Liam Hemsworth partakes on a mission-gone-wrong in the new trailer for Land of Bad. The action film stars Liam Hemsworth, Russell Crowe, Luke Hemsworth, Ricky Whittle and Milo Ventimiglia. William Eubank directs from a script he co-wrote with David Frigerio. Producers include David Frigerio, Will Eubank, Michael Jefferson, Adam Beasley, Nathan Klingher, Ryan Winterstern, Arianne Fraser, Petr Jákl and Mark Fasano. The executive producers on the film include Tracey Robertson, Nathan Mayfield, Tracey Vieira, Luke Hemsworth, Delphine Perrier and Vanessa Yao Guo.
The official synopsis reads,
“Starring Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth, a covert Special Forces operation in the South Philippines spirals into a brutal 48-hour battle for survival. When an elite extraction team is ambushed deep in enemy territory, rookie officer Kinney (Hemsworth) is left outnumbered but determined to leave no man behind. With an air strike closing in, Kinney’s only hope hinges on the guidance of Air...
The official synopsis reads,
“Starring Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth, a covert Special Forces operation in the South Philippines spirals into a brutal 48-hour battle for survival. When an elite extraction team is ambushed deep in enemy territory, rookie officer Kinney (Hemsworth) is left outnumbered but determined to leave no man behind. With an air strike closing in, Kinney’s only hope hinges on the guidance of Air...
- 12/21/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Ceremony will take place on November 3 on Australia’s Gold Coast.
Hong Kong filmmaker Clara Law will head the international jury for the 2023 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa).
Law, who is based in Australia, will preside over a five-person jury, alongside Malaysian actress Yeo Yann Yann, German producer Anna Katchko, Japanese cinematographer Hideho Urata, and Saudi executive Faisal Baltyuor.
The full list of nominations for the 16th Apsa will be announced on October 4; alongside the programme for the fifth Asia Pacific Screen Forum, which will run from November 1-4.
Both the Forum and the ceremony on November 3 will take place...
Hong Kong filmmaker Clara Law will head the international jury for the 2023 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa).
Law, who is based in Australia, will preside over a five-person jury, alongside Malaysian actress Yeo Yann Yann, German producer Anna Katchko, Japanese cinematographer Hideho Urata, and Saudi executive Faisal Baltyuor.
The full list of nominations for the 16th Apsa will be announced on October 4; alongside the programme for the fifth Asia Pacific Screen Forum, which will run from November 1-4.
Both the Forum and the ceremony on November 3 will take place...
- 9/21/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Luke Hemsworth (“Westworld”), Milo Ventimiglia (“This Is Us”), Ricky Whittle (“American Gods”), Daniel MacPherson and Chika Ikogwe (“Heartbreak High”) join Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth in the cast of action thriller “Land of Bad.”
The previously announced title will shoot from later this month on the Gold Coast and Southeast Queensland, it was announced on Thursday.
“Land of Bad” follows Reaper (Crowe), an Air Force drone pilot supporting a Delta Force special ops mission in the South Philippines. After the mission goes terribly wrong, Reaper has 48 hours to remedy what has devolved into a wild rescue operation. The Tier-One team, led by Cpt. Sugar (Ventimigila) and Sgt. Abel (Luke Hemsworth) is re-deployed to return and retrieve their captured man and the asset. They are joined by Kinney (Liam Hemsworth), a green Air Force Jtac officer, who is thrust into the middle of a high-stakes extraction. But the ground mission suddenly...
The previously announced title will shoot from later this month on the Gold Coast and Southeast Queensland, it was announced on Thursday.
“Land of Bad” follows Reaper (Crowe), an Air Force drone pilot supporting a Delta Force special ops mission in the South Philippines. After the mission goes terribly wrong, Reaper has 48 hours to remedy what has devolved into a wild rescue operation. The Tier-One team, led by Cpt. Sugar (Ventimigila) and Sgt. Abel (Luke Hemsworth) is re-deployed to return and retrieve their captured man and the asset. They are joined by Kinney (Liam Hemsworth), a green Air Force Jtac officer, who is thrust into the middle of a high-stakes extraction. But the ground mission suddenly...
- 9/8/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Action thriller set to begin shooting in Australia this month.
Westworld star Luke Hemsworth is to join brother Liam Hemsworth and Russell Crowe in Highland Film Group’s action thriller and TIFF sales titles Land Of Bad.
With shooting set to take place on Australia’s Gold Coast and South East Queensland from this month, further new cast members include This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia, Ricky Whittle of American Gods, Daniel MacPherson and Chika Ikogwe.
Will Eubank will direct and co-wrote the film with David Frigerio, having previously worked together on Focus Features’ 2014 sci-fi The Signal.
In Land Of Bad,...
Westworld star Luke Hemsworth is to join brother Liam Hemsworth and Russell Crowe in Highland Film Group’s action thriller and TIFF sales titles Land Of Bad.
With shooting set to take place on Australia’s Gold Coast and South East Queensland from this month, further new cast members include This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia, Ricky Whittle of American Gods, Daniel MacPherson and Chika Ikogwe.
Will Eubank will direct and co-wrote the film with David Frigerio, having previously worked together on Focus Features’ 2014 sci-fi The Signal.
In Land Of Bad,...
- 9/8/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Screenworks has revealed the final round of speakers and sessions for the upcoming Regional to Global Screen Forum, with Stan head of scripted Amanda Duthie, Netflix creative executive Susie Jones, and Hoodlum Entertainment chief content officer Tracey Vieira among the new additions to the line-up
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- 5/12/2022
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Netflix’s global hit drama series “Clickbait” was conceived and shot in Melbourne but the settings were California. If it were commissioned today, it would more likely have kept an Australian accent too.
“Clickbait was commissioned out of the global team, but now that the Anz team is operating, we are here to make Australian stories,” said Que Minh Luu, Netflix director of content, Australia and New Zealand recently.
There is a need for local stories to please individual market, but as successes like Korea’s “Squid Game” and Spain’s “La Casa de Papel” have demonstrated, local stories are also increasingly able to cross borders.
Luu was speaking at last month’s Screen Forever conference, taking place in person for the first time in two years, on the Gold Coast. Amazon, Stan, Binge and Paramount Plus (newly launched Down Under) were also present and were, similarly, promising to bolster their Australian content commitments.
“Clickbait was commissioned out of the global team, but now that the Anz team is operating, we are here to make Australian stories,” said Que Minh Luu, Netflix director of content, Australia and New Zealand recently.
There is a need for local stories to please individual market, but as successes like Korea’s “Squid Game” and Spain’s “La Casa de Papel” have demonstrated, local stories are also increasingly able to cross borders.
Luu was speaking at last month’s Screen Forever conference, taking place in person for the first time in two years, on the Gold Coast. Amazon, Stan, Binge and Paramount Plus (newly launched Down Under) were also present and were, similarly, promising to bolster their Australian content commitments.
- 4/12/2022
- by Katherine Tulich
- Variety Film + TV
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car triumphed this eve at the 14th Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The movie scooped best film, which Japanese filmmaker Hamaguchi shared with producer Teruhisa Yamamoto, and best screenplay, which the director shared with Oe Takamasa. Scroll down for the full list of winners on the night.
Further winners included Asghar Farhadi, who took Best Director for A Hero, and Hogir Hirori’s Sabaya, which win Best Documentary Feature Film.
Two Jury Grand Prizes were awarded this year, one to Abdullah Mohammad Saad, director of Rehana, and Leah Purcell for The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson.
Best Performance by an Actor was awarded to Georgian actor Merab Ninidze for Alexey German Jr’s House Arrest, while Best Performance by an Actress went to Azmeri Haque Badhon for Rehana. Nguyễn Vinh Phúc won achievement in cinematography for Taste.
This was Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s...
Further winners included Asghar Farhadi, who took Best Director for A Hero, and Hogir Hirori’s Sabaya, which win Best Documentary Feature Film.
Two Jury Grand Prizes were awarded this year, one to Abdullah Mohammad Saad, director of Rehana, and Leah Purcell for The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson.
Best Performance by an Actor was awarded to Georgian actor Merab Ninidze for Alexey German Jr’s House Arrest, while Best Performance by an Actress went to Azmeri Haque Badhon for Rehana. Nguyễn Vinh Phúc won achievement in cinematography for Taste.
This was Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s...
- 11/11/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Leah Purcell is the first Australian to be awarded the Jury Grand Prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) after being recognised for The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson.
A total of ten films from 11 countries triumphed at the 14th Apsa Ceremony tonight, which was presented from Hota (Home of the Arts) on the Gold Coast.
A re-imagining of the Henry Lawson short story, The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson follows a woman and her stubborn determination to protect her family from the harshness of life in the 1893 Snowy Mountains.
Purcell wrote directed, starred in, and co-produced the project, which was adapted from her stageplay of the same name.
The Apsa international jury said the final product represented “not only an artist’s total dedication to her craft but also a spirited act of courage and tenacity”.
“The Drover’s Wife is a film that quickly...
A total of ten films from 11 countries triumphed at the 14th Apsa Ceremony tonight, which was presented from Hota (Home of the Arts) on the Gold Coast.
