Exclusive: Sc Films International is heading to the upcoming European Film Market with Aussie fantasy horror Dusk, starring Charles Cottier (Please Like Me), Peter Thurnwald (Xo Kitty), Shuang Hu (Five Blind Dates), Isabella Procida, and George Pullar.
The pic is from filmmaker Tristan Barr and was shot in Queensland, Australia. Sc Films will launch at the EFM.
The film follows Luke (Charles Cottier), a near-immortal angel who stands on the side of good. He is an eternally cursed young man who only ages when he saves lives. However, as he ages, he can only become young once again by taking a life. He is stalked through time by the charismatic but deadly Malagor (George Pullar), a disguised demon who wants his powers. A series of murders ensues whilst Malagor amasses an Army of the dead. Only Luke can defeat him in a battle of good vs evil.
The pic is from filmmaker Tristan Barr and was shot in Queensland, Australia. Sc Films will launch at the EFM.
The film follows Luke (Charles Cottier), a near-immortal angel who stands on the side of good. He is an eternally cursed young man who only ages when he saves lives. However, as he ages, he can only become young once again by taking a life. He is stalked through time by the charismatic but deadly Malagor (George Pullar), a disguised demon who wants his powers. A series of murders ensues whilst Malagor amasses an Army of the dead. Only Luke can defeat him in a battle of good vs evil.
- 2/13/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Alison Bell with Sarah Scheller at Charlie’s (Photo: Costa Vakas).
Victorian College of the Arts (Vca) film and television alumni will have the opportunity to work in Los Angeles thanks to a new partnership between Australians in Film (AiF) and the University of Melbourne.
The $92,000 three-year partnership is the first of its type between AiF and a university and will allow mid-career film and TV graduates to apply for a hot desk at Charlie’s on the Raleigh Studios lot.
Concurrently, the University also announced today the creation of the Melbourne Screen Fund, which aims to raise $5 million in donations to support current Vca students and alumni.
Explaining the rationale for the fund, Vca head of film and television Sandra Sciberras said: “We are all aware of the difficulty of financing films and the vital need for gap finance to support ambitious work that might not otherwise get produced.
“I...
Victorian College of the Arts (Vca) film and television alumni will have the opportunity to work in Los Angeles thanks to a new partnership between Australians in Film (AiF) and the University of Melbourne.
The $92,000 three-year partnership is the first of its type between AiF and a university and will allow mid-career film and TV graduates to apply for a hot desk at Charlie’s on the Raleigh Studios lot.
Concurrently, the University also announced today the creation of the Melbourne Screen Fund, which aims to raise $5 million in donations to support current Vca students and alumni.
Explaining the rationale for the fund, Vca head of film and television Sandra Sciberras said: “We are all aware of the difficulty of financing films and the vital need for gap finance to support ambitious work that might not otherwise get produced.
“I...
- 3/4/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jolene Anderson.
Former All Saints and Home and Away star Jolene Anderson is playing a key role in the second series of Hoodlum Entertainment’s Harrow, which is now shooting in Brisbane.
Ioan Gruffudd returns as the brilliant but flawed forensic pathologist Dr Daniel Harrow in the show created by Stephen Irwin and Leigh McGrath, alongside Robyn Malcolm, Darren Gilshenan, Hunter Page-Lochard, Ella Newton, Damien Garvey and Anna Lise Phillips. Missing is Mirrah Foulkes, who played Soraya Dass, Harrow’s love interest, in the first series.
Anderson is Harrow’s new colleague, a forensic pathologist named Grace, in the crime drama commissioned by the ABC and ABC Studios International.
Catherine Millar, Peter Andrikidis, Grant Brown, Geoff Bennett and Declan Eames are directing the 10-episode series scripted by Irwin, McGrath and Michaeley O’Brien and produced by Tracey Robertson and Nathan Mayfield.
After his near-fatal shooting in the last episode, Harrow...
