Mandy McElhinney as Gina Rinehart in 'House of Hancock' (2015). Cordell Jigsaw Productions.
The two-year saga of Gina Rinehart.s battle with Channel Nine over House of Hancock (2015) came to an apparent end last month with the broadcaster unreservedly apologising to the mining magnate.
The two-part miniseries, about the life and family of Lang Hancock (initially advertised as a true story but later featuring a disclaimer with the word .fictionalised.), had been dogged by legal action since it first went to air. After the final episode was broadcast, Rinehart issued a statement listing 20 .glaring errors.. These fell in broadly three categories: sheer inaccuracy, portraying her as an unloving daughter, and implying unfair business practices.
Now Channel Nine has publicly acknowledged that .Mrs Rinehart had a close and loving relationship with her father Lang Hancock.. The Sydney Morning Herald and news.com.au have variously reported that the show won.t be streamed,...
The two-year saga of Gina Rinehart.s battle with Channel Nine over House of Hancock (2015) came to an apparent end last month with the broadcaster unreservedly apologising to the mining magnate.
The two-part miniseries, about the life and family of Lang Hancock (initially advertised as a true story but later featuring a disclaimer with the word .fictionalised.), had been dogged by legal action since it first went to air. After the final episode was broadcast, Rinehart issued a statement listing 20 .glaring errors.. These fell in broadly three categories: sheer inaccuracy, portraying her as an unloving daughter, and implying unfair business practices.
Now Channel Nine has publicly acknowledged that .Mrs Rinehart had a close and loving relationship with her father Lang Hancock.. The Sydney Morning Herald and news.com.au have variously reported that the show won.t be streamed,...
- 3/22/2017
- by Steven Maras
- IF.com.au
Claire Tonkin..
Claire Tonkin has been appointed head of drama development at Cjz Group, starting January.
Tonkin has spent the last decade at Ten, working as a network drama executive. She was a network executive producer for Neighbours and helped to oversee the development and production of Offspring, Puberty Blues, Rush, The Wrong Girl, Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, Underground — The Julian Assange Story, Hawke and Secrets & Lies..
Tonkin has won an Awgie award for the short Button, and in 2009 received the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award from the International Emmy Foundation for her script Me & Mine..
Tonkin joins Cjz as it expands its work in the scripted space, with multiple series currently in funded development for local and overseas networks.
On Cjz.s slate at the moment is House of Bond for the Nine Network,.starring Rachel Taylor, Adrienne Pickering, Sam Neill and Ben Mingay. It follows on...
Claire Tonkin has been appointed head of drama development at Cjz Group, starting January.
Tonkin has spent the last decade at Ten, working as a network drama executive. She was a network executive producer for Neighbours and helped to oversee the development and production of Offspring, Puberty Blues, Rush, The Wrong Girl, Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, Underground — The Julian Assange Story, Hawke and Secrets & Lies..
Tonkin has won an Awgie award for the short Button, and in 2009 received the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award from the International Emmy Foundation for her script Me & Mine..
Tonkin joins Cjz as it expands its work in the scripted space, with multiple series currently in funded development for local and overseas networks.
On Cjz.s slate at the moment is House of Bond for the Nine Network,.starring Rachel Taylor, Adrienne Pickering, Sam Neill and Ben Mingay. It follows on...
- 11/28/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Ian Collie on the Doctor Doctor set.
The second episode of Essential Media.s Doctor Doctor, broadcast on Wednesday night, avoided the second ep dip, growing the show.s week-on-week to an average audience of.821,000.viewers.and a peak of.1.024 million.across the 5 City Metro, according to Nine.
The show.s producer, Essential Media.s Ian Collie, initially thought the series would bow next year, closer to the start of the ratings season, but the scheduling move made perfect sense once Nine explained it, he told If.
"They love it, which is the main thing. They know their audience and their schedule. Programs like My Kitchen Rules, which is on four or five nights a week from February onwards, tend to dominate the schedule..
If spoke to Collie about the project.s inception, bringing Claudia Karvan on board, and what else is on Essential Media.s slate.
Was Doctor Doctor...
The second episode of Essential Media.s Doctor Doctor, broadcast on Wednesday night, avoided the second ep dip, growing the show.s week-on-week to an average audience of.821,000.viewers.and a peak of.1.024 million.across the 5 City Metro, according to Nine.
