Netflix has revealed a slew of commissions out of the U.K., including a political thriller series starring Julie Delpy and Suranne Jones, the reality show “Buying London” and a TV adaptation of Marian Keyes’ bestselling novel “Grown Ups.”
As reported by Variety exclusively earlier, Netflix has also commissioned the Jamie Dornan crime noir series “The Undertow,” which will go into production in Scotland this year and premiere on the platform in 2025.
Also set for 2025, “The Choice” stars Jones and Delpy as the British Prime Minister and French President, respectively, in what is being described as a high-stakes political thriller.
Jones plays “Abigail Dalton, the recently elected British Prime Minister fighting for office thanks to a healthcare crisis. Vivienne Toussaint, played by Julie Delpy, is the first female French President campaigning for re-election no matter what — including tackling France’s borders. A summit between the two women could be the answer to their prayers,...
As reported by Variety exclusively earlier, Netflix has also commissioned the Jamie Dornan crime noir series “The Undertow,” which will go into production in Scotland this year and premiere on the platform in 2025.
Also set for 2025, “The Choice” stars Jones and Delpy as the British Prime Minister and French President, respectively, in what is being described as a high-stakes political thriller.
Jones plays “Abigail Dalton, the recently elected British Prime Minister fighting for office thanks to a healthcare crisis. Vivienne Toussaint, played by Julie Delpy, is the first female French President campaigning for re-election no matter what — including tackling France’s borders. A summit between the two women could be the answer to their prayers,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix is boosting its Australian slate with a limited drama series titled Apple Cider Vinegar, which tells the story of a notorious scam in the health and wellness industry. Produced with Australia’s See-Saw Films and Picking Scabs, the show will be directed by Jeffrey Walker (The Artful Dodger, Modern Family) and co-star star Kaitlyn Dever, Alycia Debnam-Carey and Aisha Dee.
The series is created by award-winning Australian writer Samantha Strauss (Nine Perfect Strangers), who is scripting the show with Anya Beyersdorf and Angela Betzien.
The series is inspired by the real-life story of disgraced Australian wellness influencer Belle Gibson, who built a massive social media following by claiming that she was successfully overcoming a terminal brain cancer diagnosis via healthy eating and other wellness remedies.
Netflix’s summary for the project reads: “Apple Cider Vinegar takes place at the birth of social media and follows two young Women – Belle...
The series is created by award-winning Australian writer Samantha Strauss (Nine Perfect Strangers), who is scripting the show with Anya Beyersdorf and Angela Betzien.
The series is inspired by the real-life story of disgraced Australian wellness influencer Belle Gibson, who built a massive social media following by claiming that she was successfully overcoming a terminal brain cancer diagnosis via healthy eating and other wellness remedies.
Netflix’s summary for the project reads: “Apple Cider Vinegar takes place at the birth of social media and follows two young Women – Belle...
- 12/14/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A spin-off of High Maintenance, starring Yael Stone, and a comedic crime series from Jungle Entertainment are among the 21 projects that will share in more than $600,000 in story development funding from Screen Australia.
The slate includes 14 feature films, six television dramas and an online project, with 11 titles supported through the Generate Fund and 10 through the Premium Fund.
Screen Australia’s head of development Nerida Moore, who will depart the agency in December after nine years, said she felt privileged to support more many creative projects and people during the time she has left in the role.
“This is an exciting mix of projects and it’s great to support creatives expand on their careers and take on new challenges, including producer Alex White working on her first TV series, and writer Arka Das and writer/director Hannah Hilliard on their debut feature films,” he said.
“The shared vision we are...
The slate includes 14 feature films, six television dramas and an online project, with 11 titles supported through the Generate Fund and 10 through the Premium Fund.
Screen Australia’s head of development Nerida Moore, who will depart the agency in December after nine years, said she felt privileged to support more many creative projects and people during the time she has left in the role.
“This is an exciting mix of projects and it’s great to support creatives expand on their careers and take on new challenges, including producer Alex White working on her first TV series, and writer Arka Das and writer/director Hannah Hilliard on their debut feature films,” he said.
