Adrian Francis’ documentary Paper City follows three elderly survivors of the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo in their fight against bureaucracy and indifference to ensure that the event and its victims are not forgotten.
Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continuing until morning, the raid left more than 100,000 people dead and a quarter of the city eradicated. Unlike their loved ones,Hiroshi Hoshino, Michiko Kiyooka and Minoru Tsukiya mamanaged to emerge from the bombings. Now in their twilight years, they wish for nothing more than recognition and reparations for those who, like them, had been indelibly harmed by the war–but theJapanese government and even their fellow citizens seem disinclined to acknowledge the past.
Paper City, produced by Melanie Brunt, makes its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival; it is a Miff Premiere Fund film.
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Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continuing until morning, the raid left more than 100,000 people dead and a quarter of the city eradicated. Unlike their loved ones,Hiroshi Hoshino, Michiko Kiyooka and Minoru Tsukiya mamanaged to emerge from the bombings. Now in their twilight years, they wish for nothing more than recognition and reparations for those who, like them, had been indelibly harmed by the war–but theJapanese government and even their fellow citizens seem disinclined to acknowledge the past.
Paper City, produced by Melanie Brunt, makes its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival; it is a Miff Premiere Fund film.
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- 7/29/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Netflix has swooped on Princess Pictures’ Wrong Kind of Black in a global deal.
The four-part, short-form series, nominated for an International Emmy Award, is based on life and stories of DJ and model turned activist Boori Monty Pryor.
Originally commissioned by the ABC, the show, narrated by Pryor, takes audiences from “the cops and the crocs of 1960s Palm Island to blood-spattered dance floors in 1970s Melbourne nightclubs”.
Clarence Ryan plays Monty, a Birra Gubba and Kunggandji man from Townsville working as a DJ in Melbourne, while his brother Paul is played by Aaron McGrath. Lucy Flanagan and Tom E. Lewis star as their parents and Jacek Komen also appears a Russian gangster.
Pryor wrote the scripts with Nick Musgrove, with Catriona McKenzie directing and Andrea Denholm, Kelly West and Melanie Brunt producing.
Initially titled Maybe Today, the series was first funded via Screen Australia and the ABC’s Long Story Short initiative.
The four-part, short-form series, nominated for an International Emmy Award, is based on life and stories of DJ and model turned activist Boori Monty Pryor.
Originally commissioned by the ABC, the show, narrated by Pryor, takes audiences from “the cops and the crocs of 1960s Palm Island to blood-spattered dance floors in 1970s Melbourne nightclubs”.
Clarence Ryan plays Monty, a Birra Gubba and Kunggandji man from Townsville working as a DJ in Melbourne, while his brother Paul is played by Aaron McGrath. Lucy Flanagan and Tom E. Lewis star as their parents and Jacek Komen also appears a Russian gangster.
Pryor wrote the scripts with Nick Musgrove, with Catriona McKenzie directing and Andrea Denholm, Kelly West and Melanie Brunt producing.
Initially titled Maybe Today, the series was first funded via Screen Australia and the ABC’s Long Story Short initiative.
- 11/12/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
‘Wrong Kind of Black’.
Matchbox Pictures’ Safe Harbour, Princess Pictures’ Wrong Kind of Black and Synchronicity Films/December Media’s The Cry have received nominations for International Emmy Awards.
Safe Harbour, produced by Matchbox Pictures, has been nominated in the Best TV Movie/Mini-Series category. Broadcast on Sbs, the asylum seeker drama series was directed by Glendyn Ivin and showrun by writer and producer Belinda Chayko, also featuring writers Phil Enchelmaier and Matt Cameron. It was produced by Stephen Corvini and includes executive producers Sue Masters, Debbie Lee and Chayko.
The ABC iview-commissioned Wrong Kind of Black, from Princess Pictures, has been nominated for best Short Form Series. Based on the life and stories of Indigenous writer, poet and educator Boori Monty Pryor, the four-part series was directed by Catriona McKenzie, written by Pryor and produced by Kelly West and Melanie Brunt. Princess Pictures’ Emma Fitzsimons and Andrea Denholm were executive producers.
Matchbox Pictures’ Safe Harbour, Princess Pictures’ Wrong Kind of Black and Synchronicity Films/December Media’s The Cry have received nominations for International Emmy Awards.
Safe Harbour, produced by Matchbox Pictures, has been nominated in the Best TV Movie/Mini-Series category. Broadcast on Sbs, the asylum seeker drama series was directed by Glendyn Ivin and showrun by writer and producer Belinda Chayko, also featuring writers Phil Enchelmaier and Matt Cameron. It was produced by Stephen Corvini and includes executive producers Sue Masters, Debbie Lee and Chayko.
