Brainstorm Media has picked up Ivan Sen’s crime drama Limbo ahead of its North American premiere at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival on Monday.
The Australian noir, which bowed in Berlin, will be released as part of a partnership between Brainstorm Media and Music Box Films. Limbo has Simon Baker starring as a jaded detective investigating the cold case murder of a local Indigenous girl.
As truths about the murder begin to unfold, Baker’s character gains more insight into the unsolved case from the victim’s fractured family, the surviving witnesses and the reclusive brother of the chief suspect.
“Limbo explores the deeper impact of a crime on an Indigenous family through the eyes of a white policeman. The source of these ideas has largely come from my personal experience, from family members and friends who have been victims of crime. I have witnessed their struggle not only for justice,...
The Australian noir, which bowed in Berlin, will be released as part of a partnership between Brainstorm Media and Music Box Films. Limbo has Simon Baker starring as a jaded detective investigating the cold case murder of a local Indigenous girl.
As truths about the murder begin to unfold, Baker’s character gains more insight into the unsolved case from the victim’s fractured family, the surviving witnesses and the reclusive brother of the chief suspect.
“Limbo explores the deeper impact of a crime on an Indigenous family through the eyes of a white policeman. The source of these ideas has largely come from my personal experience, from family members and friends who have been victims of crime. I have witnessed their struggle not only for justice,...
- 9/10/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"As hard boiled as the ground is hard-baked." Madman Films in Australia has released an official trailer for an indie crime thriller titled Limbo, from filmmaker Ivan Sen. This initially premiered at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year in the Main Competition section, but it didn't win any awards; it also played at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this summer. In a small Australian outback town Travis Hurley, a detective, arrives to review a 20-year-old unsolved homicide of a young Indigenous girl. Travis discovers a collection of unpleasant truths hiding around this dusty town, highlighting the intricacies of loss and injustice faced by Indigenous Australians. Limbo is an Australian indie mystery-crime film directed by Ivan Sen, starring Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, and Nicholas Hope. This is a very sleek dialogue-free trailer, relying entirely on critics' quotes and the vivid B&w images to sell this film. This tricky...
- 7/31/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Simon Baker revealed his new look in the new Australian film Limbo, in which he has short brown hair and a beard.
The 53-year-old Aussie actor posted a series of black-and-white screenshots of Limbo on Instagram, promoting his film that is screening in Australian cinemas. The Mentalist star has been known for his long blond hairstyle, and the new short hair look definitely shocked the fans.
“I love your rugged appearance in this film, different but strong ,” one Instagram user wrote under his movie promotion post
“Congratulations! You are almost unrecognizable with that extremely short hair,” added another fan.
In the newly released movie Limbo, made by Australian indigenous filmmaker Ivan Sen, Baker plays a detective who is visiting a small town to investigate an old unsolved murder of an Aboriginal woman.
The talented auteur Sen is known for the films Mystery Road and Goldstone.
>Watch Simon Baker’s uBIO Now!
The 53-year-old Aussie actor posted a series of black-and-white screenshots of Limbo on Instagram, promoting his film that is screening in Australian cinemas. The Mentalist star has been known for his long blond hairstyle, and the new short hair look definitely shocked the fans.
“I love your rugged appearance in this film, different but strong ,” one Instagram user wrote under his movie promotion post
“Congratulations! You are almost unrecognizable with that extremely short hair,” added another fan.
In the newly released movie Limbo, made by Australian indigenous filmmaker Ivan Sen, Baker plays a detective who is visiting a small town to investigate an old unsolved murder of an Aboriginal woman.
The talented auteur Sen is known for the films Mystery Road and Goldstone.
>Watch Simon Baker’s uBIO Now!
- 7/8/2023
- by River Zhang
- Uinterview
In reviewing Ivan Sen’s Limbo, many critics have noted the parallels between the film and the auteur’s previous features Mystery Road and Goldstone. All fit within the “outback noir” genre – following a cop who heads into a remote outback town to solve a mystery – and have First Nations themes. However, whereas the Mystery Road franchise’s Jay Swan was an Indigenous police officer, the lead character in Limbo, the jaded and damaged detective Travis, is white. Simon Baker is...
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- 5/21/2023
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
The gig economy, and the food delivery industry in particular, are set for scrutiny in “Appetite,” an Australian short-form series that will debut next month at Canneseries, the TV festival that runs alongside the Mip-TV rights market (April 14-19).
“Appetite” is a mystery-comedy in which three penniless food delivery riders are brought together after their housemate mysteriously vanishes on the same night as a rider has a fatal roadside accident. They set out to discover the truth behind the accident and expose multinational food behemoth, Appetite.
“Appetite” was created by Mohini Herse (“Hair”) who wrote, directed and produced the series under her Fell Swoop Pictures banner. She worked with fellow writers Neilesh Verma (“Letters Home”) and Grace Tan (“Lucky Peach”), director Neil Sharma (“Heartbreak High”), and producer Karen Radzyner (“Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo”).
The drama includes performances from rising stars Shirong Wu (“Neighbours”), Gabriel Alvarado (“The Winter’s Tale...
“Appetite” is a mystery-comedy in which three penniless food delivery riders are brought together after their housemate mysteriously vanishes on the same night as a rider has a fatal roadside accident. They set out to discover the truth behind the accident and expose multinational food behemoth, Appetite.
“Appetite” was created by Mohini Herse (“Hair”) who wrote, directed and produced the series under her Fell Swoop Pictures banner. She worked with fellow writers Neilesh Verma (“Letters Home”) and Grace Tan (“Lucky Peach”), director Neil Sharma (“Heartbreak High”), and producer Karen Radzyner (“Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo”).
The drama includes performances from rising stars Shirong Wu (“Neighbours”), Gabriel Alvarado (“The Winter’s Tale...
- 3/28/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
There’s a parched austerity to the landscape of the Australian outback, along with an embedded history of conflict between Indigenous and invading occupants, that makes it irresistibly well-suited to screen westerns. But there’s a loneliness to it, too, a sense that its quiet vastness could swallow you whole and without trace, that lends itself as easily to moody, smoky mystery.
Aboriginal filmmaker Ivan Sen has twice before dabbled in the harsh, dry space where those genre possibilities overlap, in his features “Goldstone” and “Mystery Road.” In his latest, most accomplished film “Limbo,” he once more surveys the region with a critical eye, finding a history of racial injustice in its sharp cracks and long shadows. But the genre styling this time has been pushed all the way to stark, monochromatic stylization. This is outback noir — oblique, secretive and as hard-boiled as the ground is hard-baked — and Sen wears it well.
Aboriginal filmmaker Ivan Sen has twice before dabbled in the harsh, dry space where those genre possibilities overlap, in his features “Goldstone” and “Mystery Road.” In his latest, most accomplished film “Limbo,” he once more surveys the region with a critical eye, finding a history of racial injustice in its sharp cracks and long shadows. But the genre styling this time has been pushed all the way to stark, monochromatic stylization. This is outback noir — oblique, secretive and as hard-boiled as the ground is hard-baked — and Sen wears it well.
- 2/24/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: USC Originals has scored its first theatrical release, in association with Warner Bros., following Lightyear Entertainment’s acquisition of its film, Voodoo Macbeth. The company behind the Oscar-nominated Australian feature Tanna has slated the pic for release across the U.S. and Canada in October.
Based on a true story, Voodoo Macbeth follows a young Orson Welles (Jewell Wilson Bridges) and a group of committed artists as they set out to create what is now considered a landmark event in African-American theater history—the Negro Theatre Unit’s revolutionary 1936 production of Macbeth.
With Fdr’s New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project, director Rose McClendon (Inger Tudor) convinces co-director John Houseman (Daniel Kuhlman) to help her bring Shakespeare’s Macbeth to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater — with an all-Black cast. Well before Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, they choose for their groundbreaking production...
