own brother, troubled amputee Ray (Martin Henderson from "Bride & Prejudice"), is caught up in the drug trade; her weakened father figure (Hugo Weaving from the Matrix and Lord of the Rings films) is bent in a web of heroin abuse; and ex-boyfriend Johnny (Dustin Nguyen) has returned after four years in Canada. Trying to start a new life, Tracy soon finds that the past is about to catch up with her.
This is a tough film grounded in authenticity with the feel of Ken Loach's realist British cinema. Genre conventions are in place -- drug deals, murder, criminals -- yet Little Fish is a character study. Screenwriter Jacquelin Perske skillfully steers the narrative into the interconnected stories of those around Blanchett's Tracy.
Family is at the core of the film. As Tracy becomes increasingly desperate, she's pulled apart by two disparate but related forces. Her brother's illicit drug deals claw her back into the old life, while her mother (a wonderfully crackling turn from veteran actress Noni Hazlehurst) works to keep Tracy on the straight and narrow. This clash provides the film's central dynamic from which the characters' flaws are explored.
Little Fish has a grimy authenticity. Homes feel rigorously lived in, and the costume design is scrubbed clean of even the remotest sense of glamour. Thankfully, none of this stops Woods from taking visual flights of fancy. Danny Ruhlmann's cinematography adds an almost surreal gleam, swirling and tilting as it conveys Tracy's inner conflict. Similarly, the strong presence of the haunting score by Nathan Larson (Boys Don't Cry, The Woodsman) gently tugs the film away from a purely realist approach.
Blanchett is loose, natural and wholly believable as Tracy, a character she imbues with a kind of bruised tenderness. Weaving's hopeless junkie is a brave turn from an always-brave actor: He's physically transformed, rail-thin with a nasty goatee beard and hurtles through a bundle of different emotions as a sly seducer one moment, a desperate wreck the next.
Confrontational, raw and always compelling, Little Fish is a film of rare power and conviction.
LITTLE FISH
Icon Films (Australia)
Film Finance Corporation Australia presents
A Porchlight Films production in association with Mullis Capital Independent, the New South Wales Film and Television Office, Myriad Pictures and Dirty Films
Credits:
Director: Rowan Woods
Screenwriter: Jacquelin Perske
Producers: Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts, Richard Keddie
Executive producers: Robert Mullis, Barrie M. Osborne, Kirk D'Amico, Marion Pilowsky
Director of photography: Danny Ruhlmann
Production designer: Luigi Pittorino
Costumes: Melinda Doring
Music: Nathan Larson
Editors: Alexandre De Franceschi, John Scott
Cast:
Tracy Heart: Cate Blanchett
Lionel Dawson: Hugo Weaving
Brad Thompson: Sam Neill
Ray Heart: Martin Henderson
Janelle Heart: Noni Hazlehurst
Johnny: Dustin Nguyen
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 114 minutes...
After a series of high-profile international roles including her Oscar-winning turn in The Aviator, Little Fish sees Blanchett shake off her fondness for period pieces and do something rare: play her age and speak with her own accent. Despite dark themes of crime, moral compromise and drug addiction, this midbudget Australian film from a fine indie team should benefit from Blanchett's presence and see solid boxoffice interest on the international art house circuit. The film will be released in Australia on Sept. 8.
Little Fish is set in Sydney's multicultural southwest, an area rife with drug addiction and organized crime. Woods' talent lies in investing s unlikable characters with a huge well of heart and soul. Tracy Heart (Blanchett) is doing it tough. She's kicked a serious drug habit, but the dark, tenuous world of addiction is all around her.
The streets are littered with junkies: Her own brother, troubled amputee Ray (Martin Henderson from "Bride & Prejudice"), is caught up in the drug trade; her weakened father figure (Hugo Weaving from the Matrix and Lord of the Rings films) is bent in a web of heroin abuse; and ex-boyfriend Johnny (Dustin Nguyen) has returned after four years in Canada. Trying to start a new life, Tracy soon finds that the past is about to catch up with her.
This is a tough film grounded in authenticity with the feel of Ken Loach's realist British cinema. Genre conventions are in place -- drug deals, murder, criminals -- yet Little Fish is a character study. Screenwriter Jacquelin Perske skillfully steers the narrative into the interconnected stories of those around Blanchett's Tracy.
Family is at the core of the film. As Tracy becomes increasingly desperate, she's pulled apart by two disparate but related forces. Her brother's illicit drug deals claw her back into the old life, while her mother (a wonderfully crackling turn from veteran actress Noni Hazlehurst) works to keep Tracy on the straight and narrow. This clash provides the film's central dynamic from which the characters' flaws are explored.
Little Fish has a grimy authenticity. Homes feel rigorously lived in, and the costume design is scrubbed clean of even the remotest sense of glamour. Thankfully, none of this stops Woods from taking visual flights of fancy. Danny Ruhlmann's cinematography adds an almost surreal gleam, swirling and tilting as it conveys Tracy's inner conflict. Similarly, the strong presence of the haunting score by Nathan Larson (Boys Don't Cry, The Woodsman) gently tugs the film away from a purely realist approach.
Blanchett is loose, natural and wholly believable as Tracy, a character she imbues with a kind of bruised tenderness. Weaving's hopeless junkie is a brave turn from an always-brave actor: He's physically transformed, rail-thin with a nasty goatee beard and hurtles through a bundle of different emotions as a sly seducer one moment, a desperate wreck the next.
Confrontational, raw and always compelling, Little Fish is a film of rare power and conviction.
LITTLE FISH
Icon Films (Australia)
Film Finance Corporation Australia presents
A Porchlight Films production in association with Mullis Capital Independent, the New South Wales Film and Television Office, Myriad Pictures and Dirty Films
Credits:
Director: Rowan Woods
Screenwriter: Jacquelin Perske
Producers: Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts, Richard Keddie
Executive producers: Robert Mullis, Barrie M. Osborne, Kirk D'Amico, Marion Pilowsky
Director of photography: Danny Ruhlmann
Production designer: Luigi Pittorino
Costumes: Melinda Doring
Music: Nathan Larson
Editors: Alexandre De Franceschi, John Scott
Cast:
Tracy Heart: Cate Blanchett
Lionel Dawson: Hugo Weaving
Brad Thompson: Sam Neill
Ray Heart: Martin Henderson
Janelle Heart: Noni Hazlehurst
Johnny: Dustin Nguyen
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 114 minutes...
- 7/20/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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