Emily Barclay and Benedict Samuel in 'Ellipsis'..
In the first of a two-part interview, David Wenham talks to If about making his directorial feature debut,.'Ellipsis'..
Across a stellar career spanning 30 years, David Wenham had long wanted to make an experimental, improvisational film in which the story unfolds in the space of one night.
Wenham got his chance with Ellipsis, a low budget film he directed and co-wrote, which will have its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.
Produced by Arenamedia.s Liz Kearney, the slice-of-life film follows Emily Barclay as Viv and Benedict Samuel as Jasper, who meet by chance and roam the city of Sydney, from bars, a park and a sex shop in Kings Cross, to Bondi.
In a remarkably tight schedule, the cast workshopped the script for three days, a collaborative effort between the two leads, Wenham and director.s assistant Gabrielle Wendelin. The shoot took just seven days,...
In the first of a two-part interview, David Wenham talks to If about making his directorial feature debut,.'Ellipsis'..
Across a stellar career spanning 30 years, David Wenham had long wanted to make an experimental, improvisational film in which the story unfolds in the space of one night.
Wenham got his chance with Ellipsis, a low budget film he directed and co-wrote, which will have its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.
Produced by Arenamedia.s Liz Kearney, the slice-of-life film follows Emily Barclay as Viv and Benedict Samuel as Jasper, who meet by chance and roam the city of Sydney, from bars, a park and a sex shop in Kings Cross, to Bondi.
In a remarkably tight schedule, the cast workshopped the script for three days, a collaborative effort between the two leads, Wenham and director.s assistant Gabrielle Wendelin. The shoot took just seven days,...
- 5/31/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
'Psychoanalysis', written and directed by Aftrs grad James Raue.
Aftrs is getting into the feature game, with two micro-budget features set to be directed by Masters of Screen Arts directing students.
Kyle Hedrick.s Into The Waves is a drama about two brothers who hitch-hike across Tasmania to get to their mother.s funeral, while Tom Wilson.s The Greenhouse is described as "a queer magic realist drama that documents the tale of Beth Tweedy-Bell, who has discovered a tunnel into the past."
Both features are crowd funding via the Australian Cultural Fund. ..
For Rowan Woods, director of The Boys and Aftrs' Head of Directing, it's about going beyond the short-as-calling-card.
"From web-series to TV pilots, micro features, Vr and interactive storytelling, aimed at production companies, networks, film distributors and the internet fan base," said Woods, Aftrs is looking for "screen stories that make a difference."
Masters Course...
Aftrs is getting into the feature game, with two micro-budget features set to be directed by Masters of Screen Arts directing students.
Kyle Hedrick.s Into The Waves is a drama about two brothers who hitch-hike across Tasmania to get to their mother.s funeral, while Tom Wilson.s The Greenhouse is described as "a queer magic realist drama that documents the tale of Beth Tweedy-Bell, who has discovered a tunnel into the past."
Both features are crowd funding via the Australian Cultural Fund. ..
For Rowan Woods, director of The Boys and Aftrs' Head of Directing, it's about going beyond the short-as-calling-card.
"From web-series to TV pilots, micro features, Vr and interactive storytelling, aimed at production companies, networks, film distributors and the internet fan base," said Woods, Aftrs is looking for "screen stories that make a difference."
Masters Course...
- 2/13/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Anthony Hayes.
Anthony Hayes (The Boys, Animal Kingdom) will direct crime thriller Stingray, set to start shooting next year in Canada.
Hayes wrote the script and will produce with John and Michael Schwarz. He will also appear in the film alongside American actor Jon Bernthal (The Wolf of Wall Street, Sicario).
The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the news, describes Stingray as the story of "a young man (Bernthal) caught up in organized crime who accidentally kills the brother of a powerful crime figure. He must then kill one of his own family in the next two days to pay off his blood debt."
The project is being shopped at the American Film Market next month.
It's been a big week for Hayes, who received Screen Australia development funding only a couple of days ago for another writing-directing project: Gold follows two men who find a huge gold nugget in the desert.
Anthony Hayes (The Boys, Animal Kingdom) will direct crime thriller Stingray, set to start shooting next year in Canada.
Hayes wrote the script and will produce with John and Michael Schwarz. He will also appear in the film alongside American actor Jon Bernthal (The Wolf of Wall Street, Sicario).
The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the news, describes Stingray as the story of "a young man (Bernthal) caught up in organized crime who accidentally kills the brother of a powerful crime figure. He must then kill one of his own family in the next two days to pay off his blood debt."
The project is being shopped at the American Film Market next month.
It's been a big week for Hayes, who received Screen Australia development funding only a couple of days ago for another writing-directing project: Gold follows two men who find a huge gold nugget in the desert.
- 10/21/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Rowan Woods. Aftrs has appointed new heads of directing, documentary, cinematography and visual effects.
Head of directing is Rowan Woods, head of documentary Rachel Landers, head of cinematography Kim Batterham and head of visual effects Susan Danta.
.I am thrilled to confirm these new members of our team across the Discipline areas. Rowan, Rachel, Kim and Susan each have impressive careers as filmmakers as well as in teaching and I know our students across the curriculum will benefit from their incredible expertise and experience,. said Aftrs CEO Neil Peplow.
Woods, an Aftrs graduate, has a list of directorial credits that include The Kettering Incident, Nowhere Boys 3, The Straits, Little Fish and The Boys
Landers has been a lecturer at Aftrs since 2009; most recently she has been the subject leader for Non Fiction, developing and running the BA (Screen) and teaching the Master of Screen Arts.. A filmmaker and historian, Landers...
Head of directing is Rowan Woods, head of documentary Rachel Landers, head of cinematography Kim Batterham and head of visual effects Susan Danta.
