Universal Pictures Content Group will release the title in UK, France, Germany and Italy.
Kitty Green’s thriller The Royal Hotel has been snapped up by Universal Pictures Content Group across several key international territories, including UK, France, Germany and Italy.
The thriller has enjoyed critical acclaim during a buzzy festival run across Telluride, Toronto and San Sebastian, and is playing in competition at BFI London Film Festival, where it premieres on October 6. The film will be released in UK and Ireland cinemas on November 3.
It reunites Australian writer-director Green with US actor Julia Garner, following their collaboration in Green’s 2019 drama,...
Kitty Green’s thriller The Royal Hotel has been snapped up by Universal Pictures Content Group across several key international territories, including UK, France, Germany and Italy.
The thriller has enjoyed critical acclaim during a buzzy festival run across Telluride, Toronto and San Sebastian, and is playing in competition at BFI London Film Festival, where it premieres on October 6. The film will be released in UK and Ireland cinemas on November 3.
It reunites Australian writer-director Green with US actor Julia Garner, following their collaboration in Green’s 2019 drama,...
- 10/5/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Signature Entertainment has acquired U.K. and Ireland rights to writer-director Warwick Thornton’s Australian drama “The New Boy” from The Veterans.
The film follows a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun, disturbing the delicately balanced world.
Debutant Aswan Reid leads the film in the titular role, alongside Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman (“Sapphires”) and Wayne Blair (“Rams”).
“Inspired by Thornton’s own experience of growing up as an Aboriginal boy in a Christian boarding school, this is ambitious, tonally tricky filmmaking, bringing an unexpected dose of whimsy to social interests more austerely explored in Thornton’s excellent previous features “Samson and Delilah” and “Sweet Country,” Variety critic Guy Lodge said in his review of the film.
“The New Boy”
The film is produced by Kath Shelper (“Samson & Delilah”) for Scarlett Pictures, Blanchett and Andrew Upton (“Stateless...
The film follows a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun, disturbing the delicately balanced world.
Debutant Aswan Reid leads the film in the titular role, alongside Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman (“Sapphires”) and Wayne Blair (“Rams”).
“Inspired by Thornton’s own experience of growing up as an Aboriginal boy in a Christian boarding school, this is ambitious, tonally tricky filmmaking, bringing an unexpected dose of whimsy to social interests more austerely explored in Thornton’s excellent previous features “Samson and Delilah” and “Sweet Country,” Variety critic Guy Lodge said in his review of the film.
“The New Boy”
The film is produced by Kath Shelper (“Samson & Delilah”) for Scarlett Pictures, Blanchett and Andrew Upton (“Stateless...
- 9/26/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
In 2019, Australian documentary filmmaker Kitty Green made her first narrative movie, a piercing almost cinéma vérité-style movie focused on an office assistant in a Tribeca film company run by a not-so-thinly disguised Harvey Weinstein. The male culture there and the sexual acts of the boss made it almost a modern horror story at the height of the #MeToo movement. For Green’s second narrative film she has changed up the filmmaking style considerably, but with The Royal Hotel which premiered last week at Telluride and now premieres tonight at the Toronto Film Festival, she is taking an even deeper look at the dark side of men as seen through the female gaze in a broken down hotel bar in a desolate part of the Australian Outback.
Based on Pete Gleeson’s 2017 documentary about two Scandinavian girls stuck at the Hotel Coolgardie, the actual set-up here would make it ideal for a horror movie,...
Based on Pete Gleeson’s 2017 documentary about two Scandinavian girls stuck at the Hotel Coolgardie, the actual set-up here would make it ideal for a horror movie,...
- 9/11/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
A year and a half has gone by since it was announced that Julia Garner (Ozark) and Jessica Henwick (The Matrix Resurrections) had signed on to star in The Royal Hotel, an Australian production that was being described as a “social thriller”. The project was a reunion for Garner and director Kitty Green, as they had previously worked together on Green’s feature directorial debut, the 2019 drama The Assistant. The Royal Hotel has since made its way through production and had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival – and now it’s ready to be seen by a wider audience. Neon will be giving the film a theatrical release on October 6th, and today a trailer has dropped online. You can check it out in the embed above.
Also starring Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) and said to be inspired by true events, The Royal Hotel follows Hanna (Garner) and...
Also starring Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) and said to be inspired by true events, The Royal Hotel follows Hanna (Garner) and...
- 9/7/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Julia Garner needs no assistance leading a chilling thriller.
The “Ozark” breakout star reunites with her “The Assistant” writer/director Kitty Green for Neon’s “The Royal Hotel.”
Per the official synopsis, Americans Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called The Royal Hotel in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy (Hugo Weaving) and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Livy find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
Toby Wallace, Ursula Yovich, Daniel Henshall, James Frecheville, and Herbert Nordrum also star. “The Royal Hotel” premiered at Telluride and is produced by lain Canning, Emile Sherman, Liz Watts, and Kath Shelper.
The “Ozark” breakout star reunites with her “The Assistant” writer/director Kitty Green for Neon’s “The Royal Hotel.”
Per the official synopsis, Americans Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called The Royal Hotel in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy (Hugo Weaving) and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Livy find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
Toby Wallace, Ursula Yovich, Daniel Henshall, James Frecheville, and Herbert Nordrum also star. “The Royal Hotel” premiered at Telluride and is produced by lain Canning, Emile Sherman, Liz Watts, and Kath Shelper.
- 9/7/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Extraordinary Host
Korean actors Lee Je Hoon and Park Eun-bin, star of “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” are set as hosts of the opening ceremony at the Busan International Film Festival. The event will take place on the evening of Oct. 4 at the purpose-built Busan Cinema Center.
Park performed as the first cross-dressing queen in a Korean historical drama with “The King’s Affection” in 2021 and cemented her position as the lead of hit contemporary drama series “Extraordinary Attorney Woo.”
Lee emerged as a rising star with his intense performances in films such as “Bleak Night “(2011), “The Front Line” (2011) and “Architecture 101” (2012). Following that, he showcased a broad range of acting skills in various genres, as seen in films “Anarchist From Colony” (2017), “I Can Speak” (2017) and “Time to Hunt.”
The pair previously shared the screen in the 2014 drama series “Secret Door.“
The festival runs Oct. 4-13.
Mix Tape Memories
Binge, the streaming arm of Australian pay-tv group Foxtel,...
Korean actors Lee Je Hoon and Park Eun-bin, star of “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” are set as hosts of the opening ceremony at the Busan International Film Festival. The event will take place on the evening of Oct. 4 at the purpose-built Busan Cinema Center.
Park performed as the first cross-dressing queen in a Korean historical drama with “The King’s Affection” in 2021 and cemented her position as the lead of hit contemporary drama series “Extraordinary Attorney Woo.”
Lee emerged as a rising star with his intense performances in films such as “Bleak Night “(2011), “The Front Line” (2011) and “Architecture 101” (2012). Following that, he showcased a broad range of acting skills in various genres, as seen in films “Anarchist From Colony” (2017), “I Can Speak” (2017) and “Time to Hunt.”
The pair previously shared the screen in the 2014 drama series “Secret Door.“
The festival runs Oct. 4-13.
Mix Tape Memories
Binge, the streaming arm of Australian pay-tv group Foxtel,...
