Kate Fox.
After serving as location coordinator on Stan’s The Gloaming and location manager on season 4 of the ABC’s Rosehaven, Kate Fox aims to take her career to the next level with two comedy webseries.
Screen Tasmania is funding the development of Gasp, with Rosehaven’s Shaun Wilson attached to direct, and Papped.
Fox, a former journalist at Pacific Magazines, has written a rough Bible/series outline for Gasp (6 x 8′), which stands for Grammar and Spelling Police.
The plot centres on a a fictional task force within the real police, who enforce the correct use of the English language. Wilson will also be part of the writing team together with Ben Morton, Emesha Rudolf and Pip Kennedy.
Papped (6 x 5′) will star Jane Hamilton-Foster as Jane, a paparazzi photographer in a male-dominated industry. She’s also an actor waiting for her big break.
Post-covid-19, Tasmania becomes a bucket list travel destination,...
After serving as location coordinator on Stan’s The Gloaming and location manager on season 4 of the ABC’s Rosehaven, Kate Fox aims to take her career to the next level with two comedy webseries.
Screen Tasmania is funding the development of Gasp, with Rosehaven’s Shaun Wilson attached to direct, and Papped.
Fox, a former journalist at Pacific Magazines, has written a rough Bible/series outline for Gasp (6 x 8′), which stands for Grammar and Spelling Police.
The plot centres on a a fictional task force within the real police, who enforce the correct use of the English language. Wilson will also be part of the writing team together with Ben Morton, Emesha Rudolf and Pip Kennedy.
Papped (6 x 5′) will star Jane Hamilton-Foster as Jane, a paparazzi photographer in a male-dominated industry. She’s also an actor waiting for her big break.
Post-covid-19, Tasmania becomes a bucket list travel destination,...
- 6/22/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘McLeod’s Daughters’ (Photo credit: Millennium Pictures).
Posie Graeme-Evans, co-creator of the Nine Network drama McLeod’s Daughters, is working on a feature film spin-off with producer Sue Clothier and screenwriter Emma Jensen.
Screen Tasmania is funding the early development of McLeods of Drovers Run, scripted by Jensen and produced by Graeme-Evans and Clothier.
Based on an origin story by Graeme-Evans, the plot sees tragic, unfinished business that begins in 1850s Scotland at the ancestral home of the McLeods return to haunt the present day family.
The logline reads: “In the end, family is all we have when the past will not die. That’s a good thing. Right?”
Graeme-Evans is convinced there is still a huge appetite for the McLeod’s franchise. Currently screening on Stan, the series won the Meaa’s The Great Australian Binge vote for Australia’s most favourite show.
A McLeod’s Daughters reunion attended by cast members Bridie Carter,...
Posie Graeme-Evans, co-creator of the Nine Network drama McLeod’s Daughters, is working on a feature film spin-off with producer Sue Clothier and screenwriter Emma Jensen.
Screen Tasmania is funding the early development of McLeods of Drovers Run, scripted by Jensen and produced by Graeme-Evans and Clothier.
Based on an origin story by Graeme-Evans, the plot sees tragic, unfinished business that begins in 1850s Scotland at the ancestral home of the McLeods return to haunt the present day family.
The logline reads: “In the end, family is all we have when the past will not die. That’s a good thing. Right?”
Graeme-Evans is convinced there is still a huge appetite for the McLeod’s franchise. Currently screening on Stan, the series won the Meaa’s The Great Australian Binge vote for Australia’s most favourite show.
A McLeod’s Daughters reunion attended by cast members Bridie Carter,...
- 6/21/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Sue Clothier.
Producer Sue Clothier has teamed with the MDs of distributor Transmission Films, Richard Payten and Andrew Mackie, to form production company Utopia, which will make factual and scripted content for all platforms.
Over her career, Clothier has produced or overseen the production of more than 500 hours of original content, including Employable Me, Life on the Reef, Changing Minds, Kakadu, 10 Days That Shocked the Nation: Cronulla Riots, Whiteley and Blue. Clothier founded Northern Pictures in 2010, with the company then acquired by Blue Ant Media in 2017. Previously, she has worked as general manager of ScreenWorld and head of TV factual production at Becker Entertainment.
Utopia’s slate will be anchored in the factual space, but also has a number of scripted projects in development.
“Transmission Films is the leading independent distributor in the country and partnering with Richard and Andrew in Utopia has been the easiest decision I have ever made.
