Maddie Dyer and Rachel Griffiths.
After bonding on Ride Like a Girl, Rachel Griffiths and emerging writer-director Madeleine Dyer are jointly developing a TV comedy series based on a prominent Australian actor.
Describing Rachel’s concept as a new age, male version of Eliza Dolittle, Dyer says the plot will follow the actor as he learns to be ‘woke’ in how he relates to women and conducts himself in the current social climate.
They envisage an Extras-style series where actors and celebrities will play versions of themselves and are still in discussions with the actor about his participation.
Dyer spent five months with Griffiths on a Screen Australia-funded director’s attachment and director’s assistant on pre-production and principle shoot of the Michelle Payne biopic starring Teresa Palmer and Sam Neill.
That collaboration prompted Griffiths to laud Dyer as a “sister zeitgeist hunter” during her Hector Crawford memorial lecture at Screen Forever.
After bonding on Ride Like a Girl, Rachel Griffiths and emerging writer-director Madeleine Dyer are jointly developing a TV comedy series based on a prominent Australian actor.
Describing Rachel’s concept as a new age, male version of Eliza Dolittle, Dyer says the plot will follow the actor as he learns to be ‘woke’ in how he relates to women and conducts himself in the current social climate.
They envisage an Extras-style series where actors and celebrities will play versions of themselves and are still in discussions with the actor about his participation.
Dyer spent five months with Griffiths on a Screen Australia-funded director’s attachment and director’s assistant on pre-production and principle shoot of the Michelle Payne biopic starring Teresa Palmer and Sam Neill.
That collaboration prompted Griffiths to laud Dyer as a “sister zeitgeist hunter” during her Hector Crawford memorial lecture at Screen Forever.
- 11/25/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
(L-r) David Wade, Barbara Taylor, Siobhan Mulready, Sebastian Chan and Madeleine Dyer.
Screenworks, Jungle Entertainment and Midwinter Films have selected five regional writers/directors to develop the sci-fi comedy feature film Croak with Nash Edgerton and Christiaan and Connor Van Vuuren.
Sebastian Chan from Higgins, Act, David Wade from Whyalla, Sa, Barbara Taylor from Lennox Head, Nsw, Madeleine Dyer from Townsville, Queensland and Siobhan Mulready from Maroochydore, Queensland will spend four and half days workshopping the project in Gladstone, Queensland starting November 4.
The Screenworks initiative has received funding through Screen Australia’s Enterprise Ideas Program with investment support from Screen Queensland, delivered in partnership with Jungle Entertainment and Midwinter Films.
Nash Edgerton will work with Jungle Entertainment producer Chloe Rickard, Midwinter Films’ Bridget Callow-Wright and the Van Vuurens to guide the participants through the late development stage of the feature.
Croak is an original concept written by Shane Brady and...
Screenworks, Jungle Entertainment and Midwinter Films have selected five regional writers/directors to develop the sci-fi comedy feature film Croak with Nash Edgerton and Christiaan and Connor Van Vuuren.
Sebastian Chan from Higgins, Act, David Wade from Whyalla, Sa, Barbara Taylor from Lennox Head, Nsw, Madeleine Dyer from Townsville, Queensland and Siobhan Mulready from Maroochydore, Queensland will spend four and half days workshopping the project in Gladstone, Queensland starting November 4.
The Screenworks initiative has received funding through Screen Australia’s Enterprise Ideas Program with investment support from Screen Queensland, delivered in partnership with Jungle Entertainment and Midwinter Films.
Nash Edgerton will work with Jungle Entertainment producer Chloe Rickard, Midwinter Films’ Bridget Callow-Wright and the Van Vuurens to guide the participants through the late development stage of the feature.
Croak is an original concept written by Shane Brady and...
- 10/22/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Nash Edgerton (left) will participate in the development lab for ‘Croak’. (Photo: Mark Rogers)
Directors Connor and Christiaan Van Vuuren are set to run a development lab for their upcoming film Croak in conjunction with Screenworks and director Nash Edgerton, in Gladstone, Queensland this November.
Screenworks has opened applications today for five early career, regionally based directors/writers to participate in the four and half day lab, including at least two from regional Queensland. Each selected participant will be paid a fee of $4,500 in addition to having travel to Gladstone and accommodation expenses covered.
Croak, a sci-fi comedy from Jungle Entertainment and Midwinter Films, follows a gang of teenagers living in regional Australia who discover that their biology teacher is harbouring a dark secret with dire consequences. It is the one of the first features being developed under Jungle’s new feature arm. The script has been penned by Shane Brady and co-writer Priscilla Cameron,...
