James Hoare in 'Picture Wheel'.
After graduating from Waapa in 2007, actor turned writer-director David O.Donnell moved to Sydney, where he met Nida student Alex Russell through another actor friend, Ande Cunningham.
The trio has been working together ever since, forming their own company, Five Lip Films, with two of Russell.s fellow Nida students, James Elliot and Sarah-Jane McAllan.
All five are in development on their own projects. Last year Cunningham directed short film Oranges Don.t Grow on Trees, featuring Russell and Sarah Snook..
.Our tastes really do contrast quite a bit, generally,. says O.Donnell. .We don.t agree on most films. Even the name we couldn.t agree on (laughs)...
The group finally settled on Five Lip Films (after a stint as Rockpool Films) because .it was five of us giving each other lip, disagreeing with each other...
Their latest project is Picture Wheel,...
After graduating from Waapa in 2007, actor turned writer-director David O.Donnell moved to Sydney, where he met Nida student Alex Russell through another actor friend, Ande Cunningham.
The trio has been working together ever since, forming their own company, Five Lip Films, with two of Russell.s fellow Nida students, James Elliot and Sarah-Jane McAllan.
All five are in development on their own projects. Last year Cunningham directed short film Oranges Don.t Grow on Trees, featuring Russell and Sarah Snook..
.Our tastes really do contrast quite a bit, generally,. says O.Donnell. .We don.t agree on most films. Even the name we couldn.t agree on (laughs)...
The group finally settled on Five Lip Films (after a stint as Rockpool Films) because .it was five of us giving each other lip, disagreeing with each other...
Their latest project is Picture Wheel,...
- 3/6/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Alex Russell is set to star in Sons of Salt, the story of an ex-con trying to get his life together who is reluctantly drawn into a dangerous world by his pro-surfer brother. ..
This is the first feature from Five Lip Films (formerly Rockpool Films), the young collective made up of Nida grads Russell, James Elliot, and Sarah-Jane McAllan, plus Ande Cunningham and David O.Donnell (Waapa).
The five are back and forth between La and Sydney, and the shingle doesn't have a premises..
Last year Cunningham directed short film Oranges Don.t Grow on Trees, featuring Russell and Sarah Snook..
This Friday, the outfit will premiere their latest project, Picture Wheel.—.a short written and directed by O'Donnell and starring Russell and James Hoare (the upcoming Picnic at Hanging Rock mini).—.at California's Cinequest Festival.
James Hoare (centre back) in 'Picture Wheel'.
O'Donnell also wrote the script for Sons of Salt,...
This is the first feature from Five Lip Films (formerly Rockpool Films), the young collective made up of Nida grads Russell, James Elliot, and Sarah-Jane McAllan, plus Ande Cunningham and David O.Donnell (Waapa).
The five are back and forth between La and Sydney, and the shingle doesn't have a premises..
Last year Cunningham directed short film Oranges Don.t Grow on Trees, featuring Russell and Sarah Snook..
This Friday, the outfit will premiere their latest project, Picture Wheel.—.a short written and directed by O'Donnell and starring Russell and James Hoare (the upcoming Picnic at Hanging Rock mini).—.at California's Cinequest Festival.
James Hoare (centre back) in 'Picture Wheel'.
O'Donnell also wrote the script for Sons of Salt,...
- 3/1/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Alex Russell is set to star in Sons of Salt, the story of an ex-con trying to get his life together who is reluctantly drawn into a dangerous world by his pro-surfer brother. ..
This is the first feature from Five Lip Films (formerly Rockpool Films), the young collective made up of Nida grads Russell, James Elliot, and Sarah-Jane McAllan, plus Ande Cunningham and David O.Donnell (Waapa).
The five are back and forth between La and Sydney, and the shingle doesn't have a premises..
Last year Cunningham directed short film Oranges Don.t Grow on Trees, featuring Russell and Sarah Snook..
This Friday, the outfit will premiere their latest project, Picture Wheel.—.a short written and directed by O'Donnell and starring Russell and James Hoare (the upcoming Picnic at Hanging Rock mini).—.at California's Cinequest Festival.
James Hoare (centre back) in 'Picture Wheel'.
O'Donnell also wrote the script for Sons of Salt,...
This is the first feature from Five Lip Films (formerly Rockpool Films), the young collective made up of Nida grads Russell, James Elliot, and Sarah-Jane McAllan, plus Ande Cunningham and David O.Donnell (Waapa).
The five are back and forth between La and Sydney, and the shingle doesn't have a premises..
Last year Cunningham directed short film Oranges Don.t Grow on Trees, featuring Russell and Sarah Snook..
