Windmill Theatre Company play Beep is being adapted into a mixed-media series for ABC Kids, with production underway in Adelaide.
Produced by Windmill Pictures, Beep and Mort tells the story of two best friends from different worlds, solving their daily dilemmas and unexpected challenges through invention, play and adventure.
The series, aimed at pre-schoolers, is designed by Jonathon Oxlade and directed by Rosemary Myers, both of whom worked on the 2016 film Girl Asleep and several Windmill live shows, including the recent stage adaptation of Bluey.
The writing team consists of Charlotte Rose Hamlyn, Simon Butters, Amy Stewart, Hunter Page-Lochard, Wendy Hanna, and Lorin Clarke.
Myers said the creative development of the series drew on the concept’s theatrical roots while also integrating new technologies.
“The result is a contemporary hybrid form of puppetry that blends hand and rod puppets with post animated object puppets,” she said.
“In a screen landscape dominated by animation,...
Produced by Windmill Pictures, Beep and Mort tells the story of two best friends from different worlds, solving their daily dilemmas and unexpected challenges through invention, play and adventure.
The series, aimed at pre-schoolers, is designed by Jonathon Oxlade and directed by Rosemary Myers, both of whom worked on the 2016 film Girl Asleep and several Windmill live shows, including the recent stage adaptation of Bluey.
The writing team consists of Charlotte Rose Hamlyn, Simon Butters, Amy Stewart, Hunter Page-Lochard, Wendy Hanna, and Lorin Clarke.
Myers said the creative development of the series drew on the concept’s theatrical roots while also integrating new technologies.
“The result is a contemporary hybrid form of puppetry that blends hand and rod puppets with post animated object puppets,” she said.
“In a screen landscape dominated by animation,...
- 9/30/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
‘Away.’
Grant Dodwell and his partners in Australian National Theatre Live are building a business by screening films of live performances of plays in cinemas across the country.
Dodwell, fellow actor Raj Sidhu and former journalist, ABC and Nine Network executive producer Peter Hiscock launched the company in 2016 after receiving a federal government catalyst grant.
Their first production, Liberty Equality Fraternity by Mother & Son’s Geoffrey Atherden screened in cinemas in 2016.
That was followed by David Williamson’s Emerald City, the 15th anniversary edition of the Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf Revue, Rumpelstiltskin, a kids’ musical by Rosemary Myers and Julianne O′Brien, and The Dapto Chaser, a comedy about a greyhound racing family by Mary Rachel Brown.
For the first time they are partnering this month with Dendy Cinemas and the Independent Cinemas Association to show the Stc/Malthouse Theatre revival of Michael Gow’s Away.
ANTLive filmed the 1960s-set play,...
Grant Dodwell and his partners in Australian National Theatre Live are building a business by screening films of live performances of plays in cinemas across the country.
Dodwell, fellow actor Raj Sidhu and former journalist, ABC and Nine Network executive producer Peter Hiscock launched the company in 2016 after receiving a federal government catalyst grant.
Their first production, Liberty Equality Fraternity by Mother & Son’s Geoffrey Atherden screened in cinemas in 2016.
That was followed by David Williamson’s Emerald City, the 15th anniversary edition of the Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf Revue, Rumpelstiltskin, a kids’ musical by Rosemary Myers and Julianne O′Brien, and The Dapto Chaser, a comedy about a greyhound racing family by Mary Rachel Brown.
For the first time they are partnering this month with Dendy Cinemas and the Independent Cinemas Association to show the Stc/Malthouse Theatre revival of Michael Gow’s Away.
ANTLive filmed the 1960s-set play,...
- 11/5/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Thanks to Gold Derby for the info – Mel Gibson and Hacksaw Ridge swept the awards down under, with a whopping ten wins: Best Picture “The Daughter” “Girl Asleep” “Goldstone” X...
- 12/8/2016
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
The Costa Rica International Film Festival (Crfic) has announced its complete lineup for its fifth edition. This year, 72 films have been chosen to represent the world’s best in independent cinema, with four world premieres and three Latin American premieres taking place, and over 60 features to be presented for the first time in the region.
“At Crfic we are interested in approaching the idea of artistic diversity; covering a broad spectrum of styles and proposals found in contemporary national and international cinema,” said Marcelo Quesada, Artistic Director for the Festival. “Our identity and our program is built around a free, coherent and risky cinema that moves away from the usual places and bring us closer to different voices and world visions from over 30 countries.”
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“At Crfic we are interested in approaching the idea of artistic diversity; covering a broad spectrum of styles and proposals found in contemporary national and international cinema,” said Marcelo Quesada, Artistic Director for the Festival. “Our identity and our program is built around a free, coherent and risky cinema that moves away from the usual places and bring us closer to different voices and world visions from over 30 countries.”
Read More: Costa Rica Selects Esteban Ramirez’ ‘Presos’ as Oscar Submission
Taking place at the capital city of San José, the festival will run from December...
- 11/30/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
A 2015 Meet the Nominees event.
Aacta has unveiled the full schedule for its Meet the Nominees series: nine events featuring Aacta nominees presented by Aftrs.
"We.re thrilled to be partnering with Aacta to present the 2016 Meet the Nominees events; an exclusive opportunity to hear the inside stories from Australia.s leading film, television and documentary makers," Aftrs CEO Neil Peplow said..
This year.s events will feature nominated editor Veronika Jenet Ase (The Daughter); editor Andrew Cooke (Hitting Home); sound designer Liam Egan Assg (The Daughter); editor Steven Robinson Ase (In The Shadow of the Hill); and sound designers Yulia Akerholt Assg (The Daughter) and Robert Mackenzie (Hacksaw Ridge).
Director Rosemary Myers (Girl Asleep) will feature on the panel for The Directors event, alongside Bentley Dean Adg and Martin Butler Adg, whose film Tanna was recently announced as Australia.s foreign language Oscars entry.
Bentley Dean Adg will also...
Aacta has unveiled the full schedule for its Meet the Nominees series: nine events featuring Aacta nominees presented by Aftrs.
"We.re thrilled to be partnering with Aacta to present the 2016 Meet the Nominees events; an exclusive opportunity to hear the inside stories from Australia.s leading film, television and documentary makers," Aftrs CEO Neil Peplow said..
This year.s events will feature nominated editor Veronika Jenet Ase (The Daughter); editor Andrew Cooke (Hitting Home); sound designer Liam Egan Assg (The Daughter); editor Steven Robinson Ase (In The Shadow of the Hill); and sound designers Yulia Akerholt Assg (The Daughter) and Robert Mackenzie (Hacksaw Ridge).
Director Rosemary Myers (Girl Asleep) will feature on the panel for The Directors event, alongside Bentley Dean Adg and Martin Butler Adg, whose film Tanna was recently announced as Australia.s foreign language Oscars entry.
Bentley Dean Adg will also...
- 11/14/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The trailer of “Shivaay” opens to Ajay Devgn’s trademark piercing gaze, lingering there for a moment before lurching into three minutes of continuous movement as he hurtles, untethered, through Himalayan avalanches and between cartwheeling vehicles. His distinctive baritone cuts through the visuals as he narrates “shlokas” (verses) from Vedic Hindu scriptures describing the transformative capabilities of the deity Shiva, the destroyer of evil and the inspiration for the film’s lead character.
Despite some of these reference points, “’Shivaay’ is not a religious or mythological movie,” Devgn told press during a recent trip to New York, the first of four cities in a U.S-wide promotional tour for the October 28 release, which marks his second as a director. “However, it is firmly based in the idea of faith, and the main character draws heavily from Lord Shiva, both in terms of his spirituality and his superpowers.”
The result is unmistakably Indian,...
Despite some of these reference points, “’Shivaay’ is not a religious or mythological movie,” Devgn told press during a recent trip to New York, the first of four cities in a U.S-wide promotional tour for the October 28 release, which marks his second as a director. “However, it is firmly based in the idea of faith, and the main character draws heavily from Lord Shiva, both in terms of his spirituality and his superpowers.”
The result is unmistakably Indian,...