- 8/28/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Scarlett Pictures' Kath Shelper may have made a decision a few years ago to retire from producing, yet she's helped to bring to screen two of the most anticipated Australian films of late: Warwick Thornton's 'The New Boy', which lands in cinemas on Thursday after a Cannes berth, and Kitty Green's upcoming 'The Royal Hotel'.
The post Kath Shelper goes from ‘The New Boy’ to ‘The Royal Hotel’ appeared first on If Magazine.
The post Kath Shelper goes from ‘The New Boy’ to ‘The Royal Hotel’ appeared first on If Magazine.
- 7/4/2023
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
“In all my career, I’ve never felt a room like you,” said Warwick Thornton, the First Nations Australian director, after the screening of his film “The New Boy,” a story of spirituality and survival set in 1940s, that was the opening night title of the Sydney Film Festival. “The energy you give back to these children…,” he said before tailing off.
It was a churning, heartfelt moment that contrasted with Thornton’s bouncy earlier appearance on stage, when he joshed about having told the eight untrained school-age kids in his cast never to look directly at the camera while on set. And how he had to reverse that advice for when they, along with producer Kath Shelper, dominated the red carpet at Sydney’s grand State Theatre. Smile and wave for the paparazzi.
The film had premiered last month in competition at Cannes and was overlooked for major awards.
It was a churning, heartfelt moment that contrasted with Thornton’s bouncy earlier appearance on stage, when he joshed about having told the eight untrained school-age kids in his cast never to look directly at the camera while on set. And how he had to reverse that advice for when they, along with producer Kath Shelper, dominated the red carpet at Sydney’s grand State Theatre. Smile and wave for the paparazzi.
The film had premiered last month in competition at Cannes and was overlooked for major awards.
- 6/8/2023
- by Patrick Frater and Katherine Tulich
- Variety Film + TV
Aussie filmmaker Warwick Thornton joked that Cate Blanchett “elbowed” her way into his crafty sixth feature, The New Boy, as he introduced the pic at Deadline’s Cannes Studio shortly before its festival premiere.
In the pic, which debuted this week at Cannes, Blanchett plays Sister Eileen, a mysterious nun who runs an orphanage for lost boys; however, the role was originally written as a priest, to be played by a male actor, until the two-time Oscar winner came along.
“The character of sister Eileen wasn’t in the script at that time, but Cate coming along actually made it beautiful,” Thornton said.
Blanchett told Deadline that she initially reached out to Thornton during the pandemic and the pair began a virtual workshop to discuss opportunities they could create to work together.
“Like a lot of people during the pandemic, I thought well look, who do I really want to be a dialogue with?...
In the pic, which debuted this week at Cannes, Blanchett plays Sister Eileen, a mysterious nun who runs an orphanage for lost boys; however, the role was originally written as a priest, to be played by a male actor, until the two-time Oscar winner came along.
“The character of sister Eileen wasn’t in the script at that time, but Cate coming along actually made it beautiful,” Thornton said.
Blanchett told Deadline that she initially reached out to Thornton during the pandemic and the pair began a virtual workshop to discuss opportunities they could create to work together.
“Like a lot of people during the pandemic, I thought well look, who do I really want to be a dialogue with?...
- 5/20/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The genesis of Warwick Thornton’s seventh narrative feature The New Boy stretches back to the beginning of the Australian’s fictional filmmaking career. Thornton drafted the first script of The New Boy — a story about innocence and survival, following a lone Indigenous boy who finds himself in a Christian monastery in 1940s Australia — 18 years ago, well before he won Cannes’ Camera d’Or prize in 2009 for his feature debut, Samson & Delilah. The New Boy has always been a deeply personal project for Thornton, who as a young boy was sent by his mother to a remote boarding school run by Spanish monks.
“I had been getting in trouble back home in Alice Springs [a small city in Australia’s Northern Territory] and it was what she thought I needed to sort me out,” says Thornton. “I had never been inside a church before. I walked into the church building for the first time and saw this guy...
“I had been getting in trouble back home in Alice Springs [a small city in Australia’s Northern Territory] and it was what she thought I needed to sort me out,” says Thornton. “I had never been inside a church before. I walked into the church building for the first time and saw this guy...
- 5/17/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here’s your first look at Cate Blanchett in The New Boy, the latest film from Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton.
The pic will debut in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, which will be Thornton’s second appearance at the fest, following 2009’s Samson & Delilah, for which he won the Caméra d’Or Award for first-time directors.
Set in 1940s Australia, The New Boy is the story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy (Reid) who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films and Scarlett Pictures partnered to co-produce, with Roadshow Films distributing for Australia and New Zealand, CAA Media Finance and UTA handling sales for North America, and The Veterans on board to manage sales...
The pic will debut in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, which will be Thornton’s second appearance at the fest, following 2009’s Samson & Delilah, for which he won the Caméra d’Or Award for first-time directors.
Set in 1940s Australia, The New Boy is the story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy (Reid) who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films and Scarlett Pictures partnered to co-produce, with Roadshow Films distributing for Australia and New Zealand, CAA Media Finance and UTA handling sales for North America, and The Veterans on board to manage sales...
- 4/14/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Royal Hotel
A favorite of ours amongst working female directors always surprising us with her ingenuity, originality and formal rigueur as witnessed in the Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013), Casting JonBenet (2017) and The Assistant (2019), Kitty Green mounted her fourth feature this past summer. The Australian outback The Royal Hotel sees Green reunite with actress Julia Garner – along with Jessica Henwick, Hugo Weaving and Toby Wallace. This was produced by See-Saw Films, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Liz Watts, Kath Shelper.
Gist: This follows American backpackers Hannah and her friend Sydney, who resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel, a bar in a tiny, male-dominated mining town deep in the Australian Outback.…...
A favorite of ours amongst working female directors always surprising us with her ingenuity, originality and formal rigueur as witnessed in the Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013), Casting JonBenet (2017) and The Assistant (2019), Kitty Green mounted her fourth feature this past summer. The Australian outback The Royal Hotel sees Green reunite with actress Julia Garner – along with Jessica Henwick, Hugo Weaving and Toby Wallace. This was produced by See-Saw Films, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Liz Watts, Kath Shelper.
Gist: This follows American backpackers Hannah and her friend Sydney, who resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel, a bar in a tiny, male-dominated mining town deep in the Australian Outback.…...
- 1/19/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Blanchett is among producers on the feature, which has been backed by Fremantle and Screen Australia’s First Nations department.
First Nations filmmaker Warwick Thornton’s anticipated new drama The New Boy has wrapped production in South Australia.
The feature has received major funding from Screen Australia’s First Nations department, alongside Fremantle and Gretel Packer’s Longbridge Nominees, who join producers Kath Shelper for Scarlett Pictures; and Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton, Georgie Pym and Coco Francini for Dirty Films.
Newcomer Aswan Reid has been cast as the lead, alongside Blanchett, The Sapphires star Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair, who directed The Sapphires.
First Nations filmmaker Warwick Thornton’s anticipated new drama The New Boy has wrapped production in South Australia.
The feature has received major funding from Screen Australia’s First Nations department, alongside Fremantle and Gretel Packer’s Longbridge Nominees, who join producers Kath Shelper for Scarlett Pictures; and Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton, Georgie Pym and Coco Francini for Dirty Films.
