Kathleen Drumm returns to New Zealand to head up arts organisation.
Geoff Macnaughton has been named director of industry at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), co-head and artistic director Cameron Bailey announced on Tuesday (18).
Macnaughton will oversee the organsation’s industry programming and talent development initiatives, and industry-related sales and services. He has been with the organisation for 12 years, most recently serving as senior manager of industry and festival programming, and will continue to act as lead programmer of Primetime. He reports to Bailey.
Macnaughton’s predecessor Kathleen Drumm has returned to her native New Zealand, where she will...
Geoff Macnaughton has been named director of industry at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), co-head and artistic director Cameron Bailey announced on Tuesday (18).
Macnaughton will oversee the organsation’s industry programming and talent development initiatives, and industry-related sales and services. He has been with the organisation for 12 years, most recently serving as senior manager of industry and festival programming, and will continue to act as lead programmer of Primetime. He reports to Bailey.
Macnaughton’s predecessor Kathleen Drumm has returned to her native New Zealand, where she will...
- 6/18/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto Film Festival has revealed its annual list of top ten Canadian films. Compiled by Tiff’s team of programmers in collaboration with Canadian critics, the ‘Canada’s Top Ten’ list includes Tiff titles Freaks, which scored a significant deal with Well Go, and Giant Little Ones. Scroll down for the full list.
The feature list was curated by Cameron Bailey, Kerri Craddock, Steve Gravestock, Danis Goulet, Ming-Jenn Lim, and Kathleen Drumm, in collaboration with the Vancouver Film Critics Circle and the Association Québécoise des Critiques de Cinéma.
“Tiff is thrilled to present its uniquely Canadian list that offers a richness of voices, perspectives, and insights into adolescent identity,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of Tiff. “These films expertly examine heritage, family, the fragility of friendships, and the importance of challenging the current state of our world, and are testament to the fact that our Canadian filmmakers...
The feature list was curated by Cameron Bailey, Kerri Craddock, Steve Gravestock, Danis Goulet, Ming-Jenn Lim, and Kathleen Drumm, in collaboration with the Vancouver Film Critics Circle and the Association Québécoise des Critiques de Cinéma.
“Tiff is thrilled to present its uniquely Canadian list that offers a richness of voices, perspectives, and insights into adolescent identity,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of Tiff. “These films expertly examine heritage, family, the fragility of friendships, and the importance of challenging the current state of our world, and are testament to the fact that our Canadian filmmakers...
- 12/5/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
French sci-fi Ad Vitam to screen. Industry programme includes ‘inclusion rider’ academic Dr Stacy Smith, Werner Herzog.
Tiff top brass on Thursday (August 16) unveiled the Primetime sidebar of TV selections including the first four hours of Amazon Studios’ Julia Roberts psychological TV thriller Homecoming, while Taika Waititi makes his first visit to the festival as part of a diverse industry programme.
Homecoming, directed by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail, is based on the podcast by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg about the truth behind a military reintegration facility.
Primetime brings a very international flavour to its fourth annual selection this year.
Tiff top brass on Thursday (August 16) unveiled the Primetime sidebar of TV selections including the first four hours of Amazon Studios’ Julia Roberts psychological TV thriller Homecoming, while Taika Waititi makes his first visit to the festival as part of a diverse industry programme.
Homecoming, directed by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail, is based on the podcast by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg about the truth behind a military reintegration facility.
Primetime brings a very international flavour to its fourth annual selection this year.
- 8/16/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Share her Journey to offer partial support for female selections.
Six women and six men have been unveiled as the 12 Canadian participants in this year’s Tiff Writers’ Studio as Tiff continues its commitment to gender parity across its talent development programmes.
The women will be supported in part by the organisation’s Share Her Journey campaign to champion women in front of and behind the camera.
The 2018–19 Tiff Writers’ Studio participants are: Danilo Baracho, Yung Chang, Martin Edralin, Sarah Goodman, Carinne Leduc, Jennifer Liao, Frieda Luk, Kaveh Nabatian, Celeste Parr, Kazik Radwanski, Lina Rodriguez, and Jorge Thielen-Armand.
Tiff Writers...
Six women and six men have been unveiled as the 12 Canadian participants in this year’s Tiff Writers’ Studio as Tiff continues its commitment to gender parity across its talent development programmes.
The women will be supported in part by the organisation’s Share Her Journey campaign to champion women in front of and behind the camera.
