(Top to Bottom L – R) Erin Good, Jane Eakin, Joanna Beveridge, Tel Benjanmin, Warwick Young, Maria Theodorakis, Nicholas Verso, Eddie Diamandi, Victoria Thaine, Henry Inglis, Wade Kimberley Savage, Caro Macdonald, Tamara Whyte, Laura Clelland and Tam Sainsbury.
From more than 100 applications, the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) has selected 15 directors to attend Screen Producers Australia’s (Spa) annual conference Screen Forever in Melbourne next month.
These directors will join the Spa’s Ones to Watch undertaking a special program of panel discussions, workshops and networking events. All the directors attending will be presenting the projects they have developed that are ready for production at Spa Connect, the conference’s marketplace.
“This will be the second year we have taken a directors delegation to Spa, and this year we build on last year’s program to ensure the directors are more integrated into the conference program,” said Adg CEO Kingston Anderson. “We...
From more than 100 applications, the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) has selected 15 directors to attend Screen Producers Australia’s (Spa) annual conference Screen Forever in Melbourne next month.
These directors will join the Spa’s Ones to Watch undertaking a special program of panel discussions, workshops and networking events. All the directors attending will be presenting the projects they have developed that are ready for production at Spa Connect, the conference’s marketplace.
“This will be the second year we have taken a directors delegation to Spa, and this year we build on last year’s program to ensure the directors are more integrated into the conference program,” said Adg CEO Kingston Anderson. “We...
- 10/24/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Sue Maslin.
Producers Anita Jacoby and Sue Maslin, writers Ray Harding and Bevan Lee, and actor Magda Szubanski were among the screen professionals who received Australia Day honours on Saturday.
Jacoby, a former managing director of ITV Studios Australia and head of development and production at Zapruder’s Other Films, was named a Member of the Order of Australia (Am) for her significant service to the broadcast and print media, and to community mental health groups.
An authority member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (Acma) and a board director of AFI | Aacta, Jacoby has worked in the industry for more than 30 years. Her extensive list of credits include The Gruen Transfer, Enough Rope, Hungry Beast, Angels and Demons, 60 Minutes, and the Today Show. She is a member of Screen Producers Australia (Spa) and a supporter of the Documentary Australia Foundation. In 2013, she established the Jacoby Walkley Scholarship, which supports young journalists.
Producers Anita Jacoby and Sue Maslin, writers Ray Harding and Bevan Lee, and actor Magda Szubanski were among the screen professionals who received Australia Day honours on Saturday.
Jacoby, a former managing director of ITV Studios Australia and head of development and production at Zapruder’s Other Films, was named a Member of the Order of Australia (Am) for her significant service to the broadcast and print media, and to community mental health groups.
An authority member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (Acma) and a board director of AFI | Aacta, Jacoby has worked in the industry for more than 30 years. Her extensive list of credits include The Gruen Transfer, Enough Rope, Hungry Beast, Angels and Demons, 60 Minutes, and the Today Show. She is a member of Screen Producers Australia (Spa) and a supporter of the Documentary Australia Foundation. In 2013, she established the Jacoby Walkley Scholarship, which supports young journalists.
- 1/29/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Warwick Young.
Actor and filmmaker Warwick Young is currently working with Aftrs to develop a film training program for veterans.
The news comes as Young, who completed active service in Iraq in 2006, was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (Oam) on Saturday for his service to veterans and their families.
To receive the Oam was humbling and unexpected, Young tells If, because his work with veterans “is something I do to give back to a community of people I think give us a lot.”
In 2013, Young was approached to advise the production of play ‘The Long Way Home’, a joint venture between the Sydney Theatre Company (Stc) and the Australian Defence Force (Adf). Together with wounded, injured, and ill defence personnel, the play was written and developed via a workshop at the Stc and then went on a national tour in 2014 with a cast of predominantly veterans who...
Actor and filmmaker Warwick Young is currently working with Aftrs to develop a film training program for veterans.
The news comes as Young, who completed active service in Iraq in 2006, was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (Oam) on Saturday for his service to veterans and their families.
To receive the Oam was humbling and unexpected, Young tells If, because his work with veterans “is something I do to give back to a community of people I think give us a lot.”