Producer Sue Clothier has teamed with the MDs of distributor Transmission Films, Richard Payten and Andrew Mackie, to form production company Utopia, which will make factual and scripted content for all platforms.
Over her career, Clothier has produced or overseen the production of more than 500 hours of original content, including Employable Me, Life on the Reef, Changing Minds, Kakadu, 10 Days That Shocked the Nation: Cronulla Riots, Whiteley and Blue. Clothier founded Northern Pictures in 2010, with the company then acquired by Blue Ant Media in 2017. Previously, she has worked as general manager of ScreenWorld and head of TV factual production at Becker Entertainment.
Utopia’s slate will be anchored in the factual space, but also has a number of scripted projects in development.
“Transmission Films is the leading independent distributor in the country and partnering with Richard and Andrew in Utopia has been the easiest decision I have ever made.
- 3/8/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
When the producers and crew from Northern Pictures started a 12-week shoot in the locked mental health units of South Western Sydney.s Campbelltown Hospital for a 3-part ABC documentary, they had no idea what to expect.
What they discovered during the filming of Changing Minds: The Inside Story, which screens on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights as part of Mental As..week, was surprising in some respects, not least the level of humour.
.In parts it.s very funny,. Northern Pictures MD Sue Clothier tells If. .Some of the patients have a great sense of humour, as do the clinicians..
On a deeper level, the creative team was impressed with the unit.s success rate of rehabilitation. .Some patients were at risk of taking their own lives,. Clothier said. .The programme shows that people can fully recover and go on to live fulfilling lives, although some do relapse..
In...
What they discovered during the filming of Changing Minds: The Inside Story, which screens on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights as part of Mental As..week, was surprising in some respects, not least the level of humour.
.In parts it.s very funny,. Northern Pictures MD Sue Clothier tells If. .Some of the patients have a great sense of humour, as do the clinicians..
On a deeper level, the creative team was impressed with the unit.s success rate of rehabilitation. .Some patients were at risk of taking their own lives,. Clothier said. .The programme shows that people can fully recover and go on to live fulfilling lives, although some do relapse..
In...
- 10/5/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Documentaries on mental health, artist Brett Whiteley, the environmental threat to our seas, the secret life of pearls and how to have better sex are in the works from Northern Pictures.
Managing director Sue Clothier and head of factual Karina Holden are driving the eclectic slate for broadcasters including National Geographic Channels International and the ABC and distributor Transmission Films.
The second series of Changing Minds: The Inside Story will screen on three consecutive nights from October 6 as part of. Mental As..., the ABC.s week-long initiative in support of Mental Health Week.
While last year.s series was filmed inside Western Sydney's Liverpool Hospital.s psychiatric ward, the sequel follows daily life in the locked mental health units of Campbelltown Hospital and in the homes of patients cared for by community mental health teams.
Good Pitch 2 Australia generated philanthropic funding for six projects including two Northern Pictures feature docs.
Managing director Sue Clothier and head of factual Karina Holden are driving the eclectic slate for broadcasters including National Geographic Channels International and the ABC and distributor Transmission Films.
The second series of Changing Minds: The Inside Story will screen on three consecutive nights from October 6 as part of. Mental As..., the ABC.s week-long initiative in support of Mental Health Week.
While last year.s series was filmed inside Western Sydney's Liverpool Hospital.s psychiatric ward, the sequel follows daily life in the locked mental health units of Campbelltown Hospital and in the homes of patients cared for by community mental health teams.
Good Pitch 2 Australia generated philanthropic funding for six projects including two Northern Pictures feature docs.
- 9/30/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Six Australian films have secured $4.2 million in philanthropic funding through Good Pitch 2 Australia at the Sydney Opera House.
The films forged more than 60 new strategic partnerships across both the not-for-profit and business communities. ..
Along with funds committed, these partnerships, will support production, build audiences and ensure the lasting positive impact of the films.
The power of Good Pitch has been demonstrated following last year.s inaugural event, with three films so far presented in 2014 . That Sugar Film, Gayby Baby and Frackman . garnering large audiences and influencing policy and social change..
That Sugar Film has become the highest grossing Australian film of all time at the Australian cinema box office.
Good Pitch, an international forum for documentary filmmaking, brings together filmmakers with foundations, not-for-profits, campaigners, philanthropists, policymakers, broadcasters and key players in the film industry, around leading social and environmental issues, to forge coalitions and campaigns that are good for all these partners,...
