Rob Gibson and Ian Collie.
TV drama producers face a balancing act next year: How to take advantage of the 30 per cent Producer Offset while coping with watered-down local content regulations and the financial constraints affecting all Australian broadcasters – public and commercial.
For Easy Tiger, and no doubt other production companies, one solution lies in attracting more investment from international streamers, networks and co-productions.
Hence Easy Tiger founder/producer Ian Collie and CEO/producer Rob Gibson are working on multiple international deals, not just with the US and the UK, but also with less obvious markets such as Mexico, Norway and India.
In addition, the production company backed by Fremantle continues to foster new and emerging writing talent including Imogen McCloskey, Hannah Lehmann, Anchuli Felicia King and Julia Patey.
“The drama market in Australia is increasingly tough and the changes to the sub-quotas leave the industry in a much more precarious position,...
TV drama producers face a balancing act next year: How to take advantage of the 30 per cent Producer Offset while coping with watered-down local content regulations and the financial constraints affecting all Australian broadcasters – public and commercial.
For Easy Tiger, and no doubt other production companies, one solution lies in attracting more investment from international streamers, networks and co-productions.
Hence Easy Tiger founder/producer Ian Collie and CEO/producer Rob Gibson are working on multiple international deals, not just with the US and the UK, but also with less obvious markets such as Mexico, Norway and India.
In addition, the production company backed by Fremantle continues to foster new and emerging writing talent including Imogen McCloskey, Hannah Lehmann, Anchuli Felicia King and Julia Patey.
“The drama market in Australia is increasingly tough and the changes to the sub-quotas leave the industry in a much more precarious position,...
- 10/26/2020
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Toni Collette.
Toni Collette’s directorial debut, an animated series based on The Sapphires and a Shakespeare-inspired anthology are among the 42 projects to recently share in $1.4 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
The slate, which includes 14 features, eight online projects and 20 TV dramas, marks the final development funding Screen Australia awarded in the 2019-20 financial year.
These projects come from both the existing Premium and Generate development funds. Generate Fund is for lower budget projects with an emphasis on new and emerging talent, or experienced talent wanting to take creative risks. The Premium Fund is for higher budget projects of ambition and scale from successful screen content makers.
The agency reports receiving over 534 applications across both funds, up 41 per cent on the 378 application received in 2018-19.
Screen Australia’s Head of Development Nerida Moore said, “While this has been a turbulent, challenging time for many in the industry, it hasn’t stopped the drive,...
Toni Collette’s directorial debut, an animated series based on The Sapphires and a Shakespeare-inspired anthology are among the 42 projects to recently share in $1.4 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
The slate, which includes 14 features, eight online projects and 20 TV dramas, marks the final development funding Screen Australia awarded in the 2019-20 financial year.
These projects come from both the existing Premium and Generate development funds. Generate Fund is for lower budget projects with an emphasis on new and emerging talent, or experienced talent wanting to take creative risks. The Premium Fund is for higher budget projects of ambition and scale from successful screen content makers.
The agency reports receiving over 534 applications across both funds, up 41 per cent on the 378 application received in 2018-19.
Screen Australia’s Head of Development Nerida Moore said, “While this has been a turbulent, challenging time for many in the industry, it hasn’t stopped the drive,...
- 8/5/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Moreblessing Maturure (Photo credit: Kristina Yenko).
Moreblessing Maturure plans to make her screen directing debut on a segment of Masc (working title), an online anthology which examines modern masculinity through female and non-binary lenses.
Separately the Zimbabwean/Australian writer/performer is developing several projects with the Afro Sistahs Collective.
Masc’s key creative drivers, Laura Nagy and Madeleine Gottlieb, invited Maturure to become the eighth member of the team, joining Renée Marie Petropoulos, Hyun Lee, Imogen McCluskey, Shari Sebbens and Cloudy Rhodes.
Developed with Screen Australia’s support, the anthology explores different stages of the subjects’ lives in ascending age, beginning with a young child and ending with an older man.
“The series has a particular focus on diversity, exploring masculinity through the lens of different cultures, sexualities and gender identities,” Easy Tiger’s Rob Gibson, who is co-executive producer with RevLover Films’ Martha Coleman, tells If.
“The development process has been extremely collaborative,...
Moreblessing Maturure plans to make her screen directing debut on a segment of Masc (working title), an online anthology which examines modern masculinity through female and non-binary lenses.
Separately the Zimbabwean/Australian writer/performer is developing several projects with the Afro Sistahs Collective.
Masc’s key creative drivers, Laura Nagy and Madeleine Gottlieb, invited Maturure to become the eighth member of the team, joining Renée Marie Petropoulos, Hyun Lee, Imogen McCluskey, Shari Sebbens and Cloudy Rhodes.
Developed with Screen Australia’s support, the anthology explores different stages of the subjects’ lives in ascending age, beginning with a young child and ending with an older man.
“The series has a particular focus on diversity, exploring masculinity through the lens of different cultures, sexualities and gender identities,” Easy Tiger’s Rob Gibson, who is co-executive producer with RevLover Films’ Martha Coleman, tells If.
“The development process has been extremely collaborative,...
- 7/26/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Baz Luhrmann.
A new feature film from Baz Luhrmann, set in a small Australian country town, is among the 18 projects to recently receive story development funding from Screen Australia.
The agency announced today it will share $620,000 between 11 films, five TV series and two online projects.
These projects come from both the existing Premium and Generate development funds. Generate Fund is for lower budget projects with an emphasis on new and emerging talent, or experienced talent wanting to take creative risks. The Premium Fund is for higher budget projects of ambition and scale from successful screen content makers.
Projects pitched for Premium Plus funds – the additional development funding the agency announced in response to Covid-19 – are still being assessed.
Screen Australia head of development Nerida Moore said: “With many productions temporarily halted it is more important than ever for us to support the development of Australian stories for all platforms. I...
A new feature film from Baz Luhrmann, set in a small Australian country town, is among the 18 projects to recently receive story development funding from Screen Australia.
The agency announced today it will share $620,000 between 11 films, five TV series and two online projects.
These projects come from both the existing Premium and Generate development funds. Generate Fund is for lower budget projects with an emphasis on new and emerging talent, or experienced talent wanting to take creative risks. The Premium Fund is for higher budget projects of ambition and scale from successful screen content makers.
Projects pitched for Premium Plus funds – the additional development funding the agency announced in response to Covid-19 – are still being assessed.
Screen Australia head of development Nerida Moore said: “With many productions temporarily halted it is more important than ever for us to support the development of Australian stories for all platforms. I...
- 5/12/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Niki Aken at Charlie’s in La
Like the rest of the crew and cast, Niki Aken was gutted when the production of the ABC comedy Why Are You Like This was shut down with two weeks filming to go.
Aken is the script producer on the six-part show created and written by Naomi Higgins, Humyara Mahbub and Aunty Donna’s Mark Samual Bonanno, produced by Sarah Freeman for the directors Jessie Oldfield and Adam Murfet’s production company Ckol.
A spin-off of the pilot funded by the Screen Australia/ABC Fresh Blood initiative, the series follows best friends Mia (Olivia Junkeer) and Penny (Higgins) and Penny’s aloof housemate Austin (Wil King).
“Obviously it was the the right call, but gutting for the cast and crew,” Niki says. “It was a normal, human response to an unprecedented situation.
“I am one of the lucky ones as an in-demand writer...
Like the rest of the crew and cast, Niki Aken was gutted when the production of the ABC comedy Why Are You Like This was shut down with two weeks filming to go.
Aken is the script producer on the six-part show created and written by Naomi Higgins, Humyara Mahbub and Aunty Donna’s Mark Samual Bonanno, produced by Sarah Freeman for the directors Jessie Oldfield and Adam Murfet’s production company Ckol.
A spin-off of the pilot funded by the Screen Australia/ABC Fresh Blood initiative, the series follows best friends Mia (Olivia Junkeer) and Penny (Higgins) and Penny’s aloof housemate Austin (Wil King).
“Obviously it was the the right call, but gutting for the cast and crew,” Niki says. “It was a normal, human response to an unprecedented situation.
“I am one of the lucky ones as an in-demand writer...
- 3/27/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Madeleine Gottlieb.
Madeleine Gottlieb is co-developing a seven-part online series which will give female and non-binary perspectives on contemporary masculinity as well as writing a feature for Revlover Films’ Martha Coleman and Lauren Edwards.
Screen Australia is funding the development of Masc (working title), which she co-created with Easy Tiger’s Laura Nagy.
Her co-collaborators are Nagy, Renée Marie Petropoulos, Hyun Lee, Imogen McCluskey, Shari Sebbens and Cloudy Rhodes. Each segment will focus on a different man at his particular stage of life.
“I am really interested in exploring the sensitive, more gentle, non-hyper masc side of masculinity,” Gottlieb tells If.
The feature is Panyee, which is set on the man-made floating island of Koh Panyee in Thailand, to be directed by Matt Devine, inspired by his short Panyee Fc.
The narrative will follow a group of young Thai boys who build a rickety football pitch in their floating village,...
