Exclusive: Alex Creasia has joined management and production company Navigation Media Group as a Literary Manager.
Coming aboard after a little over three years at Sugar23, Creasia has spent over a decade working in literary management and production. He often works with on-the-rise multi-hyphenates from diverse backgrounds, helping them build careers in film and TV, and has a passion for discovering and helping to expose out-of-the-box IP. Creasia also works with artists and producers in unscripted, often in the arena of sports.
In the past, Creasia has helped produce and sell such indies as Still starring Madeline Brewer, and Only starring Leslie Odam Jr and Frieda Pinto, both of which were written and directed by client Takashi Doscher. Other clients he brings with him to Navigation Media Group include Marcus Stokes, Spencer Paysinger, Mercedes Bryce Morgan, Mary Pilon, Alex Ebel, Spenser Starke, Daniel Brown, Hannah Mescon & Dreux Moreland, Sterling Brown,...
Coming aboard after a little over three years at Sugar23, Creasia has spent over a decade working in literary management and production. He often works with on-the-rise multi-hyphenates from diverse backgrounds, helping them build careers in film and TV, and has a passion for discovering and helping to expose out-of-the-box IP. Creasia also works with artists and producers in unscripted, often in the arena of sports.
In the past, Creasia has helped produce and sell such indies as Still starring Madeline Brewer, and Only starring Leslie Odam Jr and Frieda Pinto, both of which were written and directed by client Takashi Doscher. Other clients he brings with him to Navigation Media Group include Marcus Stokes, Spencer Paysinger, Mercedes Bryce Morgan, Mary Pilon, Alex Ebel, Spenser Starke, Daniel Brown, Hannah Mescon & Dreux Moreland, Sterling Brown,...
- 5/16/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Deadline has your first look at Six Days to Die, the second film in a sci-fi western trilogy series by Matt Campagna, which he wrote, directed, shot and edited.
The film brought to life through virtual environments, comprised of elaborate 360-degree digital matte paintings, centers on a desperate gambler wrongfully accused of murder who flees through a post-apocalyptic frontier, with a vengeful Marshal doggedly hunting him down, on a bloody quest to bring order to the chaos.
The Umbrella Academy’s Colm Feore stars alongside Darryl Hinds, Melissa D’Agostino, Ari Millen and Kyra Harper. Breann Smordin and Elizabeth Frase produced the pic, which is eyeing a festival premiere next year, and is being sold worldwide by Forward Motion Entertainment. The third film in the trilogy series, Six Guns For Hire, is currently in post-production.
Check out the first still from Campagna’s latest, along with several character portraits, below.
The film brought to life through virtual environments, comprised of elaborate 360-degree digital matte paintings, centers on a desperate gambler wrongfully accused of murder who flees through a post-apocalyptic frontier, with a vengeful Marshal doggedly hunting him down, on a bloody quest to bring order to the chaos.
The Umbrella Academy’s Colm Feore stars alongside Darryl Hinds, Melissa D’Agostino, Ari Millen and Kyra Harper. Breann Smordin and Elizabeth Frase produced the pic, which is eyeing a festival premiere next year, and is being sold worldwide by Forward Motion Entertainment. The third film in the trilogy series, Six Guns For Hire, is currently in post-production.
Check out the first still from Campagna’s latest, along with several character portraits, below.
- 11/19/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Sugar’s Sugar23 continues to grow as the management firm has hired Sukee Chew, Anna Weinstein and Alex Creasia.
Chew comes to Sugar23 a seasoned industry veteran with 20 years of experience as a producer and an arsenal of talented screenwriters and filmmakers on her roster. She had previously set up three projects with Sugar23, and due to their camaraderie, and her admiration for the team, she jumped at the opportunity to join the company, which is growing in all forms of media.
“Having already been in business with Sukee on a number of projects, bringing her in-house felt like the right and natural next step for both of us,” Sugar said. “Her impeccable eye for talent, taste in material and overall humanity makes her the perfect fit and we are absolutely thrilled to welcome Sukee to our team.”
