Two feature films, three TV dramas, one children’s series, and one online project will share in $5.9 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
The projects include feature How To Please A Woman about a woman’s choice to take her all-male housecleaning business to a more intimate level; the previously announced ABC anthology drama series Fires, set during last summer’s devastating bushfires; Stan feature Gold, and a comedy about a single woman and her database of potential sexual partners in Spreadsheet for Viacom CBS.
Screen Australia’s head of content Sally Caplan said it was a testament to the resilience of the screen industry to have so many projects move into production during such a challenging period.
“It’s fantastic to kick off 2021 with such a great sample of the premium dramas that have been greenlit across the country,” she said.
“We’re so pleased to have supported...
The projects include feature How To Please A Woman about a woman’s choice to take her all-male housecleaning business to a more intimate level; the previously announced ABC anthology drama series Fires, set during last summer’s devastating bushfires; Stan feature Gold, and a comedy about a single woman and her database of potential sexual partners in Spreadsheet for Viacom CBS.
Screen Australia’s head of content Sally Caplan said it was a testament to the resilience of the screen industry to have so many projects move into production during such a challenging period.
“It’s fantastic to kick off 2021 with such a great sample of the premium dramas that have been greenlit across the country,” she said.
“We’re so pleased to have supported...
- 2/3/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
The Great Gildersleeve Movie Collection
DVD
Warner Archive
1942, ’43, ’44 / 1.33:1 / 62, 63, 64, 63 min.
Starring Harold Peary, Jane Darwell, Freddie Mercer, Nancy Gates
Cinematography by Frank Redman, Jack MacKenzie
Directed by Gordon Douglas, Tim Whelan
Like the transition from silent movies to the talkies, the progression from radio to film was a rocky road for some performers. Bud Collyer and Daniel Chodos, the actors who lent their musclebound vocals to Superman and Doc Savage, would have been unthinkable modeling skin-tight long Johns or shredded undershirts on the silver screen. But when audiences first caught sight of Harold Peary as the rotund popinjay Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve there was immediate recognition. Peary was built for the part – he looked like a bowling pin in a double-breasted suit but had the self-awareness to describe his character as “a small man who thinks he’s a big man.” Gildersleeve was a pompous fool but he was our pompous fool.
DVD
Warner Archive
1942, ’43, ’44 / 1.33:1 / 62, 63, 64, 63 min.
Starring Harold Peary, Jane Darwell, Freddie Mercer, Nancy Gates
Cinematography by Frank Redman, Jack MacKenzie
Directed by Gordon Douglas, Tim Whelan
Like the transition from silent movies to the talkies, the progression from radio to film was a rocky road for some performers. Bud Collyer and Daniel Chodos, the actors who lent their musclebound vocals to Superman and Doc Savage, would have been unthinkable modeling skin-tight long Johns or shredded undershirts on the silver screen. But when audiences first caught sight of Harold Peary as the rotund popinjay Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve there was immediate recognition. Peary was built for the part – he looked like a bowling pin in a double-breasted suit but had the self-awareness to describe his character as “a small man who thinks he’s a big man.” Gildersleeve was a pompous fool but he was our pompous fool.
- 4/14/2020
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.’
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth movie Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood posted the biggest debut of his career in Australia last weekend, emulating its Us success.
The 1969-set drama/thriller starring Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie and Damon Herriman opened 68 per cent bigger than his previous best effort Django Unchained in 2012.
The downside: The Sony Pictures release sucked a lot of air from the second weekends of Universal’s Palm Beach and Transmission Films’ Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan.
The top 20 titles raked in $14.4 million, 3 per cent up on the previous frame, according to Numero. Mind Blowing Films’ Bollywood film Mission Mangal and Magnum Films’ Hong Kong thriller Line Walker 2 had buoyant launches while Universal’s A Dog’s Journey opened with neither bark nor bite, mirroring its Us fate.
The lurid tale of a TV actor (DiCaprio) who wants...
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth movie Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood posted the biggest debut of his career in Australia last weekend, emulating its Us success.
The 1969-set drama/thriller starring Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie and Damon Herriman opened 68 per cent bigger than his previous best effort Django Unchained in 2012.
The downside: The Sony Pictures release sucked a lot of air from the second weekends of Universal’s Palm Beach and Transmission Films’ Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan.
The top 20 titles raked in $14.4 million, 3 per cent up on the previous frame, according to Numero. Mind Blowing Films’ Bollywood film Mission Mangal and Magnum Films’ Hong Kong thriller Line Walker 2 had buoyant launches while Universal’s A Dog’s Journey opened with neither bark nor bite, mirroring its Us fate.
The lurid tale of a TV actor (DiCaprio) who wants...
- 8/19/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Palm Beach.’
The head-to-head clash between Universal’s Palm Beach and Transmission Films’ Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan last weekend was far from ideal, but both films are positioned to have leggy runs thanks to word of mouth.
Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach opened in third spot behind the fourth weekend of Disney’s blockbuster The Lion King and the second lap of Universal’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
Scripted by Ward and Joanna Murray-Smith, the comedy-drama about a group of lifelong friends reuniting to celebrate a special birthday rang up $1.14 million on 250 locations and $1.23 million with previews.