Newcomer Aswan Reid has been cast as the lead, alongside Blanchett, The Sapphires star Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair, who directed The Sapphires.
- 12/8/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Production wraps this week on “The New Boy,” a drama film by Australian Indigenous filmmaker Warwick Thornton on which Cate Blanchett takes both a starring role and a producer credit.
Set in 1940s Australia, “The New Boy” is the story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy (portrayed by newcomer Aswan Reid) who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett). There his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in a story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Other established names in the cast include Deborah Mailman (“The Sapphires”) and Wayne Blair. An ensemble of new faces including Shane Brady, Tyrique Brady, Laiken Woolmington, Kailem Miller, Kyle Miller, Tyzailin Roderick and Tyler Spencer round out the cast.
Thornton is one of Australia’s most celebrated filmmakers. His “Samson And Delilah” won the Camera d’Or for best first film at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Set in 1940s Australia, “The New Boy” is the story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy (portrayed by newcomer Aswan Reid) who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett). There his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in a story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Other established names in the cast include Deborah Mailman (“The Sapphires”) and Wayne Blair. An ensemble of new faces including Shane Brady, Tyrique Brady, Laiken Woolmington, Kailem Miller, Kyle Miller, Tyzailin Roderick and Tyler Spencer round out the cast.
Thornton is one of Australia’s most celebrated filmmakers. His “Samson And Delilah” won the Camera d’Or for best first film at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
- 12/7/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
HanWay and Cross City Films handle international sales on the social thriller.
Neon has acquired North American rights for Kitty Green’s social thriller The Royal Hotel produced by See-Saw Films, starring Julia Garner, Hugo Weaving and Jessica Henwick.
Green and Garner will be reunited after starring together in Green’s The Assistant which premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival and earned the director an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Inspired by true events, the film follows best friends backpacking in Australia who take a temporary live-in job at The Royal Hotel pub in a remote mining town. But when the pair meet the bar owner,...
Neon has acquired North American rights for Kitty Green’s social thriller The Royal Hotel produced by See-Saw Films, starring Julia Garner, Hugo Weaving and Jessica Henwick.
Green and Garner will be reunited after starring together in Green’s The Assistant which premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival and earned the director an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Inspired by true events, the film follows best friends backpacking in Australia who take a temporary live-in job at The Royal Hotel pub in a remote mining town. But when the pair meet the bar owner,...
- 4/27/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Neon said Wednesday that it has acquired North American rights to The Royal Hotel, the social thriller that marks the next film from The Assistant writer-director Kitty Green. Her Assistant star Julia Garner will topline the pic alongside Jessica Henwick. Hugo Weaving also stars.
The pic, which will start shooting this summer in Australia, hails from See-Saw Films, which most recently produced the Oscar-nominated The Power of the Dog.
Inspired by true events, the The Royal Hotel revolves around Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Henwick), best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called The Royal Hotel in a remote Outback mining town. Bar Owner Billy (Weaving) and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture, but things turn nasty when their...
The pic, which will start shooting this summer in Australia, hails from See-Saw Films, which most recently produced the Oscar-nominated The Power of the Dog.
Inspired by true events, the The Royal Hotel revolves around Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Henwick), best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called The Royal Hotel in a remote Outback mining town. Bar Owner Billy (Weaving) and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture, but things turn nasty when their...
- 4/27/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Neon has snapped up the North American rights to “The Royal Hotel,” directed by “The Assistant” helmer Kitty Green and produced by See-Saw Films.
Billed as social thriller, the film stars two-time Emmy winner Julia Garner, AFI winner Hugo Weaving and Jessica Henwick.
“The Royal Hotel” reunites Green with her “Assistant” star Garner. “The Assistant” dealt with the broken culture at a film production company, where women are regularly sexually harassed by higher-ups. The film premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival and earned Garner an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Inspired by true events, “The Royal Hotel” follows Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Henwick) who are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called “The Royal Hotel” in a remote Outback mining town.
Bar owner Billy (Weaving) and a...
Billed as social thriller, the film stars two-time Emmy winner Julia Garner, AFI winner Hugo Weaving and Jessica Henwick.
“The Royal Hotel” reunites Green with her “Assistant” star Garner. “The Assistant” dealt with the broken culture at a film production company, where women are regularly sexually harassed by higher-ups. The film premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival and earned Garner an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Inspired by true events, “The Royal Hotel” follows Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Henwick) who are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called “The Royal Hotel” in a remote Outback mining town.
Bar owner Billy (Weaving) and a...
- 4/27/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
“Matrix” stars Jessica Henwick and Hugo Weaving may never have shared a screen in the sci-fi mega-franchise but fans will no doubt be thrilled to learn the duo will be uniting for Kitty Green’s upcoming thriller “The Royal Hotel.”
Henwick and Weaving join “Inventing Anna” star Julia Garner in the See-Saw Films production, which is based on a true story. Green and Garner previously collaborated on Green’s breakout hit “The Assistant,” which was inspired by the dramatic fall of Harvey Weinstein.
In “The Royal Hotel,” Garner plays Hannah who, alongside her best friend Liv (Henwick) goes backpacking in Australia. After running out of money the women take a live-in job in The Royal Hotel, a bar located in a remote mining town in the Australian outback.
Billy, the bar’s owner (played by Weaving) doesn’t hesitate to introduce the women to Australia’s hard-core drinking culture...
Henwick and Weaving join “Inventing Anna” star Julia Garner in the See-Saw Films production, which is based on a true story. Green and Garner previously collaborated on Green’s breakout hit “The Assistant,” which was inspired by the dramatic fall of Harvey Weinstein.
In “The Royal Hotel,” Garner plays Hannah who, alongside her best friend Liv (Henwick) goes backpacking in Australia. After running out of money the women take a live-in job in The Royal Hotel, a bar located in a remote mining town in the Australian outback.
Billy, the bar’s owner (played by Weaving) doesn’t hesitate to introduce the women to Australia’s hard-core drinking culture...
- 4/12/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Julia Garner also set to star in social thriller from See-Saw Films.
UK outfit HanWay Films has boarded international sales for Kitty Green’s upcoming thriller The Royal Hotel, with Hugo Weaving and Jessica Henwick joining Julia Garner in the cast.
Produced by See-Saw Films, HanWay Films will handle international sales and distribution in partnership with Cross City Films, See-Saw’s in-house sales arm. UTA Independent Film Group and Cross City Films are co-representing the US sale.
HanWay will commence sales this week with an online filmmaker presentation.
The feature reunites Ozark and Inventing Anna star Garner with Australian filmmaker Green,...
UK outfit HanWay Films has boarded international sales for Kitty Green’s upcoming thriller The Royal Hotel, with Hugo Weaving and Jessica Henwick joining Julia Garner in the cast.
Produced by See-Saw Films, HanWay Films will handle international sales and distribution in partnership with Cross City Films, See-Saw’s in-house sales arm. UTA Independent Film Group and Cross City Films are co-representing the US sale.
HanWay will commence sales this week with an online filmmaker presentation.
The feature reunites Ozark and Inventing Anna star Garner with Australian filmmaker Green,...
