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new dvd+vod Get Out Personal Shopper Beauty and the Beast Spaceship I’m planning to watch… Frantz Neruda A Silent Voice
2017’s films, ranked by maryann (subscribers only until the end of the year)
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recent releases Aquarius Certain Women Chasing Asylum Denial Fences Finding Altamira Finding Kim The Founder The Great Wall Hacksaw Ridge Hidden Figures I Am Not Your Negro John Wick 2 Kong: Skull Island The Lego Batman Movie Letters from Baghdad Logan Loving Moonlight Prevenge The Salesman Toni Erdmann T2 Trainspotting 20th Century Women We Are X Elle Gold Patriots Day Spaceship Aftermath The Autopsy of Jane Doe A Cure for Wellness...
new dvd+vod Get Out Personal Shopper Beauty and the Beast Spaceship I’m planning to watch… Frantz Neruda A Silent Voice
2017’s films, ranked by maryann (subscribers only until the end of the year)
get all reviews since 1997 here
recent releases Aquarius Certain Women Chasing Asylum Denial Fences Finding Altamira Finding Kim The Founder The Great Wall Hacksaw Ridge Hidden Figures I Am Not Your Negro John Wick 2 Kong: Skull Island The Lego Batman Movie Letters from Baghdad Logan Loving Moonlight Prevenge The Salesman Toni Erdmann T2 Trainspotting 20th Century Women We Are X Elle Gold Patriots Day Spaceship Aftermath The Autopsy of Jane Doe A Cure for Wellness...
- 7/11/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Drama deals from day one and two.
Keeping Up With The Kardashians producers plot Pele scripted series
Us outfit Bunim/Murray Productions, the company behind reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, is plotting a limited series based on the life of Brazilian football icon Pelé.
Read more Miptv: First Cannes TV festival named ‘Cannes Series’
Mbc Group, Image Nation partner on Hwjn feature, series
Middle East-based companies O3 Productions (part of Mbc Group) and Image Nation are partnering on a series of adaptations of Ibraheem Abbas’ novel Hwjn.
The two companies will co-produce and co-finance an Arabic-language feature film, a TV spin-off title The Delusionists, and are plotting two further TV series based on the novel, details of which will be announced at a later date.
Former Sony boss launches drama outfit with UK’s Drg
Howard Stringer
Former Sony CEO Howard Stringer is teaming with British television group Drg to launch a company focused on high-end...
Keeping Up With The Kardashians producers plot Pele scripted series
Us outfit Bunim/Murray Productions, the company behind reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, is plotting a limited series based on the life of Brazilian football icon Pelé.
Read more Miptv: First Cannes TV festival named ‘Cannes Series’
Mbc Group, Image Nation partner on Hwjn feature, series
Middle East-based companies O3 Productions (part of Mbc Group) and Image Nation are partnering on a series of adaptations of Ibraheem Abbas’ novel Hwjn.
The two companies will co-produce and co-finance an Arabic-language feature film, a TV spin-off title The Delusionists, and are plotting two further TV series based on the novel, details of which will be announced at a later date.
Former Sony boss launches drama outfit with UK’s Drg
Howard Stringer
Former Sony CEO Howard Stringer is teaming with British television group Drg to launch a company focused on high-end...
- 4/4/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Elizabeth Debicki in 'The Kettering Incident'.
While local films were quiet at the box office last year, Aussie TV drama boomed. If catches up with industry leaders to reflect on 2016 and canvass the challenges of the year ahead.
Off the back of a record year in 2015, Aussie films totalled only $24 million (1.9 per cent market share) in 2016 compared to the previous year.s $88 million (7.2 per cent share)..
However, the last couple of months have seen something of a surge. Lion is now the fifth highest grossing Australian film of all time at the local box office, and Australia films earned 13 Oscar nominations across.Hacksaw Ridge, Lion and Tanna.
This year holds further promise with Breath, Dance Academy, Sweet Country, Three Summers, and Hotel Mumbai expected for release..
According to Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason, the industry needs to look at local box office performance over a three year cycle.
While local films were quiet at the box office last year, Aussie TV drama boomed. If catches up with industry leaders to reflect on 2016 and canvass the challenges of the year ahead.
Off the back of a record year in 2015, Aussie films totalled only $24 million (1.9 per cent market share) in 2016 compared to the previous year.s $88 million (7.2 per cent share)..
However, the last couple of months have seen something of a surge. Lion is now the fifth highest grossing Australian film of all time at the local box office, and Australia films earned 13 Oscar nominations across.Hacksaw Ridge, Lion and Tanna.
This year holds further promise with Breath, Dance Academy, Sweet Country, Three Summers, and Hotel Mumbai expected for release..
According to Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason, the industry needs to look at local box office performance over a three year cycle.
- 3/27/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Graeme Mason..
The message of Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason.s keynote address to the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) was simple: adapt or die..
Despite significant budget cuts, Mason said Screen Australia had tried its best so far to insulate on-screen funding by trimming costs and staff..
However this financial year will see the agency.s direct on-screen funding drop around 6 per cent across the board. Mason said Screen Australia will, as a result, have to start saying no to projects it perhaps would have backed in the past. In response, filmmakers need to consider what that means for their businesses..
.If your funding model for your project, or worse, your entire business, relies majorly on federal and state funding, then you are not coming from a position of strength, or in most cases, logic,. he said..
.We do know that times are tricky elsewhere here in Australia. The...
The message of Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason.s keynote address to the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) was simple: adapt or die..
