Short films Two Sands and In Australia have snared the lion’s share of nominations for the Wa Screen Culture Awards, recognised across both the innovation and outstanding achievement award categories.
Now in its second year, the WASCAs are presented and produced by the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Wa screen industry, to recognise new, established, and emerging screen practitioners across a variety of disciplines.
Of this year’s nominees, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger’s Two Sands is the most represented with eight nods, while Miley Tunnecliffe’s In Australia has seven.
There is also good news for Rush Films, with Gracie Otto’s Under the Volcano, Frances Elliott and Samantha Marlow’s Girl Like You, and Jacqueline Pelczar’s Sparkles all scoring multiple nominations.
Revelation Film Festival director Richard Sowada said he couldn’t wait to reveal the deliberations of the 36 screen professionals that make up the jury for the awards.
Now in its second year, the WASCAs are presented and produced by the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Wa screen industry, to recognise new, established, and emerging screen practitioners across a variety of disciplines.
Of this year’s nominees, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger’s Two Sands is the most represented with eight nods, while Miley Tunnecliffe’s In Australia has seven.
There is also good news for Rush Films, with Gracie Otto’s Under the Volcano, Frances Elliott and Samantha Marlow’s Girl Like You, and Jacqueline Pelczar’s Sparkles all scoring multiple nominations.
Revelation Film Festival director Richard Sowada said he couldn’t wait to reveal the deliberations of the 36 screen professionals that make up the jury for the awards.
- 11/24/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
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
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
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
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