Chew, Weinstein and Creasia join recent manager hires Katrina Escudero, Jake Fleischman and David Jimenez-Katsman,...
Chew comes to Sugar23 a seasoned industry veteran with 20 years of experience as a producer and an arsenal of talented screenwriters and filmmakers on her roster. She had previously set up three projects with Sugar23, and due to their camaraderie, and her admiration for the team, she jumped at the opportunity to join the company, which is growing in all forms of media.
“Having already been in business with Sukee on a number of projects, bringing her in-house felt like the right and natural next step for both of us,” Sugar said. “Her impeccable eye for talent, taste in material and overall humanity makes her the perfect fit and we are absolutely thrilled to welcome Sukee to our team.”
Chew, Weinstein and Creasia join recent manager hires Katrina Escudero, Jake Fleischman and David Jimenez-Katsman,...
- 6/15/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Rob Gibson and Ian Collie.
TV drama producers face a balancing act next year: How to take advantage of the 30 per cent Producer Offset while coping with watered-down local content regulations and the financial constraints affecting all Australian broadcasters – public and commercial.
For Easy Tiger, and no doubt other production companies, one solution lies in attracting more investment from international streamers, networks and co-productions.
Hence Easy Tiger founder/producer Ian Collie and CEO/producer Rob Gibson are working on multiple international deals, not just with the US and the UK, but also with less obvious markets such as Mexico, Norway and India.
In addition, the production company backed by Fremantle continues to foster new and emerging writing talent including Imogen McCloskey, Hannah Lehmann, Anchuli Felicia King and Julia Patey.
“The drama market in Australia is increasingly tough and the changes to the sub-quotas leave the industry in a much more precarious position,...
TV drama producers face a balancing act next year: How to take advantage of the 30 per cent Producer Offset while coping with watered-down local content regulations and the financial constraints affecting all Australian broadcasters – public and commercial.
For Easy Tiger, and no doubt other production companies, one solution lies in attracting more investment from international streamers, networks and co-productions.
Hence Easy Tiger founder/producer Ian Collie and CEO/producer Rob Gibson are working on multiple international deals, not just with the US and the UK, but also with less obvious markets such as Mexico, Norway and India.
In addition, the production company backed by Fremantle continues to foster new and emerging writing talent including Imogen McCloskey, Hannah Lehmann, Anchuli Felicia King and Julia Patey.
“The drama market in Australia is increasingly tough and the changes to the sub-quotas leave the industry in a much more precarious position,...
- 10/26/2020
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
‘Love Bug.’
Forced to self-isolate, Imogen McCluskey spent two weeks writing, directing and editing a webseries about dating during the pandemic, based on personal experience.
The result is Love Bug, which will premiere on Aftrs’ Facebook page from 9 am this Sunday followed, she hopes, by other platforms such as Vimeo.
The show follows two characters played by Maddy McWilliam and Justin Amankwah, who are dating although they are in self-isolation.
The relationship ebbs and flows as they both lose their jobs. They communicate via Facetime and texts, raising questions about the nature of dating and commitment.
Writing, rehearsals and filming took place in one week, followed by several days of post. The director and actors filmed the face-to-face calls over Zoom, with Imogen watching on a minimised screen. Her frequent collaborator Lucca Barone-Peters composed the music.
The actors appeared in Imogen’s Aftrs graduate film and Maddy starred in her...
Forced to self-isolate, Imogen McCluskey spent two weeks writing, directing and editing a webseries about dating during the pandemic, based on personal experience.
The result is Love Bug, which will premiere on Aftrs’ Facebook page from 9 am this Sunday followed, she hopes, by other platforms such as Vimeo.
The show follows two characters played by Maddy McWilliam and Justin Amankwah, who are dating although they are in self-isolation.
The relationship ebbs and flows as they both lose their jobs. They communicate via Facetime and texts, raising questions about the nature of dating and commitment.
Writing, rehearsals and filming took place in one week, followed by several days of post. The director and actors filmed the face-to-face calls over Zoom, with Imogen watching on a minimised screen. Her frequent collaborator Lucca Barone-Peters composed the music.