The show.s producer, Essential Media.s Ian Collie, initially thought the series would bow next year, closer to the start of the ratings season, but the scheduling move made perfect sense once Nine explained it, he told If.
"They love it, which is the main thing. They know their audience and their schedule. Programs like My Kitchen Rules, which is on four or five nights a week from February onwards, tend to dominate the schedule..
If spoke to Collie about the project.s inception, bringing Claudia Karvan on board, and what else is on Essential Media.s slate.
Was Doctor Doctor...
- 9/23/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Hyde & Seek.
Hyde & Seek will premiere on Nine October 3, the same airdate as Seven's new series The Secret Daughter. Matt Nable (Hacksaw Ridge, Arrow, Gallipoli) plays Gary Hyde, a detective hunting the killer of his best mate and partner. . Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Emma Hamilton, The Tudors, Mary: The Making of a Princess), Afp boss Jackie Walters (Mandy McElhinney, House of Hancock, Love Child) and Asio chiefs (Jindabyne's Deborra-lee Furness and Puberty Blues' Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Gary uncovers a criminal underbelly of murder and fraud as he's thrust into the secretive world of homeland security. . The show also stars Zoe Ventoura (Packed to the Rafters), Tai Hara (Home and Away), Claire Lovering (San Andreas), Andrew McFarlane (Devil.s Playground, Love Child), and Aaron Fa.oso (East West 101). In a statement, Nine.s heads of drama Andy Ryan and Jo Rooney said they were thrilled...
Hyde & Seek will premiere on Nine October 3, the same airdate as Seven's new series The Secret Daughter. Matt Nable (Hacksaw Ridge, Arrow, Gallipoli) plays Gary Hyde, a detective hunting the killer of his best mate and partner. . Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Emma Hamilton, The Tudors, Mary: The Making of a Princess), Afp boss Jackie Walters (Mandy McElhinney, House of Hancock, Love Child) and Asio chiefs (Jindabyne's Deborra-lee Furness and Puberty Blues' Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Gary uncovers a criminal underbelly of murder and fraud as he's thrust into the secretive world of homeland security. . The show also stars Zoe Ventoura (Packed to the Rafters), Tai Hara (Home and Away), Claire Lovering (San Andreas), Andrew McFarlane (Devil.s Playground, Love Child), and Aaron Fa.oso (East West 101). In a statement, Nine.s heads of drama Andy Ryan and Jo Rooney said they were thrilled...
- 9/20/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Tim Ferguson, Sofya Gollan and Paul Nunnari.
Screen Nsw has launched Screenability Nsw, a new program to create opportunities in the screen industry for people with disabilities. . Screenability Nsw is a partnership between Screen Nsw, Ai-Media, Aftrs, Carriageworks and Bus Stop Films, and involves a program of initiatives aimed at delivering on Screen Nsw's policy commitment to work with industry to grow the participation of people with disabilities in the screen sector. . Upcoming Screenability Nsw initiatives include: . –... An annual film festival at Carriageworks –... A short film-making initiative to finance and deliver films for premiere at the festival, for travelling around Australia and the world, and for screening online –... A long-term job placement scheme . The first initiative will be the Screenability Nsw Internship Program, a series of up to eight paid internships on some of Australian TV shows and feature films. Interns will work with some of Australia.s leading production companies,...
Screen Nsw has launched Screenability Nsw, a new program to create opportunities in the screen industry for people with disabilities. . Screenability Nsw is a partnership between Screen Nsw, Ai-Media, Aftrs, Carriageworks and Bus Stop Films, and involves a program of initiatives aimed at delivering on Screen Nsw's policy commitment to work with industry to grow the participation of people with disabilities in the screen sector. . Upcoming Screenability Nsw initiatives include: . –... An annual film festival at Carriageworks –... A short film-making initiative to finance and deliver films for premiere at the festival, for travelling around Australia and the world, and for screening online –... A long-term job placement scheme . The first initiative will be the Screenability Nsw Internship Program, a series of up to eight paid internships on some of Australian TV shows and feature films. Interns will work with some of Australia.s leading production companies,...
- 9/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Girl Asleep.
CinefestOZ kicks off on August 24, with The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, Girl Asleep, Jasper Jones and Spin Out battling it out for the festival's third annual Film Prize, worth $100,000.