Based on a true story, Voodoo Macbeth follows a young Orson Welles (Jewell Wilson Bridges) and a group of committed artists as they set out to create what is now considered a landmark event in African-American theater history—the Negro Theatre Unit’s revolutionary 1936 production of Macbeth.
With Fdr’s New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project, director Rose McClendon (Inger Tudor) convinces co-director John Houseman (Daniel Kuhlman) to help her bring Shakespeare’s Macbeth to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater — with an all-Black cast. Well before Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, they choose for their groundbreaking production...
- 8/9/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Ivan Sen came in 2016 when I watched his outback police detective drama Goldstone. Sen's work, be it TV or film, has a striking quality of featuring small stories nestled among larger backdrops and storylines.
Sen's latest project Expired is quite a bit different than anything he's done before. Gone is the Australian Outback, and in its place is the crowded, neon-laden Hong Kong of the near future. It's both a familiar and foreign place where robots look and feel human, life expectancy has increased significantly, and where technology is both advanced and lo-fi. It's in this world that we meet Jack (Ryan Kwanten), a man searching for answers; April (Jillian Nguyen), an entertainer finds hope and love with Jack; and Dr. Bergman (Hugo Weaving), a scientist who is desperate...
Sen's latest project Expired is quite a bit different than anything he's done before. Gone is the Australian Outback, and in its place is the crowded, neon-laden Hong Kong of the near future. It's both a familiar and foreign place where robots look and feel human, life expectancy has increased significantly, and where technology is both advanced and lo-fi. It's in this world that we meet Jack (Ryan Kwanten), a man searching for answers; April (Jillian Nguyen), an entertainer finds hope and love with Jack; and Dr. Bergman (Hugo Weaving), a scientist who is desperate...
- 3/18/2022
- QuietEarth.us
Australian independent production house Photoplay has appointed Karen Radzyner as its head of development. The company is the only Australian firm to have a show selected for MipTV’s CanneSeries.
Radzyner joins Photoplay from Dragonet Films. She previously produced two award-winning TV mini-series – Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo” (with Southern Star in 2011) and Nine’s genre anthology “Two Twisted.” She also held roles at Scott Free Films in London, as part of a Screen Australia fellowship, Australian public broadcaster Sbs, federal funding body Screen Australia and regional arts agency Create Nsw.
She will work alongside head of scripted, Linda Micsko, to spearhead the company’s recently established longform arm Photoplay Film+TV.
Radzyner also brings with her a significant slate including: “Appetite”; a co-production with Synchronicity Films and development partner Cineflix Rights with support from Screen Australia; an ABCMe YA action-adventure with development co-funded by...
Radzyner joins Photoplay from Dragonet Films. She previously produced two award-winning TV mini-series – Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo” (with Southern Star in 2011) and Nine’s genre anthology “Two Twisted.” She also held roles at Scott Free Films in London, as part of a Screen Australia fellowship, Australian public broadcaster Sbs, federal funding body Screen Australia and regional arts agency Create Nsw.
She will work alongside head of scripted, Linda Micsko, to spearhead the company’s recently established longform arm Photoplay Film+TV.
Radzyner also brings with her a significant slate including: “Appetite”; a co-production with Synchronicity Films and development partner Cineflix Rights with support from Screen Australia; an ABCMe YA action-adventure with development co-funded by...
- 3/17/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Lightyear Entertainment has acquired two documentaries that made their world premieres at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival: Thomas Robsahm’s A-ha: The Movie and Eddie Martin’s We Were Once Kids. The former will open in theaters across the U.S. and Canada on April 8, with the latter set for release in May.
A-ha: The Movie celebrates the 40th anniversary of the synth-pop band’s irresistible single “Take on Me,” which is still one of the most played songs of the last millennium. The musicians from small-town Norway became global sensations and heartthrobs overnight when they released the song and its groundbreaking pencil-sketch animation video, seeing their newfound fame overshadow their original dream to make music. In the years since, each has taken separate roads to get back to what they loved most.
A-ha has released 15 albums to date, which have sold more than 55 million copies. The band has also earned eight MTV Awards,...
A-ha: The Movie celebrates the 40th anniversary of the synth-pop band’s irresistible single “Take on Me,” which is still one of the most played songs of the last millennium. The musicians from small-town Norway became global sensations and heartthrobs overnight when they released the song and its groundbreaking pencil-sketch animation video, seeing their newfound fame overshadow their original dream to make music. In the years since, each has taken separate roads to get back to what they loved most.
A-ha has released 15 albums to date, which have sold more than 55 million copies. The band has also earned eight MTV Awards,...
- 12/20/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
David Gulpilil, an actor who who lit up the screen in his 1971 debut film “Walkabout” and recently starred in a biographical documentary about his remarkable life, has died. Gulpilil was diagnosed with lung cancer four years ago. He was 68.
The Australian actor was a pioneering indigenous performer with talents including acting, singing and painting. His film credits include “The Last Wave,” “Crocodile Dundee,” “The Tracker,” “Rabbit-Proof Fence,” “Ten Canoes,” “Goldstone” and “Charlie’s Country.” TV credits include “Pine Gap” and “The Timeless Land.”
“It is with deep sadness that I share with the people of South Australia the passing of an iconic, once-in-a-generation artist who shaped the history of Australian film and Aboriginal representation on screen – David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu (Am),” said South Australia’s Premier Steven Marshall in a statement.
“David Gulpilil was from the Mandhalpingu clan of the Yolŋu people, and was raised in the traditional ways in Arnhem Land.
The Australian actor was a pioneering indigenous performer with talents including acting, singing and painting. His film credits include “The Last Wave,” “Crocodile Dundee,” “The Tracker,” “Rabbit-Proof Fence,” “Ten Canoes,” “Goldstone” and “Charlie’s Country.” TV credits include “Pine Gap” and “The Timeless Land.”
“It is with deep sadness that I share with the people of South Australia the passing of an iconic, once-in-a-generation artist who shaped the history of Australian film and Aboriginal representation on screen – David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu (Am),” said South Australia’s Premier Steven Marshall in a statement.
“David Gulpilil was from the Mandhalpingu clan of the Yolŋu people, and was raised in the traditional ways in Arnhem Land.
- 11/29/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Outgoing Screen Australia head of First Nations Penny Smallacombe is set to join Bunya Media Group as a producer.
Smallacombe will produce a number of the company’s upcoming projects, including Sbs drama series Copping It Black, working with directors Erica Glynn and Steven McGregor, who both penned the script with Danielle Maclean.
While at Screen Australia, Smallacombe helped shepherd to screen several Bunya Productions projects, including ABC series Mystery Road, Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country and Ivan Sen’s Goldstone, as well as helping to facilitate Bunya Talent Hub LA.
Smallacombe, a Maramanindji woman from the Northern Territory, tells If she has loved Bunya’s “big, bold” output over the past few years, and considers it a privilege to join the team. She is keen to use her new role to continue to bring authentic First Nations stories to screen, particularly from exciting new talent.
“They’re a trusted...
Smallacombe will produce a number of the company’s upcoming projects, including Sbs drama series Copping It Black, working with directors Erica Glynn and Steven McGregor, who both penned the script with Danielle Maclean.
While at Screen Australia, Smallacombe helped shepherd to screen several Bunya Productions projects, including ABC series Mystery Road, Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country and Ivan Sen’s Goldstone, as well as helping to facilitate Bunya Talent Hub LA.
Smallacombe, a Maramanindji woman from the Northern Territory, tells If she has loved Bunya’s “big, bold” output over the past few years, and considers it a privilege to join the team. She is keen to use her new role to continue to bring authentic First Nations stories to screen, particularly from exciting new talent.
“They’re a trusted...
