Six films are set to vie for this year’s Aacta Award for Best Documentary, with voting for the winner open from today until August 2.
For consideration are Christopher Nelius’ Girls Can’t Surf, the highest grossing feature doc of the year so far; Sally Aitken’s Sundance-selected Playing With Sharks, and Molly Reynold’s My Name Is Gulpilil, a portrait of one of Australia’s leading actors, David Gulpilil.
They will compete against Matthew Walker’s I’m Wanita, about to premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival following a HotDocs bow; Tosca Looby’s examination of the attacks that faced Julia Gillard in office, Strong Female Lead; and Jane Castle’s portrait of her mother, filmmaker Lilias Fraser, When The Camera Stopped Rolling.
‘Strong Female Lead’.
As If has reported, Aacta has adjusted its voting framework this year, with rounds per category staggered throughout the year.
The Best Documentary...
For consideration are Christopher Nelius’ Girls Can’t Surf, the highest grossing feature doc of the year so far; Sally Aitken’s Sundance-selected Playing With Sharks, and Molly Reynold’s My Name Is Gulpilil, a portrait of one of Australia’s leading actors, David Gulpilil.
They will compete against Matthew Walker’s I’m Wanita, about to premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival following a HotDocs bow; Tosca Looby’s examination of the attacks that faced Julia Gillard in office, Strong Female Lead; and Jane Castle’s portrait of her mother, filmmaker Lilias Fraser, When The Camera Stopped Rolling.
‘Strong Female Lead’.
As If has reported, Aacta has adjusted its voting framework this year, with rounds per category staggered throughout the year.
The Best Documentary...
- 7/26/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Adelaide Film Festival (Aff) has revealed the participants in its Aff Youth Program, naming the nine jurors for its youth screening initiative and the 21 finalists in the Statewide Schools Filmmaking Competition.
Taking place at the end of this month, the program is designed to prepare the state’s next generation of filmmakers and screen professionals.
The Aff Youth Student Jury will judge the 60 Australian and international films in the screening program, while the statewide schools Filmmaking Competition finalists will see their films on the big screen and attend a red carpet gala premiere with Aff youth patron Tilda Cobham-Hervey.
Students Lilia, Jasper, Andrea, Cody, Ryza, Elijah, Loraine, Leah, and August will form the jury, representing Craigmore and Brighton High, as well as St Martin’s Lutheran College, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Tyndale Christian School, and Pembroke.
In his application to be a jury member, Elijah summed up the attitude of the group.
Taking place at the end of this month, the program is designed to prepare the state’s next generation of filmmakers and screen professionals.
The Aff Youth Student Jury will judge the 60 Australian and international films in the screening program, while the statewide schools Filmmaking Competition finalists will see their films on the big screen and attend a red carpet gala premiere with Aff youth patron Tilda Cobham-Hervey.
Students Lilia, Jasper, Andrea, Cody, Ryza, Elijah, Loraine, Leah, and August will form the jury, representing Craigmore and Brighton High, as well as St Martin’s Lutheran College, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Tyndale Christian School, and Pembroke.
In his application to be a jury member, Elijah summed up the attitude of the group.
- 7/6/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
The rich landscape of Western Australia’s Pilbara region will be showcased around Australia during Naidoc Week as Weerianna Street Media’s Red Dirt Riders premieres on ABC Me.
Told across five 15-minute episodes, the factual series follows a group of bike-obsessed Roebourne kids aged between 10-13 on their two and four-wheeled adventures across Ngarluma country.
The riders experience Pilbara’s first traffic jam, take a trip to a coastal ghost town, discover some local history about a famous dog and hear stories of the spirits of the country, all whilst avoiding getting bogged in the bush.
Thalu stars Logan Adams, Cherry Rose Hubert, Sharliya Mowarin and Penesha Wally are joined by newcomers Isaac Guinness, Toby Cedar, Haseem May, Layne Smith, Fabian Dhu, Rj Parker and Johnita Sandy as subjects for the series.
Red Dirt Riders was written and produced by Robyn Marais and directed and co-produced by Ngarluma man,...
