(Top to Bottom L – R) Erin Good, Jane Eakin, Joanna Beveridge, Tel Benjanmin, Warwick Young, Maria Theodorakis, Nicholas Verso, Eddie Diamandi, Victoria Thaine, Henry Inglis, Wade Kimberley Savage, Caro Macdonald, Tamara Whyte, Laura Clelland and Tam Sainsbury.
From more than 100 applications, the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) has selected 15 directors to attend Screen Producers Australia’s (Spa) annual conference Screen Forever in Melbourne next month.
These directors will join the Spa’s Ones to Watch undertaking a special program of panel discussions, workshops and networking events. All the directors attending will be presenting the projects they have developed that are ready for production at Spa Connect, the conference’s marketplace.
“This will be the second year we have taken a directors delegation to Spa, and this year we build on last year’s program to ensure the directors are more integrated into the conference program,” said Adg CEO Kingston Anderson. “We...
From more than 100 applications, the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) has selected 15 directors to attend Screen Producers Australia’s (Spa) annual conference Screen Forever in Melbourne next month.
These directors will join the Spa’s Ones to Watch undertaking a special program of panel discussions, workshops and networking events. All the directors attending will be presenting the projects they have developed that are ready for production at Spa Connect, the conference’s marketplace.
“This will be the second year we have taken a directors delegation to Spa, and this year we build on last year’s program to ensure the directors are more integrated into the conference program,” said Adg CEO Kingston Anderson. “We...
- 10/24/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Lauren Elliott.
Mad Kids co-founder and managing director Lauren Elliott is launching a new production company focused on long-form television and features, Galactic Baby.
Elliott founded the Perth-based Mad Kids seven years ago with Henry Inglis and Matt Lovkis. It has produced a variety of content such as the Aacta-nominated Small Town Hackers for Saturday Night Live’ digital platform Above Average; The Big Spaghetti (which won director Zoe Pepper an Australian Directors’ Guild Award); Lucy Durack’s Lift for 10Peach, Dafuq? for ABC iview and The Legend of Gavin Tanner for ABC1.
ABC iview comedy series Kgb, which launches this Sunday and stars Clarence Ryan, Bjorn Stewart, Mark Coles Smith, Aaron McGrath and Genevieve Morris, will be the last project under the Mad Kids banner.
Having produced 11 web series to date, Elliott tells If she feels ready to take the next step in her career and move into longer-form with Galactic Baby.
Mad Kids co-founder and managing director Lauren Elliott is launching a new production company focused on long-form television and features, Galactic Baby.
Elliott founded the Perth-based Mad Kids seven years ago with Henry Inglis and Matt Lovkis. It has produced a variety of content such as the Aacta-nominated Small Town Hackers for Saturday Night Live’ digital platform Above Average; The Big Spaghetti (which won director Zoe Pepper an Australian Directors’ Guild Award); Lucy Durack’s Lift for 10Peach, Dafuq? for ABC iview and The Legend of Gavin Tanner for ABC1.
ABC iview comedy series Kgb, which launches this Sunday and stars Clarence Ryan, Bjorn Stewart, Mark Coles Smith, Aaron McGrath and Genevieve Morris, will be the last project under the Mad Kids banner.
Having produced 11 web series to date, Elliott tells If she feels ready to take the next step in her career and move into longer-form with Galactic Baby.
- 7/3/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
‘Kgb’.
The ABC has green lit comedy web series Kgb, from brothers Luke and Dan Riches – a project borne out of Screenwest’s Indigenous online initiative, Originate.
Set in Perth’s notorious Kgb, the series – described as a cross between Black Comedy and Hot Fuzz – follows two rookie detectives, tough guy Jack and gentle giant Nigel, as they deal with the chaos of their new jobs, no-nonsense boss, work rivals, drug dealers and culprits who consistently turn out to be family members. Despite battling their own insecurities at every turn, and the fact that Jack bullied Nigel in high school, these two might just turn out to be Kgb’s finest detectives.
The cast include Clarence Ryan, Bjorn Stewart, Genevieve Morris, Mark Coles Smith, Aaron McGrath, Jesse Phillips, Lynette Narkle and Amy Smith.
Originate is a Screenwest and ABC Indigenous narrative web series development and production initiative for emerging Wa Indigenous screen practitioners.