The actors appeared in Imogen’s Aftrs graduate film and Maddy starred in her...
- 4/2/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Imogen McCluskey with longtime Dop Lucca Barone-Peters.
After graduating from Aftrs in 2017 filmmaker Imogen McCluskey’s career is taking off, with one feature and several shorts under her belt and multiple projects in development.
Currently she is writing and will direct one of seven segments of the anthology Masc, which will give female and non-binary perspectives on contemporary masculinity, with development funding from Screen Australia.
Her co-collaborators are Madeleine Gottlieb and Laura Nagy, who both came up with the concept, Renée Marie Petropoulos, Hyun Lee, Shari Sebbens and Cloudy Rhodes.
A comedy, her episode will focus on a 16-year-old boy who attends a single sex school and is being pressured by his friends to have sex with a girl.
In a surreal twist, his post-sex self comes to life as a kind of guardian angel. “It looks at hyper-masculine archetypes that boys are taught to live up to, and takes...
After graduating from Aftrs in 2017 filmmaker Imogen McCluskey’s career is taking off, with one feature and several shorts under her belt and multiple projects in development.
Currently she is writing and will direct one of seven segments of the anthology Masc, which will give female and non-binary perspectives on contemporary masculinity, with development funding from Screen Australia.
Her co-collaborators are Madeleine Gottlieb and Laura Nagy, who both came up with the concept, Renée Marie Petropoulos, Hyun Lee, Shari Sebbens and Cloudy Rhodes.
A comedy, her episode will focus on a 16-year-old boy who attends a single sex school and is being pressured by his friends to have sex with a girl.
In a surreal twist, his post-sex self comes to life as a kind of guardian angel. “It looks at hyper-masculine archetypes that boys are taught to live up to, and takes...
- 3/11/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Snapchat Original ‘Two Sides’, created by Sydney filmmaker Hannah Lehmann.
Snapchat and Screen Australia have partnered to launch a new initiative aimed at developing and producing premium Australian, vertical mobile series, jointly offering $15,000 in development funding as well as an all-expenses-paid trip to Snapchat HQ in Los Angeles to workshop concepts.
The brief is for projects suitable for short-form, fictional series that are creatively outstanding, and able to be told in 10 episodes of up to 5 minutes per episode. Concepts can be of any scripted narrative genre, and up to two teams will be selected.
Applicant teams must consist of at least two people with the roles of writer, producer and director covered. All team members must be available to attend the workshop which will be held the week of May 18, 2020 in Los Angeles. After the development period is complete, the selected teams will then have the opportunity to apply for...
Snapchat and Screen Australia have partnered to launch a new initiative aimed at developing and producing premium Australian, vertical mobile series, jointly offering $15,000 in development funding as well as an all-expenses-paid trip to Snapchat HQ in Los Angeles to workshop concepts.
The brief is for projects suitable for short-form, fictional series that are creatively outstanding, and able to be told in 10 episodes of up to 5 minutes per episode. Concepts can be of any scripted narrative genre, and up to two teams will be selected.
Applicant teams must consist of at least two people with the roles of writer, producer and director covered. All team members must be available to attend the workshop which will be held the week of May 18, 2020 in Los Angeles. After the development period is complete, the selected teams will then have the opportunity to apply for...
- 1/28/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
‘The Unboxing’.
There’s a guiding philosophy that’s successfully steered much of Hannah Lehmann’s career so far: When people are spending so much time on their phones and social media anyway, why not give them interesting content to watch via their apps?
Lehmann’s short-form work has garnered millions of views, with the Sydney filmmaker first grabbing industry attention after she distributed her 13 x one minute drama series The Out There via Instagram back in 2016. That led to her getting signed with Gersh Agency and Pathfinder in the Us and a Snapchat Original commission in Two Sides, premiering last year. Screen Australia also recently sent Lehmann to La as part of its Talent USA delegation, recognising her as an up-and-coming talent.