Despite significant budget cuts, Mason said Screen Australia had tried its best so far to insulate on-screen funding by trimming costs and staff..
However this financial year will see the agency.s direct on-screen funding drop around 6 per cent across the board. Mason said Screen Australia will, as a result, have to start saying no to projects it perhaps would have backed in the past. In response, filmmakers need to consider what that means for their businesses..
.If your funding model for your project, or worse, your entire business, relies majorly on federal and state funding, then you are not coming from a position of strength, or in most cases, logic,. he said..
.We do know that times are tricky elsewhere here in Australia. The...
- 3/8/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
If you’re wondering what Trump is talking about here…
Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
(Screengrab here in case it gets deleted.)
…check out my writeup of the documentary Chasing Asylum, which screened at London Film Festival last year: it depicts the horrendous conditions that Australia has subjected refugees (not “illegal immigrants”) to, from which Obama had agreed to rescue some. As the film depicts, Australia’s treatment of these refugees constitutes an international crime… so, actually, maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that Trump is against rectifying it. (Alas, the film is not available on DVD or VOD yet, at least not in North America or Europe.)...
Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
(Screengrab here in case it gets deleted.)
…check out my writeup of the documentary Chasing Asylum, which screened at London Film Festival last year: it depicts the horrendous conditions that Australia has subjected refugees (not “illegal immigrants”) to, from which Obama had agreed to rescue some. As the film depicts, Australia’s treatment of these refugees constitutes an international crime… so, actually, maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that Trump is against rectifying it. (Alas, the film is not available on DVD or VOD yet, at least not in North America or Europe.)...
- 2/2/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Disney's 'Finding Dory' topped the Australian box office in 2016..
The Australian box office took a record $1,259,337,000 in 2016 — a 2.69 per cent increase on the previous year.
According to stats from the Motion Picture Distributor Association of Australia (Mpdaa), the best performing film of the year was Disney.s Finding Dory, which closed the year on $48.56million, followed by Fox.s Deadpool on $43.27 million.
In third position was Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which closed 2016 on an impressive $36.39 million after only two weeks in cinemas..
Overall, Australian films took $24 million, led by Mel Gibson.s Hacksaw Ridge, which earned $8.6 million. The Dressmaker earned an extra $1.72 million in 2016, taking its cume to $20.28 million.
Aussie documentaries did well, with three — Jen Peedom.s Sherpa ($1.2 million), Taryn Brumfitt.s Embrace ($1.1 million) and Eva Orner.s Chasing Asylum ($576K) — among the top grossing Australian documentaries of all time (excluding IMAX).
Red Dog: True...
The Australian box office took a record $1,259,337,000 in 2016 — a 2.69 per cent increase on the previous year.
According to stats from the Motion Picture Distributor Association of Australia (Mpdaa), the best performing film of the year was Disney.s Finding Dory, which closed the year on $48.56million, followed by Fox.s Deadpool on $43.27 million.
In third position was Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which closed 2016 on an impressive $36.39 million after only two weeks in cinemas..
Overall, Australian films took $24 million, led by Mel Gibson.s Hacksaw Ridge, which earned $8.6 million. The Dressmaker earned an extra $1.72 million in 2016, taking its cume to $20.28 million.
Aussie documentaries did well, with three — Jen Peedom.s Sherpa ($1.2 million), Taryn Brumfitt.s Embrace ($1.1 million) and Eva Orner.s Chasing Asylum ($576K) — among the top grossing Australian documentaries of all time (excluding IMAX).
Red Dog: True...
- 1/25/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Guardian Australia’s film critic counts down this year’s best offerings from the silver screen
It looks as though Australians will receive a reasonable amount of attention on the international stage this awards season, with performances from Nicole Kidman and Joel Edgerton, as well as Mel Gibson’s locally made war pic, Hacksaw Ridge, which has netted three Golden Globe nominations. As usual, however, the best Australian films of the year were generally not the same ones wooing the glitterati in Tinseltown.
Related: Chasing Asylum first look review – asylum seeker documentary is vital and gut-wrenching
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It looks as though Australians will receive a reasonable amount of attention on the international stage this awards season, with performances from Nicole Kidman and Joel Edgerton, as well as Mel Gibson’s locally made war pic, Hacksaw Ridge, which has netted three Golden Globe nominations. As usual, however, the best Australian films of the year were generally not the same ones wooing the glitterati in Tinseltown.
Related: Chasing Asylum first look review – asylum seeker documentary is vital and gut-wrenching
Continue reading...
- 12/19/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Mel Gibson on the set of Hacksaw Ridge.. . Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge cleaned up at the 6th Aacta Awards ceremony last night, taking home five awards, including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. . Gibson was honoured for Best Direction, while Andrew Garfield won Best Lead Actor and Hugo Weaving nabbed Best Supporting Actor. . .I need to thank Australia for making this film,. said Gibson in his acceptance speech. . He praised the "homegrown" film.s cast and crew, .the calibre of which is as good or better than anywhere in the world.. . .I.m not the only one who wants to make films here all the time, Ridley Scott said the same thing,. Gibson said. .I.m honoured to receive this.. . . The five awards add to the four Hacksaw Ridge already picked up earlier this week at the Aacta Industry Luncheon. The film was nominated in 13 categories overall. . Odessa Young...
