Top row: Aven Yap, Helen Morrsion. Centre row: Ben Hackworth, Dean Gibson. Bottom Row: Krissy Kneen, Anthony Mullins.
Screen Queensland’s Ride Feature Film Fund is now a rolling fund, with the agency putting a call out today for pitches from creatives from under-represented groups.
The initiative is a partnership between Sq, Sbs, Madman Entertainment, The Post Lounge and Media Super, and guarantees a production budget of $1.5 million for one feature film to be created each year for the next three years.
Creatives can apply to Ride at anytime, with projects selected to move into further intensive development and join the Ride Slate, from which the partners will then select films for production.
Writers, directors and producers with between 0-2 feature film credits can apply for Ride as an individual or in a team. For this program, under-represented groups are recognised as differences in gender, age, Aboriginal identity, CaLD, Lgbtqi+, regional and remote,...
Screen Queensland’s Ride Feature Film Fund is now a rolling fund, with the agency putting a call out today for pitches from creatives from under-represented groups.
The initiative is a partnership between Sq, Sbs, Madman Entertainment, The Post Lounge and Media Super, and guarantees a production budget of $1.5 million for one feature film to be created each year for the next three years.
Creatives can apply to Ride at anytime, with projects selected to move into further intensive development and join the Ride Slate, from which the partners will then select films for production.
Writers, directors and producers with between 0-2 feature film credits can apply for Ride as an individual or in a team. For this program, under-represented groups are recognised as differences in gender, age, Aboriginal identity, CaLD, Lgbtqi+, regional and remote,...
- 5/13/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Natalie Miller.
The Australian films and feature documentaries released in cinemas this year including holdovers collectively have grossed $39.7 million.
So while the calendar year total will fall short of 2018’s $57.4 million, it should be noted Peter Rabbit was the top local title last year, grossing $26.7 million, which alone could explain the year-on-year decline. Sony Pictures is due to launch Peter Rabbit 2 next March, so that is virtually certain to be a big contributor to the 2020 revenues.
As Cinema Nova has supported almost every Australian release, If asked co-executive director Natalie Miller to assess the overall commercial and critical appeal of this year’s Oz slate.
“It’s not bad but it’s not great,” says the veteran exhibitor/distributor, who gives high marks to Ride Like a Girl, Top End Wedding, Storm Boy, Palm Beach and the feature docs 2040, Mystify: Michael Hutchence and The Australian Dream.
Among the...
The Australian films and feature documentaries released in cinemas this year including holdovers collectively have grossed $39.7 million.
So while the calendar year total will fall short of 2018’s $57.4 million, it should be noted Peter Rabbit was the top local title last year, grossing $26.7 million, which alone could explain the year-on-year decline. Sony Pictures is due to launch Peter Rabbit 2 next March, so that is virtually certain to be a big contributor to the 2020 revenues.
As Cinema Nova has supported almost every Australian release, If asked co-executive director Natalie Miller to assess the overall commercial and critical appeal of this year’s Oz slate.
“It’s not bad but it’s not great,” says the veteran exhibitor/distributor, who gives high marks to Ride Like a Girl, Top End Wedding, Storm Boy, Palm Beach and the feature docs 2040, Mystify: Michael Hutchence and The Australian Dream.
Among the...
- 12/4/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘2040’.
Five months into the year, 18 Australian films and feature docs released in cinemas since the start of the year, plus holdovers, have racked up a modest $14.3 million.
That compares with $37.6 million generated in the same period last year, led by Peter Rabbit’s $26.4 million, Breath’s $3.6 million in four weeks (finishing with $4.6 million) and Sweet Country’s $2 million.
Shawn Seet’s Storm Boy is the top title with nearly $5 million, a creditable result. But almost certainly that would have been rather higher if Sony Pictures had been able to use Geoffrey Rush in the publicity campaign.
Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding has grossed $4.7 million through Sunday, its sixth weekend, and could finish with $5.5 million.
Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai collected $3.3 million, knee-capped by the dreadful co-incidence of opening on the same weekend as the Christchurch massacre.
Damon Gameau’s 2040 has earned $568,000 after its second weekend and, buoyed by word-of-mouth, distributor...
Five months into the year, 18 Australian films and feature docs released in cinemas since the start of the year, plus holdovers, have racked up a modest $14.3 million.
That compares with $37.6 million generated in the same period last year, led by Peter Rabbit’s $26.4 million, Breath’s $3.6 million in four weeks (finishing with $4.6 million) and Sweet Country’s $2 million.
