Rule Of Law
Director Clara Law (“The Goddess of 1967”) has been set as president of the jury which will discern this year’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards. She will be joined by Malaysia’s Yeo Yann Yann, German producer Anna Katchko, and Faisal Baltyuor, producer and CEO of Muvi Studios in Saudi Arabia.
A separate jury for documentaries and animation will be headed by Taiwan-based Myanmar director Midi Z, India’s Rima Das and Japanese documentary maker Toda Hikaru.
The APSAs will be presented at a ceremony in Gold Coast, Queensland on Nov. 4 and be preceded by three days of seminars and screenings. The awards and forum are presented by the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, the City of Gold Coast, Screen Queensland, the Motion Picture Association and Griffith Film School, Griffith University. Nominations will be announced on Oct. 4.
Law, who has previously been based in Hong Kong and Macau,...
Director Clara Law (“The Goddess of 1967”) has been set as president of the jury which will discern this year’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards. She will be joined by Malaysia’s Yeo Yann Yann, German producer Anna Katchko, and Faisal Baltyuor, producer and CEO of Muvi Studios in Saudi Arabia.
A separate jury for documentaries and animation will be headed by Taiwan-based Myanmar director Midi Z, India’s Rima Das and Japanese documentary maker Toda Hikaru.
The APSAs will be presented at a ceremony in Gold Coast, Queensland on Nov. 4 and be preceded by three days of seminars and screenings. The awards and forum are presented by the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, the City of Gold Coast, Screen Queensland, the Motion Picture Association and Griffith Film School, Griffith University. Nominations will be announced on Oct. 4.
Law, who has previously been based in Hong Kong and Macau,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Screen Australia and Nitv have unveiled the six projects that will share in more than $600,000 of production funding under the No Ordinary Black short film initiative.
Aimed at bringing First Nations stories to the screen, No Ordinary Black is run in partnership Screen Nsw, Screen Territory, Screen Queensland and Screenwest.
The program brought together eight teams for a virtual development workshop in July last year, from which six successful projects were selected to go into production for Nitv.
Screen Australia’s CEO Graeme Mason said the agency was proud to support the creators in taking the next step in their careers.
“Each of the six teams has created the kind of bold and ambitious stories that are exactly what we are looking for, with captivating scripts that explore a range of themes, including family, identity, childhood, belonging, and adventure,” he said.
Nitv head of commissioning and programming Kyas Hepworth said...
Aimed at bringing First Nations stories to the screen, No Ordinary Black is run in partnership Screen Nsw, Screen Territory, Screen Queensland and Screenwest.
The program brought together eight teams for a virtual development workshop in July last year, from which six successful projects were selected to go into production for Nitv.
Screen Australia’s CEO Graeme Mason said the agency was proud to support the creators in taking the next step in their careers.
“Each of the six teams has created the kind of bold and ambitious stories that are exactly what we are looking for, with captivating scripts that explore a range of themes, including family, identity, childhood, belonging, and adventure,” he said.
Nitv head of commissioning and programming Kyas Hepworth said...
- 6/21/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Taryne Laffar.
Taryne ‘Pinky’ Laffar has officially launched her own production company, Pink Pepper, boasting a diverse slate that includes a full docuseries based on Our Law, a comedy web series created by Clarence Ryan, feature film Red, and a six-part TV drama.
A descendant of the Bardi and Jabbir Jabbir nations, Laffar – who has worked variously as a writer, director, producer and in casting – has started the new venture with the aims of working with Indigenous and diverse creatives across documentary and drama.
Pink Pepper will also specialise in casting Indigenous and diverse talent, with Laffar also available as a freelance producer, writer, director, mentor and workshop facilitator.
The company’s debut project is documentary Our Law, following Australia’s first and only Indigenous-run police station, which recently screened in Sydney Film Festival and airs tonight on Nitv as part of Karla Grant Presents.
‘Our Law’.
With Periscope Pictures,...
Taryne ‘Pinky’ Laffar has officially launched her own production company, Pink Pepper, boasting a diverse slate that includes a full docuseries based on Our Law, a comedy web series created by Clarence Ryan, feature film Red, and a six-part TV drama.