- 12/7/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Mel Gibson on the set of Hacksaw Ridge.. . Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge cleaned up at the 6th Aacta Awards ceremony last night, taking home five awards, including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. . Gibson was honoured for Best Direction, while Andrew Garfield won Best Lead Actor and Hugo Weaving nabbed Best Supporting Actor. . .I need to thank Australia for making this film,. said Gibson in his acceptance speech. . He praised the "homegrown" film.s cast and crew, .the calibre of which is as good or better than anywhere in the world.. . .I.m not the only one who wants to make films here all the time, Ridley Scott said the same thing,. Gibson said. .I.m honoured to receive this.. . . The five awards add to the four Hacksaw Ridge already picked up earlier this week at the Aacta Industry Luncheon. The film was nominated in 13 categories overall. . Odessa Young...
- 12/7/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Female film-makers donned sausage costumes to protest gender disparity in the Australian industry.Scroll down for full list of winners:
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge was named best film of the year at the 2016 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) awards, with the wartime drama taking nine of its 13 nominated awards, at an event that was also marked by activism on and off the stage.
Hacksaw Ridge was produced in New South Wales and financed through the Producer Offset and other state and federal government subsidies.
The film’s star Andrew Garfield was named best actor for his portrayal of conscientious objector Desmond Dawes, and Hugo Weaving won best supporting actor (again, after winning in 2015 for The Dressmaker) for his role as Dawes’ battle-scarred father.
Garfield accepted his award via video message from Los Angeles, and expressed “pure joy” at the win. He also singled out “Mel’s brilliant ability to make everyone feel valuable...
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge was named best film of the year at the 2016 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) awards, with the wartime drama taking nine of its 13 nominated awards, at an event that was also marked by activism on and off the stage.
Hacksaw Ridge was produced in New South Wales and financed through the Producer Offset and other state and federal government subsidies.
The film’s star Andrew Garfield was named best actor for his portrayal of conscientious objector Desmond Dawes, and Hugo Weaving won best supporting actor (again, after winning in 2015 for The Dressmaker) for his role as Dawes’ battle-scarred father.
Garfield accepted his award via video message from Los Angeles, and expressed “pure joy” at the win. He also singled out “Mel’s brilliant ability to make everyone feel valuable...
- 12/7/2016
- ScreenDaily
Ezra Edelman, director and producer of 'O.J.:Made In America' will give a keynote at Aidc 2017..
The 30th installment of the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) has attracted a variety of international producers as its headline speakers.
They include head of Passion Pictures John Battsek (One Day In September); vice president of the Tribeca Film Institute Amy Hobby (What Happened, Miss Simone?) and Ezra Edelman, director and producer of O.J.: Made In America.
Edelman and Battsek will deliver the opening session about using sports documentary as a way to explore power and racial discrimination. Hobby will appear in conversation about the experiences of documentary filmmakers on the festival and awards circuit.
All three will also participate as mentors in the Access@Aidc mentorship program..
Other conference sessions announced so far include:
– Revolution or Evolution?, a session about the future of .serious gaming. and virtual reality documentary with Navid Khonsari,...
The 30th installment of the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) has attracted a variety of international producers as its headline speakers.
They include head of Passion Pictures John Battsek (One Day In September); vice president of the Tribeca Film Institute Amy Hobby (What Happened, Miss Simone?) and Ezra Edelman, director and producer of O.J.: Made In America.
Edelman and Battsek will deliver the opening session about using sports documentary as a way to explore power and racial discrimination. Hobby will appear in conversation about the experiences of documentary filmmakers on the festival and awards circuit.
All three will also participate as mentors in the Access@Aidc mentorship program..
Other conference sessions announced so far include:
– Revolution or Evolution?, a session about the future of .serious gaming. and virtual reality documentary with Navid Khonsari,...
- 11/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Update: Andrew Davies tribute, Beta, Studiocanal deals; The Halcyon, Mata Hari set the tone for market awash with high-end drama.
Mipcom got off to a glamourous start this year with world premiere screenings of Sony Pictures Television’s The Halcyon followed by Julius Berg’s Mata Hari starring Vahina Giocante, Rutger Hauer and Christopher Lambert on Sunday.
These two premieres, on the eve of Mipcom’s official opening, set the tone for a market that will be more awash than ever with high-end dramas.
In the backdrop, one of the talking points is which platforms these series will be distributed on as part of Mipcom’s overall theme of “New Television”.
Sony Corporation president and CEO Kazuo Hirai, who kicked off Mipcom’s conference programme on Monday, said content and delivery were two sides of the same coin when it came to getting viewers to pay for they were watching.
“Consumers are willing...
Mipcom got off to a glamourous start this year with world premiere screenings of Sony Pictures Television’s The Halcyon followed by Julius Berg’s Mata Hari starring Vahina Giocante, Rutger Hauer and Christopher Lambert on Sunday.
These two premieres, on the eve of Mipcom’s official opening, set the tone for a market that will be more awash than ever with high-end dramas.
In the backdrop, one of the talking points is which platforms these series will be distributed on as part of Mipcom’s overall theme of “New Television”.
Sony Corporation president and CEO Kazuo Hirai, who kicked off Mipcom’s conference programme on Monday, said content and delivery were two sides of the same coin when it came to getting viewers to pay for they were watching.
“Consumers are willing...
- 10/17/2016
- ScreenDaily
★★★★☆ At the time Chasing Asylum was filmed 2,175 men, women and children, seeking refuge in Australia, were being detained indefinitely in centres on Manus Island - in northern Papua New Guinea - and on Nauru, a remote Pacific Ocean island nation. A further 10,000 were stranded in the Philippines due to an escalation in 2013 of the Australian government's already rigorous and unflinching decree to "Stop the boats" by successive Prime Ministers. Unable to work, but desperate to continue their journey south-east, Middle-Eastern refugees are told: 'No Way: You will never make Australia home' by shocking immigration posters.
