All articles by Sandy George – Page 11
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NewsFifteen countries in inaugural Cockatoo Island film competition
Ten of the 15 feature films in competition at Sydney’s Cockatoo Island Film Festival are debut films, which fits the competition aim of giving attention to emerging directors.
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NewsOz crowd-funding platform starts to see results
Pozible, Australia’s first and largest crowd-funding platform, has helped filmmakers raise $1.37m (A$1.3m) since its May 2010 launch, while total pledges have quadrupled in the past year.
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NewsThe Sapphires stays strong at Oz box office
After six weeks in cinemas, home-grown musical The Sapphires is about $1m away from becoming one of Australia’s top 15 local films of all time.
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NewsRolf de Heer to direct fourteenth feature
de Heer’s Charlie’s Country is one of a number of projects to receive Screen Australia backing, also including Wolf Creek 2 and Predestination.
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NewsDeaner appointed executive director of SPAA
Australia’s independent film and television producers have a new chief advocate in the form of Matthew Deaner, who is currently manager of strategy and research at government agency Screen Australia.
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NewsSydney-based Fuel VFX in financial strife
One of Australia’s few world-class visual effects and animation companies, Sydney-based Fuel VFX, has placed itself into voluntary administration due to financial difficulties.
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NewsHilton, Stephens and Van Mil heading for the UK’s PFM
Sydney-based Jamie Hilton was voted the Australian producer most worth watching at the close of the MIFF 37º South Market, the four-day financing event that wrapped last night during the Melbourne International Film Festival.
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Lowe to head Screen Queensland; ScreenWest backs crowd funding
Bryan Lowe takes up his new role as chief executive of Screen Queensland on August 20.
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FeaturesKath & Kimderella
Two of Australia’s most loved and idiosyncratic TV comic characters, Kath & Kim, have been taken out of their usual suburban setting and dropped into Italy for their big screen debut, which will be unleashed on Australian cinemas in September.
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Arclight, Wrenn launch distribution outfit Greenlight
Arclight Films owners Gary Hamilton and Victor Syrmis and Arclight’s local managing director Michael Wrenn are launching an Australian distribution outfit, Greenlight Releasing, which will begin ushering films into cinemas early next year.
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NewsScreen Australia to back The Rover starring Robert Pattinson
Screen Australia has agreed to invest in four features including The Rover, which will star Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce and be directed by David Michôd who made the much admired Animal Kingdom.
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Schölermann attached to Tour de France action drama
Australian producer/lawyer Rob Gibson has secured German director Marc Schölermann for The Domestique, an action/drama about a veteran pro cyclist who fights his way back onto a struggling team in the Tour de France after he has been banned for doping.
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The Children wins investment from ScreenWest
The Children, from The Waiting City writer/director Claire McCarthy, has become the latest film to get $767,000 (A$750,000) in production investment funding from Western Australia’s West Coast Visions feature film initiative.
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CommentGrisly happenings in Oz cinema
A man accused of beheading his neighbour successfully auditioned for work on Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road, while paramedics were called to a screening of Oz horror Redd Inc.
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Sen’s Mystery Road starts shooting in Queensland
Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten and veteran Jack Thompson are among the ensemble cast in Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road, which is in its first week of filming at Winton in Central Queensland.
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Rosen, Armstrong take a walk Around The Block
Husband and wife producing team, former Film Finance Corporation chief Brian Rosen and Su Armstrong, are in their first week of filming Around The Block, starring Christina Ricci.
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Garry Charny back in business with Wake Up Dead
Australian producer and businessman Garry Charny (Jindabyne) has returned to film with new Australian production company Spotted Turquoise Films. Cinetic Media is attached to what is likely to be the first film under that banner.
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Alps wins top prize at Sydney Film Festival
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has won the fifth Sydney Film Prize with Alps, an offbeat film starring Aggeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis and Johnny Vekis.