It never gets easier to look up the horrors of what real life humans are willing to perpetrate but some of them are harder than others. Looking into the purported Scottish myth that inspired The Hills Have Eyes for example is a whole heck of a lot easier to do than find out the absolutely abysmal crimes that were committed against a young girl in The Girl Next Door. Sadly, today’s movie The Snowtown Murders, a.k.a. Snowtown (watch it Here), is a lot closer to the sickening facts that happened to The Girl Next Door. While Australia already got our notorious spotlight shined on the fictional Mick Taylor who was a composite of two backpack killers, today we will look at the man who is known as the country’s worst serial killer and unpack what he did and who with. The movie is hard to watch...
- 3/6/2024
- by Andrew Hatfield
- JoBlo.com
Nitram
The subject of violence is a thematic thread that runs through Australian director Justin Kurzel's work. His debut feature, Snowtown, based on Debi Marshall's book, Killing For Pleasure, explores the real life events in which a 16-year-old was indoctrinated into a culture of torture and murder by his mother's new boyfriend. He followed this with an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, before redirecting his gaze to the story of a gang of violent outlaws in 1870s Australia, in True History Of The Kelly Gang. His fifth feature, Nitram, adapted from a screenplay by Snowtown co-writer Shaun Grant, continues this trend, exploring the man and events that led to the 1996 mass shooting in Port Arthur, Australia.
Justin Kurzel
In conversation with Eye For Film, Kurzel discussed the inevitable challenges of directing a film that some people did not want to be made, while for a younger generation, it confronts.
The subject of violence is a thematic thread that runs through Australian director Justin Kurzel's work. His debut feature, Snowtown, based on Debi Marshall's book, Killing For Pleasure, explores the real life events in which a 16-year-old was indoctrinated into a culture of torture and murder by his mother's new boyfriend. He followed this with an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, before redirecting his gaze to the story of a gang of violent outlaws in 1870s Australia, in True History Of The Kelly Gang. His fifth feature, Nitram, adapted from a screenplay by Snowtown co-writer Shaun Grant, continues this trend, exploring the man and events that led to the 1996 mass shooting in Port Arthur, Australia.
Justin Kurzel
In conversation with Eye For Film, Kurzel discussed the inevitable challenges of directing a film that some people did not want to be made, while for a younger generation, it confronts.
- 4/8/2022
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
ABC has commissioned four-part investigative crime series The Family Court Murders, to be helmed by Walkley-winning journalist Debi Marshall.
Produced by Media Stockade and Said and Done Production, the series will cover the series of shootings and bombings conducted by Leonard Warwick, dubbed the Family Court Murderer, between 1980 and 1985.
Sparked by a custody feud with his ex-wife, the newly established Family Court system along with many others, became his targets. Despite a mounting body of evidence against him, Warwick was able to elude persecution for decades.
Fascinated by the case Marshall spent years delving into the life of Warwick slowly piecing together the puzzle of who he is and of his crimes, culminating in book ‘The Family Court Murders’.
Last year, thanks in part to Marshall’s tenacity and persistence, Warwick was convicted for offences including multiple murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, many questions remain.
The series will...
Produced by Media Stockade and Said and Done Production, the series will cover the series of shootings and bombings conducted by Leonard Warwick, dubbed the Family Court Murderer, between 1980 and 1985.
Sparked by a custody feud with his ex-wife, the newly established Family Court system along with many others, became his targets. Despite a mounting body of evidence against him, Warwick was able to elude persecution for decades.
Fascinated by the case Marshall spent years delving into the life of Warwick slowly piecing together the puzzle of who he is and of his crimes, culminating in book ‘The Family Court Murders’.
Last year, thanks in part to Marshall’s tenacity and persistence, Warwick was convicted for offences including multiple murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, many questions remain.
The series will...
- 6/9/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Mikael Borglund.
Beyond International has made a deal to acquire the UK-based factual distributor Tcb Media Rights from the receivers of the failed Kew Media Group.
Founded in 2012 by Paul Heaney, Tcb’s portfolio includes Cjz’s Go Back To Where You Came From, Media Stockade’s Debi Marshall Investigates: Frozen Lies and international docs Extreme Ice Machines, Hitler’s Supercars and Egypt’s Unexplained Mysteries.
Receivers Fti Consulting Canada have been looking for buyers of Kew Media’s assets since the Toronto-based media company collapsed in February.
Last month Essential Media Group (Emg) CEO Greg Quail and North American president Jesse Fawcett purchased the Essential companies from the receivers.
Beyond said the acquisition would be funded by existing cash and debt facilities and completed through its Ireland-based subsidiary Beyond Entertainment Limited.
The price was not disclosed but Beyond told investors the sum is less than 10 per cent of its...
Beyond International has made a deal to acquire the UK-based factual distributor Tcb Media Rights from the receivers of the failed Kew Media Group.
Founded in 2012 by Paul Heaney, Tcb’s portfolio includes Cjz’s Go Back To Where You Came From, Media Stockade’s Debi Marshall Investigates: Frozen Lies and international docs Extreme Ice Machines, Hitler’s Supercars and Egypt’s Unexplained Mysteries.
Receivers Fti Consulting Canada have been looking for buyers of Kew Media’s assets since the Toronto-based media company collapsed in February.
Last month Essential Media Group (Emg) CEO Greg Quail and North American president Jesse Fawcett purchased the Essential companies from the receivers.
Beyond said the acquisition would be funded by existing cash and debt facilities and completed through its Ireland-based subsidiary Beyond Entertainment Limited.
The price was not disclosed but Beyond told investors the sum is less than 10 per cent of its...
- 4/2/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Was that a real kangaroo? I kept wondering that as John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) hacks off the paws and head of the dead creature as his girlfriend’s 16-year-old son Jamie Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway) looks on. He will join John in dumping the bloody, butchered remains on the front porch of a known pedophile. Later, John watches smugly as the man moves away.
Director Justin Kurzel’s debut feature The Snowtown Murders (winner of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize) observes the grim lives of these Australians, who live in what can only politely be called a slum. Based on true events, Snowtown’s minimalist, no-frills, “documentary”-style approach perfectly captures their nowhere lives and inevitable tragedy as Jamie and his family join Bunting in his self-styled neighborhood watch endeavors; what follows is a series of vicious murders punctuated by horrific torture.
The film is based on events which occurred...
Director Justin Kurzel’s debut feature The Snowtown Murders (winner of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize) observes the grim lives of these Australians, who live in what can only politely be called a slum. Based on true events, Snowtown’s minimalist, no-frills, “documentary”-style approach perfectly captures their nowhere lives and inevitable tragedy as Jamie and his family join Bunting in his self-styled neighborhood watch endeavors; what follows is a series of vicious murders punctuated by horrific torture.
The film is based on events which occurred...
- 3/1/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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