- 10/5/2016
- by Anisha Jhaveri
- Indiewire
When asked what’s changed in television since “Sex and the City” went off the air, Sarah Jessica Parker has no problem citing a number of “big” differences. From the sheer quantity of shows to how and when they’re being consumed, it’s clear the film and television actress — who hasn’t starred in a series since her landmark HBO comedy ended in 2004 — is still quite in tune with the medium’s momentous, ongoing development.
Yet one statement is more telling than most, especially in regard to her new black comedy, “Divorce.”
“How do you make something you believe in, knowing you get one chance with people?” Parker said in an interview with IndieWire. “In a crowded field of really incredible programming, how do you call attention to yourself but not tell a story to call attention to yourself? You have to get eyeballs, [but] you can’t try to...
Yet one statement is more telling than most, especially in regard to her new black comedy, “Divorce.”
“How do you make something you believe in, knowing you get one chance with people?” Parker said in an interview with IndieWire. “In a crowded field of really incredible programming, how do you call attention to yourself but not tell a story to call attention to yourself? You have to get eyeballs, [but] you can’t try to...
- 10/4/2016
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Kelly Reichardt’s films capture a sense of American identity that has lost its way. It began with her debut, “River of Grass” (1994, and newly restored last year), and continues all the way through “Certain Women,” which opens this month. “These characters are all trying to acquire something,” Reichardt said when we spoke at the Sundance Film Festival, where “Certain Women” premiered. “They all want something.”
But for Reichardt’s characters, fulfillment is always just beyond reach.
In “River of Grass,” a young man (Larry Fessenden) crashing at his grandmother’s house ignores the alarm clock in a mostly barren room, adorned only with a tattered American flag. Later, he hits the road with a bored housewife (Lisa Bowman), on the lam for a murder they didn’t commit, pursuing the romanticism of an escape.
Read More: ‘Certain Women’ Clips: Kristen Stewart And Michelle Williams Star In Kelly Reichardt’s...
But for Reichardt’s characters, fulfillment is always just beyond reach.
In “River of Grass,” a young man (Larry Fessenden) crashing at his grandmother’s house ignores the alarm clock in a mostly barren room, adorned only with a tattered American flag. Later, he hits the road with a bored housewife (Lisa Bowman), on the lam for a murder they didn’t commit, pursuing the romanticism of an escape.
Read More: ‘Certain Women’ Clips: Kristen Stewart And Michelle Williams Star In Kelly Reichardt’s...
- 10/3/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Copenhagen’s festival, in new autumn dates, will show a record 226 features kicking off with Doctor Strange.
Copenhagen’s Cph Pix festival, now in its new autumn dates, has revealed a record 226 feature films in its lineup.
The 14-day festival (Oct 27 - Nov 9), which now also includes kids and family festival Buster, will show 46 features for young people in its daytime programmes and 180 films for teenagers and adults in the evenings.
As previously reported, the eighth edition of festival will open with a gala premiere of Marvel’s Doctor Strange (Mads Mikkelsen will attend).
There will be four main awards at Pix: the New Talent Grand Pix for a debut feature (with $11,200 (€10,000)); the Politiken Audience Award that comes with Danish distribution support, and the Nordisk Film Fond prizes for best children’s feature and best children’s short.
Terence Davies [pictured] will be given a full retrospective as well as showing his latest film A Quiet Passion and participating...
Copenhagen’s Cph Pix festival, now in its new autumn dates, has revealed a record 226 feature films in its lineup.
The 14-day festival (Oct 27 - Nov 9), which now also includes kids and family festival Buster, will show 46 features for young people in its daytime programmes and 180 films for teenagers and adults in the evenings.
As previously reported, the eighth edition of festival will open with a gala premiere of Marvel’s Doctor Strange (Mads Mikkelsen will attend).
There will be four main awards at Pix: the New Talent Grand Pix for a debut feature (with $11,200 (€10,000)); the Politiken Audience Award that comes with Danish distribution support, and the Nordisk Film Fond prizes for best children’s feature and best children’s short.
Terence Davies [pictured] will be given a full retrospective as well as showing his latest film A Quiet Passion and participating...
- 10/3/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
IndieWire’s Springboard column profiles up-and-comers in the film industry worthy of your attention.
Growing up is hard enough without the added issue of accidentally ending up in a weirdo parallel universe that maybe — just maybe! — isn’t so far estranged from the real world as one would like to think. That’s the idea behind director Rosemary Myers’ stylish and super-fun feature debut, “Girl Asleep.” The Australian coming-of-age tale, set in the oh-so-swinging seventies, follows the charmingly awkward Greta Driscoll (Bethany Whitmore) as she makes the jump into adulthood, care of a very weird fifteenth birthday party. Greta’s life is weird enough — she recently switched schools and is being bullied, her best pal Elliott (Harrison Feldman) wants more and her parents are totally nuts — but things go totally topside when she slips into another dimension, care of a surprise birthday party with shocks to spare.
Read More: ‘Girl Asleep...
Growing up is hard enough without the added issue of accidentally ending up in a weirdo parallel universe that maybe — just maybe! — isn’t so far estranged from the real world as one would like to think. That’s the idea behind director Rosemary Myers’ stylish and super-fun feature debut, “Girl Asleep.” The Australian coming-of-age tale, set in the oh-so-swinging seventies, follows the charmingly awkward Greta Driscoll (Bethany Whitmore) as she makes the jump into adulthood, care of a very weird fifteenth birthday party. Greta’s life is weird enough — she recently switched schools and is being bullied, her best pal Elliott (Harrison Feldman) wants more and her parents are totally nuts — but things go totally topside when she slips into another dimension, care of a surprise birthday party with shocks to spare.
Read More: ‘Girl Asleep...
- 9/30/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Adam Driver didn’t have to think too hard about whether to accept the lead role in Jim Jarmusch’s lyrical drama “Paterson,” about a bus driver and poet with the same name as his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey. Driver was such a fan of Jarmusch’s movies that he decided to take the part even before reading the script or meeting with the writer-director, he told IndieWire earlier this month at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Read More: Jim Jarmusch on Adam Driver, ‘Paterson,’ and the Movies He Refuses to Watch
“Whatever he would have said, I would have said yes to,” Driver said, adding that he once drove an hour and a half to an arthouse theater in Indiana to see Jarmusch’s 2003 film, “Coffee and Cigarettes.” “In my mind, I said that even if I don’t like [the script], I’m going to do it. It was...
Read More: Jim Jarmusch on Adam Driver, ‘Paterson,’ and the Movies He Refuses to Watch
“Whatever he would have said, I would have said yes to,” Driver said, adding that he once drove an hour and a half to an arthouse theater in Indiana to see Jarmusch’s 2003 film, “Coffee and Cigarettes.” “In my mind, I said that even if I don’t like [the script], I’m going to do it. It was...
- 9/30/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
Yikes. What a terrible weekend we just had, not only for the new movies released but also for the Weekend Warrior’s predictions. Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks’ Sully won its second weekend in a row with just under $22 million, but as far as the new movies, neither Lionsgate’s Blair Witch nor Universal’s Bridget Jones’s Baby did very well, putting the last nail in the coffin (hopefully) for sequels/remakes trying to play upon nostalgia that just isn’t there. (Good luck to the Rings movie opening next month!) Blair Witch ended up with $9.6 million to take second place and both Bridget Jones’s Baby and Oliver Stone’s Snowden ended up with around $8 million, so...
This Past Weekend:
Yikes. What a terrible weekend we just had, not only for the new movies released but also for the Weekend Warrior’s predictions. Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks’ Sully won its second weekend in a row with just under $22 million, but as far as the new movies, neither Lionsgate’s Blair Witch nor Universal’s Bridget Jones’s Baby did very well, putting the last nail in the coffin (hopefully) for sequels/remakes trying to play upon nostalgia that just isn’t there. (Good luck to the Rings movie opening next month!) Blair Witch ended up with $9.6 million to take second place and both Bridget Jones’s Baby and Oliver Stone’s Snowden ended up with around $8 million, so...