The ABC has green lit comedy web series Kgb, from brothers Luke and Dan Riches – a project borne out of Screenwest’s Indigenous online initiative, Originate.
Set in Perth’s notorious Kgb, the series – described as a cross between Black Comedy and Hot Fuzz – follows two rookie detectives, tough guy Jack and gentle giant Nigel, as they deal with the chaos of their new jobs, no-nonsense boss, work rivals, drug dealers and culprits who consistently turn out to be family members. Despite battling their own insecurities at every turn, and the fact that Jack bullied Nigel in high school, these two might just turn out to be Kgb’s finest detectives.
The cast include Clarence Ryan, Bjorn Stewart, Genevieve Morris, Mark Coles Smith, Aaron McGrath, Jesse Phillips, Lynette Narkle and Amy Smith.
Originate is a Screenwest and ABC Indigenous narrative web series development and production initiative for emerging Wa Indigenous screen practitioners.
- 3/18/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Aaron McCann (1983, Ireland) studied Film & TV at the Central Institute of Technology in Perth, Australia. There, he met Henry Inglis, with whom he started producing and starring in a comedic series of digital shorts, called Henry & Aaron, since 2009. These shorts became an international success online, leading him to the premiere of his horror short Perished (2011) at SXSW. McCann has worked as a producer, director, camera operator, assistant director, actor, and writer on a variety of projects in a variety of platforms since 2001. Top Knot Detective (2017) is his first feature film, a co-direction with Dominic Pearce.
Dominic Pearce (Australia), raised in Singapore, is a multi-award winning director and editor. He has also worked as leading digital compositor, colourist and musician. Pearce is one of the founders and the managing director of independent production company Blue Forest Media. This production company creates work for television, advertising, music video’s and contemporary and public art projects.
Dominic Pearce (Australia), raised in Singapore, is a multi-award winning director and editor. He has also worked as leading digital compositor, colourist and musician. Pearce is one of the founders and the managing director of independent production company Blue Forest Media. This production company creates work for television, advertising, music video’s and contemporary and public art projects.
- 2/27/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The Legend of Gavin Tanner.
We Were Here and Flushed have scooped the nominations for the West Australian Screen Awards.
The West Australian Screen Awards celebraes excellence and achievements in feature film, short film, web series, music videos, television production, documentary, games and interactive productions.
Short drama We Were Here, directed by David Vincent Smith and produced by Joshua Gilbert and Simon Camp, earned six nominations, the most for the awards.
Short comedy Flushed, directed and produced by Richard Eames, also received six nominations.
ABC comedy TV series The Legend of Gavin Tanner, written and directed by Matt Lovkis and Henry Inglis and produced by Lauren Elliott received five nominations, as did short drama Sol Bunker, produced by Glen Stasiuk and directed by Nathan Mewett.
Film and Television Institute Wa (Fti) chief executive, Paul Bodlovich, said the WASAs were one of the most important events on the cultural calendar in Western Australia.
We Were Here and Flushed have scooped the nominations for the West Australian Screen Awards.
The West Australian Screen Awards celebraes excellence and achievements in feature film, short film, web series, music videos, television production, documentary, games and interactive productions.
Short drama We Were Here, directed by David Vincent Smith and produced by Joshua Gilbert and Simon Camp, earned six nominations, the most for the awards.
Short comedy Flushed, directed and produced by Richard Eames, also received six nominations.
ABC comedy TV series The Legend of Gavin Tanner, written and directed by Matt Lovkis and Henry Inglis and produced by Lauren Elliott received five nominations, as did short drama Sol Bunker, produced by Glen Stasiuk and directed by Nathan Mewett.
Film and Television Institute Wa (Fti) chief executive, Paul Bodlovich, said the WASAs were one of the most important events on the cultural calendar in Western Australia.
- 5/31/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
The Legend of Gavin and the New Best Mate cast.
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Mandy McElhinney and Adam Zwar have joined the cast of Perth Production company Mad Kids' new ABC half-hour pilot The Legend of Gavin Tanner..
Originally a 5-part web series, The Legend of Gavin Tanner is set to make the leap from YouTube to TV having been commissioned for ABC Comedy Showroom, the network.s primetime comedy pilot season, which kicks off this Wednesday April 27 and runs across six Wednesdays.