- 4/12/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Jessica Henwick (The Matrix Resurrections) and Hugo Weaving (Patrick Melrose) have joined the cast of The Royal Hotel, Kitty Green’s social thriller following two friends backpacking in Australia.
Julia Garner (Inventing Anna) also stars, having previously fronted director Green’s breakout pic The Assistant. Garner and Green play the duo who end up at the titular Royal Hotel, a locals bar where they find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation.
The Royal Hotel is being produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning of See-Saw Films Liz Watts, See-Saw Films’ Head of Film and Television (Aus), and Scarlett Pictures’ Kath Shelper. Green co-wrote the script with Oscar Redding (Van Diemen’s Land). The project starts shooting this summer in Australia.
HanWay Films has come on board to handle international sales and distribution in partnership with Cross City Films, See-Saw’s in-house sales arm. UTA Independent Film Group and Cross City Films are co-repping the U.
Julia Garner (Inventing Anna) also stars, having previously fronted director Green’s breakout pic The Assistant. Garner and Green play the duo who end up at the titular Royal Hotel, a locals bar where they find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation.
The Royal Hotel is being produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning of See-Saw Films Liz Watts, See-Saw Films’ Head of Film and Television (Aus), and Scarlett Pictures’ Kath Shelper. Green co-wrote the script with Oscar Redding (Van Diemen’s Land). The project starts shooting this summer in Australia.
HanWay Films has come on board to handle international sales and distribution in partnership with Cross City Films, See-Saw’s in-house sales arm. UTA Independent Film Group and Cross City Films are co-repping the U.
- 4/12/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
It’ll be Van Diemen’s Land and The Assistant reunion of sorts for Kitty Green this summer as the filmmaker will reteam with actor (and here co-scribe) Oscar Redding and actress Julia Garner on a fourth feature film/ second back to back feature film project. Titled The Royal Hotel, this Australian backed project will begin production this coming summer and we expect a co-lead actress to be attached any minute now that the news has dropped. See-Saw Films’ Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Liz Watts and Kath Shelper are producing. Simon Gillis will exec produce.
We’ve been fans of Green’s experi-docu beginnings with 2013’s Ukraine Is Not a Brothel, her 2015 short The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul and a whole new take on a communal town psyche in Casting JonBenet (2017).…...
We’ve been fans of Green’s experi-docu beginnings with 2013’s Ukraine Is Not a Brothel, her 2015 short The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul and a whole new take on a communal town psyche in Casting JonBenet (2017).…...
- 3/2/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Inventing Anna and Ozark star Julia Garner isn’t looking to slow down, as she is set to star in The Royal Hotel, sources tell Deadline. The film reteams Garner with Kitty Green, who helmed The Assistant, which earned Garner an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Green is directing Royal Hotel and co-writing the script with Oscar Redding. The pic will be produced by See-Saw Films, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Liz Watts, Kath Shelper, can you please add in all of the producers, it is important they are all credited as well as See-Saw Films . Simon Gillis will exec produce.
The story follows American backpackers Hannah and her friend Sydney, who resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel, a bar in a tiny, male-dominated mining town deep in the Australian Outback. The hotel is notorious for cycling through young female employees every few months, and it isn’t...
Green is directing Royal Hotel and co-writing the script with Oscar Redding. The pic will be produced by See-Saw Films, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Liz Watts, Kath Shelper, can you please add in all of the producers, it is important they are all credited as well as See-Saw Films . Simon Gillis will exec produce.
The story follows American backpackers Hannah and her friend Sydney, who resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel, a bar in a tiny, male-dominated mining town deep in the Australian Outback. The hotel is notorious for cycling through young female employees every few months, and it isn’t...
- 3/1/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Cate Blanchett is set to star in and produce the feature ‘The New Boy’ from award-winning Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton.
Set in 1940s Australia, the film tells the story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair will also star in the project.
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Written and directed by Thornton, Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym will produce the project for Dirty Films alongside Scarlett Pictures principal Kath Shelper.
“What a joy to finally be collaborating with Warwick — a filmmaker whose warmth, wit and humanity we have admired for so very long,” Blanchett said on behalf of Dirty Films.
Set in 1940s Australia, the film tells the story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair will also star in the project.
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Written and directed by Thornton, Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym will produce the project for Dirty Films alongside Scarlett Pictures principal Kath Shelper.
“What a joy to finally be collaborating with Warwick — a filmmaker whose warmth, wit and humanity we have admired for so very long,” Blanchett said on behalf of Dirty Films.
- 2/11/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films and Scarlett Pictures have teamed up to co-produce “The New Boy,” from award-winning Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton.
Blanchett will star in the film, set in 1940s Australia, alongside Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair. Written and directed by Thornton, “The New Boy” depicts the story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym will produce the project for Dirty Films alongside Scarlett Pictures principal Kath Shelper.
“What a joy to finally be collaborating with Warwick — a filmmaker whose warmth, wit and humanity we have admired for so very long,” Blanchett said on behalf of Dirty Films. “We can’t wait to be on the ground...
Blanchett will star in the film, set in 1940s Australia, alongside Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair. Written and directed by Thornton, “The New Boy” depicts the story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym will produce the project for Dirty Films alongside Scarlett Pictures principal Kath Shelper.
“What a joy to finally be collaborating with Warwick — a filmmaker whose warmth, wit and humanity we have admired for so very long,” Blanchett said on behalf of Dirty Films. “We can’t wait to be on the ground...
- 2/10/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films and Scarlett Pictures are partnering to co-produce The New Boy with Blanchett attached to star and Warwick Thornton writing and directing. Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair join Blanchett in the ensemble, which is set to begin filming in October in South Australia.
Roadshow Films will be distributing for Australia and New Zealand, CAA Media Finance and UTA will be handling sales for North America, and The Veterans is on board to manage sales for the remainder of the globe. Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym will be producing for Dirty Films, and Kath Shelper will produce for Scarlett Pictures.
“What a joy to finally be collaborating with Warwick — a filmmaker whose warmth, wit and humanity we have admired for so very long,” Blanchett said. “We can’t wait to be on the ground with him and the wonderful Kath Shelper to realise this startling story.
Roadshow Films will be distributing for Australia and New Zealand, CAA Media Finance and UTA will be handling sales for North America, and The Veterans is on board to manage sales for the remainder of the globe. Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym will be producing for Dirty Films, and Kath Shelper will produce for Scarlett Pictures.
“What a joy to finally be collaborating with Warwick — a filmmaker whose warmth, wit and humanity we have admired for so very long,” Blanchett said. “We can’t wait to be on the ground with him and the wonderful Kath Shelper to realise this startling story.
- 2/10/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Cate Blanchett is set to star in and produce a film called “The New Boy” that will be set in 1940s Australia and follow the journey of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy.
Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton (“Sweet Country”) will write and direct the drama, and filming is set to begin in October of this year in South Australia.
Blanchett will star in “The New Boy” as a renegade nun running a remote monastery who takes in the child after he arrives in the dead of the night. However, the new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair also star in the film.
Blanchett is producing through her Dirty Films banner alongside Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym, and Kath Shelper will also produce for Scarlett Pictures. The film was developed by Scarlett Pictures,...
Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton (“Sweet Country”) will write and direct the drama, and filming is set to begin in October of this year in South Australia.
Blanchett will star in “The New Boy” as a renegade nun running a remote monastery who takes in the child after he arrives in the dead of the night. However, the new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair also star in the film.
Blanchett is producing through her Dirty Films banner alongside Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym, and Kath Shelper will also produce for Scarlett Pictures. The film was developed by Scarlett Pictures,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Australia shoot set for October.
Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films is lining up an October shoot in Australia on The New Boy in which the Oscar winner will play a renegade nun who shelters a young Aboriginal boy. The Veterans, currently engaging with EFM buyers on Naomi Watts drama The Friend, handles international rights and will launch sales later this year.
Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair will also star in the production, which will shoot in South Australia. Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton, who directed Venice 2017 special jury prize winner and TIFF platform Prize winner Sweet Country, will direct from his own screenplay.
Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films is lining up an October shoot in Australia on The New Boy in which the Oscar winner will play a renegade nun who shelters a young Aboriginal boy. The Veterans, currently engaging with EFM buyers on Naomi Watts drama The Friend, handles international rights and will launch sales later this year.
Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair will also star in the production, which will shoot in South Australia. Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton, who directed Venice 2017 special jury prize winner and TIFF platform Prize winner Sweet Country, will direct from his own screenplay.
- 2/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
‘The Beach.’
Filmmaker Warwick Thornton was mentally and physically exhausted last year so he decided to spend a couple of months in isolation on a remote beach on the north-west coast of Western Australia.
Seeing the potential for a documentary, Thornton and the producers, Michelle Parker, Mitchell Stanley and Tanith Glynn-Maloney, sent a three-page pitch document to Nitv and Screen Australia.
The result is The Beach, a lyrical, evocative six-part series which premieres on Nitv, Sbs and Sbs On Demand this Friday at 7.30 pm.
Across the three hours, the Sweet Country and Samson and Delilah writer-director sharpens his skills to hunt and gather food, prepares surprisingly exquisite dishes and talks to three chickens as he relates stories from his childhood and adult life.
“I was feeling a bit shitty, mentally and physically drained, and I needed a break,” he tells If. “There was an incredible trust between Nitv and Screen Australia to make it.
Filmmaker Warwick Thornton was mentally and physically exhausted last year so he decided to spend a couple of months in isolation on a remote beach on the north-west coast of Western Australia.
Seeing the potential for a documentary, Thornton and the producers, Michelle Parker, Mitchell Stanley and Tanith Glynn-Maloney, sent a three-page pitch document to Nitv and Screen Australia.
The result is The Beach, a lyrical, evocative six-part series which premieres on Nitv, Sbs and Sbs On Demand this Friday at 7.30 pm.
Across the three hours, the Sweet Country and Samson and Delilah writer-director sharpens his skills to hunt and gather food, prepares surprisingly exquisite dishes and talks to three chickens as he relates stories from his childhood and adult life.
“I was feeling a bit shitty, mentally and physically drained, and I needed a break,” he tells If. “There was an incredible trust between Nitv and Screen Australia to make it.
- 5/26/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
(L-r) Shideh Faramand, Julietta Boscolo and April Tafe.
Shideh Faramand, April Tafe and Julietta Boscolo are the recipients of the third instalment of the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) Metro Screen Open Fellowship, and will share in $15,000 to fund opportunities in the Us.
Further, two short films – Adrian Chiarella’s Dwarf Planet and Joshua Levi Sambono’s Suspect – will each receive $20,000 in production funding as part of the Adg Metro Screen Production Fellowship. The panel also awarded a special commendation to Home-Brand from writer/director Sophie Hattch.
Joshua Levi Sambono.
Adg CEO Kingston Anderson said: “Once again, the Adg have had the great pleasure of overseeing the legacy of Metro Screen, in continuing to administer the Metro Screen Open and Production Fellowships for our screen community. Our Open Fellowship recipients have all been afforded the opportunity to explore new pathways to develop their careers overseas; and this year we have undertaken for the first time,...
Shideh Faramand, April Tafe and Julietta Boscolo are the recipients of the third instalment of the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) Metro Screen Open Fellowship, and will share in $15,000 to fund opportunities in the Us.
Further, two short films – Adrian Chiarella’s Dwarf Planet and Joshua Levi Sambono’s Suspect – will each receive $20,000 in production funding as part of the Adg Metro Screen Production Fellowship. The panel also awarded a special commendation to Home-Brand from writer/director Sophie Hattch.
Joshua Levi Sambono.
Adg CEO Kingston Anderson said: “Once again, the Adg have had the great pleasure of overseeing the legacy of Metro Screen, in continuing to administer the Metro Screen Open and Production Fellowships for our screen community. Our Open Fellowship recipients have all been afforded the opportunity to explore new pathways to develop their careers overseas; and this year we have undertaken for the first time,...
- 4/2/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Antonia Murphy, Joseph Wijangco and Anousha Zarkesh (Photo credit: Marlo Media)
Nikki Barrett and Anousha Zarkesh won multiple prizes at the Casting Guild of Australia Awards presented last Friday in Melbourne.
Barrett received the awards for her work in See Pictures/Gran Via Productions/Windalong Productions’ Breath (best casting in a feature film), Easy Tiger’s Jack Irish series 2 (TV drama) and Fremantle Australia’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV miniseries and telemovie).
Zarkesh took home the awards for Princess Pictures’ Wrong Kind of Black (best achievement in casting) and Scarlett Pictures’ Black Comedy series 3 (TV comedy).
“We had a lucky year in that all three of these projects were very collaborative casting processes with the filmmakers actively engaged in trying to find something true to the world they were creating. It’s always the best kind of casting to be involved in and shows on screen,” Barrett tells If.
Nikki Barrett and Anousha Zarkesh won multiple prizes at the Casting Guild of Australia Awards presented last Friday in Melbourne.
Barrett received the awards for her work in See Pictures/Gran Via Productions/Windalong Productions’ Breath (best casting in a feature film), Easy Tiger’s Jack Irish series 2 (TV drama) and Fremantle Australia’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV miniseries and telemovie).
Zarkesh took home the awards for Princess Pictures’ Wrong Kind of Black (best achievement in casting) and Scarlett Pictures’ Black Comedy series 3 (TV comedy).
“We had a lucky year in that all three of these projects were very collaborative casting processes with the filmmakers actively engaged in trying to find something true to the world they were creating. It’s always the best kind of casting to be involved in and shows on screen,” Barrett tells If.
- 12/2/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Tributes are flowing for Chris Chamberlin, one of the media and entertainment industry.s most popular and respected publicists who died yesterday, 10 days before his 40th birthday.
A senior national publicist for the ABC since 2014, Chamberlin was on holidays in India. The cause of death has not been revealed.
.Chris was highly regarded and respected by everyone who was lucky enough to have known him,. Leisa Bacon, the ABC.s director of audiences, said in an email to staff.
.Chris has managed campaigns for projects across all TV genres - news, factual, entertainment and children.s programs. The list of credits is enormous and Chris knew everything there was to know about developing publicity opportunities for marketing campaigns. He built strong relationships with on-air talent, through to production teams and key media outlets.
.Chris was incredibly committed, working tirelessly to ensure the best possible outcome on every single program and project he was involved with.
