Claudia Karvan embarks on a literary adventure to explore the stories that have shaped the nation’s identity in Books That Made Us – a three-part documentary from Blackfella Films premiering on November 23 at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.
In the series, Karvan meets Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright, Helen Garner, Tim Winton, David Malouf, Kate Grenville, Christos Tsiolkas, Thomas Keneally, Liane Moriarty, Trent Dalton, Kim Scott, and Melissa Lucashenko. She discovers the stories behind the stories, the workings of the writers’ imaginations and their motivation to write novels that have been shaped by Australia and, in turn, shaped the country.
Series producer and writer is Jacob Hickey, with producer Darren Dale. The ABC executive producer is Kalita Corrigan.
Developed and produced in association with the ABC, production funding from Screen Australia and produced with the assistance of Film Victoria.
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In the series, Karvan meets Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright, Helen Garner, Tim Winton, David Malouf, Kate Grenville, Christos Tsiolkas, Thomas Keneally, Liane Moriarty, Trent Dalton, Kim Scott, and Melissa Lucashenko. She discovers the stories behind the stories, the workings of the writers’ imaginations and their motivation to write novels that have been shaped by Australia and, in turn, shaped the country.
Series producer and writer is Jacob Hickey, with producer Darren Dale. The ABC executive producer is Kalita Corrigan.
Developed and produced in association with the ABC, production funding from Screen Australia and produced with the assistance of Film Victoria.
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- 10/28/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Helen Garner.
Aurora Films’ Ákos Armont and Antony Waddington plan to turn Helen Garner’s novel The Spare Room, a drama about a woman who cares for her cancer-stricken friend, into a feature film.
Eamon Flack, the artistic director of Sydney’s Belvoir, will make his screen directing debut on the project.
Published in 2008, the novel follows the relationship between two women, Nicola, who has advanced bowel cancer, and her friend Helen.
When Sydney-based Nicola goes to Melbourne for the treatment she hopes will cure her, Helen becomes her nurse, protector, guardian angel and judge.
Garner’s literary agent sent the tome to Waddington in 2009 when he was raising the finance for Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm and he has wanted to turn it into a film ever since.
Last year the producers met the author and optioned the screen rights. “We are both enormously encouraged that...
Aurora Films’ Ákos Armont and Antony Waddington plan to turn Helen Garner’s novel The Spare Room, a drama about a woman who cares for her cancer-stricken friend, into a feature film.
Eamon Flack, the artistic director of Sydney’s Belvoir, will make his screen directing debut on the project.
Published in 2008, the novel follows the relationship between two women, Nicola, who has advanced bowel cancer, and her friend Helen.
When Sydney-based Nicola goes to Melbourne for the treatment she hopes will cure her, Helen becomes her nurse, protector, guardian angel and judge.
Garner’s literary agent sent the tome to Waddington in 2009 when he was raising the finance for Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm and he has wanted to turn it into a film ever since.
Last year the producers met the author and optioned the screen rights. “We are both enormously encouraged that...
- 10/27/2020
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Director Sotiris Dounoukos on the set of 'Joe Cinque's Consolation'.
In 1997, Canberra law student Anu Singh murdered her boyfriend Joe Cinque by lacing his coffee with Rohypnol and injecting him with heroin after a dinner party.
Some of the guests, mostly other students, had heard rumours of Singh.s plan. None of them warned Cinque..
The circumstances surrounding the crime and its subsequent trial are the subject of Helen Garner.s 2004 book, Joe Cinque.s Consolation.—.now adapted for screen by director Sotiris Dounoukos and his co-writer Matt Rubenstein.
The film, Dounoukos.s first, stars Maggie Naouri as Singh and Jerome Meyer as Cinque.
A Canberra native, Dounoukos has a personal connection to the story; he studied law at the Australian National University at the same time as Singh and she was a friend of a friend.
Reading Garner.s book left the director, like many others, with...
In 1997, Canberra law student Anu Singh murdered her boyfriend Joe Cinque by lacing his coffee with Rohypnol and injecting him with heroin after a dinner party.
Some of the guests, mostly other students, had heard rumours of Singh.s plan. None of them warned Cinque..
The circumstances surrounding the crime and its subsequent trial are the subject of Helen Garner.s 2004 book, Joe Cinque.s Consolation.—.now adapted for screen by director Sotiris Dounoukos and his co-writer Matt Rubenstein.
The film, Dounoukos.s first, stars Maggie Naouri as Singh and Jerome Meyer as Cinque.
