Toni Collette has joined Levi Miller, Aaron McGrath and Angourie Rice on the cast of Rachel Perkins' Australian feature film Jasper Jones..
Jasper Jones is the film adaptation of the award winning coming of age mystery novel by Craig Silvey.
Collette will play the role of Ruth Bucktin, mother to Charlie Bucktin (Miller)..
The film is set over one eventful summer in 1965 when Charlie, lured by adventure and mystery, experiences the trials of teenage love and discovers what it means to be truly courageous..
Aaaron McGrath has been cast as the titular character Jasper Jones and Rice as the intelligent and mysterious Eliza Wishart, who is also the object of Charlie.s affections.
Producer, Vincent Sheehan said Toni Collette was, quite simply, one of the greatest actors of her generation.
"The depth and insight she will bring to the unique role of Ruth Bucktin and having her work alongside...
Jasper Jones is the film adaptation of the award winning coming of age mystery novel by Craig Silvey.
Collette will play the role of Ruth Bucktin, mother to Charlie Bucktin (Miller)..
The film is set over one eventful summer in 1965 when Charlie, lured by adventure and mystery, experiences the trials of teenage love and discovers what it means to be truly courageous..
Aaaron McGrath has been cast as the titular character Jasper Jones and Rice as the intelligent and mysterious Eliza Wishart, who is also the object of Charlie.s affections.
Producer, Vincent Sheehan said Toni Collette was, quite simply, one of the greatest actors of her generation.
"The depth and insight she will bring to the unique role of Ruth Bucktin and having her work alongside...
- 9/28/2015
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Porchlight Films and Bunya Productions have revealed the cast for feature film Jasper Jones, which is set to start filming in Western Australia on October 26.
The cast will include Levi Miller (Terra Nova, upcoming Pan, Blue Dog), Angourie Rice (These Final Hours, upcoming The Nice Guys) and Aaron McGrath (Glitch)..
The film is an adaption of the award winning coming of age mystery novel by Craig Silvey..
Principal photography is set to commence in October in the south west of Western Australia.
Jasper Jones will be directed by Rachel Perkins (Bran Nue Dae, Radiance, One Night the Moon).
Miller will play bookish 14-year-old, Charlie Bucktin, who over one eventful summer in 1965 navigates small-town racism, hypocrisy and the trials of teenage love.
McGrath has been cast as the titular character, Jasper Jones, while will play the intelligent and mysterious Eliza Wishart, who is also the object of Charlie.s affections.
.Perkins...
The cast will include Levi Miller (Terra Nova, upcoming Pan, Blue Dog), Angourie Rice (These Final Hours, upcoming The Nice Guys) and Aaron McGrath (Glitch)..
The film is an adaption of the award winning coming of age mystery novel by Craig Silvey..
Principal photography is set to commence in October in the south west of Western Australia.
Jasper Jones will be directed by Rachel Perkins (Bran Nue Dae, Radiance, One Night the Moon).
Miller will play bookish 14-year-old, Charlie Bucktin, who over one eventful summer in 1965 navigates small-town racism, hypocrisy and the trials of teenage love.
McGrath has been cast as the titular character, Jasper Jones, while will play the intelligent and mysterious Eliza Wishart, who is also the object of Charlie.s affections.
.Perkins...
- 8/28/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Porchlight Films and Bunya Productions have revealed the cast for feature film Jasper Jones, which is set to start filming in Western Australia on October 26.
The cast will include Levi Miller (Terra Nova, upcoming Pan, Blue Dog), Angourie Rice (These Final Hours, upcoming The Nice Guys) and Aaron McGrath (Glitch)..
The film is an adaption of the award winning coming of age mystery novel by Craig Silvey..
Principal photography is set to commence in October in the south west of Western Australia.
Jasper Jones will be directed by Rachel Perkins (Bran Nue Dae, Radiance, One Night the Moon).
Miller will play bookish 14-year-old, Charlie Bucktin, who over one eventful summer in 1965 navigates small-town racism, hypocrisy and the trials of teenage love.
McGrath has been cast as the titular character, Jasper Jones, while will play the intelligent and mysterious Eliza Wishart, who is also the object of Charlie.s affections.
.Perkins...
The cast will include Levi Miller (Terra Nova, upcoming Pan, Blue Dog), Angourie Rice (These Final Hours, upcoming The Nice Guys) and Aaron McGrath (Glitch)..
