After 11 days of celebrating magnificent and electric movies, the 24th Annual St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) concluded on Sunday evening. At the closing ceremony the International Alliance of Women Film Journalists (Awfj) presented awards to two women filmmakers. Cate Marquis (St. Louis Jewish Light) and myself were on hand to announce our winners – chosen by a panel of Awfj members.
Lucie Borleteau’s Fidelio: Alice’S Odyssey received the Eda for Best Female-Directed Narrative Feature, while Sophia Turkiewicz’s Once My Mother took the Eda for Best Female-Directed Documentary.
Actress Lucie Borleteau makes her feature directing debut with this insightful study of a woman situated in an almost exclusively male milieu. Sailor Alice (Ariane Labed) joins the freighter Fidelio as a replacement engineer, soon discovering that the captain, Gaël (Melvil Poupaud), is a man with whom she was once romantically involved. Though she leaves behind a fiancé on land (Anders Danielsen Lie,...
Lucie Borleteau’s Fidelio: Alice’S Odyssey received the Eda for Best Female-Directed Narrative Feature, while Sophia Turkiewicz’s Once My Mother took the Eda for Best Female-Directed Documentary.
Actress Lucie Borleteau makes her feature directing debut with this insightful study of a woman situated in an almost exclusively male milieu. Sailor Alice (Ariane Labed) joins the freighter Fidelio as a replacement engineer, soon discovering that the captain, Gaël (Melvil Poupaud), is a man with whom she was once romantically involved. Though she leaves behind a fiancé on land (Anders Danielsen Lie,...
- 11/20/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The St. Louis International Film Festival has announced the films nominated for the Awfj Eda Awards.
Awfj will partner once again with Sliff to recognize the Best Female-Directed Narrative Feature and Best Female-Directed Documentary. The 24th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival will be held Nov. 5-15, 2015. Check out the full lineup here.
Here’s a glimpse of the films that have been selected:
Narratives
Fidelio: Alice’S Odyssey – Lucie Borleteau (France)
A rare woman in the man’s world of seafaring, 30-year-old Alice signs on as a replacement engineer on the freighter Fidélio. Although she loves her job and does it well, Alice remains a woman even when wearing greasy blue overalls, and there’s some doubt that the all-male crew will remain totally insensitive to her charms. The situation has further complications: Alice has a fiancé back on shore, but when she discovers that the Fidélio is captained by Gaël,...
Awfj will partner once again with Sliff to recognize the Best Female-Directed Narrative Feature and Best Female-Directed Documentary. The 24th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival will be held Nov. 5-15, 2015. Check out the full lineup here.
Here’s a glimpse of the films that have been selected:
Narratives
Fidelio: Alice’S Odyssey – Lucie Borleteau (France)
A rare woman in the man’s world of seafaring, 30-year-old Alice signs on as a replacement engineer on the freighter Fidélio. Although she loves her job and does it well, Alice remains a woman even when wearing greasy blue overalls, and there’s some doubt that the all-male crew will remain totally insensitive to her charms. The situation has further complications: Alice has a fiancé back on shore, but when she discovers that the Fidélio is captained by Gaël,...
- 10/27/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sophia Turkiewicz's documentary Once My Mother has won a special prize and 10,000 euros ($A14,400) at a major Spanish festival.
The jury at Seminci, the 59th Festival Internacional de Cine de Valladolid,. presented the award in the Time of History section.
The prize was for the director "tracking the personal trajectory of a victim of the horrors of the Second World War . from her native Poland to Siberia and on to Persia, Rhodesia and Australia . with exemplary courage and restraint. . This is the third international award for the feature documentary produced by Rod Freedman, following the audience award at the Krakow Film Festival and a special award at a film festival in Gdynia, Poland. Turkiewicz said, .We are delighted by the ongoing recognition for this essentially Australian film and acknowledgement of the story of nearly two million Poles who were exiled to Gulag camps under Stalin..
Once My Mother tells...
The jury at Seminci, the 59th Festival Internacional de Cine de Valladolid,. presented the award in the Time of History section.