.I am thrilled to confirm these new members of our team across the Discipline areas. Rowan, Rachel, Kim and Susan each have impressive careers as filmmakers as well as in teaching and I know our students across the curriculum will benefit from their incredible expertise and experience,. said Aftrs CEO Neil Peplow.
Woods, an Aftrs graduate, has a list of directorial credits that include The Kettering Incident, Nowhere Boys 3, The Straits, Little Fish and The Boys
Landers has been a lecturer at Aftrs since 2009; most recently she has been the subject leader for Non Fiction, developing and running the BA (Screen) and teaching the Master of Screen Arts.. A filmmaker and historian, Landers...
- 10/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Gillian Armstrong's 1971 student film The Roof Needs Mowing.
Secret City director Emma Freeman remembers Vca Film and Television School, where she studied for three years in the early 2000.s, .as a place where .a lot of people were really scraping things together to make their movie..
.That's what I loved about that school., Freeman says..
.It taught me about being a storyteller and it also taught me to be resourceful. Never to be limited by what you have..
Vca Film and TV is celebrating 50 years of scraping things together this year, from its opening at Swinburne in 1966 to the jump to the Vca in 1992 and beyond.
Cinematographer Ian Baker (Japanese Story, Words and Pictures) was one of the first, in 1968..
..I had no idea what I wanted to do when I completed the course,. Baker says.
.I didn't really know that I wanted to be a cinematographer, even though...
Secret City director Emma Freeman remembers Vca Film and Television School, where she studied for three years in the early 2000.s, .as a place where .a lot of people were really scraping things together to make their movie..
.That's what I loved about that school., Freeman says..
.It taught me about being a storyteller and it also taught me to be resourceful. Never to be limited by what you have..
Vca Film and TV is celebrating 50 years of scraping things together this year, from its opening at Swinburne in 1966 to the jump to the Vca in 1992 and beyond.
Cinematographer Ian Baker (Japanese Story, Words and Pictures) was one of the first, in 1968..
..I had no idea what I wanted to do when I completed the course,. Baker says.
.I didn't really know that I wanted to be a cinematographer, even though...
- 8/4/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Joe Cinque's Consolation.
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
- 7/7/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Nick Barkla in Stephen Sewell's Embedded.
Erotic political thriller.Embedded.is the directorial debut of screenwriter and playwright Stephen Sewell.
The film world premiered at the Sydney Film Festival on Sunday and will screen again tonight. Sewell, who also wrote the film, has a long career spanning both film and theatre. He's written plays such as Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America and The Blind Giant is Dancing, as well as screenplays for film such as The Boys and Lost Things. . Film directing has been something Sewell has wanted to do for a long time but couldn't get any traction with until now. The Australian film industry often tends to shy away from controversial political and social themes that .you can get away with. in theatre, he told If. .I.ve had enormous success in theatre and become famous through theatre, but the same kind...
Erotic political thriller.Embedded.is the directorial debut of screenwriter and playwright Stephen Sewell.
The film world premiered at the Sydney Film Festival on Sunday and will screen again tonight. Sewell, who also wrote the film, has a long career spanning both film and theatre. He's written plays such as Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America and The Blind Giant is Dancing, as well as screenplays for film such as The Boys and Lost Things. . Film directing has been something Sewell has wanted to do for a long time but couldn't get any traction with until now. The Australian film industry often tends to shy away from controversial political and social themes that .you can get away with. in theatre, he told If. .I.ve had enormous success in theatre and become famous through theatre, but the same kind...
- 6/16/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Alex Russell in Ivan Sen's Goldstone.
The full Sydney Film Festival line-up was unveiled this morning by Sff director Nashen Moodley, with five Australian feature premieres and eight Aussie documentary premieres.
In a coup for the festival, this year's Talks program at Sydney Town Hall's Hub will include a free talk with Mel Gibson, whose Blood Father is playing at the fest, as well as in-conversation events with Australian filmmakers such as Ivan Sen.
Sen's Goldstone, the festival's opening night film, will also feature in the official competition..
Other Aussie premieres include Abe Forsythe's Cronulla black comedy Down Under, Craig Boreham's queer drama Teenage Kicks, playwright Stephen Sewell's directorial debut Embedded, and Craig Anderson's thriller Red Christmas, starring E.T.'s Dee Wallace.
Also in the line-up are Aussie titles that premiered overseas last year, such as Beast, the McKeith brothers' Manila-set boxing drama that comes...
The full Sydney Film Festival line-up was unveiled this morning by Sff director Nashen Moodley, with five Australian feature premieres and eight Aussie documentary premieres.
In a coup for the festival, this year's Talks program at Sydney Town Hall's Hub will include a free talk with Mel Gibson, whose Blood Father is playing at the fest, as well as in-conversation events with Australian filmmakers such as Ivan Sen.
Sen's Goldstone, the festival's opening night film, will also feature in the official competition..
Other Aussie premieres include Abe Forsythe's Cronulla black comedy Down Under, Craig Boreham's queer drama Teenage Kicks, playwright Stephen Sewell's directorial debut Embedded, and Craig Anderson's thriller Red Christmas, starring E.T.'s Dee Wallace.
Also in the line-up are Aussie titles that premiered overseas last year, such as Beast, the McKeith brothers' Manila-set boxing drama that comes...
- 5/11/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Robert Connolly's Paper Planes has been selected to screen at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. The children's film will have its European premiere in the Generation Kplus program.
That will Connolly's third production to be featured in the Berlin festival. His first was The Boys, directed by Rowan Woods, in 1998. Last year his omnibus film Tim Winton's The Turning had its European premiere in Berlin. .