Starring Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, Richard E Grant, Jacqueline McKenzie, Claire van der Boom, Aaron Jeffrey, Heather Mitchell and Matilda Brown, the film opened 3 per cent ahead of Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding, which finished with $5.2 million, and at the same level as Jeremy Sims’ Last Cab to Darwin,...
The head-to-head clash between Universal’s Palm Beach and Transmission Films’ Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan last weekend was far from ideal, but both films are positioned to have leggy runs thanks to word of mouth.
Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach opened in third spot behind the fourth weekend of Disney’s blockbuster The Lion King and the second lap of Universal’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
Scripted by Ward and Joanna Murray-Smith, the comedy-drama about a group of lifelong friends reuniting to celebrate a special birthday rang up $1.14 million on 250 locations and $1.23 million with previews.
Starring Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, Richard E Grant, Jacqueline McKenzie, Claire van der Boom, Aaron Jeffrey, Heather Mitchell and Matilda Brown, the film opened 3 per cent ahead of Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding, which finished with $5.2 million, and at the same level as Jeremy Sims’ Last Cab to Darwin,...
- 8/11/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Bonnie the Elephant’.
Filmmaker Holly Hargreaves is on the look out for short animations focused on love, relationships and break ups for an anthology she is curating, titled Luv.
Hargreaves’ most recent project is the Screen Australia-supported web series Bonnie the Elephant, which will feature in the anthology. Overall, she has six confirmed films but is on the look out for another 10 more to round out the project, with a focus on stories that are funny or emotional.
The anthology is intended for submission to international and domestic festivals, and for digital release on iTunes. Each accepted film will get a share of profits.
“I’m a big fan of anthologies and animation. There are a lot of horror anthologies out there but few animation anthologies so I decided to make one,” she tells If.
“Love is a reoccuring theme in all of my work.”
Holly Hargreaves.
Bonnie the Elephant,...
Filmmaker Holly Hargreaves is on the look out for short animations focused on love, relationships and break ups for an anthology she is curating, titled Luv.
Hargreaves’ most recent project is the Screen Australia-supported web series Bonnie the Elephant, which will feature in the anthology. Overall, she has six confirmed films but is on the look out for another 10 more to round out the project, with a focus on stories that are funny or emotional.
The anthology is intended for submission to international and domestic festivals, and for digital release on iTunes. Each accepted film will get a share of profits.
“I’m a big fan of anthologies and animation. There are a lot of horror anthologies out there but few animation anthologies so I decided to make one,” she tells If.
“Love is a reoccuring theme in all of my work.”
Holly Hargreaves.
Bonnie the Elephant,...
- 8/1/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
The iMom Short Film Ariel Martin‘s The iMom (2014) short film stars Matilda Brown, Marta Dusseldorp, Karl Beattie, Curt Bonnem, and Tom Kiesche. Plot Synopsis The iMom‘s plot synopsis: “With a rapid evolution in robotics in a not-so-distant future, loving couples are now able of tackling with the discouraging and tiresome task of parenting, as the innovative [...]
Continue reading: The Imom Short Film: Cyborg Matilda Brown Takes Care of Two Kids in Ariel Martin’s Touching & Disturbing Story...
Continue reading: The Imom Short Film: Cyborg Matilda Brown Takes Care of Two Kids in Ariel Martin’s Touching & Disturbing Story...
- 7/29/2019
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
In “Palm Beach,” a Murderer’s Row of vintage yet durably sparkling Australian acting talent, combined with recent Oscar nominee Richard E. Grant, makes for a bright and eventful weekend in the sun at the eponymous northern Sydney enclave. The second feature-length directorial credit from actress-turned-director Rachel Ward following the resonant and well-received 2009 drama “Beautiful Kate,” this breezy yet sturdy dramatic comedy is aimed squarely at a mature demographic that will join the party both Down Under — where the film kicked off the Sydney Film Festival ahead of its Aug. 8 domestic rollout — and abroad, where older audiences are also sure to stargaze.
On the occasion of his 73rd birthday, long-marrieds Frank (Bryan Brown) and Charlotte (Greta Scacchi) are entertaining family and friends at their spectacularly airy, low-slung home perched above the stunning natural beauty of the ritzy Sydney peninsula Palm Beach. Joining them are longtime couples Leo (Sam Neill) and...
On the occasion of his 73rd birthday, long-marrieds Frank (Bryan Brown) and Charlotte (Greta Scacchi) are entertaining family and friends at their spectacularly airy, low-slung home perched above the stunning natural beauty of the ritzy Sydney peninsula Palm Beach. Joining them are longtime couples Leo (Sam Neill) and...
- 6/5/2019
- by Eddie Cockrell
- Variety Film + TV
‘Palm Beach.’
Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach, a comedy-drama about a group of lifelong friends reuniting to celebrate a special birthday, will open the Sydney Film Festival at the State Theatre on Wednesday June 5.
Scripted by Ward and Joanna Murray-Smith, the film stars Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, Richard E Grant, Jacqueline McKenzie, Claire van der Boom, Aaron Jeffrey, Heather Mitchell, Matilda Brown and new faces Frances Berry and Charlie Vickers.