- 5/26/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Aaron Falk (Eric Bana) wasn’t ever planning on coming back. Leaving wasn’t his choice, but at a certain point the present replaces the past. Hearing that his best friend from high school killed his wife and son before turning the gun on himself wasn’t therefore going to change his mind. If anything, knowing that truth and the fact that Luke was gone might have been the final nail as far as never returning at all. But that’s when the card came with a cryptic message more or less blackmailing Aaron into attending the funeral. It was sent by Luke’s father and stated that he knew they lied twenty years ago. What was the lie? We don’t yet know. Whatever it was, though, it worked. Aaron was heading home.
Writer/director Robert Connolly’s The Dry (co-scripted by Harry Cripps from Jane Harper’s novel...
Writer/director Robert Connolly’s The Dry (co-scripted by Harry Cripps from Jane Harper’s novel...
- 5/17/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Integral to the telling of so many legendary screen stories, David Gulpilil, now nearing the end of his life, generously shares his own story in My Name is Gulpilil.
The actor, dancer, singer and painter takes audiences on the journey that is his most extraordinary, culture-clashing life.
From his breakthrough performance in 1971’s Walkabout to today, Gulpilil is known for performances across films such as Storm Boy, Mad Dog Morgan, Crocodile Dundee, The Last Wave, The Tracker, Rabbit Proof Fence, Australia, Charlie’s Country, and Goldstone.
Early in 2017 Gulpilil was diagnosed with lung cancer. His doctors estimated six months, but David being David, was always likely to defy the odds.
Directed by Molly Reynolds, and produced by Gulpilil, Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr and Reynolds, My Name is Gulpilil marks the culmination of a 20 year creative collaboration.
A Vertigo Production, My Name is Gulpilil was commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival...
The actor, dancer, singer and painter takes audiences on the journey that is his most extraordinary, culture-clashing life.
From his breakthrough performance in 1971’s Walkabout to today, Gulpilil is known for performances across films such as Storm Boy, Mad Dog Morgan, Crocodile Dundee, The Last Wave, The Tracker, Rabbit Proof Fence, Australia, Charlie’s Country, and Goldstone.
Early in 2017 Gulpilil was diagnosed with lung cancer. His doctors estimated six months, but David being David, was always likely to defy the odds.
Directed by Molly Reynolds, and produced by Gulpilil, Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr and Reynolds, My Name is Gulpilil marks the culmination of a 20 year creative collaboration.
A Vertigo Production, My Name is Gulpilil was commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival...
- 3/11/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
While Aacta’s Byron Kennedy Award is typically given to an individual or organisation who demonstrates “outstanding creative enterprise”, this year the award will go to a film.
The nominees for the honour, which celebrates the legacy of Dr George Miller’s original producing partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, are a short-list of the last decade’s best indie genre features.
The films are diverse, spanning comedies, Westerns, thrillers, horrors and sci-fis, but Aacta has determined each are in line with Kennedy’s “ethos of excellence”, resourcefulness and “the can-do spirit of independent, low-budget local filmmaking.”
They include: The Babadook, Beast, Cargo, Girl Asleep, I Am Mother, The Infinite Man, Mad Bastards, Mystery Road, Red Hill, That’s Not Me, These Final Hours and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
‘Girl Asleep’.
Many nominated are debut features, such as Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Zak Hilditch’s These Final Hours,...
The nominees for the honour, which celebrates the legacy of Dr George Miller’s original producing partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, are a short-list of the last decade’s best indie genre features.
The films are diverse, spanning comedies, Westerns, thrillers, horrors and sci-fis, but Aacta has determined each are in line with Kennedy’s “ethos of excellence”, resourcefulness and “the can-do spirit of independent, low-budget local filmmaking.”
They include: The Babadook, Beast, Cargo, Girl Asleep, I Am Mother, The Infinite Man, Mad Bastards, Mystery Road, Red Hill, That’s Not Me, These Final Hours and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
‘Girl Asleep’.
Many nominated are debut features, such as Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Zak Hilditch’s These Final Hours,...
- 11/24/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Ivan Sen’s ‘Mystery Road’.
Sydney Film Festival has selected Rachel Perkins’ Mabo and Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road for Tribeca Enterprises/YouTube’s free global online film festival, We Are One.
Sydney is just one of the 21 participating festivals in the event, with others including Tribeca, Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance.
More than 100 films will screen from this Friday May 29 to June 7 on YouTube, together with talks, Vr content and musical performances, all with the aim of raising money for the World Health Organisation’s Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund and local relief partners in each region.
The programming represents over 35 countries and includes 23 narrative and eight documentary features, 57 narrative and 15 documentary short films, 15 archived talks, along with four festival exclusives and five Vr programming pieces.
In selecting films to put forward, Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley was challenged by Tribeca to look to films that had an...
Sydney Film Festival has selected Rachel Perkins’ Mabo and Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road for Tribeca Enterprises/YouTube’s free global online film festival, We Are One.
Sydney is just one of the 21 participating festivals in the event, with others including Tribeca, Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance.
More than 100 films will screen from this Friday May 29 to June 7 on YouTube, together with talks, Vr content and musical performances, all with the aim of raising money for the World Health Organisation’s Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund and local relief partners in each region.
The programming represents over 35 countries and includes 23 narrative and eight documentary features, 57 narrative and 15 documentary short films, 15 archived talks, along with four festival exclusives and five Vr programming pieces.
In selecting films to put forward, Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley was challenged by Tribeca to look to films that had an...
- 5/26/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Aaron Pedersen, star of “Mystery Road” and “Goldstone” has begun filming in Australia of factual lifestyle series “Back to Nature.” The show, comprising eight half-hour episodes, is co-hosted with author Holly Ringland (“The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”).
The series is a new exploration of Australia’s hugely varied landscapes, geographies and local stories. Filming is expected to take in: ancient rainforests of Gondwana in the South East of Queensland; the high Country of the Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales; the volcanic landscape of the Macedon Ranges, Victoria and Larapuna; and the Bay of Fires, on Tasmania’s North East Coast.
The producers pitch the series as combining “gorgeous flowing cinematography, immersive soundscapes, and compelling emotional stories (which) will help the audience connect and reconnect with nature in a way they never have before.”
“Back To Nature” is a Media Stockade and Threshold Pictures production with international rights sales handled by Escapade Media.
The series is a new exploration of Australia’s hugely varied landscapes, geographies and local stories. Filming is expected to take in: ancient rainforests of Gondwana in the South East of Queensland; the high Country of the Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales; the volcanic landscape of the Macedon Ranges, Victoria and Larapuna; and the Bay of Fires, on Tasmania’s North East Coast.
The producers pitch the series as combining “gorgeous flowing cinematography, immersive soundscapes, and compelling emotional stories (which) will help the audience connect and reconnect with nature in a way they never have before.”
“Back To Nature” is a Media Stockade and Threshold Pictures production with international rights sales handled by Escapade Media.
- 3/16/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Sexual exploration, indigenous perspectives and refugees of all stripes characterize much of this year’s selections at the Berlin Film Festival’s Berlinale Series showcase.
It’s the first edition under Julia Fidel, who took over as the section’s head from Solmaz Azizi last year, and while she’s not shaking things up, she’s is looking to put her own stamp on the lineup.
“I wanted series that I am interested in and I’m interested in something that breaks the boundaries of what you expect from a series,” Fidel says. “When I was a teenager and saw ‘Twin Peaks,’ I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I want that feeling when I’m watching something.
“You could say I was more interested in having a lot of arthousey — or quite exceptional — complex serial storytelling here. I wanted something that reflected the huge diversity that you have in television.
It’s the first edition under Julia Fidel, who took over as the section’s head from Solmaz Azizi last year, and while she’s not shaking things up, she’s is looking to put her own stamp on the lineup.