Two Sides, which she created, wrote and directed follows a teenage couple navigating a modern-day breakup in a split-screen format, showing both characters’ point of view of the breakup simultaneously.
There’s a guiding philosophy that’s successfully steered much of Hannah Lehmann’s career so far: When people are spending so much time on their phones and social media anyway, why not give them interesting content to watch via their apps?
Lehmann’s short-form work has garnered millions of views, with the Sydney filmmaker first grabbing industry attention after she distributed her 13 x one minute drama series The Out There via Instagram back in 2016. That led to her getting signed with Gersh Agency and Pathfinder in the Us and a Snapchat Original commission in Two Sides, premiering last year. Screen Australia also recently sent Lehmann to La as part of its Talent USA delegation, recognising her as an up-and-coming talent.
Two Sides, which she created, wrote and directed follows a teenage couple navigating a modern-day breakup in a split-screen format, showing both characters’ point of view of the breakup simultaneously.
- 1/20/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
The Digital Originals initiative workshop. (Photo: John McCrae)
Sbs and Screen Australia have selected ten short-form projects for development as part of the Digital Originals initiative, aimed at providing tangible opportunities for writers from backgrounds underrepresented in the Australian screen sector.
The teams are being developed as part of a workshop under the mentorship of Australian television director and producer, Anna Dokoza and Ryan O’Connell, writer, producer and star of the Emmy-nominated Netflix short-form series, Special. The initiative will continue with a second workshop in February, and up to three projects will be selected for further development, and potentially production, for Sbs On Demand with Screen Australia funding.
The selected projects include:
• A Beginner’s Guide to Grief – Anna Lindner (Writer)
• Breeders – Holly Zwalf (Writer), Erin McBean (Producer) and Dallas Webster (Writer)
• The Dissolution Loops – Grant Scicluna (Writer/Producer)
• 50 Shades of Black (Girl) – Gemma Bird Matheson (Writer) Lizzie Cater (Producer) and Ratidzo Mambo (Producer)
• fine.
Sbs and Screen Australia have selected ten short-form projects for development as part of the Digital Originals initiative, aimed at providing tangible opportunities for writers from backgrounds underrepresented in the Australian screen sector.
The teams are being developed as part of a workshop under the mentorship of Australian television director and producer, Anna Dokoza and Ryan O’Connell, writer, producer and star of the Emmy-nominated Netflix short-form series, Special. The initiative will continue with a second workshop in February, and up to three projects will be selected for further development, and potentially production, for Sbs On Demand with Screen Australia funding.
The selected projects include:
• A Beginner’s Guide to Grief – Anna Lindner (Writer)
• Breeders – Holly Zwalf (Writer), Erin McBean (Producer) and Dallas Webster (Writer)
• The Dissolution Loops – Grant Scicluna (Writer/Producer)
• 50 Shades of Black (Girl) – Gemma Bird Matheson (Writer) Lizzie Cater (Producer) and Ratidzo Mambo (Producer)
• fine.
- 11/27/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Goran Stolevski, Hannah Lehmann and Nina Oyama.
Twelve Aussie creatives are off to Los Angeles for Talent USA: La, a week-long program that involves meetings, workshops and networking opportunities.
Talent USA: La is an initiative of Screen Australia and the Australian Writers’ Guild, and participants were selected due to their existing international profile or having already attracted Us interest in their work.
Film Independent and Australians in Film USA (AiF) will assist setting up the program, and AiF are also providing financial assistance to Mentor La recipients to attend the Talent USA: La program.
“La is the epicentre of the English-speaking screen industry, so Talent USA is an opportunity for the Australian creators to understand how the Us system works and increase their visibility amongst core decision-makers,” said Screen Australia’s head of development Nerida Moore.
“The ultimate goal of the program is to empower these creators to do their best work back in Australia,...
Twelve Aussie creatives are off to Los Angeles for Talent USA: La, a week-long program that involves meetings, workshops and networking opportunities.
Talent USA: La is an initiative of Screen Australia and the Australian Writers’ Guild, and participants were selected due to their existing international profile or having already attracted Us interest in their work.
