Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale tops the nominations pool for film at this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (Aacta).
The thriller, which debuted at Venice last year where it won a special jury prize, picked up 15 nods including best film and best direction.
Australian actor Damon Herriman is up for supporting actor for his role in The Nightingale, and also lead actor for his performance in Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy & Punch, which picked up a total of nine nominations including best film.
Herriman is also nominated twice on the TV side for roles in Lambs Of God and Mr Inbetween and has now become the Aacta record holder for the most nominations across performance categories. The actor is having a banner 2019, having also played Charles Manson in both Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and the Netflix series Mindhunter this year.
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The thriller, which debuted at Venice last year where it won a special jury prize, picked up 15 nods including best film and best direction.
Australian actor Damon Herriman is up for supporting actor for his role in The Nightingale, and also lead actor for his performance in Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy & Punch, which picked up a total of nine nominations including best film.
Herriman is also nominated twice on the TV side for roles in Lambs Of God and Mr Inbetween and has now become the Aacta record holder for the most nominations across performance categories. The actor is having a banner 2019, having also played Charles Manson in both Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and the Netflix series Mindhunter this year.
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- 10/23/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Toby Wallace in ‘Acute Misfortune.’
Robert Connolly’s strategy of staging event screenings around the country is paying off for Acute Misfortune, first-time director Thomas M. Wright’s biopic of troubled Sydney painter Adam Cullen.
Meanwhile producer-director-writer Alex Lykos launched his comedy Me & My Left Brain on five screens last weekend, self-distributed by his company Panoramic Pictures.
Wright hosted sell-out Q&A screenings in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra and Hobart.
Daniel Henshall, who plays the gun-toting, abusive and alcohol and drug-addled Cullen, returned from the Us to participate in four of those Q&As.
Erik Jensen, who penned the source novel Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen and co-wrote the screenplay with Wright, also attended four.
Toby Wallace plays Jensen, who was an ambitious 19-year-old journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald when he was commissioned to write a profile of Cullen. He spent four years...
Robert Connolly’s strategy of staging event screenings around the country is paying off for Acute Misfortune, first-time director Thomas M. Wright’s biopic of troubled Sydney painter Adam Cullen.
Meanwhile producer-director-writer Alex Lykos launched his comedy Me & My Left Brain on five screens last weekend, self-distributed by his company Panoramic Pictures.
Wright hosted sell-out Q&A screenings in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra and Hobart.
Daniel Henshall, who plays the gun-toting, abusive and alcohol and drug-addled Cullen, returned from the Us to participate in four of those Q&As.
Erik Jensen, who penned the source novel Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen and co-wrote the screenplay with Wright, also attended four.
Toby Wallace plays Jensen, who was an ambitious 19-year-old journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald when he was commissioned to write a profile of Cullen. He spent four years...
- 5/20/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Daniel Henshall and Toby Wallace in ‘Acute Misfortune’
Daniel Henshall plays one of the most challenging roles of his career as gun-toting, manipulative and alcohol and drug-fueled painter Adam Cullen in Acute Misfortune.
Yet when the director Thomas M. Wright sent the actor the source material – Erik Jensen’s book Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen – four years ago, initially he had his doubts.
“I feared the film would sensationalise Adam and his poor behaviour,” Henshall tells If from New York, where he now lives with his wife. “He could be very charming but I did not particularly like the character.”
Wright, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jensen, quickly convinced him otherwise, explaining the film would look at issues such as acclaim and identity, toxic masculinity and how deeply troubled people can create great art.
Romper Stomper’s Toby Wallace plays Jensen, who was an ambitious 19-year-old...
Daniel Henshall plays one of the most challenging roles of his career as gun-toting, manipulative and alcohol and drug-fueled painter Adam Cullen in Acute Misfortune.
Yet when the director Thomas M. Wright sent the actor the source material – Erik Jensen’s book Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen – four years ago, initially he had his doubts.
“I feared the film would sensationalise Adam and his poor behaviour,” Henshall tells If from New York, where he now lives with his wife. “He could be very charming but I did not particularly like the character.”
Wright, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jensen, quickly convinced him otherwise, explaining the film would look at issues such as acclaim and identity, toxic masculinity and how deeply troubled people can create great art.
Romper Stomper’s Toby Wallace plays Jensen, who was an ambitious 19-year-old...
- 4/26/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Nz producer Tom Hern among trio recommended for UK’s Production Finance Market.
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern (The Dark Horse) of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Hern previously produced well-travelled 2014 drama The Dark Horse, which played at Toronto, Rotterdam and Cph Pix.
Producers Philippa Campey (The Turning) and Jamie Houge (The Lookalike) have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will...
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern (The Dark Horse) of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Hern previously produced well-travelled 2014 drama The Dark Horse, which played at Toronto, Rotterdam and Cph Pix.
Producers Philippa Campey (The Turning) and Jamie Houge (The Lookalike) have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will...
- 8/16/2016
- ScreenDaily
Nz producer Tom Hern among trio recommended for UK’s Production Finance Market.
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Producers Philippa Campey and Jamie Houge have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will seek co-production partners for her Edinburgh-set female detective thriller Switchblade Electric.
The 65th Miff wrapped its programme on August 14, after a 17-day event that straddles...
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Producers Philippa Campey and Jamie Houge have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will seek co-production partners for her Edinburgh-set female detective thriller Switchblade Electric.
The 65th Miff wrapped its programme on August 14, after a 17-day event that straddles...
- 8/16/2016
- ScreenDaily
Following the film co-financing event Miff 37ºSouth Market, three local producers have been awarded places at the Production Finance Market (Pfm), held in London in October.
Miff 37ºSouth Market is the exclusive Australia/Nz partner of the Pfm, and the only three guaranteed local places are reserved for attending producers. The Pfm runs in association with the BFI London Film Festival.
New Zealand producer Tom Hern won one of the coveted places, as well as a $2000 flight voucher towards his trip. Victorians Pip Campey and Jamie Houge also received places.
Selection was guided by the votes the international financiers and buyers at Miff 37ºSouth Market.
The event, now its 10 year and the only Australian market of its kind held at a film festival, hosted 50 film financiers and buyers including film financiers/buyers including Amazon, Bankside, Catalyst, Double Dutch, eOne Australia, Embankment, Film Mode, Fulcrum, Im Global, Indie, Kaleidoscope, Lotus, Madman,...
Miff 37ºSouth Market is the exclusive Australia/Nz partner of the Pfm, and the only three guaranteed local places are reserved for attending producers. The Pfm runs in association with the BFI London Film Festival.
New Zealand producer Tom Hern won one of the coveted places, as well as a $2000 flight voucher towards his trip. Victorians Pip Campey and Jamie Houge also received places.
Selection was guided by the votes the international financiers and buyers at Miff 37ºSouth Market.
The event, now its 10 year and the only Australian market of its kind held at a film festival, hosted 50 film financiers and buyers including film financiers/buyers including Amazon, Bankside, Catalyst, Double Dutch, eOne Australia, Embankment, Film Mode, Fulcrum, Im Global, Indie, Kaleidoscope, Lotus, Madman,...
- 8/5/2016
- by By Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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