The 2018–19 Tiff Writers’ Studio participants are: Danilo Baracho, Yung Chang, Martin Edralin, Sarah Goodman, Carinne Leduc, Jennifer Liao, Frieda Luk, Kaveh Nabatian, Celeste Parr, Kazik Radwanski, Lina Rodriguez, and Jorge Thielen-Armand.
Tiff Writers...
- 6/7/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Share her Journey to offer partial support for female selections.
Six women and six men have been unveiled as the 12 Canadian participants in this year’s Tiff Writers’ Studio as Tiff continues its commitment to gender parity across its talent development programmes.
The women will be supported in part by the organisation’s Share Her Journey campaign to champion women in front of and behind the camera.
The 2018–19 Tiff Writers’ Studio participants are: Danilo Baracho, Yung Chang, Martin Edralin, Sarah Goodman, Carinne Leduc, Jennifer Liao, Frieda Luk, Kaveh Nabatian, Celeste Parr, Kazik Radwanski, Lina Rodriguez, and Jorge Thielen-Armand.
Tiff Writers...
Six women and six men have been unveiled as the 12 Canadian participants in this year’s Tiff Writers’ Studio as Tiff continues its commitment to gender parity across its talent development programmes.
The women will be supported in part by the organisation’s Share Her Journey campaign to champion women in front of and behind the camera.
The 2018–19 Tiff Writers’ Studio participants are: Danilo Baracho, Yung Chang, Martin Edralin, Sarah Goodman, Carinne Leduc, Jennifer Liao, Frieda Luk, Kaveh Nabatian, Celeste Parr, Kazik Radwanski, Lina Rodriguez, and Jorge Thielen-Armand.
Tiff Writers...
- 6/7/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Rob Connolly.s Paper Planes and Josh Lawson.s The Little Death have been added to the Australian line-up at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
That brings the number of Australian films screening at Tiff to seven. In addition, Australian artist Shaun Gladwell has been invited to present his projects BMX Channel and Midnight Traceur in the festival.s Future Projections program, a crossover between cinema and art.
Connolly.s Paper Planes will have its international premiere in Tiff Kids. The film, which centres on a young Australian boy.s passion for flight and his challenge to compete in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan, stars Sam Worthington, Ed Oxenbould, Deborah Mailman and David Wenham. Roadshow will launch the film co-written by Connolly and Steve Worland and produced by Connolly, Maggie Miles and Liz Kearney in Australia next January.
The Little Death, Lawson.s feature writing and directing debut,...
That brings the number of Australian films screening at Tiff to seven. In addition, Australian artist Shaun Gladwell has been invited to present his projects BMX Channel and Midnight Traceur in the festival.s Future Projections program, a crossover between cinema and art.
Connolly.s Paper Planes will have its international premiere in Tiff Kids. The film, which centres on a young Australian boy.s passion for flight and his challenge to compete in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan, stars Sam Worthington, Ed Oxenbould, Deborah Mailman and David Wenham. Roadshow will launch the film co-written by Connolly and Steve Worland and produced by Connolly, Maggie Miles and Liz Kearney in Australia next January.
The Little Death, Lawson.s feature writing and directing debut,...
- 8/19/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Kill Me Three Times, Cut Snake, Charlie.s Country and a French-Australian short will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
That boosts Australia.s representation at the festival to five as Mark Hartley.s Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films will feature in the Midnight Madness section.
The Contemporary World Cinema program will be the launch pad for Kriv Stenders. Kill Me Three Times (world premiere), Tony Ayres. Cut Snake (international premiere) and Rolf de Heer.s Charlie.s Country (North American premiere).
Writer/director Sotiris Dounoukos. A Single Body will have its international premiere in the inaugural Short Cuts International section. The drama revolves around David and Wani, best friends and skilled abattoir workers who are saving to open their own butchery and whose bond is tested by the arrival of a new worker. The producers are François-Pierre Clavel and Alexandre Perrier.
Stenders told If,...
That boosts Australia.s representation at the festival to five as Mark Hartley.s Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films will feature in the Midnight Madness section.
The Contemporary World Cinema program will be the launch pad for Kriv Stenders. Kill Me Three Times (world premiere), Tony Ayres. Cut Snake (international premiere) and Rolf de Heer.s Charlie.s Country (North American premiere).
Writer/director Sotiris Dounoukos. A Single Body will have its international premiere in the inaugural Short Cuts International section. The drama revolves around David and Wani, best friends and skilled abattoir workers who are saving to open their own butchery and whose bond is tested by the arrival of a new worker. The producers are François-Pierre Clavel and Alexandre Perrier.
Stenders told If,...
- 8/12/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia is radically changing the way it operates, including making all funding of up to $500,000 as a grant and relinquishing its stake in the copyright on those projects.