- 10/12/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.
A Date for Mad Mary
Mary’s not crazy-mad, she’s angry-mad, in that incoherent way that young people floundering around to figure themselves out often fall into. After a short stint in prison — for a violent crime that was surely an expression of that rage — she returns home to her Irish town to find that her disconnect to friends and family has grown even wider, and it’s a real struggle to fulfill her duties as maid of honor to her best friend, Charlene, in the run-up to her wedding. No longer able to rely on others to define her, Mary must decide for herself who she is, a task she approaches with snark to cover up her terror and her confusion. The things that make Mary a misfit create a portrait of female...
A Date for Mad Mary
Mary’s not crazy-mad, she’s angry-mad, in that incoherent way that young people floundering around to figure themselves out often fall into. After a short stint in prison — for a violent crime that was surely an expression of that rage — she returns home to her Irish town to find that her disconnect to friends and family has grown even wider, and it’s a real struggle to fulfill her duties as maid of honor to her best friend, Charlene, in the run-up to her wedding. No longer able to rely on others to define her, Mary must decide for herself who she is, a task she approaches with snark to cover up her terror and her confusion. The things that make Mary a misfit create a portrait of female...
- 9/20/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Teresa Palmer and Andrew Garfield in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge.
The Aacta Awards longlist for feature films was unveiled this morning, with 24 Australian features named.
The eligible films are A Few Less Men, A Month of Sundays, Beast, Boys in the Trees, Down Under, Early Winter, Embedded, Girl Asleep, Gods of Egypt, Goldstone, Hacksaw Ridge, Joe Cinque's Consolation, Looking for Grace, Pawno, Red Billabong, Scare Campaign, Spear, Spin Out, Spirit of the Game, Sucker, Tanna, The Daughter, The Menkoff Method and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
That list will be winnowed down once voting begins after the official screenings program, with the nominees for the AACTAs to be announced in October.
The screenings program for AFI and Aacta members runs throughout August and September, and will open with a preview screening of A Few Less Men in Sydney on August 29 at Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction, and in Melbourne on August 30 at Cinema Nova.
The Aacta Awards longlist for feature films was unveiled this morning, with 24 Australian features named.
The eligible films are A Few Less Men, A Month of Sundays, Beast, Boys in the Trees, Down Under, Early Winter, Embedded, Girl Asleep, Gods of Egypt, Goldstone, Hacksaw Ridge, Joe Cinque's Consolation, Looking for Grace, Pawno, Red Billabong, Scare Campaign, Spear, Spin Out, Spirit of the Game, Sucker, Tanna, The Daughter, The Menkoff Method and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
That list will be winnowed down once voting begins after the official screenings program, with the nominees for the AACTAs to be announced in October.
The screenings program for AFI and Aacta members runs throughout August and September, and will open with a preview screening of A Few Less Men in Sydney on August 29 at Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction, and in Melbourne on August 30 at Cinema Nova.
- 8/10/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Chasing Asylum. The first nominees for the 6th Aacta Awards have been announced, with the Australian Academy revealing those up for gongs in three categories: Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Short Animation and Best Short Fiction Film.
Nominees in feature film and television will be named later this year.
Under consideration for Best Feature Documentary is Eva Orner.s expose of Australian offshore detention, Chasing Asylum, and Dan Jackson.s debut In The Shadow of the Hill, which follows locals living in Rio de Janiero.s largest slum and their fight for justice.
They will vie against Nikolas Bird and Eleanor Sharp.s Remembering the Man, about couple Timothy Congriave and John Caleo — whose love story was the subject of feature film Holding the Man, and Snow Monkey, a portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, produced by Lizzette Atkins and directed by artist George Gittoes.
Up for the Best Short Animation gong is Joel Best,...
Nominees in feature film and television will be named later this year.
Under consideration for Best Feature Documentary is Eva Orner.s expose of Australian offshore detention, Chasing Asylum, and Dan Jackson.s debut In The Shadow of the Hill, which follows locals living in Rio de Janiero.s largest slum and their fight for justice.
They will vie against Nikolas Bird and Eleanor Sharp.s Remembering the Man, about couple Timothy Congriave and John Caleo — whose love story was the subject of feature film Holding the Man, and Snow Monkey, a portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, produced by Lizzette Atkins and directed by artist George Gittoes.
Up for the Best Short Animation gong is Joel Best,...
- 7/14/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Central Intelligence.
Finding Dory has dominated the Aussie box office for the third week in a row, hauling in $5.5 million over the weekend. The film has already brought in $30.5 million after only three weeks.
Action comedy Central Intelligence, starring Dwayne Johnson, debuted behind on $4.7 million. Following was Steven Spielberg's The Bfg, debuting on $2.6 million.
Roland Emmerich's Independence Day: Resurgence fell 57 per cent in its second week, ringing up $2.1 million over the weekend to bring its total to $8.5 million.
Ice Age: Collision Course, the fifth installment in the Ice Age series, brought in $1.6 million over the weekend to bring its cume to almost $4 million in its first week.
Romantic drama Me Before You fell 36 per cent over the weekend and has made $8.6 million after three weeks. Hunt for the Wilderpeople fell 12 per cent in its sixth week, and now sits on a gross of almost $7.4 million...
