Blue-Tongue Films’ name appears before such films as Animal Kingdom, Hesher, The Square and Kieran Darcy-Smith’s Wish You Were Here, released this week by eONE Films, but it’s not a production company. Rather, Blue-Tongue Films calls itself a “production collective,” with its members including one American and seven Australian filmmakers. It started in 1996 when a grainy black-and-white five-minute film introduced them to no one in particular, certainly not the world. Nash Edgerton was working as a stuntman — or at least trying to. The group’s first short film, Loaded, started as a chase sequence meant to be a show …...
- 6/7/2013
- by Keith BieryGolick
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Short Starts presents a weekly short film(s) from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career. With the role of Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby, actor Joel Edgerton continues his rise in stardom. He even has a couple of character posters to show for his fame. Long before he was embodying a character from classic American literature, though, and long before he was hunting Osama Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty and fighting his brother in The Warrior and even playing Darth Vader’s stepbrother in the Star Wars prequels, he was a regular figure in the short subjects scene. We can thank part of this on his nationality, as Australia is a great country for short films (it’s home of Tropfest, after all). On top of that, he came up through the film collective known as Blue-Tongue Films, alongside his writer/director/stuntman brother Nash (who is Joel’s...
- 5/5/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
It was a glorious evening for The Sapphires at the 2nd Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Ceremony last night, with the feature film bagging six Aacta awards, including Best Film and Best Director.
The awards top off what has been a sparkling year for the Sapphires team, who have already won a host of international audience choice awards and enjoyed great box office success in Australia.
Other than Best Film and Best Director (Wayne Blair), the musical drama took home the Aacta award for Best Lead Actress (Deborah Mailman), Best Lead Actor (Chris O'Dowd), Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Mauboy) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Keith Thompson, Tony Briggs), bringing their Aacta award total to eleven. (The film picked up a further five awards at the Aacta luncheon held on Monday.)
The film also bagged the news.com.au Audience Choice Award for Most Memorable Screen Moment.
The...
The awards top off what has been a sparkling year for the Sapphires team, who have already won a host of international audience choice awards and enjoyed great box office success in Australia.
Other than Best Film and Best Director (Wayne Blair), the musical drama took home the Aacta award for Best Lead Actress (Deborah Mailman), Best Lead Actor (Chris O'Dowd), Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Mauboy) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Keith Thompson, Tony Briggs), bringing their Aacta award total to eleven. (The film picked up a further five awards at the Aacta luncheon held on Monday.)
The film also bagged the news.com.au Audience Choice Award for Most Memorable Screen Moment.
The...
- 1/31/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Vietnam war period movie The Sapphires dominated the Aacta’s last night, winning best film, best director (Wayne Blair), best actress (Deborah Mailman), best actor (Chris O'Dowd) and best supporting actress (Jessica Mauboy).
The film about an aboriginal troupe of entertainers who performed for American – and not Australian – soldiers swept the awards, and also won the best screenplay (Keith Thompson and Tony Briggs).
The event staged at Sydney’s Star casino and hosted by Russell Crowe was televised on delay by the Ten Network, but failed to make a dent in OzTam ratings.
It had just 318,000 viewers. But Ten claimed to be was happy as it was a 9.3% increase on the broadcast in 2012 on rival Nine.
The complete list of winners announced at the second AACTAs.
Byron Kennedy Award
Sarah Watt
Aacta Award For Best Young Actor
Saskia Rosendahl. Lore.
Television
Aacta Award For Best Television Drama Series
Puberty Blues.
The film about an aboriginal troupe of entertainers who performed for American – and not Australian – soldiers swept the awards, and also won the best screenplay (Keith Thompson and Tony Briggs).
The event staged at Sydney’s Star casino and hosted by Russell Crowe was televised on delay by the Ten Network, but failed to make a dent in OzTam ratings.
It had just 318,000 viewers. But Ten claimed to be was happy as it was a 9.3% increase on the broadcast in 2012 on rival Nine.
The complete list of winners announced at the second AACTAs.
Byron Kennedy Award
Sarah Watt
Aacta Award For Best Young Actor
Saskia Rosendahl. Lore.
Television
Aacta Award For Best Television Drama Series
Puberty Blues.
- 1/30/2013
- by Marcus Casey
- Encore Magazine
Like it or not, filmmaking is undeniably a director's medium. It wasn't always like that, of course: it was only the coming of the auteur theory in the 1950s and 1960s that popularized the idea of the director as the person responsible for all that was great and terrible about a picture. And while anyone who's worked in film knows that it's a collaborative medium, there's still no better way of seeing where the form might be going in the next few years than by looking at the directors who've been making splashes of late.
So, hot on the heels of our On The Rise pieces focusing on actors, actresses and screenwriters, we've picked out ten directors who've arrived in a big way in the last year or so, and look set for even greater things in the near future. Any tips of your own? Let us know in the comments section below.
