The ABC and Screen Australia will fund documentary Making Muriel, following P.J. Hogan as he adapts his 1994 film Muriel.s Wedding into a musical produced by the Sydney Theatre Company and Global Creatures (Strictly Ballroom The Musical).
Directed by Nel Minchin (Matilda and Me), produced by Minchin and Ivan O.Mahoney (Hitting Home, Caged), and executive produced by Nial Fulton (Hitting Home, Matilda and Me) from In Films, Making Muriel will take viewers all the way to the musical's world premiere at Sydney's Roslyn Packer Theatre in November 2017.
The rehearsal process will be weaved together with archival footage and interviews with Hogan, the film.s producers Jocelyn Moorhouse (The Dressmaker) and Lynda House, as well as the musical's cast.
.We are following up Nel Minchin.s wonderful documentary debut, Matilda and Me, with another musical theatre documentary about the making of a musical based on the hit film, Muriel.s Wedding,...
Directed by Nel Minchin (Matilda and Me), produced by Minchin and Ivan O.Mahoney (Hitting Home, Caged), and executive produced by Nial Fulton (Hitting Home, Matilda and Me) from In Films, Making Muriel will take viewers all the way to the musical's world premiere at Sydney's Roslyn Packer Theatre in November 2017.
The rehearsal process will be weaved together with archival footage and interviews with Hogan, the film.s producers Jocelyn Moorhouse (The Dressmaker) and Lynda House, as well as the musical's cast.
.We are following up Nel Minchin.s wonderful documentary debut, Matilda and Me, with another musical theatre documentary about the making of a musical based on the hit film, Muriel.s Wedding,...
- 5/8/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Hacksaw Ridge has picked up four Aacta Awards so far..
The first winners of this year.s Aacta Awards were unveiled yesterday at the Aacta Industry Luncheon.
Some 33 awards were presented during the event, celebrating screen craft excellence across features, television, shorts, and documentary. The remainder of the awards will be announced at the 6th Aacta Awards Ceremony on Wednesday evening.
Hacksaw Ridge picked up the most gongs: four from a possible six, including Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography and Best Sound. Mel Gibson's film is up for another seven awards, to be presented at Wednesday evening's ceremony..
Composer Antony Partos picked up his sixth AFI/Aacta award for his work on Tanna, while Simon Stone took out Best Adapted Screenplay for his debut feature The Daughter..Girl Asleep's Jonathan Oxlade won Best Costume Design.
The Aacta Award for Best Short Animation was presented to Angie Fielder,...
The first winners of this year.s Aacta Awards were unveiled yesterday at the Aacta Industry Luncheon.
Some 33 awards were presented during the event, celebrating screen craft excellence across features, television, shorts, and documentary. The remainder of the awards will be announced at the 6th Aacta Awards Ceremony on Wednesday evening.
Hacksaw Ridge picked up the most gongs: four from a possible six, including Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography and Best Sound. Mel Gibson's film is up for another seven awards, to be presented at Wednesday evening's ceremony..
Composer Antony Partos picked up his sixth AFI/Aacta award for his work on Tanna, while Simon Stone took out Best Adapted Screenplay for his debut feature The Daughter..Girl Asleep's Jonathan Oxlade won Best Costume Design.
The Aacta Award for Best Short Animation was presented to Angie Fielder,...
- 12/6/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
A 2015 Meet the Nominees event.
Aacta has unveiled the full schedule for its Meet the Nominees series: nine events featuring Aacta nominees presented by Aftrs.
"We.re thrilled to be partnering with Aacta to present the 2016 Meet the Nominees events; an exclusive opportunity to hear the inside stories from Australia.s leading film, television and documentary makers," Aftrs CEO Neil Peplow said..
This year.s events will feature nominated editor Veronika Jenet Ase (The Daughter); editor Andrew Cooke (Hitting Home); sound designer Liam Egan Assg (The Daughter); editor Steven Robinson Ase (In The Shadow of the Hill); and sound designers Yulia Akerholt Assg (The Daughter) and Robert Mackenzie (Hacksaw Ridge).
Director Rosemary Myers (Girl Asleep) will feature on the panel for The Directors event, alongside Bentley Dean Adg and Martin Butler Adg, whose film Tanna was recently announced as Australia.s foreign language Oscars entry.
Bentley Dean Adg will also...
Aacta has unveiled the full schedule for its Meet the Nominees series: nine events featuring Aacta nominees presented by Aftrs.
"We.re thrilled to be partnering with Aacta to present the 2016 Meet the Nominees events; an exclusive opportunity to hear the inside stories from Australia.s leading film, television and documentary makers," Aftrs CEO Neil Peplow said..
This year.s events will feature nominated editor Veronika Jenet Ase (The Daughter); editor Andrew Cooke (Hitting Home); sound designer Liam Egan Assg (The Daughter); editor Steven Robinson Ase (In The Shadow of the Hill); and sound designers Yulia Akerholt Assg (The Daughter) and Robert Mackenzie (Hacksaw Ridge).
Director Rosemary Myers (Girl Asleep) will feature on the panel for The Directors event, alongside Bentley Dean Adg and Martin Butler Adg, whose film Tanna was recently announced as Australia.s foreign language Oscars entry.
Bentley Dean Adg will also...
- 11/14/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Tanna is based on a true story about a girl who runs away from an arranged marriage.
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Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
.
Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
- 5/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Tanna is based on a true story about a girl who runs away from an arranged marriage.
.
Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
.
Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
- 5/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Essie Davis as.Miss Fisher.
ABC TV has received a record thirty-three nominations — the most of any network — for this year.s Logie Awards, to be held May 8.
Essie Davis, star of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, is in the running for big prize, the Gold Logie.