Connolly said, .We are all very excited to return to the Berlinale next year to launch Paper Planes in Europe, a festival that has been a wonderful pioneer in championing cinema for kids from all over the world..
The tale of an Australian boy's passion for flight and his challenge to compete in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan, it. will have its first 3D screenings in Berlin.
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said, .We are thrilled for Rob and his...
That will Connolly's third production to be featured in the Berlin festival. His first was The Boys, directed by Rowan Woods, in 1998. Last year his omnibus film Tim Winton's The Turning had its European premiere in Berlin. .
Connolly said, .We are all very excited to return to the Berlinale next year to launch Paper Planes in Europe, a festival that has been a wonderful pioneer in championing cinema for kids from all over the world..
The tale of an Australian boy's passion for flight and his challenge to compete in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan, it. will have its first 3D screenings in Berlin.
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said, .We are thrilled for Rob and his...
- 12/14/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screenwriter and playwright Stephen Sewell makes his directing debut on Embedded, an erotic thriller which he promises will be hard-hitting and controversial.
Shooting started in Sydney on Monday on what is essentially a two-hander, set mostly in a suite at a five-star hotel. The plot follows a battle-weary Australian war correspondent named Frank, who meets a darkly fascinating woman on his way home.
The two retire to his hotel suite where Frank finds his match in a frightening and erotic game of truth or dare that takes both to the edge, and over.
Playing the couple are Los Angeles-based Aussies Nick Barkla (Blind Company, TV.s Rush) and Laura Gordon (Saw V, TV.s Twentysomething). Marcus Johnson plays the hotel porter.
The producer is Steve Jaggi (Circle of Lies) via his Indefatigable Pictures banner. Jaggi tells If that Sewell intends to .push the envelope. with a film that sets out...
Shooting started in Sydney on Monday on what is essentially a two-hander, set mostly in a suite at a five-star hotel. The plot follows a battle-weary Australian war correspondent named Frank, who meets a darkly fascinating woman on his way home.
The two retire to his hotel suite where Frank finds his match in a frightening and erotic game of truth or dare that takes both to the edge, and over.
Playing the couple are Los Angeles-based Aussies Nick Barkla (Blind Company, TV.s Rush) and Laura Gordon (Saw V, TV.s Twentysomething). Marcus Johnson plays the hotel porter.
The producer is Steve Jaggi (Circle of Lies) via his Indefatigable Pictures banner. Jaggi tells If that Sewell intends to .push the envelope. with a film that sets out...
- 4/21/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Harry Greenwood, Tom Budge, Lincoln Lewis, Matt Nable, Anthony Hayes, Lachy Hulme and Ashleigh Cummings are among the big ensemble cast announced today for the Endemol Australia/Nine Network miniseries Gallipoli.
A three-month shoot starts in and around Melbourne on March 17 with Glendyn Ivin (Beaconsfield, Puberty Blues) directing. The screenplay by Christopher Lee (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Paper Giants, Rush, Police Rescue) is adapted from the best-selling book by Les Carlyon.
The producers are John Edwards (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Beaconsfield, Paper Giants, and Offspring), Imogen Banks (Puberty Blues, Offspring) and Robert Connolly (producer of Balibo and The Boys, director of Underground: The Julian Assange Story, The Slap). Nine.s co-Heads of Drama Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan and Endemol Australia CEO Janeen Faithfull are executive producers. .Smit-McPhee plays 17-year-old Thomas .Tolly. Johnson, who lies about his age to enlist with his brother Bevan in the...
A three-month shoot starts in and around Melbourne on March 17 with Glendyn Ivin (Beaconsfield, Puberty Blues) directing. The screenplay by Christopher Lee (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Paper Giants, Rush, Police Rescue) is adapted from the best-selling book by Les Carlyon.
The producers are John Edwards (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Beaconsfield, Paper Giants, and Offspring), Imogen Banks (Puberty Blues, Offspring) and Robert Connolly (producer of Balibo and The Boys, director of Underground: The Julian Assange Story, The Slap). Nine.s co-Heads of Drama Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan and Endemol Australia CEO Janeen Faithfull are executive producers. .Smit-McPhee plays 17-year-old Thomas .Tolly. Johnson, who lies about his age to enlist with his brother Bevan in the...
- 3/3/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
From the story of a teenage daughter of a parent undergoing gender transitioning to North Korea's first rom-com, our pick of the Adelaide film festival
It has been more than two and a half years since the last Adelaide film festival, a long stretch even for a city nurtured on (and thankfully leaving behind) the notion of only hosting major arts events biennially. But anguished cinema junkies can rejoice, with a fresh-look festival bringing joy to October away from the city's crowded "Mad March" calendar. If you're a little rusty and intimidated at the sight of the full package of features, shorts, seminars and parties, then here are 10 filmic delights not to miss.
52 Tuesdays
There is sizzling anticipation for this local production and it will be one of the most prized tickets of the festival. Shot once a week over a year, Sophie Hyde's drama charts the relationship between...
It has been more than two and a half years since the last Adelaide film festival, a long stretch even for a city nurtured on (and thankfully leaving behind) the notion of only hosting major arts events biennially. But anguished cinema junkies can rejoice, with a fresh-look festival bringing joy to October away from the city's crowded "Mad March" calendar. If you're a little rusty and intimidated at the sight of the full package of features, shorts, seminars and parties, then here are 10 filmic delights not to miss.
52 Tuesdays
There is sizzling anticipation for this local production and it will be one of the most prized tickets of the festival. Shot once a week over a year, Sophie Hyde's drama charts the relationship between...
- 10/10/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
ABC rock musical drama The Boy Castaways has finished filming in South Australia.
The drama, which was recently shooting at Her Majesty.s Theatre in Adelaide,.is one of the first to be financed through the Hive Production Fund and features musical talent such as Tim Rogers from You am I, cabaret star Paul Capsis, and Aria Award-winner, Megan Washington.