Told across five 15-minute episodes, the factual series follows a group of bike-obsessed Roebourne kids aged between 10-13 on their two and four-wheeled adventures across Ngarluma country.
The riders experience Pilbara’s first traffic jam, take a trip to a coastal ghost town, discover some local history about a famous dog and hear stories of the spirits of the country, all whilst avoiding getting bogged in the bush.
Thalu stars Logan Adams, Cherry Rose Hubert, Sharliya Mowarin and Penesha Wally are joined by newcomers Isaac Guinness, Toby Cedar, Haseem May, Layne Smith, Fabian Dhu, Rj Parker and Johnita Sandy as subjects for the series.
Red Dirt Riders was written and produced by Robyn Marais and directed and co-produced by Ngarluma man,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
From Walkabout, Storm Boy, Crocodile Dundee and Rabbit Proof Fence, to Australia, The Proposition and Charlie’s Country, the work of David Gulpilil forms a throughline in modern Australian cinema.
Knowing that his career has touched Australians far and wide and across generations, distributor Abcg Films wanted to ensure documentary My Name Is Gulpilil was accessible and could reach audiences across the country.
Directed by Molly Reynolds, the film sees the legendary Indigenous actor, who has terminal lung cancer, tell his story in his own words – there are no talking heads from anyone else.
The film was originally intended to exist as a posthumous tribute, though Gulpilil has defied the odds. Indeed, despite his illness, he was even able to be there in person for the film’s premiere at the Adelaide Festival in March.
Abcg Film, led by Alicia Brescianini and Cathy Gallagher, has a long history of working with...
Knowing that his career has touched Australians far and wide and across generations, distributor Abcg Films wanted to ensure documentary My Name Is Gulpilil was accessible and could reach audiences across the country.
Directed by Molly Reynolds, the film sees the legendary Indigenous actor, who has terminal lung cancer, tell his story in his own words – there are no talking heads from anyone else.
The film was originally intended to exist as a posthumous tribute, though Gulpilil has defied the odds. Indeed, despite his illness, he was even able to be there in person for the film’s premiere at the Adelaide Festival in March.
Abcg Film, led by Alicia Brescianini and Cathy Gallagher, has a long history of working with...
- 6/29/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
In 1997 in a Bondi café, David Barda and Stephen Jenner met with a group of other young film buffs to plan a magazine that would go on to become a mouthpiece for a new generation of indie filmmakers.
Now that humble publication has made it to 200 issues!
Yes, If is getting old, and as you can see from our cover above, we’ve had a few facelifts along the way.
From our grassroots beginnings, we’ve grown into what we are today. We like to think of ourselves as much an industry network as a mag, and that’s happened only with your encouragement.
We’ve been proud to be your mouthpiece and mirror, as well as your occasional critic and sometime support group. Every so often it’s felt thankless, but at other times we’ve felt like we’ve been at the coalface.
Most of all, we’re...
Now that humble publication has made it to 200 issues!
Yes, If is getting old, and as you can see from our cover above, we’ve had a few facelifts along the way.
From our grassroots beginnings, we’ve grown into what we are today. We like to think of ourselves as much an industry network as a mag, and that’s happened only with your encouragement.
We’ve been proud to be your mouthpiece and mirror, as well as your occasional critic and sometime support group. Every so often it’s felt thankless, but at other times we’ve felt like we’ve been at the coalface.
Most of all, we’re...
- 6/24/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Voting for this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Awards will look a little different, with the organisation to broaden the voting powers of general members and stagger voting rounds by category throughout the year.
As of this year, round one voting will determine nominees, and round two the winners.
For the first time, general members – i.e. members of Aacta from the general public – are invited to have their say in both for the major awards. However, their votes are weighted at 0.5, compared to a professional member vote, which is weighted at 1.
The primary change is in the TV categories; general members have actually been able to vote for both nominees and winners in film, documentary and short-form for some time.
Voting on technical craft awards remains restricted to professional branch members. This in reflection that a level of technical understanding informs voting in craft categories,...
As of this year, round one voting will determine nominees, and round two the winners.