ABC Comedy Showroom has collected Australia.s top comic talent for six half hour pilots, each the first episode of a brand new sitcom..
ABC audiences will be given the opportunity to vote on which they would like to return as full series. The pilot season is a joint initiative with Screen Australia in association with Film Victoria, Screen Nsw and ScreenWest.
The pilot, entitled:.The Legend of Gavin and...
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Mandy McElhinney and Adam Zwar have joined the cast of Perth Production company Mad Kids' new ABC half-hour pilot The Legend of Gavin Tanner..
Originally a 5-part web series, The Legend of Gavin Tanner is set to make the leap from YouTube to TV having been commissioned for ABC Comedy Showroom, the network.s primetime comedy pilot season, which kicks off this Wednesday April 27 and runs across six Wednesdays.
ABC Comedy Showroom has collected Australia.s top comic talent for six half hour pilots, each the first episode of a brand new sitcom..
ABC audiences will be given the opportunity to vote on which they would like to return as full series. The pilot season is a joint initiative with Screen Australia in association with Film Victoria, Screen Nsw and ScreenWest.
The pilot, entitled:.The Legend of Gavin and...
- 4/26/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Dafuq?
Dafuq? is an original six-part web series parodying the new wave of .edgy. online gonzo journo. Think Bondi Hipsters at the helm of Vice.
Produced by Wa production company Mad Kids and written and directed by Henry Inglis and Matt Lovkis, the show follows 'edgy' reporters Lee D (Lovkis), Rift (Inglis) and Pandora (Amberly Cull), who are prepared to go where mainstream media isn.t and ask the questions they won.t..
Whatever the story, whether it's the leaking of military secrets, Isis or bikie wars, Dafuq?.s reporters will get to the heart of it — and make it all about themselves.
Head of Comedy, ABC TV, Rick Kalowski said: "Dafuq? is one of the most timely, daring ideas to have crossed ABC Comedy desks in a long time, and I'm thrilled that it's found a home as an ABC iView original, and sees ABC continue its collaboration with...
Dafuq? is an original six-part web series parodying the new wave of .edgy. online gonzo journo. Think Bondi Hipsters at the helm of Vice.
Produced by Wa production company Mad Kids and written and directed by Henry Inglis and Matt Lovkis, the show follows 'edgy' reporters Lee D (Lovkis), Rift (Inglis) and Pandora (Amberly Cull), who are prepared to go where mainstream media isn.t and ask the questions they won.t..
Whatever the story, whether it's the leaking of military secrets, Isis or bikie wars, Dafuq?.s reporters will get to the heart of it — and make it all about themselves.
Head of Comedy, ABC TV, Rick Kalowski said: "Dafuq? is one of the most timely, daring ideas to have crossed ABC Comedy desks in a long time, and I'm thrilled that it's found a home as an ABC iView original, and sees ABC continue its collaboration with...
- 2/9/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Wa production company Mad Kids has used $70,000 production funding from ScreenWest (via Elevate) to make.The Shapes, their first animated series.
The show, premiering on ABC3 and iview today, is billed as an animated musical comedy series,.in which cartoon band The Shapes, a prefab pre-school entertainment act manufactured by the evil Sludge Records, decide to prove their rock cred in six new songs.
Mad Kids and their creations, The Shapes.
The target audience will no doubt identify with Picking My Nose, a song about the inability to control a socially-impolite urge.
ScreenWest chief executive, Ian Booth, said: .Mad Kids starting conversations with ABC3 at the very beginning of their development has resulted in the team having a network buyer ready and waiting, which is a fantastic outcome of the Elevate initiative..
The Shapes is written and directed by Henry Inglis and Matt Lovkis and produced by Lauren Elliott, with...
The show, premiering on ABC3 and iview today, is billed as an animated musical comedy series,.in which cartoon band The Shapes, a prefab pre-school entertainment act manufactured by the evil Sludge Records, decide to prove their rock cred in six new songs.
Mad Kids and their creations, The Shapes.
The target audience will no doubt identify with Picking My Nose, a song about the inability to control a socially-impolite urge.
ScreenWest chief executive, Ian Booth, said: .Mad Kids starting conversations with ABC3 at the very beginning of their development has resulted in the team having a network buyer ready and waiting, which is a fantastic outcome of the Elevate initiative..
