Screen Australia has committed almost $700,000 in development support across 23 feature projects.
Fifteen new projects have been added to Screen Australia.s development slate, while eight teams will receive continued support to develop their projects.
Two Australian filmmakers will also be supported to undertake overseas internships: producer Ma.ara Bobby Romia will work for six months with Screentime Group in New Zealand and director Ariel Martin-Merrells will work under the mentorship of director James Foley in Los Angeles for five months.
Screen Australia.s head of development Martha Coleman said in a statement: .Following a now well-established tradition, the development slate announced today includes a diverse range of compelling stories from both established and emerging filmmakers. The high calibre of screenplays coming through our door backs up positive feedback we are getting from the domestic and international marketplace and I.m looking forward to seeing the best of these projects make...
Fifteen new projects have been added to Screen Australia.s development slate, while eight teams will receive continued support to develop their projects.
Two Australian filmmakers will also be supported to undertake overseas internships: producer Ma.ara Bobby Romia will work for six months with Screentime Group in New Zealand and director Ariel Martin-Merrells will work under the mentorship of director James Foley in Los Angeles for five months.
Screen Australia.s head of development Martha Coleman said in a statement: .Following a now well-established tradition, the development slate announced today includes a diverse range of compelling stories from both established and emerging filmmakers. The high calibre of screenplays coming through our door backs up positive feedback we are getting from the domestic and international marketplace and I.m looking forward to seeing the best of these projects make...
- 8/29/2012
- by Staff reporter
- IF.com.au
The story of Rupert Murdoch’s rise to become the world’s biggest media mogul looks set to become an Australian TV telemovie,
Screen Australia has provided funding development for the work which is being written by Bob Ellis and Stephen Ramsay.
The announcement comes days after Southern Star’s production of Howzat, the story of how Australian media mogul Kerry Packer took on the cricket establishment delivered the Nine Network with 2m+ ratings.
The series has the working title of The News of the World.
The British Sunday tabloid the telemovie is named after was closed by Murdoch last year in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
Bob Ellis wrote the Australian journalism drama Newsfront and most recently ABC’s Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal while Stephen Ramsey wrote and directed The Baby Boomers Picture Show and Flashbacks.
Ellis told Mumbrella: “What we have...
Screen Australia has provided funding development for the work which is being written by Bob Ellis and Stephen Ramsay.
The announcement comes days after Southern Star’s production of Howzat, the story of how Australian media mogul Kerry Packer took on the cricket establishment delivered the Nine Network with 2m+ ratings.
The series has the working title of The News of the World.
The British Sunday tabloid the telemovie is named after was closed by Murdoch last year in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
Bob Ellis wrote the Australian journalism drama Newsfront and most recently ABC’s Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal while Stephen Ramsey wrote and directed The Baby Boomers Picture Show and Flashbacks.
Ellis told Mumbrella: “What we have...
- 8/28/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
What happens to film projects after they participate in Film Bazaar? Do all of them see the light of the day? Film Bazaar 2010 witnessed films like Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai and Umesh Kulkarni’s Deool. While both these films are ready for release, did the 16 other projects at the co-production market meet the same fate?
Before Film Bazaar 2011 begins in Goa from November 24, DearCinema, in the first of a series, takes a stock of projects that participated in Film Bazaar 2010:
Project: Untitled by Mehreen Jabaar (Pakistan)
Status: production
Mehreen Jabaar, director of Ramchand Pakistani (2008) and producer Javed Jabbar attended Film Bazaar with an untitled project that was visualized as a co-production involving India, Pakistan, Australia and the USA. They met Phillip Bowman of Enjoy Entertainment, Australia at the Film Bazaar and the meeting led to the signing of an Mou to develop the project over the next two years.
Before Film Bazaar 2011 begins in Goa from November 24, DearCinema, in the first of a series, takes a stock of projects that participated in Film Bazaar 2010:
Project: Untitled by Mehreen Jabaar (Pakistan)
Status: production
Mehreen Jabaar, director of Ramchand Pakistani (2008) and producer Javed Jabbar attended Film Bazaar with an untitled project that was visualized as a co-production involving India, Pakistan, Australia and the USA. They met Phillip Bowman of Enjoy Entertainment, Australia at the Film Bazaar and the meeting led to the signing of an Mou to develop the project over the next two years.
- 11/1/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
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