- 9/21/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Bridget Jones's Baby.
Bridget Jones's Baby has bowed on top of the box office, with weekend takings of close to $3.7 million from 296 screens; a screen average of $12,338.
Jones's third screen outing now sits on $5.7 million, having already taken over $2 million from preview screenings.
The romantic comedy, directed by Sharon Macguire, narrowly pipped fellow Universal title The Secret Life of Pets, which brought in $3.5 million from its second weekend to total $11.8 million.
Now in its second week, Roadshow's Sully fell 19 per cent to take $2.1 million, boosting its cume to $6.4 million.
In a week of debuts, Disney's Pete's Dragon made $985,214 from 286 screens, while Roadshow's Blair Witch rung up $704,122 from 181. StudioCanal's The Beatles: Eight Days a Week was close behind, bowing on $699,865 from 169 screens.
After three weeks in release, Sony's Don't Breathe fell 45 per cent over to bring in $526,690, bringing its total to $3.6 million.
Behind it was Roadshow's Nerve, which took $465,383 in its...
Bridget Jones's Baby has bowed on top of the box office, with weekend takings of close to $3.7 million from 296 screens; a screen average of $12,338.
Jones's third screen outing now sits on $5.7 million, having already taken over $2 million from preview screenings.
The romantic comedy, directed by Sharon Macguire, narrowly pipped fellow Universal title The Secret Life of Pets, which brought in $3.5 million from its second weekend to total $11.8 million.
Now in its second week, Roadshow's Sully fell 19 per cent to take $2.1 million, boosting its cume to $6.4 million.
In a week of debuts, Disney's Pete's Dragon made $985,214 from 286 screens, while Roadshow's Blair Witch rung up $704,122 from 181. StudioCanal's The Beatles: Eight Days a Week was close behind, bowing on $699,865 from 169 screens.
After three weeks in release, Sony's Don't Breathe fell 45 per cent over to bring in $526,690, bringing its total to $3.6 million.
Behind it was Roadshow's Nerve, which took $465,383 in its...
- 9/19/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Sensory-swooning coming-of-age film is the cinematic equivalent of No-Doz ground up with a bit of LSD, then baked into a birthday cake
The enchanting cinematic debut of Rosemary Myers, a stalwart of local theatre, is a sensory-swooning coming-of-age film. The sort of weirdly alluring experience that zaps viewers wide awake while lulling them into dreamy la-la land: the cinematic equivalent of No-Doz ground up with a bit of LSD, then baked into a birthday cake.
What a fabulous addition to Australian cinema’s expanding arsenal of talent making the jump from stage to screen. Like recent feature film kick-offs from theatre maestros Stephen Page (Spear) and Simon Stone (The Daughter), who you might have expected to hand over dialogue-larded gabfests, Girl Asleep is intoxicatingly cinematic.
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The enchanting cinematic debut of Rosemary Myers, a stalwart of local theatre, is a sensory-swooning coming-of-age film. The sort of weirdly alluring experience that zaps viewers wide awake while lulling them into dreamy la-la land: the cinematic equivalent of No-Doz ground up with a bit of LSD, then baked into a birthday cake.
What a fabulous addition to Australian cinema’s expanding arsenal of talent making the jump from stage to screen. Like recent feature film kick-offs from theatre maestros Stephen Page (Spear) and Simon Stone (The Daughter), who you might have expected to hand over dialogue-larded gabfests, Girl Asleep is intoxicatingly cinematic.
Continue reading...
- 9/9/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Stephen Lang in Don't Breathe.
Horror film Don't Breathe has pipped Bad Moms and Suicide Squad to come in at the top of the Australian box office.
Debuting on 153 screens, the Sony film rang up close to $1.3 million, with a screen average of $8,568..
Last week's champ, Bad Moms, dropped thirty-five percent in its fourth week to take a fraction less over the weekend off 283 screens. The Roadshow comedy has now made $12.5 million overall.
WB's Suicide Squad is on 275 screens and dropped forty-three percent in its fifth week to bring its cume to over $32 million, while Roadshow's Nerve, starring Dave Franco and Emma Roberts, debuted on 196 screens and racked up just shy of $1 million ($996,037).
Uni's Jason Bourne dropped a mere sixteen percent in week six, earning $759,322 off 190 screens to bring its pot to $20.6 million, while Sony's Sausage Party crossed the $8 million mark after four weeks in release.
Dropping forty-five percent in...
Horror film Don't Breathe has pipped Bad Moms and Suicide Squad to come in at the top of the Australian box office.
Debuting on 153 screens, the Sony film rang up close to $1.3 million, with a screen average of $8,568..
Last week's champ, Bad Moms, dropped thirty-five percent in its fourth week to take a fraction less over the weekend off 283 screens. The Roadshow comedy has now made $12.5 million overall.
WB's Suicide Squad is on 275 screens and dropped forty-three percent in its fifth week to bring its cume to over $32 million, while Roadshow's Nerve, starring Dave Franco and Emma Roberts, debuted on 196 screens and racked up just shy of $1 million ($996,037).
Uni's Jason Bourne dropped a mere sixteen percent in week six, earning $759,322 off 190 screens to bring its pot to $20.6 million, while Sony's Sausage Party crossed the $8 million mark after four weeks in release.
Dropping forty-five percent in...
- 9/4/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Matthew Whittet, Rosemary Myers, Jo Dyer and Gillian Armstrong.
Girl Asleep, directed by Rosemary Myers, written by Matthew Whittet and produced by Jo Dyer, has won CinefestOZ's $100,000 Film Prize.
Saturday evening's awards ceremony in Busselton also saw the festival's Screen Legend award handed out to Gillian Armstrong.
Girl Asleep was selected ahead of Jasper Jones, Spin Out and The Death and Life of Otto Bloom. CinefestOZ received more than 30 submissions for the prize, with the winner decided by a jury made up of Armstrong, producer Sue Taylor (Looking for Grace), Dp Garry Phillips (The Railway Man) and actor-director Damian Walshe-Howling.
The jury watched each of the finalists with an audience before coming together to deliberate. Armstrong said the decision was unanimous.
Presenting the prize, Premier and Tourism Minister Colin Barnett announced that the Wa Government had secured a new two-year deal to continue sponsoring the event..
.CinefestOZ is a great...
Girl Asleep, directed by Rosemary Myers, written by Matthew Whittet and produced by Jo Dyer, has won CinefestOZ's $100,000 Film Prize.
Saturday evening's awards ceremony in Busselton also saw the festival's Screen Legend award handed out to Gillian Armstrong.
Girl Asleep was selected ahead of Jasper Jones, Spin Out and The Death and Life of Otto Bloom. CinefestOZ received more than 30 submissions for the prize, with the winner decided by a jury made up of Armstrong, producer Sue Taylor (Looking for Grace), Dp Garry Phillips (The Railway Man) and actor-director Damian Walshe-Howling.
The jury watched each of the finalists with an audience before coming together to deliberate. Armstrong said the decision was unanimous.
Presenting the prize, Premier and Tourism Minister Colin Barnett announced that the Wa Government had secured a new two-year deal to continue sponsoring the event..
.CinefestOZ is a great...
- 8/29/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Quirky coming-of-age-film directed by Rosemary Myers and written by Matthew Whittet beats Jasper Jones, Spin Out and The Death and Life of Otto Bloom
Quirky coming-of-age film Girl Asleep has won the richest prize in Australian film, beating the home favourite Jasper Jones at the CinefestOz festival in Wa.
Directed by Rosemary Myers and written by Matthew Whittet, Girl Asleep was chosen over three other finalists to win the $100,000 prize.
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Quirky coming-of-age film Girl Asleep has won the richest prize in Australian film, beating the home favourite Jasper Jones at the CinefestOz festival in Wa.
Directed by Rosemary Myers and written by Matthew Whittet, Girl Asleep was chosen over three other finalists to win the $100,000 prize.
Continue reading...
- 8/28/2016
- by Australian Associated Press
- The Guardian - Film News
Elizabeth Rayne Aug 24, 2016
Teenage angst, bad hair and portals to another dimension in 70s Australia. Here's the new trailer for the great-looking Girl Asleep...