The Shapes is written and directed by Henry Inglis and Matt Lovkis and produced by Lauren Elliott, with...
- 1/4/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Mad Kids to produce half hour ABC pilot of web series The Legend of Gavin Tanner
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The ABC has commissioned West Australian production company Mad Kids to produce their first TV pilot adapted from web series The Legend of Gavin Tanner.
The half hour pilot, which has started production in Perth, is part of the network's new primetime comedy season, ABC Comedy Showroom.
ABC Comedy Showroom has collected Australia.s top comic talent for six pilots, each the first episode of a brand new sitcom..
ABC audiences will be given the opportunity to vote on which they would like to return as full series..
The pilot season is a joint initiative with Screen Australia in association with Film Victoria, Screen Nsw and ScreenWest.
From Perth-based production company Mad Kids, The Legend of Gavin Tanner pilot is written and directed by Matt Lovkis and Henry Inglis and produced by Lauren Elliott.
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The ABC has commissioned West Australian production company Mad Kids to produce their first TV pilot adapted from web series The Legend of Gavin Tanner.
The half hour pilot, which has started production in Perth, is part of the network's new primetime comedy season, ABC Comedy Showroom.
ABC Comedy Showroom has collected Australia.s top comic talent for six pilots, each the first episode of a brand new sitcom..
ABC audiences will be given the opportunity to vote on which they would like to return as full series..
The pilot season is a joint initiative with Screen Australia in association with Film Victoria, Screen Nsw and ScreenWest.
From Perth-based production company Mad Kids, The Legend of Gavin Tanner pilot is written and directed by Matt Lovkis and Henry Inglis and produced by Lauren Elliott.
- 12/14/2015
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
ABC has commissioned two productions from Western Australian production company Mad Kids.
Mad Kids are known for their web series The Legend of Gavin Tanner and viral sensation It.s a Snap!.
It's a Snap has more than 3 million views on YouTube, while Set Yourself Free, has more than 19 million views.
In early 2016, Mad Kids. satirical comedy series Dafuq? will premiere exclusively on iView.
It is .about a group of reporters working in non-mainstream, cross platform news..
The series is written, directed by and starring Henry Inglis and Matt Lovkis and produced by Lauren Elliott.
In addition, their hit webseries The Legend of Gavin Tanner will morph into a half hour television pilot, as part of ABC.s Comedy Showroom pilot season.
The ABC Comedy Showroom will see six pilots — each the first episodes of a brand new sitcom — premiere in 2016..
Audiences will get to vote on the episodes they...
Mad Kids are known for their web series The Legend of Gavin Tanner and viral sensation It.s a Snap!.
It's a Snap has more than 3 million views on YouTube, while Set Yourself Free, has more than 19 million views.
In early 2016, Mad Kids. satirical comedy series Dafuq? will premiere exclusively on iView.
It is .about a group of reporters working in non-mainstream, cross platform news..
The series is written, directed by and starring Henry Inglis and Matt Lovkis and produced by Lauren Elliott.
In addition, their hit webseries The Legend of Gavin Tanner will morph into a half hour television pilot, as part of ABC.s Comedy Showroom pilot season.
The ABC Comedy Showroom will see six pilots — each the first episodes of a brand new sitcom — premiere in 2016..
Audiences will get to vote on the episodes they...
- 12/1/2015
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
A scene from The Fan..
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Tim Winton.s The Turning was named best feature at the 26th annual Wa Screen Awards presented in Perth on Monday night.
Drift was recognised for best actor Myles Pollard, Tim Duffy.s screenplay and for Glenn Dillon.s sound.
Emily Rose Brennan.s performance in the online series The Legend of Gavin Tanner: Episode 5 - The Big Fight, earned her the best actress award. The comedy also took the People.s Choice Award for the Mad Kids team of writer/star Matt Lovkis, director Henry Inglis and producer Lauren Elliott.
Nicholas Dunlop was honoured as best director for Comic Book Heroes, the ABC documentary about the quest by Australian comic book creators Wolfgang Byslma and Skye Walker Ogden to penetrate the Us market by travelling to Comic-Con International in San Diego; it also won best factual TV production.
Antony Webb's The Fan...
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Tim Winton.s The Turning was named best feature at the 26th annual Wa Screen Awards presented in Perth on Monday night.