The films forged more than 60 new strategic partnerships across both the not-for-profit and business communities. ..
Along with funds committed, these partnerships, will support production, build audiences and ensure the lasting positive impact of the films.
The power of Good Pitch has been demonstrated following last year.s inaugural event, with three films so far presented in 2014 . That Sugar Film, Gayby Baby and Frackman . garnering large audiences and influencing policy and social change..
That Sugar Film has become the highest grossing Australian film of all time at the Australian cinema box office.
Good Pitch, an international forum for documentary filmmaking, brings together filmmakers with foundations, not-for-profits, campaigners, philanthropists, policymakers, broadcasters and key players in the film industry, around leading social and environmental issues, to forge coalitions and campaigns that are good for all these partners,...
- 9/17/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Alexandra Hodgkinson has been appointed as co-head of factual at David Haslingden's Northern Pictures. She was a producer and senior journalist at the Seven Network's Sunday Night program. Before that she served as a producer and later as supervising producer at the Nine Network.s 60 Minutes and as series producer or Ep of factual series such as Bush Doctors, Beyond the Darklands, Pride of Australia and Young Doctors. .Alexandra is a first-class television producer and vibrant creative thinker with a substantial track record in factual television. She has spent more than two decades at the coal face of current affairs television and will bring immense energy, intelligence and experience to her role at Northern Pictures,.. MD Sue Clothier said. .Alexandra, along with Karina Holden who moves from head of production and development to head of factual, will be looking for opportunities to create factual programs for the international marketplace,...
- 5/28/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
The life of Australian artist Brett Whiteley will be brought to the screen with assistance from Screen Australia.s new Documentary Producer program.
Titled Whiteley, the film is a one-off documentary from Northern Pictures , aiming to provide audiences with a unique insight into the incredible life and legacy of the iconic Australian artist. The project will be produced by Sue Clothier and directed by James Bogle, who also co-wrote the script with Victor Gentile.
It is one of eight projects that have been selected to receive funding support in the first round of the program, with Screen Australia estimating the combined production expenditure will generate close to $9.3million.
Land Artists (working title) will delve into one of Australia.s leading (and controversial) architecture firms, Denton Corker Marshall, on their mission to create the Australian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. Renegade Films will make the documentary with producers Lucy Maclaren, Joe Connor and Ken Connor.
Titled Whiteley, the film is a one-off documentary from Northern Pictures , aiming to provide audiences with a unique insight into the incredible life and legacy of the iconic Australian artist. The project will be produced by Sue Clothier and directed by James Bogle, who also co-wrote the script with Victor Gentile.
It is one of eight projects that have been selected to receive funding support in the first round of the program, with Screen Australia estimating the combined production expenditure will generate close to $9.3million.
Land Artists (working title) will delve into one of Australia.s leading (and controversial) architecture firms, Denton Corker Marshall, on their mission to create the Australian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. Renegade Films will make the documentary with producers Lucy Maclaren, Joe Connor and Ken Connor.
- 5/12/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia today announced it will invest $5 million in 13 documentary projects. The National Documentary Program has given the green light to three series and a one-off documentary, Welcome to Puntland, which follows the plight of a group of Somali Australians who return to their homeland in hope of repairing the fractured state. Produced for the Sbs by Andrew Ogilvie and Claire Jager, the project comes from writer/director Victoria Pitt and director/camera operator Tim Wise. Once Upon a Time in Carlton comes after the success of Sbs.s Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta and, subsequently, Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl, which is currently in production. The series, produced by Sue Clothier, will delve into 70 years of Italian migrant history in Carlton, Melbourne. The second series of art + soul will build on its success, offering new insights into contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, art and culture,...
- 12/12/2012
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Joe Hildebrand will return to Australian TV screens in 2013 with a new factual series taking aim at Australia’s belief it is ‘the lucky country.”
The Daily Telegraph journo reunites with Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder, the team behind his previous series Dumb Drunk & Racist for a six part series to air on ABC2.
The series is one of 13 documentary projects announced to receive funding from Screen Australia. The $5m agency investment is expected to trigger nearly $15m worth of production.
Produced by Michael Cordell and Toni Malone, and directed by Ivan O’Mahoney, “The Daily Telegraph’s rebel-rousing columnist travels the lucky country, shattering our myths, bursting our bubbles and slaughtering some sacred Australian cows,” according to a press release.