Madeleine Gottlieb is co-developing a seven-part online series which will give female and non-binary perspectives on contemporary masculinity as well as writing a feature for Revlover Films’ Martha Coleman and Lauren Edwards.
Screen Australia is funding the development of Masc (working title), which she co-created with Easy Tiger’s Laura Nagy.
Her co-collaborators are Nagy, Renée Marie Petropoulos, Hyun Lee, Imogen McCluskey, Shari Sebbens and Cloudy Rhodes. Each segment will focus on a different man at his particular stage of life.
“I am really interested in exploring the sensitive, more gentle, non-hyper masc side of masculinity,” Gottlieb tells If.
The feature is Panyee, which is set on the man-made floating island of Koh Panyee in Thailand, to be directed by Matt Devine, inspired by his short Panyee Fc.
The narrative will follow a group of young Thai boys who build a rickety football pitch in their floating village,...
- 2/18/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Diary of an Uber Driver.’
New German streaming service Joyn has commissioned a local version of RevLover Films’ ABC dramedy Diary of an Uber Driver.
It’s the first international remake of the format based on Ben Phillips’ popular blog and e-book which was scripted by Thomas Ward and directed by Matthew Moore.
International distributor all3Media’s production label Bon Voyage Films will produce the remake, to be shot in Hamburg. Kostja Ullmann will play the lead.
A joint venture between Discovery and German broadcaster ProSiebenSat1, Joyn aims to become the largest free-tv service in Germany with live streams of more than 50 channels plus an on-demand section with original productions.
All3Media International is shopping the ABC series and format at Mipcom in Cannes this week.
Produced by Martha Coleman and Lauren Edwards and co-funded by Create Nsw, the series starred Sam Cotton as Uber driver Ben with Zahra Newman as Beck,...
New German streaming service Joyn has commissioned a local version of RevLover Films’ ABC dramedy Diary of an Uber Driver.
It’s the first international remake of the format based on Ben Phillips’ popular blog and e-book which was scripted by Thomas Ward and directed by Matthew Moore.
International distributor all3Media’s production label Bon Voyage Films will produce the remake, to be shot in Hamburg. Kostja Ullmann will play the lead.
A joint venture between Discovery and German broadcaster ProSiebenSat1, Joyn aims to become the largest free-tv service in Germany with live streams of more than 50 channels plus an on-demand section with original productions.
All3Media International is shopping the ABC series and format at Mipcom in Cannes this week.
Produced by Martha Coleman and Lauren Edwards and co-funded by Create Nsw, the series starred Sam Cotton as Uber driver Ben with Zahra Newman as Beck,...
- 10/16/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Genevieve Hegney and Tim Minchin in ‘Upright’ (Photo credit: Foxtel).
Playing strangers who meet half way across the Nullarbor and have a brief but passionate encounter in Foxtel’s upcoming series Upright was a lot of fun for Tim Minchin and Genevieve Hegney.
Friends since they attended the University of Western Australia and its dramatic society Uds, they had not been on stage or screen together before, although she did direct him in a Uds production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in which he played The Player.
In Upright Hegney’s character Frankie is travelling from Perth while Minchin’s Flynn is coming from Sydney with teenage runaway Meg (Milly Alcock) as they lug a piano across the country.
“We were both good sports about the love scene,” she tells If. “After 20 years in the business we were being very technical, like ‘you put your hand...
Playing strangers who meet half way across the Nullarbor and have a brief but passionate encounter in Foxtel’s upcoming series Upright was a lot of fun for Tim Minchin and Genevieve Hegney.
Friends since they attended the University of Western Australia and its dramatic society Uds, they had not been on stage or screen together before, although she did direct him in a Uds production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in which he played The Player.
In Upright Hegney’s character Frankie is travelling from Perth while Minchin’s Flynn is coming from Sydney with teenage runaway Meg (Milly Alcock) as they lug a piano across the country.
“We were both good sports about the love scene,” she tells If. “After 20 years in the business we were being very technical, like ‘you put your hand...
- 9/1/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Sarah Lambert on the set of ‘Lambs of God.’
While Foxtel’s Lambs of God may well represent the pinnacle of Sarah Lambert’s 20-year career, the screenwriter/producer’s workload and reputation are set to reach new heights over the next two years.
The prolific Lambert is juggling four high-profile international TV series and two other projects. If they all get up, she may well have to clone herself.
First off, she has written the pilot of Traces, an 8-part drama based on a true crime case in Italy that has been transplanted to Australia. An examination of a miscarriage of justice, it’s being developed as a co-production between RevLover Films’ Martha Coleman and Lauren Edwards and Porchlight Films’ Vincent Sheehan and Liz Watts.
Currently she is tackling the pilot for The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (working title) for Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson and Steve Hutensky.
While Foxtel’s Lambs of God may well represent the pinnacle of Sarah Lambert’s 20-year career, the screenwriter/producer’s workload and reputation are set to reach new heights over the next two years.
The prolific Lambert is juggling four high-profile international TV series and two other projects. If they all get up, she may well have to clone herself.
First off, she has written the pilot of Traces, an 8-part drama based on a true crime case in Italy that has been transplanted to Australia. An examination of a miscarriage of justice, it’s being developed as a co-production between RevLover Films’ Martha Coleman and Lauren Edwards and Porchlight Films’ Vincent Sheehan and Liz Watts.
Currently she is tackling the pilot for The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (working title) for Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson and Steve Hutensky.
- 7/30/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Sam Cotton in ‘Diary of an Uber Driver.’
When Sam Cotton landed the title role in the ABC/RevLover Films’ dramedy Diary of an Uber Driver, he approached the job with some trepidation.
It was his first lead after playing Bruce, the nemesis of Luke McGregor’s Daniel in the ABC’s Rosehaven, and son-in-law Wayne in Sbs’s The Family Law.
He plays Uber driver Ben, whose life had always been in cruise control until his newish girlfriend Beck (Zahra Newman) gets pregnant in the six-parter scripted by Tom Ward, based on Ben Phillips’ blog.
He got the gig after doing a self-tape when he lived in Brisbane (he is now based in Sydney), followed by a call back in Sydney a few weeks later.
“At the outset I was kind of terrified but the director Matt Moore did so much to make me comfortable,” he tells If. “He...
When Sam Cotton landed the title role in the ABC/RevLover Films’ dramedy Diary of an Uber Driver, he approached the job with some trepidation.
It was his first lead after playing Bruce, the nemesis of Luke McGregor’s Daniel in the ABC’s Rosehaven, and son-in-law Wayne in Sbs’s The Family Law.
He plays Uber driver Ben, whose life had always been in cruise control until his newish girlfriend Beck (Zahra Newman) gets pregnant in the six-parter scripted by Tom Ward, based on Ben Phillips’ blog.
He got the gig after doing a self-tape when he lived in Brisbane (he is now based in Sydney), followed by a call back in Sydney a few weeks later.
“At the outset I was kind of terrified but the director Matt Moore did so much to make me comfortable,” he tells If. “He...
- 7/29/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Zahra Newman, Thomas Ward and Sam Cotton.
After Josh Thomas’ Please Like Me ended after four seasons on the ABC, his co-writer and co-star Thomas Ward realised there was something lacking in his career.
Having spent the best part of six years in that “bubble,” Ward worried that he did not know any other producers.
So he introduced himself to a number of producers including – fortuitously for him – RevLover Films’ Martha Coleman. She told him she had optioned Ben Phillips’ blog and e-book Diary of an Uber Driver.
After reading the blog he says: “I really liked the idea of doing a show that explores a community, the intimacy that comes with Uber rides and the fact that the protagonist was the same age as me and from a similar background.”
So he prepared a pitch outlining how he would turn the blog into a half hour series and work-shopped...
After Josh Thomas’ Please Like Me ended after four seasons on the ABC, his co-writer and co-star Thomas Ward realised there was something lacking in his career.
Having spent the best part of six years in that “bubble,” Ward worried that he did not know any other producers.
So he introduced himself to a number of producers including – fortuitously for him – RevLover Films’ Martha Coleman. She told him she had optioned Ben Phillips’ blog and e-book Diary of an Uber Driver.
After reading the blog he says: “I really liked the idea of doing a show that explores a community, the intimacy that comes with Uber rides and the fact that the protagonist was the same age as me and from a similar background.”
So he prepared a pitch outlining how he would turn the blog into a half hour series and work-shopped...
- 7/18/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
(L-r) Peta Astbury-Bulsara, Que Minh Luu and Warren Clarke (Photo credit: Bohdan Warchomij).
The ABC had greenlit the development of The Heights when Que Minh Luu, who co-created the drama serial with Warren Clarke, was alerted to a job vacancy at the public broadcaster.
Sally Riley, the ABC’s head of drama, comedy and Indigenous, suggested Luu apply for the role of an executive producer.
That presented a dilemma for the Matchbox Pictures development executive. “On one hand I was keen to see the show through to completion,” she tells If. “On the other hand I wanted to get into producing, jobs like that are rare and I may not have had the opportunity again.”
So she applied, got the position and continued to oversee the 30-episode production from Matchbox and Peta Astbury-Bulsara’s For Pete’s Sake Productions as an Ep.
