Six Australian short films have been selected for the semi-finals of the Ridley Scott-supported Your Film Festival.
Kiss, Bat Eyes, Good Pretender, Boot, Scruples, and The Telegram Man were among the 50 short films selected from more than 15,000 entries. New Zealand semi-finalists included Das Tub, Ebony Society and Dr Grordbort presents: The Deadliest Game.
A worldwide audience will now vote for the finalists on YouTube: 10 storytellers will then be sent to the 2012 Venice Film Festival where a grand prize winner will be rewarded with a $500,000 grant to create a new work, produced by Ridley Scott and his team, including actor Michael Fassbender. All of the semi-finalist entries can be viewed on at the Your Film Festival site - votes close on July 13.
Meanwhile, Western Australian production company Prospero Productions recently won four awards at the Prestige Film Award in Eureka, California, The gold award-winning documentaries included Ned's Head, Sas: The Search for Warriors,...
Kiss, Bat Eyes, Good Pretender, Boot, Scruples, and The Telegram Man were among the 50 short films selected from more than 15,000 entries. New Zealand semi-finalists included Das Tub, Ebony Society and Dr Grordbort presents: The Deadliest Game.
A worldwide audience will now vote for the finalists on YouTube: 10 storytellers will then be sent to the 2012 Venice Film Festival where a grand prize winner will be rewarded with a $500,000 grant to create a new work, produced by Ridley Scott and his team, including actor Michael Fassbender. All of the semi-finalist entries can be viewed on at the Your Film Festival site - votes close on July 13.
Meanwhile, Western Australian production company Prospero Productions recently won four awards at the Prestige Film Award in Eureka, California, The gold award-winning documentaries included Ned's Head, Sas: The Search for Warriors,...
- 7/3/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The Hunter has lead the Aacta Awards with 14 nominations including best film.
The film, by Daniel Nettheim, is also up for best direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, production design, costume, original music score, and visual effects. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Sam Neill and Morgana Davies are all up for acting awards.
The film has currently made just over $1m at the local box office.
It’s the first year for the re-launched AACTAs, formerly the AFI awards.
The technical awards will be given out at a luncheon on 15 January at the Sydney Opera House, with an evening ceremony for the more ‘public-friendly’ awards held at the Opera House on 31 January.
Running against The Hunter for best film is Red Dog, Mad Bastards, The Eye of the Storm, Snowtown and Oranges and Sunshine.
The Eye of the Storm, was second in the nominations race with 12, of which six are...
The film, by Daniel Nettheim, is also up for best direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, production design, costume, original music score, and visual effects. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Sam Neill and Morgana Davies are all up for acting awards.
The film has currently made just over $1m at the local box office.
It’s the first year for the re-launched AACTAs, formerly the AFI awards.
The technical awards will be given out at a luncheon on 15 January at the Sydney Opera House, with an evening ceremony for the more ‘public-friendly’ awards held at the Opera House on 31 January.
Running against The Hunter for best film is Red Dog, Mad Bastards, The Eye of the Storm, Snowtown and Oranges and Sunshine.
The Eye of the Storm, was second in the nominations race with 12, of which six are...
- 11/30/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Australian Film Institute (AFI) have launched a new festival to showcase the local films of the past year vying for an Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award).
The Festival will run from 6 October to 14 November in Sydney and 11 October to 14 November in Melbourne and showcase the 21 feature films, as well as 12 non feature nominees including best short fiction film, Best short animation and Best feature length documentary in lead up for the inaugural Aacta Awards held in January 2012.
“Through Aacta,” Damian Trewhella, AFI Aacta CEO said, “we not only celebrate Australia’s best screen practitioners, but also engage audiences with our great stories; the Samsung AFI І Aacta Festival of Film provides a perfect platform for this at an exciting time for our screen industry.”
The festival aims to showcase the films to generate greater audience reach and engagement. “Having increased awareness of our screen industry...
The Festival will run from 6 October to 14 November in Sydney and 11 October to 14 November in Melbourne and showcase the 21 feature films, as well as 12 non feature nominees including best short fiction film, Best short animation and Best feature length documentary in lead up for the inaugural Aacta Awards held in January 2012.
“Through Aacta,” Damian Trewhella, AFI Aacta CEO said, “we not only celebrate Australia’s best screen practitioners, but also engage audiences with our great stories; the Samsung AFI І Aacta Festival of Film provides a perfect platform for this at an exciting time for our screen industry.”
The festival aims to showcase the films to generate greater audience reach and engagement. “Having increased awareness of our screen industry...
- 9/21/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Australian Production Design Guild has announced the shortlist for its inaugural awards.
Across 13 categories, the awards recognise outstanding design talent in the screen and theatre industry.
The Apdg Awards will be held at Nida on the 21st September.
Apdg Awards Shortlist
The Docklands Studios Melbourne Apdg award for design on a feature film
The Tree - Steve Jones-Evans; production designer Daybreakers – George Liddle; production designer Beneath Hill 60 – Clayton Jauncey; production designer
The Encore Apdg award for design on a short film
The Cartographer – Jane Shadbolt; designer/director The Missing Key - Jonathan Nix; designer/director, Shane Ingram; 3D designer The Telegram Man – David McKay; production designer
The Matchbox Pictures Apdg award for design on a television drama
Hawke - Carrie Kennedy; production designer, Ben Morieson; production designer Cloudstreet - Herbert Pinter; production designer Paper Giants – Jon Rohde; production designer, Scott Bird; art director
The Next Printing Apdg award...