Dumb Drunk & Racist delivered a decent audience for ABC2, it’s debut episode rating 266,000.
Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder has also received funding for Two Men in China, the continuing environmental buddy series...
The Daily Telegraph journo reunites with Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder, the team behind his previous series Dumb Drunk & Racist for a six part series to air on ABC2.
The series is one of 13 documentary projects announced to receive funding from Screen Australia. The $5m agency investment is expected to trigger nearly $15m worth of production.
Produced by Michael Cordell and Toni Malone, and directed by Ivan O’Mahoney, “The Daily Telegraph’s rebel-rousing columnist travels the lucky country, shattering our myths, bursting our bubbles and slaughtering some sacred Australian cows,” according to a press release.
Dumb Drunk & Racist delivered a decent audience for ABC2, it’s debut episode rating 266,000.
Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder has also received funding for Two Men in China, the continuing environmental buddy series...
- 12/12/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has invested almost $750,000 across five one-off documentary projects.
The projects, which will trigger over $2.1 million in production, include 10 Days That Shocked the Nation, an online Sbs documentary which will tells the story of the events that occurred in the lead-up to and consequent Cronulla Riots, and Canberra Confidential, an ABC program which uncovers a century of secrets from inside the nation.s capital.
Screen Australia.s documentary Manager Liz Stevens said: .Both these documentaries will make a significant contribution to the national dialogue. 10 Days That Shocked the Nation joins other recent Ndp-funded award-winning online properties Big Stories, Small Towns and Asylum: Exit Australia. Canberra Confidential will be broadcast to coincide with Canberra.s Centenary in early 2013..
The projects also include biographical film, Peter Sculthorpe, A Journey Through My Life, about one of the world.s greatest living composers. Writer/director Gregor Jordon.s Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer...
The projects, which will trigger over $2.1 million in production, include 10 Days That Shocked the Nation, an online Sbs documentary which will tells the story of the events that occurred in the lead-up to and consequent Cronulla Riots, and Canberra Confidential, an ABC program which uncovers a century of secrets from inside the nation.s capital.
Screen Australia.s documentary Manager Liz Stevens said: .Both these documentaries will make a significant contribution to the national dialogue. 10 Days That Shocked the Nation joins other recent Ndp-funded award-winning online properties Big Stories, Small Towns and Asylum: Exit Australia. Canberra Confidential will be broadcast to coincide with Canberra.s Centenary in early 2013..
The projects also include biographical film, Peter Sculthorpe, A Journey Through My Life, about one of the world.s greatest living composers. Writer/director Gregor Jordon.s Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer...
- 6/28/2012
- by Staff reporter
- IF.com.au
An ABC documentary about Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe directed by Gregor Jordan is one of the films to receive funding from Screen Australia.
Jordan, who directed Ned Kelly and Two Hands, followed Thorpe as the swimmer made his failed comeback for the 2012 London Olympics.
The project, Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer is produced for the ABC by Jordan Helen Panckhurst, Michael Hilliard, Simone Kessell and executive producer Rob Galluzzo.
Five documentaries have received funding from the national screen agency, two from the National Documentary Program and three from the General Documentary Program.
The $750,000 investment is expected to trigger $2.1m in production.
Also slated for funding is 10 Days That Shocked The Nation, about the 2005 Cronulla riots, to be broadcast on Sbs Online; the life story of music composer Peter Sculthorpe for the ABC; 1960s pop artist Martin Sharp called The Sharp End; and Canberra Confidential – a hundred years inside the nation’s capital.
Jordan, who directed Ned Kelly and Two Hands, followed Thorpe as the swimmer made his failed comeback for the 2012 London Olympics.
The project, Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer is produced for the ABC by Jordan Helen Panckhurst, Michael Hilliard, Simone Kessell and executive producer Rob Galluzzo.
Five documentaries have received funding from the national screen agency, two from the National Documentary Program and three from the General Documentary Program.
The $750,000 investment is expected to trigger $2.1m in production.
Also slated for funding is 10 Days That Shocked The Nation, about the 2005 Cronulla riots, to be broadcast on Sbs Online; the life story of music composer Peter Sculthorpe for the ABC; 1960s pop artist Martin Sharp called The Sharp End; and Canberra Confidential – a hundred years inside the nation’s capital.
- 6/27/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
A four-part Sbs series leads a new round of Screen Australia funding for documentaries.