Ever had a dream that was so thoroughly improbable and weird that you often wondered whether you’d actually gone to sleep or fallen through a portal?
Girl Asleep is a Pretty in Pink meets Where The Wild Things Are anti-fairy tale that explores the bizarre and fantastical corners of one teen’s overactive imagination. Rosemary Myers’ quirky retro film is adapted from a screenplay by Matthew Whittet (who first wrote it as a stage production) and stars Whittet, Bethan Whitmore, Tilly Cobham-Hervy, Imogen Archer, Harrison Feldman, Amber McMahon, Eamon Farren, Maiah Stewardston.
Seventies-era Australia is just as awkward a time and place as any to go through an adolescent crisis. As if high school isn’t enough of a horror, 14-year-old Greta Driscoll has to...
Teenage angst, bad hair and portals to another dimension in 70s Australia. Here's the new trailer for the great-looking Girl Asleep...
Ever had a dream that was so thoroughly improbable and weird that you often wondered whether you’d actually gone to sleep or fallen through a portal?
Girl Asleep is a Pretty in Pink meets Where The Wild Things Are anti-fairy tale that explores the bizarre and fantastical corners of one teen’s overactive imagination. Rosemary Myers’ quirky retro film is adapted from a screenplay by Matthew Whittet (who first wrote it as a stage production) and stars Whittet, Bethan Whitmore, Tilly Cobham-Hervy, Imogen Archer, Harrison Feldman, Amber McMahon, Eamon Farren, Maiah Stewardston.
Seventies-era Australia is just as awkward a time and place as any to go through an adolescent crisis. As if high school isn’t enough of a horror, 14-year-old Greta Driscoll has to...
- 8/24/2016
- Den of Geek
After screening at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was nominated for a Crystal Bear, the first U.S. trailer has been released through Oscilloscope Labs for the familial coming of age dramedy Girl Asleep, the directorial debut of Rosemary Myers.
Girl Asleep concerns Greta Driscoll (Bethany Whitmore), who struggles with growing up and leaving behind the comfort of childhood as she turns 15. The first day of high school, meeting boys, and dealing with her weird parents are all part of the package for Greta, who must circumvent her fears and anxieties. Described as, “a blend of Napoleon Dynamite and Where the Wild Things Are by way of Wes Anderson,” Girl Asleep looks to be a strange fable that also seems to toy with a bit of Pan’s Labyrinth.
See the trailer below:
In this vibrant portrayal of Australian adolescence, Greta Driscoll’s bubble of obscure loserdom is...
Girl Asleep concerns Greta Driscoll (Bethany Whitmore), who struggles with growing up and leaving behind the comfort of childhood as she turns 15. The first day of high school, meeting boys, and dealing with her weird parents are all part of the package for Greta, who must circumvent her fears and anxieties. Described as, “a blend of Napoleon Dynamite and Where the Wild Things Are by way of Wes Anderson,” Girl Asleep looks to be a strange fable that also seems to toy with a bit of Pan’s Labyrinth.
See the trailer below:
In this vibrant portrayal of Australian adolescence, Greta Driscoll’s bubble of obscure loserdom is...
- 8/19/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
"No party, alright!" Oscilloscope has debuted a trailer for the upcoming release of an Australian coming-of-age indie comedy called Girl Asleep, the filmmaking debut of theater director Rosemary Myers. The film stars Bethany Whitmore as Greta Driscoll, a girl about to turn fifteen whose whole life is thrown into disarray when her parents invite the whole school to her surprise birthday party. It has been described as "equal measures Wes Anderson and Lewis Carroll", which sounds quite appealing, and an "enchanting journey into the absurd – and sometimes scary – depths of the teenage mind." The cast includes Harrison Feldman, Matthew Whittet, Amber McMahon, Eamon Farren and others. This looks so weird and so wacky and definitely Wes Anderson-inspired, but it seems like it will be fun to watch. Have a look below. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Rosemary Myers' Girl Asleep, found on YouTube: In this vibrant portrayal of Australian adolescence,...
- 8/19/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
What do you do when you’re a global martial arts and film sensation, the most dangerous undercover private contractor in the world and happen to be retired? For Jean-Claude van Damme, internationally recognizable actor and star of the new Amazon series “Jean-Claude Van Johnson,” he seems to spends his days relaxing in his lavish home.
Yesterday Amazon released the first official photos of Jcvd’s new pilot and today the first teaser trailer for the show has arrived. While the video doesn’t show much of the series’ plot, it does paint a satirical picture of what the retired movie star’s life looks like.
Read More: ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’ First Look: Jcvd Takes on the World’s Baddest Villains in New Amazon Series
The clip shows Van Damme spending his morning moisturizing with his personalized hygiene products, walking downstairs past his table filled with framed photos of dogs,...
Yesterday Amazon released the first official photos of Jcvd’s new pilot and today the first teaser trailer for the show has arrived. While the video doesn’t show much of the series’ plot, it does paint a satirical picture of what the retired movie star’s life looks like.
Read More: ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’ First Look: Jcvd Takes on the World’s Baddest Villains in New Amazon Series
The clip shows Van Damme spending his morning moisturizing with his personalized hygiene products, walking downstairs past his table filled with framed photos of dogs,...
- 8/18/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
“Do Not Resist” is the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival best documentary award-winner that reveals a rare and surprising look into the increasingly disturbing realities of American police culture.
Directed by Craig Atkinson, the film hopes to change perspectives on police militarization by showing protests in Ferguson to disagreements on Capitol Hill and dissecting the current state of policing in America. After premiering at Tribeca to rave reviews, the doc is now arriving to theaters courtesy of Vanish Films.
Read More: Tribeca Review: Prize-Winning Documentary ‘Do Not Resist’ Will Change Your Perspective on Police Militarization
The new trailer for the Atkinson’s directorial debut captures emotional and brutal exchanges between officers and young men and women. In one scene a young Ferguson protestor and a policeman who know each other shout at one another; “I’ve known you a long time,” the uniformed man says, with the protestor responding, “And y’all still killin’ us.
Directed by Craig Atkinson, the film hopes to change perspectives on police militarization by showing protests in Ferguson to disagreements on Capitol Hill and dissecting the current state of policing in America. After premiering at Tribeca to rave reviews, the doc is now arriving to theaters courtesy of Vanish Films.
Read More: Tribeca Review: Prize-Winning Documentary ‘Do Not Resist’ Will Change Your Perspective on Police Militarization
The new trailer for the Atkinson’s directorial debut captures emotional and brutal exchanges between officers and young men and women. In one scene a young Ferguson protestor and a policeman who know each other shout at one another; “I’ve known you a long time,” the uniformed man says, with the protestor responding, “And y’all still killin’ us.
- 8/18/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
After a successful festival-circuit run that included a Grand Jury Prize win at this summer’s Seattle International Film Festival, Rosemary Myers’ “Girl Asleep” is set to arrive in theaters late next month. Oscilloscope Laboratories has released the film’s first trailer, which you can watch below. What a country!
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Here’s the official synopsis: “In this vibrant portrayal of Australian adolescence, Greta Driscoll’s bubble of obscure loserdom is burst when her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and invite the whole school! Perfectly content being a wallflower, suddenly Greta’s flung far from her comfort zone into a distant, parallel place — a strange world that’s a little frightening and a lot weird, but only there can she find herself. Equal measures Wes Anderson and Lewis Carroll, ‘Girl Asleep’ is...
Read More: Film Acquisition Rundown: Oscilloscope Dates ‘Girl Asleep,’ 26 Aries Sets First Theatrical Release And More
Here’s the official synopsis: “In this vibrant portrayal of Australian adolescence, Greta Driscoll’s bubble of obscure loserdom is burst when her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and invite the whole school! Perfectly content being a wallflower, suddenly Greta’s flung far from her comfort zone into a distant, parallel place — a strange world that’s a little frightening and a lot weird, but only there can she find herself. Equal measures Wes Anderson and Lewis Carroll, ‘Girl Asleep’ is...
