Zack Snyder.
Australian filmmaker Peter Carstairs only started working in commercials a few years ago. He works at Mr Smith (mrsmith.tv), a production company based in Melbourne.
He first heard about Crash the Super Bowl when Tom Noakes, a fellow Australian, cracked the final five in 2014 with his spot 'Finger Cleaner'.
"I've been tracking it ever since", Carstairs said.
The filmmaker calls the Super Bowl the "most-watched TV event on the planet".
Back in 2006, Doritos decided to buy airtime but invite submissions instead of producing their own spot - the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl was born.
Initially only for Americans, the contest is now open to most of the rest of the world. There's been an Australian in in the finals every year since they've been eligible..
This year's winner will have their ad screened at the game, receive a residency with Warner Bros and Zack Snyder - plus a cool $1 million Usd.
Australian filmmaker Peter Carstairs only started working in commercials a few years ago. He works at Mr Smith (mrsmith.tv), a production company based in Melbourne.
He first heard about Crash the Super Bowl when Tom Noakes, a fellow Australian, cracked the final five in 2014 with his spot 'Finger Cleaner'.
"I've been tracking it ever since", Carstairs said.
The filmmaker calls the Super Bowl the "most-watched TV event on the planet".
Back in 2006, Doritos decided to buy airtime but invite submissions instead of producing their own spot - the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl was born.
Initially only for Americans, the contest is now open to most of the rest of the world. There's been an Australian in in the finals every year since they've been eligible..
This year's winner will have their ad screened at the game, receive a residency with Warner Bros and Zack Snyder - plus a cool $1 million Usd.
- 1/14/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Female directors have dominated the Documentary Feature category of the 2014 Australian Directors Guild Awards, whilst Home & Away has muscled out any other competition for TV Drama Serial. The nominees, announced this morning, cover 16 categories across film, television, multiplatform, music and advertising. This year has seen the Adg receive more entries than ever before, making the judging process a difficult one. .In the TV drama category, the documentary feature category and the feature film categories especially, the caliber is really high so that.s why there are so many nominations,. says Adg Executive Director Kingston Anderson. .The judges take it very seriously and fully understand the recognition the awards can bring.. In the feature film category, Baz Luhrmann was unsurprisingly nominated for box office hit The Great Gatsby alongside strong contenders Kim Mordaunt (The Rocket), Ivan Sen (Mystery Road), Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man) and Zak Hilditch, whose film These Final Hours,...
- 4/9/2014
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia says it has not mismanaged its finances by spending its annual production funding in just six months - a state of affairs which it says reflects the strength of the local film industry.
The government screen agency revealed in mid-December 2012 that it had spent its entire annual $42 million drama production allocation due to the unprecedented number of quality feature film and television projects seeking support. The shock announcement was reminiscent of the agency's abrupt decision to cut its investment cap in 2009 while several films were mid-financed. That decision.threw several major Australian productions into dissaray including The Tree and the biggest box office hit of.2010, Tomorrow When the War Began (Omnilab Media had to increase its investment at the last minute to ensure production).
Overspending on such a scale has never occurred before, even going back to the era of Screen Australia.s predecessor funding arm, the Film Finance Corporation.
The government screen agency revealed in mid-December 2012 that it had spent its entire annual $42 million drama production allocation due to the unprecedented number of quality feature film and television projects seeking support. The shock announcement was reminiscent of the agency's abrupt decision to cut its investment cap in 2009 while several films were mid-financed. That decision.threw several major Australian productions into dissaray including The Tree and the biggest box office hit of.2010, Tomorrow When the War Began (Omnilab Media had to increase its investment at the last minute to ensure production).
Overspending on such a scale has never occurred before, even going back to the era of Screen Australia.s predecessor funding arm, the Film Finance Corporation.
- 2/6/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Dame Edna Everage is fronting a new campaign for drinks brand Jarrah.
The campaign invites women to ‘take a break from the usual’, encouraging them to drink Jarrah when they’re feeling “coffee’d out” in the afternoon.
The campaign sees Everage ‘surprise’ Jarrah drinkers in the suburbs around Moonee Ponds where she grew up.
Marketing manager Angela Thorpe said: “We are so excited by this project and are glad we got the opportunity to entertain our consumers with Jarrah and Dame Edna. You’ll see from the content we’ve had a bit of fun and not taken things too seriously. Dame Edna was disappointed that Peter Weir was not the director, but we think the guy we got did a pretty good job.”
Naked MD Matt Houltham added: “This has been a fantastic project to work on. We’ve got loads of fun, interesting content that we think our Jarrah consumers will enjoy,...