Clarke and Luu had set up the writers...
The ABC had greenlit the development of The Heights when Que Minh Luu, who co-created the drama serial with Warren Clarke, was alerted to a job vacancy at the public broadcaster.
Sally Riley, the ABC’s head of drama, comedy and Indigenous, suggested Luu apply for the role of an executive producer.
That presented a dilemma for the Matchbox Pictures development executive. “On one hand I was keen to see the show through to completion,” she tells If. “On the other hand I wanted to get into producing, jobs like that are rare and I may not have had the opportunity again.”
So she applied, got the position and continued to oversee the 30-episode production from Matchbox and Peta Astbury-Bulsara’s For Pete’s Sake Productions as an Ep.
Clarke and Luu had set up the writers...
- 4/2/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Diary of an Uber Driver’. (Photo credit: Tony Mott)
Ben Phillips’ blog and e-book ‘Diary of an Uber Driver’ has been turned into six-part drama series for the ABC, with production currently underway in Sydney.
Produced by RevLover Films with the support of all3media international and Create Nsw, Diary of an Uber Driver is written by Thomas Ward (Please Like Me) and follows Uber driver Ben as he tries to work out what he should be doing while helping others to get where they are going. Against the ticking clock of impending fatherhood Ben must decipher what being ‘relevant’ looks like in a relationship that seems to think he’s surplus to requirements.
Sam Cotton (Rosehaven) plays Ben, while Zahra Newman plays Beck, the mother of his unborn child. The series will also star John Bell, Caroline Brazier, Ed Oxenbould, Julian Maroun and Emily Barclay.
Matthew Moore (Offspring) is directing the series,...
Ben Phillips’ blog and e-book ‘Diary of an Uber Driver’ has been turned into six-part drama series for the ABC, with production currently underway in Sydney.
Produced by RevLover Films with the support of all3media international and Create Nsw, Diary of an Uber Driver is written by Thomas Ward (Please Like Me) and follows Uber driver Ben as he tries to work out what he should be doing while helping others to get where they are going. Against the ticking clock of impending fatherhood Ben must decipher what being ‘relevant’ looks like in a relationship that seems to think he’s surplus to requirements.
Sam Cotton (Rosehaven) plays Ben, while Zahra Newman plays Beck, the mother of his unborn child. The series will also star John Bell, Caroline Brazier, Ed Oxenbould, Julian Maroun and Emily Barclay.
Matthew Moore (Offspring) is directing the series,...
- 11/4/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
(l-r) James Mackay, Sarah Snook and Jocelyn Moorhouse on the set of 'The Dressmaker' (photo credit: Ben King).
Screen Australia has announced development funding for seven feature films and one high-end television project, plus production funding for three digital series and one Vr project..
Among the slate of features is The Wedding Officer, a WWII drama adapted by Andrew Knight (Hacksaw Ridge, Jack Irish) from a novel by Anthony Capella.
Jocelyn Moorhouse (The Dressmaker) is attached to direct with Revlover Films' Martha Coleman producing. The feature has secured matched funding from eOne, who produced Knight's The Water Diviner.
The film revolves around a young British officer sent to allied occupied Naples to clean up corruption and curb the run of British soldiers marrying Neapolitan girls. The locals decide to corrupt him the best way they know how: with food. .
Other films include Relic, a Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories...
Screen Australia has announced development funding for seven feature films and one high-end television project, plus production funding for three digital series and one Vr project..
Among the slate of features is The Wedding Officer, a WWII drama adapted by Andrew Knight (Hacksaw Ridge, Jack Irish) from a novel by Anthony Capella.
Jocelyn Moorhouse (The Dressmaker) is attached to direct with Revlover Films' Martha Coleman producing. The feature has secured matched funding from eOne, who produced Knight's The Water Diviner.
The film revolves around a young British officer sent to allied occupied Naples to clean up corruption and curb the run of British soldiers marrying Neapolitan girls. The locals decide to corrupt him the best way they know how: with food. .
Other films include Relic, a Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories...
- 4/12/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
'Dance Academy' star Xenia Goodwin shooting in New York (courtesy Werner Film Holdings).
Screenwriter Samantha Strauss makes her feature debut this month with Dance Academy, based on the show she created with producer Joanna Werner in 2010..
Earlier feature scripts went nowhere, the writer tells If. "I.d written a film before that had a young female protagonist and that was incredibly difficult to get up. We were told at the time that it.s not a market for Australia."
But the support of StudioCanal and the show's German partner Zdf made a Dance Academy feature possible, and Strauss is thrilled with the result.
"Everything I.ve ever worked on, you just hate everything you.ve ever written and every moment is awful and you can.t imagine what it looks like," she said..
"This is the first experience where. no I shouldn.t say that (laughs). But when we saw the rough cut,...
Screenwriter Samantha Strauss makes her feature debut this month with Dance Academy, based on the show she created with producer Joanna Werner in 2010..
Earlier feature scripts went nowhere, the writer tells If. "I.d written a film before that had a young female protagonist and that was incredibly difficult to get up. We were told at the time that it.s not a market for Australia."
But the support of StudioCanal and the show's German partner Zdf made a Dance Academy feature possible, and Strauss is thrilled with the result.
"Everything I.ve ever worked on, you just hate everything you.ve ever written and every moment is awful and you can.t imagine what it looks like," she said..
"This is the first experience where. no I shouldn.t say that (laughs). But when we saw the rough cut,...
- 3/20/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Vr project Buried.
Screen Australia has announced its latest funding round, with $3 million in production and development funding split between two Indigenous TV projects, eight multiplatform projects, eight feature films, and two individuals and two companies.
The two Indigenous television projects to have received production investment are:
–... ABC TV.s previously announced Indigenous comedy drama series The Warriors. From Robert Connolly's Arenamedia, the show is set in the competitive world of Australian Rules Football, and has major production investment from Screen Australia and funding support from Film Victoria;
–... Nitv documentary Carry The Flag,.which delves into the story behind the Torres Strait Island flag designed by Bernard Namok, from Tamarind Tree Pictures with Screen Queensland and Screen Territory support.
The eight multiplatform projects to have received production investment are:
–... Vr project The Buried, a 3D experience that plunges the viewer into a magical Dreamtime world, from Indigenous writer/director Tyson Mowarin,...
Screen Australia has announced its latest funding round, with $3 million in production and development funding split between two Indigenous TV projects, eight multiplatform projects, eight feature films, and two individuals and two companies.
The two Indigenous television projects to have received production investment are:
–... ABC TV.s previously announced Indigenous comedy drama series The Warriors. From Robert Connolly's Arenamedia, the show is set in the competitive world of Australian Rules Football, and has major production investment from Screen Australia and funding support from Film Victoria;
–... Nitv documentary Carry The Flag,.which delves into the story behind the Torres Strait Island flag designed by Bernard Namok, from Tamarind Tree Pictures with Screen Queensland and Screen Territory support.
The eight multiplatform projects to have received production investment are:
–... Vr project The Buried, a 3D experience that plunges the viewer into a magical Dreamtime world, from Indigenous writer/director Tyson Mowarin,...
- 10/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Leading Tvc production house Revolver and former Screen Australia and Goalpost Pictures executive Martha Coleman have launched film and TV production banner Revlover.
The new company is developing a big slate of projects with entities such as Goalpost, Foxtel, eOne and Transmission Films.
Christopher Sharp, former director of development at Screen Queensland and development executive at Screen Australia, is Revlover.s head of development.
Founded in the 1990s and owned by Steve Rogers and Michael Ritchie, Revolver represents Justin Kurzel, The Glue Society.s Matt Devine and Gary Freedman, Rogers, Simon McQuoid, Tim Godsall and a number of other directors with whom Coleman is keen to work.
.Michael and Steve have been wanting to expand into long form film and television for some time but they know that many commercials companies who try to cross over fail because they work outside of the industry, not within it, . says Coleman, a...
The new company is developing a big slate of projects with entities such as Goalpost, Foxtel, eOne and Transmission Films.
Christopher Sharp, former director of development at Screen Queensland and development executive at Screen Australia, is Revlover.s head of development.
Founded in the 1990s and owned by Steve Rogers and Michael Ritchie, Revolver represents Justin Kurzel, The Glue Society.s Matt Devine and Gary Freedman, Rogers, Simon McQuoid, Tim Godsall and a number of other directors with whom Coleman is keen to work.
.Michael and Steve have been wanting to expand into long form film and television for some time but they know that many commercials companies who try to cross over fail because they work outside of the industry, not within it, . says Coleman, a...
- 11/2/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Sydney-based film school Metro Screen is set to close its doors at the end of 2015 after Screen Australia pulled its funding.
Chair of the Metro Screen Board Kath Shelper said that the only responsible option was to wind down operations.
.Every effort has been made by Metro Screen to secure additional funding but to no avail," she said..
"We need to be responsible to our staff and ensure we are able to meet our obligations to them, and therefore it is with regret that the Board has made the decision to close Metro Screen in December 2015,. Ms Shelper said.
The Screen Australia funding of $240,000 was directed solely to core operational costs (overheads)..