Davis is also nominated for the Best Actress and Most Outstanding Actress awards.
The Doctor Blake Mysteries star Craig McLachlan is up against Please Like Me's Josh Thomas for the Best Actor award.
Other ABC acting nominees include Patrick Brammall (Glitch), Sarah Snook (The Beautiful Lie), Deborah Mailman (Redfern Now: Promise Me), Tim Minchin (The Secret River), Emily Barclay (Glitch) and Rarriwuy Hick (Redfern Now: Promise Me).
In the entertainment and comedy categories, The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, Utopia, Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, Please Like Me and Gruen all picked up nominations..
Sarah Ferguson's Hitting Home and The Killing Season will...
ABC TV has received a record thirty-three nominations — the most of any network — for this year.s Logie Awards, to be held May 8.
Essie Davis, star of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, is in the running for big prize, the Gold Logie.
Davis is also nominated for the Best Actress and Most Outstanding Actress awards.
The Doctor Blake Mysteries star Craig McLachlan is up against Please Like Me's Josh Thomas for the Best Actor award.
Other ABC acting nominees include Patrick Brammall (Glitch), Sarah Snook (The Beautiful Lie), Deborah Mailman (Redfern Now: Promise Me), Tim Minchin (The Secret River), Emily Barclay (Glitch) and Rarriwuy Hick (Redfern Now: Promise Me).
In the entertainment and comedy categories, The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, Utopia, Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, Please Like Me and Gruen all picked up nominations..
Sarah Ferguson's Hitting Home and The Killing Season will...
- 4/4/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Journalist Sarah Ferguson will replace Kerry O'Brien next year as presenter on ABC.s weekly investigative flagship Four Corners.
O'Brien helmed his last epsiode on Monday night.
Ferguson previously worked on Four Corners from 2008 until the end of 2013, winning a number of awards during her time there, including the Gold Walkley.
In other changes in the 2016 season former North America Correspondent Ben Knight will also join the Four Corners investigative team..
Knight has been based in Washington since 2013 and was formerly Middle East Correspondent and a senior reporter in Melbourne
Ferguson said there was no place I would rather be.
.Four Corners has the past nailed and a future full of promise and excitement," she said..
"A big thank you and farewell to Kerry O'Brien."
ABC head of current affairs, Bruce Belsham, said it was fantastic that Sarah had agreed to succeed O.Brien as host of Four Corners..
"It...
O'Brien helmed his last epsiode on Monday night.
Ferguson previously worked on Four Corners from 2008 until the end of 2013, winning a number of awards during her time there, including the Gold Walkley.
In other changes in the 2016 season former North America Correspondent Ben Knight will also join the Four Corners investigative team..
Knight has been based in Washington since 2013 and was formerly Middle East Correspondent and a senior reporter in Melbourne
Ferguson said there was no place I would rather be.
.Four Corners has the past nailed and a future full of promise and excitement," she said..
"A big thank you and farewell to Kerry O'Brien."
ABC head of current affairs, Bruce Belsham, said it was fantastic that Sarah had agreed to succeed O.Brien as host of Four Corners..
"It...
- 11/24/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Journalist Sarah Ferguson will examine domestic violence in a two-part documentary series - Hitting Home - to air on ABC on November 24-25.
The In Films production will see Ferguson move into a women's refuge in search of answers.
Ferguson has also gained access to courts and safe rooms, domestic abuse programs in prison, forensic doctors and specialised police units for the series, which took six months to make.
Ferguson said she wanted to find out how domestic violence worked.
"Why men — and it is largely men — do it, and why their partners find it so hard to leave," she said..
"These are gripping, sometimes heartbreaking, stories of women and children caught up in extraordinary situations..
"Their courage in speaking out took my breath away..
.All year we have been hearing stories of violent attacks on women, alone at home, in front of their children, in cars, in remote locations...
The In Films production will see Ferguson move into a women's refuge in search of answers.
Ferguson has also gained access to courts and safe rooms, domestic abuse programs in prison, forensic doctors and specialised police units for the series, which took six months to make.
Ferguson said she wanted to find out how domestic violence worked.
"Why men — and it is largely men — do it, and why their partners find it so hard to leave," she said..
"These are gripping, sometimes heartbreaking, stories of women and children caught up in extraordinary situations..
"Their courage in speaking out took my breath away..
.All year we have been hearing stories of violent attacks on women, alone at home, in front of their children, in cars, in remote locations...
- 10/29/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Shaun Micallef as a fictional former prime minister who is desperate to stay relevant, a comedy series starring The Project.s Charlie Pickering and a modern re-telling of Anna Karenina.
These are among the highlights of the ABC.s 2015 line-up unveiled today by director of television Richard Finlayson. .The breadth and depth of our slate reflects the quality of Australian independent production,. Finlayson told If.
The executive acknowledges producers are fearful of the impact of looming budget cuts to be imposed by the federal government but says, .We know the cuts cast a pall of uncertainty but we are getting on with the process of commissioning as best we can. By and large it is business as usual.. Micallef will star in The Ex-pm as Australia.s third longest-serving Prime Minister who has far too much time on his hands and no one to waste it on in a Cjz...
These are among the highlights of the ABC.s 2015 line-up unveiled today by director of television Richard Finlayson. .The breadth and depth of our slate reflects the quality of Australian independent production,. Finlayson told If.
The executive acknowledges producers are fearful of the impact of looming budget cuts to be imposed by the federal government but says, .We know the cuts cast a pall of uncertainty but we are getting on with the process of commissioning as best we can. By and large it is business as usual.. Micallef will star in The Ex-pm as Australia.s third longest-serving Prime Minister who has far too much time on his hands and no one to waste it on in a Cjz...
- 11/12/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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