“The shared vision we are...
- 10/18/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Shantae Barnes-Cowan leads the cast of Jub Clerc’s debut feature Sweet As, about to wrap a five week shoot in Port Hedland, Western Australia.
The young actor, who has had roles in Total Control, Operation Buffalo and the upcoming Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, plays 16-year-old Indigenous girl, Murra.
After a volatile fight with her mother, Murra is abandoned, but with intervention from her uncle, she ventures on a journey of self-discovery.
Starring alongside the 2019 Casting Guild of Australia Rising Star are Tasma Walton, Mark Coles Smith and Ngaire Pigram.
A Nyul Nyul and Yawuru writer/director, Clerc penned the script with long-time collaborator Steve Rodgers, the dramaturge on her first play, ‘The Fever and the Fret’.
The film is partly based on her own experience growing up in the Pilbara and The Kimberley. It stems from a long-standing ambition between her and close friend, Arenamedia producer Liz Kearney, to create a feature together.
The young actor, who has had roles in Total Control, Operation Buffalo and the upcoming Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, plays 16-year-old Indigenous girl, Murra.
After a volatile fight with her mother, Murra is abandoned, but with intervention from her uncle, she ventures on a journey of self-discovery.
Starring alongside the 2019 Casting Guild of Australia Rising Star are Tasma Walton, Mark Coles Smith and Ngaire Pigram.
A Nyul Nyul and Yawuru writer/director, Clerc penned the script with long-time collaborator Steve Rodgers, the dramaturge on her first play, ‘The Fever and the Fret’.
The film is partly based on her own experience growing up in the Pilbara and The Kimberley. It stems from a long-standing ambition between her and close friend, Arenamedia producer Liz Kearney, to create a feature together.
- 7/23/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Three South Australian filmmaking teams have moved a step closer to having a feature debut at next year’s Adelaide Film Festival after being announced for the Film Lab: New Voices development program.
Delivered through the South Australian Film Corporation (Safc) and Adelaide Film Festival, in collaboration with Mercury Cx, the new initiative provides Sa creative teams with industry mentoring from screen story development mentor Louise Gough across a 12-month period to develop a low-budget feature film script.
Screen Australia will also help deliver the development phase of the program’s inaugural round.
One project will be selected to be wholly produced and post- produced in Sa, with the final film to premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2022.
The first successful teams for the program include writer/director Peter Ninos and producer Georgia Humphreys; writer Lucy Campbell, producer Bettina Hamilton and director Matt Vesely; and writer/director Madeleine Parry...
Delivered through the South Australian Film Corporation (Safc) and Adelaide Film Festival, in collaboration with Mercury Cx, the new initiative provides Sa creative teams with industry mentoring from screen story development mentor Louise Gough across a 12-month period to develop a low-budget feature film script.
Screen Australia will also help deliver the development phase of the program’s inaugural round.
One project will be selected to be wholly produced and post- produced in Sa, with the final film to premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2022.
The first successful teams for the program include writer/director Peter Ninos and producer Georgia Humphreys; writer Lucy Campbell, producer Bettina Hamilton and director Matt Vesely; and writer/director Madeleine Parry...
- 3/12/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Top: Ngaire Pigram, Mitch Torres, Kodie Bedford, Kelli Cross. Bottom: Karla Hart, Jub Clerc, Debbie Carmody, Chantelle Murray.
Kodie Bedford, Debbie Carmody, Jub Clerc, Kelli Cross, Karla Hart, Chantelle Murray, Ngaire Pigram and Mitch Torres are the eight writer-directors who will helm Red, the feature anthology from Pink Pepper, Ramu Productions and Brown Sugar Apple Grunt, which will explore the theme of missing Indigenous women.
Supported by Screenwest, each practitioner will write and direct a ten minute short, to be then compiled into the anthology. Development workshops will take place online due to current Covid-19 travel restrictions, and it is anticipated that the project will go into production in 2021 once fully financed.
