Vampire film In The Blood is set to shoot in late 2017 after receiving production funding from Screen Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation.
Produced by Trevor Blainey (Noise, Cut Snake) and written by Nigel Karikari, the film will tell the story of Selina, a vampire who returns to a remote farmstead to destroy the last vestiges of her humanity.—.her long abandoned son..
Victoria Cocks, who wrote and directed web series Wastelander Panda, will make her feature directing debut.
.Genre is what I love and what I feel most passionate about as a director," she said. "Finding a script that is able to combine that with both a great dramatic premise and great characters you genuinely care about in equal measure is something I will never say no to taking on."
Screen Australia.s CEO Graeme Mason called Cocks and Karikari "exciting new talents" and said the feature could...
Produced by Trevor Blainey (Noise, Cut Snake) and written by Nigel Karikari, the film will tell the story of Selina, a vampire who returns to a remote farmstead to destroy the last vestiges of her humanity.—.her long abandoned son..
Victoria Cocks, who wrote and directed web series Wastelander Panda, will make her feature directing debut.
.Genre is what I love and what I feel most passionate about as a director," she said. "Finding a script that is able to combine that with both a great dramatic premise and great characters you genuinely care about in equal measure is something I will never say no to taking on."
Screen Australia.s CEO Graeme Mason called Cocks and Karikari "exciting new talents" and said the feature could...
- 4/26/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Following the film co-financing event Miff 37ºSouth Market, three local producers have been awarded places at the Production Finance Market (Pfm), held in London in October.
Miff 37ºSouth Market is the exclusive Australia/Nz partner of the Pfm, and the only three guaranteed local places are reserved for attending producers. The Pfm runs in association with the BFI London Film Festival.
New Zealand producer Tom Hern won one of the coveted places, as well as a $2000 flight voucher towards his trip. Victorians Pip Campey and Jamie Houge also received places.
Selection was guided by the votes the international financiers and buyers at Miff 37ºSouth Market.
The event, now its 10 year and the only Australian market of its kind held at a film festival, hosted 50 film financiers and buyers including film financiers/buyers including Amazon, Bankside, Catalyst, Double Dutch, eOne Australia, Embankment, Film Mode, Fulcrum, Im Global, Indie, Kaleidoscope, Lotus, Madman,...
Miff 37ºSouth Market is the exclusive Australia/Nz partner of the Pfm, and the only three guaranteed local places are reserved for attending producers. The Pfm runs in association with the BFI London Film Festival.
New Zealand producer Tom Hern won one of the coveted places, as well as a $2000 flight voucher towards his trip. Victorians Pip Campey and Jamie Houge also received places.
Selection was guided by the votes the international financiers and buyers at Miff 37ºSouth Market.
The event, now its 10 year and the only Australian market of its kind held at a film festival, hosted 50 film financiers and buyers including film financiers/buyers including Amazon, Bankside, Catalyst, Double Dutch, eOne Australia, Embankment, Film Mode, Fulcrum, Im Global, Indie, Kaleidoscope, Lotus, Madman,...
- 8/5/2016
- by By Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Three local producers. have won places at the London Production Finance Market following the film co-financing event Miff 37ºSouth Market.
David Ngo from South Australia won the $2000 flight voucher and a place at Pfm, while Kristina Ceyton from New South Wales and Leanne Saunders from New Zealand also won place at the London event.
Selection for the three 37ºSouth places at Pfm was guided by the votes of international financiers/buyers at Miff 37ºSouth Market.
Thanks to long-time Miff 37ºSouth Market Gold Sponsor Film Finances, one of the three producers selected for the October Pfm received a flight voucher of $2000 towards their trip..
This year the market, held during Miff, hosted some 45 film financiers/buyers including 13 Films, Cornerstone, eOne Australia, Endgame, Fulcrum, Hyde Park, Loco, Memento, Metrodome, Radiant, Roadshow, Seville/eOne, Shoreline, Transmission, Visit, Wide and Xyz. .
