Kim Mordaunt won the Australian Writers. Guild best original screenplay award for his debut film The Rocket and Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee got the feature film adaptation prize for Lore at the Awgie awards held in Melbourne on Friday night.
David Roach and Warwick Ross.s Red Obsession took the award for public broadcast documentary screenplay.
Underbelly again won best original mini -series and Robert Connolly.s Underground: The Julian Assange Story was named best telemovie adaptation.
The $25,000 Foxtel prize for a significant and impressive body of work in television went to Jacquelin Perske, whose screenwriting credits include The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way, Spirited and Little Fish.
The Good News Week writing team received a ninth Awgie for the final season of the series.
Playwright Alana Valentine picked up three awards including most outstanding script of 2013 and the inaugural David Williamson Prize.
Australian Writers. Guild president Jan Sardi said,...
David Roach and Warwick Ross.s Red Obsession took the award for public broadcast documentary screenplay.
Underbelly again won best original mini -series and Robert Connolly.s Underground: The Julian Assange Story was named best telemovie adaptation.
The $25,000 Foxtel prize for a significant and impressive body of work in television went to Jacquelin Perske, whose screenwriting credits include The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way, Spirited and Little Fish.
The Good News Week writing team received a ninth Awgie for the final season of the series.
Playwright Alana Valentine picked up three awards including most outstanding script of 2013 and the inaugural David Williamson Prize.
Australian Writers. Guild president Jan Sardi said,...
- 10/4/2013
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Tickets are selling fast for the 46th Annual Awgie Awards, to be held in Melbourne on October 4.
To be hosted by writer, comedian and singer Sammy J, the ceremony will honour the achievements made by Australian writers for performance. The Awgie Awards are the only Australian awards judged solely by writers on the basis of the script . the writer's intention . rather than the finished production.
"The Awgies are the highlight of the year for us and a unique chance to celebrate the oft-unsung but stellar work created by Australian writers of the script," says Awg.s President and Academy Award nominee Jan Sardi..
.It.s a night that really just celebrates the importance of story and storytelling. And that.s what sets us apart from other animals in the end, the ability to tell stories..
Sardi says the slate of nominated work is once again a strong one.
.It.s...
To be hosted by writer, comedian and singer Sammy J, the ceremony will honour the achievements made by Australian writers for performance. The Awgie Awards are the only Australian awards judged solely by writers on the basis of the script . the writer's intention . rather than the finished production.
"The Awgies are the highlight of the year for us and a unique chance to celebrate the oft-unsung but stellar work created by Australian writers of the script," says Awg.s President and Academy Award nominee Jan Sardi..
.It.s a night that really just celebrates the importance of story and storytelling. And that.s what sets us apart from other animals in the end, the ability to tell stories..
Sardi says the slate of nominated work is once again a strong one.
.It.s...
- 10/1/2013
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Review by Barbara Snitzer
Lore is not a typical Holocaust movie. It’s not even a typical war movie, although both subjects are of paramount importance to its story.
It boldly portrays its protagonists, staunch supporters of Hitler and his Third Reich as sympathetic human beings. It is a mind-opening experience to realize that his devotees were also victims, albeit in a completely different way than the Jews and others who perished in his systematic murder.
They were deceived, humiliated, and preyed upon each other like animals, nothing resembling the superior race of humans he proclaimed they were.
Lore centers on fifteen-year old Hannelore (excellently portrayed by Saskia Rosendahl) who is for all intents and purposes orphaned in the days after the Allies’ victory. She must lead her younger sister, twin brothers and infant brother across the no-man’s land that Germany has become.
She has the good fortune to...
Lore is not a typical Holocaust movie. It’s not even a typical war movie, although both subjects are of paramount importance to its story.
It boldly portrays its protagonists, staunch supporters of Hitler and his Third Reich as sympathetic human beings. It is a mind-opening experience to realize that his devotees were also victims, albeit in a completely different way than the Jews and others who perished in his systematic murder.