Drift was recognised for best actor Myles Pollard, Tim Duffy.s screenplay and for Glenn Dillon.s sound.
Emily Rose Brennan.s performance in the online series The Legend of Gavin Tanner: Episode 5 - The Big Fight, earned her the best actress award. The comedy also took the People.s Choice Award for the Mad Kids team of writer/star Matt Lovkis, director Henry Inglis and producer Lauren Elliott.
Nicholas Dunlop was honoured as best director for Comic Book Heroes, the ABC documentary about the quest by Australian comic book creators Wolfgang Byslma and Skye Walker Ogden to penetrate the Us market by travelling to Comic-Con International in San Diego; it also won best factual TV production.
Antony Webb's The Fan...
- 7/14/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Azio - The Bogan Spy Agency, Crazy Bastards, I'm With Stupid, Fancy Boy, Food for Peasants and Pet Quarantine..judging by some of the titles and synopses , the ABC TV/Screen Australia Fresh Blood initiative will spawn some weird and wonderful comedies.
A mix of puppetry, animation, parodies, improv and absurdist humour, the 25 projects selected will each receive $10,000 to produce three short-form sketches.
The shows will air on ABC.s iView platform this year. ABC controller Brendan Dahill tells If that some may later screen on ABC2 after they premiere on the catch-up service.
The initiative is designed to unearth the next generation of comedy performers and producers. There were 492 applications, many of such a high calibre that the ABC and Screen Australia decided to commission 25, one more than originally planned.
Here are the recipients: Aunty Donna Mark Samual Bonanno, Adrian Dean, Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane
Mentored by Tim Minchin,...
A mix of puppetry, animation, parodies, improv and absurdist humour, the 25 projects selected will each receive $10,000 to produce three short-form sketches.
The shows will air on ABC.s iView platform this year. ABC controller Brendan Dahill tells If that some may later screen on ABC2 after they premiere on the catch-up service.
The initiative is designed to unearth the next generation of comedy performers and producers. There were 492 applications, many of such a high calibre that the ABC and Screen Australia decided to commission 25, one more than originally planned.
Here are the recipients: Aunty Donna Mark Samual Bonanno, Adrian Dean, Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane
Mentored by Tim Minchin,...
- 2/16/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Slacking off... we're all guilty of it, especially during our formative high school years. 'Stay in school,' our parents and teachers would always tell us, but I think it's safe to say that most of us were more concerned with hanging out with friends and enjoying our youth than we were burying our heads in books and doing our homework. But there are consequences for playing hookey, and those consequences are sometimes far worse than a slap on the wrist and an after-school trip to detention...
Australia's Learn for Life Foundation, which promotes the importance of education for people of all ages, recently hired filmmakers Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann to create an ad for them that stresses the importance of staying in school, and boy did they ever. Though the ad starts out with a happy and carefree vibe, it takes a turn for the gruesome at about the halfway mark,...
Australia's Learn for Life Foundation, which promotes the importance of education for people of all ages, recently hired filmmakers Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann to create an ad for them that stresses the importance of staying in school, and boy did they ever. Though the ad starts out with a happy and carefree vibe, it takes a turn for the gruesome at about the halfway mark,...
- 1/30/2014
- by John Squires
- FEARnet
Playing on familiar action and horror tropes Aussie comedy duo Henry and Aaron are at it again with another Christmas Special. We've also included their 2010 Christmas short and last year's It's A Snap video to increase your viewing pleasure! From the makers of the viral/violent advert: "It's a Snap!" Come an equally violent new digital short just in time for Christmas. This year, Aaron is kidnapped on Christmas Eve. His best friend, Detective Henry Inglis, knows that the elusive Yuletide Killer is behind it. Will he be able to save Aaron before the killer's twisted game reaches its bloody conclusion?Why a spoon? Because it hurts more. ...
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- 12/24/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Comedic duo Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann have produced a branded entertainment piece promoting West Australian comedy, music and arts festival Rottofest.
The Perth-based pair behind February’s It’s A Snap! viral for Perth’s Central Institute of Technology produced the eight and half minute online video from this year’s festival, held on Rottnest Island.
The digital short went live on YouTube yesterday.
It includes interviews with Us comedian Anthony Jeselnik, Queensland band The Medics and moments from comedy competition, The Big Hoo Haa.
