Lucas Taylor’s Awgie Award-winning multi-linear narrative Eleven Eleven has won the $10,000 2019 John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science-Fiction Writing.
Steve Mitchell’s Cowtown took the prize in the unproduced category at the awards presented at the Australian Writers’ Guild’s inaugural Powerhouse Mixer event at the Powerhouse Museum’s Apollo 11 Exhibition, attended by reps from Screen Australia, Create Nsw, Foxtel, ABC, Sbs, talent agencies and production companies.
Eleven Eleven is a Vr and Ar experience set on a fictional planet that is 11 minutes and 11 seconds away from an extinction-level event. Glen Dolman’s series Bloom was highly commended.
Produced in association with Academy Award®-winning Digital Domain, Eleven Eleven was developed by Walker with the co-creators and producers, Mehrad Noori, Director of Global Programming, NBCUniversal International Networks, and Michael Salmon – Head of Immersive Technologies, NBCUniversal International.
“Science fiction was one of my first loves,” said Taylor. “Ever since George Orwell...
Steve Mitchell’s Cowtown took the prize in the unproduced category at the awards presented at the Australian Writers’ Guild’s inaugural Powerhouse Mixer event at the Powerhouse Museum’s Apollo 11 Exhibition, attended by reps from Screen Australia, Create Nsw, Foxtel, ABC, Sbs, talent agencies and production companies.
Eleven Eleven is a Vr and Ar experience set on a fictional planet that is 11 minutes and 11 seconds away from an extinction-level event. Glen Dolman’s series Bloom was highly commended.
Produced in association with Academy Award®-winning Digital Domain, Eleven Eleven was developed by Walker with the co-creators and producers, Mehrad Noori, Director of Global Programming, NBCUniversal International Networks, and Michael Salmon – Head of Immersive Technologies, NBCUniversal International.
“Science fiction was one of my first loves,” said Taylor. “Ever since George Orwell...
- 11/21/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Rose Riley (L) and Emma Harvie in ‘Diary of an Uber Driver.’
Rose Riley is getting ready to have her first crack at Hollywood amid the most successful year of her career since graduating from Waapa in 2013.
This week the actor is heading to the Us for the first time for meetings with producers, casting directors and other players set up by her Us agent, Authentic Talent & Literary Management’s Jessica Morgulis.
Rose met Morgulis when the agent visited Sydney, arranged by her Oz rep United Management, before she started work in Stateless, the six-part ABC drama about four strangers in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert, co-created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres and Elise McCredie.
“I will always be very passionate about Australian stories and Australian cinema, TV and theatre but working overseas would be a total dream; ideally I will find a balance,” she tells If.
Rose Riley is getting ready to have her first crack at Hollywood amid the most successful year of her career since graduating from Waapa in 2013.
This week the actor is heading to the Us for the first time for meetings with producers, casting directors and other players set up by her Us agent, Authentic Talent & Literary Management’s Jessica Morgulis.
Rose met Morgulis when the agent visited Sydney, arranged by her Oz rep United Management, before she started work in Stateless, the six-part ABC drama about four strangers in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert, co-created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres and Elise McCredie.
“I will always be very passionate about Australian stories and Australian cinema, TV and theatre but working overseas would be a total dream; ideally I will find a balance,” she tells If.
- 8/19/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
'Lion' leads this year's Aussie films, and now ranks as the fifth highest grossing Australian film of all time..
The Australian films released theatrically so far this year have grossed $42.6 million.—.nearly double the meagre 2016 calendar year total of $24.1 million.
The resurgence for Australian cinema has been led by Garth Davis. Lion (Transmission), the stand-out with $29.5 million.
Launched on Boxing Day 2016, Kriv Stenders. Red Dog :True Blue has earned $5.8 million this year, not a terrible result for Roadshow Films but below industry expectations.
Rachel Perkins. Jasper Jones (Madman) brought in $2.66 million and Jeffrey Walker.s Dance Academy: The Movie (StudioCanal) made $2.1 million.