The prize was for the director "tracking the personal trajectory of a victim of the horrors of the Second World War . from her native Poland to Siberia and on to Persia, Rhodesia and Australia . with exemplary courage and restraint. . This is the third international award for the feature documentary produced by Rod Freedman, following the audience award at the Krakow Film Festival and a special award at a film festival in Gdynia, Poland. Turkiewicz said, .We are delighted by the ongoing recognition for this essentially Australian film and acknowledgement of the story of nearly two million Poles who were exiled to Gulag camps under Stalin..
Once My Mother tells...
- 10/27/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The ABC.s rebuff of a campaign led by the producers to allocate an earlier timeslot to Sophia Turkiewicz.s documentary Once My Mother has drawn the ire of filmmaker Martha Ansara.
A founding member of the Australian Documentary Forum (Ozdox) and a recipient of the AFI's Byron Kennedy Award, Ansara has described the decision as being in line with the broadcaster.s move away from innovative single documentaries.
The ABC will screen Turkiewicz.s 72 minute film, which traces her search to discover why her Polish mother abandoned her and the truth behind her wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, on Sunday October 26 at 10.20 pm. Producer Rod Freedman beseeched ABC head of programming Brendan Dahill to schedule the doco at 9.30 pm or earlier, fearing it would be ignored in the .graveyard. timeslot, and he enlisted the support of industry colleagues.
Dahill replied, .I am happy with the slot that we...
A founding member of the Australian Documentary Forum (Ozdox) and a recipient of the AFI's Byron Kennedy Award, Ansara has described the decision as being in line with the broadcaster.s move away from innovative single documentaries.
The ABC will screen Turkiewicz.s 72 minute film, which traces her search to discover why her Polish mother abandoned her and the truth behind her wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, on Sunday October 26 at 10.20 pm. Producer Rod Freedman beseeched ABC head of programming Brendan Dahill to schedule the doco at 9.30 pm or earlier, fearing it would be ignored in the .graveyard. timeslot, and he enlisted the support of industry colleagues.
Dahill replied, .I am happy with the slot that we...
- 10/7/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The ABC has rejected a campaign orchestrated by the filmmakers to allocate an earlier timeslot to Once My Mother.
Sophia Turkiewicz.s documentary, in which she investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, will screen on Sunday October 26 at 10.20 pm.
Producer Rod Freedman begged the ABC to schedule the feature-length film at 9.30 pm or earlier, fearing it would be ignored in the .graveyard. timeslot.
He wrote to ABC TV director Richard Finlayson, who he says declined to get involved, so he appealed to ABC head of programming Brendan Dahill.
Dahill replied, .I am happy with the slot that we have chosen for the show and the context and the environment within which we have placed it..
So Freedman launched a campaign, expressing his anger and disgust and asking industry colleagues to lobby via email Finlayson and Dahill.
All to no avail.
Sophia Turkiewicz.s documentary, in which she investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, will screen on Sunday October 26 at 10.20 pm.
Producer Rod Freedman begged the ABC to schedule the feature-length film at 9.30 pm or earlier, fearing it would be ignored in the .graveyard. timeslot.
He wrote to ABC TV director Richard Finlayson, who he says declined to get involved, so he appealed to ABC head of programming Brendan Dahill.
Dahill replied, .I am happy with the slot that we have chosen for the show and the context and the environment within which we have placed it..
So Freedman launched a campaign, expressing his anger and disgust and asking industry colleagues to lobby via email Finlayson and Dahill.
All to no avail.
- 10/2/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has explained the rationale for the revised guidelines on documentary funding after criticism from the Australian Directors Guild and some filmmakers. Senior manager, documentary, Liz Stevens says the new guidelines are designed to strike a balance between the medium-to-large screen businesses and the true independents.
She acknowledges the Adg.s concerns that the proposed Broadcast program ($9 million.$10 million) reintroduces the funding allocations for domestic broadcasters, with 45% for ABC-backed projects, 40% for Sbs projects and 15% for other platforms. The Adg had argued the funds should be uncoupled from the broadcasters and that the system will not give Screen Australia sufficient oversight over the types of projects commissioned by the ABC.
.We have reinstated the percentages because producers and broadcasters told us they needed certainty,. she said. .They need to know the projects they are developing will go ahead.. In the past five years the ABC received about 50% of the funding for broadcaster-backed projects.