The Conjuring 2 fell 53 per cent this weekend,...
Finding Dory has dominated the Aussie box office for the third week in a row, hauling in $5.5 million over the weekend. The film has already brought in $30.5 million after only three weeks.
Action comedy Central Intelligence, starring Dwayne Johnson, debuted behind on $4.7 million. Following was Steven Spielberg's The Bfg, debuting on $2.6 million.
Roland Emmerich's Independence Day: Resurgence fell 57 per cent in its second week, ringing up $2.1 million over the weekend to bring its total to $8.5 million.
Ice Age: Collision Course, the fifth installment in the Ice Age series, brought in $1.6 million over the weekend to bring its cume to almost $4 million in its first week.
Romantic drama Me Before You fell 36 per cent over the weekend and has made $8.6 million after three weeks. Hunt for the Wilderpeople fell 12 per cent in its sixth week, and now sits on a gross of almost $7.4 million...
The Conjuring 2 fell 53 per cent this weekend,...
- 7/4/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Noni Hazlehurst.
Noni Hazlehurst will lead a session on power and influence in the media at the 2016 Screen Futures Summit, presented by The Australian Teachers of Media (Atom) and Acmi.
Taking place in Melbourne from June 30-July 3, the summit will run for three days across Acmi and Rmit with over 100 sessions..
Christos Tsiolkas will be joined by producer Tony Ayres to discuss their upcoming TV adaptation of Tsiolkas' novel Barracuda, and Eva Orner will participate in a Q&A via satellite with human rights advocate Julian Burnside after a screening of her documentary Chasing Asylum.
The team from The Family Law.will participate in a Q&A, as will the makers of Logie-winning teen drama Ready for This.
Industry leaders Sue Maslin, David Vadiveloo, Julie Kalceff, Rosie Lourde and Rebecca Mostyn will discuss diversity on screen, and Warwick Thornton will be joined by Philip Batty, Neil Turner and Curtis Taylor...
Noni Hazlehurst will lead a session on power and influence in the media at the 2016 Screen Futures Summit, presented by The Australian Teachers of Media (Atom) and Acmi.
Taking place in Melbourne from June 30-July 3, the summit will run for three days across Acmi and Rmit with over 100 sessions..
Christos Tsiolkas will be joined by producer Tony Ayres to discuss their upcoming TV adaptation of Tsiolkas' novel Barracuda, and Eva Orner will participate in a Q&A via satellite with human rights advocate Julian Burnside after a screening of her documentary Chasing Asylum.
The team from The Family Law.will participate in a Q&A, as will the makers of Logie-winning teen drama Ready for This.
Industry leaders Sue Maslin, David Vadiveloo, Julie Kalceff, Rosie Lourde and Rebecca Mostyn will discuss diversity on screen, and Warwick Thornton will be joined by Philip Batty, Neil Turner and Curtis Taylor...
- 6/7/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Chasing Asylum director, Eva Orner.
The director of documentary Chasing Asylum has offered Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a free ticket and a box of popcorn to entice him to the cinema after the film collected $144,236 at the box office.
Chasing Aslyum has been in cinemas for four days and has held premiere screenings around the country.
From Academy Award winning Eva Orner (Taxi to the Dark Side; The Network), the film is an explosive look inside Australia.s offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. .
The film features secretly filmed footage from inside the centres, testimonials from whistleblowers and stories from asylum seekers and refugees who have tried to make Australia home..
Orner has visited and spoken with 21 audiences in the last few weeks with 16 Q and As still to come..
Extra Q and A sessions have been added at the Sun Theatre Yarraville and Cinema Nova Carlton on June 11-12.
Cinema Nova,...
The director of documentary Chasing Asylum has offered Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a free ticket and a box of popcorn to entice him to the cinema after the film collected $144,236 at the box office.
Chasing Aslyum has been in cinemas for four days and has held premiere screenings around the country.
From Academy Award winning Eva Orner (Taxi to the Dark Side; The Network), the film is an explosive look inside Australia.s offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. .
The film features secretly filmed footage from inside the centres, testimonials from whistleblowers and stories from asylum seekers and refugees who have tried to make Australia home..
Orner has visited and spoken with 21 audiences in the last few weeks with 16 Q and As still to come..
Extra Q and A sessions have been added at the Sun Theatre Yarraville and Cinema Nova Carlton on June 11-12.
Cinema Nova,...
- 5/31/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Film critic Luke Buckmaster speaks with Chasing Asylum director Eva Orner and Guardian Australia reporter Melissa Davey after a screening of the documentary for Guardian Australia’s Film Club. They discuss safeguarding sources, why Orner decided to show security guards’ faces and how the film’s release strategy was designed to avoid government interference
This podcast was recorded live at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova.
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This podcast was recorded live at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova.
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- 5/31/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster, Melissa Davey, Eva Orner and Miles Martignoni
- The Guardian - Film News
From Chasing Asylum to Sherpa, a new class of rabble-rousing, boredom-detonating Australian documentaries is buzzing with a sense of urgency
Irrespective of your personal opinions on the subject, if you watch Oscar-winning film-maker Eva Orner’s detention centre exposé, Chasing Asylum, you will leave feeling shaken. There are stories of self-harming asylum seekers living in government-supplied squalor and children answering to numbers instead of names.
Released shortly after an Iranian refugee died after setting himself on fire and Papua New Guinea’s supreme court ruled that the detention centre on Manus Island was illegal – also during the heat of an Australian federal election campaign – the film is timely, to say the least.