The cap on investment in features will be lowered from $2.5 million to $2 million to enable funds to be more widely spread.
The marketing department is being abolished, resulting in the departure of head of marketing Kathleen Drumm. Also scrapped is the state and industry programs section previously headed by Chris Oliver who stepped down in early July.
In their place, Screen Australia is creating a business and audience department as part of a plan to place greater emphasis on business development.
CEO Graeme Mason will be interim head of the new department, which combines the teams from marketing, communications and state and industry partnerships, including the Enterprise program, pending the appointment of a permanent head.
"The people who were supporting producers,...
The cap on investment in features will be lowered from $2.5 million to $2 million to enable funds to be more widely spread.
The marketing department is being abolished, resulting in the departure of head of marketing Kathleen Drumm. Also scrapped is the state and industry programs section previously headed by Chris Oliver who stepped down in early July.
In their place, Screen Australia is creating a business and audience department as part of a plan to place greater emphasis on business development.
CEO Graeme Mason will be interim head of the new department, which combines the teams from marketing, communications and state and industry partnerships, including the Enterprise program, pending the appointment of a permanent head.
"The people who were supporting producers,...
- 7/24/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The best actor award for Charlie.s Country.s David Gulpilil in Certain Regard and a standing ovation for David Michôd's thriller The Rover capped off a memorable Cannes Film Festival and market for Australian cinema.
It was that rare combination of critical acclaim for the Aussie films that screened in the festival and a solid volume of deal-making for films that were sold at the market.
.We had consistent feedback from sales agents and buyers on the calibre of Australian talent and projects, which they are tracking with real interest,. Screen Australia head of marketing Kathleen Drumm tells If.
.Producers reported fewer but quality meetings as momentum around Australia continues to enable good marketplace access. However it remains hard to raise finance without high profile cast, directorial talent, demonstrable marketing hooks, clarity on audience and a budget that matches a project's commerciality.
.Sales for Australian films were solid despite the reported soft marketplace,...
It was that rare combination of critical acclaim for the Aussie films that screened in the festival and a solid volume of deal-making for films that were sold at the market.
.We had consistent feedback from sales agents and buyers on the calibre of Australian talent and projects, which they are tracking with real interest,. Screen Australia head of marketing Kathleen Drumm tells If.
.Producers reported fewer but quality meetings as momentum around Australia continues to enable good marketplace access. However it remains hard to raise finance without high profile cast, directorial talent, demonstrable marketing hooks, clarity on audience and a budget that matches a project's commerciality.
.Sales for Australian films were solid despite the reported soft marketplace,...
- 5/25/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
At least 17 Australian films look set to be released theatrically in the Us this year following the latest batch of deals announced in Cannes. If that's how it pans out, that will be an all-time record, or the highest in the last few decades. The previous high point was 1997 when 15 features were distributed in the Us, according to Screen Australia, whose records go back to 1985.
The preponderance of VOD-targeted deals with limited theatrical play-off partly explains the upswing this year. Only five Australian features got theatrical exposure in the Us in 2012 and seven in 2011, according to Screen Australia's research.
Main Street Films bought Tim Winton.s The Turning, A24 picked up Julius Avery.s crime thriller Son of a Gun and XLrator Media collared Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson.s dark comedy The Mule. Murali Thuralli.s post-Apocalyptic drama One will also be released in the Us by Main...
The preponderance of VOD-targeted deals with limited theatrical play-off partly explains the upswing this year. Only five Australian features got theatrical exposure in the Us in 2012 and seven in 2011, according to Screen Australia's research.
Main Street Films bought Tim Winton.s The Turning, A24 picked up Julius Avery.s crime thriller Son of a Gun and XLrator Media collared Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson.s dark comedy The Mule. Murali Thuralli.s post-Apocalyptic drama One will also be released in the Us by Main...
- 5/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
At least 17 Australian films will be released theatrically in the Us this year following the latest batch of deals announced in Cannes. If that isn.t a record, it must be close, albeit that some of those deals are VOD-driven, with a limited theatrical release. Main Street Films bought Tim Winton.s The Turning, A24 picked up Julius Avery.s crime thriller Son of a Gun and XLrator Media collared Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson.s dark comedy The Mule. Murali Thuralli.s post-Apocalyptic drama One will also be released in the Us by Main Street Films but that won.t be until next year (see separate story). .The number of Us deals secured for the latest crop of Australian films demonstrates the strength and international audience appeal of Australian storytelling,. Kathleen Drumm, head of marketing at Screen Australia, tells If from Cannes. .Expanding platforms offer new ways into the...
