'Patient 71' by Julie Randall..
When Sydney woman Julie Randall was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and told she did not have long to live just days after celebrating her 50th birthday, she embarked on the fight of her life.
Her remarkable story of survival against the odds is chronicled in her book Patient 71, published this week by Hachette.
Sunstar Entertainment.s Andrew Fraser and Shahen Mekertichian, the executive producers of Lion, have optioned the book and are highly encouraged by the initial responses to the project from Hollywood studios, producers, agents and financiers.
.A story like Julie.s needs to be told,. said Fraser, who engineered the publishing deal with Hachette and has collaborated with 60 Minutes reporter Allison Langdon for a segment which will air on the Nine Network on July 2.
Fraser has a close relationship with Hachette, which published Sunstar client Jessica Watson.s best-selling book True Spirit, the...
When Sydney woman Julie Randall was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and told she did not have long to live just days after celebrating her 50th birthday, she embarked on the fight of her life.
Her remarkable story of survival against the odds is chronicled in her book Patient 71, published this week by Hachette.
Sunstar Entertainment.s Andrew Fraser and Shahen Mekertichian, the executive producers of Lion, have optioned the book and are highly encouraged by the initial responses to the project from Hollywood studios, producers, agents and financiers.
.A story like Julie.s needs to be told,. said Fraser, who engineered the publishing deal with Hachette and has collaborated with 60 Minutes reporter Allison Langdon for a segment which will air on the Nine Network on July 2.
Fraser has a close relationship with Hachette, which published Sunstar client Jessica Watson.s best-selling book True Spirit, the...
- 6/25/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Director Garth Davis and Harvey Weinstein to present the true life story in Zurich.
Garth Davis’ Lion, starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman, is to open the 12th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 22-Oct 2).
The film will receive its European premiere on Sept 22 at the festival, with director Garth Davis and exec producer Harvey Weinstein expected to attend.
Adapted from Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home, the film tells the true story of how a wrong train took a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home.
He was placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley (played by Kidman and Wenham).
Patel plays the older Saroo, haunted by memories of his childhood, who set out to find his lost family using Google Earth technology.
Davis makes his feature directorial debut, having previously co-directed mini-series Top Of The Lake with Jane Campion.
Zff director...
Garth Davis’ Lion, starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman, is to open the 12th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 22-Oct 2).
The film will receive its European premiere on Sept 22 at the festival, with director Garth Davis and exec producer Harvey Weinstein expected to attend.
Adapted from Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home, the film tells the true story of how a wrong train took a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home.
He was placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley (played by Kidman and Wenham).
Patel plays the older Saroo, haunted by memories of his childhood, who set out to find his lost family using Google Earth technology.
Davis makes his feature directorial debut, having previously co-directed mini-series Top Of The Lake with Jane Campion.
Zff director...
- 8/29/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Stars expected to attend UK premiere of true life survival story.
Garth Davis’ Lion, starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman, is to screen as the American Express Gala at the 60th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 5-16).
The film will receive its UK premiere on Oct 12 at London’s Odeon Leicester Square, with Patel and Kidman expected to attend.
Adapted from Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home, the film tells the true story of how a wrong train took a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home.
He was placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley (played by Kidman and Wenham).
Patel plays the older Saroo, haunted by memories of his childhood, who set out to find his lost family using Google Earth technology.
Davis makes his feature directorial debut, having previously co-directed mini-series Top Of The Lake with Jane Campion.
Davis...
Garth Davis’ Lion, starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman, is to screen as the American Express Gala at the 60th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 5-16).
The film will receive its UK premiere on Oct 12 at London’s Odeon Leicester Square, with Patel and Kidman expected to attend.
Adapted from Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home, the film tells the true story of how a wrong train took a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home.
He was placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley (played by Kidman and Wenham).
Patel plays the older Saroo, haunted by memories of his childhood, who set out to find his lost family using Google Earth technology.