A Canberra native, Dounoukos has a personal connection to the story; he studied law at the Australian National University at the same time as Singh and she was a friend of a friend.
Reading Garner.s book left the director, like many others, with...
- 10/18/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The Australian writer’s rich film history has long been undervalued. This latest adaptation, with the bones of Garner’s book but not the wisdom, is more proof
The death of young engineer Joe Cinque at the hands of his girlfriend, law student Anu Singh, was made famous by Helen Garner in her 2004 book Joe Cinque’s Consolation. The circumstances of the crime, as related by Garner, still disturb: not only did Cinque languish, drugged and helpless, in the unstable Singh’s control for an entire weekend, but many of the couple’s friends were aware of Singh’s fatal course, helping her purchase enough heroin to administer a fatal overdose, and attending a “farewell” dinner party at the couple’s home.
Garner’s book – which follows the trials of Singh and her accused accomplice, Madhavi Rao – is a concerted attempt to comprehend a killing that in its messiness and senselessness almost eludes understanding.
The death of young engineer Joe Cinque at the hands of his girlfriend, law student Anu Singh, was made famous by Helen Garner in her 2004 book Joe Cinque’s Consolation. The circumstances of the crime, as related by Garner, still disturb: not only did Cinque languish, drugged and helpless, in the unstable Singh’s control for an entire weekend, but many of the couple’s friends were aware of Singh’s fatal course, helping her purchase enough heroin to administer a fatal overdose, and attending a “farewell” dinner party at the couple’s home.
Garner’s book – which follows the trials of Singh and her accused accomplice, Madhavi Rao – is a concerted attempt to comprehend a killing that in its messiness and senselessness almost eludes understanding.
- 10/14/2016
- by James Robert Douglas
- The Guardian - Film News
The poster declares this film as ‘based on the best-selling book by Helen Garner,’ but where Garner was self-reflective, Sotiris Dounoukos’s film is clinical
Is Joe Cinque’s Consolation an adaptation? The poster declares this new film as “based on the best-selling book by Helen Garner.” But I’m not buying it, and I doubt any reader of Garner’s account of the trial of Anu Singh – who fed her boyfriend Joe rohypnol-laced coffee then injected him with a fatal dose of heroin – would see this as a filmed version of the author’s well-regarded words.
In her true crime book, Garner was self-reflective. She touched on her own biases, preconceptions and emotions. She wrote of the sadness she felt from a recently failed marriage, and clearly indicated her sympathies for the victim’s parents.
Continue reading...
Is Joe Cinque’s Consolation an adaptation? The poster declares this new film as “based on the best-selling book by Helen Garner.” But I’m not buying it, and I doubt any reader of Garner’s account of the trial of Anu Singh – who fed her boyfriend Joe rohypnol-laced coffee then injected him with a fatal dose of heroin – would see this as a filmed version of the author’s well-regarded words.
In her true crime book, Garner was self-reflective. She touched on her own biases, preconceptions and emotions. She wrote of the sadness she felt from a recently failed marriage, and clearly indicated her sympathies for the victim’s parents.
Continue reading...
- 10/13/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Based on Helen Garner’s book, Sotiris Dounoukos’ film grapples with crime, mental illness and personal responsibility
Anu Singh (Maggie Naouri) sits among a circle of fellow Australian National University law students at a Canberra backyard night-time party, jokily putting down another student. She is portrayed in this film as fragile at heart, with low self-esteem.
She turns to her boyfriend, Joe Cinque (Jerome Meyer): a fresh-faced young civil engineer from Newcastle. She grossly exaggerates a car accident he has been in.
Continue reading...
Anu Singh (Maggie Naouri) sits among a circle of fellow Australian National University law students at a Canberra backyard night-time party, jokily putting down another student. She is portrayed in this film as fragile at heart, with low self-esteem.
She turns to her boyfriend, Joe Cinque (Jerome Meyer): a fresh-faced young civil engineer from Newcastle. She grossly exaggerates a car accident he has been in.
Continue reading...
- 10/5/2016
- by Steve Dow
- The Guardian - Film News
Joe Cinque’s Consolation tells the true story of the death of Joe Cinque, a crime that shocked Australia. It is adapted from Helen Garner’s best-selling account of the events surrounding Cinque's death. In early 1997 Anu Singh, a law student at the Australian National University, confides in friends that she plans to kill herself to put an end to a mysterious illness. With doctors unable or unwilling to help, Anu’s boyfriend, Joe Cinque, attempts to get to the bottom of her condition. As Anu’s mental and emotional state begins to disintegrate, her plans grow more macabre and more public. Joe begins to understand the true nature of their relationship while Anu blames him for her illness and vows revenge against him. After an...