A re-imagining of the Henry Lawson short story, The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson follows a woman and her stubborn determination to protect her family from the harshness of life in the 1893 Snowy Mountains.
Purcell wrote directed, starred in, and co-produced the project, which was adapted from her stageplay of the same name.
The Apsa international jury said the final product represented “not only an artist’s total dedication to her craft but also a spirited act of courage and tenacity”.
“The Drover’s Wife is a film that quickly...
- 11/11/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
In Stan Original film Christmas on the Farm, premiering December 1, Poppy Montgomery plays Clementine Jones, an Australian author whose book about getting back to nature on a blissful Queensland farm is snapped up by New York powerhouse publishers London & London. But the truth is, “Clementine” is actually her daughter Emmy Jones, a New Yorker basing the book on her late mother’s journals.
When the publishers announce they want to experience an authentic Australian ‘Clementine’ Christmas before signing the deal, Emmy must race back to the old family farm, roping in her cousin David (Hugh Sheridan) and his husband Miles (Nicholas Brown) to help maintain the ruse. One problem: London & London CEO Ellison London (Jeanette Cronin) shows up with her handsome adult son Jack (Darren McMullen) in tow – and if he remembers the night he met Emmy in New York, the game will be up!
Asmara Felk and Demi Harmon also star.
When the publishers announce they want to experience an authentic Australian ‘Clementine’ Christmas before signing the deal, Emmy must race back to the old family farm, roping in her cousin David (Hugh Sheridan) and his husband Miles (Nicholas Brown) to help maintain the ruse. One problem: London & London CEO Ellison London (Jeanette Cronin) shows up with her handsome adult son Jack (Darren McMullen) in tow – and if he remembers the night he met Emmy in New York, the game will be up!
Asmara Felk and Demi Harmon also star.
- 11/10/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Hoodlum Entertainment chief content officer Tracey Vieira has been named president of Screen Producers Australia (Spa), succeeding Michael Tear.
She will helm the incoming council alongside VP Suzanne Ryan – founder and CEO of Slr Productions – after both were elected at Spa’s Agm today.
Vieira, who joined the Spa council in 2019, said she was pleased to have the opportunity to work closely with members of the organisation, as well as with CEO Matthew Deaner and the rest of his team.
“In a rapidly evolving production environment, Spa’s role is critical and it is a great privilege to be able to contribute to the industrial and government policy work that the organisation delivers to help ensure local production remains strong and buoyant now and in the future,” she said.
The remainder of the incoming council is made up of councillors Nathan Anderson, Nick Murray, and David Redman, and advisors Marta Dusseldorp,...
She will helm the incoming council alongside VP Suzanne Ryan – founder and CEO of Slr Productions – after both were elected at Spa’s Agm today.
Vieira, who joined the Spa council in 2019, said she was pleased to have the opportunity to work closely with members of the organisation, as well as with CEO Matthew Deaner and the rest of his team.
“In a rapidly evolving production environment, Spa’s role is critical and it is a great privilege to be able to contribute to the industrial and government policy work that the organisation delivers to help ensure local production remains strong and buoyant now and in the future,” she said.
The remainder of the incoming council is made up of councillors Nathan Anderson, Nick Murray, and David Redman, and advisors Marta Dusseldorp,...
- 11/4/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Essie Davis and Leah Purcell will battle it out in the best performance by an actress category at next month’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards, while Nitram lead Caleb Landry Jones and Australian/Afghan film When Pomegranates Howl are also among the nominees.
Films from Japan and the Islamic Republic of Iran lead the field for this year’s awards with six nominations each. Two films, both winners at Cannes this year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero (Ghahreman), have garnered the most nominations, with both films up for the same four categories – Best Feature Film, Achievement in Directing, Best Screenplay and Best Performance by an Actor.
Purcell gets the nod for The Drovers Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, for which she was also director and writer, with Davis recognised for her role in Gaysorn Thavat’s debut feature The Justice of Bunny King.
Films from Japan and the Islamic Republic of Iran lead the field for this year’s awards with six nominations each. Two films, both winners at Cannes this year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero (Ghahreman), have garnered the most nominations, with both films up for the same four categories – Best Feature Film, Achievement in Directing, Best Screenplay and Best Performance by an Actor.
Purcell gets the nod for The Drovers Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, for which she was also director and writer, with Davis recognised for her role in Gaysorn Thavat’s debut feature The Justice of Bunny King.
- 10/13/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Screenworks’ Discovering New Voices program has turned its attention to romantic comedy, inviting applications from regionally-based screenwriters aiming to develop features and series within the genre.
Delivered in partnership with Hoodlum Entertainment, and supported by the Screenrights Cultural Fund, Discovering New Voices – Romantic Comedy is a three-stage program is designed to train writers from regional Australia, with participants and project teams also vying for the opportunity to be paired with Hoodlum Entertainment for up to a month to develop a new project.
Hoodlum’s chief content officer Tracey Vieira encouraged romantic stories that had underrepresented leads and featured a distinct perspective.
“The team at Hoodlum are a romantic bunch who love a good laugh and a great cry,” she said.
“We also love stories that have something to say, especially from a perspective that we may not get to see on screens.
“Combine all that with a Friday night, paired up with your significant other,...
Delivered in partnership with Hoodlum Entertainment, and supported by the Screenrights Cultural Fund, Discovering New Voices – Romantic Comedy is a three-stage program is designed to train writers from regional Australia, with participants and project teams also vying for the opportunity to be paired with Hoodlum Entertainment for up to a month to develop a new project.
Hoodlum’s chief content officer Tracey Vieira encouraged romantic stories that had underrepresented leads and featured a distinct perspective.
“The team at Hoodlum are a romantic bunch who love a good laugh and a great cry,” she said.
“We also love stories that have something to say, especially from a perspective that we may not get to see on screens.
“Combine all that with a Friday night, paired up with your significant other,...
- 9/27/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Streaming giant Netflix has joined as a major sponsor of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which will return to Queensland’s Gold Coast for the third edition of its forum and the 14th edition of its awards ceremony.
After a slimmed-down 2020 edition, this year marks a return to full competition for the 14th Awards on Nov. 11, with all categories to be presented. The in-person ceremony will be held at the Home of The Arts.
The forum (Nov. 11-16) will feature conversations with: Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose recent “Memoria” played in competition in Cannes; “Memoria” producer Soros Sukhum; and fast-rising Singaporean producer Jeremy Chua. His latest film the Abdullaah Mohammad Saad-directed “Rehana Maryam Noor,” was the first Bangladeshi film to be selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Sukhum was honored by Fiapf at Apsa in 2020 for his contribution to Asia Pacific cinema – particularly for his discovery and fostering of...
After a slimmed-down 2020 edition, this year marks a return to full competition for the 14th Awards on Nov. 11, with all categories to be presented. The in-person ceremony will be held at the Home of The Arts.
The forum (Nov. 11-16) will feature conversations with: Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose recent “Memoria” played in competition in Cannes; “Memoria” producer Soros Sukhum; and fast-rising Singaporean producer Jeremy Chua. His latest film the Abdullaah Mohammad Saad-directed “Rehana Maryam Noor,” was the first Bangladeshi film to be selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Sukhum was honored by Fiapf at Apsa in 2020 for his contribution to Asia Pacific cinema – particularly for his discovery and fostering of...
- 9/15/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy has given a taste of the program for November’s Asia Pacific Screen Forum, while Netflix has moved to sponsor the event and the accompanying awards.
Registrations are now open for the forum, which will feature Palme d’Or and Apsa Best Film winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Apsa Fiapf Award-winning producer, Soros Sukhum; a conversation with Jeremy Chua; a Meet the Programmers session; and personalised networking opportunities.
Weerasethakul and Sukhum will be discussing their first collaboration – the 2021 Cannes Jury Prize winner Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton. Sukhum was previously honoured by Fiapf at Apsa in 2020 for his contribution to Asia Pacific cinema.
Chua most recently produced Abdullaah Mohammad Saad’s Rehana Maryam Noor, the first Bangladeshi film to be selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, and is developing projects across the region. The film will have a special screening on the Gold Coast for local audiences,...
Registrations are now open for the forum, which will feature Palme d’Or and Apsa Best Film winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Apsa Fiapf Award-winning producer, Soros Sukhum; a conversation with Jeremy Chua; a Meet the Programmers session; and personalised networking opportunities.
Weerasethakul and Sukhum will be discussing their first collaboration – the 2021 Cannes Jury Prize winner Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton. Sukhum was previously honoured by Fiapf at Apsa in 2020 for his contribution to Asia Pacific cinema.
Chua most recently produced Abdullaah Mohammad Saad’s Rehana Maryam Noor, the first Bangladeshi film to be selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, and is developing projects across the region. The film will have a special screening on the Gold Coast for local audiences,...
- 9/15/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Stan has announced a slew of new local commissions as it ramps up ambitious plans to have around a third of its first-run slate come from original production.