“I wanted series that I am interested in and I’m interested in something that breaks the boundaries of what you expect from a series,” Fidel says. “When I was a teenager and saw ‘Twin Peaks,’ I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I want that feeling when I’m watching something.
“You could say I was more interested in having a lot of arthousey — or quite exceptional — complex serial storytelling here. I wanted something that reflected the huge diversity that you have in television.
- 2/24/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
(L-r) Jon Bell, Catriona McKenzie and Andrew Dillon (Photo credit: Mark Rogers).
To his direct descendants and the wider Aboriginal community, Pemulwuy, Australia’s first Indigenous resistance fighter, was a martyr, a leader, a patriot and a warrior.
Putting the man and his deeds in a contemporary context, writer Jon Bell says: “If Australia was invaded tomorrow and one man managed to keep those invading forces confined to the city areas for 10 years, he would be enshrined in Australian lore and there would be a national holiday.”
Bell is part of a creative team of leading black and white figures who are preparing a biopic on Pemulwuy, a member of the Bidjigal clan who led the opposition to British forces’ attempts to take over traditional hunting grounds from the early years of the colony until he was shot dead in 1802.
Phillip Noyce, who has wanted to tell this story for...
To his direct descendants and the wider Aboriginal community, Pemulwuy, Australia’s first Indigenous resistance fighter, was a martyr, a leader, a patriot and a warrior.
Putting the man and his deeds in a contemporary context, writer Jon Bell says: “If Australia was invaded tomorrow and one man managed to keep those invading forces confined to the city areas for 10 years, he would be enshrined in Australian lore and there would be a national holiday.”
Bell is part of a creative team of leading black and white figures who are preparing a biopic on Pemulwuy, a member of the Bidjigal clan who led the opposition to British forces’ attempts to take over traditional hunting grounds from the early years of the colony until he was shot dead in 1802.
Phillip Noyce, who has wanted to tell this story for...
- 8/15/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Aaron Pedersen as Jay Swan.
While many actors may fret or obsess about where their next role is coming from, Aaron Pedersen has a simple, unfussed approach.
“I take the despair out by believing you get the jobs you deserve to get,” he says after receiving his second Aacta nomination – best lead actor in a TV drama for Mystery Road.
“Your career is about longevity. I am forever grateful for being able to do the things I want to do.”
It’s a philosophy which has sustained the 48-year-old through a career spanning 25 years. It’s his second nomination following a nod for best lead actor in The Circuit in 2010.
Bunya Productions’ Mystery Road is vying for the best drama prize with Easy Tiger Productions’ Jack Irish, Jungle Entertainment/Blue –Tongue Films’ Mr Inbetween, Easy Tiger’s Rake and FremantleMedia’s Wentworth.
Pedersen’s Jay Swan was the pivotal character...
While many actors may fret or obsess about where their next role is coming from, Aaron Pedersen has a simple, unfussed approach.
“I take the despair out by believing you get the jobs you deserve to get,” he says after receiving his second Aacta nomination – best lead actor in a TV drama for Mystery Road.
“Your career is about longevity. I am forever grateful for being able to do the things I want to do.”
It’s a philosophy which has sustained the 48-year-old through a career spanning 25 years. It’s his second nomination following a nod for best lead actor in The Circuit in 2010.
Bunya Productions’ Mystery Road is vying for the best drama prize with Easy Tiger Productions’ Jack Irish, Jungle Entertainment/Blue –Tongue Films’ Mr Inbetween, Easy Tiger’s Rake and FremantleMedia’s Wentworth.
Pedersen’s Jay Swan was the pivotal character...
- 10/30/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Raelle Tucker and Jeremy Podeswa.
Bunya Productions is hosting a genre masterclass program in December for mid-career female writers and directors who have compelling ideas for genre TV series or features.
Supported by Screen Australia’s Gender Matters Brilliant Careers initiative, the masterclass will be delivered by director Jeremy Podeswa and writer and showrunner Raelle Tucker.
The residential workshop is part of Bunya Productions’ Engendered program that seeks to support female creatives from diverse backgrounds to develop their TV and feature ideas.
Up to 8 mid-career creatives – or creative teams – will be selected to attend the workshop from December 17-20 in the Kangaroo Valley. Travel and accommodation expenses will be paid by the Engendered initiative.
Applicants, who need to have worked in the film and TV industry as a writer or director or have extensive writing experience in theatre or publishing, are asked to provide a 2-page pitch plus one page...
Bunya Productions is hosting a genre masterclass program in December for mid-career female writers and directors who have compelling ideas for genre TV series or features.
Supported by Screen Australia’s Gender Matters Brilliant Careers initiative, the masterclass will be delivered by director Jeremy Podeswa and writer and showrunner Raelle Tucker.
The residential workshop is part of Bunya Productions’ Engendered program that seeks to support female creatives from diverse backgrounds to develop their TV and feature ideas.
Up to 8 mid-career creatives – or creative teams – will be selected to attend the workshop from December 17-20 in the Kangaroo Valley. Travel and accommodation expenses will be paid by the Engendered initiative.
Applicants, who need to have worked in the film and TV industry as a writer or director or have extensive writing experience in theatre or publishing, are asked to provide a 2-page pitch plus one page...
- 10/29/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Mystery Road is coming to the small screen. Variety reports the Australian film is being adapted as a TV series starring Aaron Pedersen and Judy Davis.The 2013 film stars Pedersen as Jay Swan, a detective who solves crimes in the Australian Outback. A sequel, called Goldstone, was released in 2016.Read More…...
- 7/19/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Aaron Pedersen as Jay Swan in 'Goldstone'..
Detective Jay Swan, the protagonist in Ivan Sen.s films Mystery Road and Goldstone, is headed to the small screen.
Aaron Pedersen will reprise the role in Mystery Road - The Series, alongside Judy Davis as a small town cop, for the ABC and international distributor All3Media International.
Directed by Rachel Perkins and produced by Bunya Productions. David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin, the 6-part mystery/drama starts shooting in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia in late August..
The plot follows Swan as he investigates the disappearance of two young farm hands on an outback cattle station. One is a local Indigenous footy hero, the other a backpacker. Working with local cop Emma James (Davis), his investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the whole community
It is a rare Australian screen role for Davis, who was last seen...
Detective Jay Swan, the protagonist in Ivan Sen.s films Mystery Road and Goldstone, is headed to the small screen.
Aaron Pedersen will reprise the role in Mystery Road - The Series, alongside Judy Davis as a small town cop, for the ABC and international distributor All3Media International.
Directed by Rachel Perkins and produced by Bunya Productions. David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin, the 6-part mystery/drama starts shooting in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia in late August..
The plot follows Swan as he investigates the disappearance of two young farm hands on an outback cattle station. One is a local Indigenous footy hero, the other a backpacker. Working with local cop Emma James (Davis), his investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the whole community
It is a rare Australian screen role for Davis, who was last seen...
- 7/12/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Emily Barclay and Benedict Samuel in 'Ellipsis'..
In the first of a two-part interview, David Wenham talks to If about making his directorial feature debut,.'Ellipsis'..
Across a stellar career spanning 30 years, David Wenham had long wanted to make an experimental, improvisational film in which the story unfolds in the space of one night.
Wenham got his chance with Ellipsis, a low budget film he directed and co-wrote, which will have its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.
Produced by Arenamedia.s Liz Kearney, the slice-of-life film follows Emily Barclay as Viv and Benedict Samuel as Jasper, who meet by chance and roam the city of Sydney, from bars, a park and a sex shop in Kings Cross, to Bondi.
In a remarkably tight schedule, the cast workshopped the script for three days, a collaborative effort between the two leads, Wenham and director.s assistant Gabrielle Wendelin. The shoot took just seven days,...