A senior national publicist for the ABC since 2014, Chamberlin was on holidays in India. The cause of death has not been revealed.
.Chris was highly regarded and respected by everyone who was lucky enough to have known him,. Leisa Bacon, the ABC.s director of audiences, said in an email to staff.
.Chris has managed campaigns for projects across all TV genres - news, factual, entertainment and children.s programs. The list of credits is enormous and Chris knew everything there was to know about developing publicity opportunities for marketing campaigns. He built strong relationships with on-air talent, through to production teams and key media outlets.
.Chris was incredibly committed, working tirelessly to ensure the best possible outcome on every single program and project he was involved with.
- 6/26/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Leah Purcell accepting the Sydney Unesco City of Film Award..
Sydney Film Festival closed last night, with Ildikó Enyedi.s On Body and Soul awarded the $60,000 Sydney Film Prize..
The film from the Hungarian director has previously also won the Berlinale Golden Bear, and follows an unconventional romance between two co-workers who discover that each night they have exactly the same dreams.
Accepting the award Enyedi said: .It was such an amazingly strong competition. It.s marvellous that.such a film can move so many people, it gives me so much hope in cinema and in human communication.
Sydney filmmakers Sascha Ettinger Epstein and Claire Haywood were awarded the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary for The Pink House, about the last brothel in Kalgoorlie.
In a joint statement, the jury, which was made up of Ramona S. Diaz, CEO Documentary Australia Foundation Dr Mitzi Goldman and Amin Palangi said:.
"Amongst ten noteworthy films,...
Sydney Film Festival closed last night, with Ildikó Enyedi.s On Body and Soul awarded the $60,000 Sydney Film Prize..
The film from the Hungarian director has previously also won the Berlinale Golden Bear, and follows an unconventional romance between two co-workers who discover that each night they have exactly the same dreams.
Accepting the award Enyedi said: .It was such an amazingly strong competition. It.s marvellous that.such a film can move so many people, it gives me so much hope in cinema and in human communication.
Sydney filmmakers Sascha Ettinger Epstein and Claire Haywood were awarded the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary for The Pink House, about the last brothel in Kalgoorlie.
In a joint statement, the jury, which was made up of Ramona S. Diaz, CEO Documentary Australia Foundation Dr Mitzi Goldman and Amin Palangi said:.
"Amongst ten noteworthy films,...
- 6/19/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Brietta Hague, Amanda Hood, Rebecca Ingram and Shelly Lauman have been chosen as the recipients of the inaugural Metro Screen Fellowships.
The fellowships are administered by the Australian Directors. Guild with funds left over following the closure of Metro Screen in 2016, and will run for four years.
Writer-director Lauman.s proposed short film Birdie will receive the $20,000 Production Fellowship. It tells the story of a woman trapped in a psychological power struggle while waiting for her train.
The other three filmmakers share in $15,000 as part of the Open Fellowship. Hague will travel to Cuba in March to attend a two-week workshop with German auteur Werner Herzog, while Hood will be travel to La to take part in The Hollywood Field Trip, and Ingram will attend the Annual Stowe Storylab in Vermont.
Adg CEO Kingston Anderson said the guild was excited to carry on the work of the former film school,...
The fellowships are administered by the Australian Directors. Guild with funds left over following the closure of Metro Screen in 2016, and will run for four years.
Writer-director Lauman.s proposed short film Birdie will receive the $20,000 Production Fellowship. It tells the story of a woman trapped in a psychological power struggle while waiting for her train.
The other three filmmakers share in $15,000 as part of the Open Fellowship. Hague will travel to Cuba in March to attend a two-week workshop with German auteur Werner Herzog, while Hood will be travel to La to take part in The Hollywood Field Trip, and Ingram will attend the Annual Stowe Storylab in Vermont.
Adg CEO Kingston Anderson said the guild was excited to carry on the work of the former film school,...
- 2/9/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The Australian Directors. Guild (Adg) announced the establishment of the Metro Screen Fellowships at the Dungog Festival over the weekend.
Drawing on Metro Screen.s surplus funds following its closure last year, the fellowships are aimed at continuing the work of the film school in encouraging the ambition of emerging filmmakers. Two fellowships will be available to Nsw screen practitioners..
A $20,000 Production Fellowship will be awarded to a Nsw based director to assist with the production of a short film in any genre or format..
The $15,000 Open Fellowship is designed to support the career development of an emerging screen practitioner from any discipline, via mentored development, attachments or internships, new research, community building, tailored skills development, networking events, innovative exhibition or travel.
The fellowships are intended to be a stepping-stone to programs such as the Adg Directors Attachment Scheme, Screen Nsw Emerging Filmmakers Fund and Spa's Ones To Watch program.
Drawing on Metro Screen.s surplus funds following its closure last year, the fellowships are aimed at continuing the work of the film school in encouraging the ambition of emerging filmmakers. Two fellowships will be available to Nsw screen practitioners..
A $20,000 Production Fellowship will be awarded to a Nsw based director to assist with the production of a short film in any genre or format..
The $15,000 Open Fellowship is designed to support the career development of an emerging screen practitioner from any discipline, via mentored development, attachments or internships, new research, community building, tailored skills development, networking events, innovative exhibition or travel.
The fellowships are intended to be a stepping-stone to programs such as the Adg Directors Attachment Scheme, Screen Nsw Emerging Filmmakers Fund and Spa's Ones To Watch program.
- 10/31/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The closure of state-based screen resource centres after Screen Australia cut off their funding will deprive many emerging filmmakers of a vital bridge between tertiary education and entering the workforce. That.s according to a new report, Emerging Visions: Career Pathways in the Australian Screen Production Industry, commissioned by Paddington-based Metro Screen, which lost its annual $250,000 grant from the agency.
Metro Screen is closing its doors on December 23 with the loss of 15 core staff and 60 contractors. Hobart-based Wide Angle Tasmania will close next June and Qpix shuttered last year.
Launching the report on Wednesday night, Metro Screen president Kath Shelper tells If she hopes there will be a broad-based campaign to restore funding for emerging practitioners, similar to that mounted by arts organisations, from the smallest to the largest, after the Australia Council.s funding was cut.
The Adg and Screen Producers Australia had reps on the working party which commissioned the study.
Metro Screen is closing its doors on December 23 with the loss of 15 core staff and 60 contractors. Hobart-based Wide Angle Tasmania will close next June and Qpix shuttered last year.
Launching the report on Wednesday night, Metro Screen president Kath Shelper tells If she hopes there will be a broad-based campaign to restore funding for emerging practitioners, similar to that mounted by arts organisations, from the smallest to the largest, after the Australia Council.s funding was cut.
The Adg and Screen Producers Australia had reps on the working party which commissioned the study.
- 11/11/2015
- 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
Recorded live at Guardian Australia's first Film Club, film critic Luke Buckmaster discusses debut films with Animal Kingdom producer Liz Watts, Kath Shelper of Ruben Guthrie and Tristan Roche-Turner of zombie horror Wyrmwood
In the first of a new Guardian Australia culture series, Luke Buckmaster hosted our inaugural Film Club, where we combine the screening of a classic Australian film and a panel debate with film industry experts.