The good times roll at a Palm Beach house with loads of laughter, lavish meals, wine and music until tensions mount and new and old resentments surface over three days. Brown, Neill and Grant play former members of a one hit wonder band called Pacific Sideburns.
The inspiration stemmed from a Christmas in Wales which Brown and his wife Rachel spent with three other couples five years ago. It was a funny and warm occasion but when they...
Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach, a comedy-drama about a group of lifelong friends reuniting to celebrate a special birthday, will open the Sydney Film Festival at the State Theatre on Wednesday June 5.
Scripted by Ward and Joanna Murray-Smith, the film stars Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, Richard E Grant, Jacqueline McKenzie, Claire van der Boom, Aaron Jeffrey, Heather Mitchell, Matilda Brown and new faces Frances Berry and Charlie Vickers.
The good times roll at a Palm Beach house with loads of laughter, lavish meals, wine and music until tensions mount and new and old resentments surface over three days. Brown, Neill and Grant play former members of a one hit wonder band called Pacific Sideburns.
The inspiration stemmed from a Christmas in Wales which Brown and his wife Rachel spent with three other couples five years ago. It was a funny and warm occasion but when they...
- 4/29/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Soundmoves is the result of a series of workshops with pupils and teachers Photo: Sandy Butler Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced a special screening of six short films and live musical performance in partnership with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Soundmoves: Music Movies will feature pupils from Sighthill, Clovenstone and Canal View Primary Schools at 11am on Friday, 21 June at The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh.
The Soundmoves project - which has run since 2017 - allows pupils and teachers to take part in creative workshops exploring music and movement. Composer Matilda Brown, movement specialist Ana Almeida and Sco musicians were joined by videographer Sandy Butler to enable two classes from each school to film their work in the theatre at Wester Hailes Secondary School. The resulting six short movies are based on original ideas developed during those workshops.
Kirsteen Davidson Kelly, Sco creative learning director, said: “Our Soundmoves project forms part of...
Soundmoves: Music Movies will feature pupils from Sighthill, Clovenstone and Canal View Primary Schools at 11am on Friday, 21 June at The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh.
The Soundmoves project - which has run since 2017 - allows pupils and teachers to take part in creative workshops exploring music and movement. Composer Matilda Brown, movement specialist Ana Almeida and Sco musicians were joined by videographer Sandy Butler to enable two classes from each school to film their work in the theatre at Wester Hailes Secondary School. The resulting six short movies are based on original ideas developed during those workshops.
Kirsteen Davidson Kelly, Sco creative learning director, said: “Our Soundmoves project forms part of...
- 4/20/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Barry Otto (Photo credit: Jake Terrey).
When Gracie Otto told her friend Nick Broomfield that Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and socialite David Tang had rejected her proposal to be profiled in a feature documentary, the filmmaker gave her some sage advice.
Instead of trying to make a film about Tang, who founded the Shanghai Tang fashion chain, Bloomfield suggested she look at a subject much closer to home: her father Barry Otto.
The venerable stage, film and TV actor agreed, so his daughter and producer Nicole O’Donohue, her collaborator on The Last Impresario, embarked on the doc entitled Otto on Otto.
“It’s a very personal film and a hard film to make,” says Gracie, who lived with her parents until she was 26 and later moved to the Us.
“He is so engaged in his career, he is the essence of an actor, but when he is not in...
When Gracie Otto told her friend Nick Broomfield that Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and socialite David Tang had rejected her proposal to be profiled in a feature documentary, the filmmaker gave her some sage advice.
Instead of trying to make a film about Tang, who founded the Shanghai Tang fashion chain, Bloomfield suggested she look at a subject much closer to home: her father Barry Otto.
The venerable stage, film and TV actor agreed, so his daughter and producer Nicole O’Donohue, her collaborator on The Last Impresario, embarked on the doc entitled Otto on Otto.
“It’s a very personal film and a hard film to make,” says Gracie, who lived with her parents until she was 26 and later moved to the Us.
“He is so engaged in his career, he is the essence of an actor, but when he is not in...
- 1/23/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Let's Talk About.. . Matilda Brown.s short-form series Let.s Talk About is set to return for a second season. . The series, originally commissioned for the now defunct Presto, has found a new home on Foxtel Play, where it will be available for streaming from February 19, along with the first season. The show will also be broadcast on Foxtel.s Showcase channel.. . Foxtel has also tweaked the format for the second season: from 10 x 5 to 10 x 11 minute episodes. . Brown (Am I Ok, How God Works), the series creator and star,.will return alongside Richard Davies (Offspring, Bed of Roses), father Bryan Brown (Red Dog: True Blue, Australia) and Lisa Hensley (Brides of Christ, Dating the Enemy). . This season, Sam Neill (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Jurassic Park) will also star, along with Damian Walshe-Howling (Underbelly, The Reef), Steve Le Marquand (Rake, Underbelly), Andrea Demetriades (Alex & Eve, The Principal), and Chloe Boreham...
- 1/19/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Vr project Buried.
Screen Australia has announced its latest funding round, with $3 million in production and development funding split between two Indigenous TV projects, eight multiplatform projects, eight feature films, and two individuals and two companies.