In the first of a two-part interview, David Wenham talks to If about making his directorial feature debut,.'Ellipsis'..
Across a stellar career spanning 30 years, David Wenham had long wanted to make an experimental, improvisational film in which the story unfolds in the space of one night.
Wenham got his chance with Ellipsis, a low budget film he directed and co-wrote, which will have its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.
Produced by Arenamedia.s Liz Kearney, the slice-of-life film follows Emily Barclay as Viv and Benedict Samuel as Jasper, who meet by chance and roam the city of Sydney, from bars, a park and a sex shop in Kings Cross, to Bondi.
In a remarkably tight schedule, the cast workshopped the script for three days, a collaborative effort between the two leads, Wenham and director.s assistant Gabrielle Wendelin. The shoot took just seven days,...
- 5/31/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Leah Purcell at Sydney's Belvoir Theatre. (Photo credit: Anthony Johnson).
Projects from the likes of Jocelyn Moorhouse, Leah Purcell, Vicki Madden, Rachel Perkins, Luke Davies, Sophie Hyde, Nicholas Verso, Abe Forsythe, Craig Silvey and Corrie Chen have received development funding from Screen Australia.
.This round of development funding reflects the vibrancy of the story landscape in Australia with thrillers and romance, crime and comedies, sports dramas and musicals,. said Screen Australia's Senior Development Manager Nerida Moore..
.We have projects from both seasoned storytellers and an exciting group of up-and-coming talents. And we are also seeing a greater mix of platforms from traditional features and high-end television to the ever-growing online drama and narrative Vr spaces..
Among the projects funded, which include 24 features, five online series and two "high-end" television projects, are:
Tasmanian-set gothic crime show The Gloaming, created and written by The Kettering Incident's Vicki Madden, who will produce...
Projects from the likes of Jocelyn Moorhouse, Leah Purcell, Vicki Madden, Rachel Perkins, Luke Davies, Sophie Hyde, Nicholas Verso, Abe Forsythe, Craig Silvey and Corrie Chen have received development funding from Screen Australia.
.This round of development funding reflects the vibrancy of the story landscape in Australia with thrillers and romance, crime and comedies, sports dramas and musicals,. said Screen Australia's Senior Development Manager Nerida Moore..
.We have projects from both seasoned storytellers and an exciting group of up-and-coming talents. And we are also seeing a greater mix of platforms from traditional features and high-end television to the ever-growing online drama and narrative Vr spaces..
Among the projects funded, which include 24 features, five online series and two "high-end" television projects, are:
Tasmanian-set gothic crime show The Gloaming, created and written by The Kettering Incident's Vicki Madden, who will produce...
- 2/13/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
El Questro Station, where 'Wonderful Unknown' will shoot. (Photo: Tourism Western Australia)..
Two features, Wonderful Unknown and Dirt Music, as well as a six-part drama series from Greer Simpkin and David Jowsey, are set to shoot in Western Australia, thanks to the $16 million Wa Regional Film Fund.
The fund, launched by the state government.last year, is designed to attract local and international productions..
".Eight months after its launch, the fund has helped secure its first Hollywood-Australian feature and UK-Australian feature as well as a major Australian television series," said Wa Culture and Arts Minister John Day.
.It is estimated they will contribute more than $14 million to the Wa economy..
Gregor Jordan (Buffalo Soldiers, Ned Kelly, Two Hands) will direct Dirt Music, the long-in-the-works adaptation of Tim Winton.s novel.
The screenplay was penned by Jack Thorne (Wonder, The Last Panthers), and the producers are Brits Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey,...
Two features, Wonderful Unknown and Dirt Music, as well as a six-part drama series from Greer Simpkin and David Jowsey, are set to shoot in Western Australia, thanks to the $16 million Wa Regional Film Fund.
The fund, launched by the state government.last year, is designed to attract local and international productions..
".Eight months after its launch, the fund has helped secure its first Hollywood-Australian feature and UK-Australian feature as well as a major Australian television series," said Wa Culture and Arts Minister John Day.
.It is estimated they will contribute more than $14 million to the Wa economy..
Gregor Jordan (Buffalo Soldiers, Ned Kelly, Two Hands) will direct Dirt Music, the long-in-the-works adaptation of Tim Winton.s novel.
The screenplay was penned by Jack Thorne (Wonder, The Last Panthers), and the producers are Brits Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey,...
- 1/30/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Recently launched Arcadia heads to Utah with survival thriller.
Recently launched Australian production and sales outfit Arcadia has signed Sundance 2016 romance-drama First Girl I Loved for world sales.
Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), star in writer-director Kerem Sanga’s film, which won an Audience Award in Park City.
The coming of age story follows Anne (Gelula), a seventeen-year-old who fallsl in love with Sasha (Hildebrand), the most popular girl at her La public high school.
When Anne tells her best friend Clifton about the romance he does his best to get in the way.
The deal was negotiated by producers Psh Collective and Arcadia’s Alexandra Burke, who commented: “We’re thrilled to have this beautiful film by Kerem Sanga and the great team at Psh Collective. It marks the new wave of teen films, and judging by its success at Sundance Film Festival alongside the Us theatrical and VOD release, plus outstanding...
Recently launched Australian production and sales outfit Arcadia has signed Sundance 2016 romance-drama First Girl I Loved for world sales.
Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), star in writer-director Kerem Sanga’s film, which won an Audience Award in Park City.
The coming of age story follows Anne (Gelula), a seventeen-year-old who fallsl in love with Sasha (Hildebrand), the most popular girl at her La public high school.
When Anne tells her best friend Clifton about the romance he does his best to get in the way.
The deal was negotiated by producers Psh Collective and Arcadia’s Alexandra Burke, who commented: “We’re thrilled to have this beautiful film by Kerem Sanga and the great team at Psh Collective. It marks the new wave of teen films, and judging by its success at Sundance Film Festival alongside the Us theatrical and VOD release, plus outstanding...
- 12/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Recently launched Arcadia heads to Utah with survival thriller.
Recently launched Australian production and sales outfit Arcadia has signed Sundance 2016 romance-drama First Girl I Loved for world sales.
Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), star in writer-director Kerem Sanga’s film, which won an Audience Award in Park City.
The coming of age story follows Anne (Gelula), a seventeen-year-old who fallsl in love with Sasha (Hildebrand), the most popular girl at her La public high school.
When Anne tells her best friend Clifton about the romance he does his best to get in the way.
The deal was negotiated by producers Psh Collective and Arcadia’s Alexandra Burke, who commented: “We’re thrilled to have this beautiful film by Kerem Sanga and the great team at Psh Collective. It marks the new wave of teen films, and judging by its success at Sundance Film Festival alongside the Us theatrical and VOD release, plus outstanding...
Recently launched Australian production and sales outfit Arcadia has signed Sundance 2016 romance-drama First Girl I Loved for world sales.
Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), star in writer-director Kerem Sanga’s film, which won an Audience Award in Park City.
The coming of age story follows Anne (Gelula), a seventeen-year-old who fallsl in love with Sasha (Hildebrand), the most popular girl at her La public high school.
When Anne tells her best friend Clifton about the romance he does his best to get in the way.
The deal was negotiated by producers Psh Collective and Arcadia’s Alexandra Burke, who commented: “We’re thrilled to have this beautiful film by Kerem Sanga and the great team at Psh Collective. It marks the new wave of teen films, and judging by its success at Sundance Film Festival alongside the Us theatrical and VOD release, plus outstanding...