These include Hoodlum Entertainment feature film Christmas on the Farm, Matchbox Pictures drama Bad Behaviour, and a number of projects with Roadshow Rough Diamond, with whom the Nine-owned streamer has extended its partnership. With the latter it is readying a third season of Bump and a spin-off, Year Of, as well as a Gregor Jordan-helmed crime drama, Ironside.
Last year, Stan flagged it intends to invest in more than 30 productions per year within five years, drawing on Nine’s production facilities and co-productions with international partners including Hollywood studios and international networks.
Earlier this month, the service announced a children’s feature film initiative with the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (Actf), and it has a lengthy list of upcoming local projects...
These include Hoodlum Entertainment feature film Christmas on the Farm, Matchbox Pictures drama Bad Behaviour, and a number of projects with Roadshow Rough Diamond, with whom the Nine-owned streamer has extended its partnership. With the latter it is readying a third season of Bump and a spin-off, Year Of, as well as a Gregor Jordan-helmed crime drama, Ironside.
Last year, Stan flagged it intends to invest in more than 30 productions per year within five years, drawing on Nine’s production facilities and co-productions with international partners including Hollywood studios and international networks.
Earlier this month, the service announced a children’s feature film initiative with the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (Actf), and it has a lengthy list of upcoming local projects...
- 8/22/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Hoodlum Entertainment TV series Mummune and feature film Santa Whitebeard have been selected for Dame Changer’s Project to Market Accelerator, offering the teams tailored support to hone their creative concepts over the next two years.
The recipients were selected from a group of 12 teams via the professional women’s collective’s Screen Changer Project Lab (formerly Screen Tank).
Mummune and Santa Whitebeard creatives will work on a detailed plans with industry strategic advisors to get their project to market, including one-on-one mentoring and the opportunity to pitch their project to broadcasters, distributors and sales agents both locally and internationally.
Lucy Barzun Donnelly, the Emmy and Golden Globe winning producer, is consulting with Dame Changer about international markets.
“I am pleased to be continuing my long-standing interest in helping other women succeed in the industry,” she said.
Abhi Jeyakkumar and Cathy Randall.
Santa Whitebeard:
Santa Whitebeard is a “high concept...
The recipients were selected from a group of 12 teams via the professional women’s collective’s Screen Changer Project Lab (formerly Screen Tank).
Mummune and Santa Whitebeard creatives will work on a detailed plans with industry strategic advisors to get their project to market, including one-on-one mentoring and the opportunity to pitch their project to broadcasters, distributors and sales agents both locally and internationally.
Lucy Barzun Donnelly, the Emmy and Golden Globe winning producer, is consulting with Dame Changer about international markets.
“I am pleased to be continuing my long-standing interest in helping other women succeed in the industry,” she said.
Abhi Jeyakkumar and Cathy Randall.
Santa Whitebeard:
Santa Whitebeard is a “high concept...
- 8/20/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Victoria Justice (Afterlife of the Party) and Adam Demos (Sex/Life) have signed on to star in an untitled romantic comedy, which Stuart McDonald (Summer Heights High, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is directing for Netflix.
The film written by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy centers on a hard-driving LA wine-company exec who travels to an Australian sheep station to land a major client. There, she ends up working as a ranch hand and sparking with a rugged local.
Robyn Snyder, Deborah Evans, Deborah Glover, and Tracey Vieira are producing the pic, which will be shot on location in Queensland, Australia.
Tracey Robertson is exec producing with Nathan Mayfield, Elizabeth Hackett, Hilary Galanoy and Fernando Szew.
Production and post-production will be supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Production Attraction Strategy. The film will create around 120 jobs for Queenslanders.
“This new Netflix film is the latest...
The film written by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy centers on a hard-driving LA wine-company exec who travels to an Australian sheep station to land a major client. There, she ends up working as a ranch hand and sparking with a rugged local.
Robyn Snyder, Deborah Evans, Deborah Glover, and Tracey Vieira are producing the pic, which will be shot on location in Queensland, Australia.
Tracey Robertson is exec producing with Nathan Mayfield, Elizabeth Hackett, Hilary Galanoy and Fernando Szew.
Production and post-production will be supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Production Attraction Strategy. The film will create around 120 jobs for Queenslanders.
“This new Netflix film is the latest...
- 8/11/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Victoria Justice and Adam Demos are teaming up for a new Netflix romcom, set to film on location in Queensland, Australia.
In the film, Justice stars as a hard-driving L.A. wine-company exec who, in order to land a major client, travels to an Australian sheep station where she ends up working as a ranch hand and sparking with a rugged local.
The as-yet-untitled movie will be directed by Stuart McDonald, from a script by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy, who previously worked with Demos on 2019’s “Falling Inn Love,” which also starred Christina Milian.
The project is produced by Robyn Snyder, Deborah Evans, Deborah Glover and Tracey Vieira. Tracey Robertson, Nathan Mayfield, Hackett, Galanoy and Fernando Szew serve as executive producers.
Both Justice and Demos have a history with the streamer, as Justice is next set to star in the Netflix movie “Afterlife of the Party” and Demos starred in the steamy drama “Sex/Life.
In the film, Justice stars as a hard-driving L.A. wine-company exec who, in order to land a major client, travels to an Australian sheep station where she ends up working as a ranch hand and sparking with a rugged local.
The as-yet-untitled movie will be directed by Stuart McDonald, from a script by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy, who previously worked with Demos on 2019’s “Falling Inn Love,” which also starred Christina Milian.
The project is produced by Robyn Snyder, Deborah Evans, Deborah Glover and Tracey Vieira. Tracey Robertson, Nathan Mayfield, Hackett, Galanoy and Fernando Szew serve as executive producers.
Both Justice and Demos have a history with the streamer, as Justice is next set to star in the Netflix movie “Afterlife of the Party” and Demos starred in the steamy drama “Sex/Life.
- 8/11/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Adam Demos and US star Victoria Justice (Afterlife of the Party) will lead a new Netflix rom-com to be filmed in Queensland, helmed by Stuart McDonald.
The yet-to-be-titled feature follows an LA wine-company executive who travels to an Australian sheep station in an attempt to land a major client. While working as a ranch hand, she forms a connection with a rugged local.
The script is penned by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy, with the film to be produced by Hoodlum Entertainment’s Deborah Glover and Tracey Vieira, alongside Robyn Snyder and Deborah Evans.
Hackett is also executive producing with Hoodlum’s Tracey Robertson and Nathan Mayfield, as well as Hilary Galanoy and Fernando Szew.
The film will be shot on location in Queensland, where it will be supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Production Attraction Strategy, and is expected to create approximately 120 jobs.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk...
The yet-to-be-titled feature follows an LA wine-company executive who travels to an Australian sheep station in an attempt to land a major client. While working as a ranch hand, she forms a connection with a rugged local.
The script is penned by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy, with the film to be produced by Hoodlum Entertainment’s Deborah Glover and Tracey Vieira, alongside Robyn Snyder and Deborah Evans.
Hackett is also executive producing with Hoodlum’s Tracey Robertson and Nathan Mayfield, as well as Hilary Galanoy and Fernando Szew.
The film will be shot on location in Queensland, where it will be supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Production Attraction Strategy, and is expected to create approximately 120 jobs.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk...
- 8/11/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Victoria Justice and Adam Demos, the star of the break-out Netflix series Sex/Life, are set to star in a new Netflix rom-com from the writers behind the streamer’s past feature Falling Inn Love and Love, Guaranteed.
Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy penned the untitled project that follows “a hard-driving LA wine-company exec that travels to an Australian sheep station, where she ends up working as a ranch hand and sparking with a rugged local.”
Stuart McDonald, whose credits include Summer Heights High and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, will direct.
Robyn Snyder, Deborah Evans, Deborah Glover, and Tracey Vieira will produce, with Tracey Robertson, Nathan ...
Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy penned the untitled project that follows “a hard-driving LA wine-company exec that travels to an Australian sheep station, where she ends up working as a ranch hand and sparking with a rugged local.”
Stuart McDonald, whose credits include Summer Heights High and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, will direct.
Robyn Snyder, Deborah Evans, Deborah Glover, and Tracey Vieira will produce, with Tracey Robertson, Nathan ...
- 8/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Victoria Justice and Adam Demos, the star of the break-out Netflix series Sex/Life, are set to star in a new Netflix rom-com from the writers behind the streamer’s past feature Falling Inn Love and Love, Guaranteed.
Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy penned the untitled project that follows “a hard-driving LA wine-company exec that travels to an Australian sheep station, where she ends up working as a ranch hand and sparking with a rugged local.”
Stuart McDonald, whose credits include Summer Heights High and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, will direct.
Robyn Snyder, Deborah Evans, Deborah Glover, and Tracey Vieira will produce, with Tracey Robertson, Nathan ...
Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy penned the untitled project that follows “a hard-driving LA wine-company exec that travels to an Australian sheep station, where she ends up working as a ranch hand and sparking with a rugged local.”
Stuart McDonald, whose credits include Summer Heights High and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, will direct.
Robyn Snyder, Deborah Evans, Deborah Glover, and Tracey Vieira will produce, with Tracey Robertson, Nathan ...
- 8/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Unless Pictures’ Meg O’Connell and Ruby Entertainment’s Stephen Luby have been added to the lineup of Screen Canberra’s Screen Pod program, set to begin next month.