Former All Saints and Home and Away star Jolene Anderson is playing a key role in the second series of Hoodlum Entertainment’s Harrow, which is now shooting in Brisbane.
Ioan Gruffudd returns as the brilliant but flawed forensic pathologist Dr Daniel Harrow in the show created by Stephen Irwin and Leigh McGrath, alongside Robyn Malcolm, Darren Gilshenan, Hunter Page-Lochard, Ella Newton, Damien Garvey and Anna Lise Phillips. Missing is Mirrah Foulkes, who played Soraya Dass, Harrow’s love interest, in the first series.
Anderson is Harrow’s new colleague, a forensic pathologist named Grace, in the crime drama commissioned by the ABC and ABC Studios International.
Catherine Millar, Peter Andrikidis, Grant Brown, Geoff Bennett and Declan Eames are directing the 10-episode series scripted by Irwin, McGrath and Michaeley O’Brien and produced by Tracey Robertson and Nathan Mayfield.
After his near-fatal shooting in the last episode, Harrow...
- 11/28/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Harry Greenwood.
Harry Greenwood graduated from Nida in 2012, so being named one of the Casting Guild of Australia’s 10 Rising Stars of 2018 could be considered as long overdue recognition.
“It has been a long haul,” the 29-year-old son of Hugo Weaving and artist Katrina Greenwood tells If. “It is nice to be recognised.”
Greenwood’s career has been on an upward trajectory since his breakthrough role as young Digger Bevan Johnson, the older brother of Kodi Smit-McPhee’s Thomas Johnson, in the 2015 Nine Network miniseries Gallipoli directed by Glendyn Ivin.
Next year could well be his biggest yet as he will be seen in Bad Mothers, the eight-part Nine Network comedy/drama from Jungle Entertainment and New Zealand-based Filthy Productions, and in two high-profile features: Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang and Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale.
Now shooting in Melbourne, Bad Mothers stars Melissa George,...
Harry Greenwood graduated from Nida in 2012, so being named one of the Casting Guild of Australia’s 10 Rising Stars of 2018 could be considered as long overdue recognition.
“It has been a long haul,” the 29-year-old son of Hugo Weaving and artist Katrina Greenwood tells If. “It is nice to be recognised.”
Greenwood’s career has been on an upward trajectory since his breakthrough role as young Digger Bevan Johnson, the older brother of Kodi Smit-McPhee’s Thomas Johnson, in the 2015 Nine Network miniseries Gallipoli directed by Glendyn Ivin.
Next year could well be his biggest yet as he will be seen in Bad Mothers, the eight-part Nine Network comedy/drama from Jungle Entertainment and New Zealand-based Filthy Productions, and in two high-profile features: Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang and Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale.
Now shooting in Melbourne, Bad Mothers stars Melissa George,...
- 11/18/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Australian feature to shoot in May 2018.
London-based sales outfit Sc Films International has boarded international rights to Australian sci-fi thriller The Dust Walker ahead of next month’s market at the Cannes Film Festival.
From writer-director Sandra Sciberras (Caterpillar Wish), the film is about an alien spaceship that crashes in the isolated Australian desert, turning the local townsfolk into soulless beings. With the outbreak spreading, the local sergeant must fight to protect her family.
Jolene Anderson, who stars in Blumhouse’s upcoming horror Prey, plays the lead with Stef Dawson (Guardians Of The Tomb), Richard Davies (Bruce) and Cassandra Magrath...
London-based sales outfit Sc Films International has boarded international rights to Australian sci-fi thriller The Dust Walker ahead of next month’s market at the Cannes Film Festival.
From writer-director Sandra Sciberras (Caterpillar Wish), the film is about an alien spaceship that crashes in the isolated Australian desert, turning the local townsfolk into soulless beings. With the outbreak spreading, the local sergeant must fight to protect her family.