Metro Screen CEO Christina Alvarez said to cover this loss, the challenge had been to secure approximately $750,000 annually in new projects.
.Whilst Metro Screen has successfully secured some significant high profile projects in the past 12 months, unfortunately the target has not been met.
Chair of the Metro Screen Board Kath Shelper said that the only responsible option was to wind down operations.
.Every effort has been made by Metro Screen to secure additional funding but to no avail," she said..
"We need to be responsible to our staff and ensure we are able to meet our obligations to them, and therefore it is with regret that the Board has made the decision to close Metro Screen in December 2015,. Ms Shelper said.
The Screen Australia funding of $240,000 was directed solely to core operational costs (overheads)..
Metro Screen CEO Christina Alvarez said to cover this loss, the challenge had been to secure approximately $750,000 annually in new projects.
.Whilst Metro Screen has successfully secured some significant high profile projects in the past 12 months, unfortunately the target has not been met.
- 9/10/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The Sessions writer-director Ben Lewin is attached to helm Blue Rose, a biopic about the self-described .sex crazed. Australian composer and pianist Percy Grainger.
La-based Jeffrey Walker will return to Oz a to direct Dance Academy: The Comeback., a spin-off of Werner Film Productions. popular TV series, which will follow a young ballerina who dreams of being a star.
Following Ruin and Hail, Amiel Courtin-Wilson is to write, produce and direct Hawkwood, a thriller set in the backwaters of Africa which tells of ageing mercenary.s journey from chaos to grace.
These are among 16 feature projects which are receiving more than $620,000 in development funding from Screen Australia.
Lewin will write Blue Rose with Wain Fimeri for producers Chryssy Tintner, Jan Eymann, Judi Levine and Arclight.s Mark Lazarus and Gary Hamilton. His next film is Us indie romantic drama Purple Hearts, which will star Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez...
La-based Jeffrey Walker will return to Oz a to direct Dance Academy: The Comeback., a spin-off of Werner Film Productions. popular TV series, which will follow a young ballerina who dreams of being a star.
Following Ruin and Hail, Amiel Courtin-Wilson is to write, produce and direct Hawkwood, a thriller set in the backwaters of Africa which tells of ageing mercenary.s journey from chaos to grace.
These are among 16 feature projects which are receiving more than $620,000 in development funding from Screen Australia.
Lewin will write Blue Rose with Wain Fimeri for producers Chryssy Tintner, Jan Eymann, Judi Levine and Arclight.s Mark Lazarus and Gary Hamilton. His next film is Us indie romantic drama Purple Hearts, which will star Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez...
- 4/21/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Ausfilm has announced the 15 Australian producers who will participate in Ausfilm Week London from October 20-23. The event aims to create and develop co-production opportunities between Australian and UK producers for feature film and high-end TV drama.
The schedule will feature meetings for Australian producers with UK counterparts for specific co-production projects that hold international appeal. Following a call out for submissions, the following Australian production companies and representatives have been selected: Australian attendees . Ausfilm Week London 2014:
. Aidan O'Bryan - Wbmc . Amanda Higgs - Amanda Higgs Pty Ltd . Bridget Callow-Wright - Midwinter Films . Heather Ogilvie - Galvanized Film Group . Jamie Hilton - See Pictures . Joanna Werner - Werner Film Productions Pty Ltd . Martha Coleman - Goalpost Pictures . Melissa Kelly - Factor 30 Films . Meredith Garlick - Thomas Street Productions . Patrick McDonald - Wolfhound Pictures Pty Ltd . Stephen Luby - Ruby Entertainment Pty Ltd . Sue Taylor - Taylor Media...
The schedule will feature meetings for Australian producers with UK counterparts for specific co-production projects that hold international appeal. Following a call out for submissions, the following Australian production companies and representatives have been selected: Australian attendees . Ausfilm Week London 2014:
. Aidan O'Bryan - Wbmc . Amanda Higgs - Amanda Higgs Pty Ltd . Bridget Callow-Wright - Midwinter Films . Heather Ogilvie - Galvanized Film Group . Jamie Hilton - See Pictures . Joanna Werner - Werner Film Productions Pty Ltd . Martha Coleman - Goalpost Pictures . Melissa Kelly - Factor 30 Films . Meredith Garlick - Thomas Street Productions . Patrick McDonald - Wolfhound Pictures Pty Ltd . Stephen Luby - Ruby Entertainment Pty Ltd . Sue Taylor - Taylor Media...
- 8/22/2014
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
It took scriptwriter Alison Nisselle and director/co-writer Craig Monahan 10 years to make Healing, a redemptive drama which opens in Australian cinemas on May 8.
Nisselle is hoping her next project, a feature on Julia Gillard, will happen rather more quickly.
But she tells If it will take at least two years to complete her research and finish the script on the former Prime Minister.s reign and ousting by Kevin Rudd.
It was announced last year that Rachel Griffiths will play Gillard in Stalking Julia, based partly on Kerry-Anne Walsh's book The Stalking of Julia Gillard. Wtfn.s Richard Keddie is the producer and Emma Freeman (Puberty Blues, Offspring and the Bob Hawke telemovie Hawke) is attached to direct.
Nisselle got the idea for Healing after reading a Philippa Hawker story in The Age about a rehabilitation program caring for wounded eagles, falcons and owls run by the Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary and Prisons Victoria.
Nisselle is hoping her next project, a feature on Julia Gillard, will happen rather more quickly.
But she tells If it will take at least two years to complete her research and finish the script on the former Prime Minister.s reign and ousting by Kevin Rudd.
It was announced last year that Rachel Griffiths will play Gillard in Stalking Julia, based partly on Kerry-Anne Walsh's book The Stalking of Julia Gillard. Wtfn.s Richard Keddie is the producer and Emma Freeman (Puberty Blues, Offspring and the Bob Hawke telemovie Hawke) is attached to direct.
Nisselle got the idea for Healing after reading a Philippa Hawker story in The Age about a rehabilitation program caring for wounded eagles, falcons and owls run by the Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary and Prisons Victoria.
- 5/1/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Sally Caplan is to relocate to Australia from the UK to take up the new role of head of production at government film agency Screen Australia.
She will report to Graeme Mason, who has only been in the chair for a couple of weeks as chief executive after replacing Ruth Harley.
Caplan headed the UK Film Council’s Premiere Fund for the five years up to 2010 and was London-based managing director of international sales at Entertainment One up until May this year. She has also worked for Universal Pictures International, Momentum, Icon and other companies during her impressive film career.
Screen Australia confirmed in August that head of production investment Ross Matthews and the head of development Martha Coleman would not be renewing their contracts when they expired in December – their joint farewell is tomorrow night – and announced that their roles would be combined into one job. This is Caplan’s new gig.
Screen Australia also announced...
She will report to Graeme Mason, who has only been in the chair for a couple of weeks as chief executive after replacing Ruth Harley.
Caplan headed the UK Film Council’s Premiere Fund for the five years up to 2010 and was London-based managing director of international sales at Entertainment One up until May this year. She has also worked for Universal Pictures International, Momentum, Icon and other companies during her impressive film career.
Screen Australia confirmed in August that head of production investment Ross Matthews and the head of development Martha Coleman would not be renewing their contracts when they expired in December – their joint farewell is tomorrow night – and announced that their roles would be combined into one job. This is Caplan’s new gig.
Screen Australia also announced...
- 12/4/2013
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Highly experienced UK film executive Sally Caplan has been named Screen Australia's head of production, which combines development and production investment.
Caplan replaces Ross Matthews, who is stepping down as head of production investment, and head of development Martha Coleman, who is joining Goalpost Pictures. Both depart the agency at the end of the year. Matthews intends to take a break before he returns to independent production.
A former entertainment lawyer, Caplan worked with Screen Australia.s new CEO Graeme Mason for five years from the mid-1990s at Polygram Filmed Entertainment and at Universal, where she was senior VP, worldwide acquisitions.
She has worked as a consultant in the UK since June after leaving eOne where she was managing director of international film sales operations.
Sally headed the UK Film Council.s premiere fund for five years until 2010, responsible for funding and overseeing the production from script stage of more than 45 films,...
Caplan replaces Ross Matthews, who is stepping down as head of production investment, and head of development Martha Coleman, who is joining Goalpost Pictures. Both depart the agency at the end of the year. Matthews intends to take a break before he returns to independent production.
A former entertainment lawyer, Caplan worked with Screen Australia.s new CEO Graeme Mason for five years from the mid-1990s at Polygram Filmed Entertainment and at Universal, where she was senior VP, worldwide acquisitions.
She has worked as a consultant in the UK since June after leaving eOne where she was managing director of international film sales operations.
Sally headed the UK Film Council.s premiere fund for five years until 2010, responsible for funding and overseeing the production from script stage of more than 45 films,...
- 12/4/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia.s announcement last week that it will fund up to three short dramas, each budgeted at $70,000, in a new program entitled Hot Shots raised eyebrows in sections of the industry.
Five years ago the agency drew flak when it abolished short drama production funding, prompting an open letter from about 50 filmmakers.