The campaign invites women to ‘take a break from the usual’, encouraging them to drink Jarrah when they’re feeling “coffee’d out” in the afternoon.
The campaign sees Everage ‘surprise’ Jarrah drinkers in the suburbs around Moonee Ponds where she grew up.
Marketing manager Angela Thorpe said: “We are so excited by this project and are glad we got the opportunity to entertain our consumers with Jarrah and Dame Edna. You’ll see from the content we’ve had a bit of fun and not taken things too seriously. Dame Edna was disappointed that Peter Weir was not the director, but we think the guy we got did a pretty good job.”
Naked MD Matt Houltham added: “This has been a fantastic project to work on. We’ve got loads of fun, interesting content that we think our Jarrah consumers will enjoy,...
- 8/26/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
David Michod
David Michod’s new film has received funding from Screen Australia, as part of almost $20m of investment from the screen agency.
The investment is expected to trigger $100m worth of production across four feature films, five TV dramas and three children’s dramas.
The Rover is written and directed by Michod, with a story by Michod and Joel Edgerton.
The film has cast Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson in the lead roles.
Michod will also produce the film alongside his Animal Kingdom producing partner Liz Watts for Porchlight Films and David Linde, Ep on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for his Lava Bear Films.
The film will be distributed by Village Roadshow with international sales by FilmNation.
The Rover, set in the Australian desert in the dangerous near-future sees Eric, a man who has lost almost everything in life, have his car stolen by a gang of criminals.
David Michod’s new film has received funding from Screen Australia, as part of almost $20m of investment from the screen agency.
The investment is expected to trigger $100m worth of production across four feature films, five TV dramas and three children’s dramas.
The Rover is written and directed by Michod, with a story by Michod and Joel Edgerton.
The film has cast Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson in the lead roles.
Michod will also produce the film alongside his Animal Kingdom producing partner Liz Watts for Porchlight Films and David Linde, Ep on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for his Lava Bear Films.
The film will be distributed by Village Roadshow with international sales by FilmNation.
The Rover, set in the Australian desert in the dangerous near-future sees Eric, a man who has lost almost everything in life, have his car stolen by a gang of criminals.
- 7/26/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia will invest almost $20 million across 12 screen projects including futuristic Western The Rover, starring Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce.
The film is the latest collaboration between producer Liz Watts and writer-director David Michôd, following the success of their crime-thriller Animal Kingdom in 2010. FilmNation Entertainment acquired the majority of worldwide rights to The Rover at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year while Village Roadshow will distribute the film in Australia.
Screen Australia has also backed three other feature films: drama Felony, written by Joel Edgerton and directed by Matthew Saville (Noise); Healing, a redemptive prison drama starring Don Hany (East West 101) and Hugo Weaving; and Aim High in Creation, a hybrid documentary-drama about the late Kim Jong-il from writer/director Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lie$).
Screen Australia chief executive Ruth Harley said the four Australian features have huge potential. "The Rover is a powerful, well-crafted script from a talented team with an impressive cast,...
The film is the latest collaboration between producer Liz Watts and writer-director David Michôd, following the success of their crime-thriller Animal Kingdom in 2010. FilmNation Entertainment acquired the majority of worldwide rights to The Rover at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year while Village Roadshow will distribute the film in Australia.
Screen Australia has also backed three other feature films: drama Felony, written by Joel Edgerton and directed by Matthew Saville (Noise); Healing, a redemptive prison drama starring Don Hany (East West 101) and Hugo Weaving; and Aim High in Creation, a hybrid documentary-drama about the late Kim Jong-il from writer/director Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lie$).
Screen Australia chief executive Ruth Harley said the four Australian features have huge potential. "The Rover is a powerful, well-crafted script from a talented team with an impressive cast,...
- 7/25/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Naked has launched a campaign for WorkSafe Victoria based on the findings of controversial experiments from 1960′s which found that people are obedient to requests, even if those requests have dangerous consequences.
The psychological experiments of Stanley Milgram were reproduced in a simulated workplace by Naked – and 90% of people did as was asked of them.
Adam Ferrier, partner and psychologist at Naked said: “We wanted to draw attention to the fact that WorkSafe’s public awareness campaign is founded on real psychological insights. We are all susceptible to doing dangerous tasks, if asked to do so by our bosses. For anyone who supervises others the message is simple – don’t ask people to do dangerous things, as they just might do them”.
The campaign is being supported by PR and social media activity focused on WorkSafe Victoria’s Facebook page.