The jury includes producer Sue Taylor (The Tree, Looking for Grace), cinematographer Garry Phillips (House of Hancock, The Railway Man, Candy), actor-director Damian Walshe-Howling (Janet King, Mystery Road, Underbelly), actress Emma Booth (Hounds of Love, Gods of Egypt, Jack Irish) and jury chair Gillian Armstrong.
.We are delighted to bring such diverse minds together to spark conversation,. said CinefestOZ Film Festival Chair Helen Shervington. .Our jurors are as unique and multi-faceted as the films they will judge.
The winning film will be announced at the Festival.s Gala Night on Saturday 27 August.
Each of the four finalists will screen during CinefestOZ, along with other new Australian and French features, short films, documentaries, industry workshops and related events,...
CinefestOZ kicks off on August 24, with The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, Girl Asleep, Jasper Jones and Spin Out battling it out for the festival's third annual Film Prize, worth $100,000.
The jury includes producer Sue Taylor (The Tree, Looking for Grace), cinematographer Garry Phillips (House of Hancock, The Railway Man, Candy), actor-director Damian Walshe-Howling (Janet King, Mystery Road, Underbelly), actress Emma Booth (Hounds of Love, Gods of Egypt, Jack Irish) and jury chair Gillian Armstrong.
.We are delighted to bring such diverse minds together to spark conversation,. said CinefestOZ Film Festival Chair Helen Shervington. .Our jurors are as unique and multi-faceted as the films they will judge.
The winning film will be announced at the Festival.s Gala Night on Saturday 27 August.
Each of the four finalists will screen during CinefestOZ, along with other new Australian and French features, short films, documentaries, industry workshops and related events,...
- 8/18/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Australian independent feature Adventures of a Happy Homeless Man is set to screen at Sydney's Chauvel Cinema from July 18-21.
Shot in documentary style, the film is a dramedy about Rafael, a former corporate high-flyer who lost his job, his marriage and his home..
Despite being homeless, he never loses his sense of cheekiness and his passion for music..
Using the moniker Bobo the Hobo, he tries to pursue a music career and an acting career..
.I wanted to make a movie that.s entertaining and also makes people think," said director Dicky Tanuwidjaya..
"The top layer of Adventures of a Happy Homeless Man is a comedy. It.s about a mischievous man who deals with life difficulties with confidence and his own unique humorous view of life. Underneath the comedy layer, there.s a subtle-yet-impactful drama layer that ask the questions about happiness, passion, self-discovery and love."
Felino Dolloso (Balibo,...
Shot in documentary style, the film is a dramedy about Rafael, a former corporate high-flyer who lost his job, his marriage and his home..
Despite being homeless, he never loses his sense of cheekiness and his passion for music..
Using the moniker Bobo the Hobo, he tries to pursue a music career and an acting career..
.I wanted to make a movie that.s entertaining and also makes people think," said director Dicky Tanuwidjaya..
"The top layer of Adventures of a Happy Homeless Man is a comedy. It.s about a mischievous man who deals with life difficulties with confidence and his own unique humorous view of life. Underneath the comedy layer, there.s a subtle-yet-impactful drama layer that ask the questions about happiness, passion, self-discovery and love."
Felino Dolloso (Balibo,...
- 6/22/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
John Barnett.
Veteran Kiwi producer John Barnett (Shortland Street, Whale Rider) is teaming with Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder as a consultant producer to develop and produce drama out of Australia.
Barnett retired from Nz production house South Pacific Pictures last year.
Cjz is home to Gruen, Bondi Rescue, Go Back To Where You Came From and House of Hancock.
.John is without question one of the most experienced producers in the business in Australia and New Zealand., said Cjz MD Nick Murray..
.He.s a brilliant storyteller and to top that off, he.s a quality human being and we are excited and honoured to be working across a range of projects with him."
John Barnett said he had "enormous respect" for the Cjz team's "personal integrity, for the business they have built, and the programmes they make."
Cjz CEO Matt Campbell described Barnett as someone who "lives to tell stories...
Veteran Kiwi producer John Barnett (Shortland Street, Whale Rider) is teaming with Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder as a consultant producer to develop and produce drama out of Australia.
Barnett retired from Nz production house South Pacific Pictures last year.