A descendant of the Bardi and Jabbir Jabbir nations, Laffar – who has worked variously as a writer, director, producer and in casting – has started the new venture with the aims of working with Indigenous and diverse creatives across documentary and drama.
Pink Pepper will also specialise in casting Indigenous and diverse talent, with Laffar also available as a freelance producer, writer, director, mentor and workshop facilitator.
The company’s debut project is documentary Our Law, following Australia’s first and only Indigenous-run police station, which recently screened in Sydney Film Festival and airs tonight on Nitv as part of Karla Grant Presents.
‘Our Law’.
With Periscope Pictures,...
- 6/22/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Top: Taryne Laffar, Kiel McNaughton. Bottom: Kerry Warkia, Jodie Bell.
Together with Pink Pepper Productions, Ramu Productions and Kiwi company Brown Sugar Apple Grunt, Screenwest has launched an initiative that will see eight Western Australian Indigenous female writer-directors develop an anthology feature film that will explore the impact of missing Indigenous women from a female Aboriginal perspective.
The intention is that the film will go into production in late 2020, with all eight creatives writing and directing a 10-minute short that will intertwine with the theme.
The film, Red (working title), follows the format developed by Brown Sugar Apple Grunt’s Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton with films Waru and Vai, which successfully launched Maori and Pacific filmmakers internationally.
Brown Sugar Apple Grant will executive produce the project with Indigenous Wa producers Taryne Laffar (Pink Pepper) and Jodie Bell (Ramu).
Laffar and Bell said: “The opportunity to work with Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton,...
Together with Pink Pepper Productions, Ramu Productions and Kiwi company Brown Sugar Apple Grunt, Screenwest has launched an initiative that will see eight Western Australian Indigenous female writer-directors develop an anthology feature film that will explore the impact of missing Indigenous women from a female Aboriginal perspective.
The intention is that the film will go into production in late 2020, with all eight creatives writing and directing a 10-minute short that will intertwine with the theme.
The film, Red (working title), follows the format developed by Brown Sugar Apple Grunt’s Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton with films Waru and Vai, which successfully launched Maori and Pacific filmmakers internationally.
Brown Sugar Apple Grant will executive produce the project with Indigenous Wa producers Taryne Laffar (Pink Pepper) and Jodie Bell (Ramu).
Laffar and Bell said: “The opportunity to work with Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton,...
- 2/5/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Wurandon Mariwili.
Vice, Screen Australia, and the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) have selected four finalists for the $50,000 documentary funding initiative, Pitch Australiana.
Pitch Australiana provides early career Australian filmmakers an opportunity to collaborate with Vice in telling a story that speaks to communities, individuals, perspectives and subcultures that are overlooked or ignored in mainstream media.
The winner of this year’s competition will secure $50,000 of funding for a short-form documentary to be released on Vice.com as part of the digital documentary series Australiana which is seen in 35 countries, as well as airing on Sbs Viceland.
Finalists will compete for the prize in a pitching session in front of a panel that includes representatives from Vice, Screen Australia and the wider documentary community. This live pitch session will take place on March 4 during Aidc 2020 in Melbourne.
The four finalists will also get to develop their pitch in advance of the Aidc competition with writer,...
Vice, Screen Australia, and the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) have selected four finalists for the $50,000 documentary funding initiative, Pitch Australiana.
Pitch Australiana provides early career Australian filmmakers an opportunity to collaborate with Vice in telling a story that speaks to communities, individuals, perspectives and subcultures that are overlooked or ignored in mainstream media.
The winner of this year’s competition will secure $50,000 of funding for a short-form documentary to be released on Vice.com as part of the digital documentary series Australiana which is seen in 35 countries, as well as airing on Sbs Viceland.
Finalists will compete for the prize in a pitching session in front of a panel that includes representatives from Vice, Screen Australia and the wider documentary community. This live pitch session will take place on March 4 during Aidc 2020 in Melbourne.
The four finalists will also get to develop their pitch in advance of the Aidc competition with writer,...
- 1/22/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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