The announcement of funding is worth $1.8m across six one off documentaries and one series, and is expected to trigger $4.8m worth of production.
Following on from Sbs’s four part series Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta, which aired earlier this year and took 0.850m viewers across SBS1 in English, and Sbs 2 in Vietnamese will be Once Upon A Time in Punchbowl.
The series will examine the Lebanese migrant settlement in Western Sydney and produced by Tim Toni and executive produced by Sue Clothier.
Liz Stevens, Screen Australia’s documentary manager said: “I’m thrilled to announce investment in the Sbs series Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl. This important series will again strongly resonate with the local community.”
Also receiving funding are one-off documentaries about the lead singer of punk band The Sunnyboys, a...
The announcement of funding is worth $1.8m across six one off documentaries and one series, and is expected to trigger $4.8m worth of production.
Following on from Sbs’s four part series Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta, which aired earlier this year and took 0.850m viewers across SBS1 in English, and Sbs 2 in Vietnamese will be Once Upon A Time in Punchbowl.
The series will examine the Lebanese migrant settlement in Western Sydney and produced by Tim Toni and executive produced by Sue Clothier.
Liz Stevens, Screen Australia’s documentary manager said: “I’m thrilled to announce investment in the Sbs series Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl. This important series will again strongly resonate with the local community.”
Also receiving funding are one-off documentaries about the lead singer of punk band The Sunnyboys, a...
- 5/18/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
A documentary about Rupert Murdoch is to be funded by Screen Austraia, the organisation has revealed.
The taxpayer funded body said that the doco – titled Murdoch – will screen in Sbs and on the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster ITV.
Produced by Electric Pictures, according to the synopsis, the two-part series will be “the definitive account of how one man changed the face of the media and became one of the wealthiest, most powerful and enigmatic figures in the world.”
Electric Pictures was the production company that won a best documentary Aacta award earlier this year for Jandamarra’s War.
Written and directed by Janice Sutherland, Electric’s Andrew Ogilvie and Dinah Lord are producing.
A spokesman for Electric Pictures told Encore: “We won’t be commenting.”
The series is one of six documentaries announced by Screen Australia.
Five of the six already have international sales behind them. Not only will Murdoch screen in the UK,...
The taxpayer funded body said that the doco – titled Murdoch – will screen in Sbs and on the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster ITV.
Produced by Electric Pictures, according to the synopsis, the two-part series will be “the definitive account of how one man changed the face of the media and became one of the wealthiest, most powerful and enigmatic figures in the world.”
Electric Pictures was the production company that won a best documentary Aacta award earlier this year for Jandamarra’s War.
Written and directed by Janice Sutherland, Electric’s Andrew Ogilvie and Dinah Lord are producing.
A spokesman for Electric Pictures told Encore: “We won’t be commenting.”
The series is one of six documentaries announced by Screen Australia.
Five of the six already have international sales behind them. Not only will Murdoch screen in the UK,...
- 3/15/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia will invest $1.9 million across six documentaries including programs which look at the life of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Warumpi Band leader George Rrarramu.
The six programs, which include one from the National Documentary Program and five from the International Program funding programs, will generate $7.3 million in production, according to Screen Australia.
George Rrarramu, the single film chosen from the National Documentary Program, details the legendary Warumpi Band front man and his contribution to Indigenous music. The documentary is written by Lisa Watts and Steven McGregor, who will also direct.
From the International Program, a two-part Sbs and ITV documentary, Murdoch looks into the life of Rupert Murdoch, one of the most powerful figures in the world, and how he has radically impacted today.s media. The Murdoch empire grew from a small Adelaide home base to dominate the world but is currently under threat after a phone hacking scandal in the UK.
The six programs, which include one from the National Documentary Program and five from the International Program funding programs, will generate $7.3 million in production, according to Screen Australia.
George Rrarramu, the single film chosen from the National Documentary Program, details the legendary Warumpi Band front man and his contribution to Indigenous music. The documentary is written by Lisa Watts and Steven McGregor, who will also direct.
From the International Program, a two-part Sbs and ITV documentary, Murdoch looks into the life of Rupert Murdoch, one of the most powerful figures in the world, and how he has radically impacted today.s media. The Murdoch empire grew from a small Adelaide home base to dominate the world but is currently under threat after a phone hacking scandal in the UK.
- 3/15/2012
- by Matthew Worboys
- IF.com.au
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