Inglis and McCann previously won Movie Extra’s Webfest, to go on and produce online series Henry & Aaron’s 7 Steps to Superstardom.
Inglis and McCann signed to La-based Creative Artists Agency in March.
Henry & Aaron’s Perfectly Adequate Christmas Special won Funniest Short Film at Rottofest 2011.
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The Perth-based pair behind February’s It’s A Snap! viral for Perth’s Central Institute of Technology produced the eight and half minute online video from this year’s festival, held on Rottnest Island.
The digital short went live on YouTube yesterday.
It includes interviews with Us comedian Anthony Jeselnik, Queensland band The Medics and moments from comedy competition, The Big Hoo Haa.
Inglis and McCann previously won Movie Extra’s Webfest, to go on and produce online series Henry & Aaron’s 7 Steps to Superstardom.
Inglis and McCann signed to La-based Creative Artists Agency in March.
Henry & Aaron’s Perfectly Adequate Christmas Special won Funniest Short Film at Rottofest 2011.
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- 12/18/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The first episode of a new web series funded by an Australian TV network and the national screen agency premiered on YouTube yesterday.
Originating from the film trailer competition Movie Extra Webfest, Event Zero is produced by the creative team behind 2011 horror film The Tunnel.
Movie Extra Webfest, an initiative of Movie Network Channels, now in its second year, has also seen Screen Australia put $50,000 behind the project, doubling the production budget to $100,000.
Producer Enzo Tedeschi said: “For an Australian web-series, the $100,000 was a fair whack of cash.”
Despite the investment Tedeschi said that web-series as a platform isn’t far off from being recognised as a competitive screen platform to film and TV: “I don’t know if web-series are being treated seriously just yet but there is something happening around the industry with well-timed, well-placed series, like the Bondi Hipsters, which actually they already proved with Beached Az.
Originating from the film trailer competition Movie Extra Webfest, Event Zero is produced by the creative team behind 2011 horror film The Tunnel.
Movie Extra Webfest, an initiative of Movie Network Channels, now in its second year, has also seen Screen Australia put $50,000 behind the project, doubling the production budget to $100,000.
Producer Enzo Tedeschi said: “For an Australian web-series, the $100,000 was a fair whack of cash.”
Despite the investment Tedeschi said that web-series as a platform isn’t far off from being recognised as a competitive screen platform to film and TV: “I don’t know if web-series are being treated seriously just yet but there is something happening around the industry with well-timed, well-placed series, like the Bondi Hipsters, which actually they already proved with Beached Az.
- 5/22/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Melbourne creative industries legal firm Creative Legal has opened an office in Perth.
The announcement:
Melbourne-based arts and entertainment legal firm Creative Legal has opened in Perth, making it the city’s first legal firm dedicated to providing expert legal advice to Western Australia’s expanding creative industries.
Creative Legal’s services focus exclusively on the arts and entertainment industries including music, film, web and digital media, visual arts and photography, design, architecture, new business and start-ups.
Company founder and lawyer, Michael Tucak has worked in the creative industries for fifteen years and one of his career goals has been to bring dedicated creative legal services to Western Australia.
“Perth has for a long time produced a high quantity and quality of creative work, notably in music, film and fashion, but has not always had the necessary legal support for these industries. As legal rights become increasingly complex, and global...
The announcement:
Melbourne-based arts and entertainment legal firm Creative Legal has opened in Perth, making it the city’s first legal firm dedicated to providing expert legal advice to Western Australia’s expanding creative industries.
Creative Legal’s services focus exclusively on the arts and entertainment industries including music, film, web and digital media, visual arts and photography, design, architecture, new business and start-ups.
Company founder and lawyer, Michael Tucak has worked in the creative industries for fifteen years and one of his career goals has been to bring dedicated creative legal services to Western Australia.
“Perth has for a long time produced a high quantity and quality of creative work, notably in music, film and fashion, but has not always had the necessary legal support for these industries. As legal rights become increasingly complex, and global...
- 4/18/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
McCann, Inglis and Elliott
The young Australian film-makers behind the gore-comedy ‘It’s a snap’ video that went viral last month have been signed by a Hollywood talent agency.
La-based Creative Artists Agency, which represents the likes of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Oprah Winfrey, has signed Henry Inglis, Aaron McCann and Lauren Elliott, whose video for Perth’s Central Institute of Technology amassed more than 2m views on YouTube since it launched at the end of February.