- 12/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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
Red Dog: True Blue.. . Damien Power.s feature debut Killing Ground will make its international debut at the Sundance Film Festival, while Red Dog: True Blue will screen in the kids sidebar. . The news follows on from last week's announcement that Cate Shortland's.Berlin Syndrome.would be making its world premiere at the festival.. . Killing Ground will screen as part of the Midnight sidebar, which has previously launched films such as The Babadook, The Blair Witch Project, Saw, The Witch and Hard Candy. . The thriller, which debuted at Miff, stars Aaron Pedersen (Goldstone, Mystery Road), Harriet Dyer (Love Child, Rueben Guthrie), Ian Meadows (Scare Campaign, The Wrong Girl), Aaron Glenane (Molly, Deadline Gallipoli) and Maya Stange (Wolf Creek TV, Love Child). . .It.s hugely exciting to have our international premiere where so many of my favourite filmmakers got their starts. And I.m thrilled to be screening in the...
- 12/6/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The 'Backtrack' sound team..
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
- 11/24/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The 'Backtrack' sound team..
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
- 11/24/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The 'Backtrack' sound team..
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
- 11/24/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Goldstone is a sad place. A frontier town in the middle of the desert, it's the kind of place you'd expect to have been erased from the map a long time ago. Everything about it is temporary: the homes, the offices, the motel… trailers which have been dropped in place. Everything, that is, with the exception of the mine. Goldstone continues on because the mining company has uncovered huge deposits of gold in the nearby indigenous land and the local mining bosses will do anything to keep the gold flowing.
The setting alone is almost enough to set-up Ivan Sen's Goldstone as a movie to see but into the mix the writer/director throws is the story of Jay Swan, a city investigator on the trail of a missing woman thought to have last been seen in the town. Jay has problems but h [Continued ...]...
The setting alone is almost enough to set-up Ivan Sen's Goldstone as a movie to see but into the mix the writer/director throws is the story of Jay Swan, a city investigator on the trail of a missing woman thought to have last been seen in the town. Jay has problems but h [Continued ...]...
- 10/27/2016
- QuietEarth.us
Rabbit. (Photo: Ben Baker)
The first image from the upcoming Aussie thriller Rabbit, which just finished shooting in Adelaide,.has been released.
Exploring the link between identical twins and their ability to communicate telepathically, Rabbit is writer-director Luke Shanahan.s debut feature. The shoot just wrapped in Adelaide after six weeks on location.
.I.ve always been intrigued by sibling rivalry and, in particular, the unique relationship between twins. I was interested in exploring how two characters, sharing 99 percent of the same DNA, deal with the most extreme situations,. said Shanahan.
The cast includes Adelaide Clemens (The Great Gatsby, Rectify), Alex Russell (Chronicle, Goldstone) and Belgian actress Veerle Baetens, who starred in the Oscar nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown, which won her the European Film Award for Best Actress.
Clemens plays identical twins Maude and Cleo Ashton. Almost a year after Cleo.s disappearance, Maude is still haunted by visions...
The first image from the upcoming Aussie thriller Rabbit, which just finished shooting in Adelaide,.has been released.
Exploring the link between identical twins and their ability to communicate telepathically, Rabbit is writer-director Luke Shanahan.s debut feature. The shoot just wrapped in Adelaide after six weeks on location.
.I.ve always been intrigued by sibling rivalry and, in particular, the unique relationship between twins. I was interested in exploring how two characters, sharing 99 percent of the same DNA, deal with the most extreme situations,. said Shanahan.
The cast includes Adelaide Clemens (The Great Gatsby, Rectify), Alex Russell (Chronicle, Goldstone) and Belgian actress Veerle Baetens, who starred in the Oscar nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown, which won her the European Film Award for Best Actress.
Clemens plays identical twins Maude and Cleo Ashton. Almost a year after Cleo.s disappearance, Maude is still haunted by visions...
- 10/25/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Rabbit. (Photo: Ben Baker)
The first image from the upcoming Aussie thriller Rabbit, currently shooting in Adelaide, has been released.
Exploring the link between identical twins and their ability to communicate telepathically, Rabbit is writer-director Luke Shanahan.s debut feature. The shoot is set to wrap in Adelaide this week after six weeks on location.
.I.ve always been intrigued by sibling rivalry and, in particular, the unique relationship between twins. I was interested in exploring how two characters, sharing 99 percent of the same DNA, deal with the most extreme situations,. said Shanahan.
The cast includes Adelaide Clemens (The Great Gatsby, Rectify), Alex Russell (Chronicle, Goldstone) and Belgian actress Veerle Baetens, who starred in the Oscar nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown, which won her the European Film Award for Best Actress.
Clemens plays identical twins Maude and Cleo Ashton. Almost a year after Cleo.s disappearance, Maude is still haunted...
The first image from the upcoming Aussie thriller Rabbit, currently shooting in Adelaide, has been released.
Exploring the link between identical twins and their ability to communicate telepathically, Rabbit is writer-director Luke Shanahan.s debut feature. The shoot is set to wrap in Adelaide this week after six weeks on location.
.I.ve always been intrigued by sibling rivalry and, in particular, the unique relationship between twins. I was interested in exploring how two characters, sharing 99 percent of the same DNA, deal with the most extreme situations,. said Shanahan.
The cast includes Adelaide Clemens (The Great Gatsby, Rectify), Alex Russell (Chronicle, Goldstone) and Belgian actress Veerle Baetens, who starred in the Oscar nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown, which won her the European Film Award for Best Actress.
Clemens plays identical twins Maude and Cleo Ashton. Almost a year after Cleo.s disappearance, Maude is still haunted...
- 10/25/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Vr project Buried.
Screen Australia has announced its latest funding round, with $3 million in production and development funding split between two Indigenous TV projects, eight multiplatform projects, eight feature films, and two individuals and two companies.
The two Indigenous television projects to have received production investment are:
–... ABC TV.s previously announced Indigenous comedy drama series The Warriors. From Robert Connolly's Arenamedia, the show is set in the competitive world of Australian Rules Football, and has major production investment from Screen Australia and funding support from Film Victoria;
–... Nitv documentary Carry The Flag,.which delves into the story behind the Torres Strait Island flag designed by Bernard Namok, from Tamarind Tree Pictures with Screen Queensland and Screen Territory support.
The eight multiplatform projects to have received production investment are:
–... Vr project The Buried, a 3D experience that plunges the viewer into a magical Dreamtime world, from Indigenous writer/director Tyson Mowarin,...
Screen Australia has announced its latest funding round, with $3 million in production and development funding split between two Indigenous TV projects, eight multiplatform projects, eight feature films, and two individuals and two companies.
The two Indigenous television projects to have received production investment are:
–... ABC TV.s previously announced Indigenous comedy drama series The Warriors. From Robert Connolly's Arenamedia, the show is set in the competitive world of Australian Rules Football, and has major production investment from Screen Australia and funding support from Film Victoria;
–... Nitv documentary Carry The Flag,.which delves into the story behind the Torres Strait Island flag designed by Bernard Namok, from Tamarind Tree Pictures with Screen Queensland and Screen Territory support.
The eight multiplatform projects to have received production investment are:
–... Vr project The Buried, a 3D experience that plunges the viewer into a magical Dreamtime world, from Indigenous writer/director Tyson Mowarin,...
- 10/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The director’s latest ‘outback noir’ is a broodingly poetic tale that pits nature and spiritualism against corporate greed. It may be the year’s most important film
Indigenous Australian police detective Jay Swan rolls into the makeshift town of Goldstone like the Man With No Name in an Abel Ferrara Fistful of Dollars reboot – mysterious, taciturn, in the midst of an emotional and spiritual crisis, and utterly hammered. Ivan Sen’s Goldstone is a spin-off from, rather than a sequel to, his Mystery Road, in which Swan (Aaron Pedersen) investigated the murder of a young Indigenous Australian woman in a small town riddled with racism. In the interim period, we gather that Jay has lost his daughter, and that the clean-cut detective of the previous film has been replaced by an all but broken man.