The feature will have its premiere at the 2013 Adelaide Film Festival (held October 10-20) and will then be broadcast on ABC1.
The $600,000 Hive Production Fund (later lifted to $800,000) also supported two other screen projects in late-2011 which will premiere at the 2013 Adelaide Film Festival: Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah), and I Want to Dance Better at Parties, from creative director Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and director Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man).
The Hive Labs bring together Australian artists across film,...
The drama, which was recently shooting at Her Majesty.s Theatre in Adelaide,.is one of the first to be financed through the Hive Production Fund and features musical talent such as Tim Rogers from You am I, cabaret star Paul Capsis, and Aria Award-winner, Megan Washington.
The feature will have its premiere at the 2013 Adelaide Film Festival (held October 10-20) and will then be broadcast on ABC1.
The $600,000 Hive Production Fund (later lifted to $800,000) also supported two other screen projects in late-2011 which will premiere at the 2013 Adelaide Film Festival: Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah), and I Want to Dance Better at Parties, from creative director Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and director Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man).
The Hive Labs bring together Australian artists across film,...
- 1/17/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Production on a television drama about the 1915 Gallipoli landing will begin next year.
Channel Nine has announced its commitment to the production, which will screen in 2015 in honour of the 100th anniversary of the battle.
The network has stated the series will be the .most ambitious television drama in Australian history..
By the time it hits Australian screens, Gallipoli will have been three years in the making and will be over eight hours in length.
Channel Nine has described the series as being, .the definitive dramatization of the battle that shaped the Anzac legend..
Gallipoli is set to look at not only the experiences of the Australian diggers in the trenches, but the Turkish soldiers, the wives and families back at home, the journalists who reported on the battle and the political intrigue in Australia and London.
The series will be directed by Glendyn Ivin (Beaconsfield, Puberty Blues) and produced by John Edwards (Howzat!
Channel Nine has announced its commitment to the production, which will screen in 2015 in honour of the 100th anniversary of the battle.
The network has stated the series will be the .most ambitious television drama in Australian history..
By the time it hits Australian screens, Gallipoli will have been three years in the making and will be over eight hours in length.
Channel Nine has described the series as being, .the definitive dramatization of the battle that shaped the Anzac legend..
Gallipoli is set to look at not only the experiences of the Australian diggers in the trenches, but the Turkish soldiers, the wives and families back at home, the journalists who reported on the battle and the political intrigue in Australia and London.
The series will be directed by Glendyn Ivin (Beaconsfield, Puberty Blues) and produced by John Edwards (Howzat!
- 11/29/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Apocalyptic thriller These Final Hours is set to begin filming in Western Australia on October 15.
The film follows the self-obsessed James, a young man determined to make his way to the party to end all parties on the last day on Earth. He ends up saving the life of a little girl named Rose, who is searching for her father - an act which ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.
It is the first feature film from writer/director Zak Hilditch and producer Liz Kearney and is being overseen by executive producer Robert Connolly (Underground, Balibo).
It stars Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek) in the lead role of James, Dan Henshall (Snowtown), Lynette Curran (The Boys, Somersault), Sarah Snook (Not Suitable for Children), Jess De Gouw and Kathryn Beck. Newcomer Angourie Rice has been cast as Rose.
Hilditch and Kearney's 13-minute short film Transmission was made as a companion...
The film follows the self-obsessed James, a young man determined to make his way to the party to end all parties on the last day on Earth. He ends up saving the life of a little girl named Rose, who is searching for her father - an act which ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.
It is the first feature film from writer/director Zak Hilditch and producer Liz Kearney and is being overseen by executive producer Robert Connolly (Underground, Balibo).
It stars Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek) in the lead role of James, Dan Henshall (Snowtown), Lynette Curran (The Boys, Somersault), Sarah Snook (Not Suitable for Children), Jess De Gouw and Kathryn Beck. Newcomer Angourie Rice has been cast as Rose.
Hilditch and Kearney's 13-minute short film Transmission was made as a companion...
- 10/9/2012
- by Staff reporter
- IF.com.au
One of the unorthodox selections at the Toronto International Film Festival this year is Underground, as it's a made for TV movie that - if it wasn't for Tiff - would have had its world premiere on a major Australian commercial TV network later this year. However three key things elevate this movie. First it's being directed by one of Australia's greatest directors Robert Connolly, who has already been producer or director on such iconic films as The Boys, Romulus My Father and Balibo, and who more than any other Australian director has the potential to have a Peter Weir-like career over the next 20 years. Second, the cast: stalwarts Anthony Lapaglia, Rachel Griffiths star alongside rising stars Callan McAuliffe, Laura Wheelwright, TV comedian Jordan Paskopoulos and newcomer Alex Williams. And...
- 9/6/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival will, in its second year, screen films in Hobart as well as Launceston. The film festival has also appointed film-makers Rowan Woods and Trish Lake as artistic directors.
The announcement:
The 2012 Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival (Bofa) was launched today by Rebecca White MP, representing the Premier Lara Giddings.
The festival will run from November 8 to 11 at Launceston’s Inveresk precinct.
For the first time the Festival will also run in Hobart with screenings at the State Cinema and the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) cinema.
The Premier, Lara Giddings was unable to attend today’s launch, but said that the Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival had become an important part of the Tasmanian screen industry.
“Not only does the Festival bring some of the world’s best films to Tasmania, it helps to create national...
The announcement:
The 2012 Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival (Bofa) was launched today by Rebecca White MP, representing the Premier Lara Giddings.
The festival will run from November 8 to 11 at Launceston’s Inveresk precinct.