Shawn Seet’s Storm Boy is the top title with nearly $5 million, a creditable result. But almost certainly that would have been rather higher if Sony Pictures had been able to use Geoffrey Rush in the publicity campaign.
Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding has grossed $4.7 million through Sunday, its sixth weekend, and could finish with $5.5 million.
Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai collected $3.3 million, knee-capped by the dreadful co-incidence of opening on the same weekend as the Christchurch massacre.
Damon Gameau’s 2040 has earned $568,000 after its second weekend and, buoyed by word-of-mouth, distributor...
- 6/3/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Top End Wedding’.
It’s been a quiet start for the year for Australian films at the national box office, particularly compared to last year when Peter Rabbit and Sweet Country were drawing crowds.
However exhibitors are very optimistic about the outlook for the rest of the year, including Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding which opened yesterday, Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach and Kriv Stenders’ Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (both August 8) and Rachel Griffiths’ Ride Like a Girl (September 26).
Ten new releases plus holdovers collectively racked up $9.06 million through April 30, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
That’s way below the first four months of 2018, which generated $32 million, with Will Gluck’s Peter Rabbit making $25.4 million en route to a final total of $26.7 million and Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country $2 million.
Shawn Seet’s Storm Boy pocketed nearly $5 million, not a bad result,...
It’s been a quiet start for the year for Australian films at the national box office, particularly compared to last year when Peter Rabbit and Sweet Country were drawing crowds.
However exhibitors are very optimistic about the outlook for the rest of the year, including Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding which opened yesterday, Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach and Kriv Stenders’ Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (both August 8) and Rachel Griffiths’ Ride Like a Girl (September 26).
Ten new releases plus holdovers collectively racked up $9.06 million through April 30, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
That’s way below the first four months of 2018, which generated $32 million, with Will Gluck’s Peter Rabbit making $25.4 million en route to a final total of $26.7 million and Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country $2 million.
Shawn Seet’s Storm Boy pocketed nearly $5 million, not a bad result,...
- 5/3/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Celeste’
Curious Films launched Ben Hackworth’s Celeste on six screens in the capital cities last weekend after screening at a dozen international film festivals.
The international sales agent, Tine Klint’s LevelK, has sold the romantic drama, which stars Radha Mitchell, Thomas Cocquerel, Nadine Garner and Odessa Young, to HBO Central Europe, 15 territories in Eastern Europe and China’s Dd Dream International, which plans a theatrical release.
Unicorn Films’ Lizzette Atkins, who produced with Raphael Cocks, tells If a North American deal is in negotiation.
Co-written by Hackworth and the late Bille Brown, Celeste grossed $6,000 and $22,000 including advance screenings.
The regional roll-out will begin on May 9 and Curious Films’ Stephen Fitzgibbon aims to expand to 15-20 screens in the regions through May/June. Fitzgibbon is finalising streaming and other ancillary deals which he hopes to soon announce.
Mitchell plays the title role, a retired opera star who plans one...
Curious Films launched Ben Hackworth’s Celeste on six screens in the capital cities last weekend after screening at a dozen international film festivals.
The international sales agent, Tine Klint’s LevelK, has sold the romantic drama, which stars Radha Mitchell, Thomas Cocquerel, Nadine Garner and Odessa Young, to HBO Central Europe, 15 territories in Eastern Europe and China’s Dd Dream International, which plans a theatrical release.
Unicorn Films’ Lizzette Atkins, who produced with Raphael Cocks, tells If a North American deal is in negotiation.
Co-written by Hackworth and the late Bille Brown, Celeste grossed $6,000 and $22,000 including advance screenings.
The regional roll-out will begin on May 9 and Curious Films’ Stephen Fitzgibbon aims to expand to 15-20 screens in the regions through May/June. Fitzgibbon is finalising streaming and other ancillary deals which he hopes to soon announce.
Mitchell plays the title role, a retired opera star who plans one...
- 4/28/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Radha Mitchell’s soulful performance suggests a character with dark secrets but the director is in no mood to cut to the chase
From the opening images of Celeste, which depict star Radha Mitchell walking through a dewy rainforest in tropical north Queensland, director Ben Hackworth maintains beatific vibes and an atmosphere that feels natural but intensely manicured – like a day spa or a fancy resort. The majority of the film takes place inside a photogenic plant-filled estate, so lovely and lush that exterior parts of it look like ruins from an ancient, decadent civilisation.