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Irrespective of your personal opinions on the subject, if you watch Oscar-winning film-maker Eva Orner’s detention centre exposé, Chasing Asylum, you will leave feeling shaken. There are stories of self-harming asylum seekers living in government-supplied squalor and children answering to numbers instead of names.
Released shortly after an Iranian refugee died after setting himself on fire and Papua New Guinea’s supreme court ruled that the detention centre on Manus Island was illegal – also during the heat of an Australian federal election campaign – the film is timely, to say the least.
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- 5/24/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Come and enjoy a preview screening with a complimentary glass of wine and post film Q&A discussion
Don’t miss out on this special screening of Chasing Asylum, a documentary uncovering the true impact faced by asylum seekers who have been placed in offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Naru.
We’ve assembled a panel including Academy Award-winning director, Eva Orner and the Guardian Australia journalist, Melissa Davey. The panel, hosted by Guardian film critic Luke Buckmaster, will discuss the making of Chasing Asylum and use themes of the film to discuss what is currently happening with the Australian government’s offshore detention centre policy and whether a humane and just solution ever be reached given bipartisan support of detention centres.
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Don’t miss out on this special screening of Chasing Asylum, a documentary uncovering the true impact faced by asylum seekers who have been placed in offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Naru.
We’ve assembled a panel including Academy Award-winning director, Eva Orner and the Guardian Australia journalist, Melissa Davey. The panel, hosted by Guardian film critic Luke Buckmaster, will discuss the making of Chasing Asylum and use themes of the film to discuss what is currently happening with the Australian government’s offshore detention centre policy and whether a humane and just solution ever be reached given bipartisan support of detention centres.
Continue reading...
- 5/11/2016
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
Come and enjoy a preview screening with a complimentary glass of wine and post film Q&A discussion
Don’t miss out on this special screening of Chasing Asylum, a documentary uncovering the true impact faced by asylum seekers who have been placed in offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Naru.
We’ve assembled a panel including Academy Award-winning director, Eva Orner and the Guardian Australia journalist, Melissa Davey. The panel, hosted by Guardian film critic Luke Buckmaster, will discuss the making of Chasing Asylum and use themes of the film to discuss what is currently happening with the Australian government’s offshore detention centre policy and whether a humane and just solution ever be reached given bipartisan support of detention centres.
Continue reading...
Don’t miss out on this special screening of Chasing Asylum, a documentary uncovering the true impact faced by asylum seekers who have been placed in offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Naru.
We’ve assembled a panel including Academy Award-winning director, Eva Orner and the Guardian Australia journalist, Melissa Davey. The panel, hosted by Guardian film critic Luke Buckmaster, will discuss the making of Chasing Asylum and use themes of the film to discuss what is currently happening with the Australian government’s offshore detention centre policy and whether a humane and just solution ever be reached given bipartisan support of detention centres.
Continue reading...
- 5/11/2016
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
Eva Orner's Chasing Asylum.
The ninth Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (May 19-June 8) kicked off last week with the Australian premiere of Eva Orner's Chasing Asylum, which Hraff program director Malcolm Blaylock called "one of the most important Australian documentaries of 2016.".
The festival lasts for a month, starting in Victoria and expanding nationally across seven Australian cities, and features 31 feature films and 25 shorts.
The festival was sponsored through Film Victoria.s Connecting to the World Through Film program which supports Victorian organisations that promote equality and diversity to Victorian audiences through engagement with screen content. .
.The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival was born in Melbourne and has grown to be a significant event that is presented right across the country", Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley said.
.The festival uses creativity as a vehicle for creating conversations, exploring different cultures and issues, and advocating for change.
The ninth Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (May 19-June 8) kicked off last week with the Australian premiere of Eva Orner's Chasing Asylum, which Hraff program director Malcolm Blaylock called "one of the most important Australian documentaries of 2016.".
The festival lasts for a month, starting in Victoria and expanding nationally across seven Australian cities, and features 31 feature films and 25 shorts.
The festival was sponsored through Film Victoria.s Connecting to the World Through Film program which supports Victorian organisations that promote equality and diversity to Victorian audiences through engagement with screen content. .
.The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival was born in Melbourne and has grown to be a significant event that is presented right across the country", Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley said.
.The festival uses creativity as a vehicle for creating conversations, exploring different cultures and issues, and advocating for change.
- 5/9/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
This viscerally intense exposé of Australia’s asylum seeker policy will make audiences feel like a brick smashed to pieces with a sledgehammer
If the debate about asylum seekers attempting to come to Australia has made your heart a little heavy over the years, be prepared for it to feel like a brick smashed to pieces with a sledgehammer. The full, muscular weight of the feature documentary format has finally tackled the subject with Chasing Asylum, a viscerally intense exposé given gravitas by Academy and Emmy award-winning film-maker Eva Orner.
Orner won an Oscar for producing 2007’s Taxi to the Dark Side, documentarian Alex Gibney’s fastidious investigation into torture practices conducted by America in the name of the “war on terror”. Like Gibney’s film, Chasing Asylum paints a sobering overall picture of a government that asks its citizens to abide by rule of law, but shows little obligation...
If the debate about asylum seekers attempting to come to Australia has made your heart a little heavy over the years, be prepared for it to feel like a brick smashed to pieces with a sledgehammer. The full, muscular weight of the feature documentary format has finally tackled the subject with Chasing Asylum, a viscerally intense exposé given gravitas by Academy and Emmy award-winning film-maker Eva Orner.