They were deceived, humiliated, and preyed upon each other like animals, nothing resembling the superior race of humans he proclaimed they were.
Lore centers on fifteen-year old Hannelore (excellently portrayed by Saskia Rosendahl) who is for all intents and purposes orphaned in the days after the Allies’ victory. She must lead her younger sister, twin brothers and infant brother across the no-man’s land that Germany has become.
She has the good fortune to...
- 3/16/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Lore is director Cate Shortland’s long-awaited follow-up to Somersault, her acclaimed 2004 drama and feature film debut that was also an international breakthrough for stars Abbie Cornish and Sam Worthington. A UK/Australia/Germany co-production, the new film is similarly concerned with a young female protagonist. Following the defeat of the Nazis, teenager Lore must guide herself and her destitute siblings through Germany in the dying days of the Second World War. Her parents having been arrested by Allied Forces for their Nazi ties, Lore has assimilated many of their anti-Semitic values, and must come to terms with the horrors of Hitler’s rule now coming to light for the German population.
Ahead of its recent Glasgow Film Festival showing prior to the film’s theatrical release in the UK, I spoke to one of Lore‘s producers, Paul Welsh, about the film’s interesting, lengthy production process, its influences,...
Ahead of its recent Glasgow Film Festival showing prior to the film’s theatrical release in the UK, I spoke to one of Lore‘s producers, Paul Welsh, about the film’s interesting, lengthy production process, its influences,...
- 3/3/2013
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
One of the most powerful war stories to appear on screen. A story of the universal defeat of war and the enduring survival of the human spirit. Written by director Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee and based on the novel .The Dark Room. by Rachel Seiffert, .Lore. tells a story of wartime heartbreak and betrayal. The betrayal is that of the German people by the Nazi Third Reich. As amazing as it seems, the average German citizen revered Adolph Hitler as a patriot and statesman, until the truth came out after the defeat of Germany at the hands of the Allies. Lore stars Saskia Rosendahl as Lore, Nele Trebs as her younger sister Liesel and André Frid as one of...
- 2/20/2013
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
Lore
Written by Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee
Directed by Cate Shortland
Germany/Australia, 2012
It’s not new for a storyteller to use war as a coming-of-age metaphor. From Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun to the Hughes Brothers’ Dead Presidents, fiction is replete with examples of youth shattered and re-formed by the horror of war. The lack of novelty in that idea does not punish Cate Shortland’s new film Lore at all. In fact it may be among the most powerful expressions of the coming-of-age concept, ever.
Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) is the eldest of five children in a well-to-do German family at the end of World War II. Of course, because Lore’s parents are good Nazis they would not fare well in the post-war period, and the “well-to-do” part will not last long. Soon Lore is left in charge, trying to take her sister and three brothers...
Written by Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee
Directed by Cate Shortland
Germany/Australia, 2012
It’s not new for a storyteller to use war as a coming-of-age metaphor. From Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun to the Hughes Brothers’ Dead Presidents, fiction is replete with examples of youth shattered and re-formed by the horror of war. The lack of novelty in that idea does not punish Cate Shortland’s new film Lore at all. In fact it may be among the most powerful expressions of the coming-of-age concept, ever.
Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) is the eldest of five children in a well-to-do German family at the end of World War II. Of course, because Lore’s parents are good Nazis they would not fare well in the post-war period, and the “well-to-do” part will not last long. Soon Lore is left in charge, trying to take her sister and three brothers...
- 2/16/2013
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
Two Australian short films, Men of the Earth and Faraways, and feature Lore will screen at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), one of the largest audience-driven film festivals in the world.
The ten-minute short Men of the Earth, which will also be shown at the upcoming Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, attempts to explore tribalism and ritual in contemporary society. The film takes the audiences behind a roadwork site and presents the sombre ritual of working men. Men of the Earth is written and directed by Andrew Kavanagh. It is his second collaboration with creative producer Ramona Telecican.