For the first time the Festival will also run in Hobart with screenings at the State Cinema and the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) cinema.
The Premier, Lara Giddings was unable to attend today’s launch, but said that the Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival had become an important part of the Tasmanian screen industry.
“Not only does the Festival bring some of the world’s best films to Tasmania, it helps to create national...
- 7/2/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Australian Film Television and Radio School (Aftrs) is stepping up its Masterclass program as part of its Open program, having enlisted director Rowan Woods (The Boys, Winged Creatures, Little Fish, and pictured) to teach a class on the differences between film and television directing. When asked by FilmInk about his teaching style, Woods says that traditionally, master classes involve film practitioners telling war stories. "That's an easy way to approach it," he laughs, "because students want to hear the inside trading and the anecdotal aspects of your work from go to whoa." The versatile director quickly disclaims his class as a recounting of his laurels.
- 5/4/2012
- FilmInk.com.au
Dubbed an "eclectic slate" of local television programs by Screen Australia's Chief Executive, Ruth Harley, the line-up features comedy series House Husbands (Nine Network), Mr & Mrs Murder (Network Ten), dramatic telemovie The Broken Shore (ABC), and animated children's comedy Get Ace (Network Ten). Having straddled the worlds of film and television, AFI award winning director Rowan Woods (Little Fish, The Boys) has praised the state of Australian television.
- 5/4/2012
- FilmInk.com.au
A Robert Connolly-produced film – which features a range of big-name Australian filmmakers and actors directing different chapters of the film – has received funding from Screen Australia.
The Turning, an adaptation Tim Winton’s book of 17 short stories of the same name, is to be directed by Snowtown director Justin Kurzel, Van Diemen’s Land director Jonathan Auf Der Heide, The Slap show runner Tony Ayres, actors Cate Blanchett, David Wenham and Mia Wasikowska, Connolly and others.
Connolly’s multi-director project comes a few months after the announcement that the screen agency was investing in John Polson’s film Sydney Unplugged featuring short films by prominent Australian filmmakers.
Connolly, producer of The Boys, Romulus and My Father and director of The Bank, Three Dollars and Balibo, is a board member of Screen Australia.
A Screen Australia spokesperson told Encore: “We have a clear working conflict of interest policy that works.
The Turning, an adaptation Tim Winton’s book of 17 short stories of the same name, is to be directed by Snowtown director Justin Kurzel, Van Diemen’s Land director Jonathan Auf Der Heide, The Slap show runner Tony Ayres, actors Cate Blanchett, David Wenham and Mia Wasikowska, Connolly and others.
Connolly’s multi-director project comes a few months after the announcement that the screen agency was investing in John Polson’s film Sydney Unplugged featuring short films by prominent Australian filmmakers.
Connolly, producer of The Boys, Romulus and My Father and director of The Bank, Three Dollars and Balibo, is a board member of Screen Australia.
A Screen Australia spokesperson told Encore: “We have a clear working conflict of interest policy that works.
- 3/22/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival has announced the finalists for their Digital Slr Short Film Competition
The festival is currently on in Launceston, Tasmania. Winners of the competition will be announced at the Bofa Awards Dinner.
The films have been selected for reflecting the festival’s contemporary issues and this year’s themes of “new horizons” or “food for thought.”
Judges for the competition include Gregor Jordan (Dir: Ned Kelly, Two Hands) Rowan Woods (Dir: Little Fish, The Boys) and Karena Slaninka, Screen Tasmania’s CEO.
The Digital Slr Short Film Competition 2011 finalists for the MyState Bofa Film Festival are:
‘Abbie’, Dir. Erin Good, Australia, 8 min ‘Being Bradford Dillman’, Dir. Emma Burch, UK, 10 min ‘Bookman’, Dir. Ben Bryan, Australia, 10 min ‘Bottled’, Dir. Michael Sloane, Australia, 9 min ‘Cloud’, Dir. Gilbert James, UK, 12 min ‘Emilia Eckle’, Dir. Alyssa McClelland, Australia, 7 min ‘Good Men’, Dir. Brian Connors, USA, 12 min ‘Life in Red String’. Dir.
The festival is currently on in Launceston, Tasmania. Winners of the competition will be announced at the Bofa Awards Dinner.
The films have been selected for reflecting the festival’s contemporary issues and this year’s themes of “new horizons” or “food for thought.”
Judges for the competition include Gregor Jordan (Dir: Ned Kelly, Two Hands) Rowan Woods (Dir: Little Fish, The Boys) and Karena Slaninka, Screen Tasmania’s CEO.
The Digital Slr Short Film Competition 2011 finalists for the MyState Bofa Film Festival are:
‘Abbie’, Dir. Erin Good, Australia, 8 min ‘Being Bradford Dillman’, Dir. Emma Burch, UK, 10 min ‘Bookman’, Dir. Ben Bryan, Australia, 10 min ‘Bottled’, Dir. Michael Sloane, Australia, 9 min ‘Cloud’, Dir. Gilbert James, UK, 12 min ‘Emilia Eckle’, Dir. Alyssa McClelland, Australia, 7 min ‘Good Men’, Dir. Brian Connors, USA, 12 min ‘Life in Red String’. Dir.
- 11/25/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
"One has to go back a long way, to Rowan Woods's The Boys (1998) or John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer (1986), to find a crime drama as intense, disturbing and unresolved as Australian director Justin Kurzel's film about the infamous Bodies in the Barrels murders near Adelaide in the 1990s," begins Nigel Floyd in Time Out London. "The remorseless pacing of Shaun Grant's spare script and the pulsing drive of Jed Kurzel's electronic score draw us reluctantly but inexorably into the familial and group dynamics which acted as the catalyst for a string of killings. Yet for all its unflinching bleakness, this is a sympathetic attempt to understand how vulnerable 16-year-old Jamie Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway) — from whose naive point of view the appalling events are observed — came under the malign influence of charismatic psychopath John Bunting (Daniel Henshall)."