The two Indigenous television projects to have received production investment are:
–... ABC TV.s previously announced Indigenous comedy drama series The Warriors. From Robert Connolly's Arenamedia, the show is set in the competitive world of Australian Rules Football, and has major production investment from Screen Australia and funding support from Film Victoria;
–... Nitv documentary Carry The Flag,.which delves into the story behind the Torres Strait Island flag designed by Bernard Namok, from Tamarind Tree Pictures with Screen Queensland and Screen Territory support.
The eight multiplatform projects to have received production investment are:
–... Vr project The Buried, a 3D experience that plunges the viewer into a magical Dreamtime world, from Indigenous writer/director Tyson Mowarin,...
Screen Australia has announced its latest funding round, with $3 million in production and development funding split between two Indigenous TV projects, eight multiplatform projects, eight feature films, and two individuals and two companies.
The two Indigenous television projects to have received production investment are:
–... ABC TV.s previously announced Indigenous comedy drama series The Warriors. From Robert Connolly's Arenamedia, the show is set in the competitive world of Australian Rules Football, and has major production investment from Screen Australia and funding support from Film Victoria;
–... Nitv documentary Carry The Flag,.which delves into the story behind the Torres Strait Island flag designed by Bernard Namok, from Tamarind Tree Pictures with Screen Queensland and Screen Territory support.
The eight multiplatform projects to have received production investment are:
–... Vr project The Buried, a 3D experience that plunges the viewer into a magical Dreamtime world, from Indigenous writer/director Tyson Mowarin,...
- 10/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Kriv Stenders on a recce for Wake In Fright in Broken Hill.
The Nsw Government has invested over $2 million to secure four new feature films, four television drama series and four factual TV series, as well as several one-off documentaries, a web series and a multiplatform project. The productions are predicted to create 1080 new screen jobs and generate a direct production spend of almost $35 million in Nsw. Included among them is Ten.s recently announced mini-series Wake In Fright, the first local production to be supported under the Screen Nsw.s $20 million Made in Nsw Fund. The other 15 productions are being supported through the Film Production Finance Fund. According to Deputy Premier and Minister for the Arts Troy Grant the fund can now support many more local film and television productions because funds have been freed-up by the Made in Nsw Fund. The full list of funding recipients: Project: Ali's Wedding...
The Nsw Government has invested over $2 million to secure four new feature films, four television drama series and four factual TV series, as well as several one-off documentaries, a web series and a multiplatform project. The productions are predicted to create 1080 new screen jobs and generate a direct production spend of almost $35 million in Nsw. Included among them is Ten.s recently announced mini-series Wake In Fright, the first local production to be supported under the Screen Nsw.s $20 million Made in Nsw Fund. The other 15 productions are being supported through the Film Production Finance Fund. According to Deputy Premier and Minister for the Arts Troy Grant the fund can now support many more local film and television productions because funds have been freed-up by the Made in Nsw Fund. The full list of funding recipients: Project: Ali's Wedding...
- 9/12/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Tim Ferguson on Spin Out: 'Wait till America finds out that you can do doughnuts and win five grand'
‘I always doubted that I could do it,’ says the Doug Anthony All Star, who found a way around his multiple sclerosis to make his debut feature film
It was a script reading at a small Western Australian film festival in 2012 that finally lit a fire under Spin Out, the Australian comedian Tim Ferguson’s debut as a feature film director. Ferguson had an inkling that a romantic comedy set at a bachelor and spinster ball in country Australia and its youthful cast of ute fiends would appeal to the young CinefestOz, then in its fifth year.
He approached the festival’s Pac Script Lab with the project, then titled Circle Work, and a reading was staged in Busselton with a group of rising actors, including a local Emma Booth, and Matilda Brown.
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It was a script reading at a small Western Australian film festival in 2012 that finally lit a fire under Spin Out, the Australian comedian Tim Ferguson’s debut as a feature film director. Ferguson had an inkling that a romantic comedy set at a bachelor and spinster ball in country Australia and its youthful cast of ute fiends would appeal to the young CinefestOz, then in its fifth year.
He approached the festival’s Pac Script Lab with the project, then titled Circle Work, and a reading was staged in Busselton with a group of rising actors, including a local Emma Booth, and Matilda Brown.
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- 8/31/2016
- by James Robert Douglas
- The Guardian - Film News
Spin Out.
CinefestOZ has launched its full 2016 program, boasting a line-up that includes 82 films and 15 Australian premieres.
Festival CEO Malinda Nixon said that this year.s program was of .an exceptionally high quality. and offered something for everyone.
Gillian Armstrong will head up the Film Prize Jury, which will gift $100,000 to one of the four films competing; The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, Girl Asleep, Jasper Jones and Spin Out. All prize films will screen with an in conversation event.
Jasper Jones and Spin Out will have their world premieres at the festival, along with Tim Blackburn.s Burn Point and Wa feature Can.t Win Do Try from Jj DeCeglie.
Joining Armstrong as guests are writer Ben Elton (Upstart Crow), screenwriter, director and comedian Tim Ferguson (Film Prize Finalist Spin Out); actor Lincoln Lewis (Spin Out); actress, director and writer. Matilda Brown (The Death and Life of Otto...
