Chasing Asylum. The first nominees for the 6th Aacta Awards have been announced, with the Australian Academy revealing those up for gongs in three categories: Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Short Animation and Best Short Fiction Film.
Nominees in feature film and television will be named later this year.
Under consideration for Best Feature Documentary is Eva Orner.s expose of Australian offshore detention, Chasing Asylum, and Dan Jackson.s debut In The Shadow of the Hill, which follows locals living in Rio de Janiero.s largest slum and their fight for justice.
They will vie against Nikolas Bird and Eleanor Sharp.s Remembering the Man, about couple Timothy Congriave and John Caleo — whose love story was the subject of feature film Holding the Man, and Snow Monkey, a portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, produced by Lizzette Atkins and directed by artist George Gittoes.
Up for the Best Short Animation gong is Joel Best,...
Nominees in feature film and television will be named later this year.
Under consideration for Best Feature Documentary is Eva Orner.s expose of Australian offshore detention, Chasing Asylum, and Dan Jackson.s debut In The Shadow of the Hill, which follows locals living in Rio de Janiero.s largest slum and their fight for justice.
They will vie against Nikolas Bird and Eleanor Sharp.s Remembering the Man, about couple Timothy Congriave and John Caleo — whose love story was the subject of feature film Holding the Man, and Snow Monkey, a portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, produced by Lizzette Atkins and directed by artist George Gittoes.
Up for the Best Short Animation gong is Joel Best,...
- 7/14/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Josh Lawson.s feature film The Little Death as well as two short films and an online documentary will be showcased at the 22nd South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, next month.
The Little Death is a sex comedy dealing with a number of different couples who are each grappling with different problems in their relationships and sex lives. Having premiered internationally at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, The Little Death will screen in the Narrative Spotlight category at SXSW.
Yianni Warnock.s short film Happy with Bear (produced by Charles Williams) will enjoy its world premiere at the festival screening in the Narrative Shorts section. Running at six minutes, 28 seconds, Happy with Bear explores the loneliness of a Singaporean exchange student and her attempts to find solace by posting fictional images of herself online.
Also in the Narrative Shorts section is Australian...
The Little Death is a sex comedy dealing with a number of different couples who are each grappling with different problems in their relationships and sex lives. Having premiered internationally at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, The Little Death will screen in the Narrative Spotlight category at SXSW.
Yianni Warnock.s short film Happy with Bear (produced by Charles Williams) will enjoy its world premiere at the festival screening in the Narrative Shorts section. Running at six minutes, 28 seconds, Happy with Bear explores the loneliness of a Singaporean exchange student and her attempts to find solace by posting fictional images of herself online.
Also in the Narrative Shorts section is Australian...
- 2/11/2015
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Art by Donato Giancola
The legendary author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is getting his own feature length biopic! The project is set up at Fox Searchlight and Peter Chernin’s Chernin Entertainment is producing it.
According to THR, the movie will "chronicle the key moments in Tolkien’s life that shaped him and led him to write Hobbit, the classic children’s book, in 1937 and then starting in 1954, his Rings trilogy."
The film already has a script written by David Gleeson, who wrote a sci-fi spec called The End of History. The movie is currently in development, and there's no word on whether the Tolkien estate will be involved.
Here's a little information on Tolkien from the report:
Tolkien led a fascinating life. He saw combat in World War I in which he saw countrysides torn to shreds and friends killed. He was close friends with C.S. Lewis,...
The legendary author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is getting his own feature length biopic! The project is set up at Fox Searchlight and Peter Chernin’s Chernin Entertainment is producing it.
According to THR, the movie will "chronicle the key moments in Tolkien’s life that shaped him and led him to write Hobbit, the classic children’s book, in 1937 and then starting in 1954, his Rings trilogy."
The film already has a script written by David Gleeson, who wrote a sci-fi spec called The End of History. The movie is currently in development, and there's no word on whether the Tolkien estate will be involved.
Here's a little information on Tolkien from the report:
Tolkien led a fascinating life. He saw combat in World War I in which he saw countrysides torn to shreds and friends killed. He was close friends with C.S. Lewis,...
- 11/22/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Jrr Tolkien is coming to the big screen. The man himself, this time, rather than just his creations.The La Times have broken word that producer Peter Chernin is working with writer David Gleeson to develop a feature film telling the story of The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings creator Jrr Tolkien's life, including time spent as a soldier in the first World War, time spent as a codebreaker in WWII, his friendship with fellow authors Cs Lewis (The Chronicles Of Narnia) and Charles Williams (look him up, he's amazing) and the creation of his signature works.The project is in early days yet, with no director or schedule currently in place....
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- 11/22/2013
- Screen Anarchy
There’s only so many bankable classic works of fiction out there for Hollywood to pillage and water down that lately they have turned their attention to making movies based on the mysterious and fantastical hidden truths about the authors themselves. Some of them are so hidden, they are just plain made up.
We’ve seen biopics of Beatrix Potter (Miss Potter) and Jane Austen (Becoming Jane) in recent years as romance movies, John Cusack has recently shot The Raven – a movie about the capturing serial killers exploits of Edgar Allen Poe and there’s even a screenplay out there for a detective film based on an amateur sleuth team of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini!
In fact this week’s announcement that a movie based on the fictional adventures of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien isn’t even the first to have the idea!
We’ve seen biopics of Beatrix Potter (Miss Potter) and Jane Austen (Becoming Jane) in recent years as romance movies, John Cusack has recently shot The Raven – a movie about the capturing serial killers exploits of Edgar Allen Poe and there’s even a screenplay out there for a detective film based on an amateur sleuth team of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini!
In fact this week’s announcement that a movie based on the fictional adventures of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien isn’t even the first to have the idea!
- 8/17/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Google turns up nothing. The Wikipedia page has been deleted. The "IMDb" page included in the mail out is actually a very clever knock off. And the chances of Richard Matheson, Rod Serling and Kurt Vonnegut ever having worked on a script together are pretty much nil. Looks and smells like a hoax to me, but damn, it's a good one, the sort that appears to have professional backing, so clearly there's something else going on here. Check the press release below and chime in on your thoughts on what this could really be ...
Get Your Dirty Hands Off Me is a 1975 epic Thriller science fiction film directed by Tom Gries loosely based on the Story 'Dark Races' (Weird Tales, Dec 1932) by Robert E. Howard . The film stars Perry King and features Karen Black, Frank Langella, John Saxon,... The script was originally written by Richard Matheson and Charles Williams about...
Get Your Dirty Hands Off Me is a 1975 epic Thriller science fiction film directed by Tom Gries loosely based on the Story 'Dark Races' (Weird Tales, Dec 1932) by Robert E. Howard . The film stars Perry King and features Karen Black, Frank Langella, John Saxon,... The script was originally written by Richard Matheson and Charles Williams about...
- 4/27/2010
- Screen Anarchy
I like to imagine that, in some fantasy parallel universe, there's a similar story this one, complaining about the exploitation of actual dragons to turn a quick buck. The biggest difference there is that the author of that story is probably drinking a big stein of grog and not a Super Big Gulp of Dr. Pepper. But I digress...
The Heatvision Blog has spotted dragons. Specifically, a series of young adult dragon novels called The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, built on the conceit that the young characters are really fantasy authors C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein and Charles Williams and that their real-life dragon adventures were the impetus behind their respective novels. This is beginning to sound like Doctor Who fanfiction.
Travis Adam Wright, the fellow who wrote Eagle Eye, will adapt James A. Owen's novels, combining the first two (Here, There Be Dragons and The Search...
- 4/13/2010
- UGO Movies
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