After last year’s iteration saw six projects optioned, Aacta is set to re-team with Monster Pictures to run a horror and genre film development initiative.
2020’s Aacta Pitch: Isolation saw close to 200 submissions, and through a series of development rounds, filmmaking teams were required to demonstrate clear planning around finance, marketing, and audience development. Ultimately, eight projects were selected to compete in a live-streamed pitching final at Aacta ScreenFest.
Writer/director Jordan Watton and producer Julia Corcoran’s Burning won that event, receiving $10,000 and an exclusive distribution deal with Monster Pictures.
However, Monster Pictures director Grant Hardie was so impressed with the concepts that following the 2020 competition, with Chris Brown’s production company Pictures in Paradise, he optioned five of the other first round finalists’ projects. They are now working with the teams to develop their projects and take them to market.
One of those projects is Aaron McCann’s Jonesy,...
2020’s Aacta Pitch: Isolation saw close to 200 submissions, and through a series of development rounds, filmmaking teams were required to demonstrate clear planning around finance, marketing, and audience development. Ultimately, eight projects were selected to compete in a live-streamed pitching final at Aacta ScreenFest.
Writer/director Jordan Watton and producer Julia Corcoran’s Burning won that event, receiving $10,000 and an exclusive distribution deal with Monster Pictures.
However, Monster Pictures director Grant Hardie was so impressed with the concepts that following the 2020 competition, with Chris Brown’s production company Pictures in Paradise, he optioned five of the other first round finalists’ projects. They are now working with the teams to develop their projects and take them to market.
One of those projects is Aaron McCann’s Jonesy,...
- 7/30/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Eight finalists will compete in Aacta and Monster Pictures pitch competition, Pitch: Isolation, with the winner to receive $10,000 in development funding and a theatrical distribution agreement.
The call out was for original concepts based around any kind of isolation – physical, societal or psychological – and ideas that work effectively with minimal locations, small casts and low costs.
The pitch will be streamed live, December 1, on Aacta Screenfest, judged by an industry panel including Monster Pictures owner Grant Hardie, Chris Brown and Fairvale Entertainment’s Toby Louie and Nicholas Levene.
The finalists:
Blackheath
Karina Banno, Raechelle Banno, George Maher
Max recounts her time in the strict religious community she recently escaped but struggles to move on as she fears her old ‘Family’ may be closing in on her and the only person she has left.
Burning
Jordan Watton, Julia Corcoran
A low-achieving outsider who works as volunteer firefighter ignites a series of...
The call out was for original concepts based around any kind of isolation – physical, societal or psychological – and ideas that work effectively with minimal locations, small casts and low costs.
The pitch will be streamed live, December 1, on Aacta Screenfest, judged by an industry panel including Monster Pictures owner Grant Hardie, Chris Brown and Fairvale Entertainment’s Toby Louie and Nicholas Levene.
The finalists:
Blackheath
Karina Banno, Raechelle Banno, George Maher
Max recounts her time in the strict religious community she recently escaped but struggles to move on as she fears her old ‘Family’ may be closing in on her and the only person she has left.
Burning
Jordan Watton, Julia Corcoran
A low-achieving outsider who works as volunteer firefighter ignites a series of...
- 11/22/2020
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
by Joseph Leray
Things have been a little shaky at Kmm Interactive Productions -- the multimedia production company responsible for everything from Mad Max to "Whore of the Orient" -- but things may be looking up thanks to a hefty grant from Screens Nsw, an economic development group within the government of New South Wales.
Kmm absorbed much of the staff behind Rockstar's "L.A. Noire" when developer Team Bondi was scuttled in 2011 and set their sights on "Whore of the Orient," a similar game set in Shanghai in the 1930's. In April, development of the new game was halted and staff reportedly laid off after a publishing deal with Warner Bros. went sour.
In May, design lead Alex Carlyle and storyboard artist Kelly Baigent left the firm to form Intuitive Games.
Losing a publisher and key staffers seems ominous, but the grant from Screens Nsw suggests that the game is still alive,...
Things have been a little shaky at Kmm Interactive Productions -- the multimedia production company responsible for everything from Mad Max to "Whore of the Orient" -- but things may be looking up thanks to a hefty grant from Screens Nsw, an economic development group within the government of New South Wales.
Kmm absorbed much of the staff behind Rockstar's "L.A. Noire" when developer Team Bondi was scuttled in 2011 and set their sights on "Whore of the Orient," a similar game set in Shanghai in the 1930's. In April, development of the new game was halted and staff reportedly laid off after a publishing deal with Warner Bros. went sour.
In May, design lead Alex Carlyle and storyboard artist Kelly Baigent left the firm to form Intuitive Games.
Losing a publisher and key staffers seems ominous, but the grant from Screens Nsw suggests that the game is still alive,...
- 6/24/2013
- by MTV Video Games
- MTV Multiplayer
by Joseph Leray
Details were always light on "Whore of the Orient," a new game project by Sydney, Australia-based film studio Kmm led by ex-"L.A. Noire" devs Team Bondi: one image, a snippet of exposition, a few job postings here and there. Last month, the internal team at Kmm reportedly stopped development as some staff were laid off.
Enter Intuitive Game Studios, founded by "L.A. Noire" design lead Alex Carlyle and storyboard artist Kelly Baigent, rising like a phoenix from Team Bondi's ashes. According to the company's Facebook page, Intuitive Games "is an independent game developer with big ambitions" that with a focus on "quality and content to proudly produce exactly the kind of games we would want to play ourselves."
"I really do want to stay in Australia and try and overcome the drive which is leading everyone to Canada or the like," Carlyle told McV Pacific.
Details were always light on "Whore of the Orient," a new game project by Sydney, Australia-based film studio Kmm led by ex-"L.A. Noire" devs Team Bondi: one image, a snippet of exposition, a few job postings here and there. Last month, the internal team at Kmm reportedly stopped development as some staff were laid off.
Enter Intuitive Game Studios, founded by "L.A. Noire" design lead Alex Carlyle and storyboard artist Kelly Baigent, rising like a phoenix from Team Bondi's ashes. According to the company's Facebook page, Intuitive Games "is an independent game developer with big ambitions" that with a focus on "quality and content to proudly produce exactly the kind of games we would want to play ourselves."
"I really do want to stay in Australia and try and overcome the drive which is leading everyone to Canada or the like," Carlyle told McV Pacific.
- 5/29/2013
- by MTV Video Games
- MTV Multiplayer
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