Penny Win.
As commissioning editor of Drama for Foxtel Networks, Penny Win developed hits like Wentworth, now Foxtel.s longest running drama. Elevated to Head of Drama in 2014, Win now oversees the entire slate, including this year.s much-hyped The Kettering Incident. If catches up with her to talk about the state of Aussie TV and what she.s got in development.
The general quality of Aussie TV drama seems a lot better than it was ten years ago. Why?
First off, television.s cyclical. Ten years ago drama was over and reality was king and people were weeping into their cups. And then comedy was dead a while ago and that came back. The truth of it is that television.s changed so much in the last ten years and even five years. Even the last twelve months. There.s a lot more scripted drama because there.s a...
As commissioning editor of Drama for Foxtel Networks, Penny Win developed hits like Wentworth, now Foxtel.s longest running drama. Elevated to Head of Drama in 2014, Win now oversees the entire slate, including this year.s much-hyped The Kettering Incident. If catches up with her to talk about the state of Aussie TV and what she.s got in development.
The general quality of Aussie TV drama seems a lot better than it was ten years ago. Why?
First off, television.s cyclical. Ten years ago drama was over and reality was king and people were weeping into their cups. And then comedy was dead a while ago and that came back. The truth of it is that television.s changed so much in the last ten years and even five years. Even the last twelve months. There.s a lot more scripted drama because there.s a...
- 8/31/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Noah Taylor and Yael Stone (and soundie) on set. (Photo: Sean O'Reilly)
An old shed on Glebe Island wharf, littered with boat-building machinery and tools, sets the tone for one of the dramatic final scenes of Sbs.s new four-part series, Deep Water, starring Noah Taylor and Yael Stone..
Stone and Taylor play detectives investigating a brutal murder case which appears to be connected to the real-life gay hate crimes that swept through Sydney in the .80s and .90s.
But it was a more recent murder which spurred Blackfella Films. producers Darren Dale and Miranda Dear to get the series moving.
Dear and Dale, coincidentally were both in Potts Point, Sydney, when a particularly violent murder took place.
.He [Darren] was leaving and I was heading in and we both saw fire engines, ambulances, police cars and Darren stopped at the Atm near the building and heard from residents what had happened,...
An old shed on Glebe Island wharf, littered with boat-building machinery and tools, sets the tone for one of the dramatic final scenes of Sbs.s new four-part series, Deep Water, starring Noah Taylor and Yael Stone..
Stone and Taylor play detectives investigating a brutal murder case which appears to be connected to the real-life gay hate crimes that swept through Sydney in the .80s and .90s.
But it was a more recent murder which spurred Blackfella Films. producers Darren Dale and Miranda Dear to get the series moving.
Dear and Dale, coincidentally were both in Potts Point, Sydney, when a particularly violent murder took place.
.He [Darren] was leaving and I was heading in and we both saw fire engines, ambulances, police cars and Darren stopped at the Atm near the building and heard from residents what had happened,...
- 8/31/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Blackfella films' Jacob Hickey, Rachel Perkins, Darren Dale and Miranda Dear.
Blackfella Films is set to cast one of Australia's most prominent literary heroines as it moves into late stage development of an adaptation of Frank Moorhouse's Edith Trilogy.
This comes more than two years after Moorhouse optioned the right to Grand Days, Dark Palace and Cold Light to Blackfella Films, who have just finished shooting gay hate-crime drama Deep Water for Sbs in Sydney.
The production will be a six by one-hour adaptation of the three books commonly known as the Edith Trilogy for Foxtel.
Blackfella Films producer, Miranda Dear, told If, that Edith was the kind of heroine that everybody loved.
"It follows a young woman who goes off to work at the League of Nations in the 20s and takes her right the way through to the 60s in Canberra..
"In a way it explores the...
Blackfella Films is set to cast one of Australia's most prominent literary heroines as it moves into late stage development of an adaptation of Frank Moorhouse's Edith Trilogy.
This comes more than two years after Moorhouse optioned the right to Grand Days, Dark Palace and Cold Light to Blackfella Films, who have just finished shooting gay hate-crime drama Deep Water for Sbs in Sydney.
The production will be a six by one-hour adaptation of the three books commonly known as the Edith Trilogy for Foxtel.
Blackfella Films producer, Miranda Dear, told If, that Edith was the kind of heroine that everybody loved.
"It follows a young woman who goes off to work at the League of Nations in the 20s and takes her right the way through to the 60s in Canberra..
"In a way it explores the...
- 6/2/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Blackfella films' Jacob Hickey, Rachel Perkins, Darren Dale and Miranda Dear.
