All articles by Sandy George – Page 21
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Spreading the foreign word
Festivals showcasing films from particular territories are injecting life into Australia’s foreign-language box office.
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Scherfig, Otto join Sydney competition jury
Danish director Lone Scherfig and Australian actress Miranda Otto have joined the judging panel for the official competition of this year’s Sydney Film Festival (June 3-14).
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Dungog promotes Australian film with eight world premieres
The Dungog Film Festival opens this Thursday with the world premiere of Stone Bros. It is one of eight film that will debut at the events.
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Balibo and Bran Nue Dae to bookend Melbourne Film Festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will open and close with world premieres of new Australian films. Political thriller Balibo will open this year’s edition on July 24 while music comedy Bran Nue Dae will close it on August 8.
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SAFC picks eight first timers for low budget picture scheme
The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) today announced the first four teams to be part of FilmLab, an initiative that aims to produce eight low-budget features within four years.
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Strong European presence at Sydney Film Festival
The Sydney Film Festival this morning (May 14) announced the 12 films chosen for competition including Ken Loach’s Looking For Eric, which is the festival’s opening film.
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James Nesbitt in new Nadia Tass picture
Northern Irish actor James Nesbitt has been cast in an untitled feature that started shooting in Melbourne yesterday (May 11) with Nadia Tass directing for ContentFilm International.
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Screen Australia relaxes investment requirements
Screen Australia is to make a substantial change to its rulebook on feature film investment in response to current worldwide financing difficulties.
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Village Roadshow Pictures refinances loan facility
Village Roadshow Pictures (VRP) has completed a restructure of its $900m film financing production facility, in a deal that makes it available through until September 30, 2010.
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Miramax Films to shoot horror film in Melbourne
The government of the Australian state of Victoria has announced that Miramax Films is to make the horror/thriller Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark in Melbourne.
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Palace Films picks up Welcome, Missing Person
Australian distributor Palace Films has acquired French director Philippe Lioret’s Welcome and US director Noah Buschel’s The Missing Person.
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Screen Australia agrees to finance Reef, Swerve
Screen Australia has agreed to finance Andrew Traucki’s thriller The Reef, about four friends being stalked by a Great White shark, and Swerve from writer-director Craig Lahiff.
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Princess Pictures makes feature debut with I Love You Too
Australian TV production company Princess Pictures is making its first foray into features with romantic comedy I Love You Too, set to star US actorPeter Dinklage (Death At A Funeral) and Australia’s Brendan Cowell (Noise).
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Green Lantern among productions set to light up Australia
The Green Lantern has confirmed that it will go into pre-production at Fox Studios in Sydney in July and will begin filming in November. It comes as rumours grow that two other major films are planning to film in Australia.
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Market Report - Australia and New Zealand
When it comes to English-language films, audiences in Australia and New Zealand have their preferences: they do not particularly like horror films but are seduced by all things British, particularly sumptuous period dramas, comedies and everything produced by Working Title. From 2008, this translated into big figures for Atonement, The ...
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Oz distributor to target foreign-language films
Australian sales agent Antony Ginnane and exhibitor Robert Ward have formed a theatricaldistribution joint venture, IFM/Filmways, which will focus on acquiring foreign-language pictures.
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Australia's Footprint Films expands local distribution
Australian producer John Maynard of Arenafilm has long distributed his own films, first in New Zealand and then in Australia. Now, Maynard and business partner Robert Connolly are expanding their distribution outfit Footprint Films to acquire and release third-party titles.“It moves us up the food chain and gets us away ...
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Screen Australia to back war movie Beneath Hill 60
Screen Australia today announced it would back $5.7m (A$8m) war movie Beneath Hill 60, the only feature to secure the federal government agency’s backing this month.
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Wolverine producer applies for Screen Australia funding
As the X-Men Origins: Wolverine publicity machine kicked into gear today, one ofthe producers on the film, Seed Productions, confirmed that it has applied for taxpayer fundingthrough Screen Australia.