Davis makes his feature directorial debut, having previously co-directed mini-series Top Of The Lake with Jane Campion.
Davis...
- 8/17/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Continuing his passion to produce films based on true Australian events, Sunstar Entertainment.s Andrew Fraser has optioned the remarkable story of athlete John Maclean. Maclean was hit by an 8 tonne truck while training for a triathlon on his bike in 1988. He suffered multiple breaks to his pelvis and back, a fractured sternum, punctured lungs and a broken arm, which left him a paraplegic. Somehow, this near fatal accident was the making of him. Although he feared he would never walk again, rather than give up he swam the English Channel, completed the Hawaiian Ironman and represented Australia in rowing at the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In 2014 he astounded the medical world when he completed the triathlon he was training for all those years earlier — with his wife and son by his side.
Fraser, who has known Maclean for 20 years, bumped into him recently at a fundraiser. .When he found out about Sunstar,...
Fraser, who has known Maclean for 20 years, bumped into him recently at a fundraiser. .When he found out about Sunstar,...
- 11/26/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Rooney Mara will play the Australian girlfriend of Saroo Brierley, an Indian-born Australian who found his birth mother 25 years after they were separated, in Garth Davis. feature Lion. Her character, Lucy, was Saroo.s first significant love interest when he began the search for his Indian family, initially using a new technology known as Google Earth. It.s not a big role so Rooney, who starred in David Fincher.s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Social Network and in Todd Haynes' upcoming drama Carol with Cate Blanchett, must have sparked to the script by Luke Davies, adapted from Brierley.s memoir A Long Way Home. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.s Dev Patel is Saroo. As If reported last week, David Wenham is playing his adopted father alongside Nicole Kidman as his adopted mother.
Also new to the cast is Divian Ladwa as Saroo's adopted brother Mantosh.
Also new to the cast is Divian Ladwa as Saroo's adopted brother Mantosh.
- 4/7/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Stars of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and 300 join Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel in Saroo Brierley biopic, which The Weinstein Company acquired at Cannes 2014.
Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Divian Ladwa have joined Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel in the cast of Lion, a film about Saroo Brierley, who was seperated from his mother in India aged five and found her after 25 years apart.
Also cast in the film are several of India’s best-known actors including Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priyanka Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Deepti Naval.
After several weeks on location in India, Lion begins filming in Australia - in Melbourne and Hobart - in mid-April.
The Weinstein Company acquired Lion at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where they closed the deal for worldwide distribution excluding Australia and New Zealand, where Transmission Films will distribute.
Adapted from true story “A Long Way Home” written by Brierley, Lion is directed by Garth Davis (Top of the Lake) from...
Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Divian Ladwa have joined Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel in the cast of Lion, a film about Saroo Brierley, who was seperated from his mother in India aged five and found her after 25 years apart.
Also cast in the film are several of India’s best-known actors including Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priyanka Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Deepti Naval.
After several weeks on location in India, Lion begins filming in Australia - in Melbourne and Hobart - in mid-April.
The Weinstein Company acquired Lion at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where they closed the deal for worldwide distribution excluding Australia and New Zealand, where Transmission Films will distribute.
Adapted from true story “A Long Way Home” written by Brierley, Lion is directed by Garth Davis (Top of the Lake) from...
- 4/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
David Wenham is in the frame to play the adopted father of Saroo Brierley, an Indian-born Australian who found his birth mother 25 years after they were separated, in Garth Davis. feature Lion. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.s Dev Patel is playing Saroo with Nicole Kidman as his adopted mother in the film produced by See-Saw Films. Emile Sherman and Iain Canning and Aquarius Films. Angie Fielder.
Davis and crew spent six weeks filming in India earlier this year and will start a three-week shoot in Melbourne and Tasmania at the end of this month. There is no official announcement yet of Wenham.s casting or of who will play Saroo.s Australian girlfriend, a role which a high-profile actress is understood to be circling.