There are worse places to live for homebodies who barely venture outside. The film’s protagonist is a revered opera singer who was once heralded as a prodigy, but disappeared from public view to become a lagoon-side social recluse.
From the opening images of Celeste, which depict star Radha Mitchell walking through a dewy rainforest in tropical north Queensland, director Ben Hackworth maintains beatific vibes and an atmosphere that feels natural but intensely manicured – like a day spa or a fancy resort. The majority of the film takes place inside a photogenic plant-filled estate, so lovely and lush that exterior parts of it look like ruins from an ancient, decadent civilisation.
There are worse places to live for homebodies who barely venture outside. The film’s protagonist is a revered opera singer who was once heralded as a prodigy, but disappeared from public view to become a lagoon-side social recluse.
- 4/24/2019
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 34th edition, which takes place from Jan. 30 to Feb. 9. Sixty-three world premieres will debut at the California fest, which is also hosting 59 U.S. premieres from 48 countries. “Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy” will open the festival, with “Spoons: A Santa Barbara Story” closing it.
Sbiff also serves as an awards-season stop, and this year’s honorees include Viggo Mortensen, Glenn Close, Melissa McCarthy, Yalitza Aparicio, Sam Elliott, Elsie Fisher, Claire Foy, Richard E. Grant, Thomasin McKenzie, John David Washington, Steven Yeun, and Michael B. Jordan.
Here’s the lineup:
Babysplitters, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Sam Friedlander
Better Together, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Isaac Hernández
The Bird Catcher, Norway, UK – World Premiere
Directed by Ross Clarke
Cemetery Park, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Brandon Alvis
Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy,...
Sbiff also serves as an awards-season stop, and this year’s honorees include Viggo Mortensen, Glenn Close, Melissa McCarthy, Yalitza Aparicio, Sam Elliott, Elsie Fisher, Claire Foy, Richard E. Grant, Thomasin McKenzie, John David Washington, Steven Yeun, and Michael B. Jordan.
Here’s the lineup:
Babysplitters, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Sam Friedlander
Better Together, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Isaac Hernández
The Bird Catcher, Norway, UK – World Premiere
Directed by Ross Clarke
Cemetery Park, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Brandon Alvis
Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy,...
- 1/12/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
California-based High Octane Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Ukrainian sci-fi family film “The Bobot” from LevelK.
High Octane Pictures (Hop) is planning to release the film during the second quarter of 2019.
“The Bobot, ” which has been described as the first Ukrainian sci-fi action-adventure film for family audiences, takes place in a near future and follows a 12-year-old dreamer, Vlad, who gets caught in a conflict between two alien forces. Forced to overcome his fears, Vlad joins forces with Bobot, an electric transformer box, to prevent a global disaster.
Like most science fiction films, “The Bobot” raises various issues such as the impact of technological progress on the environment.
“‘The Bobot’ is nothing short of incredible. This is a film we’ve been tracking since we first heard of its development and could not be happier to be working with the wonderful team over at LevelK in addition to...
High Octane Pictures (Hop) is planning to release the film during the second quarter of 2019.
“The Bobot, ” which has been described as the first Ukrainian sci-fi action-adventure film for family audiences, takes place in a near future and follows a 12-year-old dreamer, Vlad, who gets caught in a conflict between two alien forces. Forced to overcome his fears, Vlad joins forces with Bobot, an electric transformer box, to prevent a global disaster.
Like most science fiction films, “The Bobot” raises various issues such as the impact of technological progress on the environment.
“‘The Bobot’ is nothing short of incredible. This is a film we’ve been tracking since we first heard of its development and could not be happier to be working with the wonderful team over at LevelK in addition to...
- 10/24/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
‘Emu Runner’, which debuted at Tiff, will screen as part of Adelaide’s feature competition.
Adelaide Film Festival launched its full program today, including a variety of highlights direct from Venice, Toronto and Telluride.
Among the films announced today are Venice’s Golden Lion winner Roma, from director Alfonso Cuarón; the Coen Brothers’ best screenplay winner The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, for which Willem Dafoe won best actor.
Overall this year’s program includes more than 130 features, documentaries, shorts, virtual reality and installation works, including 17 world premieres and 30 Australian premieres.
Almost 45 per cent of the films in the line-up are Australian. They include, as previously announced, some of the most anticipated local films of the year, such as Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, which just won Venice’s Special Jury Prize and the Marcello Mastroianni award for star Baykali Ganambarr; Anthony Maras...
Adelaide Film Festival launched its full program today, including a variety of highlights direct from Venice, Toronto and Telluride.