This Friday, the outfit will premiere their latest project, Picture Wheel.—.a short written and directed by O'Donnell and starring Russell and James Hoare (the upcoming Picnic at Hanging Rock mini).—.at California's Cinequest Festival.
James Hoare (centre back) in 'Picture Wheel'.
O'Donnell also wrote the script for Sons of Salt,...
- 3/1/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
The makers of Australian documentary The Animal Condition went from jumping fences to opening previously closed doors
The Animal Condition kicks off in full-blown leftist activist mode: a group of four then 20-something friends – Michael Dahlstrom, Ande Cunningham, Sarah-Jane McAllan and Augusta Miller – stumble across videos online of abattoirs and are incensed by what they see.
The four Nida graduates thus resolve to make an undercover documentary exposing the wicked ways of the Australian meat trade. They secure a small amount of funding from an animal welfare organisation and hook up with hardcore activists who, in a cloak-and-dagger-like way, sneak them on to paddocks and into battery hen factories under the cover of darkness.
Continue reading...
The Animal Condition kicks off in full-blown leftist activist mode: a group of four then 20-something friends – Michael Dahlstrom, Ande Cunningham, Sarah-Jane McAllan and Augusta Miller – stumble across videos online of abattoirs and are incensed by what they see.
The four Nida graduates thus resolve to make an undercover documentary exposing the wicked ways of the Australian meat trade. They secure a small amount of funding from an animal welfare organisation and hook up with hardcore activists who, in a cloak-and-dagger-like way, sneak them on to paddocks and into battery hen factories under the cover of darkness.
Continue reading...
- 8/24/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
The Animal Condition.
Animal welfare documentary The Animal Condition is set for a national release beginning this month via cinema-on-demand platform Fan-Force..
The film, directed by Michael Dahlstrom and produced and written by Dahlstrom, Ande Cunningham, Sarah-Jane Mcallan and Augusta Miller, is a collaboration between four Nida graduates who met in 2007-08 during their studies..
Shortly after graduating they picked up a camera and spent three years filming their experiences as they travelled the country canvassing the views of industry heavyweights (Australian Pork Limited and Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry), federal politicians (the then Minister for Agriculture Senator the Hon. Joe Ludwig and the Hon. Bob Katter MP) and animal welfare advocates (Lyn White and Peter Singer).
.This isn.t just another animal welfare film," said Dahlstrom, "it.s a documentary about human and animal suffering; the dying farmer unable to keep his operating costs low enough to break even,...
Animal welfare documentary The Animal Condition is set for a national release beginning this month via cinema-on-demand platform Fan-Force..
The film, directed by Michael Dahlstrom and produced and written by Dahlstrom, Ande Cunningham, Sarah-Jane Mcallan and Augusta Miller, is a collaboration between four Nida graduates who met in 2007-08 during their studies..
Shortly after graduating they picked up a camera and spent three years filming their experiences as they travelled the country canvassing the views of industry heavyweights (Australian Pork Limited and Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry), federal politicians (the then Minister for Agriculture Senator the Hon. Joe Ludwig and the Hon. Bob Katter MP) and animal welfare advocates (Lyn White and Peter Singer).
.This isn.t just another animal welfare film," said Dahlstrom, "it.s a documentary about human and animal suffering; the dying farmer unable to keep his operating costs low enough to break even,...
- 8/12/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
James Elliot and Alex Russell..
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Two Nida graduates and close friends are joining forces to create a new collective partnership, Rockpool Films.
Alex Russell (Cut Snake, Unbroken) and James Elliot (coming up in Raker) have been making content together ever since they met at the National Institute of Dramatic Art while studying acting.
.From the beginning we had a wonderful, mutually beneficial creative partnership,. Russell tells If. .We.re fortunate that it.s something that we have been able to keep up. I remember in third year (of acting school) we made a pact, and that was to always, always work together . once a year at the very least. We said we must once a year do one project together . something that we.re passionate about and that we think is unique and something that didn.t seem to be around in the current spectrum.
.That.s what we have done,...
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Two Nida graduates and close friends are joining forces to create a new collective partnership, Rockpool Films.
Alex Russell (Cut Snake, Unbroken) and James Elliot (coming up in Raker) have been making content together ever since they met at the National Institute of Dramatic Art while studying acting.
.From the beginning we had a wonderful, mutually beneficial creative partnership,. Russell tells If. .We.re fortunate that it.s something that we have been able to keep up. I remember in third year (of acting school) we made a pact, and that was to always, always work together . once a year at the very least. We said we must once a year do one project together . something that we.re passionate about and that we think is unique and something that didn.t seem to be around in the current spectrum.