CinefestOZ has launched its full 2016 program, boasting a line-up that includes 82 films and 15 Australian premieres.
Festival CEO Malinda Nixon said that this year.s program was of .an exceptionally high quality. and offered something for everyone.
Gillian Armstrong will head up the Film Prize Jury, which will gift $100,000 to one of the four films competing; The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, Girl Asleep, Jasper Jones and Spin Out. All prize films will screen with an in conversation event.
Jasper Jones and Spin Out will have their world premieres at the festival, along with Tim Blackburn.s Burn Point and Wa feature Can.t Win Do Try from Jj DeCeglie.
Joining Armstrong as guests are writer Ben Elton (Upstart Crow), screenwriter, director and comedian Tim Ferguson (Film Prize Finalist Spin Out); actor Lincoln Lewis (Spin Out); actress, director and writer. Matilda Brown (The Death and Life of Otto...
- 8/2/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Xavier Samuel in The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
What is the film about?
It.s the chronicle of a character named Otto Bloom who experiences time backwards. Not in a Benjamin Button way; he.s not ageing backwards. But he remembers the future and knows nothing about the past. So it.s about his life and the great love of his life. It.s a kind of palindromic love story. But it.s also a film which doesn.t fit neatly into one genre. It starts out as a mystery, and it.s also told in a documentary format, so there is that element as well. But I wouldn.t call it a mockumentary. It.s not a comedy although there are funny moments in [it]. Basically at the start of the film the question is posed: who is Otto Bloom? Then in a series of eight chapters you...
What is the film about?
It.s the chronicle of a character named Otto Bloom who experiences time backwards. Not in a Benjamin Button way; he.s not ageing backwards. But he remembers the future and knows nothing about the past. So it.s about his life and the great love of his life. It.s a kind of palindromic love story. But it.s also a film which doesn.t fit neatly into one genre. It starts out as a mystery, and it.s also told in a documentary format, so there is that element as well. But I wouldn.t call it a mockumentary. It.s not a comedy although there are funny moments in [it]. Basically at the start of the film the question is posed: who is Otto Bloom? Then in a series of eight chapters you...
- 7/27/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Matilda Brown with her dad, Bryan Brown, in Lessons From The Grave.
Matilda Brown will be an ambassador for AFI | Aacta.s annual online short film competition, #SocialShorts. Brown joins the Blue-Tongue Films group — comprising Joel and Nash Edgerton, David Michôd, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Luke Doolan, Mirrah Foulkes and Spencer Susser — in the role..
Now in its third year, #SocialShorts allows viewers to watch and vote for short films from emerging Aussie filmmakers as they vie against each other in three categories: comedy, drama and open.
The online competition runs over three weeks; one category a week..
The winner in each category will receive a cash prize and a mentorship with #SocialShorts Ambassadors, as well as tickets to attend the 6th Aacta Awards Industry Luncheon presented by Blue Post at Sydney's Star, where they will have the opportunity to "make new connections and discuss new collaborations with industry leaders".
Brown said...
Matilda Brown will be an ambassador for AFI | Aacta.s annual online short film competition, #SocialShorts. Brown joins the Blue-Tongue Films group — comprising Joel and Nash Edgerton, David Michôd, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Luke Doolan, Mirrah Foulkes and Spencer Susser — in the role..
Now in its third year, #SocialShorts allows viewers to watch and vote for short films from emerging Aussie filmmakers as they vie against each other in three categories: comedy, drama and open.
The online competition runs over three weeks; one category a week..
The winner in each category will receive a cash prize and a mentorship with #SocialShorts Ambassadors, as well as tickets to attend the 6th Aacta Awards Industry Luncheon presented by Blue Post at Sydney's Star, where they will have the opportunity to "make new connections and discuss new collaborations with industry leaders".
Brown said...
- 7/25/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Joe Cinque's Consolation.
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
- 7/7/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The Melbourne International Film Festival is weeks away, but the excitement is already growing for this year's event. Hopefully to set the tone, Miff have announced key sponsor Grey Goose Vodka as well as some information on the fun genre-blender The Death And Life Of Otto, which will officially kick off proceedings as its opening gala film. Fact, including the announced film, Miff will have opened with two Australian time travel genre films (the other being the Ethan Hawke vehicle Predestination). Starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward, The Death and Life of Otto Bloom chronicles the life and great love of Bloom (Samuel), an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse – passing backwards through the years while remembering the future. The Death And...
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- 5/16/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Rachel Ward and Matilda Brown star in The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, starring Xavier Samuel, Rachel Ward and Matilda Brown, will open this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.
The film, directed by Cris Jones, chronicles the life and great love of Bloom (Samuel), a man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom is Jones' first feature.
The full program for the festival will be revealed on July 5.
Jones said it was an honour and a joy to have his first feature opening Miff..
"For me, Miff is more than a celebration of film," he said..
"It is a family and a home. The festival has played an enormous role in my journey as a filmmaker, and without the support of the Premiere Fund, this film would not exist.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, starring Xavier Samuel, Rachel Ward and Matilda Brown, will open this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.