The pair will join seven other screen representatives for the five-month market-centred initiative that aims to assist writers of diverse backgrounds in generating, developing, and pitching a screen project.
This year’s platform-agnostic program will be split into three streams – process, project, and pitch.
The process phase will comprise a combination of lecture-based training modules and practical exercises in group workshops, while in the project stage, writers develop specific projects with the market in mind, assisted by fellow writers and developers.
In pitch, participants hone pitching skills and build confidence, working in group simulations as well as real-life pitching opportunities.
The program will begin with a group session on July 10.
Early bird sale for Screen Pod registration ends June 17. Find information on how to register here.
The pair will join seven other screen representatives for the five-month market-centred initiative that aims to assist writers of diverse backgrounds in generating, developing, and pitching a screen project.
This year’s platform-agnostic program will be split into three streams – process, project, and pitch.
The process phase will comprise a combination of lecture-based training modules and practical exercises in group workshops, while in the project stage, writers develop specific projects with the market in mind, assisted by fellow writers and developers.
In pitch, participants hone pitching skills and build confidence, working in group simulations as well as real-life pitching opportunities.
The program will begin with a group session on July 10.
Early bird sale for Screen Pod registration ends June 17. Find information on how to register here.
- 6/10/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Screen Canberra has opened applications for its annual Screen Pod program, a five-month market-centred initiative with aims to assist writers of diverse backgrounds in generating, developing, and pitching a screen project.
Participants receive story and market feedback via a workshop environment, as well as mentoring and coaching to improve the marketability of their project and skills as a practitioner.
While previously alternating annually between film and TV, this year’s Screen Pod will be platform-agnostic, broken up into three streams.
The first, Process, sees a combination of lecture-based training modules and practical exercises in group workshops.
The second stage, Project, sees writers develop specific projects with the market in mind, assisted by fellow writers and developers.
The final stage is Pitch, with participants to hone their pitching skills and build confidence, in group simulations as well as real-life pitching opportunities.
This builds to a pitching finale, where participants conduct one-on-one presentations to market representatives.
Participants receive story and market feedback via a workshop environment, as well as mentoring and coaching to improve the marketability of their project and skills as a practitioner.
While previously alternating annually between film and TV, this year’s Screen Pod will be platform-agnostic, broken up into three streams.
The first, Process, sees a combination of lecture-based training modules and practical exercises in group workshops.
The second stage, Project, sees writers develop specific projects with the market in mind, assisted by fellow writers and developers.
The final stage is Pitch, with participants to hone their pitching skills and build confidence, in group simulations as well as real-life pitching opportunities.
This builds to a pitching finale, where participants conduct one-on-one presentations to market representatives.
- 5/12/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
This year’s MPA Apsa Academy Film Fund has been launched in Vietnam, with the jury announced for the selection process.
A joint initiative of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (Apsa) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), the US$100,000 fund is designed to provide support for new feature film projects from members of the academy.
The winners of the four US$25,000 grants wholly supported by the MPA will be announced at the 2021 Asia Pacific Screen Awards Ceremony on Thursday, November 11 as the annual Asia Pacific Screen Forum opens.
The jury for this year’s fund includes film distributor, historian, and documentary filmmaker Andrew Pike, in what is his 12th year as part of the selection panel.
He is joined by 2019 MPA Apsa Academy Film Fund recipient and producer Catherine Fitzgerald and Screen Australia’s head of Indigenous, Penny Smallacombe.
Chair of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy Tracey Vieira said the...
A joint initiative of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (Apsa) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), the US$100,000 fund is designed to provide support for new feature film projects from members of the academy.
The winners of the four US$25,000 grants wholly supported by the MPA will be announced at the 2021 Asia Pacific Screen Awards Ceremony on Thursday, November 11 as the annual Asia Pacific Screen Forum opens.
The jury for this year’s fund includes film distributor, historian, and documentary filmmaker Andrew Pike, in what is his 12th year as part of the selection panel.
He is joined by 2019 MPA Apsa Academy Film Fund recipient and producer Catherine Fitzgerald and Screen Australia’s head of Indigenous, Penny Smallacombe.
Chair of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy Tracey Vieira said the...
- 4/29/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Thai producer Soros Sukhum was Thursday honored with the Fiapf Award for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific region. The prize was presented as part of a heavily revamped Asia Pacific Screen Awards ceremony, at Gold Coast in Australia’s Queensland.
The Young Cinema Award was won by Indian filmmaker Akshay Indikar for “Chronicle of Space” (“Sthalpuran”), with a special mention going to Australia’s Stephen Maxwell Johnson for “High Ground.”
Earlier this year the Apsa Awards event’s future had seemed deeply clouded due to twin hits from financial problems and the coronavirus. Normally, a dozen prizes are awarded to artistic films from across the vast Unesco-defined Asia region.
In June, the Brisbane City Council and its offshoot Brisbane Marketing, notified Apsa organizers that they would not be able to fund the event due to the impact of the coronavirus on the city’s budget.
The...
The Young Cinema Award was won by Indian filmmaker Akshay Indikar for “Chronicle of Space” (“Sthalpuran”), with a special mention going to Australia’s Stephen Maxwell Johnson for “High Ground.”
Earlier this year the Apsa Awards event’s future had seemed deeply clouded due to twin hits from financial problems and the coronavirus. Normally, a dozen prizes are awarded to artistic films from across the vast Unesco-defined Asia region.
In June, the Brisbane City Council and its offshoot Brisbane Marketing, notified Apsa organizers that they would not be able to fund the event due to the impact of the coronavirus on the city’s budget.
The...
- 11/26/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Stephen Johnson’s High Ground earned a special mention from The Young Cinema Award jury at this evening’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards, held on the Gold Coast.
Set in 1930s Arnhem Land, High Ground follows young Aboriginal man Gutjuk (Jacob Junior Nayinggul), who in a bid to save the last of his family teams up with ex-soldier Travis (Simon Baker) to track down the most dangerous warrior in the Territory – his uncle.
The Apsa jury praised the assured direction of Johnson, noting his film gave “voice to the issue of brutal colonisation.” Jack Thompson, Apsa president and star of the film, accepted the honour on behalf of the director.
High Ground premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and also stars Callan Mulvey, Witiyana Marika, Caren Pistorius and Ryan Corr. Madman Entertainment will release the drama, written by Chris Anastassiades and produced by David Jowsey, Johnson, Marika, Maggie Miles and Greer Simpkin,...
Set in 1930s Arnhem Land, High Ground follows young Aboriginal man Gutjuk (Jacob Junior Nayinggul), who in a bid to save the last of his family teams up with ex-soldier Travis (Simon Baker) to track down the most dangerous warrior in the Territory – his uncle.
The Apsa jury praised the assured direction of Johnson, noting his film gave “voice to the issue of brutal colonisation.” Jack Thompson, Apsa president and star of the film, accepted the honour on behalf of the director.
High Ground premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and also stars Callan Mulvey, Witiyana Marika, Caren Pistorius and Ryan Corr. Madman Entertainment will release the drama, written by Chris Anastassiades and produced by David Jowsey, Johnson, Marika, Maggie Miles and Greer Simpkin,...
- 11/26/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Clockwise from top right: Sue Maslin, Nick Murray, Jub Clerc and Daley Pearson.
When this writer re-joined If in 2017, Netflix had an estimated 2.8 million subscribers, Stan had about 800,000 customers and the highest-rating entertainment show, The Block finale, attracted 2.5 million viewers in the five mainland capitals.
Today the streaming giant has approximately 5.8 million subs, Stan has 2.2 million and, major sporting events aside, broadcasters can only dream about that kind of reach.
Tim Worner was CEO of Seven West Media, Michelle Guthrie was the ABC’s not widely admired MD, Michael Ebeid drove Sbs and Paul Anderson ran Network 10 – all gone.
Among the heads of the screen agencies were Screen Queensland’s Tracey Vieira, Create Nsw’s Michael Brealey, Film Victoria’s Jenni Tosi, the South Australian Film Corporation’s Annabelle Sheehan and Screenwest’s Ian Booth.
Mitch Fifield was the largely ineffectual Minister for Communications and the Arts, Chris Hilton steered Essential Media,...
When this writer re-joined If in 2017, Netflix had an estimated 2.8 million subscribers, Stan had about 800,000 customers and the highest-rating entertainment show, The Block finale, attracted 2.5 million viewers in the five mainland capitals.
Today the streaming giant has approximately 5.8 million subs, Stan has 2.2 million and, major sporting events aside, broadcasters can only dream about that kind of reach.
Tim Worner was CEO of Seven West Media, Michelle Guthrie was the ABC’s not widely admired MD, Michael Ebeid drove Sbs and Paul Anderson ran Network 10 – all gone.
Among the heads of the screen agencies were Screen Queensland’s Tracey Vieira, Create Nsw’s Michael Brealey, Film Victoria’s Jenni Tosi, the South Australian Film Corporation’s Annabelle Sheehan and Screenwest’s Ian Booth.
