After last year’s iteration saw six projects optioned, Aacta is set to re-team with Monster Pictures to run a horror and genre film development initiative.
2020’s Aacta Pitch: Isolation saw close to 200 submissions, and through a series of development rounds, filmmaking teams were required to demonstrate clear planning around finance, marketing, and audience development. Ultimately, eight projects were selected to compete in a live-streamed pitching final at Aacta ScreenFest.
Writer/director Jordan Watton and producer Julia Corcoran’s Burning won that event, receiving $10,000 and an exclusive distribution deal with Monster Pictures.
However, Monster Pictures director Grant Hardie was so impressed with the concepts that following the 2020 competition, with Chris Brown’s production company Pictures in Paradise, he optioned five of the other first round finalists’ projects. They are now working with the teams to develop their projects and take them to market.
One of those projects is Aaron McCann’s Jonesy,...
2020’s Aacta Pitch: Isolation saw close to 200 submissions, and through a series of development rounds, filmmaking teams were required to demonstrate clear planning around finance, marketing, and audience development. Ultimately, eight projects were selected to compete in a live-streamed pitching final at Aacta ScreenFest.
Writer/director Jordan Watton and producer Julia Corcoran’s Burning won that event, receiving $10,000 and an exclusive distribution deal with Monster Pictures.
However, Monster Pictures director Grant Hardie was so impressed with the concepts that following the 2020 competition, with Chris Brown’s production company Pictures in Paradise, he optioned five of the other first round finalists’ projects. They are now working with the teams to develop their projects and take them to market.
One of those projects is Aaron McCann’s Jonesy,...
- 7/30/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Eight finalists will compete in Aacta and Monster Pictures pitch competition, Pitch: Isolation, with the winner to receive $10,000 in development funding and a theatrical distribution agreement.
The call out was for original concepts based around any kind of isolation – physical, societal or psychological – and ideas that work effectively with minimal locations, small casts and low costs.
The pitch will be streamed live, December 1, on Aacta Screenfest, judged by an industry panel including Monster Pictures owner Grant Hardie, Chris Brown and Fairvale Entertainment’s Toby Louie and Nicholas Levene.
The finalists:
Blackheath
Karina Banno, Raechelle Banno, George Maher
Max recounts her time in the strict religious community she recently escaped but struggles to move on as she fears her old ‘Family’ may be closing in on her and the only person she has left.
Burning
Jordan Watton, Julia Corcoran
A low-achieving outsider who works as volunteer firefighter ignites a series of...
The call out was for original concepts based around any kind of isolation – physical, societal or psychological – and ideas that work effectively with minimal locations, small casts and low costs.
The pitch will be streamed live, December 1, on Aacta Screenfest, judged by an industry panel including Monster Pictures owner Grant Hardie, Chris Brown and Fairvale Entertainment’s Toby Louie and Nicholas Levene.
The finalists:
Blackheath
Karina Banno, Raechelle Banno, George Maher
Max recounts her time in the strict religious community she recently escaped but struggles to move on as she fears her old ‘Family’ may be closing in on her and the only person she has left.
Burning
Jordan Watton, Julia Corcoran
A low-achieving outsider who works as volunteer firefighter ignites a series of...
- 11/22/2020
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
(L-r): Jesse O.Brien, Samuel Baulch and Christian D.Alessi. The creators of sci-fi film Arrowhead have teamed up again on a proof of concept short, Return Flight. However, this time around Arrowhead.s producer Christian D.Alessi is in the director.s chair, while Jesse O.Brien is now producing and Samuel continues as cinematographer. The film is set in 1952 as Australia finds itself in the midst of the Korean War. Single father of two Thomas Parker is recruited as a test pilot into a top secret coalition branch, and vanishes mysteriously while in flight. One year later during a storm, the children spot a mysterious object falling out of the sky. It.s their father, who has severe memory loss but has gained a gift: flesh-like wings. Reunited but on the run, the family must escape the secret military coalition that hunts them. .Return Flight came from...
- 10/13/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
(L-r): Jesse O.Brien, Samuel Baulch and Christian D.Alessi. The creators of sci-fi film Arrowhead have teamed up again on a proof of concept short, Return Flight. However, this time around Arrowhead.s producer Christian D.Alessi is in the director.s chair, while Jesse O.Brien is now producing and Samuel continues as cinematographer. The film is set in 1952 as Australia finds itself in the midst of the Korean War. Single father of two Thomas Parker is recruited as a test pilot into a top secret coalition branch, and vanishes mysteriously while in flight. One year later during a storm, the children spot a mysterious object falling out of the sky. It.s their father, who has severe memory loss but has gained a gift: flesh-like wings. Reunited but on the run, the family must escape the secret military coalition that hunts them. .Return Flight came from...
- 10/13/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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