Wenham will next be seen as Captain Arthur Phillip in the convict drama Banished, which premieres on BBC First in June. His recent credits include...
Davis and crew spent six weeks filming in India earlier this year and will start a three-week shoot in Melbourne and Tasmania at the end of this month. There is no official announcement yet of Wenham.s casting or of who will play Saroo.s Australian girlfriend, a role which a high-profile actress is understood to be circling.
Wenham will next be seen as Captain Arthur Phillip in the convict drama Banished, which premieres on BBC First in June. His recent credits include...
- 3/31/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Principal photography to begin in India this week.
Filming will begin in Kolkata, India, this week on new Australian feature film Lion, starring Nicole Kidman and Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel.
Adapted from the true story A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley, Lion will be directed by Garth Davis (Top of the Lake) with a screenplay by Luke Davies (Candy, Life).
The project is being produced by See-Saw Films in association with Sunstar Entertainment and Aquarius Films. Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder are producing with Andrew Fraser, Shahen Mekertichian and Daniel Levin executive producing.
The film centres on five-year-old Indian boy who gets lost thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
The Indian cast includes Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priyanka Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Deepti Naval.
Producer Sherman noted that Kidman would not be filming in India...
Filming will begin in Kolkata, India, this week on new Australian feature film Lion, starring Nicole Kidman and Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel.
Adapted from the true story A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley, Lion will be directed by Garth Davis (Top of the Lake) with a screenplay by Luke Davies (Candy, Life).
The project is being produced by See-Saw Films in association with Sunstar Entertainment and Aquarius Films. Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder are producing with Andrew Fraser, Shahen Mekertichian and Daniel Levin executive producing.
The film centres on five-year-old Indian boy who gets lost thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
The Indian cast includes Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priyanka Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Deepti Naval.
Producer Sherman noted that Kidman would not be filming in India...
- 1/15/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Principal photography to begin in India this week.
Filming will begin in Kolkata, India, this week on new Australian feature film Lion, starring Nicole Kidman and Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel.
Adapted from the true story A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley, Lion will be directed by Garth Davis (Top of the Lake) with a screenplay by Luke Davies (Candy, Life).
The project is being produced by See-Saw Films in association with Sunstar Entertainment and Aquarius Films. Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder are producing with Andrew Fraser, Shahen Mekertichian and Daniel Levin executive producing.
The film centres on five-year-old Indian boy gets lost thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
The Indian cast includes Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priyanka Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Deepti Naval.
Producer Sherman noted that Kidman would not be filming in India...
Filming will begin in Kolkata, India, this week on new Australian feature film Lion, starring Nicole Kidman and Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel.
Adapted from the true story A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley, Lion will be directed by Garth Davis (Top of the Lake) with a screenplay by Luke Davies (Candy, Life).
The project is being produced by See-Saw Films in association with Sunstar Entertainment and Aquarius Films. Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder are producing with Andrew Fraser, Shahen Mekertichian and Daniel Levin executive producing.
The film centres on five-year-old Indian boy gets lost thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
The Indian cast includes Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priyanka Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Deepti Naval.
Producer Sherman noted that Kidman would not be filming in India...
- 1/15/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Shooting on Australian feature film Lion will commence in Kolkata, India, this week.
Starring Nicole Kidman (The Railway Man, Paddington) and Dev Patel (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Slumdog Millionaire), Lion follows the story of Saroo Brierley, a five-year-old boy who, after taking a wrong train, gets lots in Northern India and can.t find his way home. Eventually ending up in an orphanage, he is adopted by a Tasmanian couple and goes on to enjoy a happy childhood growing up in Hobart. However, as a young adult he develops a passion to relocate his Indian family, and sets out to do so using the help of a new technology . Google Earth.
The true story is adapted from Brierley.s memoir A Long Way Home and will be directed by Garth Davis (Top of the Lake). The screenplay is written by Luke Davies (Candy, Life) and is being produced by...