- 5/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Us debut of John Curran.s Tracks has been postponed- for four months.
The Outback adventure starring Mia Wasikowska as .camel girl. Robyn Davidson was originally dated for May 23.
But The Weinstein Co, which bought the Us rights after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, has shifted the date to September 19.
Date changes are not unusual but it may be that TWC has revised its expectations in light of the film.s box-office results in Australia and several major territories. The film chronicling Davidson.s 2,700 km trek across the Australian outback in 1977 has grossed $2.38 million in Australia.
According to Box Office Mojo, Tracks has earned $US726,000 after its fifth weekend in Germany, $610,000 after its third in the UK and $311,000 in two weekends in Italy. The film went out on a fairly wide 80, 55 and 79 screens respectively.
Screen Australia head of marketing Kathleen Drumm tells If that the Us...
The Outback adventure starring Mia Wasikowska as .camel girl. Robyn Davidson was originally dated for May 23.
But The Weinstein Co, which bought the Us rights after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, has shifted the date to September 19.
Date changes are not unusual but it may be that TWC has revised its expectations in light of the film.s box-office results in Australia and several major territories. The film chronicling Davidson.s 2,700 km trek across the Australian outback in 1977 has grossed $2.38 million in Australia.
According to Box Office Mojo, Tracks has earned $US726,000 after its fifth weekend in Germany, $610,000 after its third in the UK and $311,000 in two weekends in Italy. The film went out on a fairly wide 80, 55 and 79 screens respectively.
Screen Australia head of marketing Kathleen Drumm tells If that the Us...
- 5/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
John Curran.s Tracks. and Ruin, a Cambodian-set romantic drama from Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody, will. compete at the 70th Venice Film Festival.
Based on the true story of Robyn Davidson's 2,700km trek across the Australian desert with four camels and her dog, Tracks is among the 19 films in official competition.
Producers/writers/directors Courtin-Wilson and Cody.s Ruin will screen in Orizzonti, a competition section dedicated to new distinctive films from international rising talents. This will be the team's second time in Venice as Hail screened in Orizzonti in 2011.
Screening out of competition are Greg Mclean.s Wolf Creek 2 and Ukraine is Not a Brothel, a feature documentary by Melbourne filmmaker Kitty Green, which profiles the Ukrainian feminist group Femen. The Wolf Creek sequel sees John Jarratt reprise his role as crazed serial killer Mick Taylor, alongside Ryan Corr, Shannon Ashlyn and Phillipe Klaus.
The four titles...
Based on the true story of Robyn Davidson's 2,700km trek across the Australian desert with four camels and her dog, Tracks is among the 19 films in official competition.
Producers/writers/directors Courtin-Wilson and Cody.s Ruin will screen in Orizzonti, a competition section dedicated to new distinctive films from international rising talents. This will be the team's second time in Venice as Hail screened in Orizzonti in 2011.
Screening out of competition are Greg Mclean.s Wolf Creek 2 and Ukraine is Not a Brothel, a feature documentary by Melbourne filmmaker Kitty Green, which profiles the Ukrainian feminist group Femen. The Wolf Creek sequel sees John Jarratt reprise his role as crazed serial killer Mick Taylor, alongside Ryan Corr, Shannon Ashlyn and Phillipe Klaus.
The four titles...
- 7/25/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has announced its support for the second annual Asian Animation Summit.
Last year ten Australian television animation projects were presented at the inaugural Aas, which was held in Kuala Lumpur in December..
The Aas, this year to be held in Phuket, Thailand, is aimed at promoting the co-production and co-financing of children's animation across Asia..
The 2013 Aas has been extended by a day to allow more screening opportunities and will be held from 9-11 December..
An initiative of ABC TV and Screen Australia, Korea.s Kocca and Malaysia.s MDeC, the Aas is produced and owned by Kidscreen and supported by Singapore.s Media Development Authority (Mda)..
.The first Aas was highly successful, with a significant number of broadcasters and major distributors from the region and key players from Europe and North America in attendance,. said Screen Australia.s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm. .The quality of projects...
Last year ten Australian television animation projects were presented at the inaugural Aas, which was held in Kuala Lumpur in December..
The Aas, this year to be held in Phuket, Thailand, is aimed at promoting the co-production and co-financing of children's animation across Asia..
The 2013 Aas has been extended by a day to allow more screening opportunities and will be held from 9-11 December..
An initiative of ABC TV and Screen Australia, Korea.s Kocca and Malaysia.s MDeC, the Aas is produced and owned by Kidscreen and supported by Singapore.s Media Development Authority (Mda)..
