2014 Eff short The Guests, which was directed by Shane Danielsen and premiered at Cannes.
Screen Nsw's Emerging Filmmakers Fund for emerging short filmmakers has been renamed and rejigged.
In 2016, Generator: Emerging Filmmakers Fund will "require the inclusion of a female director and priority will be given to teams that include people from under-represented groups," said Screen Nsw.
Each Generator round will $30,000 to projects for production and/or post-production of a short film. There is one round annually and in 2016 funding will be provided for up to three projects.
This year, Aquarius Films (Angie Fielder, Polly Staniford, Cecilia Ritchie, Bec Cubitt and Alice Willison) will act as mentors and executive producers for all the Generator shorts..
Aquarius' slate includes the upcoming Lion, directed by Garth Davis, and Berlin Syndrome, directed by Cate Shortland.
Projects can be drama, factual, animation or experimental and no more than 30 minutes long. Applications close October 30.
http://www.
Screen Nsw's Emerging Filmmakers Fund for emerging short filmmakers has been renamed and rejigged.
In 2016, Generator: Emerging Filmmakers Fund will "require the inclusion of a female director and priority will be given to teams that include people from under-represented groups," said Screen Nsw.
Each Generator round will $30,000 to projects for production and/or post-production of a short film. There is one round annually and in 2016 funding will be provided for up to three projects.
This year, Aquarius Films (Angie Fielder, Polly Staniford, Cecilia Ritchie, Bec Cubitt and Alice Willison) will act as mentors and executive producers for all the Generator shorts..
Aquarius' slate includes the upcoming Lion, directed by Garth Davis, and Berlin Syndrome, directed by Cate Shortland.
Projects can be drama, factual, animation or experimental and no more than 30 minutes long. Applications close October 30.
http://www.
- 8/26/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Bec Cubitt has joined Aquarius Films as development and production executive after three years in the UK.
The hire marks a period of rapid expansion at the production company founded by Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford.
Cate Shortland is directing Berlin Syndrome, a thriller about a holiday romance that turns sinister, scripted by Shaun Grant and starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt , in Germany and Melbourne.
Expat Aussie Kate Hickey (an editor on Lena Dunham.s Girls) is helming Roller Dreams, a feature documentary about the Venice Beach roller dancing scene from 1978 until now, financed through Screen Australia.s Signature Documentary Fund.
Garth Davis is on post on Lion, the true life drama starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman, which Aquarius is producing with See-Saw Films.
Most recently Cubitt was development executive in the London office of Rooks Nest Entertainment. Before that she completed a Screen Australia placement...
The hire marks a period of rapid expansion at the production company founded by Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford.
Cate Shortland is directing Berlin Syndrome, a thriller about a holiday romance that turns sinister, scripted by Shaun Grant and starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt , in Germany and Melbourne.
Expat Aussie Kate Hickey (an editor on Lena Dunham.s Girls) is helming Roller Dreams, a feature documentary about the Venice Beach roller dancing scene from 1978 until now, financed through Screen Australia.s Signature Documentary Fund.
Garth Davis is on post on Lion, the true life drama starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman, which Aquarius is producing with See-Saw Films.
Most recently Cubitt was development executive in the London office of Rooks Nest Entertainment. Before that she completed a Screen Australia placement...
- 9/21/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
The team behind Australian film Wish You Were Here is among seven film-making teams to receive funding from Screen Australia.
Writer director Kieran Darcy-Smith, with his Wish You Were Here producer Angie Fielder as well as Ted Hope, producer of 21 Grams and Martha Marcy May Marlene, have received a share in the $216,000 of development support from the national screen agency for their film Memorial Day.
Billed as a crime drama, Memorial Day’s synopsis reads: “Two brothers – one out of his depth in a hard world he doesn’t understand, the other recently returned from a period of self-imposed exile – struggle to redress the fallout from a past family tragedy.”
Both Darcy-Smith and Fielder have been nominated for AACTAs for Wish You Were Here.
Two Australian film-makers have received professional internships through Screen Australia’s Talent Escalator Program. Bec Cubitt will join Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free under...
Writer director Kieran Darcy-Smith, with his Wish You Were Here producer Angie Fielder as well as Ted Hope, producer of 21 Grams and Martha Marcy May Marlene, have received a share in the $216,000 of development support from the national screen agency for their film Memorial Day.
Billed as a crime drama, Memorial Day’s synopsis reads: “Two brothers – one out of his depth in a hard world he doesn’t understand, the other recently returned from a period of self-imposed exile – struggle to redress the fallout from a past family tragedy.”
Both Darcy-Smith and Fielder have been nominated for AACTAs for Wish You Were Here.
Two Australian film-makers have received professional internships through Screen Australia’s Talent Escalator Program. Bec Cubitt will join Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free under...
- 12/13/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia will invest $216,000 in development funding across seven feature film projects, including three that the funding agency has previously supported.