Starring Nicole Kidman (The Railway Man, Paddington) and Dev Patel (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Slumdog Millionaire), Lion follows the story of Saroo Brierley, a five-year-old boy who, after taking a wrong train, gets lots in Northern India and can.t find his way home. Eventually ending up in an orphanage, he is adopted by a Tasmanian couple and goes on to enjoy a happy childhood growing up in Hobart. However, as a young adult he develops a passion to relocate his Indian family, and sets out to do so using the help of a new technology . Google Earth.
The true story is adapted from Brierley.s memoir A Long Way Home and will be directed by Garth Davis (Top of the Lake). The screenplay is written by Luke Davies (Candy, Life) and is being produced by...
- 1/15/2015
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Sarah Spillane will direct True Spirit, a feature about teenager Jessica Watson's solo, around-the-world sailing adventure.
The producer, Sunstar Entertainment.s Andrew Fraser, tells If that casting is underway and the aim is to start shooting on the Gold Coast in July.
Watson was 16 when she became the youngest person ever to navigate around the world solo and unassisted in 2010.
Fraser contacted the Los Angeles-based Spillane after being impressed with Around the Block, which starred Christina Ricci, Hunter Page-Lochard, Matt Nable, Daniel Henshall and Jack Thompson.
He started looking for a new director after parting ways with Soul Surfer.s Sean McNamara. Sunstar manages Watson, who is consulting on the project.
Nable and Cathy Randall wrote the first drafts of the screenplay, based on Watson.s memoir True Spirit, and Spillane penned the final draft. Arc Entertainment is co-producing.. Paramount Pictures will distribute in Australia and New Zealand.
Fraser...
The producer, Sunstar Entertainment.s Andrew Fraser, tells If that casting is underway and the aim is to start shooting on the Gold Coast in July.
Watson was 16 when she became the youngest person ever to navigate around the world solo and unassisted in 2010.
Fraser contacted the Los Angeles-based Spillane after being impressed with Around the Block, which starred Christina Ricci, Hunter Page-Lochard, Matt Nable, Daniel Henshall and Jack Thompson.
He started looking for a new director after parting ways with Soul Surfer.s Sean McNamara. Sunstar manages Watson, who is consulting on the project.
Nable and Cathy Randall wrote the first drafts of the screenplay, based on Watson.s memoir True Spirit, and Spillane penned the final draft. Arc Entertainment is co-producing.. Paramount Pictures will distribute in Australia and New Zealand.
Fraser...
- 1/13/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman will star in Lion, a drama based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, an Indian-born Australian who found his birth mother 25 years after they were separated. Patel will play the lead with Kidman as his adopted mother in the film to be directed by Garth Davis, who co-directed Top Of the Lake with Jane Campion. The Hollywood Reporter broke the casting news. Negotiations are underway with an Australian actor to play Brierley.s adopted father. Another key role is Saroo's Aussie girlfriend. Luke Davies, the screenwriter on Anton Corbijn's upcoming Life produced by See-Saw Films, has adapted Brierley.s memoir A Long Way Home. The producers are See-Saw Films. Emile Sherman and Iain Canning and Aquarius Films. Angie Fielder. The executive producers are Sunstar Entertainment's Andrew Fraser and Shahen Mekertichian. Shooting starts in India in January. The Weinstein Co. paid $US12 million for worldwide rights excluding Australasia,...
- 10/30/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
In the end, it didn.t come down to a choice between New Zealand and Australia as the location for The Light Between Oceans, a Hollywood adaptation of Australian author M.L. Stedman.s debut novel set on an island off the coast of Wa in 1918. The producers have decided to shoot most of the film in the Marlborough and Otago regions of New Zealand plus a week in Tasmania. The Tassie location is Stanley on the north-west coast, an area which writer-director Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond the Pines). visited during a recent recce. Produced by David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford,. the DreamWorks film will star Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz. Shooting starts at the end of September. Stedman.s novel revolves around a lighthouse keeper and his wife who find a 2-month-old girl and a dead body in a rowboat and decide to raise the baby as their own.