Orner won an Oscar for producing 2007’s Taxi to the Dark Side, documentarian Alex Gibney’s fastidious investigation into torture practices conducted by America in the name of the “war on terror”. Like Gibney’s film, Chasing Asylum paints a sobering overall picture of a government that asks its citizens to abide by rule of law, but shows little obligation...
- 4/28/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Chasing Asylum, an account of Australia’s immigration policy, is set to premiere at Toronto’s HotDocs.
Dogwoof has taken worldwide sales rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to Eva Orner’s Chasing Asylum ahead of the film’s premiere at Toronto’s HotDocs.
The feature doc depicts Australia’s policy of detaining asylum seekers in offshore detention centres, and includes never-before-seen footage from inside the camps.
Director Orner, who won an Oscar for producing Alex Gibney’s 2007 Afghanistan War doc Taxi To The Dark Side, previously directed 2013 title The Network, which was set during the same conflict.
The film premieres at HotDocs on April 28, before having its Australian premiere at Melbourne’s Human Rights Arts & Film Festival on May 5, followed by a national release on May 28.
Orner commented on the news: “I’m so proud and appreciative of everyone who helped to make this important film happen and open the world’s eyes to the real...
Dogwoof has taken worldwide sales rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to Eva Orner’s Chasing Asylum ahead of the film’s premiere at Toronto’s HotDocs.
The feature doc depicts Australia’s policy of detaining asylum seekers in offshore detention centres, and includes never-before-seen footage from inside the camps.
Director Orner, who won an Oscar for producing Alex Gibney’s 2007 Afghanistan War doc Taxi To The Dark Side, previously directed 2013 title The Network, which was set during the same conflict.
The film premieres at HotDocs on April 28, before having its Australian premiere at Melbourne’s Human Rights Arts & Film Festival on May 5, followed by a national release on May 28.
Orner commented on the news: “I’m so proud and appreciative of everyone who helped to make this important film happen and open the world’s eyes to the real...
- 4/26/2016
- ScreenDaily
Chasing Asylum.
Australian filmmaker Eva Orner will join President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, crusading lawyer Julian Burnside and more for Q&As following a number of event screenings of Chasing Asylum nationally.
Chasing Asylum "exposes the real impact of Australia.s offshore detention policies and explores how .The Lucky Country. became a country where leaders choose detention over compassion, and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights". .
The film promises never-before-seen footage from inside Australia.s offshore detention camps.
The Australian premiere season begins in Melbourne on May 5 with the sold out Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (Hraff) opening night.
The film will then screen in Canberra, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Sydney, Alice Springs, Perth and Darwin..
Additional Q&A sessions have been added to the tour to meet demand.
The film will have a theatrical season from May 26 at The Classic, Cinema Nova...
Australian filmmaker Eva Orner will join President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, crusading lawyer Julian Burnside and more for Q&As following a number of event screenings of Chasing Asylum nationally.
Chasing Asylum "exposes the real impact of Australia.s offshore detention policies and explores how .The Lucky Country. became a country where leaders choose detention over compassion, and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights". .
The film promises never-before-seen footage from inside Australia.s offshore detention camps.
The Australian premiere season begins in Melbourne on May 5 with the sold out Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (Hraff) opening night.
The film will then screen in Canberra, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Sydney, Alice Springs, Perth and Darwin..
Additional Q&A sessions have been added to the tour to meet demand.
The film will have a theatrical season from May 26 at The Classic, Cinema Nova...
- 4/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Eva Orner's Chasing Asylum.
The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival has unveiled its full 2016 program, featuring 31 feature films and 25 shorts.
The festival will open with the Australian premiere of Eva Orner's offshore-detention documentary Chasing Asylum, fresh off its Hot Docs international premiere.
Also featured is Michael Graversen's Dreaming of Denmark, which follows a teenager who has spent his adolescent years in Denmark after fleeing his native country of Afghanistan..
The festival will close with the Australian premiere of Sundance award-winner The Bad Kids, an immersive dive into America.s most pressing education problem: poverty..
Another highlight is documentary They Will Have to Kill Us First: Malian Music in Exile, which follows various musicians in Mali in the wake of a jihadist takeover and subsequent banning of music in the region. The film features Damon Albarn (Blur), Brian Eno and Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and the band Songhoy Blues.
The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival has unveiled its full 2016 program, featuring 31 feature films and 25 shorts.
The festival will open with the Australian premiere of Eva Orner's offshore-detention documentary Chasing Asylum, fresh off its Hot Docs international premiere.
Also featured is Michael Graversen's Dreaming of Denmark, which follows a teenager who has spent his adolescent years in Denmark after fleeing his native country of Afghanistan..
The festival will close with the Australian premiere of Sundance award-winner The Bad Kids, an immersive dive into America.s most pressing education problem: poverty..
Another highlight is documentary They Will Have to Kill Us First: Malian Music in Exile, which follows various musicians in Mali in the wake of a jihadist takeover and subsequent banning of music in the region. The film features Damon Albarn (Blur), Brian Eno and Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and the band Songhoy Blues.
- 4/10/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Hollie Fifer's The Opposition.
Thirteen Australian documentaries will be shown at the 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, taking place in Toronto from April 28 to May 8, including eight feature documentaries and five shorts - as well as a music video from Fell screenwriter and director Natasha Pincus..