.We feel the short film program is vitally important in kick-starting careers and developing new talent and thus should be retained,. said the letter signed by the likes of Angie Fielder, Matthew Dabner, Anne Robinson, Polly Staniford, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Tim Maddocks, Beth Frey, Nicholas Verso and Nick Ball. .Many of us would not have made our start in this industry, or have any reasonable stature within it now as establishing producers, if not for this fund..
Some producers viewed the Hot Shots announcement as a major change of policy but that.s not the case, according to...
Five years ago the agency drew flak when it abolished short drama production funding, prompting an open letter from about 50 filmmakers.
.We feel the short film program is vitally important in kick-starting careers and developing new talent and thus should be retained,. said the letter signed by the likes of Angie Fielder, Matthew Dabner, Anne Robinson, Polly Staniford, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Tim Maddocks, Beth Frey, Nicholas Verso and Nick Ball. .Many of us would not have made our start in this industry, or have any reasonable stature within it now as establishing producers, if not for this fund..
Some producers viewed the Hot Shots announcement as a major change of policy but that.s not the case, according to...
- 9/23/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia.s announcement last week that it will fund up to three short dramas, each budgeted at $70,000, in a new program entitled Hot Shots raised eyebrows in sections of the industry.
Five years ago the agency drew flak when it abolished short drama production funding, prompting an open letter from about 50 filmmakers.
.We feel the short film program is vitally important in kick-starting careers and developing new talent and thus should be retained,. said the letter signed by the likes of Angie Fielder, Matthew Dabner, Anne Robinson, Polly Staniford, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Tim Maddocks, Beth Frey, Nicholas Verso and Nick Ball. .Many of us would not have made our start in this industry, or have any reasonable stature within it now as establishing producers, if not for this fund..
Some producers viewed the Hot Shots announcement as a major change of policy but that.s not the case, according to...
Five years ago the agency drew flak when it abolished short drama production funding, prompting an open letter from about 50 filmmakers.
.We feel the short film program is vitally important in kick-starting careers and developing new talent and thus should be retained,. said the letter signed by the likes of Angie Fielder, Matthew Dabner, Anne Robinson, Polly Staniford, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Tim Maddocks, Beth Frey, Nicholas Verso and Nick Ball. .Many of us would not have made our start in this industry, or have any reasonable stature within it now as establishing producers, if not for this fund..
Some producers viewed the Hot Shots announcement as a major change of policy but that.s not the case, according to...
- 9/23/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
This may turn out to be a premature and fanciful call but 2014 is shaping as potentially one of the strongest years for Australian films, commercially and critically, in recent memory.
There are numerous grounds for optimism, starting with the overwhelmingly positive responses and, in some cases, deals for Tracks, The Railway Man, Wolf Creek 2, Felony and Canopy after their world premieres at either the Toronto or Venice film festivals.
Given the talent attached, the slate of films now shooting or in post-production looks highly promising, including Kill Me Three Times, The Rover, Son of a Gun, I, Frankenstein, Predestination, Charlie.s Country, Fell and Now Add Honey.
Added to that are several films from experienced filmmakers that are due to roll soon: Cut Snake, The Dressmaker and Paper Planes.
Industry figures whom If consulted are bullish about the prospects for the year ahead. There is a .very good reason for such optimism,...
There are numerous grounds for optimism, starting with the overwhelmingly positive responses and, in some cases, deals for Tracks, The Railway Man, Wolf Creek 2, Felony and Canopy after their world premieres at either the Toronto or Venice film festivals.
Given the talent attached, the slate of films now shooting or in post-production looks highly promising, including Kill Me Three Times, The Rover, Son of a Gun, I, Frankenstein, Predestination, Charlie.s Country, Fell and Now Add Honey.
Added to that are several films from experienced filmmakers that are due to roll soon: Cut Snake, The Dressmaker and Paper Planes.
Industry figures whom If consulted are bullish about the prospects for the year ahead. There is a .very good reason for such optimism,...
- 9/19/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Outgoing Screen Australia exec to join producers of The Sapphires.
Martha Coleman is to produce features and television for Goalpost Pictures Australia, producers of The Sapphires, when she steps down as head of development at Screen Australia in December.
“My personal challenge is finding movies with big emotional reach,” she told ScreenDaily, “particularly intelligent movies for women over 45 years because they still go to movies, are a reliable and engaged audience and we do not make enough films for them.”
Coleman has been telling friends and colleagues for months that she did not intend to renew her contract but says her job has been so “fully immersive” that she will not start developing a slate until she walks out in December.
“Nowhere in the world has as much support for film as Australia and there is strong potential to make commercial art house films,” she said. “You have to look after your own market first, to give them...
Martha Coleman is to produce features and television for Goalpost Pictures Australia, producers of The Sapphires, when she steps down as head of development at Screen Australia in December.
“My personal challenge is finding movies with big emotional reach,” she told ScreenDaily, “particularly intelligent movies for women over 45 years because they still go to movies, are a reliable and engaged audience and we do not make enough films for them.”
Coleman has been telling friends and colleagues for months that she did not intend to renew her contract but says her job has been so “fully immersive” that she will not start developing a slate until she walks out in December.
“Nowhere in the world has as much support for film as Australia and there is strong potential to make commercial art house films,” she said. “You have to look after your own market first, to give them...
- 8/30/2013
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
The question of what Martha Coleman would do after she steps down at the end of the year as Screen Australia's Head of Development has been answered.
Coleman will produce film and TV content for Goalpost Pictures, which made The Sapphires, Closed for Winter, Clubland and the upcoming Felony, starting in January.
Thus Coleman returns to her roots in production. Before she joined Screen Australia in 2009 she spent seven years in the UK as Head of Development at Icon Entertainment International, Head of Creative Affairs at Material Entertainment and as a consultant producer.
At Material Entertainment she was executive producer on the UK box-office hit Run Fat Boy, Run, which starred Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria.
In 1998 she produced director John Curran.s debut feature Praise, which starred Sacha Horler, Peter Fenton, Joel Edgerton and Marta Dusseldorp.
In May she revealed she had told Screen Australia CEO...
Coleman will produce film and TV content for Goalpost Pictures, which made The Sapphires, Closed for Winter, Clubland and the upcoming Felony, starting in January.
Thus Coleman returns to her roots in production. Before she joined Screen Australia in 2009 she spent seven years in the UK as Head of Development at Icon Entertainment International, Head of Creative Affairs at Material Entertainment and as a consultant producer.
At Material Entertainment she was executive producer on the UK box-office hit Run Fat Boy, Run, which starred Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria.
In 1998 she produced director John Curran.s debut feature Praise, which starred Sacha Horler, Peter Fenton, Joel Edgerton and Marta Dusseldorp.
In May she revealed she had told Screen Australia CEO...
- 8/28/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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Ruth Harley may or may not be reappointed as chief executive of Screen Australia but the agency is losing two senior executives. Head of production investment Ross Matthews and head of development Martha Coleman plan to step down.
Matthews joined Screen Australia as senior investment manager after spending eight years with its predecessor, the Film Finance Corporation. He.s held his current post since January 2009. In 30 years as a producer, co-producer and executive producer his credits include the films Kick, Fast Talking, Australian Dream, Waiting, Short Changed and Heatwave and the TV series Correlli.
Coleman worked in the UK for seven years as head of development at Icon Entertainment International, head of creative affairs at Material Entertainment and as a consultant producer. At Material Entertainment she was executive producer on the UK box office hit Run Fat Boy, Run, which starred Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria.
She returned...
Ruth Harley may or may not be reappointed as chief executive of Screen Australia but the agency is losing two senior executives. Head of production investment Ross Matthews and head of development Martha Coleman plan to step down.
Matthews joined Screen Australia as senior investment manager after spending eight years with its predecessor, the Film Finance Corporation. He.s held his current post since January 2009. In 30 years as a producer, co-producer and executive producer his credits include the films Kick, Fast Talking, Australian Dream, Waiting, Short Changed and Heatwave and the TV series Correlli.
Coleman worked in the UK for seven years as head of development at Icon Entertainment International, head of creative affairs at Material Entertainment and as a consultant producer. At Material Entertainment she was executive producer on the UK box office hit Run Fat Boy, Run, which starred Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria.
She returned...
- 5/25/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Ruth Harley may or may not be reappointed as chief executive of Screen Australia but the agency is losing two senior executives. Head of production investment Ross Matthews and head of development Martha Coleman have told colleagues they plan to step down.
Matthews joined Screen Australia as senior investment manager after spending eight years with its predecessor, the Film Finance Corporation. He.s held his current post since January 2009. In 30 years as a producer, co-producer and executive producer his credits include the films Kick, Fast Talking, Australian Dream, Waiting, Short Changed and Heatwave and the TV series Correlli.
Coleman worked in the UK for seven years as head of development at Icon Entertainment International, head of creative affairs at Material Entertainment and as a consultant producer. At Material Entertainment she was executive producer on the UK box office hit Run Fat Boy, Run, which starred Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria.