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In the first of a new Guardian Australia culture series, Luke Buckmaster hosted our inaugural Film Club, where we combine the screening of a classic Australian film and a panel debate with film industry experts.
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- 7/29/2015
- by Guardian Australia
- The Guardian - Film News
Applications are now open for the third and final Hive Lab, an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in partnership with ABC Arts, Australia Council for the Arts,. Screen Australia and the Safc.
Designed to foster new opportunities for talent working in theatre, art, dance and other non-cinematic fields to collaborate with screen practitioners, the workshop will run during the Aff from October 18-21.
Filmmaker/ artist Lynette Wallworth, whose debut feature Tender was supported by the inaugural Hive fund, will lead this year.s lab. Tender had its world premiere at the 2013 Aff and then screened in competition at the Sydney and London Film Festivals and won the TV documentary prize at the 2015 Aacta Awards.
Applications for the Lab close on August 6 and participants will be announced early September.
Entries for the third and final Hive Fund will open in October, with successful projects to premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival 2017 and then screen on ABC TV.
Designed to foster new opportunities for talent working in theatre, art, dance and other non-cinematic fields to collaborate with screen practitioners, the workshop will run during the Aff from October 18-21.
Filmmaker/ artist Lynette Wallworth, whose debut feature Tender was supported by the inaugural Hive fund, will lead this year.s lab. Tender had its world premiere at the 2013 Aff and then screened in competition at the Sydney and London Film Festivals and won the TV documentary prize at the 2015 Aacta Awards.
Applications for the Lab close on August 6 and participants will be announced early September.
Entries for the third and final Hive Fund will open in October, with successful projects to premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival 2017 and then screen on ABC TV.
- 6/17/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Brendan Cowell.s directing debut Ruben Guthrie will have its world premiere as the opening night attraction of the Sydney Film Festival.
Starring Patrick Brammall as a hard-partying Sydney ad man who seeks to start a new chapter in his life after a near-death experience, the comedy will screen at the State Theatre on Wednesday June 3.
Produced by Kath Shelper, the film co-stars Alex Dimitriades, Abbey Lee, Harriet Dyer, Jeremy Sims, Brenton Thwaites, Aaron Bertram, Robyn Nevin and Jack Thompson.
Cowell adapted the screenplay from his Belvoir St Theatre production. Madman Entertainment will launch the film nationally on July 16.
Cowell said, .I am beyond excited to have my first film open the Sydney Film Festival. To screen this very Sydney story to a packed house at the State Theatre is a dream come true, and I can.t wait for audiences to enjoy this comic tale of love, loss and liquor.
Starring Patrick Brammall as a hard-partying Sydney ad man who seeks to start a new chapter in his life after a near-death experience, the comedy will screen at the State Theatre on Wednesday June 3.
Produced by Kath Shelper, the film co-stars Alex Dimitriades, Abbey Lee, Harriet Dyer, Jeremy Sims, Brenton Thwaites, Aaron Bertram, Robyn Nevin and Jack Thompson.
Cowell adapted the screenplay from his Belvoir St Theatre production. Madman Entertainment will launch the film nationally on July 16.
Cowell said, .I am beyond excited to have my first film open the Sydney Film Festival. To screen this very Sydney story to a packed house at the State Theatre is a dream come true, and I can.t wait for audiences to enjoy this comic tale of love, loss and liquor.
- 4/16/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The first round of Aacta Award winners have been announced today at the 4th Aacta Award Luncheon held at the Star Event Centre in Sydney.
Celebrating screen craft excellence in Australia, 22 awards were presented, recognising the work of screen practitioners working in television, documentary, short fiction film, short animation and feature film.
The Luncheon was hosted by writer/actor/producer/director Adam Zwar, who was also joined throughout the event by a list of distinguished presenters. including Aacta President Geoffrey Rush, David Stratton, Damian Walshe-Howling, Alexandra Schepisi, Charlotte Best and Diana Glenn.
In the feature film category, Predestination took home the most Awards; with Ben Nott Acs taking out the prize for Best Cinematography, Matt Villa Ase winning the award for Best Editing, and Matthew Putland scooping Best Production Design.
Tess Schofield was honoured with the Aacta Award for Best Costume Design for her work on The Water Diviner while...
Celebrating screen craft excellence in Australia, 22 awards were presented, recognising the work of screen practitioners working in television, documentary, short fiction film, short animation and feature film.
The Luncheon was hosted by writer/actor/producer/director Adam Zwar, who was also joined throughout the event by a list of distinguished presenters. including Aacta President Geoffrey Rush, David Stratton, Damian Walshe-Howling, Alexandra Schepisi, Charlotte Best and Diana Glenn.
In the feature film category, Predestination took home the most Awards; with Ben Nott Acs taking out the prize for Best Cinematography, Matt Villa Ase winning the award for Best Editing, and Matthew Putland scooping Best Production Design.
Tess Schofield was honoured with the Aacta Award for Best Costume Design for her work on The Water Diviner while...
- 1/27/2015
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Russell Crowe-Directed Movie Up for Australian Film Award; Crowe Shortlisted Only in Acting Category
Director Russell Crowe Movie up for Best Film: Australian Academy Awards 2015 nominations (photo: Actor-director Russell Crowe in 'The Water Diviner') Aacta Awards: Feature Film Categories Best Film The Babadook Kristina Ceyton and Kristian Moliere Charlie's Country Nils Erik Nielsen, Peter Djigirr and Rolf de Heer Predestination Paddy McDonald, Tim McGahan, Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig The Railway Man Chris Brown, Andy Paterson and Bill Curbishley Tracks Emile Sherman and Iain Canning The Water Diviner Andrew Mason, Keith Rodger and Troy Lum Best Director The Babadook Jennifer Kent Charlie's Country Rolf de Heer Predestination Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig The Rover David Michôd Best Actress Kate Box The Little Death Essie Davis The Babadook Sarah Snook Predestination Mia Wasikowska Tracks Best Actor Russell Crowe The Water Diviner David Gulpilil Charlie's Country Damon Herriman The Little Death Guy Pearce The Rover Best Supporting Actor Patrick Brammall The Little Death Yilmaz Erdogan...
- 12/3/2014
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The Nsw Government is investing $2.77 million. in 17 new film, TV and documentary productions via Screen Nsw.
That will trigger more than $50 million in production expenditure to the State and create 2,746 jobs, according to Arts Minister Troy Grant.
The projects include a Blinky Bill feature,. TV drama The Principal from Essential Media and Entertainment starring Alex Dimitriades, and a new collaboration between Blackfella Films and Werner Film Productions.
The funding is provided through Screen Nsw.s Production Investment and Regional Filming funds. .This is a great return on investment for the Government. For every dollar invested, more than $18 will be spent in Nsw, building capacity and sustainability in our world-class film and television industry,. Grant said. .This fantastic range of film and television programs will be produced here in Nsw, and not just in Sydney, but across many regional areas where the significant economic benefits of screen production will make a real impact in the community.
That will trigger more than $50 million in production expenditure to the State and create 2,746 jobs, according to Arts Minister Troy Grant.
The projects include a Blinky Bill feature,. TV drama The Principal from Essential Media and Entertainment starring Alex Dimitriades, and a new collaboration between Blackfella Films and Werner Film Productions.