Among the films announced today are Venice’s Golden Lion winner Roma, from director Alfonso Cuarón; the Coen Brothers’ best screenplay winner The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, for which Willem Dafoe won best actor.
Overall this year’s program includes more than 130 features, documentaries, shorts, virtual reality and installation works, including 17 world premieres and 30 Australian premieres.
Almost 45 per cent of the films in the line-up are Australian. They include, as previously announced, some of the most anticipated local films of the year, such as Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, which just won Venice’s Special Jury Prize and the Marcello Mastroianni award for star Baykali Ganambarr; Anthony Maras...
- 9/12/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
LevelK has acquired the comedy-drama “H is for Happiness,” which marks the feature debut of Australian theater director John Sheedy.
Based on Australian author Barry Jonsberg’s popular young adult novel “My Life as an Alphabet,” the film follows Candice Phee, an optimistic 12-year-old girl from a small coastal town who is determined to bring her family back from the brink while facing the trials of adolescence. The novel was adapted by Australian screenwriter Lisa Hoppe, whose credits include the award-winning short “Heck.”
“I have always admired films such as ‘Little Miss Sunshine,’ ‘Pretty in Pink,’ ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ and most Wes Anderson films and it is the influence of these filmmakers and styles that will help [me] create a film that will be truly unique and full of quirks, pathos and humor,” said Sheedy.
Sheedy has a strong track record of directing theatrical works aimed at families and young people.
Based on Australian author Barry Jonsberg’s popular young adult novel “My Life as an Alphabet,” the film follows Candice Phee, an optimistic 12-year-old girl from a small coastal town who is determined to bring her family back from the brink while facing the trials of adolescence. The novel was adapted by Australian screenwriter Lisa Hoppe, whose credits include the award-winning short “Heck.”
“I have always admired films such as ‘Little Miss Sunshine,’ ‘Pretty in Pink,’ ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ and most Wes Anderson films and it is the influence of these filmmakers and styles that will help [me] create a film that will be truly unique and full of quirks, pathos and humor,” said Sheedy.
Sheedy has a strong track record of directing theatrical works aimed at families and young people.
- 8/30/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
LevelK has acquired international sales rights to Swedish dance drama “Feel the Beat,” which marks the feature debut of actor-turned-director Rikard Svensson (“The Reunion”).
A romantic journey through Stockholm’s swing dance world in the 1930s, “Feel the Beat” revolves around Adam, who decides to learn how to dance in order to feel closer to his wife, who is in a coma following a car accident. Adam joins the Lindy Hop dance community, but finds out that his wife has been unfaithful all along.
“As in a contemporary saga, dream sequences full of dancing are created with a particular lust, that leads the minds to movies from the 1930s and 1940s, the time when Lindy Hop and other swing forms were created,” said Svensson, who also stars in “Feel the Beat” and produced it with Annette Stavenow Eriksson for Golden Road Pictures.
Anna Sise, Hilderun Gorpe, and Magnus Krepper complete the cast.
A romantic journey through Stockholm’s swing dance world in the 1930s, “Feel the Beat” revolves around Adam, who decides to learn how to dance in order to feel closer to his wife, who is in a coma following a car accident. Adam joins the Lindy Hop dance community, but finds out that his wife has been unfaithful all along.
“As in a contemporary saga, dream sequences full of dancing are created with a particular lust, that leads the minds to movies from the 1930s and 1940s, the time when Lindy Hop and other swing forms were created,” said Svensson, who also stars in “Feel the Beat” and produced it with Annette Stavenow Eriksson for Golden Road Pictures.
Anna Sise, Hilderun Gorpe, and Magnus Krepper complete the cast.
- 8/15/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The film is the second feature from ‘Corroboree’ director Ben Hackworth.
LevelK has boarded Australian filmmaker Ben Hackworth’s second feature Celeste, which has its world premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival this week.
Radha Mitchell (Melinda and Melinda), Odessa Young (Assassination Nation), Thomas Cocquerel (Table 19), and Nadine Garner (The Book of Revelation) star in a tale of desire and redemption.
Lizzette Atkins of Melbourne-based Unicorn Films (Looking for Grace) developed Celeste and is producing alongside Raphael Cocks. The screenplay is written by Ben Hackworth and the late renowned Australian actor Bille Brown.
The film is financed by Screen Queensland,...
LevelK has boarded Australian filmmaker Ben Hackworth’s second feature Celeste, which has its world premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival this week.