- 8/13/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has paid what is believed to be in the region of $12m for world rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to Lion.
See-Saw Films, TWC’s partner on The King’s Speech, is producing in association with Sunstar Entertainment and Aquarius Films.
Garth Davis will direct Lion from Luke Davies’ adapted screenplay of Saroo Brierley’s novel A Long Way Home, about an adopted boy who grows up and uses Google Earth to relocate the mother he thought he had lost.
Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder produce while Andrew Fraser and Shahen Mekertichian are executive producers.
Screen Australia is co-financing the film and production is scheduled for August.
TWC negotiated with Craig Emanuel of Loeb and Loeb on behalf of Cross City Sales and the producers.
See-Saw Films, TWC’s partner on The King’s Speech, is producing in association with Sunstar Entertainment and Aquarius Films.
Garth Davis will direct Lion from Luke Davies’ adapted screenplay of Saroo Brierley’s novel A Long Way Home, about an adopted boy who grows up and uses Google Earth to relocate the mother he thought he had lost.
Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder produce while Andrew Fraser and Shahen Mekertichian are executive producers.
Screen Australia is co-financing the film and production is scheduled for August.
TWC negotiated with Craig Emanuel of Loeb and Loeb on behalf of Cross City Sales and the producers.
- 5/19/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has paid what is believed to be in the region of $12m for world rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to Lion.
See-Saw Films, TWC’s partner on The King’s Speech, is producing in association with Sunstar Entertainment and Aquarius Films.
Garth Davis will direct Lion from Luke Davies’ adapted screenplay of Saroo Brierley’s novel A Long Way Home, about an adopted boy who grows up and uses Google Earth to relocate the mother he thought he had lost.
Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder produce while Andrew Fraser and Shahen Mekertichian are executive producers.
Screen Australia is co-financing the film and production is scheduled for August.
TWC negotiated with Craig Emanuel of Loeb and Loeb on behalf of Cross City Sales and the producers.
See-Saw Films, TWC’s partner on The King’s Speech, is producing in association with Sunstar Entertainment and Aquarius Films.
Garth Davis will direct Lion from Luke Davies’ adapted screenplay of Saroo Brierley’s novel A Long Way Home, about an adopted boy who grows up and uses Google Earth to relocate the mother he thought he had lost.
Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder produce while Andrew Fraser and Shahen Mekertichian are executive producers.
Screen Australia is co-financing the film and production is scheduled for August.
TWC negotiated with Craig Emanuel of Loeb and Loeb on behalf of Cross City Sales and the producers.
- 5/19/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Weinstein Co. has nabbed worldwide rights excluding Australasia to an upcoming drama based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, an Indian-born Australian who found his birth mother 25 years after they were separated.
The deal for the movie to be directed by Top of the Lake co-director Garth Davis is worth $12 million, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The producers are See-Saw Films. Emile Sherman and Iain Canning and Aquarius Films. Angie Fielder. The executive producers are Sunstar Entertainment's Andrew Fraser and Shahen Mekertichian.
Originally entitled A Long Way Home, the title of Brierley.s autobiography, when the project secured funding from Screen Australia, the film has been retitled Lion. Production will begin in August, with a screenplay by Luke Davies. Transmission Films will release in Australasia.
The deal reunites TWC with the producers of The King.s Speech, John Curran.s Tracks, which is due to open in the Us in September,...
The deal for the movie to be directed by Top of the Lake co-director Garth Davis is worth $12 million, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The producers are See-Saw Films. Emile Sherman and Iain Canning and Aquarius Films. Angie Fielder. The executive producers are Sunstar Entertainment's Andrew Fraser and Shahen Mekertichian.