The ABC iview-commissioned Wrong Kind of Black, from Princess Pictures, has been nominated for best Short Form Series. Based on the life and stories of Indigenous writer, poet and educator Boori Monty Pryor, the four-part series was directed by Catriona McKenzie, written by Pryor and produced by Kelly West and Melanie Brunt. Princess Pictures’ Emma Fitzsimons and Andrea Denholm were executive producers.
- 9/19/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
‘How to Stay Married.’
Princess Pictures founder/producer Laura Waters and MD Jenni Tosi have repositioned the production company.
Facing two choices – continue to expand or to consolidate – they chose the latter. “Reviewing our structure and business strategy has been such a healthy process,” Waters, who founded the company in 2003, tells If. “It’s made us go back to our roots and our original purpose. I am feeling re-energised about the company.
“We are passionate and hands-on about unique projects and finding new ways of working with international and local partners.”
The company’s slate includes the second season of Network 10’s How to Stay Married, a co-production with Pablo Pictures, which is in the final stages of financing. Created by Peter Helliar, the first series followed Helliar and Lisa McCune as Greg and Em Butler, who had been married for 14 years and whose lives take unexpected turns after...
Princess Pictures founder/producer Laura Waters and MD Jenni Tosi have repositioned the production company.
Facing two choices – continue to expand or to consolidate – they chose the latter. “Reviewing our structure and business strategy has been such a healthy process,” Waters, who founded the company in 2003, tells If. “It’s made us go back to our roots and our original purpose. I am feeling re-energised about the company.
“We are passionate and hands-on about unique projects and finding new ways of working with international and local partners.”
The company’s slate includes the second season of Network 10’s How to Stay Married, a co-production with Pablo Pictures, which is in the final stages of financing. Created by Peter Helliar, the first series followed Helliar and Lisa McCune as Greg and Em Butler, who had been married for 14 years and whose lives take unexpected turns after...
- 6/12/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
City Of Port Phillip Councillor Andrew Bond and Audience Choice Award winner Nikki Richardson.
The 2016 St Kilda Film Festival has wrapped up with 18 winners across all categories.
Death in Bloom, directed by Dael Oates, took out Best Short Film, while Nikki Richardson's We're Here Now won this year's Audience Choice Award.
Death in Bloom also nabbed Best Comedy and Best Achievement in Editing.
Red Rover's Brooke Goldfinch was awarded Best Director, and You Better Take Cover, directed by Harry Hayes, won Best Documentary.
The full list:
Best Short Film Winner
Death In Bloom
Director: Dael Oats
Producer: Jonas Maclallen
Screenplay: Dael Oats
Best Achievement In Cinematography Winner
Burak Oguz Saguner
Film: Driftwood Dustmites
Best Animation Winner
The Orchestra
Director: Mikey Hill
Producer: Melanie Brunt
Craft Award Winner
Little Boy Blue
Director: Nathan Keene
Producers: Will Faulkner, Joy Baines
Screenplay: Will Faulkner, Nathan Keene
Best Comedy Winner
Death In Bloom...
The 2016 St Kilda Film Festival has wrapped up with 18 winners across all categories.
Death in Bloom, directed by Dael Oates, took out Best Short Film, while Nikki Richardson's We're Here Now won this year's Audience Choice Award.
Death in Bloom also nabbed Best Comedy and Best Achievement in Editing.
Red Rover's Brooke Goldfinch was awarded Best Director, and You Better Take Cover, directed by Harry Hayes, won Best Documentary.
The full list:
Best Short Film Winner
Death In Bloom
Director: Dael Oats
Producer: Jonas Maclallen
Screenplay: Dael Oats
Best Achievement In Cinematography Winner
Burak Oguz Saguner
Film: Driftwood Dustmites
Best Animation Winner
The Orchestra
Director: Mikey Hill
Producer: Melanie Brunt
Craft Award Winner
Little Boy Blue
Director: Nathan Keene
Producers: Will Faulkner, Joy Baines
Screenplay: Will Faulkner, Nathan Keene
Best Comedy Winner
Death In Bloom...
- 5/30/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Flickerfest has revealed the 53 films selected to screen as part of the festival's competitive program in its 25th anniversary year.
The films were chosen from more than 2300 entries.
This year.s official Australian Competition features 18 world premieres, six Australian premieres and 10 Nsw premieres..
Twenty-one female directors are represented across the official Australian competition.
The best of the australian films will be shown over seven sessions.
They will be competing for prizes across all areas of the filmmaking craft including the Academy Accredited Virgin Australia Award for Best Australian Film, the Canon Award for Best Direction and the Yoram Gross Award for Best Australian Animation.