Screenwest will be making approaches to potential partners interested in supporting such a project.
Red follows the format developed by Brown Sugar Apple Grunt’s Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton with films Waru and Vai, which successfully launched Maori and Pacific filmmakers internationally.
Kodie Bedford, Debbie Carmody, Jub Clerc, Kelli Cross, Karla Hart, Chantelle Murray, Ngaire Pigram and Mitch Torres are the eight writer-directors who will helm Red, the feature anthology from Pink Pepper, Ramu Productions and Brown Sugar Apple Grunt, which will explore the theme of missing Indigenous women.
Supported by Screenwest, each practitioner will write and direct a ten minute short, to be then compiled into the anthology. Development workshops will take place online due to current Covid-19 travel restrictions, and it is anticipated that the project will go into production in 2021 once fully financed.
Screenwest will be making approaches to potential partners interested in supporting such a project.
Red follows the format developed by Brown Sugar Apple Grunt’s Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton with films Waru and Vai, which successfully launched Maori and Pacific filmmakers internationally.
- 9/30/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
(L-r) Fiona Percival, Allison Chhorn and Madeleine Parry (Latter photo by Sarah Enticknap).
Fiona Percival, Allison Chhorn and Madeleine Parry will share in $30,000 funding to develop screen projects as part of the South Australian Film Corporation’s (Safc) 2020 Lottie Lyell Award.
Animator and entrepreneur Percival received the major award of $20,000 for dont f with me, a darkly comic animated series spun-off from her stop motion short of the same name.
The plot follows four best friends as they navigate the beauty and perils of teenage life. Punky, Goldy, Wicca and Bit$h are partying and loving like there’s no tomorrow – because to them, there may not be one – as they spiral into conflict with family, authority and each other.
Percival, whose credits include the animated short Top Dog, and Cathy Beitz are writing the screenplay. Beitz and Julie Byrne will produce.
Writer, director and producer Parry was awarded $5,000 for...
Fiona Percival, Allison Chhorn and Madeleine Parry will share in $30,000 funding to develop screen projects as part of the South Australian Film Corporation’s (Safc) 2020 Lottie Lyell Award.
Animator and entrepreneur Percival received the major award of $20,000 for dont f with me, a darkly comic animated series spun-off from her stop motion short of the same name.
The plot follows four best friends as they navigate the beauty and perils of teenage life. Punky, Goldy, Wicca and Bit$h are partying and loving like there’s no tomorrow – because to them, there may not be one – as they spiral into conflict with family, authority and each other.
Percival, whose credits include the animated short Top Dog, and Cathy Beitz are writing the screenplay. Beitz and Julie Byrne will produce.
Writer, director and producer Parry was awarded $5,000 for...
- 8/14/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Moreblessing Maturure (Photo credit: Kristina Yenko).
Moreblessing Maturure plans to make her screen directing debut on a segment of Masc (working title), an online anthology which examines modern masculinity through female and non-binary lenses.
Separately the Zimbabwean/Australian writer/performer is developing several projects with the Afro Sistahs Collective.
Masc’s key creative drivers, Laura Nagy and Madeleine Gottlieb, invited Maturure to become the eighth member of the team, joining Renée Marie Petropoulos, Hyun Lee, Imogen McCluskey, Shari Sebbens and Cloudy Rhodes.
Developed with Screen Australia’s support, the anthology explores different stages of the subjects’ lives in ascending age, beginning with a young child and ending with an older man.
“The series has a particular focus on diversity, exploring masculinity through the lens of different cultures, sexualities and gender identities,” Easy Tiger’s Rob Gibson, who is co-executive producer with RevLover Films’ Martha Coleman, tells If.
“The development process has been extremely collaborative,...
Moreblessing Maturure plans to make her screen directing debut on a segment of Masc (working title), an online anthology which examines modern masculinity through female and non-binary lenses.
Separately the Zimbabwean/Australian writer/performer is developing several projects with the Afro Sistahs Collective.