None of the other 37 films tracked by the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (which includes holdovers from previous years) has cracked $1 million.
However the market share for Aussie films this year will be a marked improvement on 2016.s 1.9 per cent, which was a sharp...
The Australian films released theatrically so far this year have grossed $42.6 million.—.nearly double the meagre 2016 calendar year total of $24.1 million.
The resurgence for Australian cinema has been led by Garth Davis. Lion (Transmission), the stand-out with $29.5 million.
Launched on Boxing Day 2016, Kriv Stenders. Red Dog :True Blue has earned $5.8 million this year, not a terrible result for Roadshow Films but below industry expectations.
Rachel Perkins. Jasper Jones (Madman) brought in $2.66 million and Jeffrey Walker.s Dance Academy: The Movie (StudioCanal) made $2.1 million.
None of the other 37 films tracked by the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (which includes holdovers from previous years) has cracked $1 million.
However the market share for Aussie films this year will be a marked improvement on 2016.s 1.9 per cent, which was a sharp...
- 5/30/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
In The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the writer-director had no small feat ahead of him: to reimagine time. Just don’t mention Benjamin Button
The first thing Cris Jones says to me after we exchange greetings outside a Sydney cafe is, “Sorry I’m late.” A perfectly normal comment to make were it not for the fact it is a measly one minute past the hour we agreed to meet – surely within anybody’s acceptable margin of error.
What constitutes being late? When should one contemplate apologising? Our conversation ventures into the concept of time so quickly I don’t even have the, well, time to realise how apt that is, given the subject matter of the UK-born, Sydney-raised writer/director’s first feature film, The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
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The first thing Cris Jones says to me after we exchange greetings outside a Sydney cafe is, “Sorry I’m late.” A perfectly normal comment to make were it not for the fact it is a measly one minute past the hour we agreed to meet – surely within anybody’s acceptable margin of error.
What constitutes being late? When should one contemplate apologising? Our conversation ventures into the concept of time so quickly I don’t even have the, well, time to realise how apt that is, given the subject matter of the UK-born, Sydney-raised writer/director’s first feature film, The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
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- 7/27/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Kate Beckinsale and Xavier Samuel in Love & Friendship.
According to Xavier Samuel, when you have the chance to work with a writer and director like Whit Stillman (Metropolitian, The Last Days of Disco), you take it.
.He.s an auteur and he doesn.t make films very often, so to have the opportunity to work with him is something you don.t really have to think about,. Samuel told If..
The Adelaide-raised actor stars as Reginald DeCourcy in Stillman.s latest film, Love & Friendship, an adaptation of an early Jane Austen novella, Lady Susan.
The manipulative and charming Lady Susan (played by Kate Beckinsale) is on a mission to find a new husband for herself and for her long suffering daughter Frederica, and swiftly seduces Samuel.s DeCourcy.
.It.s really a kind of joy to see a film that has a central female character who.s beating the system...
According to Xavier Samuel, when you have the chance to work with a writer and director like Whit Stillman (Metropolitian, The Last Days of Disco), you take it.
.He.s an auteur and he doesn.t make films very often, so to have the opportunity to work with him is something you don.t really have to think about,. Samuel told If..
The Adelaide-raised actor stars as Reginald DeCourcy in Stillman.s latest film, Love & Friendship, an adaptation of an early Jane Austen novella, Lady Susan.
The manipulative and charming Lady Susan (played by Kate Beckinsale) is on a mission to find a new husband for herself and for her long suffering daughter Frederica, and swiftly seduces Samuel.s DeCourcy.
.It.s really a kind of joy to see a film that has a central female character who.s beating the system...
- 7/21/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Kate Beckinsale and Xavier Samuel in Love & Friendship.
According to Xavier Samuel, when you have the chance to work with a writer and director like Whit Stillman (Metropolitian, The Last Days of Disco), you take it.