Flickerfest is Australia.s only Academy accredited and BAFTA recognised festvial and runs from Friday January 8-17. .
Festival director Bronwyn Kidd, steering her 19th festival, said she was thrilled that Flickerfest was once again a platform for the Australia's most exciting, creative and talented short filmmakers.
The films were chosen from more than 2300 entries.
This year.s official Australian Competition features 18 world premieres, six Australian premieres and 10 Nsw premieres..
Twenty-one female directors are represented across the official Australian competition.
The best of the australian films will be shown over seven sessions.
They will be competing for prizes across all areas of the filmmaking craft including the Academy Accredited Virgin Australia Award for Best Australian Film, the Canon Award for Best Direction and the Yoram Gross Award for Best Australian Animation.
Flickerfest is Australia.s only Academy accredited and BAFTA recognised festvial and runs from Friday January 8-17. .
Festival director Bronwyn Kidd, steering her 19th festival, said she was thrilled that Flickerfest was once again a platform for the Australia's most exciting, creative and talented short filmmakers.
- 12/14/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Short film fest, The St Kilda Film Festival has announced its award nominees across 18 categories. Winners will be announced on Sunday 27 May
The announcement:
Now in its 29th year the St Kilda Film Festival’s (Skff) Top 100 competition recognises and awards local filmmakers of all levels of experience who excel in creative and craft and who show potential for growth within the industry.
From an increasingly competitive field of entrants, 62 nominees are in the running for 18 prestigious awards and their share of $40,000 of cash and in-kind prizes, with the winner of the Best Film being awarded $10,000 cash.
The nominations for the 2012 Best Short Film include: At The Formal (Directed by Andrew Kavanagh & Produced by Ramona Telecican). Peekaboo (Directed by Damien Power & Produced by Joe Weatherstone) The Palace (Directed by Anthony Maras & Produced by Anthony Maras, Kate Croser, Andros Achilleos) and Transmission (Directed by Zak Hilditch & Produced by Liz Kearney)
Nominees...
The announcement:
Now in its 29th year the St Kilda Film Festival’s (Skff) Top 100 competition recognises and awards local filmmakers of all levels of experience who excel in creative and craft and who show potential for growth within the industry.
From an increasingly competitive field of entrants, 62 nominees are in the running for 18 prestigious awards and their share of $40,000 of cash and in-kind prizes, with the winner of the Best Film being awarded $10,000 cash.
The nominations for the 2012 Best Short Film include: At The Formal (Directed by Andrew Kavanagh & Produced by Ramona Telecican). Peekaboo (Directed by Damien Power & Produced by Joe Weatherstone) The Palace (Directed by Anthony Maras & Produced by Anthony Maras, Kate Croser, Andros Achilleos) and Transmission (Directed by Zak Hilditch & Produced by Liz Kearney)
Nominees...
- 5/24/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
DigiSPAA winner Little Deaths will receive a limited theatrical release at Cinema Nova in Melbourne.
The film, produced by Jason Byrne and featuring eleven shorts written by Giula Sandler, will begin this limited engagement on November 4.
In Little Deaths, each story comments on and adds to the ones that came before and after. As a feature film, the story of the lonely tollbooth operator (Abe Forsythe) provides the thread that joins the interweaving tales. Whilst he imagines the love stories of those who pass through his toll gate, he discovers one of his own to explore and ultimately, the stories help guide him toward true love.
The shorts were directed by Ben Chessell, Sian Davies, Melanie Brunt, Giula Sandler, Chris Benz, Fin Edquist, Jarrah Gurrie, Genevieve Bailey, Geoff Hitchins, James Teh and Toby Angwin. The cast includes Magda Szubanski, Adam Zwar, Alexandra Schepisi, Abe Forsythe and even Animal Kingdom director David Michod.
The film, produced by Jason Byrne and featuring eleven shorts written by Giula Sandler, will begin this limited engagement on November 4.
In Little Deaths, each story comments on and adds to the ones that came before and after. As a feature film, the story of the lonely tollbooth operator (Abe Forsythe) provides the thread that joins the interweaving tales. Whilst he imagines the love stories of those who pass through his toll gate, he discovers one of his own to explore and ultimately, the stories help guide him toward true love.
The shorts were directed by Ben Chessell, Sian Davies, Melanie Brunt, Giula Sandler, Chris Benz, Fin Edquist, Jarrah Gurrie, Genevieve Bailey, Geoff Hitchins, James Teh and Toby Angwin. The cast includes Magda Szubanski, Adam Zwar, Alexandra Schepisi, Abe Forsythe and even Animal Kingdom director David Michod.
- 10/4/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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