.The first Aas was highly successful, with a significant number of broadcasters and major distributors from the region and key players from Europe and North America in attendance,. said Screen Australia.s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm. .The quality of projects...
- 5/14/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Australian film The Rocket has won the Best First Feature Award and Best Feature in the children's-focused Generation Kplus program at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The film, about a boy in Laos who builds a giant rocket to enter the Rocket Festival,.was up against entrants from several sections including Competition, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino. Director Kim Mordaunt and producer Sylvia Wilczynski shared the €50,000 prize ($64,851).
The film was also awarded the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in the Generation Kplus section (which is devoted to young people) and the Amnesty International Film Prize. (View The Rocket trailer here.)
Short film The Amber Amulet also picked up a Crystal Bear award in the Generation Kplus section for the Best Short Film while indigenous feature Satellite Boy received a Special Mention from both the Generation Kplus children.s and international juries.
"An exciting film, shot in magnificent...
The film, about a boy in Laos who builds a giant rocket to enter the Rocket Festival,.was up against entrants from several sections including Competition, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino. Director Kim Mordaunt and producer Sylvia Wilczynski shared the €50,000 prize ($64,851).
The film was also awarded the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in the Generation Kplus section (which is devoted to young people) and the Amnesty International Film Prize. (View The Rocket trailer here.)
Short film The Amber Amulet also picked up a Crystal Bear award in the Generation Kplus section for the Best Short Film while indigenous feature Satellite Boy received a Special Mention from both the Generation Kplus children.s and international juries.
"An exciting film, shot in magnificent...
- 2/17/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Australian feature films The Rocket and Satellite Boy have been selected to screen at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2013.
Both films will screen in the children's Generation program (via the Generation Kplus competition specifically geared towards young people aged from four to thirteen). The screening will also mark the world premiere for The Rocket, which has been nominated for the Best First Feature award at the festival. The film follows a Lao boy, who is thought to bring bad luck, who leads his family across war-torn Laos to the dangerous Rocket Festival.
Indigenous feature Satellite Boy.will also screen in Berlin after initially premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2012. The film is about a young boy trying to save his outback home from developers.
.It.s tremendous to see these cross-cultural stories of children from up-and-coming Australian talent, reaching out to international audiences,. Screen Australia...
Both films will screen in the children's Generation program (via the Generation Kplus competition specifically geared towards young people aged from four to thirteen). The screening will also mark the world premiere for The Rocket, which has been nominated for the Best First Feature award at the festival. The film follows a Lao boy, who is thought to bring bad luck, who leads his family across war-torn Laos to the dangerous Rocket Festival.
Indigenous feature Satellite Boy.will also screen in Berlin after initially premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2012. The film is about a young boy trying to save his outback home from developers.
.It.s tremendous to see these cross-cultural stories of children from up-and-coming Australian talent, reaching out to international audiences,. Screen Australia...
- 12/18/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Australian feature film Coral: Rekindling Venus has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
The announcement:
The feature project Coral: Rekindling Venus, written and directed by Australian installation artist Lynette Wallworth and produced by John Maynard, has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
Coral: Rekindling Venus, an immersive fulldome film experience, has been produced to screen exclusively in fulldome cinemas and planetariums. The film project has been selected to screen in Sundance’s New Frontier program, which celebrates experimental and innovative screen work. New Frontier will also be showcasing Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight, the companion work to Coral: Rekindling Venus. Screen Australia is the principal investor in both projects.
Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm said, “Coral: Rekindling Venusis a groundbreaking Australian film project and it’s great that Sundance, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is able...
The announcement:
The feature project Coral: Rekindling Venus, written and directed by Australian installation artist Lynette Wallworth and produced by John Maynard, has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
Coral: Rekindling Venus, an immersive fulldome film experience, has been produced to screen exclusively in fulldome cinemas and planetariums. The film project has been selected to screen in Sundance’s New Frontier program, which celebrates experimental and innovative screen work. New Frontier will also be showcasing Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight, the companion work to Coral: Rekindling Venus. Screen Australia is the principal investor in both projects.
Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm said, “Coral: Rekindling Venusis a groundbreaking Australian film project and it’s great that Sundance, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is able...
- 11/30/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
Australian feature project, Coral: Rekindling Venus has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
The annoucement:
The feature project Coral: Rekindling Venus, written and directed by Australian installation artist Lynette Wallworth and produced by John Maynard, has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
Coral: Rekindling Venus, an immersive fulldome film experience, has been produced to screen exclusively in fulldome cinemas and planetariums. The film project has been selected to screen in Sundance’s New Frontier program, which celebrates experimental and innovative screen work. New Frontier will also be showcasing Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight, the companion work to Coral: Rekindling Venus. Screen Australia is the principal investor in both projects.
Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm said, “Coral: Rekindling Venus is a groundbreaking Australian film project and it’s great that Sundance, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is...
The annoucement:
The feature project Coral: Rekindling Venus, written and directed by Australian installation artist Lynette Wallworth and produced by John Maynard, has been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
Coral: Rekindling Venus, an immersive fulldome film experience, has been produced to screen exclusively in fulldome cinemas and planetariums. The film project has been selected to screen in Sundance’s New Frontier program, which celebrates experimental and innovative screen work. New Frontier will also be showcasing Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight, the companion work to Coral: Rekindling Venus. Screen Australia is the principal investor in both projects.
Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm said, “Coral: Rekindling Venus is a groundbreaking Australian film project and it’s great that Sundance, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, is...
- 11/29/2012
- by Georgina Pearson
- Encore Magazine
Films & Casting Temple’s Anupam Sharma, Lauren Edwards of Goalpost Pictures and Robyn Kershaw are among 10 producers heading to India for the Goa Film Bazaar to help create tighter links between the Australian and Indian film industries. The delegation is lead by Screen Australia and the screen Producers Association of Australia.
The announcement:
Screen Australia and the Screen Producers Association of Australia (Spaa) will lead a delegation of Australian producers to the Goa Film Bazaar to develop new and reinforce existing screen industry partnerships in India.
India is now Australia’s third biggest export market and the two countries have a strong and growing bilateral relationship. With a population of 1.2 billion, a prolific film industry and millions of passionate cinema-goers, India has many potential opportunities for Australian screen content. Australian producers have a growing interest in developing projects with Indian partners and an official co-production treaty is in negotiation.
Organised...
The announcement:
Screen Australia and the Screen Producers Association of Australia (Spaa) will lead a delegation of Australian producers to the Goa Film Bazaar to develop new and reinforce existing screen industry partnerships in India.
India is now Australia’s third biggest export market and the two countries have a strong and growing bilateral relationship. With a population of 1.2 billion, a prolific film industry and millions of passionate cinema-goers, India has many potential opportunities for Australian screen content. Australian producers have a growing interest in developing projects with Indian partners and an official co-production treaty is in negotiation.
Organised...
- 11/21/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has launched a new app called Are You Buff Enough? with the aim get Australians talking about the local screen achievements. The free movie and TV trivia app is available across iPhone, Android, Facebook and online and has over 4000 questions on it.
The announcement:
Screen Australia today announced the launch of a new social media campaign, Are You Buff Enough?, which aims to promote local content, to engage with film and television audiences and to build a community of Australian screen fans.
Are You Buff Enough? is a free movie and TV trivia quiz App available across iPhone, Android, Facebook and online, which will enable Australians to test how well they know local film and TV content.
Participants can compete with each other on a series of rapid-fire questions based around local talent, film and TV shows, as well as questions on Aussies in international productions. Upcoming releases...
The announcement:
Screen Australia today announced the launch of a new social media campaign, Are You Buff Enough?, which aims to promote local content, to engage with film and television audiences and to build a community of Australian screen fans.
Are You Buff Enough? is a free movie and TV trivia quiz App available across iPhone, Android, Facebook and online, which will enable Australians to test how well they know local film and TV content.
Participants can compete with each other on a series of rapid-fire questions based around local talent, film and TV shows, as well as questions on Aussies in international productions. Upcoming releases...
- 10/2/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Andrew Traucki
A Us-based sales production and distribution company has picked up the worldwide sales rights to the next film by Aussie writer/director Andrew Traucki.
Traucki’s film The Jungle has been picked up by Lightning Entertainment of Santa Monica.
The news sees the two parties reunite after Traucki’s 2010 shark film The Reef.
Lightning has already secured sales for the film in a number of regions including Australia’s Ifm/Filmways, France’s Wild Side, Metrodome in the UK, Acontracorrientes in Spain, Eagle Films in the Middle East and Ipa in Thailand.
Filming for The Jungle is due to begin in June in both Australia and Indonesia.
The Jungle is about an Australian leopard conservationist who ventures into Indonesia jungle with a documentary film-maker to investigate sightings of an endangered species of the big cat. However, they become aware that they are being stalked by a deadly, unseen predator.
A Us-based sales production and distribution company has picked up the worldwide sales rights to the next film by Aussie writer/director Andrew Traucki.
Traucki’s film The Jungle has been picked up by Lightning Entertainment of Santa Monica.