"There's an already notorious scene in a bathtub,...
"There's an already notorious scene in a bathtub,...
- 11/17/2011
- MUBI
ABC1′s new 10 hour drama, The Straits, produced by Matchbox Films’ Penny Chapman and Helen Panckhurst begins shooting today. Scottish actor Brian Cox (The Bourne Supremacy, Troy, Braveheart) joins the troupe of Australian actors assembling in Cairns and Torres Strait Islands.
The Montebello family are Far North Queensland’s Corleones, running drugs into Australia and guns and exotic animals out with ambitious bikies in Australia and Papau New Guinean raskols across the Strait also wanting a piece of the action. Cox plays Patriach Harry Montebello, with actress Rena Owen playing his part Torres Strait Island, part Maori wife, Kitty.
Joining Cox and Owen in the cast will be AFI Nominated Aaron Fa’aoso (East West 101, Ran), Logie winner Firass Dirani (Underbelly, Pitch Black) as well as new Australian talent; Jimi Bani (Ran, The Sapphires) and Suzannah Bayes-Morton (All Saints, The Tumbler), who together play the Montebello’s children.
In a statement,...
The Montebello family are Far North Queensland’s Corleones, running drugs into Australia and guns and exotic animals out with ambitious bikies in Australia and Papau New Guinean raskols across the Strait also wanting a piece of the action. Cox plays Patriach Harry Montebello, with actress Rena Owen playing his part Torres Strait Island, part Maori wife, Kitty.
Joining Cox and Owen in the cast will be AFI Nominated Aaron Fa’aoso (East West 101, Ran), Logie winner Firass Dirani (Underbelly, Pitch Black) as well as new Australian talent; Jimi Bani (Ran, The Sapphires) and Suzannah Bayes-Morton (All Saints, The Tumbler), who together play the Montebello’s children.
In a statement,...
- 6/14/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
ScreenWest has announced sci-fi project These Final Hours, by writer/director Zak Hilditch and producer Liz Kearney, will receive $750,000 in funding from the West Coast Visions initiative, designed to support emerging filmmakers.
These Final Hours is an apocalyptic thriller that follows James, who “while making his way to the party to end all parties on the last day on Earth, ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father, who ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.”
ScreenWest stated that Hilditch and Kearney’s project was a “well-developed and crafted script; that it’s a real page turner that has a unique take on the apocalyptic world.”
Hilditch’s history includes three independently-funded feature films: The Actress, Plum Role and The Toll (left). He won the Young Filmmaker of the Year at the 2006 Wa Screen Awards.
Kearney resume includes the upcoming Cloudstreet mini series, The Circuit,...
These Final Hours is an apocalyptic thriller that follows James, who “while making his way to the party to end all parties on the last day on Earth, ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father, who ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.”
ScreenWest stated that Hilditch and Kearney’s project was a “well-developed and crafted script; that it’s a real page turner that has a unique take on the apocalyptic world.”
Hilditch’s history includes three independently-funded feature films: The Actress, Plum Role and The Toll (left). He won the Young Filmmaker of the Year at the 2006 Wa Screen Awards.
Kearney resume includes the upcoming Cloudstreet mini series, The Circuit,...
- 5/17/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Cradlewood, the “romantic gothic fairytale” from Hand Picked Films, has found its leading man in Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder.
The indie will be directed by Harry Weinmann, with a script penned by Stephen Sewell (The Boys) and and John Paul Chappelle (Bathroy). Somerhalder will play the Australian heir to a large family fortune surrounded by whispers of a curse. Legend has it that a pact exists between a demon and the family that whenever a male child is born into the family, the father will be killed. Strange events begin around the time that the heir suspects his girlfriend to be pregnant, and it begins to look as though the curse is more than just legend.
Producer Michael Shane said, “We see this is as almost like an American-style ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ in look and feel… It’s a perfect segue for the kids who have outgrown ‘Twilight’ but want something romantic and scary.
The indie will be directed by Harry Weinmann, with a script penned by Stephen Sewell (The Boys) and and John Paul Chappelle (Bathroy). Somerhalder will play the Australian heir to a large family fortune surrounded by whispers of a curse. Legend has it that a pact exists between a demon and the family that whenever a male child is born into the family, the father will be killed. Strange events begin around the time that the heir suspects his girlfriend to be pregnant, and it begins to look as though the curse is more than just legend.
Producer Michael Shane said, “We see this is as almost like an American-style ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ in look and feel… It’s a perfect segue for the kids who have outgrown ‘Twilight’ but want something romantic and scary.
- 10/16/2009
- by sean
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Ian Somerhalder, star of the CW's "The Vampire Diaries," has signed to topline the romantic gothic fairy tale "Cradlewood." Hand Picked Films and Instinct Entertainment are behind the indie being directed by Harry Weinmann.
The movie centers on an Australian woman living in Boston with the heir (Somerhalder) to an incredible fortune whose family history is swirled in a legend that tells of a pact made with a demon which ensures that whenever a boy is born into the family, the father is killed.
The heir suspects his girlfriend is pregnant, and after strange events occur, he comes to believe he will die if he continues to fall in love.
Emma Lung ("The Boys Are Back") will play the Australian woman.
"Cradlewood" is based on original story by Weinmann. Stephen Sewell ("The Boys") and John Paul Chapple ("Bathroy") wrote the script.
Michel Shane ("Catch Me If You Can") and David Redman ("Strange Bedfellows") will produce.