Mitch Fifield was the largely ineffectual Minister for Communications and the Arts, Chris Hilton steered Essential Media,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Paul Fletcher.
In a major overhaul of the regulatory system, the Federal Government is scrapping the fixed quotas for local drama, children’s programming and documentary and harmonising the film and TV Producer Offsets at 30 per cent.
Ignoring the vast majority of submissions to its Supporting Australian Stories on our Screens Options Paper review, the government has elected not to impose local content spending obligations on SVOD platforms.
Instead, it will merely ask the streaming services to report their Australian acquisitions to the Australian Communications and Media Authority from next year.
Foxtel is a major beneficiary of the reforms as the requirement to allocate 10 per cent of the revenues of its drama channels on local content will be halved from next July.
Setting the Producer Offsets for film, TV and docs at 30 per cent from July 1 2021 will be welcomed by TV producers but will almost certainly make it much tougher...
In a major overhaul of the regulatory system, the Federal Government is scrapping the fixed quotas for local drama, children’s programming and documentary and harmonising the film and TV Producer Offsets at 30 per cent.
Ignoring the vast majority of submissions to its Supporting Australian Stories on our Screens Options Paper review, the government has elected not to impose local content spending obligations on SVOD platforms.
Instead, it will merely ask the streaming services to report their Australian acquisitions to the Australian Communications and Media Authority from next year.
Foxtel is a major beneficiary of the reforms as the requirement to allocate 10 per cent of the revenues of its drama channels on local content will be halved from next July.
Setting the Producer Offsets for film, TV and docs at 30 per cent from July 1 2021 will be welcomed by TV producers but will almost certainly make it much tougher...
- 9/29/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Incoming Apsa chair Tracey Vieira.
While the major ceremony will not go ahead given Covid-19 restrictions, the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (Apsa) will still present a smaller number of awards in a live presentation in late November, while also running the concurrent industry event, the Asia Pacific Screen Forum, online.
The awards, to be broadcast from Hota on the Gold Coast, will consist of two major prizes, the Fiapf Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film, and the Apsa Young Cinema Award acknowledging the cinematic excellence of an emerging filmmaker.
The four recipients of the MPA Apsa Academy Film Fund, a US $25,000 script development grant, will also be unveiled during the presentation.
The news coincides with appointment of Tracey Vieira as Apsa chair. Vieira is the chief content officer at Hoodlum Entertainment and former CEO of Screen Queensland, and succeeds Michael Hawkins, who remains on the board together with founding chair Des Power.
While the major ceremony will not go ahead given Covid-19 restrictions, the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (Apsa) will still present a smaller number of awards in a live presentation in late November, while also running the concurrent industry event, the Asia Pacific Screen Forum, online.
The awards, to be broadcast from Hota on the Gold Coast, will consist of two major prizes, the Fiapf Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film, and the Apsa Young Cinema Award acknowledging the cinematic excellence of an emerging filmmaker.
The four recipients of the MPA Apsa Academy Film Fund, a US $25,000 script development grant, will also be unveiled during the presentation.
The news coincides with appointment of Tracey Vieira as Apsa chair. Vieira is the chief content officer at Hoodlum Entertainment and former CEO of Screen Queensland, and succeeds Michael Hawkins, who remains on the board together with founding chair Des Power.
- 9/23/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
‘MasterChef Australia’.
Australia’s largest production houses and a number of independent producers have asked Prime Minister Scott Morrison for urgent funding to help the industry get back on its feet.
Among their proposals are an immediate cash injection of $200 million to the sector, administered by Screen Australia, to support a back-to-work plan, and doubling the Producer Offset for TV productions to 40 per cent for 12 months, starting from July 1.
Echoing widespread industry sentiment, they call for content quotas on all broadcasters, pay TV channels and SVOD services to preserve the volume of local content and increasing and harmonizing the rates of all Offsets.
This recovery plan is detailed in a letter to Morrison signed by the CEOs or MDs of Endemol Shine Australia, Easy Tiger, Fremantle, Goalpost Pictures, ITV Studios Australia, Matchbox Pictures and Warner Bros. Television Australia.
The other signatories are Screen Producers Australia president Michael Tear and CEO Matt Deaner,...
Australia’s largest production houses and a number of independent producers have asked Prime Minister Scott Morrison for urgent funding to help the industry get back on its feet.
Among their proposals are an immediate cash injection of $200 million to the sector, administered by Screen Australia, to support a back-to-work plan, and doubling the Producer Offset for TV productions to 40 per cent for 12 months, starting from July 1.
Echoing widespread industry sentiment, they call for content quotas on all broadcasters, pay TV channels and SVOD services to preserve the volume of local content and increasing and harmonizing the rates of all Offsets.
This recovery plan is detailed in a letter to Morrison signed by the CEOs or MDs of Endemol Shine Australia, Easy Tiger, Fremantle, Goalpost Pictures, ITV Studios Australia, Matchbox Pictures and Warner Bros. Television Australia.
The other signatories are Screen Producers Australia president Michael Tear and CEO Matt Deaner,...
- 6/12/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jo Dillon and Benjamin Law.
Screen Queensland’s Jo Dillon and writer Benjamin Law will be the co-chairs of the Screen Diversity Inclusion Network (Sdin) in 2020-21, succeeding Tim Soutphommasane and Tracey Vieira.
The Sdin was formed in 2017, with the aim of fostering a more inclusive screen industry. Its members include each of the broadcasters, the guilds, the state screen agencies, Screen Australia, Aftrs, FreeTV and MediaRING. Its members have committed to a charter, and the organisation aims to support greater inclusiveness via workforce, talent development, training and partnerships.
Among the network’s initiatives is diversity measurement tool The Everyone Project, an web app that invites people to self-identify on a set of characteristics around the diversity of the talent and crews working in their current projects. The aim is to help Australian screen industry companies and organisations track and boost diversity in their screen productions.
Testing of The Everyone...
Screen Queensland’s Jo Dillon and writer Benjamin Law will be the co-chairs of the Screen Diversity Inclusion Network (Sdin) in 2020-21, succeeding Tim Soutphommasane and Tracey Vieira.
The Sdin was formed in 2017, with the aim of fostering a more inclusive screen industry. Its members include each of the broadcasters, the guilds, the state screen agencies, Screen Australia, Aftrs, FreeTV and MediaRING. Its members have committed to a charter, and the organisation aims to support greater inclusiveness via workforce, talent development, training and partnerships.
Among the network’s initiatives is diversity measurement tool The Everyone Project, an web app that invites people to self-identify on a set of characteristics around the diversity of the talent and crews working in their current projects. The aim is to help Australian screen industry companies and organisations track and boost diversity in their screen productions.
Testing of The Everyone...
- 6/1/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Kylie Munnich.
Screen Queensland is providing $3.3 million in re-allocated funding to support the stricken Queensland screen industry through the Covid-19 crisis.
The primary aim is to ensure as many productions as possible are ready to resume or start filming as soon as it’s safe to do so.
The initiatives include an extra $250,000 for the existing Ideas Program and a new Creative Consultations Program to mentor up-and-coming writers and other creatives. More measures will be announced in coming weeks.
Screen Queensland CEO Kylie Munnich says the agency’s support will focus on five key areas: Continuity for productions, creativity for screen practitioners, skills, business development and screen culture.
““It’s vital that we focus on continuity and creativity now so we can support the creation of local jobs for crew through existing productions that can quickly ramp up again, as well as new projects that are poised to commence filming...
Screen Queensland is providing $3.3 million in re-allocated funding to support the stricken Queensland screen industry through the Covid-19 crisis.
The primary aim is to ensure as many productions as possible are ready to resume or start filming as soon as it’s safe to do so.
The initiatives include an extra $250,000 for the existing Ideas Program and a new Creative Consultations Program to mentor up-and-coming writers and other creatives. More measures will be announced in coming weeks.
Screen Queensland CEO Kylie Munnich says the agency’s support will focus on five key areas: Continuity for productions, creativity for screen practitioners, skills, business development and screen culture.
““It’s vital that we focus on continuity and creativity now so we can support the creation of local jobs for crew through existing productions that can quickly ramp up again, as well as new projects that are poised to commence filming...
- 4/7/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Kylie Munnich (Photo credit: Jade Ellis).
More than 60 per cent of the 500-plus people who responded to Screen Queensland’s survey on the impact on the screen sector from Covid-19 in the past two days are freelancers or contractors – and most are jobless.
That’s according to Screen Queensland CEO Kylie Munnich, who says the agency is committed to supporting the industry through this crisis as well as focusing on how to prepare for a full recovery when it’s business as usual.
Munnich has convened a broadly-based Queensland screen industry task force which will meet fortnightly or more frequently if required and is liaising closely with her team including head of development and production Jo Dillon.
The members are WildBear Entertainment principal and executive producer Veronica Fury, Bacon Factory Films director Dean Gibson, Hoodlum Entertainment chief content officer and former Sq CEO Tracey Vieira, Cutting Edge’s owner/director Michael Burton,...
More than 60 per cent of the 500-plus people who responded to Screen Queensland’s survey on the impact on the screen sector from Covid-19 in the past two days are freelancers or contractors – and most are jobless.