.He.s an auteur and he doesn.t make films very often, so to have the opportunity to work with him is something you don.t really have to think about,. Samuel told If..
The Adelaide-raised actor stars as Reginald DeCourcy in Stillman.s latest film, Love & Friendship, an adaptation of an early Jane Austen novella, Lady Susan.
The manipulative and charming Lady Susan (played by Kate Beckinsale) is on a mission to find a new husband for herself and for her long suffering daughter Frederica, and swiftly seduces Samuel.s DeCourcy.
.It.s really a kind of joy to see a film that has a central female character who.s beating the system...
According to Xavier Samuel, when you have the chance to work with a writer and director like Whit Stillman (Metropolitian, The Last Days of Disco), you take it.
.He.s an auteur and he doesn.t make films very often, so to have the opportunity to work with him is something you don.t really have to think about,. Samuel told If..
The Adelaide-raised actor stars as Reginald DeCourcy in Stillman.s latest film, Love & Friendship, an adaptation of an early Jane Austen novella, Lady Susan.
The manipulative and charming Lady Susan (played by Kate Beckinsale) is on a mission to find a new husband for herself and for her long suffering daughter Frederica, and swiftly seduces Samuel.s DeCourcy.
.It.s really a kind of joy to see a film that has a central female character who.s beating the system...
- 7/21/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Joe Cinque's Consolation.
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
- 7/7/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom is the feature debut of Melbourne writer-director Cris Jones. The film stars Xavier Samuel as a man who experiences time in reverse..
The script required different time periods to be represented through interviews, dramatizations and archival footage, a process spearheaded by Ddp Studios' Melbourne office.
.This was a technically ambitious film to make given the diversity of media utilised in the production process," said Ddp General Manager Caroline Pitcher.
"It was both a treat and a challenge for the team to manage and work with retro media like Super 8 and analogue...
Ddp's challenge was to seamlessly mix differing framerates and formats. Their work included pre-visualisation testing, workflow design and in-house dailies with colour management..
The film was graded on Autodesk.s Lustre in Ddp.s premier theatre by colourist Ian Letcher. Di Mastering was completed by Ddp.s onliner John Kerron..
As well as Otto Bloom,...
The script required different time periods to be represented through interviews, dramatizations and archival footage, a process spearheaded by Ddp Studios' Melbourne office.
.This was a technically ambitious film to make given the diversity of media utilised in the production process," said Ddp General Manager Caroline Pitcher.
"It was both a treat and a challenge for the team to manage and work with retro media like Super 8 and analogue...
Ddp's challenge was to seamlessly mix differing framerates and formats. Their work included pre-visualisation testing, workflow design and in-house dailies with colour management..
The film was graded on Autodesk.s Lustre in Ddp.s premier theatre by colourist Ian Letcher. Di Mastering was completed by Ddp.s onliner John Kerron..
As well as Otto Bloom,...
- 7/6/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Rachel Ward and Matilda Brown star in The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, starring Xavier Samuel, Rachel Ward and Matilda Brown, will open this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.
The film, directed by Cris Jones, chronicles the life and great love of Bloom (Samuel), a man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom is Jones' first feature.
The full program for the festival will be revealed on July 5.
Jones said it was an honour and a joy to have his first feature opening Miff..
"For me, Miff is more than a celebration of film," he said..
"It is a family and a home. The festival has played an enormous role in my journey as a filmmaker, and without the support of the Premiere Fund, this film would not exist.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, starring Xavier Samuel, Rachel Ward and Matilda Brown, will open this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.
The film, directed by Cris Jones, chronicles the life and great love of Bloom (Samuel), a man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom is Jones' first feature.
The full program for the festival will be revealed on July 5.
Jones said it was an honour and a joy to have his first feature opening Miff..
"For me, Miff is more than a celebration of film," he said..
"It is a family and a home. The festival has played an enormous role in my journey as a filmmaker, and without the support of the Premiere Fund, this film would not exist.
