South Australian filmmaker Brendon Skinner has won the Beijing Pitching Competition for his film The Pulse, an Australian-Chinese co-production.
Skinner was selected from sixteen emerging filmmakers from China and the Asia Pacific.
The Pulse, an adventure superhero story is set in Sydney and was conceived with co-director and co-producer Simon Williams.
The competition was run by the Motion Picture Association Asia Pacific and China International Copyright Expo with Australian contestants competiting in a national pitch contest that was first run as regional and state heats by Metro Screen in Nsw, Open Channel in Victoria and the Media Resource Centre in South Australia where Skinner first won his round.
Skinner said: “This win has given us the confidence to aim even higher with The Pulse. We have wonderful people behind us that really believe in what we’re trying to do. Now we know we can do it.”
A team already,...
Skinner was selected from sixteen emerging filmmakers from China and the Asia Pacific.
The Pulse, an adventure superhero story is set in Sydney and was conceived with co-director and co-producer Simon Williams.
The competition was run by the Motion Picture Association Asia Pacific and China International Copyright Expo with Australian contestants competiting in a national pitch contest that was first run as regional and state heats by Metro Screen in Nsw, Open Channel in Victoria and the Media Resource Centre in South Australia where Skinner first won his round.
Skinner said: “This win has given us the confidence to aim even higher with The Pulse. We have wonderful people behind us that really believe in what we’re trying to do. Now we know we can do it.”
A team already,...
- 12/8/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
This year’s BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will present 20 world premieres of new Australian works, and a total of 48 local features and shorts.
The 12 films competing for the International Award for Best Feature Film have also been announced: Four Times (Italy, dir: Michelangelo Frammartino); Here I Am (Australia, dir: Beck Cole); Tuesday After Christmas (Romania, dir: Radu Muntean); Incendies (Canada,dir:: Denis Villeneuve); Meek’s Cutoff (USA, dir: Kelly Reichardt); Mysteries of Lisbon (Portugal, dir: Raoul Ruiz); Nostalgia For the Light (Chile, dir: Patricio Guzman); October (Peru, dir: Daniel Vega Vidal and Diego Vega Vidal); Piano in a Factory (China, dir: Zhang Meng); Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Australia, dir: Matt Bate); Whisper with the Wind (Iraq, dir: Shahram Alidi); and Year Without a Summer (Malaysia, dir: Tan Chui Mui).
The films will be judged by Julietta Sichel (jury president/Karlovy Vary Film Festival), Pierre Rissient (Cannes), Hossein...
The 12 films competing for the International Award for Best Feature Film have also been announced: Four Times (Italy, dir: Michelangelo Frammartino); Here I Am (Australia, dir: Beck Cole); Tuesday After Christmas (Romania, dir: Radu Muntean); Incendies (Canada,dir:: Denis Villeneuve); Meek’s Cutoff (USA, dir: Kelly Reichardt); Mysteries of Lisbon (Portugal, dir: Raoul Ruiz); Nostalgia For the Light (Chile, dir: Patricio Guzman); October (Peru, dir: Daniel Vega Vidal and Diego Vega Vidal); Piano in a Factory (China, dir: Zhang Meng); Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Australia, dir: Matt Bate); Whisper with the Wind (Iraq, dir: Shahram Alidi); and Year Without a Summer (Malaysia, dir: Tan Chui Mui).
The films will be judged by Julietta Sichel (jury president/Karlovy Vary Film Festival), Pierre Rissient (Cannes), Hossein...
- 1/28/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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