.That.s what we have done,...
- 12/10/2014
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Fans of "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" will be happy to hear that star Andy Whitfield, who has been battling non-Hodgkins lymphoma, will return to Starz in January. "Spartacus" will return in a prequel series, starring John Hannah and Lucy Lawless, the Chicago Tribune's Watcher blog reports.
Contrary to rumors, the role of Spartacus will not be re-cast.
According to Starz, Whitfield is "responding well" to treatment and will appear as Spartacus in 2 out of 6 planned episodes. The prequel series will focus on the rise of the House of Batiatus, the gladiator academy, and will revolve around the relationship between Lawless' and Hannah's characters, Lucretia and Batiatus.
"The prequel story maintains the excitement and entertainment value of the first season of 'Spartacus,' giving audiences the engaging experience they've come to expect," Starz President and CEO Chris Albrecht said in a statement released Tuesday, May 11.
"Fortunately, Andy is responding to his treatments,...
Contrary to rumors, the role of Spartacus will not be re-cast.
According to Starz, Whitfield is "responding well" to treatment and will appear as Spartacus in 2 out of 6 planned episodes. The prequel series will focus on the rise of the House of Batiatus, the gladiator academy, and will revolve around the relationship between Lawless' and Hannah's characters, Lucretia and Batiatus.
"The prequel story maintains the excitement and entertainment value of the first season of 'Spartacus,' giving audiences the engaging experience they've come to expect," Starz President and CEO Chris Albrecht said in a statement released Tuesday, May 11.
"Fortunately, Andy is responding to his treatments,...
- 5/11/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Ande Cunningham's Duro, the younger of the two German Brothers, was a casualty of the first season of "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" (though he says he'd love to come back for the prequel). But that doesn't mean he didn't go down fighting. And that fighting took a lot of training.
"We were there for weeks, training our muscles, agility, acrobat-style stuff," the Aussie star tells Zap2it. "Lots of rolling and falling and jumping and hand-stands and stuff like that. For hours in the afternoons we'd train sword fighting. Not modern-day fencing, but it was a brutal slashing, stabbing kind of training."
The very first fight Cunningham filmed was with Manu Bennett, who plays the top Gladiator and former Champion of Capua Crixus. "He came at me like a freight train and I was just trying to dodge his blows," Cunningham says of Bennett. "There were a few busted...
"We were there for weeks, training our muscles, agility, acrobat-style stuff," the Aussie star tells Zap2it. "Lots of rolling and falling and jumping and hand-stands and stuff like that. For hours in the afternoons we'd train sword fighting. Not modern-day fencing, but it was a brutal slashing, stabbing kind of training."
The very first fight Cunningham filmed was with Manu Bennett, who plays the top Gladiator and former Champion of Capua Crixus. "He came at me like a freight train and I was just trying to dodge his blows," Cunningham says of Bennett. "There were a few busted...
- 4/26/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Ande Cunningham has admitted that he would love to return for a Spartacus prequel. The second season of the drama has been postponed following the news that star Andy Whitfield has been diagnosed with cancer, but later reports suggested that a prequel could be made in the meantime. Cunningham, whose character Duro died in the recent season finale, told Zap2It that he would like to return to the show. "No-one's had any word at the moment," he said. "So who knows? I'd love (more)...
- 4/26/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
The Season 1 finale of the new Starz show "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" saw Ande Cunningham's Duro, the younger of the two German Brothers, die in his brother Agron's (Daniel Feuerriegel) arms.
"When it came time to play that scene when I die in his arms, it was unthinkably sad," Ande tells Zap2it. "And what [Agron] was going through, to lose your little brother when you're trying to protect him for so long. It was so sad, it was really a gift of a storyline."
Despite being killed off in the season finale, Cunningham is still grateful for the part, which he received straight out of acting school. "It was kind of a dream job for me, a welcome change fom Shakespeare, although it's kind of Shakespearean in the language. To run around with the sword and to step on to the set ... your imagination just gets fired up, it's...
"When it came time to play that scene when I die in his arms, it was unthinkably sad," Ande tells Zap2it. "And what [Agron] was going through, to lose your little brother when you're trying to protect him for so long. It was so sad, it was really a gift of a storyline."
Despite being killed off in the season finale, Cunningham is still grateful for the part, which he received straight out of acting school. "It was kind of a dream job for me, a welcome change fom Shakespeare, although it's kind of Shakespearean in the language. To run around with the sword and to step on to the set ... your imagination just gets fired up, it's...
- 4/24/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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