Matthew Whittet, Rosemary Myers, Jo Dyer and Gillian Armstrong.
Girl Asleep, directed by Rosemary Myers, written by Matthew Whittet and produced by Jo Dyer, has won CinefestOZ's $100,000 Film Prize.
Saturday evening's awards ceremony in Busselton also saw the festival's Screen Legend award handed out to Gillian Armstrong.
Girl Asleep was selected ahead of Jasper Jones, Spin Out and The Death and Life of Otto Bloom. CinefestOZ received more than 30 submissions for the prize, with the winner decided by a jury made up of Armstrong, producer Sue Taylor (Looking for Grace), Dp Garry Phillips (The Railway Man) and actor-director Damian Walshe-Howling.
The jury watched each of the finalists with an audience before coming together to deliberate. Armstrong said the decision was unanimous.
Presenting the prize, Premier and Tourism Minister Colin Barnett announced that the Wa Government had secured a new two-year deal to continue sponsoring the event..
.CinefestOZ is a great...
Girl Asleep, directed by Rosemary Myers, written by Matthew Whittet and produced by Jo Dyer, has won CinefestOZ's $100,000 Film Prize.
Saturday evening's awards ceremony in Busselton also saw the festival's Screen Legend award handed out to Gillian Armstrong.
Girl Asleep was selected ahead of Jasper Jones, Spin Out and The Death and Life of Otto Bloom. CinefestOZ received more than 30 submissions for the prize, with the winner decided by a jury made up of Armstrong, producer Sue Taylor (Looking for Grace), Dp Garry Phillips (The Railway Man) and actor-director Damian Walshe-Howling.
The jury watched each of the finalists with an audience before coming together to deliberate. Armstrong said the decision was unanimous.
Presenting the prize, Premier and Tourism Minister Colin Barnett announced that the Wa Government had secured a new two-year deal to continue sponsoring the event..
.CinefestOZ is a great...
- 8/29/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Girl Asleep.
Rosemary Myers' coming-of-age drama Girl Asleep will get an Australian theatrical run via Umbrella Entertainment beginning September 8.
Starring Bethany Whitmore and Harrison Feldman,.Girl Asleep.debuted at the Adelaide Film Festival last year, where it was the fastest selling title in Aff history and won the Best Feature People Choice's Award.
The film has since screened to festival audiences in Berlin, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Jeonju, Bogota, New York City, and Seattle, where it received the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Girl Asleep sold out the Sydney Film Festival, and will also screen at Miff. A series of advance screenings and Q&A sessions are also set to take place around the country:
Vic – September 2 – Nova Cinema Carlton – 6:30pm with director Rosemary Myers, composer Harry Covill and actors Bethany Whitmore and Harrison Feldman
Nsw – September 4 – Dendy Newton – 6.30pm with Rosemary Myers, writer/actor...
Rosemary Myers' coming-of-age drama Girl Asleep will get an Australian theatrical run via Umbrella Entertainment beginning September 8.
Starring Bethany Whitmore and Harrison Feldman,.Girl Asleep.debuted at the Adelaide Film Festival last year, where it was the fastest selling title in Aff history and won the Best Feature People Choice's Award.
The film has since screened to festival audiences in Berlin, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Jeonju, Bogota, New York City, and Seattle, where it received the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Girl Asleep sold out the Sydney Film Festival, and will also screen at Miff. A series of advance screenings and Q&A sessions are also set to take place around the country:
Vic – September 2 – Nova Cinema Carlton – 6:30pm with director Rosemary Myers, composer Harry Covill and actors Bethany Whitmore and Harrison Feldman
Nsw – September 4 – Dendy Newton – 6.30pm with Rosemary Myers, writer/actor...
- 7/26/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Director, Robert Connolly, will executive produce, Hive Fund winner, Guilty.
Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
- 5/2/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Director, Robert Connolly, will executive produce, Hive Fund winner, Guilty.
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Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
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Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
- 5/2/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The world premieres of Scott Hicks. documentary Highly Strung and Matt Saville.s comedy/drama A Month of Sundays are among the highlights of this year.s Adelaide Film Festival.