Film Independent and Australians in Film USA (AiF) will assist setting up the program, and AiF are also providing financial assistance to Mentor La recipients to attend the Talent USA: La program.
“La is the epicentre of the English-speaking screen industry, so Talent USA is an opportunity for the Australian creators to understand how the Us system works and increase their visibility amongst core decision-makers,” said Screen Australia’s head of development Nerida Moore.
“The ultimate goal of the program is to empower these creators to do their best work back in Australia,...
- 8/8/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Hannah Lehmann. (Photo: Chelsea Thistlewaite)
Short-form storytelling is having a moment, and Sydney filmmaker Hannah Lehmann is capitalising on it.
In 2017, she distributed her series The Out There, which she wrote, produced and starred in, using Instagram. Each of the 13 episodes ran for just a minute.
The Out There piqued the interest of Us-based media company Adolescent Content, who bought the rights, and backed a second instalment.
Off the back of the second season, Lehmann signed with Gersh Agency and Pathfinder in the Us. Snapchat then went on to commission a series she wrote and created, Two Sides.
Released over the weekend, Two Sides follows a teenage couple navigating a modern-day breakup in a split-screen format, showing both characters’ point of view of the breakup simultaneously. There are 10 episodes, each five minutes in length. Lehmann also directed the series, shot in Austin, Texas, starring newcomers Kai Kadlec and Maeve Whale.
Short-form storytelling is having a moment, and Sydney filmmaker Hannah Lehmann is capitalising on it.
In 2017, she distributed her series The Out There, which she wrote, produced and starred in, using Instagram. Each of the 13 episodes ran for just a minute.
The Out There piqued the interest of Us-based media company Adolescent Content, who bought the rights, and backed a second instalment.
Off the back of the second season, Lehmann signed with Gersh Agency and Pathfinder in the Us. Snapchat then went on to commission a series she wrote and created, Two Sides.
Released over the weekend, Two Sides follows a teenage couple navigating a modern-day breakup in a split-screen format, showing both characters’ point of view of the breakup simultaneously. There are 10 episodes, each five minutes in length. Lehmann also directed the series, shot in Austin, Texas, starring newcomers Kai Kadlec and Maeve Whale.
- 7/1/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Silent Eyes. *hand clap* They're watching you. *double hand clap* They see your eveeeee-rrrryyyy move. Okay, so those weren't exactly the lyrics, but you have to admit in retrospect Hall and Oates were pretty friggin' creepy.
In any event below you'll find the trailer and some teaser art for James Peniata's new indie flick Silent Eyes (website here) starring James Peniata, Anna Louise Gabbedy, Leigh Murray, Jessica Arapi, Jacqueline Murray, Hannah Lehmann, Tracey Lee Maxwell, Andrew Thatcher, Jose Antonio, Matthew Scott, Katie Mckee, Marie Andrews, Peter Moalaeua, Ailene Beale, Leo Domigan, and Chris 'Kamikazi' M.
Dig on the plot crunch below, and look for more soon!
Synopsis
The legendary and brutal serial killer 'Silent Eyes' has finally been captured and killed. The small Australian town of Gretinsberg can now return to normal.
The teens of Gretinsberg decide to throw a massive party to celebrate the end of a long curfew.
In any event below you'll find the trailer and some teaser art for James Peniata's new indie flick Silent Eyes (website here) starring James Peniata, Anna Louise Gabbedy, Leigh Murray, Jessica Arapi, Jacqueline Murray, Hannah Lehmann, Tracey Lee Maxwell, Andrew Thatcher, Jose Antonio, Matthew Scott, Katie Mckee, Marie Andrews, Peter Moalaeua, Ailene Beale, Leo Domigan, and Chris 'Kamikazi' M.
Dig on the plot crunch below, and look for more soon!
Synopsis
The legendary and brutal serial killer 'Silent Eyes' has finally been captured and killed. The small Australian town of Gretinsberg can now return to normal.
The teens of Gretinsberg decide to throw a massive party to celebrate the end of a long curfew.
- 4/13/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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