The movie centers on an Australian woman living in Boston with the heir (Somerhalder) to an incredible fortune whose family history is swirled in a legend that tells of a pact made with a demon which ensures that whenever a boy is born into the family, the father is killed.
The heir suspects his girlfriend is pregnant, and after strange events occur, he comes to believe he will die if he continues to fall in love.
Emma Lung ("The Boys Are Back") will play the Australian woman.
"Cradlewood" is based on original story by Weinmann. Stephen Sewell ("The Boys") and John Paul Chapple ("Bathroy") wrote the script.
Michel Shane ("Catch Me If You Can") and David Redman ("Strange Bedfellows") will produce.
- 10/15/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Winged Creatures’ is a new ensemble drama from Aussie director Rowan Woods (Little Fish, The Boys) based on the novel by Roy Freirich. The story follows a group of strangers that are connected to one another through a tragic shooting inside a diner in Los Angeles. Each of them are deeply effected by the experience and the film explores the varied reactions of the different characters.
Let’s talk Dakota Fanning for a moment. Now, I know this is going to sound harsh, speaking of a “child” actress, but I’m simply not impressed with her work. Believe me, I wish her the best and hope she improves with age… like wine or cheese, but Anna Paquin and Natalie Portman were both far more talented as child actors and they remained talented as adults. With that said, ‘Winged Creatures’ still looks fascinating due to the promising performances from veteran actors surrounding her in the film.
Let’s talk Dakota Fanning for a moment. Now, I know this is going to sound harsh, speaking of a “child” actress, but I’m simply not impressed with her work. Believe me, I wish her the best and hope she improves with age… like wine or cheese, but Anna Paquin and Natalie Portman were both far more talented as child actors and they remained talented as adults. With that said, ‘Winged Creatures’ still looks fascinating due to the promising performances from veteran actors surrounding her in the film.
- 7/13/2009
- by Travis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It's been a roundabout sort of homecoming for Australian filmmaker Rowan Woods. The director, who made his name with the critically-praised local movies The Boys (1998) and Little Fish (2005), decamped to Los Angeles to shoot his first American feature, Winged Creatures --- together with an ensemble cast that includes Forest Whitaker, Jackie Earle Haley, Dakota Fanning, Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Hudson and Josh Hutcherson. It's a dark, multi-narrative drama that examines post-traumatic stress and how it affects a group of characters who witness a violent shooting in a restaurant. Though the film has had a muted response in...
- 7/7/2009
- Rotten Tomatoes
Peace Arch has unveiled the trailer for Rowan Woods' ensemble drama Winged Creatures. I'd heard that this film was possibly going to be something great, but this just looks downright amazing! Obviously not everyone will appreciate fantastic indie dramas like this, especially coming off a comic book movie high, but we're a month away from the Toronto Film Festival which means it's time for me to get back into the mood for indies. Winged Creatures features a phenomenal ensemble cast, including Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Jackie Earle Haley, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Hudson, Dakota Fanning, and Josh Hutcherson. If you have a moment to spare, I highly suggest you watch this trailer - you'll get a glimpse at what great independent filmmaking looks like and you may even take an interest. Watch the trailer for Winged Creatures: [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/firstshowing/wingedcreatures_trailer.flv http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/firstshowing/wingedcreatures_trailer.jpg 480 260] Winged Creatures is directed by Rowan Woods, of The Boys and Little Fish...
- 8/3/2008
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Little Fish
SYDNEY -- For his second feature, director Rowan Woods again proves himself a master at creating a strong mood. Despite echoes of the bleak territory visited in his debut feature The Boys, a grim dissection of the violence in Australia's underclass, Little Fish manages moments of great beauty thanks in no small measure to the presence of lead actress Cate Blanchett in her first Australian role since 1997's Oscar and Lucinda.
After a series of high-profile international roles including her Oscar-winning turn in The Aviator, Little Fish sees Blanchett shake off her fondness for period pieces and do something rare: play her age and speak with her own accent. Despite dark themes of crime, moral compromise and drug addiction, this midbudget Australian film from a fine indie team should benefit from Blanchett's presence and see solid boxoffice interest on the international art house circuit. The film will be released in Australia on Sept. 8.
Little Fish is set in Sydney's multicultural southwest, an area rife with drug addiction and organized crime. Woods' talent lies in investing s unlikable characters with a huge well of heart and soul. Tracy Heart (Blanchett) is doing it tough. She's kicked a serious drug habit, but the dark, tenuous world of addiction is all around her.
The streets are littered with junkies: Her own brother, troubled amputee Ray (Martin Henderson from "Bride & Prejudice"), is caught up in the drug trade; her weakened father figure (Hugo Weaving from the Matrix and Lord of the Rings films) is bent in a web of heroin abuse; and ex-boyfriend Johnny (Dustin Nguyen) has returned after four years in Canada. Trying to start a new life, Tracy soon finds that the past is about to catch up with her.
This is a tough film grounded in authenticity with the feel of Ken Loach's realist British cinema. Genre conventions are in place -- drug deals, murder, criminals -- yet Little Fish is a character study. Screenwriter Jacquelin Perske skillfully steers the narrative into the interconnected stories of those around Blanchett's Tracy.
Family is at the core of the film. As Tracy becomes increasingly desperate, she's pulled apart by two disparate but related forces. Her brother's illicit drug deals claw her back into the old life, while her mother (a wonderfully crackling turn from veteran actress Noni Hazlehurst) works to keep Tracy on the straight and narrow. This clash provides the film's central dynamic from which the characters' flaws are explored.
Little Fish has a grimy authenticity. Homes feel rigorously lived in, and the costume design is scrubbed clean of even the remotest sense of glamour. Thankfully, none of this stops Woods from taking visual flights of fancy. Danny Ruhlmann's cinematography adds an almost surreal gleam, swirling and tilting as it conveys Tracy's inner conflict. Similarly, the strong presence of the haunting score by Nathan Larson (Boys Don't Cry, The Woodsman) gently tugs the film away from a purely realist approach.