Another short film Faraways, from writer/director/producer Audrey Lam, will also screen at this year.s Rotterdam. The story takes place in the empty urban landscapes of Brisbane which echoes the isolation of two girls far from home.
Iffr 2013 program will also present the German/Australian co-production Lore,...
The ten-minute short Men of the Earth, which will also be shown at the upcoming Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, attempts to explore tribalism and ritual in contemporary society. The film takes the audiences behind a roadwork site and presents the sombre ritual of working men. Men of the Earth is written and directed by Andrew Kavanagh. It is his second collaboration with creative producer Ramona Telecican.
Another short film Faraways, from writer/director/producer Audrey Lam, will also screen at this year.s Rotterdam. The story takes place in the empty urban landscapes of Brisbane which echoes the isolation of two girls far from home.
Iffr 2013 program will also present the German/Australian co-production Lore,...
- 1/18/2013
- by Yuan Liu
- IF.com.au
Digital Spy presents a list of nominees for the second annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Awards, to be held in Sydney on January 30, 2013. The awards celebrate achievement in film, television, short film and documentary filmmaking during 2012. Film
['The Sapphires' still] Best Film
Burning Man
Lore
The Sapphires
Wish You Were Here Best Direction
Jonathan Teplitzky (Burning Man)
Cate Shortland (Lore)
Wayne Blair (The Sapphires)
Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here) Best Original Screenplay
Jonathan Teplitzky (Burning Man)
Pj Hogan (Mental)
Michael Lucas (Not Suitable for Children)
Kieran Darcy-Smith, Felicity Price (Wish You Were Here) Best Adapted Screenplay
Cate Shortland, Robin Mukherjee (Lore)
Keith Thompson, (more)...
['The Sapphires' still] Best Film
Burning Man
Lore
The Sapphires
Wish You Were Here Best Direction
Jonathan Teplitzky (Burning Man)
Cate Shortland (Lore)
Wayne Blair (The Sapphires)
Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here) Best Original Screenplay
Jonathan Teplitzky (Burning Man)
Pj Hogan (Mental)
Michael Lucas (Not Suitable for Children)
Kieran Darcy-Smith, Felicity Price (Wish You Were Here) Best Adapted Screenplay
Cate Shortland, Robin Mukherjee (Lore)
Keith Thompson, (more)...
- 12/4/2012
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
Hit musical drama The Sapphires has scored 12 nominations at the 2012 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Awards including in the coveted best feature film category.
The Sapphires, which follows four indigenous singers during the Vietnam war, has grossed more than $14 million in Australia to become the biggest local film of the year.
Three other films will be also be vying for the best feature film award: Burning Man (10 nominations in total), Lore (eight nominations in total) and Wish You Were Here (eight nominations in total) at the main Aacta ceremony, which will be held on January 30, 2013, at The Star Event Centre. Last year's event was held at the iconic Sydney Opera House.
P.J. Hogan's Mental also scored eight nominations including Best Lead Actress (Toni Collette), Best Supporting Actor (Liev Schreiber) Best Young Actor (Lily Sullivan) and Best Supporting Actress for Rebecca Gibney and Deborah Mailman.
Not Suitable for Children...
The Sapphires, which follows four indigenous singers during the Vietnam war, has grossed more than $14 million in Australia to become the biggest local film of the year.
Three other films will be also be vying for the best feature film award: Burning Man (10 nominations in total), Lore (eight nominations in total) and Wish You Were Here (eight nominations in total) at the main Aacta ceremony, which will be held on January 30, 2013, at The Star Event Centre. Last year's event was held at the iconic Sydney Opera House.
P.J. Hogan's Mental also scored eight nominations including Best Lead Actress (Toni Collette), Best Supporting Actor (Liev Schreiber) Best Young Actor (Lily Sullivan) and Best Supporting Actress for Rebecca Gibney and Deborah Mailman.