That’s according to Screen Queensland CEO Kylie Munnich, who says the agency is committed to supporting the industry through this crisis as well as focusing on how to prepare for a full recovery when it’s business as usual.
Munnich has convened a broadly-based Queensland screen industry task force which will meet fortnightly or more frequently if required and is liaising closely with her team including head of development and production Jo Dillon.
The members are WildBear Entertainment principal and executive producer Veronica Fury, Bacon Factory Films director Dean Gibson, Hoodlum Entertainment chief content officer and former Sq CEO Tracey Vieira, Cutting Edge’s owner/director Michael Burton,...
- 3/26/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Spa president and Wildbear Entertainment managing director Michael Tear.
Ed Punchard, John Hughes, Jenni Tosi, Dan Read, Rebecca Summerton, Tracey Vieira and Suzanne Ryan will join the Screen Producers Australia (Spa) council for 2019-2020.
The new councillors were confirmed at Spa’s Annual General Meeting in Sydney on Friday.
Wildbear Entertainment managing director Michael Tear continues as president and Studio 100 International/Flying Bark Productions’ Barbara Stephen as vice president. Outgoing members including Marcus Gillezeau, Sean Meltzer, Wayne Borg and Tanya Cambers.
The council is designed to be comprised of producer members from across the feature film, television, documentary, immersive media and animation sectors, as well as members from service and facilities businesses.
“We’re pleased to announce the newly elected Councillors who represent a significant cross section of the production industry in Australia across a wide range of genres, geographical areas and businesses structures,” said Spa CEO Matthew Deaner.
“Our Councillors serve a vital role,...
Ed Punchard, John Hughes, Jenni Tosi, Dan Read, Rebecca Summerton, Tracey Vieira and Suzanne Ryan will join the Screen Producers Australia (Spa) council for 2019-2020.
The new councillors were confirmed at Spa’s Annual General Meeting in Sydney on Friday.
Wildbear Entertainment managing director Michael Tear continues as president and Studio 100 International/Flying Bark Productions’ Barbara Stephen as vice president. Outgoing members including Marcus Gillezeau, Sean Meltzer, Wayne Borg and Tanya Cambers.
The council is designed to be comprised of producer members from across the feature film, television, documentary, immersive media and animation sectors, as well as members from service and facilities businesses.
“We’re pleased to announce the newly elected Councillors who represent a significant cross section of the production industry in Australia across a wide range of genres, geographical areas and businesses structures,” said Spa CEO Matthew Deaner.
“Our Councillors serve a vital role,...
- 11/3/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Screen Queensland CEO Kylie Munnich.
Kylie Munnich is returning to her home state to take up the role of Screen Queensland CEO, succeeding Tracey Vieira who departed the state agency in August.
Most recently scripted sales and co-production executive at Seven Studios, Munnich has worked in international distribution and development for 25 years.
Prior to Seven, Munnich was director of drama & comedy at Sky Vision; senior vice president UK, Ireland & Africa at Sony Pictures Television International and a Sales Director at MGM International Television.
Screen Queensland Chair Linda Lavarch welcomed the appointment, noting Munnich’s experience.
“Following the departure of our long-serving Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira in August, it was important an experienced hand took the reins to keep Queensland’s screen industry on a course of opportunity and prosperity,” said Sq chair Linda Lavarch.
“Her extensive experience abroad will serve the state well as we work to secure the biggest and best international blockbusters,...
Kylie Munnich is returning to her home state to take up the role of Screen Queensland CEO, succeeding Tracey Vieira who departed the state agency in August.
Most recently scripted sales and co-production executive at Seven Studios, Munnich has worked in international distribution and development for 25 years.
Prior to Seven, Munnich was director of drama & comedy at Sky Vision; senior vice president UK, Ireland & Africa at Sony Pictures Television International and a Sales Director at MGM International Television.
Screen Queensland Chair Linda Lavarch welcomed the appointment, noting Munnich’s experience.
“Following the departure of our long-serving Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira in August, it was important an experienced hand took the reins to keep Queensland’s screen industry on a course of opportunity and prosperity,” said Sq chair Linda Lavarch.
“Her extensive experience abroad will serve the state well as we work to secure the biggest and best international blockbusters,...
- 10/11/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Tracey Vieira.
Hoodlum Entertainment has appointed Tracey Vieira as chief content officer, aiming to build on the foundations of shows such as Harrow, Five Bedrooms and Tidelands and its first-look deal with Disney’s ABC Studios International.
The former CEO of Screen Queensland will join the company on September 30, working with co-founders Tracey Robertson and Nathan Mayfield, chair Deanne Weir and the rest of the Hoodlum team.
The Hoodlum execs reached out to Vieira when she announced she was leaving the agency after five and a half years as CEO.
Weir tells If: “We want to build on the foundations of our global business and look at opportunities to make shows in other parts of the world. Tracey is the perfect partner.”
From her office on the Disney lot in La, CEO Tracey Robertson said ‘We couldn’t be more delighted to welcome Tracey, or TV as we will call her.
Hoodlum Entertainment has appointed Tracey Vieira as chief content officer, aiming to build on the foundations of shows such as Harrow, Five Bedrooms and Tidelands and its first-look deal with Disney’s ABC Studios International.
The former CEO of Screen Queensland will join the company on September 30, working with co-founders Tracey Robertson and Nathan Mayfield, chair Deanne Weir and the rest of the Hoodlum team.
The Hoodlum execs reached out to Vieira when she announced she was leaving the agency after five and a half years as CEO.
Weir tells If: “We want to build on the foundations of our global business and look at opportunities to make shows in other parts of the world. Tracey is the perfect partner.”
From her office on the Disney lot in La, CEO Tracey Robertson said ‘We couldn’t be more delighted to welcome Tracey, or TV as we will call her.
- 8/29/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jo Dillon.
Screen Queensland executive vice president – content Jo Dillon will step up to be acting CEO following the departure of Tracey Vieira this Friday.
Dillon, appointed to the position by the board, has worked at Screen Queensland since 2014. In her current role, she leads an eight-person team responsible investment in talent, projects and businesses, with a remit to provide strategic leadership and creative and operational direction to the organisation.
She has previously been a development executive at Screen Australia, and head of development at the UK-based Yipp Films. She has also worked in development for an number of independent feature film producers, including Ipso Facto Productions, as a script and story consultant working on feature films, shorts and documentaries, and as an assessor for a number of UK investors and screen agencies. Prior to working in the screen industry Dillon was also UK national newspaper journalist and broadcast commentator.
Screen Queensland executive vice president – content Jo Dillon will step up to be acting CEO following the departure of Tracey Vieira this Friday.
Dillon, appointed to the position by the board, has worked at Screen Queensland since 2014. In her current role, she leads an eight-person team responsible investment in talent, projects and businesses, with a remit to provide strategic leadership and creative and operational direction to the organisation.
She has previously been a development executive at Screen Australia, and head of development at the UK-based Yipp Films. She has also worked in development for an number of independent feature film producers, including Ipso Facto Productions, as a script and story consultant working on feature films, shorts and documentaries, and as an assessor for a number of UK investors and screen agencies. Prior to working in the screen industry Dillon was also UK national newspaper journalist and broadcast commentator.
- 8/19/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Peyton List on the set of ‘Swimming for Gold.’
American actress Peyton List, who starred in the Disney Channel series Jessie and the spin-off Bunk’d, is playing the protagonist in young adult feature film Swimming for Gold.
Now shooting in Brisbane, the narrative follows List’s Claire Carpenter, a 17-year-old elite swimmer who is reluctantly sent to Australia to coach a boys’ swimming team after a jet ski accident left her with a fear of water.
Lauren Esposito co-stars as Mikayla Michaels, Claire’s rival and sworn enemy with whom she is forced to share a room at the swimming camp.
Daniel Needs is Liam, the captain of the boys’ team who challenges Claire, explaining that if they don’t win, the camp will be forced to close.
The director Hayley MacFarlane is making her feature film debut after directing several shorts and spending several years in the UK directing reality shows Big Brother,...
American actress Peyton List, who starred in the Disney Channel series Jessie and the spin-off Bunk’d, is playing the protagonist in young adult feature film Swimming for Gold.
Now shooting in Brisbane, the narrative follows List’s Claire Carpenter, a 17-year-old elite swimmer who is reluctantly sent to Australia to coach a boys’ swimming team after a jet ski accident left her with a fear of water.
Lauren Esposito co-stars as Mikayla Michaels, Claire’s rival and sworn enemy with whom she is forced to share a room at the swimming camp.
Daniel Needs is Liam, the captain of the boys’ team who challenges Claire, explaining that if they don’t win, the camp will be forced to close.
The director Hayley MacFarlane is making her feature film debut after directing several shorts and spending several years in the UK directing reality shows Big Brother,...
- 8/14/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Nice Shorts.’
Nick Boshier and Jazz Twemlow are leading the team of comedy writers/performers who will create Nice Shorts for Bunya Entertainment.
The online sketch comedy of 16 episodes, ranging from 3-10 minutes, will tap into national and international conversations to create videos for weekly release via social platforms.
