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South Australia's Mercury Cx has undergone an overhaul of its operations in an attempt to remain solvent, with a new board restructuring its model to reduce overheads and engaging an interim general manager to replace outgoing CEO, Karena Slaninka.
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- 12/13/2022
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
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Emerging screenwriters Dylan Coleman and Sally Hardy, producer Craig Jackson and cinema programmer Aimee Knight are the inaugural creatives to participate in the City of Adelaide and Mercury Cx’s Hothouse Creative Residencies.
Each will undertake a 12-week residency to focus on specific works in a supportive environment surrounded by resources and mentors.
The flexible program allows for each participant to draw on both the resources of Mercury Cx as well as mentoring and industry connections to further their projects. In addition to mentoring and access to Mercury Cx facilities, the residency program included the 2021 McX Screenmakers Conference,
In announcing the recipients, Mercury Cx CEO Karena Slaninka said there was an excellent response to the program in its first year.
“Transitioning from one area of creative industries to another, or seeking to elevate one’s career, can benefit from mentoring, structure, and a supportive environment in which to achieve creative...
Each will undertake a 12-week residency to focus on specific works in a supportive environment surrounded by resources and mentors.
The flexible program allows for each participant to draw on both the resources of Mercury Cx as well as mentoring and industry connections to further their projects. In addition to mentoring and access to Mercury Cx facilities, the residency program included the 2021 McX Screenmakers Conference,
In announcing the recipients, Mercury Cx CEO Karena Slaninka said there was an excellent response to the program in its first year.
“Transitioning from one area of creative industries to another, or seeking to elevate one’s career, can benefit from mentoring, structure, and a supportive environment in which to achieve creative...
- 11/12/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell’s thriller short The Recordist leads the nominations for the 23rd South Australian Screen Awards, featuring in seven categories.
Alies Sluiter ’s Myth – The Go-Between and Kiara Milera and Charlotte Rose’s Waiyirri were also well represented in the field of 82 nominees announced yesterday, each securing five nods.
To be held in-person at Mercury Cx next month, the awards celebrate South Australian key creatives and crews across short films, music videos, web series, and games with total prizes valued at more than $30,000.
Winners will be presented across 24 categories, including drama, comedy, documentary, animation, web series, games, music video, acting, hair and makeup, design, sound, music, editing, cinematography, writing, directing, and producing.
Mercury Cx CEO Karena Slaninka said that for the nominees and winners, the recognition provided a stepping stone for which to build their careers.
“Getting a Sasa means something,” she said.
“In each case,...
Alies Sluiter ’s Myth – The Go-Between and Kiara Milera and Charlotte Rose’s Waiyirri were also well represented in the field of 82 nominees announced yesterday, each securing five nods.
To be held in-person at Mercury Cx next month, the awards celebrate South Australian key creatives and crews across short films, music videos, web series, and games with total prizes valued at more than $30,000.
Winners will be presented across 24 categories, including drama, comedy, documentary, animation, web series, games, music video, acting, hair and makeup, design, sound, music, editing, cinematography, writing, directing, and producing.
Mercury Cx CEO Karena Slaninka said that for the nominees and winners, the recognition provided a stepping stone for which to build their careers.
“Getting a Sasa means something,” she said.
“In each case,...
- 11/5/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
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Meg Lefauve and Lorien McKenna, the scribes behind Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur and Captain Marvel and hosts of podcast The Screenwriting Life, will be among the keynote speakers at this year’s Screenmakers Conference and Market.
Run by Adelaide’s Mercury Cx, the event aimed at the emerging sector will also see sessions from Hoodlum and Asx-listed games company Mighty Kingdom.
This year’s iteration will return in-person in Adelaide, held over three days and featuring conference sessions, a 1:1 pitch market, the ABC iview Pitch-o-rama contest pitching contest, mentoring, industry roundtables, networking events and a one-day TV formats lab.
Industry representatives from Foxtel, Stan, ABC, Icon Films, Sbs, Fremantle, Roadshow, Studiocanal, Madman Films, and Flame Distribution will be among the 50 production companies, producers, distributors, platforms and exhibitors participating.
The theme for 2021 is ‘Market >> Creators >> Exchange’.
Mercury Cx CEO Karena Slaninka said the event, returning in its seventh edition,...
Run by Adelaide’s Mercury Cx, the event aimed at the emerging sector will also see sessions from Hoodlum and Asx-listed games company Mighty Kingdom.
This year’s iteration will return in-person in Adelaide, held over three days and featuring conference sessions, a 1:1 pitch market, the ABC iview Pitch-o-rama contest pitching contest, mentoring, industry roundtables, networking events and a one-day TV formats lab.
Industry representatives from Foxtel, Stan, ABC, Icon Films, Sbs, Fremantle, Roadshow, Studiocanal, Madman Films, and Flame Distribution will be among the 50 production companies, producers, distributors, platforms and exhibitors participating.
The theme for 2021 is ‘Market >> Creators >> Exchange’.
Mercury Cx CEO Karena Slaninka said the event, returning in its seventh edition,...
- 6/17/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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Three South Australian filmmaking teams have moved a step closer to having a feature debut at next year’s Adelaide Film Festival after being announced for the Film Lab: New Voices development program.
Delivered through the South Australian Film Corporation (Safc) and Adelaide Film Festival, in collaboration with Mercury Cx, the new initiative provides Sa creative teams with industry mentoring from screen story development mentor Louise Gough across a 12-month period to develop a low-budget feature film script.
Screen Australia will also help deliver the development phase of the program’s inaugural round.