- 5/16/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Shorts director Cris Jones will make his feature debut on The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
Xavier Samuel is attached to play the title character, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
Screen Australia, Film Victoria and the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund are financing the low budget drama which will shoot in Melbourne later this year.
The producers are Mish Armstrong, Alicia Brown and Melanie Coombs, with Jonathan Page as Ep. Coombs produced Jones. well-received 2008 short The Funk.
Page.s Bonsai Films will distribute in Australia and international sales will be handled by Global Screen, which reps Oddball.
The other two features which received funding at Screen Australia.s September board meeting are Hounds of Love and Emo (The Musical).
In Hounds of Love Stephen Curry is attached to play one half of a sinister couple, John and Evelyn White,...
Xavier Samuel is attached to play the title character, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
Screen Australia, Film Victoria and the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund are financing the low budget drama which will shoot in Melbourne later this year.
The producers are Mish Armstrong, Alicia Brown and Melanie Coombs, with Jonathan Page as Ep. Coombs produced Jones. well-received 2008 short The Funk.
Page.s Bonsai Films will distribute in Australia and international sales will be handled by Global Screen, which reps Oddball.
The other two features which received funding at Screen Australia.s September board meeting are Hounds of Love and Emo (The Musical).
In Hounds of Love Stephen Curry is attached to play one half of a sinister couple, John and Evelyn White,...
- 10/1/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Xavier Samuel, Miranda Otto and Sam Neill are attached to star in Midnight in Byzantium, a mystery/adventure about a young guy who is trapped in a remote town where nothing - and no one - is as it seems.
The film will mark the feature debut of Melbourne-based writer-director Cris Jones, who has directed numerous short films, music videos and TVCs. The producers are Optimism Films. Melanie Coombs, Alicia Brown and Mish Armstrong.
The project has received development funding from Screen Australia and a travel grant which enabled Jones to attend this year.s Binger Filmlab Directors Lab in Amsterdam.
Also attached is Jacek Koman, whose credits include Top of the Lake, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Spirited and Julius Avery.s upcoming movie Son of a Gun, which stars Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander and Brenton Thwaites.
The synopsis reads: .A young man wakes up in a small,...
The film will mark the feature debut of Melbourne-based writer-director Cris Jones, who has directed numerous short films, music videos and TVCs. The producers are Optimism Films. Melanie Coombs, Alicia Brown and Mish Armstrong.
The project has received development funding from Screen Australia and a travel grant which enabled Jones to attend this year.s Binger Filmlab Directors Lab in Amsterdam.
Also attached is Jacek Koman, whose credits include Top of the Lake, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Spirited and Julius Avery.s upcoming movie Son of a Gun, which stars Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander and Brenton Thwaites.
The synopsis reads: .A young man wakes up in a small,...
- 8/20/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has committed almost $360,000 in funding to assist 15 filmmaking teams and three new internships.
The announcement, made earlier today, confirmed eight new projects will receive Screen Australia support while another seven teams will benefit from continued funding..
The new projects to receive support include I Am Jack, Confessions of a Super Man, Long Tan, Mulan, Common Foe, and Soundtrack..
Three internships, developed through Screen Australia.s Talent Escalator Project, will send Australian filmmakers overseas to further develop their chosen crafts..
Writer/director Alex Murawski will work alongside Bruce Beresford in Los Angeles for three months on Beresford.s latest production Bonnie and Clyde.
Natalie Lindwall will gain six months experience in the UK working with Ecosse Flims as a development producer, and producer Raquelle David will spend six months in Toronto working with Niv Fichman at Rhombus Media..
Also through the Talent Escalator Program, Screen Australia will assist directors Cris Jones,...
The announcement, made earlier today, confirmed eight new projects will receive Screen Australia support while another seven teams will benefit from continued funding..
The new projects to receive support include I Am Jack, Confessions of a Super Man, Long Tan, Mulan, Common Foe, and Soundtrack..