She acknowledges the Adg.s concerns that the proposed Broadcast program ($9 million.$10 million) reintroduces the funding allocations for domestic broadcasters, with 45% for ABC-backed projects, 40% for Sbs projects and 15% for other platforms. The Adg had argued the funds should be uncoupled from the broadcasters and that the system will not give Screen Australia sufficient oversight over the types of projects commissioned by the ABC.
.We have reinstated the percentages because producers and broadcasters told us they needed certainty,. she said. .They need to know the projects they are developing will go ahead.. In the past five years the ABC received about 50% of the funding for broadcaster-backed projects.
- 9/22/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Barring a break-out hit or at least several strong performers, the B.O. total of Australian films this calendar year is highly unlikely to match 2013.s $38.5 million.
Through last Sunday, 34 local films have racked up $16.03 million nationwide. That includes mostly small amounts earned this year by 19 titles that opened in 2013 or earlier.
While the local B.O. results should not be seen as the sole yardstick of any film.s global performance, the industry would have expected stronger ticket sales for David Michôd.s The Rover and last week.s opener, Zak Hilditch.s These Final Hours, while Rhys Graham.s Galore also underperformed.
Rolf de Heer Charlie.s Country is tracking below Tracker, his first collaboration with David Gulpilil, which grossed $818,000 in 2002. Ten Canoes, the second of the .trilogy,. is the highest-earner of de Heer.s career, making $3.5 million in 2006.
Only The Railway Man (which opened on Boxing Day...
Through last Sunday, 34 local films have racked up $16.03 million nationwide. That includes mostly small amounts earned this year by 19 titles that opened in 2013 or earlier.
While the local B.O. results should not be seen as the sole yardstick of any film.s global performance, the industry would have expected stronger ticket sales for David Michôd.s The Rover and last week.s opener, Zak Hilditch.s These Final Hours, while Rhys Graham.s Galore also underperformed.
Rolf de Heer Charlie.s Country is tracking below Tracker, his first collaboration with David Gulpilil, which grossed $818,000 in 2002. Ten Canoes, the second of the .trilogy,. is the highest-earner of de Heer.s career, making $3.5 million in 2006.
Only The Railway Man (which opened on Boxing Day...
- 8/7/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Distributors launched 10 films last weekend but most struggled to sell tickets as many folks opted either to see titles that were already in cinemas, or stayed home.
Nationwide, takings improved by 8% to $14.1 million, according to Rentrak's estimates, a small uplift considering the wider number of choices for filmgoers.
Dwayne Johnson.s efforts in Australia to promote Hercules paid off reasonably well as Brett Ratner.s action film took top spot, earning $3.5 million. Pro-rata that is a bit better than the mediocre Us debut of $US29.8 million, where the film was outmuscled by Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, the Luc Besson-directed sci-fi thriller which rang up $US44 million.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes plunged by 42% to $1.8 million in its third outing, propelling its total to $15.5 million.
Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie, a spin-off of the BBC cross-dressing comedy starring Brendan O'Carroll, opened with a respectable $1.8 million, including previews. Women aged...
Nationwide, takings improved by 8% to $14.1 million, according to Rentrak's estimates, a small uplift considering the wider number of choices for filmgoers.
Dwayne Johnson.s efforts in Australia to promote Hercules paid off reasonably well as Brett Ratner.s action film took top spot, earning $3.5 million. Pro-rata that is a bit better than the mediocre Us debut of $US29.8 million, where the film was outmuscled by Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, the Luc Besson-directed sci-fi thriller which rang up $US44 million.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes plunged by 42% to $1.8 million in its third outing, propelling its total to $15.5 million.
Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie, a spin-off of the BBC cross-dressing comedy starring Brendan O'Carroll, opened with a respectable $1.8 million, including previews. Women aged...
- 7/28/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Nick Cave documentary 20,000 Days on Earth and titles set for Cannes among Sydney Film Festival competiton contenders.
In an unusual move the Sydney Film Festival has included among its official competition contenders, the June 4 opening night film 20,000 Days on Earth, which digs deep into the life of Australian-born musician and artist Nick Cave and won the top prize for documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
This year will also see the biggest number of Australian films in the competition. David Michôd’s The Rover will come fresh from Cannes and the other two are Ruin, which writer/directors Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody filmed in Cambodia, and Fell, a debut film from Kasimir Burge that will have its world premiere at the annual event. Burge won a Crystal Bear at Berlin for his short Lily.