Directors Connor and Christiaan Van Vuuren are set to run a development lab for their upcoming film Croak in conjunction with Screenworks and director Nash Edgerton, in Gladstone, Queensland this November.
Screenworks has opened applications today for five early career, regionally based directors/writers to participate in the four and half day lab, including at least two from regional Queensland. Each selected participant will be paid a fee of $4,500 in addition to having travel to Gladstone and accommodation expenses covered.
Croak, a sci-fi comedy from Jungle Entertainment and Midwinter Films, follows a gang of teenagers living in regional Australia who discover that their biology teacher is harbouring a dark secret with dire consequences. It is the one of the first features being developed under Jungle’s new feature arm. The script has been penned by Shane Brady and co-writer Priscilla Cameron,...
- 7/23/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Bridget Callow-Wright.
Jungle Entertainment has launched a features division, with a focus on international films to be shot and produced in Australia.
Producer Bridget Callow-Wright has been appointed as a development executive to assist in developing the features slate, which includes genre, action-drama, and documentary, all with the company’s signature comedic style.
Callow-Wright was formerly senior development executive at Cowlick Entertainment, and will retain her own banner Midwinter Films.
First off the slate will be science-fiction comedy Croak, about a gang of teenagers who discover that their biology teacher is harbouring a dark secret that is about to unleash death and destruction. Penned by Shane Brady and co-writer Priscilla Cameron, the film will be directed by brothers Connor and Christian Van Vuuren with Callow-Wright and Jungle COO Chloe Rickard producing.
“As well as being lots of laughs, Croak tackles important environmental questions through the eyes of teenagers in regional Australia,...
Jungle Entertainment has launched a features division, with a focus on international films to be shot and produced in Australia.
Producer Bridget Callow-Wright has been appointed as a development executive to assist in developing the features slate, which includes genre, action-drama, and documentary, all with the company’s signature comedic style.
Callow-Wright was formerly senior development executive at Cowlick Entertainment, and will retain her own banner Midwinter Films.
First off the slate will be science-fiction comedy Croak, about a gang of teenagers who discover that their biology teacher is harbouring a dark secret that is about to unleash death and destruction. Penned by Shane Brady and co-writer Priscilla Cameron, the film will be directed by brothers Connor and Christian Van Vuuren with Callow-Wright and Jungle COO Chloe Rickard producing.
“As well as being lots of laughs, Croak tackles important environmental questions through the eyes of teenagers in regional Australia,...
- 7/19/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Tegan Higginbotham.
Screen Australia is providing more than $400,000 in story development funding for 16 projects including feature films, television and online series, featuring such talent as Bruna Papandrea, Nick Verso, Priscilla Cameron, Lisa Shaunessy, Anthony Mullins, Kodie Bedford and Tegan Higginbotham.
The slate includes The Agency, a musical comedy about moral corruption in the advertising industry, comedic horror Gnomes centered on grudge-bearing garden gnomes in a fictional regional town, and the feature Misfit, which looks at a woman who suffers from an identity disorder.
Eleven projects were funded through the Generate fund, two via the Premium fund and three through the legacy development program which has been discontinued.
Head of development Nerida Moore said: “The new development guidelines have now been in action for five months. We drastically reduced eligibility barriers and will now fund projects for any screen platform. We’ve had a fantastic response from the industry and the...
Screen Australia is providing more than $400,000 in story development funding for 16 projects including feature films, television and online series, featuring such talent as Bruna Papandrea, Nick Verso, Priscilla Cameron, Lisa Shaunessy, Anthony Mullins, Kodie Bedford and Tegan Higginbotham.
The slate includes The Agency, a musical comedy about moral corruption in the advertising industry, comedic horror Gnomes centered on grudge-bearing garden gnomes in a fictional regional town, and the feature Misfit, which looks at a woman who suffers from an identity disorder.
Eleven projects were funded through the Generate fund, two via the Premium fund and three through the legacy development program which has been discontinued.
Head of development Nerida Moore said: “The new development guidelines have now been in action for five months. We drastically reduced eligibility barriers and will now fund projects for any screen platform. We’ve had a fantastic response from the industry and the...
- 11/21/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Caitlin Yeo and Apra Amcos CEO Dean Ormston.
Caitlin Yeo and Matteo Zingales each won two awards at the annual annual Screen Music Awards staged by Apra Amcos and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (Agcs) at the City Recital Hall in Sydney on Monday night.