The film, directed by Cris Jones, chronicles the life and great love of Bloom (Samuel), a man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom is Jones' first feature.
The full program for the festival will be revealed on July 5.
Jones said it was an honour and a joy to have his first feature opening Miff..
"For me, Miff is more than a celebration of film," he said..
"It is a family and a home. The festival has played an enormous role in my journey as a filmmaker, and without the support of the Premiere Fund, this film would not exist.
- 5/16/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Presto has commissioned Matilda Brown's 10-part short form series Let.s Talk About.
Brown, the daughter of iconic Australian actor Bryan Brown, will write, direct and star in the project.
Let.s Talk About is a series about being .up the duff. in a relationship that.s only just begun..
Each three minute epiosde in the series will focus on a particular subject during the nine months of pregnancy resulting in content that is both entertaining, informative, cheeky and funny.
The Let.s Talk About series will be available exclusively to Presto TV and Presto Entertainment bundle subscribers to stream on demand. .
The series will have its World Premiere on Presto in October.
Let.s Talk About revolves around Claire (played by Matilda Brown) and Ben (Richard Davies, .Offspring.) who have only recently started dating and now discover that Claire is pregnant.
Their predicament means there are some conversations they just can.t avoid,...
Brown, the daughter of iconic Australian actor Bryan Brown, will write, direct and star in the project.
Let.s Talk About is a series about being .up the duff. in a relationship that.s only just begun..
Each three minute epiosde in the series will focus on a particular subject during the nine months of pregnancy resulting in content that is both entertaining, informative, cheeky and funny.
The Let.s Talk About series will be available exclusively to Presto TV and Presto Entertainment bundle subscribers to stream on demand. .
The series will have its World Premiere on Presto in October.
Let.s Talk About revolves around Claire (played by Matilda Brown) and Ben (Richard Davies, .Offspring.) who have only recently started dating and now discover that Claire is pregnant.
Their predicament means there are some conversations they just can.t avoid,...
- 9/7/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Presto has commissioned Matilda Brown's 10-part short form series Let.s Talk About.
Brown, the daughter of iconic Australian actor Bryan Brown, will write, direct and star in the project.
Let.s Talk About is a series about being .up the duff. in a relationship that.s only just begun..
Each three minute epiosde in the series will focus on a particular subject during the nine months of pregnancy resulting in content that is both entertaining, informative, cheeky and funny.
The Let.s Talk About series will be available exclusively to Presto TV and Presto Entertainment bundle subscribers to stream on demand. .
The series will have its World Premiere on Presto in October.
Let.s Talk About revolves around Claire (played by Matilda Brown) and Ben (Richard Davies, .Offspring.) who have only recently started dating and now discover that Claire is pregnant.
Their predicament means there are some conversations they just can.t avoid,...
Brown, the daughter of iconic Australian actor Bryan Brown, will write, direct and star in the project.
Let.s Talk About is a series about being .up the duff. in a relationship that.s only just begun..
Each three minute epiosde in the series will focus on a particular subject during the nine months of pregnancy resulting in content that is both entertaining, informative, cheeky and funny.
The Let.s Talk About series will be available exclusively to Presto TV and Presto Entertainment bundle subscribers to stream on demand. .
The series will have its World Premiere on Presto in October.
Let.s Talk About revolves around Claire (played by Matilda Brown) and Ben (Richard Davies, .Offspring.) who have only recently started dating and now discover that Claire is pregnant.
Their predicament means there are some conversations they just can.t avoid,...
- 9/7/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The nominees for the two short film categories at the 4th annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aatca) Awards were announced today.
The contenders for best short animation are God Squad (Nicholas Kempt, Troy Zafer), Grace Under Water (Anthony Lawrence), Love In The Time Of March Madness (Robertino Zambrano, Melissa Johnston) and The Video Dating Tape of Desmondo Ray, Aged 33 & 3/4. (Steve Baker).
In the running for best short fiction are Florence Has Left The Building (Mirrah Foulkes, Alex White), Grey Bull (Khoby Rowe, Eddy Bell), The iMom (Ariel Martin, Anna Fawcett) and Welcome To Iron Knob (Dave Wade, Alexandra Blue).
The feature films in competition and the nominees for the Aacta Award for best feature length documentary will be revealed in the coming weeks. All feature film, TV and the remaining documentary nominees will be announced later in 2014. The awards will be presented in Sydney in January.
Director...
The contenders for best short animation are God Squad (Nicholas Kempt, Troy Zafer), Grace Under Water (Anthony Lawrence), Love In The Time Of March Madness (Robertino Zambrano, Melissa Johnston) and The Video Dating Tape of Desmondo Ray, Aged 33 & 3/4. (Steve Baker).
In the running for best short fiction are Florence Has Left The Building (Mirrah Foulkes, Alex White), Grey Bull (Khoby Rowe, Eddy Bell), The iMom (Ariel Martin, Anna Fawcett) and Welcome To Iron Knob (Dave Wade, Alexandra Blue).
The feature films in competition and the nominees for the Aacta Award for best feature length documentary will be revealed in the coming weeks. All feature film, TV and the remaining documentary nominees will be announced later in 2014. The awards will be presented in Sydney in January.