Across 13 categories, the awards recognise outstanding design talent in the screen and theatre industry.
The Apdg Awards will be held at Nida on the 21st September.
Apdg Awards Shortlist
The Docklands Studios Melbourne Apdg award for design on a feature film
The Tree - Steve Jones-Evans; production designer Daybreakers – George Liddle; production designer Beneath Hill 60 – Clayton Jauncey; production designer
The Encore Apdg award for design on a short film
The Cartographer – Jane Shadbolt; designer/director The Missing Key - Jonathan Nix; designer/director, Shane Ingram; 3D designer The Telegram Man – David McKay; production designer
The Matchbox Pictures Apdg award for design on a television drama
Hawke - Carrie Kennedy; production designer, Ben Morieson; production designer Cloudstreet - Herbert Pinter; production designer Paper Giants – Jon Rohde; production designer, Scott Bird; art director
The Next Printing Apdg award...
- 9/2/2011
- by Georgina Pearson
- Encore Magazine
Tony Krawitz's The Tall Man The first batch of nominees for the first Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Awards, an upgraded version of the Australian Film Institute Awards, has been announced. The nominations are in the Best Documentary, Best Short Animation, and Best Short Fiction Film categories. Best Feature-Length Documentary: Life in Movement, Mrs. Carey's Concert, Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, and The Tall Man. Best Short Fiction Film: Adam's Tallit, Cropped, The Palace, and The Telegram Man. Best Short Animation: Forget Me Not, The Missing Key, The Moment, and Nullabor. Filmmaker Sophie Hyde has two movies in the running for Best Feature-Length Documentary: Life in Movement, which she co-directed with Bryan Mason, and Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, produced by Hyde and directed by Matthew Bate. Bob Connolly and Sophie Raymond's Mrs. Carey's Concert, about a dedicated (obsessed?) high-school teacher...
- 8/31/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The AFI (Australian Film Institute) and Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) have announced the first nominees for the inaugural Aacta Awards to be held in January 2012.
The nominations for best Feature Length Documentary, Best Animated Short Film, and Best Short Film accompany the announcement of 23 feature films at the Aacta launch.
Said Damian Trewhella, AFI Aacta CEO, “From the concert hall to the Outback, and spanning decades, countries and genres, nominees announced today demonstrate the breadth and depth of Australian filmmaking talent. We look forward to recognising Australia’s best and brightest screen practitioners at the inaugural Samsung Aacta Awards in January, building on the proud, 53-year-old tradition of celebrating screen excellence in Australia established by the AFI.”
The nominees for the Aacta for best Feature Length Documentary are:
Life In Movement – about dancer Tanja Liedtke, produced by Sophie Hyde, Bryan Mason Mrs Carey’s Concert – follows...
The nominations for best Feature Length Documentary, Best Animated Short Film, and Best Short Film accompany the announcement of 23 feature films at the Aacta launch.
Said Damian Trewhella, AFI Aacta CEO, “From the concert hall to the Outback, and spanning decades, countries and genres, nominees announced today demonstrate the breadth and depth of Australian filmmaking talent. We look forward to recognising Australia’s best and brightest screen practitioners at the inaugural Samsung Aacta Awards in January, building on the proud, 53-year-old tradition of celebrating screen excellence in Australia established by the AFI.”
The nominees for the Aacta for best Feature Length Documentary are:
Life In Movement – about dancer Tanja Liedtke, produced by Sophie Hyde, Bryan Mason Mrs Carey’s Concert – follows...
- 8/30/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Reuniting Jack Thompson and Sigrid Thorton for the first time since The Man From Snowy River (1982), The Telegram Man, produced and directed by James Khehtie and written by Victoria Wharfe McIntyre and also starring Gary Sweet, has won Best International Picture at Washington’s GI Film Festival.
The GI Film Festival is dedicated to highlighting the military service’s role both in and out of the arena of war and to ‘honor the heroic stories of the American Armed Forces and the worldwide struggle for freedom and liberty.’
The Telegram Man, set during World War II, spares a thought for, not only those farming families and communities that paid the highest price for war, but the messenger (Jack Thompson), whose lonely job it was to deliver the telegrams.
The film has been selected for the Academy-accredited ShortFest, the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and Film Market (June 21-27).
Closer to home,...
The GI Film Festival is dedicated to highlighting the military service’s role both in and out of the arena of war and to ‘honor the heroic stories of the American Armed Forces and the worldwide struggle for freedom and liberty.’
The Telegram Man, set during World War II, spares a thought for, not only those farming families and communities that paid the highest price for war, but the messenger (Jack Thompson), whose lonely job it was to deliver the telegrams.
The film has been selected for the Academy-accredited ShortFest, the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and Film Market (June 21-27).
Closer to home,...
- 5/20/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Two.iconic local actors . Jack Thompson and Gary Sweet . will be inducted into the Australian Film Walk of Fame on Sunday just before their short film The Telegram Man is screened at the iconic Ritz Cinema. The screen legends join other luminaries including Claudia Karvan, Steve Bisley, Michael Caton, Roy Billing and the late, great Charles .Bud. Tingwell, who have also seen their .stars. immortalised in the sidewalk. It is the short film, The Telegram Man, screening as part of the Australian Film Festival, which brings the actors together on screen. In fact, it marks the first time Gary Sweet and Jack Thompson have shared the screen.. .Gary was delighted,. jokes Thompson. Apparently, Sweet.s father has spent...
- 3/11/2011
- by Ruby Lennon
- IF.com.au
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