Yeo won feature film score of the year and best soundtrack album for The Butterfly Tree, Priscilla Cameron’s movie about an ex-burlesque queen (Melissa George) who puts a curse on single dad Al (Ewen Leslie) and his son Fin (Ed Oxenbould).
The president of the Agsc, Yeo previously won feature film score of the year for Kim Mordant’s The Rocket in 2013.
Matteo Zingales was rewarded for his work on Hoodlum Entertainment’s Harrow as best television theme and for his collaboration with Antony Partos on Bunya Productions’ Mystery Road, which was deemed best music for a miniseries or telemovie.
Nerida Tyson-Chew took...
Caitlin Yeo and Matteo Zingales each won two awards at the annual annual Screen Music Awards staged by Apra Amcos and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (Agcs) at the City Recital Hall in Sydney on Monday night.
Yeo won feature film score of the year and best soundtrack album for The Butterfly Tree, Priscilla Cameron’s movie about an ex-burlesque queen (Melissa George) who puts a curse on single dad Al (Ewen Leslie) and his son Fin (Ed Oxenbould).
The president of the Agsc, Yeo previously won feature film score of the year for Kim Mordant’s The Rocket in 2013.
Matteo Zingales was rewarded for his work on Hoodlum Entertainment’s Harrow as best television theme and for his collaboration with Antony Partos on Bunya Productions’ Mystery Road, which was deemed best music for a miniseries or telemovie.
Nerida Tyson-Chew took...
- 11/19/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Despite the devastating mudslides that overwhelmed the Santa Barbara, California community of Montecito last week — resulting in at least 20 deaths and the destruction of 100-plus homes — the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Sbiff) will go on as usual. A reason to celebrate is “needed now more than ever,” wrote Sbiff director Roger Durling in a letter soon to be shared with festival-goers. He continued, “It is an opportunity for people to gather – reflect – experience – feel – and process,” noting that cinema attendance was strong during the Great Depression.
Launched in 1986, this year’s Sbiff will include films from 58 countries. Numbered among its 45 world premieres is opening night film “the public,” the first feature written and directed by Emilio Estevez since 2010’s “The Way.” Set at a Cincinnati public library, the film follows its homeless and marginalized patrons during a dangerous cold spell. The cast includes Alec Baldwin, Jena Malone (“Neon Demon...
Launched in 1986, this year’s Sbiff will include films from 58 countries. Numbered among its 45 world premieres is opening night film “the public,” the first feature written and directed by Emilio Estevez since 2010’s “The Way.” Set at a Cincinnati public library, the film follows its homeless and marginalized patrons during a dangerous cold spell. The cast includes Alec Baldwin, Jena Malone (“Neon Demon...
- 1/17/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Desire and secrets unfold from an unlikely friendship between a teenage boy and a moon-eyed florist in this ambitious, visually rich drama
Melissa George returns to Australian screens to star as a radiant, siren-like, moon-eyed florist in a visually rich and intensely styled drama that shimmers with stagey, hipster glamour. In The Butterfly Tree, her character Evelyn, a former burlesque dancer, arrives like Blanche DuBois, beautiful and moth-like with a chequered past and an airy demeanour; clearly a lost soul who prefers idealism over realism and is at the mercy of a brutal world.
The centrepiece location in the film, the first feature from long-time short-film writer/director Priscilla Cameron, is a greenhouse which was purpose built for the shoot in Mount Tamborine, Queensland. In an early scene, Evelyn welcomes 13-year-old Fin (Ed Oxenbould from Paper Planes) into her ambrosial plant-filled premises, beckoning him to gaze closely into blooming flowers.
Melissa George returns to Australian screens to star as a radiant, siren-like, moon-eyed florist in a visually rich and intensely styled drama that shimmers with stagey, hipster glamour. In The Butterfly Tree, her character Evelyn, a former burlesque dancer, arrives like Blanche DuBois, beautiful and moth-like with a chequered past and an airy demeanour; clearly a lost soul who prefers idealism over realism and is at the mercy of a brutal world.
The centrepiece location in the film, the first feature from long-time short-film writer/director Priscilla Cameron, is a greenhouse which was purpose built for the shoot in Mount Tamborine, Queensland. In an early scene, Evelyn welcomes 13-year-old Fin (Ed Oxenbould from Paper Planes) into her ambrosial plant-filled premises, beckoning him to gaze closely into blooming flowers.
- 8/14/2017
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
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