Apart from Boshier and Twemlow the team includes Nazeem Hussain (Legally Brown), Greta Lee Jackson (Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am), Penny Greenhalgh (The Lost Tapes) and Bjorn Stewart.
The Bunya Group is not looking to monetize the low-budget online series, instead using it as the first opportunity to work with comedy creatives and as the first foray into comedy for the new banner Bunya Entertainment.
“Like the dramas we’re best known for, the quality of writing in Nice Shorts will be the hallmark of this show,” says Bunya Group CEO Sophia Zachariou.
Bunya Entertainment is developing seven narrative comedies including one with Adam Zwar.
Nick Boshier and Jazz Twemlow are leading the team of comedy writers/performers who will create Nice Shorts for Bunya Entertainment.
The online sketch comedy of 16 episodes, ranging from 3-10 minutes, will tap into national and international conversations to create videos for weekly release via social platforms.
Apart from Boshier and Twemlow the team includes Nazeem Hussain (Legally Brown), Greta Lee Jackson (Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am), Penny Greenhalgh (The Lost Tapes) and Bjorn Stewart.
The Bunya Group is not looking to monetize the low-budget online series, instead using it as the first opportunity to work with comedy creatives and as the first foray into comedy for the new banner Bunya Entertainment.
“Like the dramas we’re best known for, the quality of writing in Nice Shorts will be the hallmark of this show,” says Bunya Group CEO Sophia Zachariou.
Bunya Entertainment is developing seven narrative comedies including one with Adam Zwar.
- 8/1/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Poppy Montgomery (L) and Tracey Vieira at the ‘Reef Break’ premiere (Photo credit: Alister Rendell)
Outgoing Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira reflects on the challenges and milestones of her career at the agency and why she is heading in a new direction.
Q: So, after 17 years dealing with Us studios, Australian and international producers and governments, are you looking for new challenges?
I’ve had the incredible privilege of working for 17 years across so many aspects of the industry due to the roles I have had. I’ve had the benefit of working with international filmmakers and studios, local producers, writers and directors, agencies, guilds and unions, local councils, state government and the federal government and also across both international production, local production and screen culture events.
It’s been absolutely incredible to be exposed to so many sectors of the industry but I’m at a point where I...
Outgoing Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira reflects on the challenges and milestones of her career at the agency and why she is heading in a new direction.
Q: So, after 17 years dealing with Us studios, Australian and international producers and governments, are you looking for new challenges?
I’ve had the incredible privilege of working for 17 years across so many aspects of the industry due to the roles I have had. I’ve had the benefit of working with international filmmakers and studios, local producers, writers and directors, agencies, guilds and unions, local councils, state government and the federal government and also across both international production, local production and screen culture events.
It’s been absolutely incredible to be exposed to so many sectors of the industry but I’m at a point where I...
- 7/16/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Tracey Vieira.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira has resigned, and will leave the agency at the end of August after five and a half years.
Vieira was appointed CEO in February 2014, having previously been based in La as Ausfilm executive vice president international. Prior to that she was the executive manager of locations for the Pacific Film and Television Commission. Vieira was contracted to the CEO position until early 2020.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk thanked Vieira for her leadership of the funding body, noting last year was a record year for the state with 32 productions generating $262 million for the state economy and creating 2,600 jobs.
“Queensland’s screen industry has never been stronger,” the Premier said. “That’s thanks to Tracey.”
Vieira said she is incredibly proud to have been part of the Screen Queensland team, noting it was time to pass leadership into new hands.
“I came into the role during...
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira has resigned, and will leave the agency at the end of August after five and a half years.
Vieira was appointed CEO in February 2014, having previously been based in La as Ausfilm executive vice president international. Prior to that she was the executive manager of locations for the Pacific Film and Television Commission. Vieira was contracted to the CEO position until early 2020.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk thanked Vieira for her leadership of the funding body, noting last year was a record year for the state with 32 productions generating $262 million for the state economy and creating 2,600 jobs.
“Queensland’s screen industry has never been stronger,” the Premier said. “That’s thanks to Tracey.”
Vieira said she is incredibly proud to have been part of the Screen Queensland team, noting it was time to pass leadership into new hands.
“I came into the role during...
- 7/11/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Screen Producers Australia has named the 12 members of the Screen Forever advisory board for this year’s event, including chair Bunya Productions CEO Sophia Zachariou.
Among the other members are Netflix’s newly appointed Australian head of public policy and government affairs, Nick O’Donnell, Film Victoria CEO Caroline Pitcher, Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira and Screen Australia head of Indigenous Penny Smallacombe and head of documentary Bernadine Lim.
The board helps to set the strategic of the conference, and according to a statement, aids in the creation of “an engaging, inspirational and business-focused program that reflects the broad spectrum of modern Australian screen content in a time when the industry is in a state of flux.”
“Each year around 850 delegates travel from over a dozen countries to do business on the Screen Forever floor. In the current regulatory and economic climate, the importance of an event that allows the...
Among the other members are Netflix’s newly appointed Australian head of public policy and government affairs, Nick O’Donnell, Film Victoria CEO Caroline Pitcher, Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira and Screen Australia head of Indigenous Penny Smallacombe and head of documentary Bernadine Lim.
The board helps to set the strategic of the conference, and according to a statement, aids in the creation of “an engaging, inspirational and business-focused program that reflects the broad spectrum of modern Australian screen content in a time when the industry is in a state of flux.”
“Each year around 850 delegates travel from over a dozen countries to do business on the Screen Forever floor. In the current regulatory and economic climate, the importance of an event that allows the...
- 7/5/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
(L-r) Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Spa CEO Matt Deaner (Photo: Alister Randell).
Screen Producers Australia’s annual conference Screen Forever will move to Queensland from next year until 2022 after eight years in Melbourne.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira said the conference will attract national and international screen industry leaders to the state to learn about current industry trends, network and pursue screen industry business opportunities.
“We are immensely proud to leverage our screen industry expertise and our outstanding major events capability to bring Screen Forever to Queensland,” she said.
Spa CEO Matt Deaner said: “Queensland presents significant opportunities for local and emerging production businesses, with over twice the national average growth in production businesses and Brisbane’s recently opened $12 million Screen Queensland Studios.
“We’re delighted to champion the talent, passion and achievements of Australia’s screen industry and independent production as part of...
Screen Producers Australia’s annual conference Screen Forever will move to Queensland from next year until 2022 after eight years in Melbourne.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira said the conference will attract national and international screen industry leaders to the state to learn about current industry trends, network and pursue screen industry business opportunities.
“We are immensely proud to leverage our screen industry expertise and our outstanding major events capability to bring Screen Forever to Queensland,” she said.
Spa CEO Matt Deaner said: “Queensland presents significant opportunities for local and emerging production businesses, with over twice the national average growth in production businesses and Brisbane’s recently opened $12 million Screen Queensland Studios.
“We’re delighted to champion the talent, passion and achievements of Australia’s screen industry and independent production as part of...
- 6/30/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Tim Soutphommasane and Tracey Vieira.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira and former Race Discrimination Commissioner and current Professor of Practice at University of Sydney Tim Soutphommasane have been named as the new co-chairs of the Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network (Sdin).
Sdin was established in 2017 with the aim of fostering a more inclusive screen industry. Its members include each of the broadcasters, the guilds, the state screen agencies, Screen Australia, Aftrs, FreeTV and MediaRING. Its members have committed to a charter, and the organisation aims to support greater inclusiveness via workforce, talent development, training and partnerships.
Departing Sdin chair Courtney Gibson, the CEO of the South Australian Film Corporation (Safc), said: “Tim and Tracey are both passionate about diversity and representation and bring with them quite different but very complementary experience and skills. Sdin members and our industry will benefit from them working together as Co-Chairs.”
Soutphommasane is Professor of...
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira and former Race Discrimination Commissioner and current Professor of Practice at University of Sydney Tim Soutphommasane have been named as the new co-chairs of the Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network (Sdin).
Sdin was established in 2017 with the aim of fostering a more inclusive screen industry. Its members include each of the broadcasters, the guilds, the state screen agencies, Screen Australia, Aftrs, FreeTV and MediaRING. Its members have committed to a charter, and the organisation aims to support greater inclusiveness via workforce, talent development, training and partnerships.
Departing Sdin chair Courtney Gibson, the CEO of the South Australian Film Corporation (Safc), said: “Tim and Tracey are both passionate about diversity and representation and bring with them quite different but very complementary experience and skills. Sdin members and our industry will benefit from them working together as Co-Chairs.”
Soutphommasane is Professor of...
- 4/16/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Ben O’Toole (Photo credit: John Russo).
Ben O’Toole is playing the protagonist in Bloody Hell, a dark, comedic thriller which the producers hope to turn into a three-film franchise.
Directed by Alister Grierson and scripted by Robert Benjamin, the film is now shooting on the Gold Coast, supported by Screen Queensland and the Gold Coast City Council.
O’Toole, whose credits include the Roache-Turner brothers’ Nekrotronic, Nicolai Fuglsig’s 12 Strong and Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, plays Rex Coen, an American with a mysterious past who lives in Boise, Idaho.