See below for the full list of the finalists in the seventh year of the A$60,000 ($56,000) competition.
Finishing off the...
In an unusual move the Sydney Film Festival has included among its official competition contenders, the June 4 opening night film 20,000 Days on Earth, which digs deep into the life of Australian-born musician and artist Nick Cave and won the top prize for documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
This year will also see the biggest number of Australian films in the competition. David Michôd’s The Rover will come fresh from Cannes and the other two are Ruin, which writer/directors Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody filmed in Cambodia, and Fell, a debut film from Kasimir Burge that will have its world premiere at the annual event. Burge won a Crystal Bear at Berlin for his short Lily.
See below for the full list of the finalists in the seventh year of the A$60,000 ($56,000) competition.
Finishing off the...
- 5/10/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Kim Mordaunt, Rowan Woods and Rachel Perkins were among the winners in the Australian Directors Guild awards presented in Sydney at the Powerhouse Museum on Friday night.
Mordaunt took the Adg award for best direction in a feature film for his debut film The Rocket. The best direction in a telemovie gong went to Woods for The Broken Shore.. Perkins won the prize for best direction in a TV drama series for Redfern Now series 2, episode 2, Starting Over.
The Adg Awards celebrate the outstanding work of Australian screen directors in the past year in 16 categories including film, television, multiplatform, music and advertising. .The winners include some of the industry.s most experienced directors such as Ray Lawrence, Rowan Woods, Geoffrey Nottage and Rachel Perkins, but also reflect the incredible new talent rising through the ranks who are working across the various screen platforms,. said Adg executive director Kingston Anderson. The...
Mordaunt took the Adg award for best direction in a feature film for his debut film The Rocket. The best direction in a telemovie gong went to Woods for The Broken Shore.. Perkins won the prize for best direction in a TV drama series for Redfern Now series 2, episode 2, Starting Over.
The Adg Awards celebrate the outstanding work of Australian screen directors in the past year in 16 categories including film, television, multiplatform, music and advertising. .The winners include some of the industry.s most experienced directors such as Ray Lawrence, Rowan Woods, Geoffrey Nottage and Rachel Perkins, but also reflect the incredible new talent rising through the ranks who are working across the various screen platforms,. said Adg executive director Kingston Anderson. The...
- 5/2/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Female directors have dominated the Documentary Feature category of the 2014 Australian Directors Guild Awards, whilst Home & Away has muscled out any other competition for TV Drama Serial. The nominees, announced this morning, cover 16 categories across film, television, multiplatform, music and advertising. This year has seen the Adg receive more entries than ever before, making the judging process a difficult one. .In the TV drama category, the documentary feature category and the feature film categories especially, the caliber is really high so that.s why there are so many nominations,. says Adg Executive Director Kingston Anderson. .The judges take it very seriously and fully understand the recognition the awards can bring.. In the feature film category, Baz Luhrmann was unsurprisingly nominated for box office hit The Great Gatsby alongside strong contenders Kim Mordaunt (The Rocket), Ivan Sen (Mystery Road), Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man) and Zak Hilditch, whose film These Final Hours,...
- 4/9/2014
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
With the sad news that Shirley Temple passed away yesterday, tributes have been rolling in for the beloved star. Melissa Joan Hart even Instagrammed the above photo of herself with Temple. But both being child stars isn’t their only connection — Hart produced the 2001 ABC television movie Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story based on Temple’s autobiography.
Below, in her own words, Hart remembers her meeting with the legend and what she’s learned from her idol.
Happy Landings on a Chocolate Bar — Goodbye Shirley by Melissa Joan Hart
My heart is truly broken today as we all mourn...
Below, in her own words, Hart remembers her meeting with the legend and what she’s learned from her idol.
Happy Landings on a Chocolate Bar — Goodbye Shirley by Melissa Joan Hart
My heart is truly broken today as we all mourn...
- 2/12/2014
- by EW staff
- EW.com - PopWatch
If the 3rd annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards could be categorised as a David vs Goliath battle between The Rocket and The Great Gatsby, Goliath is the hands-down winner.