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Blackfella Films is set to cast one of Australia's most prominent literary heroines as it moves into late stage development of an adaptation of Frank Moorhouse's Edith Trilogy.
This comes more than two years after Moorhouse optioned the right to Grand Days, Dark Palace and Cold Light to Blackfella Films, who have just finished shooting gay hate-crime drama Deep Water for Sbs in Sydney.
The production will be a six by one-hour adaptation of the three books commonly known as the Edith Trilogy for Foxtel.
Blackfella Films producer, Miranda Dear, told If, that Edith was the kind of heroine that everybody loved.
"It follows a young woman who goes off to work at the League of Nations in the 20s and takes her right the way through to the 60s in Canberra..
"In a way it explores the...
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Blackfella Films is set to cast one of Australia's most prominent literary heroines as it moves into late stage development of an adaptation of Frank Moorhouse's Edith Trilogy.
This comes more than two years after Moorhouse optioned the right to Grand Days, Dark Palace and Cold Light to Blackfella Films, who have just finished shooting gay hate-crime drama Deep Water for Sbs in Sydney.
The production will be a six by one-hour adaptation of the three books commonly known as the Edith Trilogy for Foxtel.
Blackfella Films producer, Miranda Dear, told If, that Edith was the kind of heroine that everybody loved.
"It follows a young woman who goes off to work at the League of Nations in the 20s and takes her right the way through to the 60s in Canberra..
"In a way it explores the...
- 6/2/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
The instigator of a petition calling on the National Film and Sound Archive to be more transparent in the restructure of the Archive and the resulting job losses is disappointed with the response from Nfsa chair Gabrielle Trainor.
Former Melbourne Film Festival director Geoff Gardner says there is little in the letter he got from Trainor to suggest the issues raised in the petition are being addressed.
Signed by 140 directors, producers, writers, actors, academics and journalists, the petition called on the Nfsa to release a business review carried out by CEO Michael Loebenstein and to hold a series of open forums before final decisions are made on terminations and personnel restructures.
The signatories include Acs president Ron Johanson, Adg president Ray Argall, producers Tony Buckley, Richard Brennan and Sue Milliken, actor Jack Thompson, former Nfsa development manager Dominic Case, writer Frank Moorhouse, documentary makers Bob Connolly, Sharon Connolly, David Bradbury,...
Former Melbourne Film Festival director Geoff Gardner says there is little in the letter he got from Trainor to suggest the issues raised in the petition are being addressed.
Signed by 140 directors, producers, writers, actors, academics and journalists, the petition called on the Nfsa to release a business review carried out by CEO Michael Loebenstein and to hold a series of open forums before final decisions are made on terminations and personnel restructures.
The signatories include Acs president Ron Johanson, Adg president Ray Argall, producers Tony Buckley, Richard Brennan and Sue Milliken, actor Jack Thompson, former Nfsa development manager Dominic Case, writer Frank Moorhouse, documentary makers Bob Connolly, Sharon Connolly, David Bradbury,...
- 5/21/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The instigator of a petition calling on the National Film and Sound Archive to be more transparent in the restructure of the Archive and the resulting job losses is disappointed with the response from Nfsa chair Gabrielle Trainor.
Former Melbourne Film Festival director Geoff Gardner says there is little in the letter he got from Trainor to suggest the issues raised in the petition are being addressed.
Signed by 140 directors, producers, writers, actors, academics and journalists, the petition called on the Nfsa to release a business review carried out by CEO Michael Loebenstein and to hold a series of open forums before final decisions are made on terminations, sackings and personnel restructures.
The signatories include Acs president Ron Johanson, Adg president Ray Argall, producers Tony Buckley, Richard Brennan and Sue Milliken, actor Jack Thomson, former Nfsa development manager Dominic Case, writer Frank Moorhouse, documentary makers Bob Connolly, Sharon Connolly, David Bradbury,...
Former Melbourne Film Festival director Geoff Gardner says there is little in the letter he got from Trainor to suggest the issues raised in the petition are being addressed.
Signed by 140 directors, producers, writers, actors, academics and journalists, the petition called on the Nfsa to release a business review carried out by CEO Michael Loebenstein and to hold a series of open forums before final decisions are made on terminations, sackings and personnel restructures.
The signatories include Acs president Ron Johanson, Adg president Ray Argall, producers Tony Buckley, Richard Brennan and Sue Milliken, actor Jack Thomson, former Nfsa development manager Dominic Case, writer Frank Moorhouse, documentary makers Bob Connolly, Sharon Connolly, David Bradbury,...
- 5/21/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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