The program includes the debut features from Bangarra Dance Company.s Stephen Page and Windmill Theatre Company.s Rosemary Myers as well as Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker.
A hit at. Sundance this year, Sam Klemke.s Time Machine will have its Australian premiere at the festival, which runs from October 15-25.
Another highlight is the 21st anniversary screening of Rolf de Heer.s Bad Boy Bubby at the Waterside Workers Hall in Port Adelaide on October 17. De Heer said, .It's startling to think that 22 years after Bad Boy Bubby confounded everyone, including me, by winning five prizes at the Venice Film Festival, and 21 years after it was released to an unsuspecting general public, the film is still ticking away,...
The program includes the debut features from Bangarra Dance Company.s Stephen Page and Windmill Theatre Company.s Rosemary Myers as well as Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker.
A hit at. Sundance this year, Sam Klemke.s Time Machine will have its Australian premiere at the festival, which runs from October 15-25.
Another highlight is the 21st anniversary screening of Rolf de Heer.s Bad Boy Bubby at the Waterside Workers Hall in Port Adelaide on October 17. De Heer said, .It's startling to think that 22 years after Bad Boy Bubby confounded everyone, including me, by winning five prizes at the Venice Film Festival, and 21 years after it was released to an unsuspecting general public, the film is still ticking away,...
- 8/11/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Applications are now open for the third and final Hive Lab, an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in partnership with ABC Arts, Australia Council for the Arts,. Screen Australia and the Safc.
Designed to foster new opportunities for talent working in theatre, art, dance and other non-cinematic fields to collaborate with screen practitioners, the workshop will run during the Aff from October 18-21.
Filmmaker/ artist Lynette Wallworth, whose debut feature Tender was supported by the inaugural Hive fund, will lead this year.s lab. Tender had its world premiere at the 2013 Aff and then screened in competition at the Sydney and London Film Festivals and won the TV documentary prize at the 2015 Aacta Awards.
Applications for the Lab close on August 6 and participants will be announced early September.
Entries for the third and final Hive Fund will open in October, with successful projects to premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival 2017 and then screen on ABC TV.
Designed to foster new opportunities for talent working in theatre, art, dance and other non-cinematic fields to collaborate with screen practitioners, the workshop will run during the Aff from October 18-21.
Filmmaker/ artist Lynette Wallworth, whose debut feature Tender was supported by the inaugural Hive fund, will lead this year.s lab. Tender had its world premiere at the 2013 Aff and then screened in competition at the Sydney and London Film Festivals and won the TV documentary prize at the 2015 Aacta Awards.
Applications for the Lab close on August 6 and participants will be announced early September.
Entries for the third and final Hive Fund will open in October, with successful projects to premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival 2017 and then screen on ABC TV.
- 6/17/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Imogen Archer, who made their debuts in Sophie Hyde.s 52 Tuesdays, have been cast in Windmill Theatre.s first feature, coming-of-age drama Girl Asleep.
Based on Matthew Whittet.s play which premiered at the 2014 Adelaide Festival, the film follows the chronically shy Greta Driscoll (Bethany Whitmore), whose 15th birthday party is spoilt when an uninvited guest steals her most treasured possession. Her attempts to retrieve it take her into a dark unknown world.
Whittet wrote the screenplay, the director is Rosemary Myers, who staged the play, and the producer is Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles; Boy Castaways). The four‐week shoot starts on January 19.
The investors are the South Australian Film Corporation, the Ian Potter Foundation and the Hive Production Fund, a collaboration between the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
The cast includes Harrison Feldman, Eamon Farren, Whittet, Amber McMahon...
Based on Matthew Whittet.s play which premiered at the 2014 Adelaide Festival, the film follows the chronically shy Greta Driscoll (Bethany Whitmore), whose 15th birthday party is spoilt when an uninvited guest steals her most treasured possession. Her attempts to retrieve it take her into a dark unknown world.