Baz Luhrmann.s opulent romantic drama won six awards tonight, for best film, director, adapted screenplay, lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio, supporting actor Joel Edgerton and supporting actress Elizabeth Debicki.
That.s in addition to the six awards in craft categories plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects bestowed on Luhrmann.s film on Tuesday.
Kim Mordaunt's The Rocket, which had 12 nominations versus 14 for Gatsby, had to be content with just one trophy, for Mordaunt.s original screenplay.
The outcome is likely to reignite the debate about the near-impossibility of comparing a lavishly-mounted 3D film financed by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, which cost $160 million, with an independently-funded Lao-set film from a first-time director budgeted at about $2 million.
Baz Luhrmann.s opulent romantic drama won six awards tonight, for best film, director, adapted screenplay, lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio, supporting actor Joel Edgerton and supporting actress Elizabeth Debicki.
That.s in addition to the six awards in craft categories plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects bestowed on Luhrmann.s film on Tuesday.
Kim Mordaunt's The Rocket, which had 12 nominations versus 14 for Gatsby, had to be content with just one trophy, for Mordaunt.s original screenplay.
The outcome is likely to reignite the debate about the near-impossibility of comparing a lavishly-mounted 3D film financed by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, which cost $160 million, with an independently-funded Lao-set film from a first-time director budgeted at about $2 million.
- 1/30/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Great Gatsby dominated. Aacta.s technical and short films awards today, collecting gongs in all six craft categories for which it was nominated, plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects.
The co-production Top of the Lake bagged two TV trophies while Matchbox Pictures. Nowhere Boys, created by Tony Ayres, was named best children.s TV series.
The TV documentary prize went to Redesign My Brain, which explores the revolutionary new science of brain plasticity, written and directed by Paul Scott and produced by Isabel Perez and Scott for ABC TV.
Writer-director Nick Verso's The Last Time I Saw Richard, produced by John Molloy, was honoured as best short fiction film. Developed and funded through Screen Australia.s Springboard program, the short is a prequel to the upcoming feature film Boys In The Trees, tracing the friendship between two teenagers in a mental health clinic in...
The co-production Top of the Lake bagged two TV trophies while Matchbox Pictures. Nowhere Boys, created by Tony Ayres, was named best children.s TV series.
The TV documentary prize went to Redesign My Brain, which explores the revolutionary new science of brain plasticity, written and directed by Paul Scott and produced by Isabel Perez and Scott for ABC TV.
Writer-director Nick Verso's The Last Time I Saw Richard, produced by John Molloy, was honoured as best short fiction film. Developed and funded through Screen Australia.s Springboard program, the short is a prequel to the upcoming feature film Boys In The Trees, tracing the friendship between two teenagers in a mental health clinic in...
- 1/28/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
First Footprints, Jabbed, Fallout and Once My Mother were among the winners of the 2013 Ipaf Atom awards presented in Melbourne on Thursday night.
Founded in 1982 and voted by members of the Australian Teachers of Media, the awards recognise film and media excellence in the education and screen industry sectors.
There were more than 600 entries from Australian and New Zealand media producers in 29 categories. The event was hosted by Brian Nankervis from RocKwiz. The Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (Ipaf) was the naming sponsor this year.
Martin Butler and Bentley Dean.s First Footprints, which tells how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought and created in dramatically changing environments, was named best documentary, general.
Sonya Pemberton.s Jabbed, which poses the questions how do you decide whether to vaccinate or not, and what are the risks?, took the award for best docu, science, technology and the environment.
Lawrence Johnston.s Fallout, which...
Founded in 1982 and voted by members of the Australian Teachers of Media, the awards recognise film and media excellence in the education and screen industry sectors.
There were more than 600 entries from Australian and New Zealand media producers in 29 categories. The event was hosted by Brian Nankervis from RocKwiz. The Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (Ipaf) was the naming sponsor this year.
Martin Butler and Bentley Dean.s First Footprints, which tells how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought and created in dramatically changing environments, was named best documentary, general.
Sonya Pemberton.s Jabbed, which poses the questions how do you decide whether to vaccinate or not, and what are the risks?, took the award for best docu, science, technology and the environment.
Lawrence Johnston.s Fallout, which...
- 11/29/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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