Originally entitled A Long Way Home, the title of Brierley.s autobiography, when the project secured funding from Screen Australia, the film has been retitled Lion. Production will begin in August, with a screenplay by Luke Davies. Transmission Films will release in Australasia.
The deal reunites TWC with the producers of The King.s Speech, John Curran.s Tracks, which is due to open in the Us in September,...
- 5/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Candy director Neil Armfield will adapt gay memoir Holding The Man, one of five projects backed in Screen Australia’s latest funding round.
Screen Australia will invest in Holding The Man, an adaptation of a popular gay memoir from director Neil Armfield (Candy), and A Long Way Home, from Garth Davis, Jane Campion’s co-director on the series Top Of The Lake.
The government agency also decided this week to put finishing funds into Infini, a follow-up to debut film Gabriel for writer/director/producer Shane Abbess, and into two feature-length documentaries.
“It is ultimately a love story about gay soulmates and we haven’t seen much of that in cinema,” Holding The Man producer Kylie du Fresne (The Sapphires) told ScreenDaily. “We think it’s good timing because of the worldwide debate on gay marriage. It’s not what the film is about but it is part of why Tim (Conigrave) wrote his memoir.”
That memoir...
Screen Australia will invest in Holding The Man, an adaptation of a popular gay memoir from director Neil Armfield (Candy), and A Long Way Home, from Garth Davis, Jane Campion’s co-director on the series Top Of The Lake.
The government agency also decided this week to put finishing funds into Infini, a follow-up to debut film Gabriel for writer/director/producer Shane Abbess, and into two feature-length documentaries.
“It is ultimately a love story about gay soulmates and we haven’t seen much of that in cinema,” Holding The Man producer Kylie du Fresne (The Sapphires) told ScreenDaily. “We think it’s good timing because of the worldwide debate on gay marriage. It’s not what the film is about but it is part of why Tim (Conigrave) wrote his memoir.”
That memoir...
- 3/28/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Candy director Neil Armfield will adapt gay memoir Holding The Man, one of five projects backed in Screen Australia’s latest funding round.
Screen Australia will invest in Holding The Man, an adaptation of a popular gay memoir from director Neil Armfield (Candy), and A Long Way Home, from Garth Davis, Jane Campion’s co-director on the series Top Of The Lake.
The government agency also decided this week to put finishing funds into Infini, a follow-up to debut film Gabriel for writer/director/producer Shane Abbess, and into two feature-length documentaries.
“It is ultimately a love story about gay soulmates and we haven’t seen much of that in cinema,” Holding The Man producer Kylie du Fresne (The Sapphires) told ScreenDaily. “We think it’s good timing because of the worldwide debate on gay marriage. It’s not what the film is about but it is part of why Tim (Conigrave) wrote his memoir.”
That memoir...
Screen Australia will invest in Holding The Man, an adaptation of a popular gay memoir from director Neil Armfield (Candy), and A Long Way Home, from Garth Davis, Jane Campion’s co-director on the series Top Of The Lake.
The government agency also decided this week to put finishing funds into Infini, a follow-up to debut film Gabriel for writer/director/producer Shane Abbess, and into two feature-length documentaries.
“It is ultimately a love story about gay soulmates and we haven’t seen much of that in cinema,” Holding The Man producer Kylie du Fresne (The Sapphires) told ScreenDaily. “We think it’s good timing because of the worldwide debate on gay marriage. It’s not what the film is about but it is part of why Tim (Conigrave) wrote his memoir.”
That memoir...
- 3/28/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
The production company behind the Oscar-winning The Kings Speech has secured the rights to the autobiography of Saroo Brierley.
See-Saw Films, with Sunstar Entertainment, will adapt the story of Saroo Brierley, a lost Indian boy adopted by a Tasmanian couple only to be re-united with his birth mother 25 years later after scouring Google Earth and a childhood memory of his hometown.
Brierley’s autiobiography is yet to be published by Penguin, and as such the film is also untitled.