Credits:
Agency, Naked Communications Melbourne
Matt Houltham, Managing Director
Adam Ferrier,...
The psychological experiments of Stanley Milgram were reproduced in a simulated workplace by Naked – and 90% of people did as was asked of them.
Adam Ferrier, partner and psychologist at Naked said: “We wanted to draw attention to the fact that WorkSafe’s public awareness campaign is founded on real psychological insights. We are all susceptible to doing dangerous tasks, if asked to do so by our bosses. For anyone who supervises others the message is simple – don’t ask people to do dangerous things, as they just might do them”.
The campaign is being supported by PR and social media activity focused on WorkSafe Victoria’s Facebook page.
Credits:
Agency, Naked Communications Melbourne
Matt Houltham, Managing Director
Adam Ferrier,...
- 4/15/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
Pusan International Film Festival
SYDNEY -- A milestone moment in Australia's race-relations history forms the backdrop of "September", a sensitively crafted coming-of-age story about the friendship between two teenage boys from opposite sides of the racial divide. First-time feature director Peter Carstairs and co-writer Ant Horn unspool the threads of the story slowly and deliberately, using painterly compositions and spare but strangely eloquent dialogue to create a powerful lament for the loss of youthful innocence.
There's a tranquility in the rhythms of the film -- at odds with the tumult of the characters' emotions -- that rewards those who lose themselves in it. "September", which screened in Toronto, should see modest success on the art house circuit when it is released in Australia on Nov. 29.
Ed (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy Clarence John Ryan) are 16-year-olds, growing up in 1968 in the wheat belt of outback Western Australia. They've been best mates for as long as they can remember, but as they mature into men, the simplicity of their friendship is sullied by the encroaching realities of a turbulent sociopolitical climate.
Ed goes to school, but Paddy, an Aboriginal boy, helps his father, Michael (Kelton Pell), do maintenance work on the property owned by Ed's taciturn dad, Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith).
September heralds spring and a multitude of changes: Ed starts showing interest in the new girl at school, Amelia (young up-and-comer Mia Wasikowska), and a famous traveling boxing troupe is coming to town, prompting Paddy and Ed to erect a makeshift ring and begin regular afternoon sparring sessions.
Crucially, a new law is passed requiring Aboriginal pastoral workers to be paid the same as their white counterparts. The legislation, meant to promote equality, instead backfires, with many Aborigines kicked off the farms when they can no longer be put to work in exchange for a bit of food and lodging.
Tension builds between Michael and Rick, who also have known each other since childhood, and the prejudices of the outside world expose fault lines in the friendship of their sons.
The film is not overtly political, allowing the focus to remain tight on the characters with the centerpiece prop, a boxing ring in a wheat field, serving as an understated symbol of the fight against injustice.
"September" is the first feature film produced by Tropfest, the successful short film festival that actor-director John Polson established in Australia in 1993 and last year expanded to the Tribeca Film Festival.
Working with a limited budget (funding was provided by Movie Network Channels), Carstairs and cinematographer Jules O'Loughlin let a simple story unfurl beneath vast skies and boundless horizons, giving it plenty of space to breathe.
SEPTEMBER
Hopscotch Films/Tropfest Feature Program
Credits:
Director: Peter Carstairs
Screenwriters: Peter Carstairs, Ant Horn
Producer: John Polson
Executive producers: Mark Bamford, Tony Forrest and Gary Hamilton
Director of photography: Jules O'Loughlin
Production designer: Sam Hobbs
Music: Roger Mason
Co-producers: Lynda House and Serena Paull
Costume designer: Cappi Ireland
Editor: Martin Connor
Cast:
Paddy: Clarence John Ryan
Ed: Xavier Samuel
Rick: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Michael: Kelton Pell
Leena: Lisa Flanagan
Eve: Alice McConnell
Amelia: Mia Wasikowska
Miss Gregory: Sibylla Budd
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
SYDNEY -- A milestone moment in Australia's race-relations history forms the backdrop of "September", a sensitively crafted coming-of-age story about the friendship between two teenage boys from opposite sides of the racial divide. First-time feature director Peter Carstairs and co-writer Ant Horn unspool the threads of the story slowly and deliberately, using painterly compositions and spare but strangely eloquent dialogue to create a powerful lament for the loss of youthful innocence.
There's a tranquility in the rhythms of the film -- at odds with the tumult of the characters' emotions -- that rewards those who lose themselves in it. "September", which screened in Toronto, should see modest success on the art house circuit when it is released in Australia on Nov. 29.