Radha Mitchell (Melinda and Melinda), Odessa Young (Assassination Nation), Thomas Cocquerel (Table 19), and Nadine Garner (The Book of Revelation) star in a tale of desire and redemption.
Lizzette Atkins of Melbourne-based Unicorn Films (Looking for Grace) developed Celeste and is producing alongside Raphael Cocks. The screenplay is written by Ben Hackworth and the late renowned Australian actor Bille Brown.
The film is financed by Screen Queensland,...
- 8/10/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
- The very young, and so far, extremely successful Cannes Atelier program (now in its 4th year) has announced the 15 projects as part of the 2008 curriculum that basically invites directors and their producers to pitch their projects, find financing and/or find distribution to world investors in film the film festival dates. This year's batch includes plenty of first time film projects from short film directors who've canvased the festival circuit but the list also two familiar names with the 6th film project from Lou Ye's (Summer Palace) and the sophomore feature (Lucky Life) from Lee Isaac Chung - perhaps 2007's best new director with Munyurangabo (Liberation Day) making waves on the circuit. Here are the selected projects: Australia – Cure For Serpents by Ben Hackworth (2nd feature film)China – Bitch by Lou Ye (6th feature film)Colombia – The Stoplight Society by Ruben Mendoza (1st feature film)Estonia – One More Croissant
- 3/31/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Toronto International Film Festival
SYDNEY -- Filmmaker Ben Hackworth has crafted something Australian cinema has not seen for some time -- an uncompromising concept film inhabiting the very fringes of the art house. Singular though it may be, most will find his debut feature, Corroboree, fairly impenetrable so it seems destined to remain an esoteric festival-circuit challenge for those who like that sort of thing.
A series of performance workshops centering on newcomer Conor O'Hanlon evolved into a collection of stagy scenes with an extremely loose narrative, courtesy of Hackworth and the film's production designer, Peter Savieri. The result is intended as an homage to the late Australian theater director Richard Wherrett.
Early scenes are completely baffling, but the cumulative effect is rather hypnotic. O'Hanlon plays a pretty young actor named Conor who is summoned to a rustic meditation retreat by a director dying of an AIDS-related illness (Ian Scott, only occasionally glimpsed.) Over the course of a weekend, Conor re-enacts scenes from the director's life, opposite five different actresses (some played by women who worked with Wherrett), each portraying a key figure in the director's orbit.
It's all very meta and there is virtually no exposition. When the full-lipped young man awkwardly reading lines to the first of these women -- a maternal figure clad in a scandalously short nightgown -- admits to being "a little confused," we know where he's coming from.
There is much creeping around the halls and stairwells of the pastel-painted compound, a fantastically timeless place that adds greatly to the ambience. Meanwhile, we are treated to non sequiturs such as "Can you see the advantage of blue sand?"
Lengthy takes at fixed angles abound, often with nothing but birdsong breaking the silence. We do learn that the mysterious director was married, that he has a son and that he liked men. The actresses do not want him to die. The re-enacted scenes, committed to film, are intended as a form of catharsis for the director and the women.
The audience, however, seems kept deliberately at a distance, resulting in an emotional coldness that's unaided by the fact that Hackworth's muse, the non-actor O'Hanlon, also seems to have little clue what's going to happen next.
Corroboree is an English word for the song and dance ceremonies of Australian Aborigines, and it suits the heavily choreographed nature of this theatrically staged, terribly self-aware film.
CORROBOREE
Shoreline Entertainment
I Won't Grow Up
Credits:
Director: Ben Hackworth
Screenwriters: Ben Hackworth, Peter Savieri
Producer: Matteo Bruno
Executive producer: Eilhys England
Director of photography: Katie Milwright
Production designer: Peter Savieri
Music: Robert Mackenzie
Costume designer: Oriana Merullo
Editor: Cindy Clarkson
Cast:
Conor: Conor O'Hanlon
Dr. Elsja: Rebecca Frith
Verna: Susan Lyons
Lena: Natasha Herbert
Anne: Margaret Mills
Jane: Jane McArthur
The Director: Ian Scott
Little Joe: Jethro Cave
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
SYDNEY -- Filmmaker Ben Hackworth has crafted something Australian cinema has not seen for some time -- an uncompromising concept film inhabiting the very fringes of the art house. Singular though it may be, most will find his debut feature, Corroboree, fairly impenetrable so it seems destined to remain an esoteric festival-circuit challenge for those who like that sort of thing.