Masc’s key creative drivers, Laura Nagy and Madeleine Gottlieb, invited Maturure to become the eighth member of the team, joining Renée Marie Petropoulos, Hyun Lee, Imogen McCluskey, Shari Sebbens and Cloudy Rhodes.
Developed with Screen Australia’s support, the anthology explores different stages of the subjects’ lives in ascending age, beginning with a young child and ending with an older man.
“The series has a particular focus on diversity, exploring masculinity through the lens of different cultures, sexualities and gender identities,” Easy Tiger’s Rob Gibson, who is co-executive producer with RevLover Films’ Martha Coleman, tells If.
“The development process has been extremely collaborative,...
- 7/26/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Robert Connolly.
Arenamedia and a broad coalition of industry players today called on the Federal Government to create an Innovation Fund to support new and emerging talent and diverse creative voices.
Managed by Screen Australia, the fund would also explore innovative approaches to creating and distributing new work for Australian and global audiences.
“Diversity would be a key guiding principle of this fund, addressing areas of our national storytelling that have been neglected on our screens and remain under-represented,” Arenamedia says in its submission to the government’s options paper review, co-signed by 13 production companies and distributors plus filmmakers Jub Clerc and Daniel Nettheim.
While there is no dollar figure attached to the initiative, it would be funded by a combination of increased government support and other funds proposed by the options paper.
Crucially, the submission envisions the fund would be freed from market-based decision making that attempts to anticipate what is commercial,...
Arenamedia and a broad coalition of industry players today called on the Federal Government to create an Innovation Fund to support new and emerging talent and diverse creative voices.
Managed by Screen Australia, the fund would also explore innovative approaches to creating and distributing new work for Australian and global audiences.
“Diversity would be a key guiding principle of this fund, addressing areas of our national storytelling that have been neglected on our screens and remain under-represented,” Arenamedia says in its submission to the government’s options paper review, co-signed by 13 production companies and distributors plus filmmakers Jub Clerc and Daniel Nettheim.
While there is no dollar figure attached to the initiative, it would be funded by a combination of increased government support and other funds proposed by the options paper.
Crucially, the submission envisions the fund would be freed from market-based decision making that attempts to anticipate what is commercial,...
- 6/21/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
(L-r) Moreblessing Maturure, Ratidzo Mambo, Taryne Laffar.
Screen Australia today announced the 11 creatives who have been selected to take part in the Developing the Developer workshop for 2019.
Held in Sydney from November 21-24, the workshop aims to diversify the pool of professionals developing Australian stories for the screen.
It will be co-run by script developer Louise Gough and Screen Australia’s industry development executive Bali Padda, who participated in the first Developing the Developer workshop in 2017,
The presenters will include Julie Kalceff, Kodie Bedford, and Penelope Chai (Other People’s Problems).
Among the creatives who took part in Developing the Developer last year, seven went on to secure work placements: Sarah Bassiuoni at Fremantle, Amy Stewart at Matchbox Pictures, Hiroki Kobayashi at Berg Shanley Productions, Dan Prichard at Lingo Pictures, Li-Kim Chuah at ABC, Vidya Rajan at Tony Ayres Productions, Jean Tong at Goalpost Pictures and Leticia Cáceres at Seven Studios.
Screen Australia today announced the 11 creatives who have been selected to take part in the Developing the Developer workshop for 2019.
Held in Sydney from November 21-24, the workshop aims to diversify the pool of professionals developing Australian stories for the screen.
It will be co-run by script developer Louise Gough and Screen Australia’s industry development executive Bali Padda, who participated in the first Developing the Developer workshop in 2017,
The presenters will include Julie Kalceff, Kodie Bedford, and Penelope Chai (Other People’s Problems).
Among the creatives who took part in Developing the Developer last year, seven went on to secure work placements: Sarah Bassiuoni at Fremantle, Amy Stewart at Matchbox Pictures, Hiroki Kobayashi at Berg Shanley Productions, Dan Prichard at Lingo Pictures, Li-Kim Chuah at ABC, Vidya Rajan at Tony Ayres Productions, Jean Tong at Goalpost Pictures and Leticia Cáceres at Seven Studios.