In 2013, Young was approached to advise the production of play ‘The Long Way Home’, a joint venture between the Sydney Theatre Company (Stc) and the Australian Defence Force (Adf). Together with wounded, injured, and ill defence personnel, the play was written and developed via a workshop at the Stc and then went on a national tour in 2014 with a cast of predominantly veterans who...
- 1/29/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
L-r: Aftrs graduates Brendon McDonall, Vanessa Gazy, Warwick Young and George-Alex Nagle.
The best Aftrs films will now be available to inflight audiences.
Virgin Australia is offering a .Best of the Fest. program, curated quarterly: a selection of Aftrs films that have screened at film festivals like Berlin, Toronto and Palm Springs ShortFest.
.Australia.s up-and-coming filmmakers are winning plaudits around the world, and we are excited about the opportunity to showcase their talent on board our aircraft," said Virgin Australia Chief Customer Officer Mark Hassell.
Aftrs CEO, Neil Peplow, said the school was "really excited about our partnership with Virgin Australia, this is a fantastic avenue to showcase Australia.s emerging filmmakers to new audiences. Virgin Australia is a strong advocate for the arts which makes the airline a perfect fit for the school..
.Best of the Fest. films include:
The Kangaroo Guy (Joel Loxton, Master of Screen Arts...
The best Aftrs films will now be available to inflight audiences.
Virgin Australia is offering a .Best of the Fest. program, curated quarterly: a selection of Aftrs films that have screened at film festivals like Berlin, Toronto and Palm Springs ShortFest.
.Australia.s up-and-coming filmmakers are winning plaudits around the world, and we are excited about the opportunity to showcase their talent on board our aircraft," said Virgin Australia Chief Customer Officer Mark Hassell.
Aftrs CEO, Neil Peplow, said the school was "really excited about our partnership with Virgin Australia, this is a fantastic avenue to showcase Australia.s emerging filmmakers to new audiences. Virgin Australia is a strong advocate for the arts which makes the airline a perfect fit for the school..
.Best of the Fest. films include:
The Kangaroo Guy (Joel Loxton, Master of Screen Arts...
- 8/15/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Stuffed.
Stuffed, the student film written and directed by Aftrs Masters of Screen Arts graduate Warwick Young, has won the Best Foreign Film category at the International Beverly Hills Film Festival, where it was in competition with films - including features - from around the world.
Young completed his Master of Screen Arts in Directing degree at Aftrs in 2013, during which he made Stuffed, for which he was awarded the 2013 European Union Film Award and was nominated for a 2014 Australian Directors Guild Award..
The film has been touring the festival circuit since, screening at the 2014 UK Film Festival, where it won Best Student Film; the 2014 Sydney Film Festival, where it competed in the Dendy Award for Best Australian Short film; the 59th Valladolid International Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Foreign Short Film; the 2015 Flickerfest International Film Festival; the 2015 St Kilda Film Festival; the 2016 New Filmmakers La Film...
Stuffed, the student film written and directed by Aftrs Masters of Screen Arts graduate Warwick Young, has won the Best Foreign Film category at the International Beverly Hills Film Festival, where it was in competition with films - including features - from around the world.
Young completed his Master of Screen Arts in Directing degree at Aftrs in 2013, during which he made Stuffed, for which he was awarded the 2013 European Union Film Award and was nominated for a 2014 Australian Directors Guild Award..
The film has been touring the festival circuit since, screening at the 2014 UK Film Festival, where it won Best Student Film; the 2014 Sydney Film Festival, where it competed in the Dendy Award for Best Australian Short film; the 59th Valladolid International Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Foreign Short Film; the 2015 Flickerfest International Film Festival; the 2015 St Kilda Film Festival; the 2016 New Filmmakers La Film...
- 4/14/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The Australian Film Television and Radio School has unleashed a new crop of talent on the industry with the 2015 Graduation Ceremony. . .
A highlight of the ceremony was the awarding of the Aftrs. Honorary Degree (Doctor of Arts) to broadcaster, commentator and filmmaker Phillip Adams.
Adams played a key role in the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. .
