Antony Partos and Sonar Music, the team behind the music of The Slap have led the nominees for the Australian Guild of Screen Composers, announced this morning while Burning Man, Storm Surfers 3D, Santa’s Apprentice and Needle are the four nominees for feature film score.
The announcement:
Today we pay tribute to the leading lights of Australian screen composition with the announcement of nominees for the 2012 Screen Music Awards. The event, to be held this year in Melbourne on Monday November 19th, is jointly staged by Apra (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers). It is the only Australian event where the music and screen industry gather to celebrate excellence in the composition of music for film and television.
Across twelve awards categories Apra and the Agsc are today proud to recognise 61 composers, and 40 works as representing the best in Australian screen composition for...
The announcement:
Today we pay tribute to the leading lights of Australian screen composition with the announcement of nominees for the 2012 Screen Music Awards. The event, to be held this year in Melbourne on Monday November 19th, is jointly staged by Apra (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers). It is the only Australian event where the music and screen industry gather to celebrate excellence in the composition of music for film and television.
Across twelve awards categories Apra and the Agsc are today proud to recognise 61 composers, and 40 works as representing the best in Australian screen composition for...
- 10/17/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Beaconsfield mine collapse of 2006 was one of the most gripping events to ever rock this country. Sam Dallas finds out how it was recreated for telemovie Beaconsfield, which will premiere on Sunday, April 22, at 8.30pm on Channel Nine.
For his latest screen project, Sydney-based filmmaker Jon Rohde had to descend 1km underground to research the look and feel of a working gold mine. Not your typical day for a production designer.
It was dark, it was dingy, it was claustrophobic . it was essential. In what was probably Rohde.s most challenging project to date, the filmmaker had to document everything he saw with precision because it had to be recreated in a short period of time with limited resources.
.This particular project had to be spot on because there was so much media coverage,. he says, describing the 2006 Beaconsfield mine collapse. No-one knew the nightmare facing trapped miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell,...
For his latest screen project, Sydney-based filmmaker Jon Rohde had to descend 1km underground to research the look and feel of a working gold mine. Not your typical day for a production designer.
It was dark, it was dingy, it was claustrophobic . it was essential. In what was probably Rohde.s most challenging project to date, the filmmaker had to document everything he saw with precision because it had to be recreated in a short period of time with limited resources.
.This particular project had to be spot on because there was so much media coverage,. he says, describing the 2006 Beaconsfield mine collapse. No-one knew the nightmare facing trapped miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell,...
- 4/11/2012
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
The miners from the Beaconsfield disaster in Australia have revealed that the recent telemovie about their ordeal has made many "raw emotions" resurface. Todd Russell and Brant Webb, who spent 16 days trapped in a cage 1km underground after a mine collapsed in 2006, said that attending the preview of Nine Network drama Beaconsfield in Melbourne was a very "hard" thing to do. Webb told The Daily Telegraph: "Seriously, I can't get how they squeezed 321 hours of emotion into that. We had joy, tears, sorrow, no faith, all faith and, yeah, the joking." He also revealed that it was very emotional seeing the rescuers who freed them, saying: "They are my heroes. We are just survivors." Russell (more)...
- 3/22/2012
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
Offspring star Lachy Hulme has said that he has to gain weight to play media mogul Kerry Packer in a new television series. The actor recently gained - then lost - 25kg to play Beaconsfield miner Todd Russell in another TV drama. He explained that he was disappointed when he discovered that he would have to pile on the kilos again to play the lead in Howzat: The Kerry Packer Story. Hulme told the Herald Sun: "I gained 25 kilos to play Todd. Then I lost 20(kg) to resume my role in Offspring this year... and now Packer. I'm just hoping he was a bit different in size back then because you know, I'm 40 now and can't keep doing it to myself." He admitted that he had to use "heavy weights and gym time" to lose the weight he'd gained, also joking (more)...
- 2/7/2012
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
For 15 days in 2006, the world watched the Beaconsfield mine disaster unfold in the media. This time, the team behind Beaconsfield: The Telemovie go 925 metres below the surface to truly reveal the claustrophobic terror. Colin Delaney goes on location, to the coalface.
Entering the site, it’s pitch black and damp. Small white spotlights illuminate the darkness but only so far. Moving closer to the source it’s clear – the lights are headlamps on the workers, also dressed in day-glo vests. It’s ‘safety first’ down here and just as a mine should feel, but Encore is on a film set.
In a large abandoned warehouse in Yarraville, Melbourne all the light has been shut out. Once the eyes adjust it’s evident it’s no longer a factory. In the centre of the shed is a long and high timber framework with scaffold and black fabric draped around it...
Entering the site, it’s pitch black and damp. Small white spotlights illuminate the darkness but only so far. Moving closer to the source it’s clear – the lights are headlamps on the workers, also dressed in day-glo vests. It’s ‘safety first’ down here and just as a mine should feel, but Encore is on a film set.
In a large abandoned warehouse in Yarraville, Melbourne all the light has been shut out. Once the eyes adjust it’s evident it’s no longer a factory. In the centre of the shed is a long and high timber framework with scaffold and black fabric draped around it...
- 10/11/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Channel Nine's telemovie Beaconsfield will start shooting next week. The Southern Star production, a dramatization of the 2006 Beaconsfield mining disaster, will film for five weeks in locations around Melbourne and Tasmania. Judi McCrossin's script tells the story of Brant Webb and Todd Russell. - who were trapped underground for two weeks after a gold mine collapse which killed fellow miner Larry Knight. "It's very much in the genre of Apollo 13," says producer John Edwards. "We know what the outcome is, but the suspense is in the detail of how it's reached." The first week of filming will involve the miner's houses, with week two moving into the mines. Shane Jacobson (Kenny) will play Brant Webb. Late last month, the actor...
- 7/7/2011
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
The survivors of Australia's Beaconsfield mining disaster have given the go ahead for a movie. Todd Russell and Brant Webb, who were trapped underground in a tiny chamber for two weeks, said that a film about the 2006 tragedy that saw them lose friend Larry Knight will help to give them closure. Russell told The Mercury that the three-hour television movie will "draw a line" under their ordeal and clear up any questions that remain unanswered. The pair said that they feel they owe the Australian public a full explanation of the events and the complex rescue mission and have given producer John Edwards lots of information to help make the film as accurate as possible. Screen (more)...
- 5/9/2011
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
In 1997, two chalets at Thredbo Ski resort in New South Wales collapsed due to a landslide, causing three and a half tons of building, snow, trees and 'debris' to slide down the mountain. It's one of those events that echoes in people's minds, in no small part because, after over two days, a living survivor was found. Stuart Diver was buried three metres down, under (among other things) a piece of concrete about 300m long that used to be the carpark. In the first hour or so of his entrapment, he watched his wife drown. In the end, he was there for 65 hours, most of that utterly alone and in complete darkness, in a space so narrow you could barely fit your hand between the concrete and his chest.
But for the final 11 and a half hours, he had Paul Featherstone, a paramedic. And what a paramedic. Paul was one...
But for the final 11 and a half hours, he had Paul Featherstone, a paramedic. And what a paramedic. Paul was one...
- 8/19/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
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