- 8/18/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
“You’re the Worst” is a phenomenal, must-see show that brings people together because, heck, who hasn’t had a hard time with love, happiness and life?! The critically acclaimed series from Stephen Falk is heading into its third season and the first trailer takes us back into the lives of the lost souls who are just trying to figure it all out.
Fans are introduced to “Orange Is The New Black” actress Samira Wiley, a therapist who is helping Gretchen (Aya Cash) with her depression and tells her, “Eventually a person has to start taking responsibility for their own life” — something that doesn’t sit well with Gretchen.
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Season 3 will pick up right where Season 2 left off, after Jimmy’s (Chris Geere) shocking “I love you.
Fans are introduced to “Orange Is The New Black” actress Samira Wiley, a therapist who is helping Gretchen (Aya Cash) with her depression and tells her, “Eventually a person has to start taking responsibility for their own life” — something that doesn’t sit well with Gretchen.
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Season 3 will pick up right where Season 2 left off, after Jimmy’s (Chris Geere) shocking “I love you.
- 8/18/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
As part of a 40th-anniversary celebration that will also see its soundtrack released for the first time, Nicolas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth” is being re-released in English cinemas this year. Recognized as one of David Bowie’s best onscreen performances along with films like “The Hunger” and “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence,” it’s endured as an arthouse sci-fi curio for decades. Watch the new trailer (courtesy of The Guardian) below.
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Cinematographer Anthony Richmond, who was closely involved in the new 4K restoration that will be gracing screens across the pond, says in a statement that “I had been disappointed with previous editions of the film for which I hadn’t been involved in the grading process. The colourist Steve Bearman and I have brought the new 4k restoration in...
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Cinematographer Anthony Richmond, who was closely involved in the new 4K restoration that will be gracing screens across the pond, says in a statement that “I had been disappointed with previous editions of the film for which I hadn’t been involved in the grading process. The colourist Steve Bearman and I have brought the new 4k restoration in...
- 8/18/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Nz producer Tom Hern among trio recommended for UK’s Production Finance Market.
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern (The Dark Horse) of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Hern previously produced well-travelled 2014 drama The Dark Horse, which played at Toronto, Rotterdam and Cph Pix.
Producers Philippa Campey (The Turning) and Jamie Houge (The Lookalike) have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will...
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern (The Dark Horse) of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Hern previously produced well-travelled 2014 drama The Dark Horse, which played at Toronto, Rotterdam and Cph Pix.
Producers Philippa Campey (The Turning) and Jamie Houge (The Lookalike) have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will...
- 8/16/2016
- ScreenDaily
Nz producer Tom Hern among trio recommended for UK’s Production Finance Market.
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Producers Philippa Campey and Jamie Houge have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will seek co-production partners for her Edinburgh-set female detective thriller Switchblade Electric.
The 65th Miff wrapped its programme on August 14, after a 17-day event that straddles...
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Producers Philippa Campey and Jamie Houge have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will seek co-production partners for her Edinburgh-set female detective thriller Switchblade Electric.
The 65th Miff wrapped its programme on August 14, after a 17-day event that straddles...
- 8/16/2016
- ScreenDaily
Teresa Palmer and Andrew Garfield in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge.
The Aacta Awards longlist for feature films was unveiled this morning, with 24 Australian features named.
The eligible films are A Few Less Men, A Month of Sundays, Beast, Boys in the Trees, Down Under, Early Winter, Embedded, Girl Asleep, Gods of Egypt, Goldstone, Hacksaw Ridge, Joe Cinque's Consolation, Looking for Grace, Pawno, Red Billabong, Scare Campaign, Spear, Spin Out, Spirit of the Game, Sucker, Tanna, The Daughter, The Menkoff Method and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
That list will be winnowed down once voting begins after the official screenings program, with the nominees for the AACTAs to be announced in October.
The screenings program for AFI and Aacta members runs throughout August and September, and will open with a preview screening of A Few Less Men in Sydney on August 29 at Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction, and in Melbourne on August 30 at Cinema Nova.
The Aacta Awards longlist for feature films was unveiled this morning, with 24 Australian features named.
The eligible films are A Few Less Men, A Month of Sundays, Beast, Boys in the Trees, Down Under, Early Winter, Embedded, Girl Asleep, Gods of Egypt, Goldstone, Hacksaw Ridge, Joe Cinque's Consolation, Looking for Grace, Pawno, Red Billabong, Scare Campaign, Spear, Spin Out, Spirit of the Game, Sucker, Tanna, The Daughter, The Menkoff Method and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
That list will be winnowed down once voting begins after the official screenings program, with the nominees for the AACTAs to be announced in October.
The screenings program for AFI and Aacta members runs throughout August and September, and will open with a preview screening of A Few Less Men in Sydney on August 29 at Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction, and in Melbourne on August 30 at Cinema Nova.
- 8/10/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Gillian Armstrong, Tania Chambers, Rosemary Blight and Sacha Horler at the Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories and Brilliant Careers launch.
Last month saw Screen Australia unveil the recipients of its Gender Matters funding, with a who.s who of the local industry gathered at Sa.s Ultimo headquarters. A couple of weeks later, Screen Nsw announced that any TV dramas hoping to secure financial backing would need to have a female writer, director, or producer onboard to qualify. All the talk about correcting the stats is no longer empty politesse: it.s happening.
With that in mind, there.s never been a better time to unveil If.s very first women in film and TV issue. Inside, we check in with Foxtel.s Head of Drama Penny Win and Goalpost Pictures. Kylie du Fresne and Rosemary Blight. There.s a wide-ranging chat with eOne Australia.s acquisitions and development team and...
Last month saw Screen Australia unveil the recipients of its Gender Matters funding, with a who.s who of the local industry gathered at Sa.s Ultimo headquarters. A couple of weeks later, Screen Nsw announced that any TV dramas hoping to secure financial backing would need to have a female writer, director, or producer onboard to qualify. All the talk about correcting the stats is no longer empty politesse: it.s happening.
With that in mind, there.s never been a better time to unveil If.s very first women in film and TV issue. Inside, we check in with Foxtel.s Head of Drama Penny Win and Goalpost Pictures. Kylie du Fresne and Rosemary Blight. There.s a wide-ranging chat with eOne Australia.s acquisitions and development team and...
- 8/5/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Texas is continuing to solidify its status as a hub for up-and-coming filmmakers, and the inaugural Women Texas Film Festival (WTxFF) is helping the cause. Taking place Aug. 19–21 in Dallas, the female-centric fest has announced its first film slate, which includes six feature films and 31 shorts focused on female-driven stories with women filmmakers behind the scenes. (In order to qualify for entrance, films must have at least one woman in a key creative role such as writer, director, editor, cinematographer, composer, or producer, according to the festival’s website.) Set to open the three-day celebration is Australia’s “Girl Asleep,” about a young woman having a hard time letting go of her childhood. The film, directed by Rosemary Myers, picked up accolades at the Seattle International Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury Prize, as well as the Futurewave Youth Jury Award. Also on the schedule are panels aimed at discussing...
- 7/29/2016
- backstage.com
Girl Asleep.
Rosemary Myers' coming-of-age drama Girl Asleep will get an Australian theatrical run via Umbrella Entertainment beginning September 8.
Starring Bethany Whitmore and Harrison Feldman,.Girl Asleep.debuted at the Adelaide Film Festival last year, where it was the fastest selling title in Aff history and won the Best Feature People Choice's Award.
The film has since screened to festival audiences in Berlin, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Jeonju, Bogota, New York City, and Seattle, where it received the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Girl Asleep sold out the Sydney Film Festival, and will also screen at Miff. A series of advance screenings and Q&A sessions are also set to take place around the country:
Vic – September 2 – Nova Cinema Carlton – 6:30pm with director Rosemary Myers, composer Harry Covill and actors Bethany Whitmore and Harrison Feldman
Nsw – September 4 – Dendy Newton – 6.30pm with Rosemary Myers, writer/actor...