See-Saw Films’ principals Emile Sherman and Iain Canning said in a release: “As a filmmaker, Saroo’s life story is irresistible. The moment we heard it, we knew it had all the elements that make for great cinema. There is perhaps no greater human drive than the desire to find out who we are and to know our mothers. This, along with the incredible contrast between our high tech world and the streets of Calcutta,...
See-Saw Films, with Sunstar Entertainment, will adapt the story of Saroo Brierley, a lost Indian boy adopted by a Tasmanian couple only to be re-united with his birth mother 25 years later after scouring Google Earth and a childhood memory of his hometown.
Brierley’s autiobiography is yet to be published by Penguin, and as such the film is also untitled.
See-Saw Films’ principals Emile Sherman and Iain Canning said in a release: “As a filmmaker, Saroo’s life story is irresistible. The moment we heard it, we knew it had all the elements that make for great cinema. There is perhaps no greater human drive than the desire to find out who we are and to know our mothers. This, along with the incredible contrast between our high tech world and the streets of Calcutta,...
- 2/7/2013
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
See-Saw Films and Sunstar Entertainment will produce a film based on the upcoming autobiography of Australian adoptee Saroo Brierley.
The companies have secured the rights to the inspirational story (Sunstar also represents Brierley), which will be published by Penguin later this year. Brierley was born in India, where he became lost in an overcrowded city at the age of five and was separated from his family for 25 years. Adopted by a family in Tasmania, where he grew up, he finally tracked down his Indian birth mother after searching for years using only Google Earth and a childhood memory of his hometown. (Vanity Fair has published an excellent feature.on his story here.) .
See-Saw Films co-founders Emile Sherman and Iain Canning won an Academy Award for The King's Speech in 2011 and recently completed Jane Campion's six-part television series, Top of the Lake. In a statement announcing the deal, they said...
The companies have secured the rights to the inspirational story (Sunstar also represents Brierley), which will be published by Penguin later this year. Brierley was born in India, where he became lost in an overcrowded city at the age of five and was separated from his family for 25 years. Adopted by a family in Tasmania, where he grew up, he finally tracked down his Indian birth mother after searching for years using only Google Earth and a childhood memory of his hometown. (Vanity Fair has published an excellent feature.on his story here.) .
See-Saw Films co-founders Emile Sherman and Iain Canning won an Academy Award for The King's Speech in 2011 and recently completed Jane Campion's six-part television series, Top of the Lake. In a statement announcing the deal, they said...
- 2/7/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
See-Saw Films and Sunstar Entertainment will produce a film based on the upcoming autobiography of Australian adoptee Saroo Brierley.
The companies have secured the rights to the inspirational story (Sunstar also represents Brierley), which will be published by Penguin later this year. Brierley was born in India, where he became lost in an overcrowded city at the age of five and was separated from his family for 25 years. Adopted by a family in Tasmania, where he grew up, he finally tracked down his Indian birth mother after searching for years using only Google Earth and a childhood memory of his hometown. (Vanity Fair has published an excellent feature.on his story here.) .
See-Saw Films co-founders Emile Sherman and Iain Canning won an Academy Award for The King's Speech in 2011 and recently completed Jane Campion's six-part television series, Top of the Lake. In a statement announcing the deal, they said...
The companies have secured the rights to the inspirational story (Sunstar also represents Brierley), which will be published by Penguin later this year. Brierley was born in India, where he became lost in an overcrowded city at the age of five and was separated from his family for 25 years. Adopted by a family in Tasmania, where he grew up, he finally tracked down his Indian birth mother after searching for years using only Google Earth and a childhood memory of his hometown. (Vanity Fair has published an excellent feature.on his story here.) .
See-Saw Films co-founders Emile Sherman and Iain Canning won an Academy Award for The King's Speech in 2011 and recently completed Jane Campion's six-part television series, Top of the Lake. In a statement announcing the deal, they said...
- 2/7/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
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