The film is an adaption of the award winning coming of age mystery novel by Craig Silvey..
Principal photography is set to commence in October in the south west of Western Australia.
Jasper Jones will be directed by Rachel Perkins (Bran Nue Dae, Radiance, One Night the Moon).
Miller will play bookish 14-year-old, Charlie Bucktin, who over one eventful summer in 1965 navigates small-town racism, hypocrisy and the trials of teenage love.
McGrath has been cast as the titular character, Jasper Jones, while will play the intelligent and mysterious Eliza Wishart, who is also the object of Charlie.s affections.
.Perkins...
- 8/28/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Direct from its world-premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival, Sff and Vivid Ideas are proud to present the Australian Premiere of the highly anticipated futuristic thriller The Rover and host director David Michôd, actors Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson and producer Liz Watts at the State Theatre on Saturday 7 June. The Rover screens as part of Sff’s Official Competition. Michôd, Pearce, Pattinson and Watts will also give a talk as part of Vivid Ideas at Town Hall on Sunday 8 June.
Actor Cate Blanchett will attend the Festival to introduce a special screening of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2 the second chapter of the epic trilogy in which Blanchett is the voice of the character Valka. The screening is held at 2pm on Public Holiday Monday, 9 June, at Event Cinemas George Street.
UK visual artists and film directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard introduce Sff’s Opening Night Film,...
Actor Cate Blanchett will attend the Festival to introduce a special screening of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2 the second chapter of the epic trilogy in which Blanchett is the voice of the character Valka. The screening is held at 2pm on Public Holiday Monday, 9 June, at Event Cinemas George Street.
UK visual artists and film directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard introduce Sff’s Opening Night Film,...
- 5/30/2014
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
The 17th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) has announced its lineup. The festival will run from 7th to 14th December, 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
- 11/2/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Release Date: Sept. 13, 2011
Price: DVD $22.98, Blu-ray $29.99
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Geoffrey Rush (l.) makes some startling revelations to Tom Budge (ctr.) in Brand New Day.
Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech) leads a young cast in Brand New Day, a 2009 musical romantic comedy from Australia centering on the adventures of a young couple on the beautiful “Down Under” landscape.
The movie is set in 1969 and follows Aboriginal teenager Willie (Rocky McKenzie) as he runs away from boarding school back to his home town of Broome to reunite with his girlfriend Rosie (Jessica Mauboy). During his journey, he encounters ‘Uncle’ Tadpole (Ernie Dingo), a benevolent but crazy drunkard, and a couple of traveling hippies as he maneuvers across country trying to outrun his boarding school’s headmaster Father Benedictus (Rush), who’s closing in on him. As Willie gets closer to home, friendship, family and love become the order of the day.
Price: DVD $22.98, Blu-ray $29.99
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Geoffrey Rush (l.) makes some startling revelations to Tom Budge (ctr.) in Brand New Day.
Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech) leads a young cast in Brand New Day, a 2009 musical romantic comedy from Australia centering on the adventures of a young couple on the beautiful “Down Under” landscape.
The movie is set in 1969 and follows Aboriginal teenager Willie (Rocky McKenzie) as he runs away from boarding school back to his home town of Broome to reunite with his girlfriend Rosie (Jessica Mauboy). During his journey, he encounters ‘Uncle’ Tadpole (Ernie Dingo), a benevolent but crazy drunkard, and a couple of traveling hippies as he maneuvers across country trying to outrun his boarding school’s headmaster Father Benedictus (Rush), who’s closing in on him. As Willie gets closer to home, friendship, family and love become the order of the day.
- 8/24/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Encore spoke with the prolific Rachel Perkins about a career that started by chance and evolved into an everlasting passion.
Rachel Perkins is part of the Arrernte people from central Australia, east of Alice Springs. The daughter of Indigenous activist Charlie Perkins, she grew up in Canberra but didn’t necessarily dream of becoming a filmmaker. She just happened to be in the right place at the right time, when there was a lot enthusiasm for Indigenous people to be made a part of the screen industry.
After finishing high school in 1988 she knew she didn’t want to go to university. “It was the arrogance of youth,” she says. Perkins wanted to do something related to Aboriginal studies, and go to Alice Springs to learn more about the strong traditional culture of the area.