One project will be selected to be wholly produced and post- produced in Sa, with the final film to premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2022.
The first successful teams for the program include writer/director Peter Ninos and producer Georgia Humphreys; writer Lucy Campbell, producer Bettina Hamilton and director Matt Vesely; and writer/director Madeleine Parry...
Delivered through the South Australian Film Corporation (Safc) and Adelaide Film Festival, in collaboration with Mercury Cx, the new initiative provides Sa creative teams with industry mentoring from screen story development mentor Louise Gough across a 12-month period to develop a low-budget feature film script.
Screen Australia will also help deliver the development phase of the program’s inaugural round.
One project will be selected to be wholly produced and post- produced in Sa, with the final film to premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2022.
The first successful teams for the program include writer/director Peter Ninos and producer Georgia Humphreys; writer Lucy Campbell, producer Bettina Hamilton and director Matt Vesely; and writer/director Madeleine Parry...
- 3/12/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
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Writer-director Alies Sluiter’s short film Ayaan took home five awards at the recent South Australian Screen Awards (Sasa), including the grand jury prize and best drama.
Produced Meng Xiong and Elspeth Trautwei, Ayaan tells the story of an escaped asylum seeker and her baby, who encounter an Aboriginal man on a rural Australian beach, and must decide whether to trust him or attempt the 400km journey to the nearest city, on foot and alone.
The film also notched Best Screenplay, as well as the awards for Best Male performance for Trevor Jamieson and Best Female Performance for Babetida Sadjo.
Ayaan was also recently recognised with Adelaide Film Festival’s short film audience award, and Sluiter won Best Direction in Student Film at the Adg Awards.
The annual Sasa ceremony, hosted by Mercury Cx, recognises outstanding talent in emerging Sa storytellers and craft professionals. This year, the event was held...
Produced Meng Xiong and Elspeth Trautwei, Ayaan tells the story of an escaped asylum seeker and her baby, who encounter an Aboriginal man on a rural Australian beach, and must decide whether to trust him or attempt the 400km journey to the nearest city, on foot and alone.
The film also notched Best Screenplay, as well as the awards for Best Male performance for Trevor Jamieson and Best Female Performance for Babetida Sadjo.
Ayaan was also recently recognised with Adelaide Film Festival’s short film audience award, and Sluiter won Best Direction in Student Film at the Adg Awards.
The annual Sasa ceremony, hosted by Mercury Cx, recognises outstanding talent in emerging Sa storytellers and craft professionals. This year, the event was held...
- 12/10/2020
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Britt Arthur.
CEO and Conference Director Britt Arthur will step down from her executive role with the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) in November to begin her family.
Arthur leaves Aidc after overseeing a successful move from Adelaide to Melbourne.s Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Acmi) and delivering a program in 2016 that attracted the highest delegate numbers in nine years.
Aidc Co-Chair Karena Slaninka said 2016 signalled an exciting re-energising of the Aidc conference and market..
.Britt has worked tremendously hard to realise this vision, delivering an Aidc that remained true to its original documentary spirit, whilst forging pathways into the international, unscripted television and multiplatform sectors,. said Slaninka.
.Britt has been an inspiring and passionate force of nature, generating a new momentum for the conference and we congratulate her on her outstanding success. We wish Britt every happiness as she starts the exciting journey on her next and...
CEO and Conference Director Britt Arthur will step down from her executive role with the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) in November to begin her family.
Arthur leaves Aidc after overseeing a successful move from Adelaide to Melbourne.s Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Acmi) and delivering a program in 2016 that attracted the highest delegate numbers in nine years.
Aidc Co-Chair Karena Slaninka said 2016 signalled an exciting re-energising of the Aidc conference and market..
.Britt has worked tremendously hard to realise this vision, delivering an Aidc that remained true to its original documentary spirit, whilst forging pathways into the international, unscripted television and multiplatform sectors,. said Slaninka.
.Britt has been an inspiring and passionate force of nature, generating a new momentum for the conference and we congratulate her on her outstanding success. We wish Britt every happiness as she starts the exciting journey on her next and...
- 8/2/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Victorian documentary maker Sonya Pemberton has won the 2016 Stanley Hawes Award at the opening of the Australian International Documentary Conference.
More than 550 delegates from the documentary and factual screen content industry have come together at the Australian Centre for Moving Image in Melbourne for a program of 55 sessions, screenings and networking events from February 28 to March 2.
The Sanley Hawes Award is presented annually to a person or organisation that has made an outstanding contribution to the documentary sector in Australia over a recognised period of time..
Pemberton receives the award for her extensive work producing documentary science programs on important social issues.
According to an Aidc statement, the award is an encouraging reflection of Aidc 2016.s attendance-by-gender split.
Fifty per cent of speakers, 59 per cent of decision makers and 55 per cent of overall delegates at this year.s conference are women.
Aidc Co-Chair Karena Slaninka said Sonya.s extensive...
More than 550 delegates from the documentary and factual screen content industry have come together at the Australian Centre for Moving Image in Melbourne for a program of 55 sessions, screenings and networking events from February 28 to March 2.
The Sanley Hawes Award is presented annually to a person or organisation that has made an outstanding contribution to the documentary sector in Australia over a recognised period of time..
Pemberton receives the award for her extensive work producing documentary science programs on important social issues.
According to an Aidc statement, the award is an encouraging reflection of Aidc 2016.s attendance-by-gender split.
Fifty per cent of speakers, 59 per cent of decision makers and 55 per cent of overall delegates at this year.s conference are women.
Aidc Co-Chair Karena Slaninka said Sonya.s extensive...
- 2/29/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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