Blanchett is loose, natural and wholly believable as Tracy, a character she imbues with a kind of bruised tenderness. Weaving's hopeless junkie is a brave turn from an always-brave actor: He's physically transformed, rail-thin with a nasty goatee beard and hurtles through a bundle of different emotions as a sly seducer one moment, a desperate wreck the next.
Confrontational, raw and always compelling, Little Fish is a film of rare power and conviction.
LITTLE FISH
Icon Films (Australia)
Film Finance Corporation Australia presents
A Porchlight Films production in association with Mullis Capital Independent, the New South Wales Film and Television Office, Myriad Pictures and Dirty Films
Credits:
Director: Rowan Woods
Screenwriter: Jacquelin Perske
Producers: Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts, Richard Keddie
Executive producers: Robert Mullis, Barrie M. Osborne, Kirk D'Amico, Marion Pilowsky
Director of photography: Danny Ruhlmann
Production designer: Luigi Pittorino
Costumes: Melinda Doring
Music: Nathan Larson
Editors: Alexandre De Franceschi, John Scott
Cast:
Tracy Heart: Cate Blanchett
Lionel Dawson: Hugo Weaving
Brad Thompson: Sam Neill
Ray Heart: Martin Henderson
Janelle Heart: Noni Hazlehurst
Johnny: Dustin Nguyen
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 114 minutes...
After a series of high-profile international roles including her Oscar-winning turn in The Aviator, Little Fish sees Blanchett shake off her fondness for period pieces and do something rare: play her age and speak with her own accent. Despite dark themes of crime, moral compromise and drug addiction, this midbudget Australian film from a fine indie team should benefit from Blanchett's presence and see solid boxoffice interest on the international art house circuit. The film will be released in Australia on Sept. 8.
Little Fish is set in Sydney's multicultural southwest, an area rife with drug addiction and organized crime. Woods' talent lies in investing s unlikable characters with a huge well of heart and soul. Tracy Heart (Blanchett) is doing it tough. She's kicked a serious drug habit, but the dark, tenuous world of addiction is all around her.
The streets are littered with junkies: Her own brother, troubled amputee Ray (Martin Henderson from "Bride & Prejudice"), is caught up in the drug trade; her weakened father figure (Hugo Weaving from the Matrix and Lord of the Rings films) is bent in a web of heroin abuse; and ex-boyfriend Johnny (Dustin Nguyen) has returned after four years in Canada. Trying to start a new life, Tracy soon finds that the past is about to catch up with her.
This is a tough film grounded in authenticity with the feel of Ken Loach's realist British cinema. Genre conventions are in place -- drug deals, murder, criminals -- yet Little Fish is a character study. Screenwriter Jacquelin Perske skillfully steers the narrative into the interconnected stories of those around Blanchett's Tracy.
Family is at the core of the film. As Tracy becomes increasingly desperate, she's pulled apart by two disparate but related forces. Her brother's illicit drug deals claw her back into the old life, while her mother (a wonderfully crackling turn from veteran actress Noni Hazlehurst) works to keep Tracy on the straight and narrow. This clash provides the film's central dynamic from which the characters' flaws are explored.
Little Fish has a grimy authenticity. Homes feel rigorously lived in, and the costume design is scrubbed clean of even the remotest sense of glamour. Thankfully, none of this stops Woods from taking visual flights of fancy. Danny Ruhlmann's cinematography adds an almost surreal gleam, swirling and tilting as it conveys Tracy's inner conflict. Similarly, the strong presence of the haunting score by Nathan Larson (Boys Don't Cry, The Woodsman) gently tugs the film away from a purely realist approach.
Blanchett is loose, natural and wholly believable as Tracy, a character she imbues with a kind of bruised tenderness. Weaving's hopeless junkie is a brave turn from an always-brave actor: He's physically transformed, rail-thin with a nasty goatee beard and hurtles through a bundle of different emotions as a sly seducer one moment, a desperate wreck the next.
Confrontational, raw and always compelling, Little Fish is a film of rare power and conviction.
LITTLE FISH
Icon Films (Australia)
Film Finance Corporation Australia presents
A Porchlight Films production in association with Mullis Capital Independent, the New South Wales Film and Television Office, Myriad Pictures and Dirty Films
Credits:
Director: Rowan Woods
Screenwriter: Jacquelin Perske
Producers: Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts, Richard Keddie
Executive producers: Robert Mullis, Barrie M. Osborne, Kirk D'Amico, Marion Pilowsky
Director of photography: Danny Ruhlmann
Production designer: Luigi Pittorino
Costumes: Melinda Doring
Music: Nathan Larson
Editors: Alexandre De Franceschi, John Scott
Cast:
Tracy Heart: Cate Blanchett
Lionel Dawson: Hugo Weaving
Brad Thompson: Sam Neill
Ray Heart: Martin Henderson
Janelle Heart: Noni Hazlehurst
Johnny: Dustin Nguyen
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 114 minutes...
- 7/20/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Melbourne catches 'Fish' to open fest
SYDNEY -- Little Fish, the new Australian film starring Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett (The Aviator), will have its world premiere as it opens the 54th Melbourne International Film Festival, organizers announced Wednesday. Johnnie To's Election will close the fest. MIFF runs July 20-Aug. 8. Little Fish is director Rowan Woods' follow-up to 1998's The Boys. The drama, about a young woman who must learn to confront her fears in order to find happiness and escape the pain of her recent past, was written by Jacqueline Perske and co-stars Martin Henderson, Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill.
- 6/15/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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