- 11/12/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Ganesh Versus the Third Reich’.
Who has the right to tell certain stories? Who has the right to play certain characters?
They’re questions, within industry conversations of diversity, inclusivity and authentic storytelling, that are raised often.
And they’re questions at the heart of Back to Back Theatre’s play Ganesh Versus The Third Reich, which the company is adapting for the screen thanks to a $100,000 development grant from arts agency Creative Victoria.
Back to Back Theatre, based in Geelong, is a theatre company that employs an ensemble of actors with intellectual disabilities. Its first foray into screen was 2017’s Oddlands, a 30-minute pilot produced with Matchbox Pictures for the ABC, a product of Adelaide Film Festival, ABC Arts, the Australia Council and Screen Australia’s Hive initiative. A further six-part series is now currently in development at Matchbox.
However, when Back to Back director Bruce Gladwin first looked at moving to screen,...
Who has the right to tell certain stories? Who has the right to play certain characters?
They’re questions, within industry conversations of diversity, inclusivity and authentic storytelling, that are raised often.
And they’re questions at the heart of Back to Back Theatre’s play Ganesh Versus The Third Reich, which the company is adapting for the screen thanks to a $100,000 development grant from arts agency Creative Victoria.
Back to Back Theatre, based in Geelong, is a theatre company that employs an ensemble of actors with intellectual disabilities. Its first foray into screen was 2017’s Oddlands, a 30-minute pilot produced with Matchbox Pictures for the ABC, a product of Adelaide Film Festival, ABC Arts, the Australia Council and Screen Australia’s Hive initiative. A further six-part series is now currently in development at Matchbox.
However, when Back to Back director Bruce Gladwin first looked at moving to screen,...
- 9/17/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Tracey Rigney (Photo credit: Michelle Grace Hunder).
Growing up in western Victoria, Tracey Rigney, a member of the Wotjobaluk and Ngarrindjeri peoples, rarely saw black faces on television apart from David Gulpilil and Ernie Dingo.
Today the writer-director, who started out as a playwright with Belonging and How Blak R U? in 2002, is among the screen industry’s fast-rising Indigenous storytellers.
Currently she is crafting ideas for one of eight shorts which will comprise the anthology feature Cook 2020: Our Right of Reply, jointly commissioned by Screen Australia and the New Zealand Film Commission.
When there was a call-out for applications initially she decided not to apply, given the demands on her time and energy as the mother of a two-and-a-half year-old girl.
A producer friend told her she had some good ideas and encouraged her to give it a go. “I applied not thinking I would get anywhere,” she tells If.
Growing up in western Victoria, Tracey Rigney, a member of the Wotjobaluk and Ngarrindjeri peoples, rarely saw black faces on television apart from David Gulpilil and Ernie Dingo.
Today the writer-director, who started out as a playwright with Belonging and How Blak R U? in 2002, is among the screen industry’s fast-rising Indigenous storytellers.
Currently she is crafting ideas for one of eight shorts which will comprise the anthology feature Cook 2020: Our Right of Reply, jointly commissioned by Screen Australia and the New Zealand Film Commission.
When there was a call-out for applications initially she decided not to apply, given the demands on her time and energy as the mother of a two-and-a-half year-old girl.
A producer friend told her she had some good ideas and encouraged her to give it a go. “I applied not thinking I would get anywhere,” she tells If.
- 5/26/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
James Grandison.
Producer/director Robert Connolly’s Arenamedia is making a formal expansion into Western Australia, setting up a new company office in Perth.
James Grandison has been appointed to oversee the production company’s Wa-based operations, as well as the management of production planning and budgeting across Arenamedia’s full slate.
Robert Connolly said: “It’s an exciting time for Arenamedia and I’m delighted that someone of James’ calibre has joined us. A formal presence in Wa is a logical next step in the company’s evolution. Films such as Paper Planes and before that The Turning were both shot in the West and benefitted from the great talent and dynamic industry that exists there”.