Jolene Anderson, who stars in Blumhouse’s upcoming horror Prey, plays the lead with Stef Dawson (Guardians Of The Tomb), Richard Davies (Bruce) and Cassandra Magrath...
- 4/25/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Claire Forlani, Ann Cusack and Marama Corlett have been cast as the leads in The Three Lucias, an Australian-produced mystery drama which is set and will be wholly shot in Malta.
The writer-director is Sandra Sciberras, whose parents hail from Malta. It.s her fourth feature following Max.s Dreaming, Caterpillar Wish and Surviving Georgia.
The producer is David Redman, whose credits include Charlie & Boots, Salute, Till Human Voices Wake Us, You and Your Stupid Mate and Strange Bedfellows.
The plot follows Tony, a guy with a colourful past who is about to return home with the young daughter he didn't know he had until her mother Lucia died. His daughter is reluctant to leave and forms an attachment to a movie star with her own secrets. Over three days of Easter their lives intertwine with two other women called Lucia.
Forlani (Meet Joe Black, The Rock, Basquiat) will play Silent Lucia,...
The writer-director is Sandra Sciberras, whose parents hail from Malta. It.s her fourth feature following Max.s Dreaming, Caterpillar Wish and Surviving Georgia.
The producer is David Redman, whose credits include Charlie & Boots, Salute, Till Human Voices Wake Us, You and Your Stupid Mate and Strange Bedfellows.
The plot follows Tony, a guy with a colourful past who is about to return home with the young daughter he didn't know he had until her mother Lucia died. His daughter is reluctant to leave and forms an attachment to a movie star with her own secrets. Over three days of Easter their lives intertwine with two other women called Lucia.
Forlani (Meet Joe Black, The Rock, Basquiat) will play Silent Lucia,...
- 2/3/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Vallance, left, and Miranda in the independently distributed Surviving Georgia
Independent producer Spencer McLaren has claimed he was forced to set up his own distribution company to ensure his film Surviving Georgia found an audience after he was unable to persuade existing distributors to take it on.
McLaren, whose film opened to a limited release at the weekend, told Encore that films that fall between arthouse and mainstream struggle to find an appropriate distributor. Surviving Georgia was directed by Sandra Sciberras and Kate Whitbread, and shot for a budget of a million dollars. It stars Holly Valance and Pia Miranda as sisters Rose and Heidi dealing with the reappearance of their odd mother Georgia (Caroline O’Connor) into their lives. The film also features Shane Jacobson and McLaren.
From his conversations with larger distributors, McLaren said: “I had one person say, ‘If you had Meryl Streep we’d distribute it.
Independent producer Spencer McLaren has claimed he was forced to set up his own distribution company to ensure his film Surviving Georgia found an audience after he was unable to persuade existing distributors to take it on.
McLaren, whose film opened to a limited release at the weekend, told Encore that films that fall between arthouse and mainstream struggle to find an appropriate distributor. Surviving Georgia was directed by Sandra Sciberras and Kate Whitbread, and shot for a budget of a million dollars. It stars Holly Valance and Pia Miranda as sisters Rose and Heidi dealing with the reappearance of their odd mother Georgia (Caroline O’Connor) into their lives. The film also features Shane Jacobson and McLaren.
From his conversations with larger distributors, McLaren said: “I had one person say, ‘If you had Meryl Streep we’d distribute it.
- 10/18/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The producer of Australian film Surviving Georgia has insisted that there was no intention to fool the public after a positive comment left anonymously by a reader on The Guardian’s website was promoted in publicity material as if it was an endorsement from the British newspaper itself.
The comment from “lutherfilms” said:
“Overall a film that touches your heart, and leaves you with a smile. What more could you want?”
But producer Spencer McLaren told Encore there was no intention to mislead filmgoers and there had been a slip-up by his marketing team. The film opens in Australia later this week.