Cjz is home to Gruen, Bondi Rescue, Go Back To Where You Came From and House of Hancock.
.John is without question one of the most experienced producers in the business in Australia and New Zealand., said Cjz MD Nick Murray..
.He.s a brilliant storyteller and to top that off, he.s a quality human being and we are excited and honoured to be working across a range of projects with him."
John Barnett said he had "enormous respect" for the Cjz team's "personal integrity, for the business they have built, and the programmes they make."
Cjz CEO Matt Campbell described Barnett as someone who "lives to tell stories...
- 6/7/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Ben Mingay.
Ben Mingay (Packed to the Rafters, Hacksaw Ridge) will star as Alan Bond in House of Bond, Nine's miniseries now in production.
House of Bond tells the tale of Australia.s most controversial tycoon, whose excesses ran to women, fame, money, crime and everything in between..
The mini-series co-stars Rachael Taylor (Jessica Jones) as Diana Bliss, Adrienne Pickering (Rake) as Eileen Bond and Sam Neill (House of Hancock) as Roland .Tiny. Rowland.
House of Bond is the rags-to-riches tale of Bond.s incredible rise and spectacular fall in the 1970s and 80s as the cheeky, knockabout .Ten Pound Pom. who fought his way from the back alleys of Fremantle to become the richest man in Australia and one of our greatest sporting heroes for winning the America.s Cup..
The series will also star Gyton Grantley, Samantha Jade, Anne Looby, John Howard, Johnny Ruffo, Roy Billing, Paul Gleeson and Jack Campbell.
Ben Mingay (Packed to the Rafters, Hacksaw Ridge) will star as Alan Bond in House of Bond, Nine's miniseries now in production.
House of Bond tells the tale of Australia.s most controversial tycoon, whose excesses ran to women, fame, money, crime and everything in between..
The mini-series co-stars Rachael Taylor (Jessica Jones) as Diana Bliss, Adrienne Pickering (Rake) as Eileen Bond and Sam Neill (House of Hancock) as Roland .Tiny. Rowland.
House of Bond is the rags-to-riches tale of Bond.s incredible rise and spectacular fall in the 1970s and 80s as the cheeky, knockabout .Ten Pound Pom. who fought his way from the back alleys of Fremantle to become the richest man in Australia and one of our greatest sporting heroes for winning the America.s Cup..
The series will also star Gyton Grantley, Samantha Jade, Anne Looby, John Howard, Johnny Ruffo, Roy Billing, Paul Gleeson and Jack Campbell.
- 5/10/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Matt Nable.
Matt Nable (Fell, Hacksaw Ridge, Arrow), Deborra-lee Furness (Correlli, Jindabyne), Mandy McElhinney (House of Hancock, Love Child), Emma Hamilton (The Tudors, Mary: The Making of a Princess) and Zoe Ventoura (Packed to the Rafters) are set to star in Hyde and Seek, a new series from Nine.
The series revolves around Detective Gary Hyde (Nable), whose best friend is killed in a seemingly random attack.
Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Hamilton), Hyde uncovers a criminal conspiracy that will threaten his life and endanger his young family.
Also joining the cast are Tai Hara (Home and Away), Claire Lovering (San Andreas), Andrew McFarlane (Devil.s Playground, Love Child), Aaron Fa.aoso (East West 101) and Stephanie Panozzo.
Hyde and Seek is being made for the Nine by Matchbox Pictures and distributed by NBCU..
Executive producers are Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan from the Nine Network and Debbie Lee (Glitch,...
Matt Nable (Fell, Hacksaw Ridge, Arrow), Deborra-lee Furness (Correlli, Jindabyne), Mandy McElhinney (House of Hancock, Love Child), Emma Hamilton (The Tudors, Mary: The Making of a Princess) and Zoe Ventoura (Packed to the Rafters) are set to star in Hyde and Seek, a new series from Nine.
The series revolves around Detective Gary Hyde (Nable), whose best friend is killed in a seemingly random attack.
Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Hamilton), Hyde uncovers a criminal conspiracy that will threaten his life and endanger his young family.
Also joining the cast are Tai Hara (Home and Away), Claire Lovering (San Andreas), Andrew McFarlane (Devil.s Playground, Love Child), Aaron Fa.aoso (East West 101) and Stephanie Panozzo.