Putuparri and the Rainmakers, winner of the 2015 CinéfestOZ Film Prize, will have its international premiere at the festival and will be shown as part of the Made In Australia program..
The other Australian documentary features in the festival program are.Hotel Coolgardie, from director Peter Gleeson and producers Melissa Hayward and Kate Neylon; Chasing Asylum, from director-producer Eva Orner; In the Shadow of the Hill, from director Dan Jackson; The Opposition, from director Hollie Fifer and producers Rebecca Barry and Madeleine Hetherton; Zach's Ceremony, from director Aaron Peterson, writer/producer Sarah Linton and producer Alec Doomadgee; and Another Country, from writer/director/producer Molly Reynolds,...
Thirteen Australian documentaries will be shown at the 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, taking place in Toronto from April 28 to May 8, including eight feature documentaries and five shorts - as well as a music video from Fell screenwriter and director Natasha Pincus..
Putuparri and the Rainmakers, winner of the 2015 CinéfestOZ Film Prize, will have its international premiere at the festival and will be shown as part of the Made In Australia program..
The other Australian documentary features in the festival program are.Hotel Coolgardie, from director Peter Gleeson and producers Melissa Hayward and Kate Neylon; Chasing Asylum, from director-producer Eva Orner; In the Shadow of the Hill, from director Dan Jackson; The Opposition, from director Hollie Fifer and producers Rebecca Barry and Madeleine Hetherton; Zach's Ceremony, from director Aaron Peterson, writer/producer Sarah Linton and producer Alec Doomadgee; and Another Country, from writer/director/producer Molly Reynolds,...
- 4/4/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Chasing Asylum.
Eva Orner's detention-centre documentary Chasing Asylum will have its world premiere at Canada's Hot Docs on April 28 before premiering locally May 5 at the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival in Melbourne..
Orner, who won an Oscar for producing Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side, will then take the film - which promises to showcase "never before seen footage from inside Australia.s offshore detention camps" - on a roadshow to Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin and Alice Springs.
The filmmakers will team up with presenting partners in most locations to host special events, including the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, Sydney Writers Festival, Adelaide Film Festival, Amnesty International Tasmanian Branch and the Tasmania Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival..
.For too long the Australian Government has been hiding behind a policy of secrecy regarding offshore detention", said Orner.
"The Australian people can.t decide...
Eva Orner's detention-centre documentary Chasing Asylum will have its world premiere at Canada's Hot Docs on April 28 before premiering locally May 5 at the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival in Melbourne..
Orner, who won an Oscar for producing Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side, will then take the film - which promises to showcase "never before seen footage from inside Australia.s offshore detention camps" - on a roadshow to Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin and Alice Springs.
The filmmakers will team up with presenting partners in most locations to host special events, including the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, Sydney Writers Festival, Adelaide Film Festival, Amnesty International Tasmanian Branch and the Tasmania Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival..
.For too long the Australian Government has been hiding behind a policy of secrecy regarding offshore detention", said Orner.
"The Australian people can.t decide...
- 3/23/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Following a screening at the SXSW film festival, a new trailer is out for the horror tale "Hush", a kind of modern homage to 1967's "Wait Until Dark" but swapping out blindness for deafness and making it more of a straight horror tale.
Kate Siegel plays a deaf recluse living her life in an isolated house. She begins to receive ominous text messages and realises a man in a terrifying white mask has been watching her. So begins a terrifying ordeal where she must fight for her very survival against an intruder who has a sensory advantage over her.
That's not the only festival film scoring a preview today. Vertical Entertainment and Xyz Films have landed global distribution rights to horror anthology "Holidays" which premieres April 14th at the Tribeca Film Festival. It will hit VOD the day after followed by a theatrical release on April 22nd.
The likes of Kevin Smith,...
Kate Siegel plays a deaf recluse living her life in an isolated house. She begins to receive ominous text messages and realises a man in a terrifying white mask has been watching her. So begins a terrifying ordeal where she must fight for her very survival against an intruder who has a sensory advantage over her.
That's not the only festival film scoring a preview today. Vertical Entertainment and Xyz Films have landed global distribution rights to horror anthology "Holidays" which premieres April 14th at the Tribeca Film Festival. It will hit VOD the day after followed by a theatrical release on April 22nd.
The likes of Kevin Smith,...
- 3/14/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The trailer has been released for Chasing Asylum, a new documentary from Academy Award Australian Eva Orner.
Orner produced Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Chasing Asylum goes inside offshore detention centres, and is billed as "the film the Australian government doesn't want you to see", presenting the personal stories of detainees sent to live indefinitely on Manus Island and Nauru.
.Living in the USA for much of the past decade, I watched with increasing sadness as the Australia I know and love was dragged into a climate of fear by successive governments determined to convince us of the dangers of boat people", Orner said.
"I really hope that Chasing Asylum informs and engages Australians to think more openly about the individual experiences of displaced people seeking a safer life..
Orner previously directed documentary The Network in 2013, and produced...
Orner produced Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Chasing Asylum goes inside offshore detention centres, and is billed as "the film the Australian government doesn't want you to see", presenting the personal stories of detainees sent to live indefinitely on Manus Island and Nauru.
.Living in the USA for much of the past decade, I watched with increasing sadness as the Australia I know and love was dragged into a climate of fear by successive governments determined to convince us of the dangers of boat people", Orner said.
"I really hope that Chasing Asylum informs and engages Australians to think more openly about the individual experiences of displaced people seeking a safer life..
Orner previously directed documentary The Network in 2013, and produced...
- 3/10/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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