So, hot on the heels of our On The Rise pieces focusing on actors, actresses and screenwriters, we've picked out ten directors who've arrived in a big way in the last year or so, and look set for even greater things in the near future. Any tips of your own? Let us know in the comments section below.
- 5/15/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Nash Edgerton’s short film Bear is to screen at Sundance Film Festival.
The film, which had its world premiere at Cannes this year will have its North American premiere at the Utah independent film festival, 19-29 January, in the international narrative short film division.
Bear is the follow up to short film Spider and is Edgerton’s fifth short film to be selected to Sundance in his 15 year career.
Edgerton follows fellow Blue-Tongue Films’ member Kieran Darcy-Smith to Sundance where his debut feature film Wish You Were Here is set premiere on the festival’s opening night.
Edgerton said: “It’s a huge honour that Bear has been selected to screen at Sundance but especially meaningful because Kieran Darcy-Smith, with whom I made my very first short film Loaded and who started Blue-Tongue Films with Joel and I back in the day, will be at Sundance too with his...
The film, which had its world premiere at Cannes this year will have its North American premiere at the Utah independent film festival, 19-29 January, in the international narrative short film division.
Bear is the follow up to short film Spider and is Edgerton’s fifth short film to be selected to Sundance in his 15 year career.
Edgerton follows fellow Blue-Tongue Films’ member Kieran Darcy-Smith to Sundance where his debut feature film Wish You Were Here is set premiere on the festival’s opening night.
Edgerton said: “It’s a huge honour that Bear has been selected to screen at Sundance but especially meaningful because Kieran Darcy-Smith, with whom I made my very first short film Loaded and who started Blue-Tongue Films with Joel and I back in the day, will be at Sundance too with his...
- 12/7/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Kieran Darcy-Smith is living the dream. After a lot of hard yards and credit card debt the actor/writer/producer is looking forward to the release of his first feature film Wish You Were Here in 2012. The film, which he directed and co-wrote with wife, actress Felicity Price, stars Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer. ..It.s like all the ducks have lined up. Fifteen years of working away has amounted to quite a lot now,. the actor and filmmaker tells If. He has made several short films, beginning with Loaded in 1996, appeared in television programs such as All Saints, and won the 2008 If Best Unproduced Screenplay Award for Memorial Day. He is also a founding member of film collective Blue Tongue Films (which found recent success with Animal Kingdom). Wish...
- 11/23/2011
- by Danii Logue
- IF.com.au
After watching The Square, Nash Edgerton's feature directorial debut, and before sitting down to write my review I took to YouTube to watch Nash's eight short films, or I should say seven as his 2007 short "Spider" will play in front of screenings of The Square just as it did at my press screening.
If you've read my review of The Square you were probably able to tell my impression of that film was highly influenced by not only "Spider" but also from Edgerton's seven earlier shorts, all of which I enjoyed immensely and offer here for you to enjoy as well.
If you were to watch all eight shorts it would run you approximately 80 minutes if you watched from beginning to end and it's hard to show a preference to one or another, though two stand out as my favorites. The Pitch is short and quite comical and will...
If you've read my review of The Square you were probably able to tell my impression of that film was highly influenced by not only "Spider" but also from Edgerton's seven earlier shorts, all of which I enjoyed immensely and offer here for you to enjoy as well.
If you were to watch all eight shorts it would run you approximately 80 minutes if you watched from beginning to end and it's hard to show a preference to one or another, though two stand out as my favorites. The Pitch is short and quite comical and will...
- 4/9/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
David Roberts in The Square
Photo: Apparition Nash Edgerton's feature directorial debut The Square will hit theaters with his 2007 short film "Spider" playing in front of it, and a more apt primer I could not imagine. "Spider" sets expectations exactly where they should be for a film filled with cause and effect madness so extreme it begins to work. How well it works depends on how much you're willing to give in to the crazy and predictable nature of it all, but the more you do the more you'll enjoy what you see.
David Roberts stars as Ray, a construction foreman who's having an affair with Carla (Claire van der Boom), a young beautician who presents Ray with a way the two can escape from their unhappy marriages with some money in hand. Carla's husband (Anthony Hayes), on top of being a tow truck driver is also a small-time...
Photo: Apparition Nash Edgerton's feature directorial debut The Square will hit theaters with his 2007 short film "Spider" playing in front of it, and a more apt primer I could not imagine. "Spider" sets expectations exactly where they should be for a film filled with cause and effect madness so extreme it begins to work. How well it works depends on how much you're willing to give in to the crazy and predictable nature of it all, but the more you do the more you'll enjoy what you see.
David Roberts stars as Ray, a construction foreman who's having an affair with Carla (Claire van der Boom), a young beautician who presents Ray with a way the two can escape from their unhappy marriages with some money in hand. Carla's husband (Anthony Hayes), on top of being a tow truck driver is also a small-time...
- 4/9/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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