Director...
- 9/2/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
James Mackay with Kim Ledger
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The pool of talented young Australian actors is so vast the judges of the Heath Ledger Scholarship presented by Australians in Film have named 20 finalists this year, up from the usual 15.
That.s a real stamp of approval considering the calibre of the judges: Collin Farrell, Miranda Otto, directors Gregor Jordan and Robert Luketic, casting director Ann Fay (Anzac Girls, Packed to the Rafters) and Randi Hiller, VP of feature casting at Walt Disney Studios.
The winner of the sixth annual scholarship, which fosters the education and career development of young Australian actors in the Us, will be announced in Los Angeles on June 12.
The prizes include $10,000 cash, a two year scholarship at Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre in Los Angeles, two return flights to La. including attendance at the announcement ceremony and a second flight when he or she is ready to break into the market,...
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The pool of talented young Australian actors is so vast the judges of the Heath Ledger Scholarship presented by Australians in Film have named 20 finalists this year, up from the usual 15.
That.s a real stamp of approval considering the calibre of the judges: Collin Farrell, Miranda Otto, directors Gregor Jordan and Robert Luketic, casting director Ann Fay (Anzac Girls, Packed to the Rafters) and Randi Hiller, VP of feature casting at Walt Disney Studios.
The winner of the sixth annual scholarship, which fosters the education and career development of young Australian actors in the Us, will be announced in Los Angeles on June 12.
The prizes include $10,000 cash, a two year scholarship at Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre in Los Angeles, two return flights to La. including attendance at the announcement ceremony and a second flight when he or she is ready to break into the market,...
- 5/6/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
After playing a member of the dysfunctional Moody family and a young Rupert Murdoch, Guy Edmonds is set to play a guy who.s forced to impregnate seven women in seven days.
That.s the punishment meted out to his character Scott by a domineering angel in Wingman, a made-for-the web series from writer-director Steve Anthopoulos and producer Yingna Lu.
The screenplay by Anthopoulos and co-writer Luke Davidson follows Scott as he buys the morning after-pill for his girlfriend Becky. This prompts a visit from an extroverted angel named Wingman, who tells him they've committed a grave sin by ending a potential life. To save his girlfriend from eternal damnation, he must impregnate seven women in seven days.
.It.s a funny, sexy show with an underlying message: Everyone has the right to choose,. Edmonds tells If. The producers aim to raise a modest $8,500 via crowd funding site Pozible towards the cost of renting locations,...
That.s the punishment meted out to his character Scott by a domineering angel in Wingman, a made-for-the web series from writer-director Steve Anthopoulos and producer Yingna Lu.
The screenplay by Anthopoulos and co-writer Luke Davidson follows Scott as he buys the morning after-pill for his girlfriend Becky. This prompts a visit from an extroverted angel named Wingman, who tells him they've committed a grave sin by ending a potential life. To save his girlfriend from eternal damnation, he must impregnate seven women in seven days.
.It.s a funny, sexy show with an underlying message: Everyone has the right to choose,. Edmonds tells If. The producers aim to raise a modest $8,500 via crowd funding site Pozible towards the cost of renting locations,...
- 11/26/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen industry figures took to social media on Saturday night, most lamenting the election result.
The negative responses continued on Sunday although, to be fair, the Coalition.s victory was warmly welcomed in some circles.
Here.s a sample of Facebook postings:
Julie Marlow: A rotten week; a friend died way too soon, an emotional funeral and now this debacle of an election.
Angie Fielder: Despite the polls, I can't believe it's happening, I can't believe someone like Tony Abbott could be elected to lead our country.
Polly Staniford Seager: Soooooo depressing! Can't even bear to read/watch the news.
John L Simpson: Sad, not the Australia that's in my heart.
Stephen Lance: I can't watch.
Matilda Brown: How did we go from Julia to Tony? This is horrible.
Steve Saragossi: Australia, what the hell have you just done?
Stephen Sewell : I just woke up this...
The negative responses continued on Sunday although, to be fair, the Coalition.s victory was warmly welcomed in some circles.
Here.s a sample of Facebook postings:
Julie Marlow: A rotten week; a friend died way too soon, an emotional funeral and now this debacle of an election.
Angie Fielder: Despite the polls, I can't believe it's happening, I can't believe someone like Tony Abbott could be elected to lead our country.
Polly Staniford Seager: Soooooo depressing! Can't even bear to read/watch the news.
John L Simpson: Sad, not the Australia that's in my heart.
Stephen Lance: I can't watch.
Matilda Brown: How did we go from Julia to Tony? This is horrible.
Steve Saragossi: Australia, what the hell have you just done?
Stephen Sewell : I just woke up this...
- 9/8/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Matlida and Bryan Brown..
Matilda Brown and her father Bryan Brown have collaborated on Lessons from the Grave, a series of short films that will premiere on ABC1 in September.
The pair plays a fictional daughter and father, Bonnie and Douglas, who live in a remote country area. He wins $50 million in the lottery but has a heart attack and dies. Douglas is unwilling to move onto the next world until he knows Bonnie will be Ok and stays as a ghost to teach her some lessons in life.