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- 9/14/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Boys in the Trees.
Tiff's Discovery program is where first and second time feature directors from around the world can strut their stuff.
.Toronto audiences first found Christopher Nolan, Lynne Ramsay and Steve McQueen in our Discovery section,. said the Artistic Director of Tiff, Cameron Bailey. .We can't wait to introduce a new generation of vibrant, original voices in cinema..
This year the Discovery line-up includes two Aussie titles: Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos, and Boys in the Trees, directed by Nicholas Verso.
Joe Cinque.s Consolation, which.Titan View will release in cinemas across Australia on October 13, comes to Tiff after premiering at this month's Melbourne International Film Festival.
Based on Helen Garner's book about the headline-grabbing 1997 murder case, the drama chronicles how the romantic relationship between two Australian law students turns deadly.
The film's selection marks Dounoukos. return to the festival. In 2014, he was...
Tiff's Discovery program is where first and second time feature directors from around the world can strut their stuff.
.Toronto audiences first found Christopher Nolan, Lynne Ramsay and Steve McQueen in our Discovery section,. said the Artistic Director of Tiff, Cameron Bailey. .We can't wait to introduce a new generation of vibrant, original voices in cinema..
This year the Discovery line-up includes two Aussie titles: Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos, and Boys in the Trees, directed by Nicholas Verso.
Joe Cinque.s Consolation, which.Titan View will release in cinemas across Australia on October 13, comes to Tiff after premiering at this month's Melbourne International Film Festival.
Based on Helen Garner's book about the headline-grabbing 1997 murder case, the drama chronicles how the romantic relationship between two Australian law students turns deadly.
The film's selection marks Dounoukos. return to the festival. In 2014, he was...
- 8/23/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Joe Cinque's Consolation.
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
- 7/7/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
On June 27, Text Classics is publishing two of Helen Garner.s screenplays, for 1986's Two Friends and 1992's The Last Days of Chez Nous, with an afterword by screenwriter Laura Jones (High Tide, The Potrait of a Lady, Brick Lane).
Jones is the recipient of the 2016 Australian Writers' Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and will be appearing in conversation with Holding the Man's Tommy Murphy at an Awg event in Sydney next week.
Two Friends was directed by Jane Campion and released as a made for television feature in 1986, while The Last Days of Chez Nous was directed by Gillian Armstrong and starred Lisa Harrow, Bruno Ganz and Kerry Fox.
Courtesty of Text, Jones' afterword is reproduced below.
All Those Tears, by Laura Jones
Most of us watch films but don.t read screenplays. They are odd pieces of writing because they only exist in order to become something else.
Jones is the recipient of the 2016 Australian Writers' Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and will be appearing in conversation with Holding the Man's Tommy Murphy at an Awg event in Sydney next week.
Two Friends was directed by Jane Campion and released as a made for television feature in 1986, while The Last Days of Chez Nous was directed by Gillian Armstrong and starred Lisa Harrow, Bruno Ganz and Kerry Fox.
Courtesty of Text, Jones' afterword is reproduced below.
All Those Tears, by Laura Jones
Most of us watch films but don.t read screenplays. They are odd pieces of writing because they only exist in order to become something else.
- 6/23/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Sonya Pemberton.s Uranium — Twisting the Dragon.s Tail won three prizes at the 2015 Atom Awards presented in Melbourne on Thursday night.
The Genepool Productions documentary, which chronicles the cultural, scientific and natural history of uranium, was lauded as best documentary- history, TV factual series and best documentary — science, technology and the environment.
Director Maya Newell and producer Charlotte Mars. Gayby Baby was named best documentary-general at the awards for tertiary and general/open categories held at Lux Melbourne on Chapel Street, hosted by Brian Nankervis from RocKwiz.
Best documentary- biography went to Remembering the Man, Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe.s. film on Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, whose story was told in Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man.
Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed, produced by Damien Parer, was best documentary - arts.
Best docudrama was The War That Changed Us, which chronicled how WW1 impacted the soldiers and their families,...
The Genepool Productions documentary, which chronicles the cultural, scientific and natural history of uranium, was lauded as best documentary- history, TV factual series and best documentary — science, technology and the environment.