He was the author of a 1969 report that led to legislation by Prime Minister Gorton in 1970 for an Australian Film and Television Development Corporation (later the Australian Film Commission) and the Experimental Film Fund as well as the eventual creation of an Australian national film School (now Aftrs). Phillip was one of the original members of council for the interim School.
The Dressmaker producer Sue Maslin present the degree. .
Maslin is a graduate of the Aftrs Masters of Screen Arts & Business degree.
Graduates include Imogen Banks, one of the producers...
A highlight of the ceremony was the awarding of the Aftrs. Honorary Degree (Doctor of Arts) to broadcaster, commentator and filmmaker Phillip Adams.
Adams played a key role in the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. .
He was the author of a 1969 report that led to legislation by Prime Minister Gorton in 1970 for an Australian Film and Television Development Corporation (later the Australian Film Commission) and the Experimental Film Fund as well as the eventual creation of an Australian national film School (now Aftrs). Phillip was one of the original members of council for the interim School.
The Dressmaker producer Sue Maslin present the degree. .
Maslin is a graduate of the Aftrs Masters of Screen Arts & Business degree.
Graduates include Imogen Banks, one of the producers...
- 12/8/2015
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Joel Loxton.s The Kangaroo Guy has won the jury award in the international student category at the Montreal World Film Festival, capping a successful period for Aftrs students. Malina Mackiewicz.s Deszcz,. which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, will compete at the Chicago International Film Festival (October 15-29) for the top prize- the Gold Hugo, which is chosen from 50 short films from around the world. Ella Rubeli.s documentary The Heart Thief has been selected to compete at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis as one of five documentary finalists. The Heart Thief premiered at the Raw Science Awards last year and was runner up in the category best student film . 10 minute documentary. Sean Capel's Life After Death will have its world premiere at the Academy Award-qualifying Raindance Film Festival in London, which runs September 23-October 4. Margaret McHugh's The Drover's Boy. has...
- 9/22/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Female directors have dominated the Documentary Feature category of the 2014 Australian Directors Guild Awards, whilst Home & Away has muscled out any other competition for TV Drama Serial. The nominees, announced this morning, cover 16 categories across film, television, multiplatform, music and advertising. This year has seen the Adg receive more entries than ever before, making the judging process a difficult one. .In the TV drama category, the documentary feature category and the feature film categories especially, the caliber is really high so that.s why there are so many nominations,. says Adg Executive Director Kingston Anderson. .The judges take it very seriously and fully understand the recognition the awards can bring.. In the feature film category, Baz Luhrmann was unsurprisingly nominated for box office hit The Great Gatsby alongside strong contenders Kim Mordaunt (The Rocket), Ivan Sen (Mystery Road), Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man) and Zak Hilditch, whose film These Final Hours,...
- 4/9/2014
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
London -- U.K. sales, finance and production banner Intandem Films has sealed a deal with Momentum Pictures for U.K. distribution rights to Aussie hit "Beneath Hill 60."
Owned by Canada-based Alliance Atlantis, Momentum snapped the movie up after seeing the World War 1 thriller take more than $1 million within two weeks at the boxoffice down under from a limited release orchestrated by Paramount.
Directed by Jeremy Hartley Sims, the movie stars Brendan Cowell, Warwick Young, Anthony Hayes, Jacqueline McKenzie, Gyton Grantley and Harrison Gilbertson as a group of Aussie miners who set about blowing up the world's largest stash of explosives under and behind German lines.
The hope is the explosion will mark the end of the war while Momentum will be looking for an explosive reaction at the boxoffice here.
Owned by Canada-based Alliance Atlantis, Momentum snapped the movie up after seeing the World War 1 thriller take more than $1 million within two weeks at the boxoffice down under from a limited release orchestrated by Paramount.
Directed by Jeremy Hartley Sims, the movie stars Brendan Cowell, Warwick Young, Anthony Hayes, Jacqueline McKenzie, Gyton Grantley and Harrison Gilbertson as a group of Aussie miners who set about blowing up the world's largest stash of explosives under and behind German lines.
The hope is the explosion will mark the end of the war while Momentum will be looking for an explosive reaction at the boxoffice here.
- 4/28/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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