Orange Entertainment Co. has optioned Asphyxia’s YA novel Future Girl, which explores what it means to come of age as a Deaf teenager against the backdrop of a near-future Melbourne facing an environmental catastrophe.
With Oec, Asphyxia will co-develop the project, currently being prepped as a series, serving as writer, creator, and EP.
Published last year via Allen & Unwin Australia, Future Girl has been described by writer and appearance activist Carly Findlay as “a life-changing book for young Deaf and disabled people…demonstrating the importance of the #OwnVoices movement.”
Asphyxia is excited to bring authentic Deaf characters to the screen, providing a positive representation for the 1 in 6 Australians who have hearing loss.
“I have never even seen a movie in my own language, Auslan, which is poetically beautiful and expressive and begging to shine on the big screen. At last, in Future Girl, it will,” she says.
The aim...
With Oec, Asphyxia will co-develop the project, currently being prepped as a series, serving as writer, creator, and EP.
Published last year via Allen & Unwin Australia, Future Girl has been described by writer and appearance activist Carly Findlay as “a life-changing book for young Deaf and disabled people…demonstrating the importance of the #OwnVoices movement.”
Asphyxia is excited to bring authentic Deaf characters to the screen, providing a positive representation for the 1 in 6 Australians who have hearing loss.
“I have never even seen a movie in my own language, Auslan, which is poetically beautiful and expressive and begging to shine on the big screen. At last, in Future Girl, it will,” she says.
The aim...
- 9/22/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Aftrs, Doc Society, Aidc and Screen Nsw have announced the social impact projects selected for the inaugural New Perspectives Pitch Lab.
The program consists of five coaching and development sessions and an online pitch event with mentors, including Malinda Wink, global director of Doc Society’s Good Pitch and Screen Nsw investment manager Andrea Ulbrick. The sessions begin this week.
The focus on the pitch training is to support participants to develop strategies and pathways for non-traditional access to audience and finance for projects that have potential for an impact campaign.
The initiative was open to projects from across the non-fiction landscape, and encouraged “projects that offered a rare insight into the under-represented and overlooked; stories from those who see more than what’s shown in the common zeitgeist; stories that break barriers and explore nuance over polarity.”
One team will go on to be selected for pitching opportunities at...
The program consists of five coaching and development sessions and an online pitch event with mentors, including Malinda Wink, global director of Doc Society’s Good Pitch and Screen Nsw investment manager Andrea Ulbrick. The sessions begin this week.
The focus on the pitch training is to support participants to develop strategies and pathways for non-traditional access to audience and finance for projects that have potential for an impact campaign.
The initiative was open to projects from across the non-fiction landscape, and encouraged “projects that offered a rare insight into the under-represented and overlooked; stories from those who see more than what’s shown in the common zeitgeist; stories that break barriers and explore nuance over polarity.”
One team will go on to be selected for pitching opportunities at...
- 11/18/2020
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Top row: Aven Yap, Helen Morrsion. Centre row: Ben Hackworth, Dean Gibson. Bottom Row: Krissy Kneen, Anthony Mullins.
Screen Queensland’s Ride Feature Film Fund is now a rolling fund, with the agency putting a call out today for pitches from creatives from under-represented groups.
The initiative is a partnership between Sq, Sbs, Madman Entertainment, The Post Lounge and Media Super, and guarantees a production budget of $1.5 million for one feature film to be created each year for the next three years.
Creatives can apply to Ride at anytime, with projects selected to move into further intensive development and join the Ride Slate, from which the partners will then select films for production.
Writers, directors and producers with between 0-2 feature film credits can apply for Ride as an individual or in a team. For this program, under-represented groups are recognised as differences in gender, age, Aboriginal identity, CaLD, Lgbtqi+, regional and remote,...
Screen Queensland’s Ride Feature Film Fund is now a rolling fund, with the agency putting a call out today for pitches from creatives from under-represented groups.
The initiative is a partnership between Sq, Sbs, Madman Entertainment, The Post Lounge and Media Super, and guarantees a production budget of $1.5 million for one feature film to be created each year for the next three years.
Creatives can apply to Ride at anytime, with projects selected to move into further intensive development and join the Ride Slate, from which the partners will then select films for production.
Writers, directors and producers with between 0-2 feature film credits can apply for Ride as an individual or in a team. For this program, under-represented groups are recognised as differences in gender, age, Aboriginal identity, CaLD, Lgbtqi+, regional and remote,...
- 5/13/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
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