Director Maya Newell and producer Charlotte Mars. Gayby Baby was named best documentary-general at the awards for tertiary and general/open categories held at Lux Melbourne on Chapel Street, hosted by Brian Nankervis from RocKwiz.
Best documentary- biography went to Remembering the Man, Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe.s. film on Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, whose story was told in Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man.
Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed, produced by Damien Parer, was best documentary - arts.
Best docudrama was The War That Changed Us, which chronicled how WW1 impacted the soldiers and their families,...
- 11/26/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Gillian Armstrong gives strength and honesty to a study of the dying stages of a marriage, with a clear-eyed focus on the flow of everyday lives
A little over a decade after breaking through with My Brilliant Career, becoming the first woman to direct an Australian feature film for almost 50 years, Gillian Armstrong returned to a headstrong book-writing female protagonist in 1991’s The Last Days of Chez Nous.
One of three screenplays written by Geelong-born Helen Garner, an influential voice on the Australian literary scene, the film is a layered but unpretentious examination of the last embers of a dying marriage – and a rumination on how some decisions yield emotional consequences that entangle our day-to-day lives.
Continue reading...
A little over a decade after breaking through with My Brilliant Career, becoming the first woman to direct an Australian feature film for almost 50 years, Gillian Armstrong returned to a headstrong book-writing female protagonist in 1991’s The Last Days of Chez Nous.
One of three screenplays written by Geelong-born Helen Garner, an influential voice on the Australian literary scene, the film is a layered but unpretentious examination of the last embers of a dying marriage – and a rumination on how some decisions yield emotional consequences that entangle our day-to-day lives.
Continue reading...
- 7/26/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Wayne Blair, Rachel Perkins, Greg McLean, Cameron and Colin Cairnes get green lights for new Australian films, including a new feature starring Kevin Bacon.
The directors of two of Australia’s biggest hits of the last five years, Rachel Perkins (Bran Nue Dae) and Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) have had new films financed in Screen Australia’s last funding round for the year.
Six films in all got a green light: another is Jungle from Wolf Creek director Greg McLean, who recently made his first Us film, 6 Miranda Drive, and has cast Kevin Bacon in this cinematic recreation of the true story of Yossi Ghinsberg managing to survive in the Amazon rainforest.
Perkins will direct the adaptation of the extremely popular book Jasper Jones in Western Australia next year. No cast are yet attached to the coming-of-age murder mystery written by Shaun Grant who was thrust into the limelight when the film of his debut script [link=tt...
The directors of two of Australia’s biggest hits of the last five years, Rachel Perkins (Bran Nue Dae) and Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) have had new films financed in Screen Australia’s last funding round for the year.
Six films in all got a green light: another is Jungle from Wolf Creek director Greg McLean, who recently made his first Us film, 6 Miranda Drive, and has cast Kevin Bacon in this cinematic recreation of the true story of Yossi Ghinsberg managing to survive in the Amazon rainforest.
Perkins will direct the adaptation of the extremely popular book Jasper Jones in Western Australia next year. No cast are yet attached to the coming-of-age murder mystery written by Shaun Grant who was thrust into the limelight when the film of his debut script [link=tt...
- 11/27/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
A chance meeting with two abattoir workers in Melbourne seven years ago gave Australian writer-director Sotiris Dounoukos the inspiration to shoot A Single Body, a film about two workmates whose friendship is sorely tested by a new employee.
Shot entirely in France, the 19-minute film debuted at the Melbourne International Film Festival and will have its international premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival.s inaugural Short Cuts International showcase of short films.
.The short was written in Melbourne seven years ago after a chance meeting with two abattoir workers,. said the Canberra-raised Dounoukos, a graduate of Binger Institute in the Netherlands and the Victorian College of the Art.s School of Film and Television.
.I.d been thinking a lot at the time of my Dad, who.d lost his brother when they were starting out together in Australia. They were very close. It made me think...
Shot entirely in France, the 19-minute film debuted at the Melbourne International Film Festival and will have its international premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival.s inaugural Short Cuts International showcase of short films.
.The short was written in Melbourne seven years ago after a chance meeting with two abattoir workers,. said the Canberra-raised Dounoukos, a graduate of Binger Institute in the Netherlands and the Victorian College of the Art.s School of Film and Television.
.I.d been thinking a lot at the time of my Dad, who.d lost his brother when they were starting out together in Australia. They were very close. It made me think...
- 8/27/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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