Hyde and Seek is being made for the Nine by Matchbox Pictures and distributed by NBCU..
Executive producers are Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan from the Nine Network and Debbie Lee (Glitch,...
- 4/14/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Adg awards nominee Jennifer Peedom.
More than a third of nominees for this year's Australian Directors Guild awards are women.
Two of the four nominees in the Best Direction in a Feature Film category are women and all five films in the Best Documentary Feature category were directed or co-directed by female filmmakers, the Adg said in a statement..
The 2016 awards will be presented across sixteen categories including film, television, animation, multiplatform, music and advertising..
The nominees for Best Direction in a Feature Film are Sue Brooks for Looking for Grace, Jocelyn Moorhouse for The Dressmaker, Bentley Dean and Martin Butler for Tanna and Jeremy Sims for Last Cab to Darwin.
This year there are five nominations for Best Feature Documentary: Nick Bird and Eleanor Sharpe for Remembering The Man, Jennifer Peedom for Sherpa, Margot Nash for The Silences, Stefan Moore and Susan Lambert for Tyke Elephant Outlaw and Lisa Nicol for Wide Open Sky.
More than a third of nominees for this year's Australian Directors Guild awards are women.
Two of the four nominees in the Best Direction in a Feature Film category are women and all five films in the Best Documentary Feature category were directed or co-directed by female filmmakers, the Adg said in a statement..
The 2016 awards will be presented across sixteen categories including film, television, animation, multiplatform, music and advertising..
The nominees for Best Direction in a Feature Film are Sue Brooks for Looking for Grace, Jocelyn Moorhouse for The Dressmaker, Bentley Dean and Martin Butler for Tanna and Jeremy Sims for Last Cab to Darwin.
This year there are five nominations for Best Feature Documentary: Nick Bird and Eleanor Sharpe for Remembering The Man, Jennifer Peedom for Sherpa, Margot Nash for The Silences, Stefan Moore and Susan Lambert for Tyke Elephant Outlaw and Lisa Nicol for Wide Open Sky.
- 4/12/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Northern Rivers Screenworks has revealed the five local writers selected to work with some of the best in business as part of the Inside the Writers' Room placement program.
The program is designed to help regionally-based emerging writers understand professional writers room best practice and to create connections between local content creators and established production houses.
Each of the writers will receive an all expenses paid trip to a capital city to observe and experience writers rooms being run by some of Australia.s leading production companies as they work and develop story into a television script.
Carly Lorente, writer and Newrybar resident is wasting no time and will be travelling to Sydney on Monday to start her placement opportunity..
Lorente will be working on a new drama series with Cjz (Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder), whose catalogue includes House of Hancock (Nine Network), The Ex Pm (ABC), Gruen (ABC), Bondi Rescue...
The program is designed to help regionally-based emerging writers understand professional writers room best practice and to create connections between local content creators and established production houses.
Each of the writers will receive an all expenses paid trip to a capital city to observe and experience writers rooms being run by some of Australia.s leading production companies as they work and develop story into a television script.
Carly Lorente, writer and Newrybar resident is wasting no time and will be travelling to Sydney on Monday to start her placement opportunity..
Lorente will be working on a new drama series with Cjz (Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder), whose catalogue includes House of Hancock (Nine Network), The Ex Pm (ABC), Gruen (ABC), Bondi Rescue...
- 12/11/2015
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The just-concluded 2015 official ratings period has given all three commercial networks something to crow about, despite the continued shrinkage of free-to-air audiences.
New and returning Australian dramas performed strongly for the Seven and Nine Networks while Network Ten had just one fresh drama, the FremantleMedia Australia telemovie Mary: The Making of a Princess.
The Seven Network was No. 1 in primetime for the ninth year running, Seven was the most watched primary channel and 7Two the most popular digital channel.
My Kitchen Rules (2.473 million) was the top-rating regular program and 800 Words (2.103 million) the most successful new series and new drama.
Seven also scored handsomely with Catching Milat (2.55 million). Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door (2.36 million), The X Factor (1.95 million). House Rules (1.86 million) and Winter (1.57 million).
The Nine Network claimed the crown as No. 1 in the key demographics of 25-54, 18-49 and 16-39 for the fourth successive year.