Grandison began his career in Western Australia, however has spent the past 10 years in Melbourne working as a line producer and production manager. His recent credits include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Glitch, Nowhere Boys and Hunters.
Producer/director Robert Connolly’s Arenamedia is making a formal expansion into Western Australia, setting up a new company office in Perth.
James Grandison has been appointed to oversee the production company’s Wa-based operations, as well as the management of production planning and budgeting across Arenamedia’s full slate.
Robert Connolly said: “It’s an exciting time for Arenamedia and I’m delighted that someone of James’ calibre has joined us. A formal presence in Wa is a logical next step in the company’s evolution. Films such as Paper Planes and before that The Turning were both shot in the West and benefitted from the great talent and dynamic industry that exists there”.
Grandison began his career in Western Australia, however has spent the past 10 years in Melbourne working as a line producer and production manager. His recent credits include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Glitch, Nowhere Boys and Hunters.
- 4/2/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
John Molloy is the head of production at Mushroom Pictures, working out of the company's Melbourne office. After boffo success with 'Molly' earlier in the year, he's now gearing up for the release of his latest project as producer: Nicholas Verso's fantasy-tinged teen drama 'Boys in the Trees'.
When did you meet the director, Nicholas Verso? I know you produced his short..
That was the first time we worked together, on The Last Time I Saw Richard (2014), but I'd seen some of Nicholas's short films before that. Nic and I started working on Boys in the Trees and then decided to make The Last Time I Saw Richard as a way of helping us put the feature together. A proof of our relationship and also showing Nicholas' style, so that when we were out talking about the feature we had something very concrete that people could hold on to.
When did you meet the director, Nicholas Verso? I know you produced his short..
That was the first time we worked together, on The Last Time I Saw Richard (2014), but I'd seen some of Nicholas's short films before that. Nic and I started working on Boys in the Trees and then decided to make The Last Time I Saw Richard as a way of helping us put the feature together. A proof of our relationship and also showing Nicholas' style, so that when we were out talking about the feature we had something very concrete that people could hold on to.
- 9/30/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
L-r: Warwick Thornton, Beck Cole, Thibul Nettle, Natasha Wanganeen, Isaac Lindsey, Tess O'Flaherty, Edoardo Crismani, Kiara Milera, Georgia Humphreys, Dylan Coleman and Garth Agius.
Five aboriginal filmmakers from Sa will receive $20,000 each to make a short, along with mentoring and professional development from industry figures.
Edoardo Crismani, Isaac Lindsay, Kiara Milera, Thibul Nettle and Dylan Coleman will all receive funding and support as part of the new Safc Aboriginal Short Film Initiative.
The five selected filmmakers plus another five are this week participating in an intensive 5-day Production and Development Workshop at Safc.s Adelaide Studios. They are joined by three non-indigenous emerging producers who will be partnering on three of the projects.
The workshop is being led by writer-directors Beck Cole (Here I Am) and Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah)..
Other guest lecturers at the workshop include film editor Tania Nehme (Tanna, Charlie.s Country), and cinematographer Allan Collins (Mad Bastards,...
Five aboriginal filmmakers from Sa will receive $20,000 each to make a short, along with mentoring and professional development from industry figures.
Edoardo Crismani, Isaac Lindsay, Kiara Milera, Thibul Nettle and Dylan Coleman will all receive funding and support as part of the new Safc Aboriginal Short Film Initiative.
The five selected filmmakers plus another five are this week participating in an intensive 5-day Production and Development Workshop at Safc.s Adelaide Studios. They are joined by three non-indigenous emerging producers who will be partnering on three of the projects.
The workshop is being led by writer-directors Beck Cole (Here I Am) and Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah)..
Other guest lecturers at the workshop include film editor Tania Nehme (Tanna, Charlie.s Country), and cinematographer Allan Collins (Mad Bastards,...
- 8/10/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Tilda Cobham-Hervey in Girl Asleep (photo credit: Shane Reid).