A series of performance workshops centering on newcomer Conor O'Hanlon evolved into a collection of stagy scenes with an extremely loose narrative, courtesy of Hackworth and the film's production designer, Peter Savieri. The result is intended as an homage to the late Australian theater director Richard Wherrett.
Early scenes are completely baffling, but the cumulative effect is rather hypnotic. O'Hanlon plays a pretty young actor named Conor who is summoned to a rustic meditation retreat by a director dying of an AIDS-related illness (Ian Scott, only occasionally glimpsed.) Over the course of a weekend, Conor re-enacts scenes from the director's life, opposite five different actresses (some played by women who worked with Wherrett), each portraying a key figure in the director's orbit.
It's all very meta and there is virtually no exposition. When the full-lipped young man awkwardly reading lines to the first of these women -- a maternal figure clad in a scandalously short nightgown -- admits to being "a little confused," we know where he's coming from.
There is much creeping around the halls and stairwells of the pastel-painted compound, a fantastically timeless place that adds greatly to the ambience. Meanwhile, we are treated to non sequiturs such as "Can you see the advantage of blue sand?"
Lengthy takes at fixed angles abound, often with nothing but birdsong breaking the silence. We do learn that the mysterious director was married, that he has a son and that he liked men. The actresses do not want him to die. The re-enacted scenes, committed to film, are intended as a form of catharsis for the director and the women.
The audience, however, seems kept deliberately at a distance, resulting in an emotional coldness that's unaided by the fact that Hackworth's muse, the non-actor O'Hanlon, also seems to have little clue what's going to happen next.
Corroboree is an English word for the song and dance ceremonies of Australian Aborigines, and it suits the heavily choreographed nature of this theatrically staged, terribly self-aware film.
CORROBOREE
Shoreline Entertainment
I Won't Grow Up
Credits:
Director: Ben Hackworth
Screenwriters: Ben Hackworth, Peter Savieri
Producer: Matteo Bruno
Executive producer: Eilhys England
Director of photography: Katie Milwright
Production designer: Peter Savieri
Music: Robert Mackenzie
Costume designer: Oriana Merullo
Editor: Cindy Clarkson
Cast:
Conor: Conor O'Hanlon
Dr. Elsja: Rebecca Frith
Verna: Susan Lyons
Lena: Natasha Herbert
Anne: Margaret Mills
Jane: Jane McArthur
The Director: Ian Scott
Little Joe: Jethro Cave
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SYDNEY -- Michael Moore's Sicko will have its Australian premiere in the prized opening-night slot at the Melbourne International Film Festival, festival director Richard Moore said Wednesday as he unveiled the 19-day fest's more than 300 films.
" 'Sicko' proves the power of documentary to place important issues on the social and political agenda," Richard Moore said. "I can't say I've always agreed with him, ... but this is Mike Moore in vintage form. 'Sicko' is brilliant in its execution, full of humor and intelligence."
Bookending the festival for the closing night on Aug. 12 is Shane Meadows' This Is England.
The 2007 edition of Australia's largest film festival includes 10 new sidebars, with two focused on African and Israeli films and two Japanese retrospectives -- one on the work of director Shohei Imamura and another focusing on writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
The festival also will host nine world premieres of Australian films, including the first feature from the festival's "accelerator" development program, Ben Hackworth's Corroboree, and the first feature funded by short film festival Tropfest's feature program, Peter Carstairs' debut feature September.
David Scotts' epic animated TV series Animalia, produced for Network Ten and Nickelodeon, will debut a feature-length cut of its first two episodes in the new kids sidebar, Next Gen.
" 'Sicko' proves the power of documentary to place important issues on the social and political agenda," Richard Moore said. "I can't say I've always agreed with him, ... but this is Mike Moore in vintage form. 'Sicko' is brilliant in its execution, full of humor and intelligence."
Bookending the festival for the closing night on Aug. 12 is Shane Meadows' This Is England.
The 2007 edition of Australia's largest film festival includes 10 new sidebars, with two focused on African and Israeli films and two Japanese retrospectives -- one on the work of director Shohei Imamura and another focusing on writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
The festival also will host nine world premieres of Australian films, including the first feature from the festival's "accelerator" development program, Ben Hackworth's Corroboree, and the first feature funded by short film festival Tropfest's feature program, Peter Carstairs' debut feature September.
David Scotts' epic animated TV series Animalia, produced for Network Ten and Nickelodeon, will debut a feature-length cut of its first two episodes in the new kids sidebar, Next Gen.
- 6/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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