Pursekey Productions director and principal producer Michaela Perske is the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) Stanley Hawes Award recipient for 2021.
Perske’s recognition was announced today alongside the 20 nominees for the inaugural Aidc awards.
Designed to recognise the “outstanding completed works of new Australian documentary and factual content”, the awards will be presented in person across eight cities, as well as livestreamed to Aidc delegates.
Originally trained as a journalist, Perske has over 20 years of media experience across radio, print and TV.
Since turning her hand to factual content, she has produced films including Girls Can’t Surf, Black Divaz, After the Apology, and Destination Arnold.
In announcing the award, the Aidc said it wanted to acknowledge “her outstanding contribution to the Australian documentary and factual sector”.
Australian practitioners had the opportunity to submit across six categories for the Aidc Awards: Best Feature Documentary, with a $5,000 cash prize presented by Doc...
Perske’s recognition was announced today alongside the 20 nominees for the inaugural Aidc awards.
Designed to recognise the “outstanding completed works of new Australian documentary and factual content”, the awards will be presented in person across eight cities, as well as livestreamed to Aidc delegates.
Originally trained as a journalist, Perske has over 20 years of media experience across radio, print and TV.
Since turning her hand to factual content, she has produced films including Girls Can’t Surf, Black Divaz, After the Apology, and Destination Arnold.
In announcing the award, the Aidc said it wanted to acknowledge “her outstanding contribution to the Australian documentary and factual sector”.
Australian practitioners had the opportunity to submit across six categories for the Aidc Awards: Best Feature Documentary, with a $5,000 cash prize presented by Doc...
- 2/10/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
The distributor has taken UK rights to Evolutionary Films’ Sci-Fi feature.
Altitude Film Entertainment has taken UK distribution rights to Sci-Fi action genre film The Carrier from sales agent Evolutionary Films.
The film premiered at London’s Raindance Film Festival (Sept 23 - Oct 4).
The Carrier follows eights survivors of a pandemic on Earth who escape to the skies in a damaged commercial jet.
The film is the second feature from director Anthony Woodley, after 2011’s Outpost 11.
Woodley also worked as an aerial technician on bond films Casino Royale and there recently released Spectre.
The film stars Edmund Kingsley (Hugo), Jack Gordon (Captain America: The First Avenger) and Josie Taylor (Tamara Drewe).
Luke Healy produced the film, and also co-wrote the script with director Woodley, Stefan Mitchell and Helen Kingston.
Altitude Film Entertainment has taken UK distribution rights to Sci-Fi action genre film The Carrier from sales agent Evolutionary Films.
The film premiered at London’s Raindance Film Festival (Sept 23 - Oct 4).
The Carrier follows eights survivors of a pandemic on Earth who escape to the skies in a damaged commercial jet.
The film is the second feature from director Anthony Woodley, after 2011’s Outpost 11.
Woodley also worked as an aerial technician on bond films Casino Royale and there recently released Spectre.
The film stars Edmund Kingsley (Hugo), Jack Gordon (Captain America: The First Avenger) and Josie Taylor (Tamara Drewe).
Luke Healy produced the film, and also co-wrote the script with director Woodley, Stefan Mitchell and Helen Kingston.
- 11/6/2015
- ScreenDaily
Look, I’ll be honest with you, if it wasn’t for Gemma Arterton (Princess Tamina from “Prince of Persia”, Io from “Clash of the Titans”), who is just so gosh-darn cute, I wouldn’t bother with “Tamara Drewe”. I mean, come on, there aren’t even any gratuitous explosions! Those fortunately there are plenty of gratuitous shots of Gemma in short-shorts. Arterton is the star of this little romantic-comedy ditty from across the pond, and here is an International trailer and some clips from the movie. Please to enjoy some Gemma with your Tuesday. A young newspaper writer named Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton) returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale. Based on the comic book of the same name by Posy Simmonds. Starring Gemma Arterton, Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Tamsin Greig, Roger Allam, Bill Camp, Zahra Ahmadi, Jessica Barden,...
- 6/15/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
So, Gemma Arterton is in a new movie called “Tamara Drewe”, which is based on a comic book by Posy Simmonds. Wait, you don’t know who Gemma Arterton is? If the name doesn’t sound familiar, you probably know her as “that really cute British chick in all those big-budget Hollywood movies doing roles that used to go to Kate Beckinsale”. Anyways, her new movie is “Tamara Drewe”, and let’s face it, most of you won’t even waste your time with it. But, um, the filmmakers have put up the first image from the movie via Facebook, and it features Gemma in shorts. I’m intrigued. A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale. Starring Gemma Arterton, Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper , Tamsin Greig, Roger Allam, Bill Camp, Zahra Ahmadi, Jessica Barden , Josie Taylor, Joel Fry,...
- 4/21/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
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