Whittet wrote the screenplay, the director is Rosemary Myers, who staged the play, and the producer is Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles; Boy Castaways). The four‐week shoot starts on January 19.
The investors are the South Australian Film Corporation, the Ian Potter Foundation and the Hive Production Fund, a collaboration between the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
The cast includes Harrison Feldman, Eamon Farren, Whittet, Amber McMahon...
- 12/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Projects by Stephan Elliott, The Babadook writer- director Jennifer Kent, Ben Elton, Rowan Woods, Trent O'Donnell and Jacqueline McKenzie are among the recipients of the latest round of development funding from Screen Australia.
The agency is investing more than $550,000 in 16 feature film projects, including 11 new ones and five that get continued support.
Screen Australia.s Head of Production Sally Caplan, said, .The funding decisions made in this last quarter reflect the breadth of stories coming out of this country and the depth of talent. It is great to be able to support such a spread of genres and ideas and such a range of established and emerging writing, directing and producing talent..
Elliott.s Madams is a comedy from the writers of Easy Virtue. Kent gets funding for Interior, a revenge thriller set in Tasmania in the 1820s.
Woods. The Phobos Experiment is a thriller in which people simulate training...
The agency is investing more than $550,000 in 16 feature film projects, including 11 new ones and five that get continued support.
Screen Australia.s Head of Production Sally Caplan, said, .The funding decisions made in this last quarter reflect the breadth of stories coming out of this country and the depth of talent. It is great to be able to support such a spread of genres and ideas and such a range of established and emerging writing, directing and producing talent..
Elliott.s Madams is a comedy from the writers of Easy Virtue. Kent gets funding for Interior, a revenge thriller set in Tasmania in the 1820s.
Woods. The Phobos Experiment is a thriller in which people simulate training...
- 4/11/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Continuing their collaboration after Tim Winton.s The Turning, producer Robert Connolly and Indigenous director/choreographer Stephen Page will bring to the big screen an adaptation of Page.s dance theatre work Spear.
That.s one of two films commissioned by the second Hive Fund, an initiative of the Adelaide Film Festival in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
The other is Girl Asleep, the third in a trilogy of rites-of-passage Windmill Theatre stories by writer Matthew Whittet and director Rosemary Myers.
Page, the Bangarra Dance Theatre director and choreographer, directed one segment of The Turning. His feature directing debut, Spear is a contemporary hybrid feature film where two Aboriginal clans from urban and remote communities live in an apocalyptic world and must decide who will be the new leader for the next 100 years. The work will explore what this means to Indigenous men through dance,...
That.s one of two films commissioned by the second Hive Fund, an initiative of the Adelaide Film Festival in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
The other is Girl Asleep, the third in a trilogy of rites-of-passage Windmill Theatre stories by writer Matthew Whittet and director Rosemary Myers.
Page, the Bangarra Dance Theatre director and choreographer, directed one segment of The Turning. His feature directing debut, Spear is a contemporary hybrid feature film where two Aboriginal clans from urban and remote communities live in an apocalyptic world and must decide who will be the new leader for the next 100 years. The work will explore what this means to Indigenous men through dance,...
- 10/13/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The world premieres of Tracks, musical The Boy Castaways, documentary Tender and short film I Want To Dance Better at Parties are among the highlights of this year.s Adelaide Film Festival. The common denominator: Each was part-funded by the festival, which runs October 10-20. For the first time the event will be held in conjunction with the Festival of Ideas (October 17-20). The Aff.s new CEO and Director Amanda Duthie is still finalising the line-up of about 150 titles; submissions close on July 25. The bi-annual fest.s opener is the South Australian-shot Tracks, the true story of Robyn Davidson.s solo 2,700 km trek via camels across the Australian desert in 1977, accompanied by her dog Diggity. Duthie hopes Mia Wasikowska, who plays Davidson, and Us-based director John Curran will attend the premiere. She rang producer Emile Sherman when she heard the South Australian Film Corp. was about to invest in...
- 7/17/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The $800,000 Hive Production Fund has called for applications with the successful projects set to premiere at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival and screen on ABC Television.