A record 28 publishers registered for 37ºSouth.s Books at Miff, including Hachette, Hardie Grant,...
David Ngo from South Australia won the $2000 flight voucher and a place at Pfm, while Kristina Ceyton from New South Wales and Leanne Saunders from New Zealand also won place at the London event.
Selection for the three 37ºSouth places at Pfm was guided by the votes of international financiers/buyers at Miff 37ºSouth Market.
Thanks to long-time Miff 37ºSouth Market Gold Sponsor Film Finances, one of the three producers selected for the October Pfm received a flight voucher of $2000 towards their trip..
This year the market, held during Miff, hosted some 45 film financiers/buyers including 13 Films, Cornerstone, eOne Australia, Endgame, Fulcrum, Hyde Park, Loco, Memento, Metrodome, Radiant, Roadshow, Seville/eOne, Shoreline, Transmission, Visit, Wide and Xyz. .
A record 28 publishers registered for 37ºSouth.s Books at Miff, including Hachette, Hardie Grant,...
- 8/7/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
EOne will test the potential for a limited theatrical launch followed quickly by home entertainment release with Kriv Stenders. Kill Me Three Times.
The comedic thriller, which stars Simon Pegg, Alice Braga, Luke Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Callan Mulvey and Sullivan Stapleton, will have Q&A screenings in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth next month and will be available on digital platforms and on DVD and Blu-ray on September 9.
Separately the distributor has confirmed Tony Ayres. Cut Snake will have a conventional cinema release starting on September 24. EOne MD Troy Lum described the Kill Me Three Times strategy as direct-to-consumer, observing. .This style of release reflects eOne's desire to drive unique ways to connect films with audiences in a shifting landscape, while allowing the film to be presented to the widest possible audience across the country.. Stenders (who recently wrapped Blue Dog) and producer Tania Chambers will support the release via a...
The comedic thriller, which stars Simon Pegg, Alice Braga, Luke Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Callan Mulvey and Sullivan Stapleton, will have Q&A screenings in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth next month and will be available on digital platforms and on DVD and Blu-ray on September 9.
Separately the distributor has confirmed Tony Ayres. Cut Snake will have a conventional cinema release starting on September 24. EOne MD Troy Lum described the Kill Me Three Times strategy as direct-to-consumer, observing. .This style of release reflects eOne's desire to drive unique ways to connect films with audiences in a shifting landscape, while allowing the film to be presented to the widest possible audience across the country.. Stenders (who recently wrapped Blue Dog) and producer Tania Chambers will support the release via a...
- 7/14/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Kill Me Three Times, Cut Snake, Charlie.s Country and a French-Australian short will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
That boosts Australia.s representation at the festival to five as Mark Hartley.s Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films will feature in the Midnight Madness section.
The Contemporary World Cinema program will be the launch pad for Kriv Stenders. Kill Me Three Times (world premiere), Tony Ayres. Cut Snake (international premiere) and Rolf de Heer.s Charlie.s Country (North American premiere).
Writer/director Sotiris Dounoukos. A Single Body will have its international premiere in the inaugural Short Cuts International section. The drama revolves around David and Wani, best friends and skilled abattoir workers who are saving to open their own butchery and whose bond is tested by the arrival of a new worker. The producers are François-Pierre Clavel and Alexandre Perrier.
Stenders told If,...
That boosts Australia.s representation at the festival to five as Mark Hartley.s Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films will feature in the Midnight Madness section.
The Contemporary World Cinema program will be the launch pad for Kriv Stenders. Kill Me Three Times (world premiere), Tony Ayres. Cut Snake (international premiere) and Rolf de Heer.s Charlie.s Country (North American premiere).
Writer/director Sotiris Dounoukos. A Single Body will have its international premiere in the inaugural Short Cuts International section. The drama revolves around David and Wani, best friends and skilled abattoir workers who are saving to open their own butchery and whose bond is tested by the arrival of a new worker. The producers are François-Pierre Clavel and Alexandre Perrier.