According to a press release from CAA, the trio have met Dan Harmon, executive producer for NBC Television, and had introductions with Harmon’s writing team in La.CAA got in touch with Inglis and McCann’s producer Lauren Elliott after seeing their video.
Henry and Aaron have previously won Movie Extra’s 2010 web series competition Webfest, which allowed them to make the seven-part web series Henry and Aaron’s 7 Steps to Superstardom.
The young Australian film-makers behind the gore-comedy ‘It’s a snap’ video that went viral last month have been signed by a Hollywood talent agency.
La-based Creative Artists Agency, which represents the likes of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Oprah Winfrey, has signed Henry Inglis, Aaron McCann and Lauren Elliott, whose video for Perth’s Central Institute of Technology amassed more than 2m views on YouTube since it launched at the end of February.
According to a press release from CAA, the trio have met Dan Harmon, executive producer for NBC Television, and had introductions with Harmon’s writing team in La.CAA got in touch with Inglis and McCann’s producer Lauren Elliott after seeing their video.
Henry and Aaron have previously won Movie Extra’s 2010 web series competition Webfest, which allowed them to make the seven-part web series Henry and Aaron’s 7 Steps to Superstardom.
- 3/22/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
I've just watched this three times in quick succession and you should too: it's a digital short created by Australian comedy duo Henry Inglis & Aaron McCann to advertise the Central Institute of Technology, a real West Australian tech college that runs film courses. They've done their job with the short going viral. The creator of Community Dan Harmon helped it along via Twitter -- after walking in on his team of writers watching it. And it's no wonder, the short mixes the horrific and the funny in that perfect mix we're used to seeing in Nash Edgerton's shorts work. Turns out the guys have more stuff to back this up, with McCann's short film Perished selected for SXSW this year. Watch the digital short below. Then watch it again. ...
- 2/21/2012
- Screen Anarchy
An ad for a Perth tertiary institute featuring graduates of the college has gone viral over the weekend.
Written, directed and starring comedy duo and graduates of Central Institute of Technology, Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann, the horror-themed skit-style commercial titled It’s a Snap about ‘learning in the city’ was featured on The Huffington Post, Vancouver Sun and Gizmodo and has now clocked up nearly one and a quarter million views.
Kenley Gordon, head of marketing at Cit gave Inglis and McCann creative license to do whatever they felt would reach 16 and 17 year olds.
Inglis and McCann’s producer Lauren Elliott said she woke on Saturday morning to emails from producers and agents in La and Canada wanting to work with the duo.
The Duo, who perform as Henry and Aaron, previously won Movie Extra’s 2010 web series competition Webfest as voted on by Facebook users from a 60 second trailer.
Written, directed and starring comedy duo and graduates of Central Institute of Technology, Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann, the horror-themed skit-style commercial titled It’s a Snap about ‘learning in the city’ was featured on The Huffington Post, Vancouver Sun and Gizmodo and has now clocked up nearly one and a quarter million views.
Kenley Gordon, head of marketing at Cit gave Inglis and McCann creative license to do whatever they felt would reach 16 and 17 year olds.
Inglis and McCann’s producer Lauren Elliott said she woke on Saturday morning to emails from producers and agents in La and Canada wanting to work with the duo.
The Duo, who perform as Henry and Aaron, previously won Movie Extra’s 2010 web series competition Webfest as voted on by Facebook users from a 60 second trailer.
- 2/20/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Australian filmmakers Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann have been quietly making a name for themselves over the last few years with various online series and short films. Now they've totally gone commercial, though, and it. is. brilliant. This isn't another lame ad for a local technical college or an online university featuring a bunch of single parents impossibly happy to be going back to school. No, this shows what real college life is like, and it's so good it'll make you want to build a machine that can punch the space-time continuum in the face and go back in time so you can enroll in the Central Institute of Technology instead of whatever lame college you actually went to. And yes, it's a real college and this is a real commercial for it (they're Henry...
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- 2/17/2012
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
The Movie Extra Webfest winning webseries Henry & Aaron’s 7 Steps to Superstardom premiered its first episode on YouTube yesterday.