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking cross-.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer Robert Connolly...
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking cross-.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer Robert Connolly...
- 3/19/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The $800,000 Hive Production Fund has called for applications with the successful projects set to premiere at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival and screen on ABC Television.
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking crossâ€ÂÂ.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer...
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking crossâ€ÂÂ.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer...
- 3/19/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
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
Screen Australia has chipped in $200,000 to lift this year.s Hive Production Fund to $800,000.
The funding announcement - which adds to equal installments by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, and ABC Television - was made last night by South Australian Minister for the Arts, John Hill, at the Melbourne Festival. Screen Australia previously supported the initiaitive through development funding for script workshops.
The Hive Production Fund was inspired by the Hive Lab, which brings filmmakers and artists together in a creative environment. The artists at this year.s lab include Bill Henson, Dr Brenda Croft, Eddie Perfect, Sam Haren, Daniel Koerner, Rachael Swain, Cat Jones, Lally Katz and Sean Riley; filmmakers Samantha Lang, Sophie Raymond, Sascha Ettinger Epstein, Paola Morabito, Nassiem Valamanesh, Eddie White, Natasha Pincus and Lucinda Clutterbuck; and artist and filmmaker John Gillies.
Last year.s inaugural $600,000 Hive Production Fund supported three projects...
The funding announcement - which adds to equal installments by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, and ABC Television - was made last night by South Australian Minister for the Arts, John Hill, at the Melbourne Festival. Screen Australia previously supported the initiaitive through development funding for script workshops.
The Hive Production Fund was inspired by the Hive Lab, which brings filmmakers and artists together in a creative environment. The artists at this year.s lab include Bill Henson, Dr Brenda Croft, Eddie Perfect, Sam Haren, Daniel Koerner, Rachael Swain, Cat Jones, Lally Katz and Sean Riley; filmmakers Samantha Lang, Sophie Raymond, Sascha Ettinger Epstein, Paola Morabito, Nassiem Valamanesh, Eddie White, Natasha Pincus and Lucinda Clutterbuck; and artist and filmmaker John Gillies.
Last year.s inaugural $600,000 Hive Production Fund supported three projects...
- 10/10/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The art film related Hive Production Fund has announced its first films to receive funding.
The Hive Production Fund was launched in February. The aim of the fund is for filmmakers and artists work on single art film projects.
The fund has received significant support. Originally set up between the ABC and Adelaide Film Festival, each contributing $200,000. The Australia Council came on board in July also donating $200,000.
An additional $70,000 has been committed by the Adelaide Film Festival through its Film Investment Fund.
Director of the Adelaide Film Festival Katrina Sedgwick said: “It is important the silos get broken down between film and the rest of the arts. The calibre of these projects and collaborators illustrate the potential for ground-breaking new work to be created for the screen when we facilitate new conversations between diverse practitioners and offer different funding avenues to enable these cross-pollinations.
Three quite different productions have received...
The Hive Production Fund was launched in February. The aim of the fund is for filmmakers and artists work on single art film projects.
The fund has received significant support. Originally set up between the ABC and Adelaide Film Festival, each contributing $200,000. The Australia Council came on board in July also donating $200,000.
An additional $70,000 has been committed by the Adelaide Film Festival through its Film Investment Fund.
Director of the Adelaide Film Festival Katrina Sedgwick said: “It is important the silos get broken down between film and the rest of the arts. The calibre of these projects and collaborators illustrate the potential for ground-breaking new work to be created for the screen when we facilitate new conversations between diverse practitioners and offer different funding avenues to enable these cross-pollinations.
Three quite different productions have received...
- 11/15/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Dungog Film Festival has partnered with Sydney Theatre to expand its script reading program In The Raw to Sydney.
In the Raw has been expanded to a stand-alone event, held bi-monthly and commencing on February 7.
In The Raw is a program where actors read unproduced screenplays in front of a live audience, offering filmmakers a chance to get their works heard by key industry players and tested with their intended audience. Projects like Pauline Chan’s screenplay Mei Mei (currently in post-production) graduated from In the Raw.