Not Suitable for Children...
- 12/3/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The Sapphires has led the Academy of Australian Cinema and Television Arts Awards nominations being nominated in 12 categories.
Awards will be handed out over two events, with an awards luncheon, focused on craft categories on Monday January 28 and the main event on January 30. Both events will be held at the Star Event Centre, the first public events for the venue.
The Sapphires, distributed by Hopscotch/eOne has been nominated for Best Film, Best Direction and best adapted screenplay as well as Best Lead Actor and Actress for Chris O’Dowd and Deborah Mailman, and Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Mauboy.
Burning Man was not far behind on 10 nominations including best film and best direction as well as best lead actor for Matthre Goode and Best Supporting Actress for Essie Davis.
Three more films, Lore, Mental and Wish You Were Here received eight nominations while Not Suitable For Children received four.
Awards will be handed out over two events, with an awards luncheon, focused on craft categories on Monday January 28 and the main event on January 30. Both events will be held at the Star Event Centre, the first public events for the venue.
The Sapphires, distributed by Hopscotch/eOne has been nominated for Best Film, Best Direction and best adapted screenplay as well as Best Lead Actor and Actress for Chris O’Dowd and Deborah Mailman, and Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Mauboy.
Burning Man was not far behind on 10 nominations including best film and best direction as well as best lead actor for Matthre Goode and Best Supporting Actress for Essie Davis.
Three more films, Lore, Mental and Wish You Were Here received eight nominations while Not Suitable For Children received four.
- 12/3/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Title: Lore Music Box Films Director: Cate Shortland Screenwriters: Cate Shortland, Robin Mukherjee from Rachel Seiffert’s novel “The Dark Room” Cast: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi, Hans-Jochen Wagner Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 11/14/12 Opens: December 28, 2012 limited. February 8, 2013 wide. Perhaps this question is naïve: how did the Germans like being defeated in World War II? We know how Frau Magda Goebbels felt. As she wrote to one of her sons, then in a Pow camp in North Africa, ”Our glorious idea is ruined and with it everything beautiful and marvelous that I have known in my life. The world that comes after theFührer [ Read More ]
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- 11/15/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Lore
Directed by Cate Shortland
Written by Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee
Australia/United Kingdom/Germany, 2012
Carrying her infant brother in her arms, Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) and her siblings enter a building full of displaced people. The atmosphere is depressive, filled with the angst and despair of its occupants. Her baby brother is crying with hunger, but she can’t feed him. At only fourteen, she’s too young to breastfeed, and doesn’t know how.
Lore finds a woman with a child of her own and offers her some jewelry to act as a wet nurse. She obliges and proceeds to feed him. The crying stops, but Lore just stands there, weighed down by her sudden and unversed burden to sustain her brother’s life. Her mother used to breastfeed him, but she, and Lore’s father, was arrested. They were both Nazis. So is Lore.
Flash back to the beginning of the film.
Directed by Cate Shortland
Written by Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee
Australia/United Kingdom/Germany, 2012
Carrying her infant brother in her arms, Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) and her siblings enter a building full of displaced people. The atmosphere is depressive, filled with the angst and despair of its occupants. Her baby brother is crying with hunger, but she can’t feed him. At only fourteen, she’s too young to breastfeed, and doesn’t know how.
Lore finds a woman with a child of her own and offers her some jewelry to act as a wet nurse. She obliges and proceeds to feed him. The crying stops, but Lore just stands there, weighed down by her sudden and unversed burden to sustain her brother’s life. Her mother used to breastfeed him, but she, and Lore’s father, was arrested. They were both Nazis. So is Lore.
Flash back to the beginning of the film.
- 9/11/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Two Australian films will feature in competition at the Sydney Film Festival, while five local features will get their world premieres.
Dead Europe, directed by Tony Krawitz, and Lore directed by Cate Shortland will compete In Competition, which carries a $60,000 prize.