For the first time, general members – i.e. members of Aacta from the general public – are invited to have their say in both for the major awards. However, their votes are weighted at 0.5, compared to a professional member vote, which is weighted at 1.
The primary change is in the TV categories; general members have actually been able to vote for both nominees and winners in film, documentary and short-form for some time.
Voting on technical craft awards remains restricted to professional branch members. This in reflection that a level of technical understanding informs voting in craft categories,...
- 6/21/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Horrors The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It and A Quiet Place Part II might have led the box office last weekend, but the national tally was far from scary – even despite the Melbourne lockdown.
Warner Bros’ Conjuring 3 was no. 1, bowing on $2.9 million from 321 screens. That marks the third highest opening for a film in the supernatural universe, which consists of eight films.
Based on the 1981 murder trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, the film sees Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as husband-and-wife paranormal investigators. Aussie James Wan produces with Peter Safran, with Michael Chaves directing from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, who conceived the story with Wan.
The film’s result, which works out a whopping $8,998 per screen, is significant given cinemas in Melbourne were closed for the second weekend running.
Elsewhere in Victoria, cinemas were able to reopen with a cap of 25 per cent venue capacity,...
Warner Bros’ Conjuring 3 was no. 1, bowing on $2.9 million from 321 screens. That marks the third highest opening for a film in the supernatural universe, which consists of eight films.
Based on the 1981 murder trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, the film sees Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as husband-and-wife paranormal investigators. Aussie James Wan produces with Peter Safran, with Michael Chaves directing from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, who conceived the story with Wan.
The film’s result, which works out a whopping $8,998 per screen, is significant given cinemas in Melbourne were closed for the second weekend running.
Elsewhere in Victoria, cinemas were able to reopen with a cap of 25 per cent venue capacity,...
- 6/7/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Two new major releases in A Quiet Place Part II and Cruella helped to breathe life back into the box office last weekend, though results were stymied by the closure of cinemas across Victoria.
Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II was one of the first films to be delayed by the pandemic. Some 14 months later than planned, the John Krasinski-helmed sequel premiered ahead of the 2018 original, topping the box office with $3.1 million from 542 screens. With previews from the previous weekend, it sits on highly respectable $5.2 million.
In the US, where it is Memorial Day weekend, the horror, starring Emily Blunt, Krasinski, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe is expected to post $58 million by Monday.
Despite a simultaneous PVOD release on Disney+, Cruella, starring Emma Stone in the titular role, still drew a respectable crowd for the Mouse House, bowing at no. 2 from $1.5 million from 452, or $1.6 million with previews.
Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II was one of the first films to be delayed by the pandemic. Some 14 months later than planned, the John Krasinski-helmed sequel premiered ahead of the 2018 original, topping the box office with $3.1 million from 542 screens. With previews from the previous weekend, it sits on highly respectable $5.2 million.
In the US, where it is Memorial Day weekend, the horror, starring Emily Blunt, Krasinski, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe is expected to post $58 million by Monday.
Despite a simultaneous PVOD release on Disney+, Cruella, starring Emma Stone in the titular role, still drew a respectable crowd for the Mouse House, bowing at no. 2 from $1.5 million from 452, or $1.6 million with previews.
- 5/31/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
"I'm an actor, I'm a dancer, I'm a singer and also, a painter. This film is about me. This is my story of my story." Abcg Film has released a trailer for My Name is Gulpilil, a feature film about the extraordinary life of Indigenous actor, dancer, artist, and screen legend, David Gulpilil. You definitely know who he is! The only actor to appear in both of the two highest grossing Australian films of all time, Crocodile Dundee (1986) and Australia (2008), Gulpilil is known throughout the world for his unforgettable performances - from his breakthrough in Walkabout (1971) to films including Storm Boy (1976), Mad Dog Morgan (1976), Peter Weir's The Last Wave (1977), The Tracker (2002), Rabbit Proof Fence (2002), The Proposition (2005) and his Cannes Best Actor award winning role in Rolf de Heer's Charlie's Country (2013). Integral to the telling of so many legendary screen stories, Gulpilil, now nearing the end of his life, generously shares...
- 5/6/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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