Three internships, developed through Screen Australia.s Talent Escalator Project, will send Australian filmmakers overseas to further develop their chosen crafts..
Writer/director Alex Murawski will work alongside Bruce Beresford in Los Angeles for three months on Beresford.s latest production Bonnie and Clyde.
Natalie Lindwall will gain six months experience in the UK working with Ecosse Flims as a development producer, and producer Raquelle David will spend six months in Toronto working with Niv Fichman at Rhombus Media..
Also through the Talent Escalator Program, Screen Australia will assist directors Cris Jones,...
- 5/20/2013
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The filmmakers behind Love and Fury have the blessing of producer Melanie Coombs (Mary and Max) for the documentary about the clandestine love affair between her grandfather, the influential public servant Nugget Coombs, and poet, environmentalist and Aboriginal rights campaigner Judith Wright.
.Grandpa was a public figure and for a lot of people this is a very interesting story,. Coombs told If Magazine.
.We all knew about it [the affair] but my grandmother was a very observant Catholic and while there was talk of them divorcing at some point early on in the Nugget/Judith affair I think that it was decided that it was best for the whole of both the Wright and Coombs families for it to be this secret..
Coombs was one of the first people the filmmakers . director John Hughes (What I Have Written), who wrote the script with Penelope Chai, and producer Philippa Campey (Murundak: Songs of...
.Grandpa was a public figure and for a lot of people this is a very interesting story,. Coombs told If Magazine.
.We all knew about it [the affair] but my grandmother was a very observant Catholic and while there was talk of them divorcing at some point early on in the Nugget/Judith affair I think that it was decided that it was best for the whole of both the Wright and Coombs families for it to be this secret..
Coombs was one of the first people the filmmakers . director John Hughes (What I Have Written), who wrote the script with Penelope Chai, and producer Philippa Campey (Murundak: Songs of...
- 7/4/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
A musical from Red Dog director Kriv Stenders, a feature about the choir of hard knocks directed by Jonathan Teplitzky and an untitled project from Joel and Nash Edgerton are three of 16 features that have received a share of $400,000 in development support from Screen Australia. Of these 16 projects, ten are new additions to the development slate, while the remaining six have been receiving ongoing assistance. Screen Australia.s head of development Martha Coleman said in a statement that the calibre of features was outstanding. .There.s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our filmmakers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting..
Synchronicity, which is written by Marissa Goodhill,. produced by Leesa Kahn and Catriona Hughes and has Kriv Stenders attached as director, is a musical set to the songs of Kylie Minogue. It follows 17-year-old Kylie...
Synchronicity, which is written by Marissa Goodhill,. produced by Leesa Kahn and Catriona Hughes and has Kriv Stenders attached as director, is a musical set to the songs of Kylie Minogue. It follows 17-year-old Kylie...
- 5/15/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
Some of Australia’s biggest names in film-making have received funding for new projects in the latest round of Screen Australia’s single-project feature development.
The funding round for script development has supported 16 projects totalling $400,000, ten new projects and six which receive continued support.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “The calibre of feature projects coming to the Development Department is outstanding. There’s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our film-makers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting.”
Film-makers include Julia Leigh, the Edgerton brothers, Abe Forsythe and Kriv Stenders.
Julia Leigh is to direct her second film, Disquiet following on from Sleeping Beauty, which won best direction in a feature film at the Australian Director’s Guild Awards on Friday night. The psychological horror will be adapted by Leigh from her book of the same name.
The funding round for script development has supported 16 projects totalling $400,000, ten new projects and six which receive continued support.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “The calibre of feature projects coming to the Development Department is outstanding. There’s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our film-makers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting.”
Film-makers include Julia Leigh, the Edgerton brothers, Abe Forsythe and Kriv Stenders.
Julia Leigh is to direct her second film, Disquiet following on from Sleeping Beauty, which won best direction in a feature film at the Australian Director’s Guild Awards on Friday night. The psychological horror will be adapted by Leigh from her book of the same name.
- 5/14/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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