All articles by Sandy George – Page 23
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Working Title closes its Australian doors - again
Working Title will be closing the doors of its Australian office as of today, sources have confirmed. Deborah Balderstone has been the head of the Sydney office since relocating from the UK in late 2004. It is understood that things between her and head honchos Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan ...
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Jan Chapman honoured by Adelaide Festival
Ten days before the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) opens, the board has announced that celebrated producer Jan Chapman is to receive the 2009 Don Dunstan Award, which recognizes outstanding contribution to the Australian film industry. Chapman's filmmaking spans 16 years and includes the period love story The Piano, which was ...
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Australia's Transmission picks up New Zealand duo
A year after launching itself in Australia as a distributor, Transmission Films is proving to be a good friend to New Zealand as well as Australian filmmakers. Principals Andrew Mackie and Richard Payten have acquired New Zealand rights to both The Volcano, local writer/director Taika Waititi's follow-up to Eagle vs ...
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Oliveira out and Woolridge in at Fox's Australian office
20th Century Fox Australia managing director Marcos Oliveira is to be replaced by his marketing director Marc Wooldridge. For Woolridge the promotion takes effect from February 9. He has been with the Sydney-based theatrical office for two years and fourth months, although he has had more than 17 years of ...
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Icon scores foreign film nods for Australia's FCCA Awards
Icon distributed three of the eight films nominated in the two best foreign film categories of the 25th annual Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) Awards, it was announced today. The films are In Bruges and Slumdog Millionaire in the English language category and The Diving Bell And The Butterfly ...
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France well represented in Adelaide's 13 competition titles
The Adelaide Film Festival has chosen 13 films for its competition section including two that will have their world premieres at the festival, Granaz Moussavi's My Tehran For Sale, and Australian director Sarah Watt's My Year Without Sex. France has the most contenders in the line-up with Sylvie Verheyde's a ...
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Reality check needed on film finance procedures and projections
It is not meaningful or helpful to assert that Canada or a particular US state is more attractive than South Africa, the UK, or any other popular location, that’s according to two Australians whose business it is to assist producers to secure financial incentives across the world.‘Circumstances, including financing plans, ...
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UK tops local fare down underbut Aussie releases less discriminate
UK films earned more than twice as much as Australian films in Australian cinemas in 2008 according to figures released today. The 40 Australian films contributing to the overall 2008 local share sold US$23.3 million (A$35.5m) worth of tickets and represented 3.8 per cent of the total annual box office ...
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NewsIn Focus: Sundance opener Mary And Max
Sundance opener Mary And Max’s director Adam Elliot : debut feature, yet he is far from a novice
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2008 a record breaking year for Australian box-office
Australians spent $672m (A$946m) on going to the movies in 2008, making it the second best year on record in revenue terms. The figures released today by the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA) show a six per cent year on year increase from 2007. They are also four ...
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Ausfilm to promote Oz technical talent at US event
Marketing body Ausfilm is going against tradition and promoting Australians who work behind the scenes in filmmaking as part of G’Day USA, the annual promotion that officially starts next week in Los Angeles and involves a range of industries. Ausfilm has previously concentrated on attracting offshore films to Australia by ...
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Coleman and Matthews get top jobs at Screen Australia
Martha Coleman, who recently returned to Australia after seven years working in the UK film industry, has been appointed head of development at Screen Australia and will work from the Sydney headquarters. A second senior appointment was also announced today: Melbourne-based Ross Matthews, an eight-year veteran of the now defunct ...
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Australian theatre director Gale Edwards to make her first feature
Accomplished theatre director Gale Edwards, winner of an International Emmy for her filmed version of the Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, is to direct her first feature film. The film, A Heartbeat Away, was one of four financed by Screen Australia. The others are: Being Dead, Lantana director Ray ...
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Adelaide film festival unveils jury and local premieres
Laurence Kardish, a senior film curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), will preside over the jury at the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF), which opens in South Australia on February 19. His fellow jurors are Japanese director Naomi Kawase, festival directors Bill Gosden (New Zealand) and Hannah McGill ...
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Australia records a boom in numbers of productions
A record-breaking 41 films went into production in Australia in the 12 months up to June 30, according to statistics released today by Screen Australia. This wasmore productionsthan in any other annual period for at least 20 years.Cameras rolled on five international co-productions, 29 wholly Australianproductionsand seven foreign films.- Five ...
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First Australia-Iran film My Tehran For Sale will premiere in Adelaide
With the participation of Bahman Ghobadi (A Time For Drunken Horses), the first collaboration between Australia and Iran My Tehran For Sale will make its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) in February.The film is also the first feature produced by Julie Ryan since collaborating with director Rolf ...
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Production - Australia-India collaborations - The empire strikes back
Producers Jim McElroy (Picnic At Hanging Rock) and John Winter (Rabbit-Proof Fence) are among the Australians heading to Film Bazaar in Goa as part of a delegation organised by the Screen Producers Association of Australia (Spaa). Both have well-developed projects suited to joint venturing with India."There has always been a ...
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NZ award-winning producers to partner with Bavaria Film
New Zealand producers Rachel Gardner and Philip Smith of Great Southern Film and Television have been crowned New Zealand's Independent Producers of the Year. The duo are developing a slate of eight features with the most advanced being Scott Reynolds' Falling Angels and writer/director Anthony McCarten's Death Of A Superhero, ...
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Oz director Alston to expand Brisbane into a trilogy
Australian director Louise Alston is set to make two more low-budget romantic comedies, following her debut film All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, which is being released in Denmark through Sunrise Film Distribution. Cameras will roll on January 7 on Jucy, the second of the films, with Alston again directing ...
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Australian government secures production of Happy Feet 2 in Sydney
Tax assistance secures production of Happy Feet 2 in Sydney through Dr.D, director George Miller's joint venture with Omnilab media. Happy Feet 2 is in production in Sydney, Omnilab Media confirmed today following a statement from the New South Wales (NSW) Government to that effect.The NSW Minister for State Development, ...