I know this was originally a piece of theatre; what made you want to adapt it for the screen?
When we made the play we always knew we were going to make the film. The play is a standalone play, but it was a great chance to test the story out really thoroughly and learn about the storytelling before we shot the film.
Why did you decide to write a play to make a film?
We were doing a trilogy of works for teenagers in the Adelaide Festival, and Katrina [Sedgwick] and Amanda [Duthie] had seen some of that work and thought it would be a very interesting audience to make a Hive project for. The writer Matthew Whittet and I were in the very first Hive workshop. We started developing it as a film, pitched it to the Hive and we knew...
I know this was originally a piece of theatre; what made you want to adapt it for the screen?
When we made the play we always knew we were going to make the film. The play is a standalone play, but it was a great chance to test the story out really thoroughly and learn about the storytelling before we shot the film.
Why did you decide to write a play to make a film?
We were doing a trilogy of works for teenagers in the Adelaide Festival, and Katrina [Sedgwick] and Amanda [Duthie] had seen some of that work and thought it would be a very interesting audience to make a Hive project for. The writer Matthew Whittet and I were in the very first Hive workshop. We started developing it as a film, pitched it to the Hive and we knew...
- 8/2/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has appointed Louise Gough as development executive, succeeding Nerida Moore who is promoted to the new role of senior development executive. Head of production Sally Caplan said, .Nerida will focus on managing the new look development unit, talent escalation programs as well as working across production investment.
"We are excited to have Louise join the team. Her development expertise, breadth of knowledge and passion for nurturing talent and stories will be a real asset..
Gough, who starts on July 6, said, "I'm humbled and thrilled to be joining the Screen Australia team and very much looking forward to working with the creators, makers and producers of the industry."
She ran her own freelance business specialising as a script editor, script assessor and dramaturgical consultant on projects in Australia, New Zealand, the Us and Europe. Her credits as script editor include Bran Nue Day and Save Your Legs!
She was...
"We are excited to have Louise join the team. Her development expertise, breadth of knowledge and passion for nurturing talent and stories will be a real asset..
Gough, who starts on July 6, said, "I'm humbled and thrilled to be joining the Screen Australia team and very much looking forward to working with the creators, makers and producers of the industry."
She ran her own freelance business specialising as a script editor, script assessor and dramaturgical consultant on projects in Australia, New Zealand, the Us and Europe. Her credits as script editor include Bran Nue Day and Save Your Legs!
She was...
- 5/20/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
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
Seventeen feature films have received support for development by Screen Australia, with a spend totalling $500,000.
The productions include projects involving Emile Sherman, Johnathan Teplitzky, Helen Pankhurst and Jan Sardi.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development, said: “I’m proud of our association with this compelling group of feature projects by such talented filmmaking teams. The quality and range of projects we are seeing is hugely inspiring and our development team care passionately about assisting the filmmakers we are working with to achieve the best possible version of their story. This is a very exciting time.”
Projects include:
Tim Winton’s best selling surfing story, Breath will get an adaptation by Simon Baker producing with Jamie Hilton and Mark Johnson and written by Peter Duncan. Four comedies have received funding including Ali’s Wedding, written by Osamah Sami and Andrew Knight will be developed by producers Helen Panckhurst, Michael McMahon...
The productions include projects involving Emile Sherman, Johnathan Teplitzky, Helen Pankhurst and Jan Sardi.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development, said: “I’m proud of our association with this compelling group of feature projects by such talented filmmaking teams. The quality and range of projects we are seeing is hugely inspiring and our development team care passionately about assisting the filmmakers we are working with to achieve the best possible version of their story. This is a very exciting time.”
Projects include:
Tim Winton’s best selling surfing story, Breath will get an adaptation by Simon Baker producing with Jamie Hilton and Mark Johnson and written by Peter Duncan. Four comedies have received funding including Ali’s Wedding, written by Osamah Sami and Andrew Knight will be developed by producers Helen Panckhurst, Michael McMahon...
- 10/14/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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