Measured in total viewers including time-shifting and catch-up,...
New and returning Australian dramas performed strongly for the Seven and Nine Networks while Network Ten had just one fresh drama, the FremantleMedia Australia telemovie Mary: The Making of a Princess.
The Seven Network was No. 1 in primetime for the ninth year running, Seven was the most watched primary channel and 7Two the most popular digital channel.
My Kitchen Rules (2.473 million) was the top-rating regular program and 800 Words (2.103 million) the most successful new series and new drama.
Seven also scored handsomely with Catching Milat (2.55 million). Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door (2.36 million), The X Factor (1.95 million). House Rules (1.86 million) and Winter (1.57 million).
The Nine Network claimed the crown as No. 1 in the key demographics of 25-54, 18-49 and 16-39 for the fourth successive year.
Measured in total viewers including time-shifting and catch-up,...
- 11/29/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Australian TV drama expenditure has fallen 13 per cent despite total expenditure on drama hitting $837 million - just one per cent down on last year's record high. That's according to the 2014/15 Screen Australia Drama Report which tracks production activity in film, television and online. The Drama Report data is in its 25th year and monitors the health of the industry through measures of hours, spend and sources of finance. TV drama is coming off four years of increased investment, and drama spend and hours are down as broadcasters deal with straightened times and new competitors. Overall, the 2014/15 Australian TV drama slate comprised 517 hours of programs (47 titles), accounting for expenditure in Australia of $299 million. The results were down on last year as the adult TV drama slate fell back from recent record expenditure levels. Expenditure on children.s TV drama increased, although hours decreased. The 2014/15 Australian children.s drama slate comprised 116 hours...
- 10/29/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
The Nine Network is channelling tens of millions of dollars freed up from the end of its output deal with Warner Bros. into a record investment in local content.
Spending on local production will continue to rise over the next three years to the point where the network invests $100 million more per year than currently, executives said at the upfronts presentation today.
While Nine retains the first-run rights to The Big Bang Theory, director of programming and production Andrew Backwell said the broadcaster decided to relinquish the re-runs (subsequently acquired by Seven) because it preferred to spend the money on local content.
The 2016 line-up includes the Matchbox Pictures drama Hide & Seek, Cjz.s previously announced two-part Alan Bond miniseries House of Bond and a new factual series, Prison: First & Last 24 Hours.
Daryl Somers will return to TV as the host of You.re Back in the Room, a FremantleMedia Australia...
Spending on local production will continue to rise over the next three years to the point where the network invests $100 million more per year than currently, executives said at the upfronts presentation today.
While Nine retains the first-run rights to The Big Bang Theory, director of programming and production Andrew Backwell said the broadcaster decided to relinquish the re-runs (subsequently acquired by Seven) because it preferred to spend the money on local content.
The 2016 line-up includes the Matchbox Pictures drama Hide & Seek, Cjz.s previously announced two-part Alan Bond miniseries House of Bond and a new factual series, Prison: First & Last 24 Hours.
Daryl Somers will return to TV as the host of You.re Back in the Room, a FremantleMedia Australia...
- 10/28/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Downriver, Holding The Man, The Infinite Man, Kill Me Three Times and Maya The Bee Movie will compete for best feature film at the 15th Screen Producers Australia Awards.
In contention for the TV drama series prize are The Code, Glitch, Love Child series 2 and the third seasons of Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries and Wentworth.
To be presented on November 19, the awards recognise excellence in 11 film, television and interactive categories including the inaugural short film production award.
The nominees for feature documentary production are Between A Frock And A Hard Place, The Dalfram Dispute 1938: Pig Iron Bob, Sam Klemke.s Time Machine, That Sugar Film and Women He.s Undressed.
In the running for best telemovie or miniseries are Catching Milat, Deadline Gallipoli, Devil.s Playground, House of Hancock and The Secret River.
The contenders for best TV comedy are 8Mmm Aboriginal Radio, series 2 of Danger 5, Maximum Choppage,...
In contention for the TV drama series prize are The Code, Glitch, Love Child series 2 and the third seasons of Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries and Wentworth.
To be presented on November 19, the awards recognise excellence in 11 film, television and interactive categories including the inaugural short film production award.