Rosemary Myers' coming-of-age drama Girl Asleep will get an Australian theatrical run via Umbrella Entertainment beginning September 8.
Starring Bethany Whitmore and Harrison Feldman,.Girl Asleep.debuted at the Adelaide Film Festival last year, where it was the fastest selling title in Aff history and won the Best Feature People Choice's Award.
The film has since screened to festival audiences in Berlin, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Jeonju, Bogota, New York City, and Seattle, where it received the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Girl Asleep sold out the Sydney Film Festival, and will also screen at Miff. A series of advance screenings and Q&A sessions are also set to take place around the country:
Vic – September 2 – Nova Cinema Carlton – 6:30pm with director Rosemary Myers, composer Harry Covill and actors Bethany Whitmore and Harrison Feldman
Nsw – September 4 – Dendy Newton – 6.30pm with Rosemary Myers, writer/actor...
- 7/26/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Oscilloscope Laboratories will open Rosemary Myers’ subversive debut feature, “Girl Asleep,” preceded by Amy Nicholson’s delightful, award-winning documentary short, “Pickle,” at Landmark NuArt in Los Angeles on September 23 and at Landmark Sunshine in New York on September 30, with a nationwide rollout to follow. Billed as “a vibrant portrayal of Australian adolescence” the film follows what happens when “Greta Driscoll’s bubble of obscure loserdom is burst [and] her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and invite the whole school! Perfectly content being a wallflower, suddenly Greta’s flung far from her comfort zone into a distant, parallel place.”
– NYC-based film production and theatrical distribution company 26 Aries will release their first theatrical release, Kurt Vincent’s...
– Oscilloscope Laboratories will open Rosemary Myers’ subversive debut feature, “Girl Asleep,” preceded by Amy Nicholson’s delightful, award-winning documentary short, “Pickle,” at Landmark NuArt in Los Angeles on September 23 and at Landmark Sunshine in New York on September 30, with a nationwide rollout to follow. Billed as “a vibrant portrayal of Australian adolescence” the film follows what happens when “Greta Driscoll’s bubble of obscure loserdom is burst [and] her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and invite the whole school! Perfectly content being a wallflower, suddenly Greta’s flung far from her comfort zone into a distant, parallel place.”
– NYC-based film production and theatrical distribution company 26 Aries will release their first theatrical release, Kurt Vincent’s...
- 7/15/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Amy Nicholson’s award-winning short “Pickle” has no business being as funny as it is. The award-winning 15-minute short is an energetic and amusing overview of what sounds like an entirely traumatizing experience, as it chronicles 25 years of Tom and Debbie Nicholson’s unbelievably bad luck with a bevy of rescue animals, from the eponymous Pickle the fish to an entire flock of ill-fated fowl.
The film’s official synopsis strikes the appropriate balance between off-kilter humor and almost overwhelming heartache: “Let us reflect on the brief existence of Pickle the fish. Although he could not swim, he was lovingly cared for by a couple that kept him propped up in a sponge. Along with an obese chicken, a cat with a heart condition, and a paraplegic possum, his life is a celebration of man’s eternal capacity to care for all creatures. He will be dearly missed.”
Read More: Attention,...
The film’s official synopsis strikes the appropriate balance between off-kilter humor and almost overwhelming heartache: “Let us reflect on the brief existence of Pickle the fish. Although he could not swim, he was lovingly cared for by a couple that kept him propped up in a sponge. Along with an obese chicken, a cat with a heart condition, and a paraplegic possum, his life is a celebration of man’s eternal capacity to care for all creatures. He will be dearly missed.”
Read More: Attention,...
- 6/22/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Harrison Feldman and Bethany Whitmore in Girl Asleep.
Rosemary Myers' feature debut, Girl Asleep, has taken out the Official Competition Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival (Siff). .Truly original, theatrical, and impeccably choreographed, this coming of age story woke us up. Stylish, quirky but substantive and with every frame filled with evocative and hilarious detail,. said Siff festival director and chief curator Carl Spence.
Girl Asleep held off strong competition including Australia.s other entrant, Holding The Man, and was also the recipient of the Siff Youth Jury Award for Best FutureWave Feature. The film, which will be released nationally on 8th September, also won the People.s Choice Award at the Adelaide Film Festival last November. Girl Asleep sold out the Sydney Film Festival, and will also screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival in July. The film was produced by Windmill Theatre Co and Soft Tread Enterprises.
girlasleepfilm.com...
Rosemary Myers' feature debut, Girl Asleep, has taken out the Official Competition Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival (Siff). .Truly original, theatrical, and impeccably choreographed, this coming of age story woke us up. Stylish, quirky but substantive and with every frame filled with evocative and hilarious detail,. said Siff festival director and chief curator Carl Spence.
Girl Asleep held off strong competition including Australia.s other entrant, Holding The Man, and was also the recipient of the Siff Youth Jury Award for Best FutureWave Feature. The film, which will be released nationally on 8th September, also won the People.s Choice Award at the Adelaide Film Festival last November. Girl Asleep sold out the Sydney Film Festival, and will also screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival in July. The film was produced by Windmill Theatre Co and Soft Tread Enterprises.
girlasleepfilm.com...
- 6/15/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
It's the end of a long journey for those involved in the massive Seattle International Film Festival with over three weeks in the books. Siff's Golden Space Needle Awards were handed out this morning and it was Matt Ross's Sundance-premiering Captain Fantastic that took home the top prize audience award. That film's star Viggo Mortensen was also the recipient of the festival's Outstanding Achievement Award in Acting. The Best Documentary audience prize went to Clay Tweel's fantastic Gleason (our review) and the Siff Competition Jury Prize was awarded to Rosemary Myers's Australian film Girl Asleep. There were quite a few other awards given out (fitting for such an enormous fest). Check out the full list below. Siff 2016 Golden Space Needle Audience Awards Siff celebrates...
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- 6/13/2016
- Screen Anarchy
The Seattle International Film Festival presented its award winners on June 12 as the 25-day event drew to a close after screening featured 421 films representing 85 countries.
Rosemary Myers’s Girl Asleep (Australia 2016) earned the grand jury prize as SIFF 2016 official competition winner, while Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic (pictured) was named best film in the Golden Space Needle audience awards.
In other juried awards, Alex Anwandter’s You’ll Never Be Alone (Chile 2016) prevailed in the Ibero-American Competition, while Sand Storm (Israel 2016) by Elite Zexer won the New Directors Competition.
Ned Crowley’s Middle Man (USA 2016) took top honours in the New...
Rosemary Myers’s Girl Asleep (Australia 2016) earned the grand jury prize as SIFF 2016 official competition winner, while Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic (pictured) was named best film in the Golden Space Needle audience awards.
In other juried awards, Alex Anwandter’s You’ll Never Be Alone (Chile 2016) prevailed in the Ibero-American Competition, while Sand Storm (Israel 2016) by Elite Zexer won the New Directors Competition.
Ned Crowley’s Middle Man (USA 2016) took top honours in the New...
- 6/12/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Tilda Cobham-Hervey.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey is joining Dev Patel and Armie Hammer in Hotel Mumbai, a film about the 2008 attacks on the Taj Mahal hotel.
The script was co-written by Hopscotch's John Collee (Happy Feet, Master and Commander) and South Australian Anthony Maras, who will direct.
The four-day siege on the hotel killed 160 people, with many more injured.
As first reported by THR, Basil Iwanyk is producing through his Thunder Road banner alongside Arclight's Gary Hamilton and Mike Gabrawy..
Andrew Ogilvie and Julie Ryan will also act as producers, with Kent Kubena and Jonathan Fuhrman executive producing.
Cobham-Hervey broke out in Sophie Hyde's 2013 feature 52 Tuesdays, and had a small role in Rosemary Myers' Girl Asleep, which premiered at Adelaide Film Fest last year before world premiering at the Berlinale.
She's repped by CAA and Australia's United Management.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey is joining Dev Patel and Armie Hammer in Hotel Mumbai, a film about the 2008 attacks on the Taj Mahal hotel.