Directed by Sandra Sciberras and Kate Whitbread, the film starring Pia Miranda, Holly Valance and Shane Jacobson came under fire last week from Stale Popcorn’s Glenn Dunks and Crikey’s Luke Buckmaster who pointed out the trailer suggests the film received four stars and glowing praise from The Guardian.
The comment from “lutherfilms” said:
“Overall a film that touches your heart, and leaves you with a smile. What more could you want?”
But producer Spencer McLaren told Encore there was no intention to mislead filmgoers and there had been a slip-up by his marketing team. The film opens in Australia later this week.
Directed by Sandra Sciberras and Kate Whitbread, the film starring Pia Miranda, Holly Valance and Shane Jacobson came under fire last week from Stale Popcorn’s Glenn Dunks and Crikey’s Luke Buckmaster who pointed out the trailer suggests the film received four stars and glowing praise from The Guardian.
- 10/10/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Dungog Film Festival starts tomorrow, and according to director Allanah Zitserman, this is the year it will incorporate television into its program, at a much deeper level.
“There’s a lot more room for cross-pollination between film and TV in this country, and we want to encourage it and get both sides talking and discussing ways in which we can work together more,” Zitserman told Encore.
“It’s a great amount of talent in both industries, so let’s bring them together. We will be showing unaired TV pilots and we’ll have two live script readings for television projects.
“We’re working with all the broadcasters this year, both free-to-air and pay TV. Many television executives have already confirmed their attendance this year, and I will be working with the industry on how best to incorporate the TV aspects over the next few years,” said Zitserman.
In addition to the new TV content,...
“There’s a lot more room for cross-pollination between film and TV in this country, and we want to encourage it and get both sides talking and discussing ways in which we can work together more,” Zitserman told Encore.
“It’s a great amount of talent in both industries, so let’s bring them together. We will be showing unaired TV pilots and we’ll have two live script readings for television projects.
“We’re working with all the broadcasters this year, both free-to-air and pay TV. Many television executives have already confirmed their attendance this year, and I will be working with the industry on how best to incorporate the TV aspects over the next few years,” said Zitserman.
In addition to the new TV content,...
- 5/26/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Film Victoria has announced a new round of investment funding worth $992,500.
The recipients are the feature Surviving Georgia, Southern Star drama Offspring, a Princess Pictures comedy, two documentaries and an online portal to complement the Sbs doco series Second Australians.
Talking about the significant investment on television, Film Victoria Sandra Sdraulig said the small screen was essential for the state, because of the consistency of expenditure and employment opportunities..
The chosen projects are:
Online
The Multicultural History Portal
The Chocolate Liberation Front; Producers Dan Fill, Frank Verheggen ; Writer Andrew Jacobuwicz.
A series of interactive documentary features that capture the history of immigration to Australia. It will act as a companion piece to Second Australians.
Documentary
The First Interview
Jungle Pictures; Producer Fiona Cochrane; Writer/Director Dennis Tupicoff; Network ABC
A documentary that goes bacck to Paris, 1886, to a conversation between great French scientist Michel-Eugene Chevreul and famous photographer Nadar – the...
The recipients are the feature Surviving Georgia, Southern Star drama Offspring, a Princess Pictures comedy, two documentaries and an online portal to complement the Sbs doco series Second Australians.
Talking about the significant investment on television, Film Victoria Sandra Sdraulig said the small screen was essential for the state, because of the consistency of expenditure and employment opportunities..
The chosen projects are:
Online
The Multicultural History Portal
The Chocolate Liberation Front; Producers Dan Fill, Frank Verheggen ; Writer Andrew Jacobuwicz.
A series of interactive documentary features that capture the history of immigration to Australia. It will act as a companion piece to Second Australians.
Documentary
The First Interview
Jungle Pictures; Producer Fiona Cochrane; Writer/Director Dennis Tupicoff; Network ABC
A documentary that goes bacck to Paris, 1886, to a conversation between great French scientist Michel-Eugene Chevreul and famous photographer Nadar – the...
- 5/20/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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