Bearing a slight resemblance to the Flight of the Conchords format, the quirky web show follows two clueless best friends Henry and Aaron as they (guided by their insane producer) strive to become famous. The first installment sees the duo try and emulate such celebrities as Madonna and Angelina Jolie by adopting a foreign orphan – or three.
The inaugural Webfest is an annual initiative by the Movie Network Channels to drive the production of online content as well as the use of social media. Aspiring filmmakers were required to pitch their idea for a webseries in a 60 second trailer. Hosted entirely on Facebook, the competition attracted over 13,000 fans. The trailer with the most “likes” won.
As the winning submission, Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann received a $50,000 production budget as well as...
Bearing a slight resemblance to the Flight of the Conchords format, the quirky web show follows two clueless best friends Henry and Aaron as they (guided by their insane producer) strive to become famous. The first installment sees the duo try and emulate such celebrities as Madonna and Angelina Jolie by adopting a foreign orphan – or three.
The inaugural Webfest is an annual initiative by the Movie Network Channels to drive the production of online content as well as the use of social media. Aspiring filmmakers were required to pitch their idea for a webseries in a 60 second trailer. Hosted entirely on Facebook, the competition attracted over 13,000 fans. The trailer with the most “likes” won.
As the winning submission, Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann received a $50,000 production budget as well as...
- 6/22/2011
- by georginap
- Encore Magazine
Peter Rowsthorn has joined the cast of the first Perth-based sitcom, Henry & Aaron’s Seven Steps to Superstardom, currently in production in Western Australia.
“I loved the script and I feel very lucky to be involved. It’s great that something like this is being produced in Perth. I’m really looking forward to shooting with Henry and Aaron this week,” said
Rowsthorn.
Henry Inglis and Aaron Mccann won Movie Extra’s Webfest competition, with a $50,000 prize to produce the comedy series, set to be broadcast on YouTube and the Movie Extra channel in June.
The seven-part series will be shot over 18 days and stars Henry and Aaron as two podcasters as well as James Helm as their self-proclaimed producer, ‘Danny Danielson’, who is hell bent on turning the boys into international superstars. Each episode will see them follow his ridiculous advice on how to become famous. Rowsthorn will appear...
“I loved the script and I feel very lucky to be involved. It’s great that something like this is being produced in Perth. I’m really looking forward to shooting with Henry and Aaron this week,” said
Rowsthorn.
Henry Inglis and Aaron Mccann won Movie Extra’s Webfest competition, with a $50,000 prize to produce the comedy series, set to be broadcast on YouTube and the Movie Extra channel in June.
The seven-part series will be shot over 18 days and stars Henry and Aaron as two podcasters as well as James Helm as their self-proclaimed producer, ‘Danny Danielson’, who is hell bent on turning the boys into international superstars. Each episode will see them follow his ridiculous advice on how to become famous. Rowsthorn will appear...
- 5/4/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann have won the Movie Extra Webfest competition with their online series Henry & Aaron’s Perfectly Adequate Webisode Series.
The West Australian duo will receive a $50,000 productin budget to make seven webisodes, which will premiere on the Movie Network website and screen on Movie Extra at a later date.
Their project follows a mismatched pair of best friends who host a daily podcast. Henry is an aloof, liberal-minded slob who uses their podcasts as a soap box for his scattered left-wing activism, while Aaron is a hot tempered, obnoxious Irishman who doesn’t know when to shut up. An ex-radio producer discovers their podcasts and is determined to turn the boys into global internet superstars, whether they like it or not.
The Movie Extra Webfest winning entries were chosen from over 100 60-second trailer submissions to the competition’s Facebook page, which attracted 14,843 fans and received more...
The West Australian duo will receive a $50,000 productin budget to make seven webisodes, which will premiere on the Movie Network website and screen on Movie Extra at a later date.
Their project follows a mismatched pair of best friends who host a daily podcast. Henry is an aloof, liberal-minded slob who uses their podcasts as a soap box for his scattered left-wing activism, while Aaron is a hot tempered, obnoxious Irishman who doesn’t know when to shut up. An ex-radio producer discovers their podcasts and is determined to turn the boys into global internet superstars, whether they like it or not.
The Movie Extra Webfest winning entries were chosen from over 100 60-second trailer submissions to the competition’s Facebook page, which attracted 14,843 fans and received more...
- 1/11/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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