Related: Goldstone review – a masterpiece of outback noir that packs a political punch
Continue reading.
Indigenous Australian police detective Jay Swan rolls into the makeshift town of Goldstone like the Man With No Name in an Abel Ferrara Fistful of Dollars reboot – mysterious, taciturn, in the midst of an emotional and spiritual crisis, and utterly hammered. Ivan Sen’s Goldstone is a spin-off from, rather than a sequel to, his Mystery Road, in which Swan (Aaron Pedersen) investigated the murder of a young Indigenous Australian woman in a small town riddled with racism. In the interim period, we gather that Jay has lost his daughter, and that the clean-cut detective of the previous film has been replaced by an all but broken man.
Related: Goldstone review – a masterpiece of outback noir that packs a political punch
Continue reading.
- 10/10/2016
- by Rowan Righelato
- The Guardian - Film News
Guests attending this year to include Bernardo Bertolucci, Don DeLillo, Ralph Fiennes.Scroll down for full line-up
The Rome Film Festival (Oct 13-23) has revealed its line-up for 2016.
The festival will present 44 films and documentaries in its official programme, selected from 26 countries.
Rome will open with Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, which premiered in Toronto.
Further titles in the Official Selection include Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant [pictured], starring Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick, Nate Parker’s The Birth Of A Nation, Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea, and Oliver Stone’s Snowden.
The festival’s previously announced Alice In The City line-up will include John Carney’s Sing Street and Matt Ross’s Captain Fantastic.
The Everybody’s Talking About It strand, which highlights films that has generated exceptional buzz following their international debuts, will showcase Yeon Sang-ho’s Train To Busan, Michael Grandage’s Genius, David Mackenzie’s Hell Or High Water, and [link=nm...
The Rome Film Festival (Oct 13-23) has revealed its line-up for 2016.
The festival will present 44 films and documentaries in its official programme, selected from 26 countries.
Rome will open with Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, which premiered in Toronto.
Further titles in the Official Selection include Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant [pictured], starring Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick, Nate Parker’s The Birth Of A Nation, Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea, and Oliver Stone’s Snowden.
The festival’s previously announced Alice In The City line-up will include John Carney’s Sing Street and Matt Ross’s Captain Fantastic.
The Everybody’s Talking About It strand, which highlights films that has generated exceptional buzz following their international debuts, will showcase Yeon Sang-ho’s Train To Busan, Michael Grandage’s Genius, David Mackenzie’s Hell Or High Water, and [link=nm...
- 10/4/2016
- ScreenDaily
To mark the release of Goldstone, we’ve been given a pair of tickets for 1 winner to see the screening at London Film Festival on 11th October. Ivan Sen delivers another layered and engrossing slow-burn thriller, reprising both the distinctive, ‘outback noir’ style of Mystery Road (Lff 2013), as well as its central character – […]
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- 10/4/2016
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Lion.
Saroo and Sue Brierley, whose story is at the heart of Garth Davis.s first feature Lion, will attend the Aimc premiere of the film.
The Brierleys will be be special guests at the red carpet event presented by Screen Australia and Transmission Films on October 12.
The film is adapted from the true story A Long Way Home, written by Saroo.
Saroo was five when he found himself on a train bound the wrong direction from his home in northern India. Frightened and bewildered, he ended up forced to live on the streets of Kolkata, thousands of kilometres away. He was then adopted by an Australian couple and brought up in Tasmania wondering if he would ever see his Indian family again. Using memories and Google Earth, he tracked down his birth mother and her family.
Lion was lauded at the recent Toronto Film Festival, named as first runner-up...
Saroo and Sue Brierley, whose story is at the heart of Garth Davis.s first feature Lion, will attend the Aimc premiere of the film.
The Brierleys will be be special guests at the red carpet event presented by Screen Australia and Transmission Films on October 12.
The film is adapted from the true story A Long Way Home, written by Saroo.
Saroo was five when he found himself on a train bound the wrong direction from his home in northern India. Frightened and bewildered, he ended up forced to live on the streets of Kolkata, thousands of kilometres away. He was then adopted by an Australian couple and brought up in Tasmania wondering if he would ever see his Indian family again. Using memories and Google Earth, he tracked down his birth mother and her family.
Lion was lauded at the recent Toronto Film Festival, named as first runner-up...
- 10/3/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
International Sales Agent LevelK is looking for a paid intern to start in January 2017..
A digital distributor as well as sales agent, LevelK is headquartered in Copenhagen and has offices in Hong Kong and, as of 2016, in Sydney.
The company has worked with Aussie titles since its inception in 2009, including Kieran Darcy-Smith's Wish You Were Here — LevelK's first acquisition.—.as well as The Little Death, The Rocket and The Turning.
"We are really excited about working on the ground here in Australia with our partners, and [having] the chance to provide the successful applicant with an opportunity to gain experience in this field," LevelK Australia director Alexandra Burke told If.
The internship is open to women only and is supported by Screen Australia's Gender Matters — Brilliant Careers program..
It will involve close work with the LevelK sales team — Tine Klint in Copenhagen and Derek Lui in Hong Kong.
Tasks will...
A digital distributor as well as sales agent, LevelK is headquartered in Copenhagen and has offices in Hong Kong and, as of 2016, in Sydney.
The company has worked with Aussie titles since its inception in 2009, including Kieran Darcy-Smith's Wish You Were Here — LevelK's first acquisition.—.as well as The Little Death, The Rocket and The Turning.
"We are really excited about working on the ground here in Australia with our partners, and [having] the chance to provide the successful applicant with an opportunity to gain experience in this field," LevelK Australia director Alexandra Burke told If.
The internship is open to women only and is supported by Screen Australia's Gender Matters — Brilliant Careers program..
It will involve close work with the LevelK sales team — Tine Klint in Copenhagen and Derek Lui in Hong Kong.
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- 9/27/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Another missing girl has Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) on the move while the world continues to turn a blind eye. This time it isn’t an aboriginal, though, the aftermath of his work in Mystery Road culminating in a shootout with everyone dead but he a distant memory. The case that has him traveling to Goldstone concerns a young Chinese girl, her place in the desert a curiosity Jay cannot ignore. Haunted by demons that go much farther back than anything writer/director Ivan Sen introduced in his last installment, Swan is taking to the bottle and in desperate need of a win to repair his damaged soul. Unfortunately for him it doesn’t appear anyone in this desolate mining town is able—or willing—to provide assistance.
We reunite with Jay piss drunk and behind the wheel as Goldstone’s solitary law enforcement agent (Alex Russell‘s Josh) approaches.
We reunite with Jay piss drunk and behind the wheel as Goldstone’s solitary law enforcement agent (Alex Russell‘s Josh) approaches.
- 9/21/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
★★★★☆ Two thirds of the way through Ivan Sen's Goldstone a brothel madame combats the defiance of one of her trafficked girls with some discouraging advice: you can't fight the world, you can't change it, you can only find the place you fit within it. That worldview is put squarely to the test throughout Sen's measured and deceptively nuanced new genre flick, an Outback crime drama that continues the story of Aboriginal detective Jay Swan (Aaron Petersen) after 2013's similar but slightly less compelling Mystery Road.
- 9/14/2016
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Exclusive: Luke Shanahan is directing the dark thriller about a medical student whose twin is abducted.
Adelaide Clemens, whose credits include Parade’s End and The Great Gatsby, has taken on the lead role in Luke Shanahan’s dark thriller Rabbit, which starts shooting today. Clemens replaces the previously reported Abbey Lee in the role.
Shanahan will shoot for five weeks on locations in and around Adelaide, Australia. David Ngo produces the co-production between A Longshot Film and Projector Films. LevelK handles international sales on Shanahan’s feature debut.
Clemens stars as Maude Ashton, a young medical student haunted by visions of her twin sister’s abduction, who discovers a secret society that might be connected to her missing sister.