The news sees the two parties reunite after Traucki’s 2010 shark film The Reef.
Lightning has already secured sales for the film in a number of regions including Australia’s Ifm/Filmways, France’s Wild Side, Metrodome in the UK, Acontracorrientes in Spain, Eagle Films in the Middle East and Ipa in Thailand.
Filming for The Jungle is due to begin in June in both Australia and Indonesia.
The Jungle is about an Australian leopard conservationist who ventures into Indonesia jungle with a documentary film-maker to investigate sightings of an endangered species of the big cat. However, they become aware that they are being stalked by a deadly, unseen predator.
- 5/21/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
In this month’s issue of Encore Magazine, we asked: ‘Is Australia getting better at marketing our films?’ to Kathleen Drumm, head of marketing for funding body Screen Australia, and Andrew Traucki, writer, producer, and director of films The Reef and Blackwater.
For: Kathleen Drumm, head of marketing for funding body Screen Australia
There’s no doubt marketing local films is challenging. Every week, in almost every major western market, a cluster of big-budget studio films dominate the box office. Big films with big marketing budgets which take advantage of multi-million dollar campaigns coming out of Hollywood. Australian films have to compete in this environment, vying for screens and sessions, as well as media attention. Distributors and producers are required to work creatively, often with limited budgets, to generate excitement for their films – and there’s a lot of evidence to suggest they’re doing a great job.
Red Dog...
For: Kathleen Drumm, head of marketing for funding body Screen Australia
There’s no doubt marketing local films is challenging. Every week, in almost every major western market, a cluster of big-budget studio films dominate the box office. Big films with big marketing budgets which take advantage of multi-million dollar campaigns coming out of Hollywood. Australian films have to compete in this environment, vying for screens and sessions, as well as media attention. Distributors and producers are required to work creatively, often with limited budgets, to generate excitement for their films – and there’s a lot of evidence to suggest they’re doing a great job.
Red Dog...
- 3/16/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Thomas Mai and Josh Pomeranz of Spectrum 2.0 are the recipients of Screen Australia’s latest round of the Innovation Distribution program.
Mai and Pomeranz’s FanDependent is a platform to support low-budget screen content that doesn’t fit into the traditional distribution and exhibition model.
The platform will partner with 10 filmmaker teams over two years to help build an audience and raise finance through crowd-funding.
Selected teams will then be supported to market, sell and release their low-budget project to maximise commercial potential and audience.
To a wider audience, video blogs and workshops will be available. Screen Australia’s funding for the program will span over two years, 2012-2013, by which time FanDependent is expected to be self-sustainable.
When Encore spoke with Mai in October he said the concept of being an ‘independent’ filmmaker is over. “You are ‘fan-dependent’. Now with social media you have a two-way conversation with your fans.
Mai and Pomeranz’s FanDependent is a platform to support low-budget screen content that doesn’t fit into the traditional distribution and exhibition model.
The platform will partner with 10 filmmaker teams over two years to help build an audience and raise finance through crowd-funding.
Selected teams will then be supported to market, sell and release their low-budget project to maximise commercial potential and audience.
To a wider audience, video blogs and workshops will be available. Screen Australia’s funding for the program will span over two years, 2012-2013, by which time FanDependent is expected to be self-sustainable.
When Encore spoke with Mai in October he said the concept of being an ‘independent’ filmmaker is over. “You are ‘fan-dependent’. Now with social media you have a two-way conversation with your fans.
- 12/9/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Mad as Hell: Peter Finch (dir: Robert de Young) will have its world premiere at Korea’s Busan International Film Festival, alongside fellow Australian film Taj (dir: Winston Furlong) having its international premiere in the World Cinema strand.
Joining them will be The Hunter (dir: Daniel Nettheim), Red Dog (dir: Kriv Stenders), Snowtown (dir: Justin Kurzel) and short film Peekaboo (dir: Damien Power).
“Biff is a large and vibrant festival and serves as an excellent gateway to Asia for Australian films,” said Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm. “This year sees the celebration of the 50th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations with the Republic of Korea under the banner of the Australia-Korea Year of Friendship – a celebration these films will definitely enhance.”
Gillian Armstrong will join the jury panel in the Flash Forward selection which introduces the works of young non-Asian directors with an award presented to...
Joining them will be The Hunter (dir: Daniel Nettheim), Red Dog (dir: Kriv Stenders), Snowtown (dir: Justin Kurzel) and short film Peekaboo (dir: Damien Power).