The script was co-written by Hopscotch's John Collee (Happy Feet, Master and Commander) and South Australian Anthony Maras, who will direct.
The four-day siege on the hotel killed 160 people, with many more injured.
As first reported by THR, Basil Iwanyk is producing through his Thunder Road banner alongside Arclight's Gary Hamilton and Mike Gabrawy..
Andrew Ogilvie and Julie Ryan will also act as producers, with Kent Kubena and Jonathan Fuhrman executive producing.
Cobham-Hervey broke out in Sophie Hyde's 2013 feature 52 Tuesdays, and had a small role in Rosemary Myers' Girl Asleep, which premiered at Adelaide Film Fest last year before world premiering at the Berlinale.
She's repped by CAA and Australia's United Management.
- 6/10/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Alex Russell in Ivan Sen's Goldstone.
The full Sydney Film Festival line-up was unveiled this morning by Sff director Nashen Moodley, with five Australian feature premieres and eight Aussie documentary premieres.
In a coup for the festival, this year's Talks program at Sydney Town Hall's Hub will include a free talk with Mel Gibson, whose Blood Father is playing at the fest, as well as in-conversation events with Australian filmmakers such as Ivan Sen.
Sen's Goldstone, the festival's opening night film, will also feature in the official competition..
Other Aussie premieres include Abe Forsythe's Cronulla black comedy Down Under, Craig Boreham's queer drama Teenage Kicks, playwright Stephen Sewell's directorial debut Embedded, and Craig Anderson's thriller Red Christmas, starring E.T.'s Dee Wallace.
Also in the line-up are Aussie titles that premiered overseas last year, such as Beast, the McKeith brothers' Manila-set boxing drama that comes...
The full Sydney Film Festival line-up was unveiled this morning by Sff director Nashen Moodley, with five Australian feature premieres and eight Aussie documentary premieres.
In a coup for the festival, this year's Talks program at Sydney Town Hall's Hub will include a free talk with Mel Gibson, whose Blood Father is playing at the fest, as well as in-conversation events with Australian filmmakers such as Ivan Sen.
Sen's Goldstone, the festival's opening night film, will also feature in the official competition..
Other Aussie premieres include Abe Forsythe's Cronulla black comedy Down Under, Craig Boreham's queer drama Teenage Kicks, playwright Stephen Sewell's directorial debut Embedded, and Craig Anderson's thriller Red Christmas, starring E.T.'s Dee Wallace.
Also in the line-up are Aussie titles that premiered overseas last year, such as Beast, the McKeith brothers' Manila-set boxing drama that comes...
- 5/11/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Plus: Monkey King: Hero Is Back finds Us home; AFI Docs 2016 slate announced; and more…
Universal Pictures will release Pitch Perfect 3 on July 21, 2017. The comedy was originally set for August 4 of that year and will once again star Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson.
Elizabeth Banks returns to direct the threequel after her 2015 Pitch Perfect 2 (pictured) grossed $288m worldwide. Paul Brooks of Gold Circle Entertainment and Max Handelman and Banks of Brownstone Productions are the producers.
Viva Pictures and Directv have acquired Us rights to the animated feature, Monkey King: Hero Is Back. Jackie Chan voices the lead character. The film grossed $177m in China and will debut exclusively on Directv Cinema on May 26 followed by a theatrical release through Viva Pictures in late July.The American Film Institute on Monday announced the slate of films for AFI Docs 2016, running from June 22–26 in Washington, DC, and Silver Spring. As previously announced, Alex Gibney’s [link...
Universal Pictures will release Pitch Perfect 3 on July 21, 2017. The comedy was originally set for August 4 of that year and will once again star Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson.
Elizabeth Banks returns to direct the threequel after her 2015 Pitch Perfect 2 (pictured) grossed $288m worldwide. Paul Brooks of Gold Circle Entertainment and Max Handelman and Banks of Brownstone Productions are the producers.
Viva Pictures and Directv have acquired Us rights to the animated feature, Monkey King: Hero Is Back. Jackie Chan voices the lead character. The film grossed $177m in China and will debut exclusively on Directv Cinema on May 26 followed by a theatrical release through Viva Pictures in late July.The American Film Institute on Monday announced the slate of films for AFI Docs 2016, running from June 22–26 in Washington, DC, and Silver Spring. As previously announced, Alex Gibney’s [link...
- 5/9/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Director, Robert Connolly, will executive produce, Hive Fund winner, Guilty.
Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
- 5/2/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Director, Robert Connolly, will executive produce, Hive Fund winner, Guilty.
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Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
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Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
- 5/2/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Steve Le Marquand in Broke.
The 14th annual Gold Coast Film Festival will screen Australian features Spear, Broke, A Month of Sundays, Girl Asleep, Crushed, Observance and The Hunters Club, and play host to guests including Reg Cribb, David Stratton, Claudia Karvan and Gracie Otto.
Director Stephen Page will also make his debut at the fest..
Page and his leading man (and son) Hunter Page-Lochard, star of the upcoming ABC-tv series Cleverman, will attend a screening of Spear, followed by a Q&A session.
The team behind Broke - director Heath Davis, producer Luke Graham and actors Steve Le Marquand and Max Cullen - will attend the film's Queensland premiere.
The film follows the story of disgraced rugby league star and gambling addict, Ben .Bk. Kelly, who attempts to turn his life around with the support of his two biggest fans..
Writer Reg Cribb (Last Cab to Darwin) will attend...
The 14th annual Gold Coast Film Festival will screen Australian features Spear, Broke, A Month of Sundays, Girl Asleep, Crushed, Observance and The Hunters Club, and play host to guests including Reg Cribb, David Stratton, Claudia Karvan and Gracie Otto.
Director Stephen Page will also make his debut at the fest..
Page and his leading man (and son) Hunter Page-Lochard, star of the upcoming ABC-tv series Cleverman, will attend a screening of Spear, followed by a Q&A session.
The team behind Broke - director Heath Davis, producer Luke Graham and actors Steve Le Marquand and Max Cullen - will attend the film's Queensland premiere.
The film follows the story of disgraced rugby league star and gambling addict, Ben .Bk. Kelly, who attempts to turn his life around with the support of his two biggest fans..
Writer Reg Cribb (Last Cab to Darwin) will attend...
- 3/7/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Read More: 2016 Berlin International Film Festival Announces First Wave of Generation Section Rosemary Myers' feature film, "Girl Asleep," is an original and eclectic Australian film competing in the Generation 14plus section of the Berlin International Film Festival. The coming-of-age dramedy is set in a private school in the 1970s. In what looks like a more comical version of "Heavenly Creatures," the movie follows the daily and fantasy life of a chronically shy 15-year-old girl who is privately falling apart. "Girl Asleep" makes its international debut today, February 12, at the Berlinale. Read More: Kickstarter Launching New Partnership at Berlin International Film Festival ...
- 2/12/2016
- by Kristen Santer
- Indiewire
Harrison Feldman and Bethany Whitmore in Girl Asleep.
Bethany Whitmore can currently be seen on Sbs in The Family Law, and has appeared in the likes of.Mary and Max,.Summer Coda and.Mental.
But one thing the young screen veteran has never done is travel to an international film festival..
That will change next month when the actress travels to Berlin, where Girl Asleep, the stylish feature debut of South Australian theatre director Rosemary Myers and Whitmore's first starring role, will be opening the Berlinale's 2016 Generation 14plus sidebar, one of the festival's biggest..
International sales rights for the film have just been picked up by Artscope, Memento Film International's new talent banner.
Many of the film's cast and crew had worked together on the stage version of Girl Asleep, which premiered at the 2014 Adelaide Festival. Rather than be intimidated to join a group who'd already worked together, Whitmore found it a blessing.
Bethany Whitmore can currently be seen on Sbs in The Family Law, and has appeared in the likes of.Mary and Max,.Summer Coda and.Mental.
But one thing the young screen veteran has never done is travel to an international film festival..
That will change next month when the actress travels to Berlin, where Girl Asleep, the stylish feature debut of South Australian theatre director Rosemary Myers and Whitmore's first starring role, will be opening the Berlinale's 2016 Generation 14plus sidebar, one of the festival's biggest..