Matthews joined Screen Australia as senior investment manager after spending eight years with its predecessor, the Film Finance Corporation. He.s held his current post since January 2009. In 30 years as a producer, co-producer and executive producer his credits include the films Kick, Fast Talking, Australian Dream, Waiting, Short Changed and Heatwave and the TV series Correlli.
Coleman worked in the UK for seven years as head of development at Icon Entertainment International, head of creative affairs at Material Entertainment and as a consultant producer. At Material Entertainment she was executive producer on the UK box office hit Run Fat Boy, Run, which starred Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria.
- 5/25/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has today announced Jo Dillon will be replacing Christopher Sharp on its Development Team.
Dillon has worked in Australia and in the UK in various roles, including journalist and broadcast commentator, Head of Development of UK production company Yipp Films and as a script and story consultant..
She has worked as an assessor and mentor for screen agencies in the UK and has also assessed scripts for Screen Australia previously, as well as Film Victoria and the Australian Writers. Guild..
Sharp will be leaving Screen Australia in June to further his career in New York..
Screen Australia.s Head of Development Martha Coleman said, .We wish Christopher the very best at this exciting time in his career and it.s with real pleasure that we welcome Jo to the team. Jo has exceptional craft skills and her insight and sensitivity make her a great developer. She will be...
Dillon has worked in Australia and in the UK in various roles, including journalist and broadcast commentator, Head of Development of UK production company Yipp Films and as a script and story consultant..
She has worked as an assessor and mentor for screen agencies in the UK and has also assessed scripts for Screen Australia previously, as well as Film Victoria and the Australian Writers. Guild..
Sharp will be leaving Screen Australia in June to further his career in New York..
Screen Australia.s Head of Development Martha Coleman said, .We wish Christopher the very best at this exciting time in his career and it.s with real pleasure that we welcome Jo to the team. Jo has exceptional craft skills and her insight and sensitivity make her a great developer. She will be...
- 5/14/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
As a result of the Director.s Attachment Scheme, emerging directors now have the opportunity to work alongside Tony Ayres on his new film Cut Snake.
The scheme, launched in March this year and aimed at emerging film directors, is funded by Screen Australia and managed by the Australian Directors Guild.
Cut Snake is the second project to be tied to the scheme (Kriv Stenders. Kill Me Three Times was previously announced in March) and applications for the attachment are currently open.
Screen Australia and the Adg have committed to providing three director.s attachments per year..
.We are very excited that the second film for the attachment scheme is with Tony Ayres,. said Adg Executive Director, Kingston Anderson. .He is one of our most talented screen directors..
Screen Australia.s Head of Development, Martha Coleman, said, .This is another great opportunity for an emerging director to learn from a hugely respected and generous director,...
The scheme, launched in March this year and aimed at emerging film directors, is funded by Screen Australia and managed by the Australian Directors Guild.
Cut Snake is the second project to be tied to the scheme (Kriv Stenders. Kill Me Three Times was previously announced in March) and applications for the attachment are currently open.
Screen Australia and the Adg have committed to providing three director.s attachments per year..
.We are very excited that the second film for the attachment scheme is with Tony Ayres,. said Adg Executive Director, Kingston Anderson. .He is one of our most talented screen directors..
Screen Australia.s Head of Development, Martha Coleman, said, .This is another great opportunity for an emerging director to learn from a hugely respected and generous director,...
- 4/22/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has selected five teams to take part in this year's Springboard: Short Film Initiative and potentially receive $150,000 production funding.
The five directors - Christopher Weekes, Hannah Moon, Tom McKeith, Darlene Johnson and Liselle Mei - and their teams will now develop a short film script that will showcase their developed feature film screenplay. Three of the shorts will then receive $150,000 funding.
Weekes is perhaps the best known after making his debut feature Bitter & Twisted in 2008, which he followed by topping the influential Black List (which ranks Hollywood film executives. views on the best unproduced movie scripts) in 2009 with The Muppet Man. His Springboard feature project Pest Control is a family comedy about a city that gets overrun by monsters.
Hannah Moon's project Starfish, is a comedy, which she is co-writing with Robin Geradts-Gill and Stephen Sholl. Tom McKeith.s project Boxer is a thriller and is currently...
The five directors - Christopher Weekes, Hannah Moon, Tom McKeith, Darlene Johnson and Liselle Mei - and their teams will now develop a short film script that will showcase their developed feature film screenplay. Three of the shorts will then receive $150,000 funding.
Weekes is perhaps the best known after making his debut feature Bitter & Twisted in 2008, which he followed by topping the influential Black List (which ranks Hollywood film executives. views on the best unproduced movie scripts) in 2009 with The Muppet Man. His Springboard feature project Pest Control is a family comedy about a city that gets overrun by monsters.
Hannah Moon's project Starfish, is a comedy, which she is co-writing with Robin Geradts-Gill and Stephen Sholl. Tom McKeith.s project Boxer is a thriller and is currently...
- 3/12/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has added another funding round for its Short Film Completion Fund.
Film-makers can apply for up to $40,000 in post-production costs in order to complete their short film.
The additional round may cheer the film-making community following December’s news that the national screen agency’s feature fund had dried up for the financial year.
On the importance of short films, Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “Short films are hugely important in raising filmmakers’ profiles in the industry and provide an essential stepping-stone in a professional career path. Our completion fund recognises the passion, talent and ambition of new Australian talent who are getting out there by whatever means they have to tell their stories.”
Writer-director Neil Triffett with producer Lee Matthews has received $40,000 to complete their short, Emo (The Musical), a musical comedy which tells the story of an unlikely high school romance between...
Film-makers can apply for up to $40,000 in post-production costs in order to complete their short film.
The additional round may cheer the film-making community following December’s news that the national screen agency’s feature fund had dried up for the financial year.
On the importance of short films, Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “Short films are hugely important in raising filmmakers’ profiles in the industry and provide an essential stepping-stone in a professional career path. Our completion fund recognises the passion, talent and ambition of new Australian talent who are getting out there by whatever means they have to tell their stories.”
Writer-director Neil Triffett with producer Lee Matthews has received $40,000 to complete their short, Emo (The Musical), a musical comedy which tells the story of an unlikely high school romance between...
- 2/6/2013
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
From horror to doco, Colin Delaney speaks to five film-makers about their feature length debut.
Director Kevin Smith famously funded his first film, Clerks, by selling off his prized comic book collection. Pedro Almodovar’s first foray into features was so technically flawed, he reportedly put it down to personal style. And finishing Hard Eight was a baptism of fire, according to Paul Thomas Anderson, who has been quoted as saying: “I learned all the lessons I needed to learn on the first film about protecting myself and how to keep a lock on the editing room door.” Such are the trials and trade offs of film-makers when it comes to making their first feature.
The reality, according to Screen Australia, is that between 1970 and 2011, approximately 70 per cent of first-time producers, directors and writers didn’t go on to make a second film. Martha Coleman, head of development at Screen Australia,...
Director Kevin Smith famously funded his first film, Clerks, by selling off his prized comic book collection. Pedro Almodovar’s first foray into features was so technically flawed, he reportedly put it down to personal style. And finishing Hard Eight was a baptism of fire, according to Paul Thomas Anderson, who has been quoted as saying: “I learned all the lessons I needed to learn on the first film about protecting myself and how to keep a lock on the editing room door.” Such are the trials and trade offs of film-makers when it comes to making their first feature.
The reality, according to Screen Australia, is that between 1970 and 2011, approximately 70 per cent of first-time producers, directors and writers didn’t go on to make a second film. Martha Coleman, head of development at Screen Australia,...
- 12/19/2012
- by Luke
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia will allocate $2.7 million to support four production companies and four film producers as part of its enterprise funding program.
The enterprise program, which began in 2009 with $9 million allocated across 12 production companies, is aimed at building a sustainable screen industry.
The latest companies to receive funding are: Bearcage Pty Ltd (Michael Tear, Serge Ou); Joined Up Films Pty Ltd (Daniel Brown, Jacqueline Willinge, Anne Brown, Anthony Willinge); Jungleboys (Jason Burrows, Trent O.Donnell, Phil Lloyd); and Wtfn Holdings (Daryl Talbot, Steve Oemcke, Frank Dunphy, Andrew Logie-Smith). The four successful feature film producers are: Jessica Brentnall (Magic Films Pty Ltd); Angie Fielder (Aquarius Films); Nicole O.Donohue (Wildflower Films); and Nelson Woss (Woss Group Film Productions Pty Ltd).
.The eight recipients approved in the latest rounds of Screen Australia.s enterprise program will enable the companies and individuals chosen to step up to the next stage of their development and...
The enterprise program, which began in 2009 with $9 million allocated across 12 production companies, is aimed at building a sustainable screen industry.
The latest companies to receive funding are: Bearcage Pty Ltd (Michael Tear, Serge Ou); Joined Up Films Pty Ltd (Daniel Brown, Jacqueline Willinge, Anne Brown, Anthony Willinge); Jungleboys (Jason Burrows, Trent O.Donnell, Phil Lloyd); and Wtfn Holdings (Daryl Talbot, Steve Oemcke, Frank Dunphy, Andrew Logie-Smith). The four successful feature film producers are: Jessica Brentnall (Magic Films Pty Ltd); Angie Fielder (Aquarius Films); Nicole O.Donohue (Wildflower Films); and Nelson Woss (Woss Group Film Productions Pty Ltd).