The nominees for feature documentary production are Between A Frock And A Hard Place, The Dalfram Dispute 1938: Pig Iron Bob, Sam Klemke.s Time Machine, That Sugar Film and Women He.s Undressed.
In the running for best telemovie or miniseries are Catching Milat, Deadline Gallipoli, Devil.s Playground, House of Hancock and The Secret River.
The contenders for best TV comedy are 8Mmm Aboriginal Radio, series 2 of Danger 5, Maximum Choppage,...
- 9/23/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Andrew Anastasios and Andrew Knight.s The Water Diviner won the top prize and the gong for best original feature at the 2015 Awgie Awards.
It was the first time a feature collected the Australian Writers' Guild's Major Award and the gong for original feature since 2012 when Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson won with The Sapphires.
The prize for feature film adaptation was shared by Brendan Cowell for Scarlett Productions'. Ruben Guthrie and Tommy Murphy for Matchbox Pictures' Holding the Man.
Matchbox and Full Clip.s Deadline Gallipoli was named best original TV miniseries, acknowledging the work of writers Jacquelin Perske (also script producer), Stuart Beattie, Shaun Grant and Cate Shortland.
FremantleMedia.s Wentworth Season 3, Episode 3 The Governor.s Pleasure by Stuart Page shared the TV series award with Endemol Australia.s Offspring Episode 511 by Michael Lucas. Jan Sardi and Mac Gudgeon took the award for best miniseries adaptation for...
It was the first time a feature collected the Australian Writers' Guild's Major Award and the gong for original feature since 2012 when Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson won with The Sapphires.
The prize for feature film adaptation was shared by Brendan Cowell for Scarlett Productions'. Ruben Guthrie and Tommy Murphy for Matchbox Pictures' Holding the Man.
Matchbox and Full Clip.s Deadline Gallipoli was named best original TV miniseries, acknowledging the work of writers Jacquelin Perske (also script producer), Stuart Beattie, Shaun Grant and Cate Shortland.
FremantleMedia.s Wentworth Season 3, Episode 3 The Governor.s Pleasure by Stuart Page shared the TV series award with Endemol Australia.s Offspring Episode 511 by Michael Lucas. Jan Sardi and Mac Gudgeon took the award for best miniseries adaptation for...
- 9/14/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Anzac Girls. Sara West and Mystery Road.s Samara Weaving head the cast of Bad Girl, writer-director Fin Edquist.s psychological thriller which starts shooting in Perth on August 31.
West plays 16-year-old Amy, the title character who has to fight for her adoptive parents when her new best friend Chloe (Weaving) tries to supplant her.
Playing the parents are Felicity Price, who stars in Joel Edgerton.s Us thriller The Gift and her partner Kieran Darcy-Smith.s upcoming Western By Way of Helena, and Benjamin Winspear (House of Hancock, Rake, The Babadook).
The film marks a departure in tone for Edquist, who scripted the animated family pics Maya the Bee and Blinky Bill: The Movie, which opens in cinemas on September 10.
The producers are Steve Kearney (Oddball, My Mistress), Bruno Charlesworth (Good Vibrations, The Extra) and Tenille Kennedy. This is the feature producing debut for Kennedy, who co-produced three...
West plays 16-year-old Amy, the title character who has to fight for her adoptive parents when her new best friend Chloe (Weaving) tries to supplant her.
Playing the parents are Felicity Price, who stars in Joel Edgerton.s Us thriller The Gift and her partner Kieran Darcy-Smith.s upcoming Western By Way of Helena, and Benjamin Winspear (House of Hancock, Rake, The Babadook).
The film marks a departure in tone for Edquist, who scripted the animated family pics Maya the Bee and Blinky Bill: The Movie, which opens in cinemas on September 10.
The producers are Steve Kearney (Oddball, My Mistress), Bruno Charlesworth (Good Vibrations, The Extra) and Tenille Kennedy. This is the feature producing debut for Kennedy, who co-produced three...
- 8/16/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Ex-pm, a six-part half hour comedy created, written by and starring Shaun Micallef, began filming in Melbourne today. Micallef plays Australia's third longest-serving Prime Minister, Andrew Dugdale. He dined with Presidents and Kings, hosted world summits and changed the lives of millions of his fellow Australians.
But now he's retired, the not-so-elder statesman has far too much time on his hands and no one to waste it on.