Three of the four new projects are comedies: Pandamonium, Versus Vampire, and They Shoot Hostages, Don.t They? The final new project is horror film The Rapture. The three projects which will receive another round of development support are Matchbox Pictures comedy Ali's Wedding, See-Saw Films' biopic Life, and Kieran Darcy-Smith's crime drama Memorial Day.
Meanwhile, producer Bec Cubitt and writer/director Will Kuether have also been selected to undertake professional internships through Screen Australia.s Talent Escalator Program.
Cubitt will spend six months working in London at Ridley Scott.s production company Scott Free under the mentorship of executive producer Jack Arbuthnott. Australian producer interns Caroline Gerard and Sheila Jayadev.have previously worked there with Screen Australia support..
Kuether will work in Los Angeles for five...
Three of the four new projects are comedies: Pandamonium, Versus Vampire, and They Shoot Hostages, Don.t They? The final new project is horror film The Rapture. The three projects which will receive another round of development support are Matchbox Pictures comedy Ali's Wedding, See-Saw Films' biopic Life, and Kieran Darcy-Smith's crime drama Memorial Day.
Meanwhile, producer Bec Cubitt and writer/director Will Kuether have also been selected to undertake professional internships through Screen Australia.s Talent Escalator Program.
Cubitt will spend six months working in London at Ridley Scott.s production company Scott Free under the mentorship of executive producer Jack Arbuthnott. Australian producer interns Caroline Gerard and Sheila Jayadev.have previously worked there with Screen Australia support..
Kuether will work in Los Angeles for five...
- 12/12/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
An Australian film-maker has had two short films included in a shortlist of 50 to compete in YouTube’s Your Film Festival.
The competition is run in conjunction with the video platform, Venice International Film Festival and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free production company, with the winner receiving $500,000 to develop a project with Scott and Prometheus star Michael Fassbender.
The top ten finalists, as voted on by the YouTube community, will attend and screen their films at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in August.
From 15,000 submissions, Damien Power had two films selected, Bat Eyes and Boot.
Both films were produced by Bec Cubitt and developed by The Voices Project, an initiative by the Australian Theatre for Young People.
Power said: “I’m thrilled that my films have been selected for YouTube’s Your Film Festival. This is why I make films – to share stories with as large an audience as possible.
The competition is run in conjunction with the video platform, Venice International Film Festival and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free production company, with the winner receiving $500,000 to develop a project with Scott and Prometheus star Michael Fassbender.
The top ten finalists, as voted on by the YouTube community, will attend and screen their films at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in August.
From 15,000 submissions, Damien Power had two films selected, Bat Eyes and Boot.
Both films were produced by Bec Cubitt and developed by The Voices Project, an initiative by the Australian Theatre for Young People.
Power said: “I’m thrilled that my films have been selected for YouTube’s Your Film Festival. This is why I make films – to share stories with as large an audience as possible.
- 6/12/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has announced a new round of funding for 18 filmmaking teams to develop feature projects including teams led by producer Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech), director Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) and director Gillian Armstrong.
The funding totals $500,000.
Sherman is working with Clayton Jacobsen (Kenny) to develop crime film The Docks with writers Jamie Browne and Kris Mrksa.
Auteur director and cancer sufferer Paul Cox is working with executive producer Shaun Miller and producer Maggie Miles to develop his own memoir Tales from the Cancer Ward into drama script Force of Destiny.
Screen Australia also continues its investment in producer Marian Macgowan’s The Great, with writer Tony McNamara and director Gillian Armstrong on the adaptation of McNamara’s play of the same name.
Red Dog director Kriv Stenders works with his Lucky Country writer Andy Cox to develop their comic romance script F*****! A Romance.
Screen Australia has...
The funding totals $500,000.
Sherman is working with Clayton Jacobsen (Kenny) to develop crime film The Docks with writers Jamie Browne and Kris Mrksa.
Auteur director and cancer sufferer Paul Cox is working with executive producer Shaun Miller and producer Maggie Miles to develop his own memoir Tales from the Cancer Ward into drama script Force of Destiny.
Screen Australia also continues its investment in producer Marian Macgowan’s The Great, with writer Tony McNamara and director Gillian Armstrong on the adaptation of McNamara’s play of the same name.
Red Dog director Kriv Stenders works with his Lucky Country writer Andy Cox to develop their comic romance script F*****! A Romance.
Screen Australia has...
- 12/12/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Oscar-winning producer Emile Sherman, Red Dog director Kriv Stenders and Wolf Creek.s Greg McLean are among the filmmakers who have received another batch of development money from Screen Australia. Announced today, the $500,00 injection will go towards the development of 18 feature films and two "professional" internships for.local producers Adam Dolman and Bec Cubitt. Dolman, best known for writing duties on Seven's Home and Away, will work for three months in Los Angeles with high-end production company Red Wagon Entertainment. The production company, also known as Red Wagon Productions, is currently doing Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. Previous films include Win A Date With Tad Hamilton, Bewitched and Stuart Little 2. Joining Dolman in receiving...
- 12/12/2011
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
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