“Having hosted the premieres of such great Australian films as Lucky Miles, Romulus My Father and Men’s Group, Sydney Theatre has long been a friend of the Australian film industry and sees this partnership as an important development in this deepening relationship,” said Sydney Theatre executive producer Jo Dyer.
Tickets can be reserved online, by phone or in person at the Sydney Theatre box office.
In the Raw has been expanded to a stand-alone event, held bi-monthly and commencing on February 7.
In The Raw is a program where actors read unproduced screenplays in front of a live audience, offering filmmakers a chance to get their works heard by key industry players and tested with their intended audience. Projects like Pauline Chan’s screenplay Mei Mei (currently in post-production) graduated from In the Raw.
“Having hosted the premieres of such great Australian films as Lucky Miles, Romulus My Father and Men’s Group, Sydney Theatre has long been a friend of the Australian film industry and sees this partnership as an important development in this deepening relationship,” said Sydney Theatre executive producer Jo Dyer.
Tickets can be reserved online, by phone or in person at the Sydney Theatre box office.
- 1/13/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
SYDNEY -- With his debut feature Lucky Miles, Michael James Rowland leaches the politics out of the prickly topic of illegal immigration and turns out an unexpectedly amiable comedy. The narrative -- which follows a motley crew of asylum seekers stumbling through the Outback -- lacks momentum, and the film falls short of the Gods Must Be Crazy-style mayhem for which it appears to be shooting. But its congeniality is disarming, and the themes are slyly conscience-pricking.
Inspired by a number of real-life events, Miles features a cast of unknowns, which, together with frequent subtitles, could limit accessibility upon its local release. It's already proven to be a festival favorite in Australia, and Cineclick Asia has picked it up for international distribution.
Setting the action in 1990, Rowland harks back to a time before the nation, or at least its government, seemed to lose any sense of compassion for the Third World refugees seeking sanctuary on its shores. It starts on a cheery note as a group of Cambodians and Iraqis wade ashore after being dropped off by Indonesian people-smugglers on a deserted stretch of coastline in Western Australia.
Their joy soon turns to despair as the boat chugs off. They crest the sand dunes to discover, instead of the promised bus stop to Perth, an abundance of what is referred to by locals as "bugger-all."
They splinter into two groups: Iraqis heading one way into nothingness, Cambodians the other. The Cambodians are quickly picked up by police after they stop at an isolated pub to ask directions, though a fateful trip to the outhouse means one, Arun (Kenneth Moraleda), escapes the roundup. Meanwhile, a bunch of laconic army reservists on border patrol have been dispatched to investigate a suspicious fishing boat in the area.
They pick up Arun's tracks but soon discover three sets of footprints: A couple of only slightly strained plot contrivances have thrown the Cambodian together with one of the Iraqis, a structural engineer named Youssif (Rodney Afif), and Ramelan (Srisacd Sacdpraseuth), the Indonesian boat owner's ne'er-do-well nephew.
The ill-matched trio unites around a single water bottle and shared survival instincts, though the two refugees wonder how much they can trust a man who sadly informs them that his mother died before he was born. Arun's sketchy map gives no sense of the unpopulated vastness that surrounds them and sends them off on an elliptical odyssey that sorely tests their uneasy alliance.
Underpinning the naive slapstick and droll verbal clashes is a deep seam of humanism that makes its point about tolerance of difference gently. Heated debate about national identity and the ethics of detention have no place in this comic fable, and neither do cultural stereotypes.
Discord is rooted in the need for survival in a strange and hostile environment. Even the army trackers seem motivated by a desire to save the skins of the bumbling trespassers.
Moraleda is particularly effective as the politely resolute Arun, dogged in his determination to reach Perth and the father he has never met. Afif gets great comic mileage out of a centerpiece scene involving a cobbled-together Jeep.
Indian composer Trilok Gurtu contributes a dramatic percussive score, while cinematographer Geoff Burton does a terrific job conveying the enormity of the brutally beautiful West Australian landscapes.
