The Melbourne International Film Festival has confirmed that it will provide $202,000 will go to the winner of its Bright Horizons competition for features by first- and second-time directors. Bragging rights to being the richest film competition in the country previously belonged to the smaller CinefestOZ festival in West Australia, which follows later in August.
The Melbourne festival (in cinemas Aug. 3-20) has this year added two significant prizes: the inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award in collaboration with Kearney Group, and the return of the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award, worth $47,500 recognizing an outstanding Australian creative within a film playing in the Melbourne 2023 program.
Winners across long-form awards categories will be announced at Melbourne’s closing night gala on Aug. 19, These will include the juried prizes and the Miff Audience Award.
The First Nations Film Creative Award supports First Nations talent and storytelling with the recipient awarded a $13,500 cash prize and $16,900 worth of financial services.
The Melbourne festival (in cinemas Aug. 3-20) has this year added two significant prizes: the inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award in collaboration with Kearney Group, and the return of the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award, worth $47,500 recognizing an outstanding Australian creative within a film playing in the Melbourne 2023 program.
Winners across long-form awards categories will be announced at Melbourne’s closing night gala on Aug. 19, These will include the juried prizes and the Miff Audience Award.
The First Nations Film Creative Award supports First Nations talent and storytelling with the recipient awarded a $13,500 cash prize and $16,900 worth of financial services.
- 7/27/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The 61st Sydney Film Festival today announced 32 films to be featured in this year.s event (June 4-15) in advance of the full program launch on May 7.
The line-up includes the world premiere of The Redfern Story, 19 Australian premieres, 13 features, 11 documentaries and an eight-film retrospective on maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman. Altman.s son, filmmaker Michael Altman, will attend festival and introduce several of the Altman screenings.
Darlene Johnson.s The Redfern Story chronicles the volatile birth of the first all-Indigenous theatre company, the National Black Theatre. It features interviews with indigenous media pioneer Lester Bostock, writer Gerry Bostock, actor Lillian Crombie, activist-academic Gary Foley, academic Marcia Langton, actors Rachael Maza, Bryan Brown and Bindi Williams. .We are pleased to present this sneak preview of 32 of the 180-plus films in this year.s program,. said Festival Director Nashen Moodley. .We have gathered a selection of the best films from the...
The line-up includes the world premiere of The Redfern Story, 19 Australian premieres, 13 features, 11 documentaries and an eight-film retrospective on maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman. Altman.s son, filmmaker Michael Altman, will attend festival and introduce several of the Altman screenings.
Darlene Johnson.s The Redfern Story chronicles the volatile birth of the first all-Indigenous theatre company, the National Black Theatre. It features interviews with indigenous media pioneer Lester Bostock, writer Gerry Bostock, actor Lillian Crombie, activist-academic Gary Foley, academic Marcia Langton, actors Rachael Maza, Bryan Brown and Bindi Williams. .We are pleased to present this sneak preview of 32 of the 180-plus films in this year.s program,. said Festival Director Nashen Moodley. .We have gathered a selection of the best films from the...
- 4/1/2014
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
"The hogs ate Grandma". Remember that jarring Southern Gothic line? Well, that's the tone of "Radiance", a story of three aboriginal Australian women who reunite at their mother's funeral.
It's a turbulent, fiery story awash with the decadent flavors of good melodrama. Directed by Rachel Perkins, the rousing Aussie film could find a niche on the art house circuit. Of course, it will be a tricky enterprise enticing audiences to a story that does not synopsize in commercial terms, but strong reviews and excellent word-of-mouth could make it a sleeper hit on the circuit.
Torched with all the incendiary ingredients of Down South writers Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and William Faulkner, the yarn is about three abused sisters whose cantankerous, sleep-around mother caused them extreme grief as children. When she dies, the sisters gather at her ramshackle home; each has a different father and a far different approach to life. There's svelte Cressy (Rachel Maza), who escaped to become a successful opera singer; sullen Mae (Trisha Morton-Thomas), who had given her life to caring for her deranged mother; and sleazy Nona (Deborah Mailman), whose greatest accomplishment has been traveling the rodeo circuit as a party girl. Though different, each bears scars.
Based on a Louis Nowra play, the story chronicles a convulsive, scorchingly emotional day as each woman's life is refracted through their recollections of abuse, abandonment and atrocity. While definitely theatrical in structure, Perkins' adaptation is an adroit filmtic work.
The acting makes "Radiance" shine. Highest praise to Mailman for her juicy, wild portrayal of Nona. Maza's patrician cool manner is perfect. As bitter Mae, Morton-Thomas brings an apt fire and anger.
RADIANCE
Eclipse Films
Credits: Producers: Ned Lander, Andrew Myer; Director: Rachel Perkins; Screenwriter: Louis Nowra; Director of photography: Warwick Thornton; Production designer: Sarah Stollman; Costume designer: Tess Schofield; Editor: James Bradley; Music: Alistair Jones. Cast: Cressy: Rachel Maza; Nona: Deborah Mailman; Mae: Trisha Morton-Thomas. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 83 minutes.
It's a turbulent, fiery story awash with the decadent flavors of good melodrama. Directed by Rachel Perkins, the rousing Aussie film could find a niche on the art house circuit. Of course, it will be a tricky enterprise enticing audiences to a story that does not synopsize in commercial terms, but strong reviews and excellent word-of-mouth could make it a sleeper hit on the circuit.
Torched with all the incendiary ingredients of Down South writers Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and William Faulkner, the yarn is about three abused sisters whose cantankerous, sleep-around mother caused them extreme grief as children. When she dies, the sisters gather at her ramshackle home; each has a different father and a far different approach to life. There's svelte Cressy (Rachel Maza), who escaped to become a successful opera singer; sullen Mae (Trisha Morton-Thomas), who had given her life to caring for her deranged mother; and sleazy Nona (Deborah Mailman), whose greatest accomplishment has been traveling the rodeo circuit as a party girl. Though different, each bears scars.
Based on a Louis Nowra play, the story chronicles a convulsive, scorchingly emotional day as each woman's life is refracted through their recollections of abuse, abandonment and atrocity. While definitely theatrical in structure, Perkins' adaptation is an adroit filmtic work.
The acting makes "Radiance" shine. Highest praise to Mailman for her juicy, wild portrayal of Nona. Maza's patrician cool manner is perfect. As bitter Mae, Morton-Thomas brings an apt fire and anger.
RADIANCE
Eclipse Films
Credits: Producers: Ned Lander, Andrew Myer; Director: Rachel Perkins; Screenwriter: Louis Nowra; Director of photography: Warwick Thornton; Production designer: Sarah Stollman; Costume designer: Tess Schofield; Editor: James Bradley; Music: Alistair Jones. Cast: Cressy: Rachel Maza; Nona: Deborah Mailman; Mae: Trisha Morton-Thomas. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 83 minutes.
- 10/6/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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