For both films the festival will be their world premiere, along with other local features Not Suitable For Children, Mabo and Being Venice.
Krawitz’s Dead Europe is written by Louise Fox, adapted from a Christos Tsiolkas novel of the same name. It is produced by Liz Watts of Porchlight Films and Oscar-winner Emile Sherman of See Saw Films. The film is about an Australian photographer who visits his ancestral homeland of Greece after his father’s death. It will be Dead Europe’s world premiere.
Also in competition is Lore, Cate Shortland’s first film since debut Somersault. Again produced by Liz Watts, the film is an adaptation...
Dead Europe, directed by Tony Krawitz, and Lore directed by Cate Shortland will compete In Competition, which carries a $60,000 prize.
For both films the festival will be their world premiere, along with other local features Not Suitable For Children, Mabo and Being Venice.
Krawitz’s Dead Europe is written by Louise Fox, adapted from a Christos Tsiolkas novel of the same name. It is produced by Liz Watts of Porchlight Films and Oscar-winner Emile Sherman of See Saw Films. The film is about an Australian photographer who visits his ancestral homeland of Greece after his father’s death. It will be Dead Europe’s world premiere.
Also in competition is Lore, Cate Shortland’s first film since debut Somersault. Again produced by Liz Watts, the film is an adaptation...
- 5/9/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
A forthcoming film by an Australian director, set in the aftermath of World War Two Germany, has sold its Us rights.
Lore is directed by Cate Shortland, who previously directed Somersault, and is written by Shortland and Robin Mukherjee.
The film has been picked up by Music Box through French-based international sales agent Memento Films.
Lore is a co-production between Australia, Germany and the UK, produced by the Australian Porchlight Film’s Liz Watts as well as British producer Paul Welsh and German producers Karsten Stoter and Benny Drechsel.
Watts told Encore: “I’ve not worked with Music Box before, but we’re keen to be in their catalogue. They’ve done a lot of foreign films, they did the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films release. They’re very good at the boutique handling of foreign films in the Us.”
The film, an adaptation of Rachel Seiffert’s...
Lore is directed by Cate Shortland, who previously directed Somersault, and is written by Shortland and Robin Mukherjee.
The film has been picked up by Music Box through French-based international sales agent Memento Films.
Lore is a co-production between Australia, Germany and the UK, produced by the Australian Porchlight Film’s Liz Watts as well as British producer Paul Welsh and German producers Karsten Stoter and Benny Drechsel.
Watts told Encore: “I’ve not worked with Music Box before, but we’re keen to be in their catalogue. They’ve done a lot of foreign films, they did the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films release. They’re very good at the boutique handling of foreign films in the Us.”
The film, an adaptation of Rachel Seiffert’s...
- 4/4/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
#41. Lore Director: Cate ShortlandWriter(s): Shortland and Robin MukherjeeProducers: Porchlight Films' Liz Watts, Paul Welsh, Rohfilm's Karsten Stoeter & Benny DrechselDistributor: Rights Available The Gist: Based on the book by Rachel Seiffert and written by Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee, set in Spring of 1945, as the German front collapses, the Allied forces take control over Hitler’s country. With her Nazi parents imprisoned, 14-year-old Lore is left alone in charge of her four young siblings...(more) Cast: Saskia Rosendahl and Ursina Lardi List Worthy Reasons...: It's been a long, very long eight years since she dropped Somersault upon art-house patrons. Once again employing the unknown young actress in the lead, this multi-territory co-production is a heftier and I don't think will have any resemblance to her 2004 debut (I recall a more gloomy, low budget aesthetic) this could make for a potentially engrossing watch with young leads surviving WW2. Release Date/Status?...