LUCKY MILES
Cineclick Asia
Short of Easy
Credits:
Director/co-producer: Michael James Rowland
Screenwriters: Helen Barnes, Michael James Rowland
Producers: Jo Dyer, Lesley Dyer
Executive producer: Michael Bourchier
Director of photography: Geoff Burton
Production designer: Pete Baxter
Music: Trilok Gurtu
Costume designer: Ruth de la Lande
Editor: Henry Dangar
Cast:
Arun: Kenneth Moraleda
Youssif: Rodney Afif
Ramelan: Srisacd Sacdpraseuth
O'Shane: Glenn Shea
Greg: Don Hany
Tom: Sean Mununggurr
Muluk: Sawung Jabo
Abdu: Arif Hidayat
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Inspired by a number of real-life events, Miles features a cast of unknowns, which, together with frequent subtitles, could limit accessibility upon its local release. It's already proven to be a festival favorite in Australia, and Cineclick Asia has picked it up for international distribution.
Setting the action in 1990, Rowland harks back to a time before the nation, or at least its government, seemed to lose any sense of compassion for the Third World refugees seeking sanctuary on its shores. It starts on a cheery note as a group of Cambodians and Iraqis wade ashore after being dropped off by Indonesian people-smugglers on a deserted stretch of coastline in Western Australia.
Their joy soon turns to despair as the boat chugs off. They crest the sand dunes to discover, instead of the promised bus stop to Perth, an abundance of what is referred to by locals as "bugger-all."
They splinter into two groups: Iraqis heading one way into nothingness, Cambodians the other. The Cambodians are quickly picked up by police after they stop at an isolated pub to ask directions, though a fateful trip to the outhouse means one, Arun (Kenneth Moraleda), escapes the roundup. Meanwhile, a bunch of laconic army reservists on border patrol have been dispatched to investigate a suspicious fishing boat in the area.
They pick up Arun's tracks but soon discover three sets of footprints: A couple of only slightly strained plot contrivances have thrown the Cambodian together with one of the Iraqis, a structural engineer named Youssif (Rodney Afif), and Ramelan (Srisacd Sacdpraseuth), the Indonesian boat owner's ne'er-do-well nephew.
The ill-matched trio unites around a single water bottle and shared survival instincts, though the two refugees wonder how much they can trust a man who sadly informs them that his mother died before he was born. Arun's sketchy map gives no sense of the unpopulated vastness that surrounds them and sends them off on an elliptical odyssey that sorely tests their uneasy alliance.
Underpinning the naive slapstick and droll verbal clashes is a deep seam of humanism that makes its point about tolerance of difference gently. Heated debate about national identity and the ethics of detention have no place in this comic fable, and neither do cultural stereotypes.
Discord is rooted in the need for survival in a strange and hostile environment. Even the army trackers seem motivated by a desire to save the skins of the bumbling trespassers.
Moraleda is particularly effective as the politely resolute Arun, dogged in his determination to reach Perth and the father he has never met. Afif gets great comic mileage out of a centerpiece scene involving a cobbled-together Jeep.
Indian composer Trilok Gurtu contributes a dramatic percussive score, while cinematographer Geoff Burton does a terrific job conveying the enormity of the brutally beautiful West Australian landscapes.
LUCKY MILES
Cineclick Asia
Short of Easy
Credits:
Director/co-producer: Michael James Rowland
Screenwriters: Helen Barnes, Michael James Rowland
Producers: Jo Dyer, Lesley Dyer
Executive producer: Michael Bourchier
Director of photography: Geoff Burton
Production designer: Pete Baxter
Music: Trilok Gurtu
Costume designer: Ruth de la Lande
Editor: Henry Dangar
Cast:
Arun: Kenneth Moraleda
Youssif: Rodney Afif
Ramelan: Srisacd Sacdpraseuth
O'Shane: Glenn Shea
Greg: Don Hany
Tom: Sean Mununggurr
Muluk: Sawung Jabo
Abdu: Arif Hidayat
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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