The method she chose to get there would change her life; Perkins found out about...
Rachel Perkins is part of the Arrernte people from central Australia, east of Alice Springs. The daughter of Indigenous activist Charlie Perkins, she grew up in Canberra but didn’t necessarily dream of becoming a filmmaker. She just happened to be in the right place at the right time, when there was a lot enthusiasm for Indigenous people to be made a part of the screen industry.
After finishing high school in 1988 she knew she didn’t want to go to university. “It was the arrogance of youth,” she says. Perkins wanted to do something related to Aboriginal studies, and go to Alice Springs to learn more about the strong traditional culture of the area.
The method she chose to get there would change her life; Perkins found out about...
- 3/29/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Rachel Perkins is the recipient of the Australian International Documentary Conference Stanley Hawes Award, for her contributions to the development of Indigenous filmmakers and the Australian film industry.
“Rachel’s films reach out to audiences with compelling Australian stories told from the heart. She combines her skills as a writer, director with a remarkable tenacity as a producer,” said the co-chair of the Aidc Board, Trevor Graham.
Perkins will receive the award during the opening ceremony of Aidc in Adelaide, on March 1.
The writer/director/producer began her career making documentaries at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association. She then worked at Sbs, ABC and as a consultant to the Australian Film Commission. Perkins has created projects from Blood Brothers to the acclaimed First Australians. She has also directed the features Radiance, One Night the Moon and Bran Nue Dae.
“Rachel’s films reach out to audiences with compelling Australian stories told from the heart. She combines her skills as a writer, director with a remarkable tenacity as a producer,” said the co-chair of the Aidc Board, Trevor Graham.
Perkins will receive the award during the opening ceremony of Aidc in Adelaide, on March 1.
The writer/director/producer began her career making documentaries at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association. She then worked at Sbs, ABC and as a consultant to the Australian Film Commission. Perkins has created projects from Blood Brothers to the acclaimed First Australians. She has also directed the features Radiance, One Night the Moon and Bran Nue Dae.
- 1/30/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Aboriginal feelgood musical Bran Nue Dae, based on the stage play of the same name, is the latest Australian film to score a U.S. distribution deal, with Freestyle Releasing picking it up and planning a theatrical release in September.
Directed by Rachel Perkins (Radiance, One Night the Moon) and starring Geoffrey Rush, Jessica Mauboy, Rockie McKenzie and Ernie Dingo, the film has already had a successful release in its home country after premiering at the Melbourne International Film Festival and played other big name festivals like Berlin and Toronto over the past year.
Bran Nue Dae is the latest in a string of Australian movies to score U.S. cinema releases this year. In April Apparition released Nash Edgerton's The Square, while David Michôd's Animal Kingdom and the latest melodrama from Bruce Beresford, Mao's Last Dancer, will hit U.S. cinemas in August. Sony Pictures also has...
Directed by Rachel Perkins (Radiance, One Night the Moon) and starring Geoffrey Rush, Jessica Mauboy, Rockie McKenzie and Ernie Dingo, the film has already had a successful release in its home country after premiering at the Melbourne International Film Festival and played other big name festivals like Berlin and Toronto over the past year.
Bran Nue Dae is the latest in a string of Australian movies to score U.S. cinema releases this year. In April Apparition released Nash Edgerton's The Square, while David Michôd's Animal Kingdom and the latest melodrama from Bruce Beresford, Mao's Last Dancer, will hit U.S. cinemas in August. Sony Pictures also has...
- 6/23/2010
- Screen Anarchy
"Bran Nue Dae" starring Geoffrey Rush, will be distributed on U.S. soil via Freestyle Releasing. The Australian musical will see a platform release in September and then followed by a nationwide rollout. Film is based on a successful Australian stage musical and helmed by Rachel Perkins ("One Night the Moon"). The story follows the romantic adventures of a young Aboriginal couple. Also starring are Jessica Mauboy (2008 "Australian Idol" winner), Magda Szubanski, Rocky Mackenzie and Missy Higgins. Musical is a hit in Australia and premiered in the U.S. at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Perkins and Reg Cribb co-wrote. Music is by Jimmy Chi, Kuckles, Patrick Suttoo Bin Amat, Michael Manolis Mavromatis and Stephen Pigram. Robyn Kershaw produced.
- 6/23/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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