The ensemble cast includes Nikki Wendt, Kate Jenkinson, Lucy Honigman, Nicholas Bell, Francis Greenslade, Jackson Tozer, Ming-Zhu Hii and. veteran John Clarke.
Sian Davies (Offspring, Mr & Mrs Murder) directs. Nick Murray (House of Hancock, Stupid Stupid Man), who is producing for Cjz, says: .It.s a rare pleasure with such a great cast and Shaun.s scripts are wonderful..
Micallef says, .I am very much looking forward to stepping in front of the cameras for my new series The Ex-pm. Hopefully...
But now he's retired, the not-so-elder statesman has far too much time on his hands and no one to waste it on.
The ensemble cast includes Nikki Wendt, Kate Jenkinson, Lucy Honigman, Nicholas Bell, Francis Greenslade, Jackson Tozer, Ming-Zhu Hii and. veteran John Clarke.
Sian Davies (Offspring, Mr & Mrs Murder) directs. Nick Murray (House of Hancock, Stupid Stupid Man), who is producing for Cjz, says: .It.s a rare pleasure with such a great cast and Shaun.s scripts are wonderful..
Micallef says, .I am very much looking forward to stepping in front of the cameras for my new series The Ex-pm. Hopefully...
- 6/9/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
The co-creator of Offspring has deplored the decline of the 13-episode Australian drama and criticised the shift to shorter-run .puzzle. dramas. .I feel quite sad that the 13-parter seems to be fading in Australia,. Debra Oswald said in an interview for the Swinburne Institute for Social Research.s report TV 2025: Reconsidering small screen media in Australia by Jock Given, Michael Brealey and Cathy Gray.
.People now just seem to just want six or eight,. said Oswald, who created Offspring with John Edwards and Imogen Banks and worked on the 13-part show for all five seasons.
However two networks dispute that view.. Angus Ross, Seven Network Director of Programming, tells If: .It.s a matter of finding the right format for the story being told. The suggestion that the 13-part series is dead is premature in my view..
Andy Ryan, co-head of drama at the Nine Network says, "The 13-parter...
.People now just seem to just want six or eight,. said Oswald, who created Offspring with John Edwards and Imogen Banks and worked on the 13-part show for all five seasons.
However two networks dispute that view.. Angus Ross, Seven Network Director of Programming, tells If: .It.s a matter of finding the right format for the story being told. The suggestion that the 13-part series is dead is premature in my view..
Andy Ryan, co-head of drama at the Nine Network says, "The 13-parter...
- 5/27/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The premiere of Nine Network.s House of Hancock drew 2.02 million viewers nationally on Sunday night, a strong result but trailing Seven.s My Kitchen Rules which pulled in 2.38 million.
Network Ten launched Shark Tank, which struggled against Mkr and 60 Minutes.
In the costly battle of the interviews with the Lindt Café siege survivors, 60 Minutes came out on top with 1.95 million, ahead of Seven News: Inside the Siege, which had 1.62 million.
Produced by Michael Cordell, Claudia Karvan and Paul Bennett for Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder, the two-part House of Hancock stars Mandy McElhinney as Gina Rinehart, Sam Neill as Lang Hancock and Peta Sergeant as Rose Lacson. It tells the true story of the Hancock dynasty and the bizarre love triangle that emerged between Lang (Neill), his daughter Gina (McElhinney) and his Filipina housekeeper Rose (Sergeant).
Based on a Sony Pictures TV format and produced by Shine Australia, Shark Tank hooked...
Network Ten launched Shark Tank, which struggled against Mkr and 60 Minutes.
In the costly battle of the interviews with the Lindt Café siege survivors, 60 Minutes came out on top with 1.95 million, ahead of Seven News: Inside the Siege, which had 1.62 million.
Produced by Michael Cordell, Claudia Karvan and Paul Bennett for Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder, the two-part House of Hancock stars Mandy McElhinney as Gina Rinehart, Sam Neill as Lang Hancock and Peta Sergeant as Rose Lacson. It tells the true story of the Hancock dynasty and the bizarre love triangle that emerged between Lang (Neill), his daughter Gina (McElhinney) and his Filipina housekeeper Rose (Sergeant).
Based on a Sony Pictures TV format and produced by Shine Australia, Shark Tank hooked...
- 2/8/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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