The actress recently finished shooting Music War And Love in Poland with Connie Nielsen and Stellan Skarsgard.
In Rabbit, she reunites with her Wasted On The Young co-star Alex Russell, who has recently...
Adelaide Clemens, whose credits include Parade’s End and The Great Gatsby, has taken on the lead role in Luke Shanahan’s dark thriller Rabbit, which starts shooting today. Clemens replaces the previously reported Abbey Lee in the role.
Shanahan will shoot for five weeks on locations in and around Adelaide, Australia. David Ngo produces the co-production between A Longshot Film and Projector Films. LevelK handles international sales on Shanahan’s feature debut.
Clemens stars as Maude Ashton, a young medical student haunted by visions of her twin sister’s abduction, who discovers a secret society that might be connected to her missing sister.
The actress recently finished shooting Music War And Love in Poland with Connie Nielsen and Stellan Skarsgard.
In Rabbit, she reunites with her Wasted On The Young co-star Alex Russell, who has recently...
- 9/12/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Blue Water Empire.
Filming has begun in Far North Queensland and the Torres Straits on Blue Water Empire, the three-part docudrama on the history and culture of the Torres Strait Islands set to air on the ABC next year.
The cast list has filled out with a who's who of the local scene: Jack Thompson, Ryan Corr, Damian Walshe-Howling, Aaron Fa.Aoso, Jimi Bani, Roy Billing, Geoff Morrell, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Peter Phelps, Merwez Whaleboat, Robert Mammone and Damian de Montemas..
The series is being produced by Aaron Fa.Aoso and Jimi Bani's Lonestar Company in partnership with Bunya Productions, led by producers David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin (Goldstone). It was commissioned by the ABC with assistance from Screen Australia and Screen Queensland.
.It.s an honour to be telling the stories of our amazing people and their contribution, over the last two centuries, to the history of Torres Strait Islanders and wider Australia,...
Filming has begun in Far North Queensland and the Torres Straits on Blue Water Empire, the three-part docudrama on the history and culture of the Torres Strait Islands set to air on the ABC next year.
The cast list has filled out with a who's who of the local scene: Jack Thompson, Ryan Corr, Damian Walshe-Howling, Aaron Fa.Aoso, Jimi Bani, Roy Billing, Geoff Morrell, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Peter Phelps, Merwez Whaleboat, Robert Mammone and Damian de Montemas..
The series is being produced by Aaron Fa.Aoso and Jimi Bani's Lonestar Company in partnership with Bunya Productions, led by producers David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin (Goldstone). It was commissioned by the ABC with assistance from Screen Australia and Screen Queensland.
.It.s an honour to be telling the stories of our amazing people and their contribution, over the last two centuries, to the history of Torres Strait Islanders and wider Australia,...
- 8/24/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Down Under.
WB's Suicide Squad is still on top at the Australian box office, dropping fifty-eight percent in week two to bring its overall takings to $23.1 million despite withering reviews.
Next best was Roadshow's Bad Moms, which debuted on 260 screens and rang up just over $4 million, beating third-place holder Sausage Party, the animated raunchfest which rolled out on 197 screens for a cume of $2.5 million so far.
Uni's Jason Bourne is still on 284 screens after three weeks, and dropped forty-eight percent to take in $1.8 million over the weekend, bringing its total to $16.4 million.
Fox's Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie has racked up $5.7 million after two weeks, while Paramount's Star Trek Beyond is sitting on $8.8 million after four.
Sony's foundering Ghostbusters reboot is still on 217 screens after five weeks in release and has a cume of $11.9 million.
Coming in at eight was Akshay Kumar's Rustom, which bowed on 31 screens and raked in $206,186 over the weekend,...
WB's Suicide Squad is still on top at the Australian box office, dropping fifty-eight percent in week two to bring its overall takings to $23.1 million despite withering reviews.
Next best was Roadshow's Bad Moms, which debuted on 260 screens and rang up just over $4 million, beating third-place holder Sausage Party, the animated raunchfest which rolled out on 197 screens for a cume of $2.5 million so far.
Uni's Jason Bourne is still on 284 screens after three weeks, and dropped forty-eight percent to take in $1.8 million over the weekend, bringing its total to $16.4 million.
Fox's Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie has racked up $5.7 million after two weeks, while Paramount's Star Trek Beyond is sitting on $8.8 million after four.
Sony's foundering Ghostbusters reboot is still on 217 screens after five weeks in release and has a cume of $11.9 million.
Coming in at eight was Akshay Kumar's Rustom, which bowed on 31 screens and raked in $206,186 over the weekend,...
- 8/14/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
A selection of films from the 2016 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has been unveiled, with films by Jim Jarmusch, Maren Ade, Tom Ford, Paul Verhoeven, Damien Chazelle, and many more.Opening NIGHTThe Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua)GALASDeepwater HorizonArrival (Denis Villeneuve)Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg)The Headhunter's Calling (Mark Williams)The Journey Is the Destination (Bronwen Hughes)Jt + The Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme)Lbj (Rob Reiner)Lion (Garth Davis)Loving (Jeff Nichols)A Monster Calls (J.A. Bayona)Planetarium (Rebecca Zlotowski)Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair)The Rolling Stones of Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America (Paul Dugdale)The Secret Scripture (Jim Sheridan)Snowden (Oliver Stone)Strange Weather (Katherine Dieckmann)Their Finest (Lone Scherfig)A United Kingdom (Amma Astante)Special PRESENTATIONSLa La LandThe Age of Shadows (Kim Jee-woon)All I See Is You (Marc Forster)American Honey (Andrea Arnold)American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor)Asura: The City of...
- 8/12/2016
- MUBI
Jacki Weaver and Ivan Sen on the Goldstone set.
Ivan Sen.s.Goldstone opened the 2016 Sydney Film Festival before Transmisison released it nationally on July 7, and will make its international premiere at Tiff next month.
The film reunites Sen and his longtime producing partner David Jowsey with actor Aaron Pederson, who reprises the role of Outback detective Jay Swan, first seen in Sen.s 2013 feature Mystery Road.
.He.s a guy from an Indigenous background who.s defending and upholding white law, which has been in conflict with the white establishment for such a long time,. says Sen.
.He.s very divisive, no matter where he goes. He.s loaded with all kinds of political, social connotations. The situations you could put him in and have something quite deep and meaningful come out [of] his experiences are endless..
Goldstone revisits Swan after the loss of his daughter, whose death occurred at...
Ivan Sen.s.Goldstone opened the 2016 Sydney Film Festival before Transmisison released it nationally on July 7, and will make its international premiere at Tiff next month.
The film reunites Sen and his longtime producing partner David Jowsey with actor Aaron Pederson, who reprises the role of Outback detective Jay Swan, first seen in Sen.s 2013 feature Mystery Road.
.He.s a guy from an Indigenous background who.s defending and upholding white law, which has been in conflict with the white establishment for such a long time,. says Sen.
.He.s very divisive, no matter where he goes. He.s loaded with all kinds of political, social connotations. The situations you could put him in and have something quite deep and meaningful come out [of] his experiences are endless..
Goldstone revisits Swan after the loss of his daughter, whose death occurred at...
- 8/12/2016
- by Alice McCredie-Dando
- IF.com.au
The Toronto International Film Festival presents its lineup for Platform, "the juried program that champions director’s cinema from around the world," now in its second year. Set to compete are Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Daguerrotype, Ivan Sen's Goldstone, Katell Quillévéré's Heal the Living, Khyentse Norbu's Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait, Fien Troch's Home, Pablo Larraín's Jackie, William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth, Mijke de Jong's Layla M., Zacharias Kunuk's Searchers, Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama and Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie's Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves. » - David Hudson...
- 8/11/2016
- Keyframe
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