He decides to escape from his own personal hell by fleeing to Helsinki, where life just gets worse. Caroline Craig, Matthew Sunderland, Travis Jeffery, Jack Finsterer and newcomers Meg Fraser and David Hill play members of a Finnish family.
The premise for O’Toole’s character was imagining what would happen to Bruce Willis as Die Hard’s John...
Ben O’Toole is playing the protagonist in Bloody Hell, a dark, comedic thriller which the producers hope to turn into a three-film franchise.
Directed by Alister Grierson and scripted by Robert Benjamin, the film is now shooting on the Gold Coast, supported by Screen Queensland and the Gold Coast City Council.
O’Toole, whose credits include the Roache-Turner brothers’ Nekrotronic, Nicolai Fuglsig’s 12 Strong and Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, plays Rex Coen, an American with a mysterious past who lives in Boise, Idaho.
He decides to escape from his own personal hell by fleeing to Helsinki, where life just gets worse. Caroline Craig, Matthew Sunderland, Travis Jeffery, Jack Finsterer and newcomers Meg Fraser and David Hill play members of a Finnish family.
The premise for O’Toole’s character was imagining what would happen to Bruce Willis as Die Hard’s John...
- 4/15/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Escape and Evasion’.
The Gold Coast Film Festival will open in early April with the Australian premiere of Damon Gameau’s 2040, and close with the world premiere of Storm Ashwood’s war film Escape and Evasion.
Good Thing Productions’ 2040 comes to the festival from its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it screened as part of the Kplus section of the Generation program. Gameau will walk the red carpet, and the screening will be followed by a Q&A.
Escape and Evasion, produced by Blake Northfield for Bronte Pictures, was filmed on the Gold Coast in the Currumbin Valley. It explores the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on a lone surviving soldier.
The Gold Coast Film Festival will this year screen some 107 films over 12 days, with three world premieres and 10 Australian premieres.
Among the other world premieres are Caitlin Farrugia and Michael Jones’ comedy drama Maybe Tomorrow,...
The Gold Coast Film Festival will open in early April with the Australian premiere of Damon Gameau’s 2040, and close with the world premiere of Storm Ashwood’s war film Escape and Evasion.
Good Thing Productions’ 2040 comes to the festival from its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it screened as part of the Kplus section of the Generation program. Gameau will walk the red carpet, and the screening will be followed by a Q&A.
Escape and Evasion, produced by Blake Northfield for Bronte Pictures, was filmed on the Gold Coast in the Currumbin Valley. It explores the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on a lone surviving soldier.
The Gold Coast Film Festival will this year screen some 107 films over 12 days, with three world premieres and 10 Australian premieres.
Among the other world premieres are Caitlin Farrugia and Michael Jones’ comedy drama Maybe Tomorrow,...
- 3/1/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Cutting Edge, which completed the VFX for ‘Winchester’, is among those likely to benefit from the new Queensland Pdv grant.
Following the South Australian Film Corporation’s lead, Screen Queensland has introduced a 10 per cent uncapped post, digital and visual effects (Pdv) grant.
The Queensland government has introduced the grant to put the state in a competitive position to attract large national and international post-production projects.
Able to be combined with the 30 per cent federal Pdv Offset, the grant is open for applications from today, and is set to benefit Queensland-based companies like Cutting Edge and The Post Lounge. Productions must spend a minimum of $500,000 on Pdv in Queensland to be eligible.
Last December, the South Australian Film Corporation launched an uncapped, non-discretionary 10 per cent Pdv rebate, with a minimum spend of $250,000.
In the wake of that move by the Safc, Technicolor announced it February that would open Mill Film in Adelaide,...
Following the South Australian Film Corporation’s lead, Screen Queensland has introduced a 10 per cent uncapped post, digital and visual effects (Pdv) grant.
The Queensland government has introduced the grant to put the state in a competitive position to attract large national and international post-production projects.
Able to be combined with the 30 per cent federal Pdv Offset, the grant is open for applications from today, and is set to benefit Queensland-based companies like Cutting Edge and The Post Lounge. Productions must spend a minimum of $500,000 on Pdv in Queensland to be eligible.
Last December, the South Australian Film Corporation launched an uncapped, non-discretionary 10 per cent Pdv rebate, with a minimum spend of $250,000.
In the wake of that move by the Safc, Technicolor announced it February that would open Mill Film in Adelaide,...
- 10/18/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Following on from the discontinuation of Brisbane Asia-Pacific Film Festival (Bapff) earlier this year, the Brisbane International Film Festival (Biff) is set to return..
Biff, which began in 1992, was replaced by Bapff.—.which ran in tandem with the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.—.back.in 2014. When the latter was cancelled in April this year, there were fears among the industry that Brisbane would be left without a major international festival.
However, the Queensland budget has seen the state government award $882,000 to Screen Queensland to support seven Brisbane-based festivals and events, including a rebooted Biff. The funding will also support two more years of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards' industry and screening program..
The brand new Biff will run August 17 to September 3, with support from industry partner Palace Cinemas. The 2017 program is expected to screen around 60 international and Australian films, and will include collaborations with the Apsa as well as a Queensland Short Film Competition,...
Biff, which began in 1992, was replaced by Bapff.—.which ran in tandem with the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.—.back.in 2014. When the latter was cancelled in April this year, there were fears among the industry that Brisbane would be left without a major international festival.
However, the Queensland budget has seen the state government award $882,000 to Screen Queensland to support seven Brisbane-based festivals and events, including a rebooted Biff. The funding will also support two more years of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards' industry and screening program..
The brand new Biff will run August 17 to September 3, with support from industry partner Palace Cinemas. The 2017 program is expected to screen around 60 international and Australian films, and will include collaborations with the Apsa as well as a Queensland Short Film Competition,...
- 6/13/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
China’s Monumental Films will produce with Australia’s Roadman Films and Story Bridge Films.
Screen Australia announced the eighth official China-Australia co-production, At Last, to be written and directed by Yiwei Liu at the on-going Beijing International Film Festival (April 16-23).
The project will be produced by China’s Monumental Films with Australian production outfits Roadman Films and Story Bridge Films.
The story follows a couple from Beijing who find themselves caught in a complex art heist while on holiday in Australia. Jackie Jiao, Todd Fellman, Charles Fan and Vanessa Wu will produce.
Casting is currently underway on the project with production expected to commence in Australia from mid-July. Financiers on the film include Orient Image Entertainment, Gravity Films, Shineland Media, China Lion and Screen Queensland.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira said At Last would shoot in Queensland [pictured], providing around 200 jobs and injecting $10.8m into the local economy.
“At Last has come to Queensland as a direct...
Screen Australia announced the eighth official China-Australia co-production, At Last, to be written and directed by Yiwei Liu at the on-going Beijing International Film Festival (April 16-23).
The project will be produced by China’s Monumental Films with Australian production outfits Roadman Films and Story Bridge Films.
The story follows a couple from Beijing who find themselves caught in a complex art heist while on holiday in Australia. Jackie Jiao, Todd Fellman, Charles Fan and Vanessa Wu will produce.
Casting is currently underway on the project with production expected to commence in Australia from mid-July. Financiers on the film include Orient Image Entertainment, Gravity Films, Shineland Media, China Lion and Screen Queensland.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira said At Last would shoot in Queensland [pictured], providing around 200 jobs and injecting $10.8m into the local economy.
“At Last has come to Queensland as a direct...
- 4/20/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Sydney Films is building a slate of 20 China-Australia co-pros.
Screen Australia and private production outfit Sydney Films announced a slew of China-Australian co-production projects at the on-going Beijing International Film Festival (April 16-23).
Described as the eighth official China-Australia co-production, At Last will be directed by Yiwei Liu and produced by China’s Monumental Films with Australian production outfits Roadman Films and Story Bridge Films.
The film tells the story of a couple from Beijing who find themselves caught in a complex art heist while on holiday in Australia. Jackie Jiao, Todd Fellman, Charles Fan and Vanessa Wu will produce.
Casting is currently underway on the project with production expected to commence in Australia from mid-July. Financiers on the film include Orient Image Entertainment, Gravity Films, Shineland Media, China Lion and Screen Queensland.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira said At Last would shoot in Queensland, providing around 200 jobs and injecting $10.8m into the local economy.
“At Last has...
Screen Australia and private production outfit Sydney Films announced a slew of China-Australian co-production projects at the on-going Beijing International Film Festival (April 16-23).
Described as the eighth official China-Australia co-production, At Last will be directed by Yiwei Liu and produced by China’s Monumental Films with Australian production outfits Roadman Films and Story Bridge Films.
The film tells the story of a couple from Beijing who find themselves caught in a complex art heist while on holiday in Australia. Jackie Jiao, Todd Fellman, Charles Fan and Vanessa Wu will produce.
Casting is currently underway on the project with production expected to commence in Australia from mid-July. Financiers on the film include Orient Image Entertainment, Gravity Films, Shineland Media, China Lion and Screen Queensland.
Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira said At Last would shoot in Queensland, providing around 200 jobs and injecting $10.8m into the local economy.
“At Last has...
- 4/20/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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