- 1/7/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
After impressing audiences with the quietly devastating Somersault in 2004, Cate Shortland (pictured) followed up that effort with the 2006 ABC TV telemovie The Silence, starring Richard Roxburgh and Emily Barclay. After quite the absence, Shortland's now back behind the camera, however, with a new film that has just begun shooting in Germany. The film is called Lore and it's a co-production with Germany (and UK participation), based on Rachel Seiffert's Booker-nominated novel, The Dark Room, which explores the dark terrain of Nazi-ruled Germany and the Holocaust. Adapted for the screen by Shortland and British writer Robin Mukherjee, the film is set in the spring of 1945 as the German front collapses and the Allied forces take control.
- 7/26/2011
- FilmInk.com.au
Director Cate Shortland (Somersault) has begun shooting new feature film Lore in Germany.
A co-production with Germany and with UK participation that stars Saskia-Sophie Rosendahl and Ursina Lardi (The White Ribbon), it is produced by Liz Watts (Animal Kingdom, The Home Song Stories) British producer Paul Welsh (Skeletons) and German producers Karsten Stoter and Benny Drechsel (A Mysterious World, Jaffa).
Based on Rachel Seiffert’s Booker-nominee novel The Dark Room, Shortland adapted if for the screen with British writer Robin Mukherjee.
Lore is set in the spring of 1945 as the German front collapses and the Allied forces take control over Hitler’s country. With her Nazi parents imprisoned, 16-year-old Lore is left in charge of her four young siblings. Embarking on a journey across the devastated country, the children struggle to survive. And Lore has to learn to trust a person whom she had always been told was the enemy.
A co-production with Germany and with UK participation that stars Saskia-Sophie Rosendahl and Ursina Lardi (The White Ribbon), it is produced by Liz Watts (Animal Kingdom, The Home Song Stories) British producer Paul Welsh (Skeletons) and German producers Karsten Stoter and Benny Drechsel (A Mysterious World, Jaffa).
Based on Rachel Seiffert’s Booker-nominee novel The Dark Room, Shortland adapted if for the screen with British writer Robin Mukherjee.
Lore is set in the spring of 1945 as the German front collapses and the Allied forces take control over Hitler’s country. With her Nazi parents imprisoned, 16-year-old Lore is left in charge of her four young siblings. Embarking on a journey across the devastated country, the children struggle to survive. And Lore has to learn to trust a person whom she had always been told was the enemy.
- 7/26/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has announced an investment of $15m on 13 productions, including a German/Australian co-production directed by Cate Shortland and development for Bruce Beresford, Sarah Watt and Phillip Noyce projects.
In terms of films, Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm - which began production without financial support from Screen Australia – is one of the beneficiaries.
Shortland’s co-production Lore will be produced by Liz Watts, Karsten Stöter, Benny Drechsel, Paul Welsh and Gabriele Kranzelbinder and set in 1945 Germany.
The third feature to receive support is Kieran Darcy-Smith’s debut Say Nothing, written in conjuction with Felicity Price and produced by Angie Felder.
TV series The Slap, Cleo and Blood Brother, as well as series two of Spirited. also received financial support.
The agency estimates that these projects will generate production worth $72m.
The projects are:
The Eye Of The Storm
Paper Bark Films Eos Pty Ltd
Executive Producers Jonathan Shteinman,...
In terms of films, Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm - which began production without financial support from Screen Australia – is one of the beneficiaries.
Shortland’s co-production Lore will be produced by Liz Watts, Karsten Stöter, Benny Drechsel, Paul Welsh and Gabriele Kranzelbinder and set in 1945 Germany.
The third feature to receive support is Kieran Darcy-Smith’s debut Say Nothing, written in conjuction with Felicity Price and produced by Angie Felder.
TV series The Slap, Cleo and Blood Brother, as well as series two of Spirited. also received financial support.
The agency estimates that these projects will generate production worth $72m.
The projects are:
The Eye Of The Storm
Paper Bark Films Eos Pty Ltd
Executive Producers Jonathan Shteinman,...
- 7/9/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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