Matthew Homes. fundraising efforts for The Legend of Ben Hall were so successful the writer-producer-director is preparing a 50-minute version of the bushranger tale, expanded from the originally intended 40 minutes.
Depicting the last six months of Hall.s life, the production is due to start shooting in and around Kyneton in country Victoria on August 18.
The film must be completed by May 5, in time to premiere at that month.s festival in Forbes marking the 150th anniversary of Hall.s death. Holmes then plans a month-long screening tour through towns in country Nsw, followed by festival bookings. Hall spent much of his life in and near the Nsw town.
He intends to show completed footage to potential investors so he can turn it into an 85-minute feature. The longer-term goal, he says, is to spark sufficient interest in that chapter of Australian history so he can raise the finance for a three-hour opus,...
Depicting the last six months of Hall.s life, the production is due to start shooting in and around Kyneton in country Victoria on August 18.
The film must be completed by May 5, in time to premiere at that month.s festival in Forbes marking the 150th anniversary of Hall.s death. Holmes then plans a month-long screening tour through towns in country Nsw, followed by festival bookings. Hall spent much of his life in and near the Nsw town.
He intends to show completed footage to potential investors so he can turn it into an 85-minute feature. The longer-term goal, he says, is to spark sufficient interest in that chapter of Australian history so he can raise the finance for a three-hour opus,...
- 7/15/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Wolf Creek director Greg McLean has backed upcoming genre film Territorial as executive producer.
His company, Wolf Creek Pictures, will now produce the horror-thriller-western with Odin.s Eye Productions, the production arm of sales agent Odin's Eye Entertainment.
Territorial was penned by director Matthew Holmes and Alex James and has previously received development support from Film Victoria.
In a statement announcing his involvement, Mclean said: "I and Wolf Creek Pictures (currently in production on Wolf Creek 2) are thrilled to be working with director Matthew Holmes to bring his exciting, genre-splicing horror film Territorial to the big screen. Similar to Red Hill and Crawlspace, Territorial is highly original cinema that will give full reign to Matthew's creative skills as a prodigiously talented filmmaker and storyteller."
Holmes first feature was Twin Rivers, released in 2007, and he has also directed short indie feature comedy The Biscuit Effect (2005) and spin-off web series Crooked (2009). McLean,...
His company, Wolf Creek Pictures, will now produce the horror-thriller-western with Odin.s Eye Productions, the production arm of sales agent Odin's Eye Entertainment.
Territorial was penned by director Matthew Holmes and Alex James and has previously received development support from Film Victoria.
In a statement announcing his involvement, Mclean said: "I and Wolf Creek Pictures (currently in production on Wolf Creek 2) are thrilled to be working with director Matthew Holmes to bring his exciting, genre-splicing horror film Territorial to the big screen. Similar to Red Hill and Crawlspace, Territorial is highly original cinema that will give full reign to Matthew's creative skills as a prodigiously talented filmmaker and storyteller."
Holmes first feature was Twin Rivers, released in 2007, and he has also directed short indie feature comedy The Biscuit Effect (2005) and spin-off web series Crooked (2009). McLean,...
- 2/10/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
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