Ed (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy Clarence John Ryan) are 16-year-olds, growing up in 1968 in the wheat belt of outback Western Australia. They've been best mates for as long as they can remember, but as they mature into men, the simplicity of their friendship is sullied by the encroaching realities of a turbulent sociopolitical climate.
Ed goes to school, but Paddy, an Aboriginal boy, helps his father, Michael (Kelton Pell), do maintenance work on the property owned by Ed's taciturn dad, Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith).
September heralds spring and a multitude of changes: Ed starts showing interest in the new girl at school, Amelia (young up-and-comer Mia Wasikowska), and a famous traveling boxing troupe is coming to town, prompting Paddy and Ed to erect a makeshift ring and begin regular afternoon sparring sessions.
Crucially, a new law is passed requiring Aboriginal pastoral workers to be paid the same as their white counterparts. The legislation, meant to promote equality, instead backfires, with many Aborigines kicked off the farms when they can no longer be put to work in exchange for a bit of food and lodging.
Tension builds between Michael and Rick, who also have known each other since childhood, and the prejudices of the outside world expose fault lines in the friendship of their sons.
The film is not overtly political, allowing the focus to remain tight on the characters with the centerpiece prop, a boxing ring in a wheat field, serving as an understated symbol of the fight against injustice.
"September" is the first feature film produced by Tropfest, the successful short film festival that actor-director John Polson established in Australia in 1993 and last year expanded to the Tribeca Film Festival.
Working with a limited budget (funding was provided by Movie Network Channels), Carstairs and cinematographer Jules O'Loughlin let a simple story unfurl beneath vast skies and boundless horizons, giving it plenty of space to breathe.
SEPTEMBER
Hopscotch Films/Tropfest Feature Program
Credits:
Director: Peter Carstairs
Screenwriters: Peter Carstairs, Ant Horn
Producer: John Polson
Executive producers: Mark Bamford, Tony Forrest and Gary Hamilton
Director of photography: Jules O'Loughlin
Production designer: Sam Hobbs
Music: Roger Mason
Co-producers: Lynda House and Serena Paull
Costume designer: Cappi Ireland
Editor: Martin Connor
Cast:
Paddy: Clarence John Ryan
Ed: Xavier Samuel
Rick: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Michael: Kelton Pell
Leena: Lisa Flanagan
Eve: Alice McConnell
Amelia: Mia Wasikowska
Miss Gregory: Sibylla Budd
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/6/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SYDNEY -- Michael Moore's Sicko will have its Australian premiere in the prized opening-night slot at the Melbourne International Film Festival, festival director Richard Moore said Wednesday as he unveiled the 19-day fest's more than 300 films.
" 'Sicko' proves the power of documentary to place important issues on the social and political agenda," Richard Moore said. "I can't say I've always agreed with him, ... but this is Mike Moore in vintage form. 'Sicko' is brilliant in its execution, full of humor and intelligence."
Bookending the festival for the closing night on Aug. 12 is Shane Meadows' This Is England.
The 2007 edition of Australia's largest film festival includes 10 new sidebars, with two focused on African and Israeli films and two Japanese retrospectives -- one on the work of director Shohei Imamura and another focusing on writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
The festival also will host nine world premieres of Australian films, including the first feature from the festival's "accelerator" development program, Ben Hackworth's Corroboree, and the first feature funded by short film festival Tropfest's feature program, Peter Carstairs' debut feature September.
David Scotts' epic animated TV series Animalia, produced for Network Ten and Nickelodeon, will debut a feature-length cut of its first two episodes in the new kids sidebar, Next Gen.
" 'Sicko' proves the power of documentary to place important issues on the social and political agenda," Richard Moore said. "I can't say I've always agreed with him, ... but this is Mike Moore in vintage form. 'Sicko' is brilliant in its execution, full of humor and intelligence."
Bookending the festival for the closing night on Aug. 12 is Shane Meadows' This Is England.
The 2007 edition of Australia's largest film festival includes 10 new sidebars, with two focused on African and Israeli films and two Japanese retrospectives -- one on the work of director Shohei Imamura and another focusing on writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
The festival also will host nine world premieres of Australian films, including the first feature from the festival's "accelerator" development program, Ben Hackworth's Corroboree, and the first feature funded by short film festival Tropfest's feature program, Peter Carstairs' debut feature September.
David Scotts' epic animated TV series Animalia, produced for Network Ten and Nickelodeon, will debut a feature-length cut of its first two episodes in the new kids sidebar, Next Gen.
- 6/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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