Matilda wrote the scripts and produced and directed the 3-minute episodes. Her dad financed the production and it was shot on her Nsw country farm. Each segment will screen before the 7 pm news.
She told If, .The idea came from having a coffee with my dad and he said .you should write something for us to do together when neither of us is doing anything.
Matilda Brown and her father Bryan Brown have collaborated on Lessons from the Grave, a series of short films that will premiere on ABC1 in September.
The pair plays a fictional daughter and father, Bonnie and Douglas, who live in a remote country area. He wins $50 million in the lottery but has a heart attack and dies. Douglas is unwilling to move onto the next world until he knows Bonnie will be Ok and stays as a ghost to teach her some lessons in life.
Matilda wrote the scripts and produced and directed the 3-minute episodes. Her dad financed the production and it was shot on her Nsw country farm. Each segment will screen before the 7 pm news.
She told If, .The idea came from having a coffee with my dad and he said .you should write something for us to do together when neither of us is doing anything.
- 7/21/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Tim Ferguson has a liveliness and enthusiasm that is as infectious as it is energising, even over the phone. .I have nothing to do with Julian Assange, I did not set him up! And anyone who says so is only half-accurate!. It's obvious even from the briefest of encounters that Ferguson is a born entertainer.
First rising to fame in the musical comedy group The Doug Anthony Allstars with Richard Fidler and Paul McDermott, Ferguson has gone on to become one of Australia.s top comedy writers and performers. Ferguson still performs to this day, most recently with his stand-up show, Carry A Big Stick at the 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival earlier this year, which explored the impact that Multiple Sclerosis has had on his life and career.
Ferguson and co-writer Edwina Exton are now focusing on getting their script Circle Work, into production. A romantic comedy, Circle Work is...
First rising to fame in the musical comedy group The Doug Anthony Allstars with Richard Fidler and Paul McDermott, Ferguson has gone on to become one of Australia.s top comedy writers and performers. Ferguson still performs to this day, most recently with his stand-up show, Carry A Big Stick at the 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival earlier this year, which explored the impact that Multiple Sclerosis has had on his life and career.
Ferguson and co-writer Edwina Exton are now focusing on getting their script Circle Work, into production. A romantic comedy, Circle Work is...
- 8/27/2012
- by Anthony Soegito
- IF.com.au
Short film competition Tropfest has announced its top 15 finalists for 2012.
The line up of directors includes a actors, comedians, If Award winners, second generation filmmakers and the youngest ever Tropfest finalist.
Tropfest is also opening the voting up to the audience to select a 16th film through Youtube.
Tropfest founder and director John Polson said: “Increasingly each year, I’m stunned by the quality of films entered into Tropfest from people all over Australia and the world, many with budgets of just a few dollars. Last year the quality was so strong, we let our audience decide on the 16th film for the first time, so we’re incredibly excited to be bringing our YouTube competition back this year. I want to congratulate all our filmmakers, and I want to thank our supporters for once again enabling Tropfest to take place Free for the Australian – and now New Zealand – public – in particular our biggest partner,...
The line up of directors includes a actors, comedians, If Award winners, second generation filmmakers and the youngest ever Tropfest finalist.
Tropfest is also opening the voting up to the audience to select a 16th film through Youtube.
Tropfest founder and director John Polson said: “Increasingly each year, I’m stunned by the quality of films entered into Tropfest from people all over Australia and the world, many with budgets of just a few dollars. Last year the quality was so strong, we let our audience decide on the 16th film for the first time, so we’re incredibly excited to be bringing our YouTube competition back this year. I want to congratulate all our filmmakers, and I want to thank our supporters for once again enabling Tropfest to take place Free for the Australian – and now New Zealand – public – in particular our biggest partner,...
- 2/3/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Every so often an Australian actor makes the leap into directing (with various degrees of success) by joining the overpopulated Australian short film circuit. Some recent examples that spring to mind are Damien Walshe-Howling, Damon Gameau, Angus Sampson and Matilda Brown. Now we have the awesome short film debut of Anya Beyersdorf, who has previously been on screen in lots of shorts and a couple of features, including the just-selected-for-Rotterdam art film Black & White & Sex and another ampersand gem, Rats & Cats - playing opposite the guy who dresses in a dog suit on FX series Wilfred. For whatever reason Anya decided to eschew the festival route, instead sending it around to a few acquaintances -- including me -- to premiere it online. I'm totally biased but it's excellent. The short, Headroom, is part...
- 1/24/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The Australian film and TV industry converged on Sydney hotspot The Ivy yesterday for the announcement of this year's Jameson If Awards Sydney.nominations. Hosted by Matt Day, Susie Porter and Matilda Brown, the nominations went off with a bang, detailing which film and TV personalities were eligible for a prestigious If Award, come mid-November. The Jameson If Awards Sydney.. the only People.s Choice Awards for Australian film and creative talent . will this year be hosted by the multi-talented Eddie Perfect.. The 2011 Jameson If Awards Sydney will be held at.Luna Park on Wednesday, November.16. Tickets are available online here. To check out the full list of.nominations, click here. . Representing The Eye of...
- 10/11/2011
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
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