International sales rights for the film have just been picked up by Artscope, Memento Film International's new talent banner.
Many of the film's cast and crew had worked together on the stage version of Girl Asleep, which premiered at the 2014 Adelaide Festival. Rather than be intimidated to join a group who'd already worked together, Whitmore found it a blessing.
- 1/27/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Harrison Feldman and Bethany Whitmore in Girl Asleep.
Four Australian works have been selected for the 2016 Berlinale..
Goalpost Pictures' six-part Cleverman, South Australian feature Girl Asleep, and two shorts - Alice Englert's The Boyfriend Game and Bryn Chainey's Kill Your Dinner.- will screen during the festival.
.We are so proud of the Cleverman team,. Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said. .The inclusion in Berlinale is an incredible coup for the Australian television industry and a tremendous boost for Indigenous storytelling..
.The Berlinale Special Series is selected by Dieter Kosslick, the festival director", Cleverman producer Rosemary Blight said. "There are six series chosen from around the world and to be one of them is such an honour. It.s nerve-wracking and wonderful at the same time..
Cleverman is joined by theatre director Rosemary Myers. stylish feature debut Girl Asleep, which makes its international premiere as the opening night film in Generation 14plus.
Four Australian works have been selected for the 2016 Berlinale..
Goalpost Pictures' six-part Cleverman, South Australian feature Girl Asleep, and two shorts - Alice Englert's The Boyfriend Game and Bryn Chainey's Kill Your Dinner.- will screen during the festival.
.We are so proud of the Cleverman team,. Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said. .The inclusion in Berlinale is an incredible coup for the Australian television industry and a tremendous boost for Indigenous storytelling..
.The Berlinale Special Series is selected by Dieter Kosslick, the festival director", Cleverman producer Rosemary Blight said. "There are six series chosen from around the world and to be one of them is such an honour. It.s nerve-wracking and wonderful at the same time..
Cleverman is joined by theatre director Rosemary Myers. stylish feature debut Girl Asleep, which makes its international premiere as the opening night film in Generation 14plus.
- 1/25/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Berlinale receives record number of submissions.
A total of 63 feature-length and short films produced or co-produced in 35 countries have been invited to participate in the two Berlinale (Feb 11-21) competitions Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus.
The programme, aimed at children and youths, was selected from around 2,000 feature-length and short films submitted to Generation this year, which is more than in any year previously.
The selected films shed light on and challenge the nature of contradictions such as being child-like and being an adult, what is forbidden and what is permitted or the difference between subjective and objective reality.
“Young people world-wide are constantly confronted by dystopic realities not of their own making,” said Maryanne Redpath, head of Generation. “In the diverse films of this year’s programme we see them taking matters into their own hands.”
Generation 14plus
Synopses provided by festival
Wp = World Premiere / IP = International Premiere / Ep = European Premiere
6A (Sweden) Wp
By Peter Modestij
Bullying...
A total of 63 feature-length and short films produced or co-produced in 35 countries have been invited to participate in the two Berlinale (Feb 11-21) competitions Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus.
The programme, aimed at children and youths, was selected from around 2,000 feature-length and short films submitted to Generation this year, which is more than in any year previously.
The selected films shed light on and challenge the nature of contradictions such as being child-like and being an adult, what is forbidden and what is permitted or the difference between subjective and objective reality.
“Young people world-wide are constantly confronted by dystopic realities not of their own making,” said Maryanne Redpath, head of Generation. “In the diverse films of this year’s programme we see them taking matters into their own hands.”
Generation 14plus
Synopses provided by festival
Wp = World Premiere / IP = International Premiere / Ep = European Premiere
6A (Sweden) Wp
By Peter Modestij
Bullying...
- 1/13/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
More than a dozen titles announced ahead of the unveiling of the full programme next month.
A total of 13 feature films produced or co-produced in 13 different countries have been selected to participate in competition in Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus.
The full programme for Generation will be announced in mid-January. The films selected so far feature young individuals whose inner lives are in turmoil.
Generation 14plus
Ani ve snu! (In Your Dreams!) – Czech Republic
By Petr Oukropec
Athletic, fast and fearless, 16-year-old Laura has little trouble conquering her hometown’s parkour routes and none at all keeping up with the boys in the process. However, she can only express her feelings for Luky, the parkour-king, in her vivid dreams. When he suddenly disappears, the line between dream and reality begins to blur.
World premiere
Born to Dance – New Zealand
By Tammy Davis
For the Maori teenager, Tu, it appears that hip-hop dance is the only hope for...
A total of 13 feature films produced or co-produced in 13 different countries have been selected to participate in competition in Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus.
The full programme for Generation will be announced in mid-January. The films selected so far feature young individuals whose inner lives are in turmoil.
Generation 14plus
Ani ve snu! (In Your Dreams!) – Czech Republic
By Petr Oukropec
Athletic, fast and fearless, 16-year-old Laura has little trouble conquering her hometown’s parkour routes and none at all keeping up with the boys in the process. However, she can only express her feelings for Luky, the parkour-king, in her vivid dreams. When he suddenly disappears, the line between dream and reality begins to blur.
World premiere
Born to Dance – New Zealand
By Tammy Davis
For the Maori teenager, Tu, it appears that hip-hop dance is the only hope for...
- 12/18/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Berlinale's announced a round of 13 titles lined up for Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus programs created for younger audiences. And each one of them comes from a different country, e.g., China (Yichun Wang's What’s in the Darkness), Russia (Mikhail Mestetskiy's Triapichniy Soyuz), India (Nagraj Manjule's Sairat), Chile (Roberto Doveris's Las Plantas), Australia (Rosemary Myers's Girl Asleep), Turkey (Barış Kaya and Soner Caner's Rauf), Poland (Marta Minorowicz's Zud), Sweden (Catti Edfeldt and Lena Hanno Clyne's Siv sover vilse) and so on. » - David Hudson...
- 12/18/2015
- Keyframe
The Berlinale's announced a round of 13 titles lined up for Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus programs created for younger audiences. And each one of them comes from a different country, e.g., China (Yichun Wang's What’s in the Darkness), Russia (Mikhail Mestetskiy's Triapichniy Soyuz), India (Nagraj Manjule's Sairat), Chile (Roberto Doveris's Las Plantas), Australia (Rosemary Myers's Girl Asleep), Turkey (Barış Kaya and Soner Caner's Rauf), Poland (Marta Minorowicz's Zud), Sweden (Catti Edfeldt and Lena Hanno Clyne's Siv sover vilse) and so on. » - David Hudson...
- 12/18/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Rosemary Myers' Girl Asleep has won the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival Best Feature People Choice's Award for her coming of age drama starring Eamon Farren and Bethany Whitmore.
Funded by the Festival.s Film Investment Fund and developed out of the Hive Lab, Girl Asleep is based on Windmill Theatre.s hit stage show.
The film was not only a critical favourite but was loved just as much by audiences, screening to sell out sessions across the Festival.
Holding the Man documentary, Remembering the Man won the People's Choice Award for Best Documentary, while the most popular short was Meryl Tankard's Michelle's Story.
Remebering the Man traces the story Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, who fell in love at at Catholic boys' school in 1976..
Their romance lasted for 16 years, facing disapproval, temptation, separation, and the looming shadow of the Grim Reaper..
Their relationship has been immortalised in Conigrave's...
Funded by the Festival.s Film Investment Fund and developed out of the Hive Lab, Girl Asleep is based on Windmill Theatre.s hit stage show.
The film was not only a critical favourite but was loved just as much by audiences, screening to sell out sessions across the Festival.
Holding the Man documentary, Remembering the Man won the People's Choice Award for Best Documentary, while the most popular short was Meryl Tankard's Michelle's Story.
Remebering the Man traces the story Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, who fell in love at at Catholic boys' school in 1976..
Their romance lasted for 16 years, facing disapproval, temptation, separation, and the looming shadow of the Grim Reaper..
Their relationship has been immortalised in Conigrave's...
- 11/4/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
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