.The eight recipients approved in the latest rounds of Screen Australia.s enterprise program will enable the companies and individuals chosen to step up to the next stage of their development and...
- 11/12/2012
- by Staff Reporter
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has committed almost $700,000 in development support across 23 feature projects.
Fifteen new projects have been added to Screen Australia.s development slate, while eight teams will receive continued support to develop their projects.
Two Australian filmmakers will also be supported to undertake overseas internships: producer Ma.ara Bobby Romia will work for six months with Screentime Group in New Zealand and director Ariel Martin-Merrells will work under the mentorship of director James Foley in Los Angeles for five months.
Screen Australia.s head of development Martha Coleman said in a statement: .Following a now well-established tradition, the development slate announced today includes a diverse range of compelling stories from both established and emerging filmmakers. The high calibre of screenplays coming through our door backs up positive feedback we are getting from the domestic and international marketplace and I.m looking forward to seeing the best of these projects make...
Fifteen new projects have been added to Screen Australia.s development slate, while eight teams will receive continued support to develop their projects.
Two Australian filmmakers will also be supported to undertake overseas internships: producer Ma.ara Bobby Romia will work for six months with Screentime Group in New Zealand and director Ariel Martin-Merrells will work under the mentorship of director James Foley in Los Angeles for five months.
Screen Australia.s head of development Martha Coleman said in a statement: .Following a now well-established tradition, the development slate announced today includes a diverse range of compelling stories from both established and emerging filmmakers. The high calibre of screenplays coming through our door backs up positive feedback we are getting from the domestic and international marketplace and I.m looking forward to seeing the best of these projects make...
- 8/29/2012
- by Staff reporter
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has opened applications for its Script Factory program with two workshops, Wrestling the Redraft and the Script Developers Initiative.
The announcement:
Applications are now open for Screen Australia’s popular Script Factory program, featuring two workshops which will provide high-quality training in script analysis and development.
Returning for a sixth time due to popular demand, the Script Developers Initiative is a three-day intensive practical workshop specifically aimed at professionals working in a development role, as well as applicants whose professional commitment is finding and working with screenwriters. Screen Australia is also offering a two-day extension workshop entitled Wrestling the Redraft, which will be offered exclusively to past alumni of the Script Developers Initiative.
Participants in the Script Developers Initiative will be introduced to a structured approach of assessing scripts and preparing a development strategy. By examining produced screenplays and reading early work by new screenwriters, participants will consider...
The announcement:
Applications are now open for Screen Australia’s popular Script Factory program, featuring two workshops which will provide high-quality training in script analysis and development.
Returning for a sixth time due to popular demand, the Script Developers Initiative is a three-day intensive practical workshop specifically aimed at professionals working in a development role, as well as applicants whose professional commitment is finding and working with screenwriters. Screen Australia is also offering a two-day extension workshop entitled Wrestling the Redraft, which will be offered exclusively to past alumni of the Script Developers Initiative.
Participants in the Script Developers Initiative will be introduced to a structured approach of assessing scripts and preparing a development strategy. By examining produced screenplays and reading early work by new screenwriters, participants will consider...
- 8/21/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Hive Lab, an initiative of the Adelaide Film Festival, Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation, ABC TV and the Australian Council, is closing its applications as of Monday 13 August.
The lab aims to bring together film-makers and artists to create screen-based creative content. Last year participants included Beaconsfield’s Glendyn Ivin, Dead Europe’s Tony Krawitz and Hail’s Amiel Courtin-Wilson.
The announcement:
The application deadline for Hive is Monday 13 August. Artists and filmmakers interested in cross collaboration should not miss the opportunity to participate in this inspiring event.
The second Hive Lab is an initiative of the Adelaide Film Festival, Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation, ABC TV and the Australia Council for the Arts and will take place from 11 – 14 October alongside the Melbourne Arts Festival.
The Hive Lab will bring talented filmmakers and artists together for four days to nurture screen-based creative ideas that cut across artistic boundaries.
The lab aims to bring together film-makers and artists to create screen-based creative content. Last year participants included Beaconsfield’s Glendyn Ivin, Dead Europe’s Tony Krawitz and Hail’s Amiel Courtin-Wilson.
The announcement:
The application deadline for Hive is Monday 13 August. Artists and filmmakers interested in cross collaboration should not miss the opportunity to participate in this inspiring event.
The second Hive Lab is an initiative of the Adelaide Film Festival, Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation, ABC TV and the Australia Council for the Arts and will take place from 11 – 14 October alongside the Melbourne Arts Festival.
The Hive Lab will bring talented filmmakers and artists together for four days to nurture screen-based creative ideas that cut across artistic boundaries.
- 8/9/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
This article originally appeared in If Magazine issue #146 (April-May 2012).
Broadcasters, take heed. Science-fiction is no longer just the domain of socially-inept teenage boys and overgrown fans of Dungeons and Dragons. With shows like The Walking Dead attracting viewers in their millions and HBO developing a series based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling fantasy American Gods, it has never been more acceptable to prefer your entertainment with a touch of nerdiness.
As a television genre, sci-fi has a long history. The grandfather of all American science-fiction programming is Star Trek, while the United Kingdom has spent almost half a century watching the adventures of everyone's favourite timelord in Doctor Who. But try naming a similarly iconic Australian TV series and you'll find yourself struggling.
The science-fiction and fantasy genre has always been enormously popular with younger audiences across all mediums, a factor ABC3 is all too aware of. Last year the...
Broadcasters, take heed. Science-fiction is no longer just the domain of socially-inept teenage boys and overgrown fans of Dungeons and Dragons. With shows like The Walking Dead attracting viewers in their millions and HBO developing a series based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling fantasy American Gods, it has never been more acceptable to prefer your entertainment with a touch of nerdiness.
As a television genre, sci-fi has a long history. The grandfather of all American science-fiction programming is Star Trek, while the United Kingdom has spent almost half a century watching the adventures of everyone's favourite timelord in Doctor Who. But try naming a similarly iconic Australian TV series and you'll find yourself struggling.
The science-fiction and fantasy genre has always been enormously popular with younger audiences across all mediums, a factor ABC3 is all too aware of. Last year the...
- 6/21/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has just announced almost $400,000 in development funding to take sixteen feature film projects from the script stage into the production phase. Six projects will receive continued development support, while ten new projects have been added to the development slate. Screen Australia's Head of Development Martha Coleman said, "The calibre of feature projects coming to the Development Department is outstanding.
- 5/15/2012
- FilmInk.com.au
A musical from Red Dog director Kriv Stenders, a feature about the choir of hard knocks directed by Jonathan Teplitzky and an untitled project from Joel and Nash Edgerton are three of 16 features that have received a share of $400,000 in development support from Screen Australia. Of these 16 projects, ten are new additions to the development slate, while the remaining six have been receiving ongoing assistance. Screen Australia.s head of development Martha Coleman said in a statement that the calibre of features was outstanding. .There.s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our filmmakers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting..
Synchronicity, which is written by Marissa Goodhill,. produced by Leesa Kahn and Catriona Hughes and has Kriv Stenders attached as director, is a musical set to the songs of Kylie Minogue. It follows 17-year-old Kylie...
Synchronicity, which is written by Marissa Goodhill,. produced by Leesa Kahn and Catriona Hughes and has Kriv Stenders attached as director, is a musical set to the songs of Kylie Minogue. It follows 17-year-old Kylie...
- 5/15/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
Some of Australia’s biggest names in film-making have received funding for new projects in the latest round of Screen Australia’s single-project feature development.
The funding round for script development has supported 16 projects totalling $400,000, ten new projects and six which receive continued support.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “The calibre of feature projects coming to the Development Department is outstanding. There’s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our film-makers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting.”
Film-makers include Julia Leigh, the Edgerton brothers, Abe Forsythe and Kriv Stenders.
Julia Leigh is to direct her second film, Disquiet following on from Sleeping Beauty, which won best direction in a feature film at the Australian Director’s Guild Awards on Friday night. The psychological horror will be adapted by Leigh from her book of the same name.
The funding round for script development has supported 16 projects totalling $400,000, ten new projects and six which receive continued support.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “The calibre of feature projects coming to the Development Department is outstanding. There’s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our film-makers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting.”
Film-makers include Julia Leigh, the Edgerton brothers, Abe Forsythe and Kriv Stenders.
Julia Leigh is to direct her second film, Disquiet following on from Sleeping Beauty, which won best direction in a feature film at the Australian Director’s Guild Awards on Friday night. The psychological horror will be adapted by Leigh from her book of the same name.
- 5/14/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has invested in five short films this week, including the directorial debut of popular children's author and illustrator Graeme Base.
The Gallant Captain, adapted from Base's own picture book The Legend of the Golden Snail, was one of two films selected to share in $300,000 of financing as part of the Short Animation Production Program. The story, a child's pirate fantasy, will be co-directed by Base and producer Katrina Mathers (Nullarbor).