“Biff is a large and vibrant festival and serves as an excellent gateway to Asia for Australian films,” said Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing Kathleen Drumm. “This year sees the celebration of the 50th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations with the Republic of Korea under the banner of the Australia-Korea Year of Friendship – a celebration these films will definitely enhance.”
Gillian Armstrong will join the jury panel in the Flash Forward selection which introduces the works of young non-Asian directors with an award presented to...
- 9/9/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Announced today, Australian feature documentary, The Tall Man, written and directed by Tony Krawitz (Jewboy) and produced by Darren Dale has been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival.
Screening in the Real to Reel program, it is The Tall Man‘s international premiere. Snowtown will screen in the festival’s Vanguard program.
[Above: Tony Krawitz speaks about the making of the film with Screen Australia at the Adelaide Film Festival in March 2011.]
The Tall Man is based on the award-winning book of the same name by Chloe Hooper about the story of Cameron Doomadgee’s death in custody on Palm Island in November 2004.
“I’m immensely proud that the film raises the profile in some small way of the struggle for justice faced by Indigenous Australians in 2011, and it’s terrific that this important story of Australia’s race relations will be showcased to an international audience,” said producer Darren Dale.
Kathleen Drumm, Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing said “It’s extremely competitive for a documentary to get...
Screening in the Real to Reel program, it is The Tall Man‘s international premiere. Snowtown will screen in the festival’s Vanguard program.
[Above: Tony Krawitz speaks about the making of the film with Screen Australia at the Adelaide Film Festival in March 2011.]
The Tall Man is based on the award-winning book of the same name by Chloe Hooper about the story of Cameron Doomadgee’s death in custody on Palm Island in November 2004.
“I’m immensely proud that the film raises the profile in some small way of the struggle for justice faced by Indigenous Australians in 2011, and it’s terrific that this important story of Australia’s race relations will be showcased to an international audience,” said producer Darren Dale.
Kathleen Drumm, Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing said “It’s extremely competitive for a documentary to get...
- 8/4/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
It’s been four years since Encore published its Top 20 Directors and Producers list, and we felt it was time to compile a new, more comprehensive list that included professionals working across all areas – film, television and Tvc production – as well as the leaders and decision-makers that determine the direction of the industry.
Instead of having a limited list of panellists, we consulted with the main agencies and organisations, and also asked our readers to nominate their candidates. We ended up with a list of more than 200 screen industry professionals, and deciding the final 50 was indeed a difficult task. Of course, some other very influential and successful people didn’t make the final cut, but there were only 50 spots and too many talented men and women!
We hope you’ll enjoy – or not, and if so, debate it passionately – the selection of what will become our annual Power 50 list.
1. Christopher Mapp...
Instead of having a limited list of panellists, we consulted with the main agencies and organisations, and also asked our readers to nominate their candidates. We ended up with a list of more than 200 screen industry professionals, and deciding the final 50 was indeed a difficult task. Of course, some other very influential and successful people didn’t make the final cut, but there were only 50 spots and too many talented men and women!
We hope you’ll enjoy – or not, and if so, debate it passionately – the selection of what will become our annual Power 50 list.
1. Christopher Mapp...
- 6/22/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Robert Tapert and Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures has inked a deal for North American rights to Peter Burger's "The Tattooist", a supernatural thriller starring Jason Behr.
Burger and producer Robin Scholes enticed Tapert and Raimi to visit New Zealand to talk to Burger about the final cut and to help guide the final stages of postproduction, the producer said Tuesday.
"We started our careers independently producing our horror films and understand the challenges of these filmmakers," Tapert said.
For his part, Scholes said he was pleased to have "specialists in horror and thriller films" managing the U.S outing for the movie via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The North American deal was negotiated with Ghost House by Kathleen Drumm and James Thompson of NZ Film.
The movie will unspool at this week at the American Film Market and centers on Samoan spiritual beliefs about a U.S. tattoo artist who unwittingly unleashes a powerful and angry spirit with one of his designs.
Burger and producer Robin Scholes enticed Tapert and Raimi to visit New Zealand to talk to Burger about the final cut and to help guide the final stages of postproduction, the producer said Tuesday.
"We started our careers independently producing our horror films and understand the challenges of these filmmakers," Tapert said.
For his part, Scholes said he was pleased to have "specialists in horror and thriller films" managing the U.S outing for the movie via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The North American deal was negotiated with Ghost House by Kathleen Drumm and James Thompson of NZ Film.
The movie will unspool at this week at the American Film Market and centers on Samoan spiritual beliefs about a U.S. tattoo artist who unwittingly unleashes a powerful and angry spirit with one of his designs.
- 10/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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