The funding is provided through Screen Nsw.s Production Investment and Regional Filming funds. .This is a great return on investment for the Government. For every dollar invested, more than $18 will be spent in Nsw, building capacity and sustainability in our world-class film and television industry,. Grant said. .This fantastic range of film and television programs will be produced here in Nsw, and not just in Sydney, but across many regional areas where the significant economic benefits of screen production will make a real impact in the community.
- 8/21/2014
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Ivan Sen.s Mystery Road and Kim Mordaunt.s The Rocket shared the best film honours at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards presented last night.
The Great Gatsby collected four awards followed by The Rocket with 3 and Mystery Road and The Turning with 2 awards each.
Naomi Watts was named best actress for her role in the little-seen Adoration and Aaron Pedersen was best actor for Mystery Road. Sen was best director.
There was another tie for the supporting actor prize: The Great Gatsby.s Joel Edgerton and Mystery Road.s Hugo Weaving. The Turning.s Rose Byrne was best supporting actress. The Rocket.s Sitthiphon Disamoe was on hand to receive the gong for best young performer.
Best script award went to The Railway Man.s Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson. Haydn Keenan's Persons of Interest was named best documentary.
An Acknowledgment Award was presented to...
The Great Gatsby collected four awards followed by The Rocket with 3 and Mystery Road and The Turning with 2 awards each.
Naomi Watts was named best actress for her role in the little-seen Adoration and Aaron Pedersen was best actor for Mystery Road. Sen was best director.
There was another tie for the supporting actor prize: The Great Gatsby.s Joel Edgerton and Mystery Road.s Hugo Weaving. The Turning.s Rose Byrne was best supporting actress. The Rocket.s Sitthiphon Disamoe was on hand to receive the gong for best young performer.
Best script award went to The Railway Man.s Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson. Haydn Keenan's Persons of Interest was named best documentary.
An Acknowledgment Award was presented to...
- 3/11/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Continuing their collaboration after Tim Winton.s The Turning, producer Robert Connolly and Indigenous director/choreographer Stephen Page will bring to the big screen an adaptation of Page.s dance theatre work Spear.
That.s one of two films commissioned by the second Hive Fund, an initiative of the Adelaide Film Festival in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
The other is Girl Asleep, the third in a trilogy of rites-of-passage Windmill Theatre stories by writer Matthew Whittet and director Rosemary Myers.
Page, the Bangarra Dance Theatre director and choreographer, directed one segment of The Turning. His feature directing debut, Spear is a contemporary hybrid feature film where two Aboriginal clans from urban and remote communities live in an apocalyptic world and must decide who will be the new leader for the next 100 years. The work will explore what this means to Indigenous men through dance,...
That.s one of two films commissioned by the second Hive Fund, an initiative of the Adelaide Film Festival in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
The other is Girl Asleep, the third in a trilogy of rites-of-passage Windmill Theatre stories by writer Matthew Whittet and director Rosemary Myers.
Page, the Bangarra Dance Theatre director and choreographer, directed one segment of The Turning. His feature directing debut, Spear is a contemporary hybrid feature film where two Aboriginal clans from urban and remote communities live in an apocalyptic world and must decide who will be the new leader for the next 100 years. The work will explore what this means to Indigenous men through dance,...
- 10/13/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The world premieres of Tracks, musical The Boy Castaways, documentary Tender and short film I Want To Dance Better at Parties are among the highlights of this year.s Adelaide Film Festival. The common denominator: Each was part-funded by the festival, which runs October 10-20. For the first time the event will be held in conjunction with the Festival of Ideas (October 17-20). The Aff.s new CEO and Director Amanda Duthie is still finalising the line-up of about 150 titles; submissions close on July 25. The bi-annual fest.s opener is the South Australian-shot Tracks, the true story of Robyn Davidson.s solo 2,700 km trek via camels across the Australian desert in 1977, accompanied by her dog Diggity. Duthie hopes Mia Wasikowska, who plays Davidson, and Us-based director John Curran will attend the premiere. She rang producer Emile Sherman when she heard the South Australian Film Corp. was about to invest in...
- 7/17/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
It was booed by the critics at the Cannes Film Festival but Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives won the top prize at the Sydney Film Festival.
Jury president Hugo Weaving conceded the .visually mesmerising and disturbing film. had polarised the jury and said it was a majority decision to award the bleak drama the $60,000 Sydney Film Prize.
Icon is due to release the film, which stars Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vithaya Pansringarm, on July 18. It's described as a brutal story of betrayal, rage and redemption set in the Thai underworld..
Typifying the hostile response in Cannes, IndieWire's Eric Kohn said, .Refn stages each scene with the self-serious bleakness of a Robert Bresson picture, but applies such a cheap, one-note premise that his air quote approach to art house aesthetics reeks of student film indulgence."
.I am very honoured and extremely excited to have received...
Jury president Hugo Weaving conceded the .visually mesmerising and disturbing film. had polarised the jury and said it was a majority decision to award the bleak drama the $60,000 Sydney Film Prize.
Icon is due to release the film, which stars Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vithaya Pansringarm, on July 18. It's described as a brutal story of betrayal, rage and redemption set in the Thai underworld..
Typifying the hostile response in Cannes, IndieWire's Eric Kohn said, .Refn stages each scene with the self-serious bleakness of a Robert Bresson picture, but applies such a cheap, one-note premise that his air quote approach to art house aesthetics reeks of student film indulgence."
.I am very honoured and extremely excited to have received...
- 6/16/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The $800,000 Hive Production Fund has called for applications with the successful projects set to premiere at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival and screen on ABC Television.
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking cross-.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer Robert Connolly...
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking cross-.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer Robert Connolly...
- 3/19/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The $800,000 Hive Production Fund has called for applications with the successful projects set to premiere at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival and screen on ABC Television.
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking crossâ€ÂÂ.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer...
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking crossâ€ÂÂ.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer...
- 3/19/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia says it has not mismanaged its finances by spending its annual production funding in just six months - a state of affairs which it says reflects the strength of the local film industry.
The government screen agency revealed in mid-December 2012 that it had spent its entire annual $42 million drama production allocation due to the unprecedented number of quality feature film and television projects seeking support. The shock announcement was reminiscent of the agency's abrupt decision to cut its investment cap in 2009 while several films were mid-financed. That decision.threw several major Australian productions into dissaray including The Tree and the biggest box office hit of.2010, Tomorrow When the War Began (Omnilab Media had to increase its investment at the last minute to ensure production).
Overspending on such a scale has never occurred before, even going back to the era of Screen Australia.s predecessor funding arm, the Film Finance Corporation.
The government screen agency revealed in mid-December 2012 that it had spent its entire annual $42 million drama production allocation due to the unprecedented number of quality feature film and television projects seeking support. The shock announcement was reminiscent of the agency's abrupt decision to cut its investment cap in 2009 while several films were mid-financed. That decision.threw several major Australian productions into dissaray including The Tree and the biggest box office hit of.2010, Tomorrow When the War Began (Omnilab Media had to increase its investment at the last minute to ensure production).
Overspending on such a scale has never occurred before, even going back to the era of Screen Australia.s predecessor funding arm, the Film Finance Corporation.
- 2/6/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
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