The second recipient, stop-motion sand animation short The Crossing, will be animated, written and directed by visual artist Marieka Walsh and producer Donna Chang. The Crossing is the pair's second sand animated short film, their previous collaboration The Hunter recently screened at the SXSW festival.
Previous shorts funded through the agency's animation program include the Oscar-winning films The Lost Thing and Harvie Krumpet.
After an intensive three-month development process, three live action films have also been selected to...
The Gallant Captain, adapted from Base's own picture book The Legend of the Golden Snail, was one of two films selected to share in $300,000 of financing as part of the Short Animation Production Program. The story, a child's pirate fantasy, will be co-directed by Base and producer Katrina Mathers (Nullarbor).
The second recipient, stop-motion sand animation short The Crossing, will be animated, written and directed by visual artist Marieka Walsh and producer Donna Chang. The Crossing is the pair's second sand animated short film, their previous collaboration The Hunter recently screened at the SXSW festival.
Previous shorts funded through the agency's animation program include the Oscar-winning films The Lost Thing and Harvie Krumpet.
After an intensive three-month development process, three live action films have also been selected to...
- 3/30/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
Three creative teams have received investment through Screen Australia’s Springboard Short Film Initiative.
The idea behind the Springboard Short Film Course is to offer creative teams the opportunity to make a short film which will be the grounding for a feature film idea.
Writer/director Nicholas Verso and producer John Malloy will make The Last Time I Saw Richard, while writer/director Miranda Nation with producer Lyn Norfor will make Perception and writer/director Sean Kruck with producer Caroline Barry will make Snowblind.
Previous recipient writer/director Zak Hilditch made the short film Transmission with producer Liz Kearney which was selected for this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and helped them and secure finance in feature These Final Hours.
Another previous recipient was Grant Scicluna whose film The Wilding won at this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival for Best Australian Short and was in competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
The idea behind the Springboard Short Film Course is to offer creative teams the opportunity to make a short film which will be the grounding for a feature film idea.
Writer/director Nicholas Verso and producer John Malloy will make The Last Time I Saw Richard, while writer/director Miranda Nation with producer Lyn Norfor will make Perception and writer/director Sean Kruck with producer Caroline Barry will make Snowblind.
Previous recipient writer/director Zak Hilditch made the short film Transmission with producer Liz Kearney which was selected for this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and helped them and secure finance in feature These Final Hours.
Another previous recipient was Grant Scicluna whose film The Wilding won at this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival for Best Australian Short and was in competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
- 3/29/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Australian children’s author and illustrator Graeme Base, whose work includes Animalia and The Eleventh Hour, is to make his film directorial debut.
Base will co-direct with Katrina Mathers the film The Gallant Captain, an adaptation of his book The Legend of the Golden Snail.
Mathers with Daryl Munton of The Lampshade Collective was behind last year’s The Nullabor which won Sydney Film Festival’s Best Animated Short Film Award at both the Sydney Film Festival 2011 and the Aacta Awards 2012.
The short film has received funding from Screen Australia through the agency’s short animation production program.
Also to receive funding from Screen Australia is The Crossing, a stop-motion sand animation from writer/director/animator and visual artists Marieka Walsh. Sand animation is the use of sand on a lighted piece of glass to create each frame.
The film follows on from the success of Walsh’s team with The Hunter,...
Base will co-direct with Katrina Mathers the film The Gallant Captain, an adaptation of his book The Legend of the Golden Snail.
Mathers with Daryl Munton of The Lampshade Collective was behind last year’s The Nullabor which won Sydney Film Festival’s Best Animated Short Film Award at both the Sydney Film Festival 2011 and the Aacta Awards 2012.
The short film has received funding from Screen Australia through the agency’s short animation production program.
Also to receive funding from Screen Australia is The Crossing, a stop-motion sand animation from writer/director/animator and visual artists Marieka Walsh. Sand animation is the use of sand on a lighted piece of glass to create each frame.
The film follows on from the success of Walsh’s team with The Hunter,...
- 3/29/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Federal Court of Australia has confirmed that TV documentary series Lush House should qualify for the Producer Offset rebate after Screen Australia challenged last year's similar decision by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
The national screen agency originally rejected Essential Media and Entertainment's Producer Offset application because it viewed the ten-episode cleaning series as a 'reality' program. However, Essential argued that the series, which follows household expert Shannon Lush as she gives cleaning advice to homemakers, was similar to another of its programs, Is Your House Killing You?, which did receive the tax break.
The Aat confirmed Essential's position although Screen Australia then challenged that judgement in the Federal Court.
Essential said the Federal Court did not find any fault with the process followed by the lower court in determining that Lush House is eligible for the 20 per cent tax rebate available for broadcast documentaries.
Essential Media and Entertainment chief...
The national screen agency originally rejected Essential Media and Entertainment's Producer Offset application because it viewed the ten-episode cleaning series as a 'reality' program. However, Essential argued that the series, which follows household expert Shannon Lush as she gives cleaning advice to homemakers, was similar to another of its programs, Is Your House Killing You?, which did receive the tax break.
The Aat confirmed Essential's position although Screen Australia then challenged that judgement in the Federal Court.
Essential said the Federal Court did not find any fault with the process followed by the lower court in determining that Lush House is eligible for the 20 per cent tax rebate available for broadcast documentaries.
Essential Media and Entertainment chief...
- 3/7/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Through its Short Film Completion Fund, Screen Australia has announced $133,000 in support for four short film productions.
Writer/director Alexandra Schepisi (One Night), also star of The Eye of the Storm and daughter to its director Fred Schepisi, will receive funding for her short Lois, produced by Rachel Higgins. The film stars Jacki Weaver.
Writer/director Sophie Miller (Half Windsor) has received finance for film Spine, starring Snowtown’s Lucas Pittaway, produced by Sheila Jayadex and executive produced by Prue Williams. Spine is the story of a paraplegic.
Also receiving financing is Strange Face, written and directed by Lynne Vincent McCarthy and produced by Samantha Jennings, exploring the world of a socially awkward girl who’s looking for a friend.
Writer/Director Scott Pickett’s The One who Broke Your Heart, also written by Luke Tierney, and produced by Bruce Dawson and Lawrence Lim examines a person revisiting a past relationship.
Writer/director Alexandra Schepisi (One Night), also star of The Eye of the Storm and daughter to its director Fred Schepisi, will receive funding for her short Lois, produced by Rachel Higgins. The film stars Jacki Weaver.
Writer/director Sophie Miller (Half Windsor) has received finance for film Spine, starring Snowtown’s Lucas Pittaway, produced by Sheila Jayadex and executive produced by Prue Williams. Spine is the story of a paraplegic.
Also receiving financing is Strange Face, written and directed by Lynne Vincent McCarthy and produced by Samantha Jennings, exploring the world of a socially awkward girl who’s looking for a friend.
Writer/Director Scott Pickett’s The One who Broke Your Heart, also written by Luke Tierney, and produced by Bruce Dawson and Lawrence Lim examines a person revisiting a past relationship.
- 1/10/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has announced its latest intake of the Springboard: Short Film Initiative.
Springboard is designed to help promising filmmaking teams transition from short to feature film.
The teams are:
Writer/director Nicholas Verso and producer John Molloy Writer/director Miranda Nation and producer Lyn Nyfor Writer/director Lynne Vincent McCarthy and producer Samantha Jennings Writer/director Sean Kruck and producer Caroline Barry Writer/director/producer Antony Webb, writer/producer Ethan Marrell and producer Jaclyn Hewer.
With a feature film concept already in mind, the teams will make a short film that relates to the bigger project while taking tailor-made workshops that support each creative team.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “This year we are very fortunate to have the hugely talented Paul Welsh running the program for us. We have refocused the workshop to place the emphasis on process and pushing the emotional core of the stories.
Springboard is designed to help promising filmmaking teams transition from short to feature film.
The teams are:
Writer/director Nicholas Verso and producer John Molloy Writer/director Miranda Nation and producer Lyn Nyfor Writer/director Lynne Vincent McCarthy and producer Samantha Jennings Writer/director Sean Kruck and producer Caroline Barry Writer/director/producer Antony Webb, writer/producer Ethan Marrell and producer Jaclyn Hewer.
With a feature film concept already in mind, the teams will make a short film that relates to the bigger project while taking tailor-made workshops that support each creative team.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “This year we are very fortunate to have the hugely talented Paul Welsh running the program for us. We have refocused the workshop to place the emphasis on process and pushing the emotional core of the stories.
- 12/6/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
This article is continued from here. Filmmakers can then elect to take their project to a second stage where it is evaluated by a production investment committee. .We do not insist on project.s withdrawing or tell them .no.,. Dabner says. .We always empower the producer to make the decision about what they do next after our meetings. We are frank and honest with them about how we think it might travel through the process but we also say there are no guarantees.. This panel, chaired by chief executive Ruth Harley, is comprised of Dabner, Treole, head of production investment Ross Matthews, head of development Martha Coleman and head of marketing Kathleen Drumm. Dabner says the last couple of funding rounds included about 20 assessments...
- 10/18/2011
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
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