Stenders told If,...
- 8/12/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Sullivan Stapleton and Alex Russell will play ex-cons in Cut Snake, Matchbox Pictures. crime thriller directed by Tony Ayres, which shoots in Melbourne in late October.
Also attached is Jessica De Gouw, a fast-rising Aussie actress who stars in TV's. Arrow and the upcoming series Dracula, which features Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the vampire who.s brought back to life and poses as an American entrepreneur.
The producers are Trevor Blainey (Noise) and Matchbox Pictures. Michael McMahon (The Home Song Stories, Lou, The Slap).
Written by Blake Ayshford (The Time of Our Lives, The Straits), Cut Snake is described as a tense, psychologically-driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him is himself.
It marks a return to the big screen for Ayres who directed a segment of Tim Winton.s The Turning,. episodes of The Slap, executive-produced Underground: The Julian Assange Story...
Also attached is Jessica De Gouw, a fast-rising Aussie actress who stars in TV's. Arrow and the upcoming series Dracula, which features Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the vampire who.s brought back to life and poses as an American entrepreneur.
The producers are Trevor Blainey (Noise) and Matchbox Pictures. Michael McMahon (The Home Song Stories, Lou, The Slap).
Written by Blake Ayshford (The Time of Our Lives, The Straits), Cut Snake is described as a tense, psychologically-driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him is himself.
It marks a return to the big screen for Ayres who directed a segment of Tim Winton.s The Turning,. episodes of The Slap, executive-produced Underground: The Julian Assange Story...
- 8/27/2013
- by Don Groves
- 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
The Devil’s Playground
A series which picks up the story of classic feature film The Devil’s Playground 35 years on, is among 11 productions to receive Screen Australia funding.
Return to the Devil’s Playground is a six-part series produced by Matchbox Pictures’ Helen Bowden and Blake Ayshford and directed by The Strait’s Rachel Ward and Dead Europe’s Tony Krawitz.
Writers on the production are Ayshford, Cate Shortland, Alice Addison and Tommy Murphy.
The series picks up the story in 1988, 35 years after Fred Schepisi’s The Devil’s Playground, where main character Tom Allen, a psychiatrist and a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, becomes entangled in political and theological intrigue.
The series is executive produced by Penny Chapman, Simon Burke, who played the original character of Tom Allen and is the current Actor’s Equity president, and Penny Win.
Screen Australia’s overall investment across the 11 productions...
A series which picks up the story of classic feature film The Devil’s Playground 35 years on, is among 11 productions to receive Screen Australia funding.
Return to the Devil’s Playground is a six-part series produced by Matchbox Pictures’ Helen Bowden and Blake Ayshford and directed by The Strait’s Rachel Ward and Dead Europe’s Tony Krawitz.
Writers on the production are Ayshford, Cate Shortland, Alice Addison and Tommy Murphy.
The series picks up the story in 1988, 35 years after Fred Schepisi’s The Devil’s Playground, where main character Tom Allen, a psychiatrist and a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, becomes entangled in political and theological intrigue.
The series is executive produced by Penny Chapman, Simon Burke, who played the original character of Tom Allen and is the current Actor’s Equity president, and Penny Win.
Screen Australia’s overall investment across the 11 productions...
- 12/17/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has today announced it will invest over $11.4 million in five feature films and six television series, one of which is for children.
The feature projects include Kill Me Three Times from Red Dog director Kriv Stenders, The Darkside from writer/director Warwick Thornton, debut feature Fell from Kasimir Burgess, crime-thriller Cut Snake from director Tony Ayres (Home Song Stories) and comedy Now Add Honey from successful comedy team Wayne Hope and Robyn Butler (The Librarians).
Screen Australia.s Chief Executive Ruth Harley said, .It.s great to end the year investing in such a dynamic range of feature films from a good mix of experienced practitioners and emerging talent.
.I.m thrilled to announce Warwick Thornton.s highly creative and resonant Indigenous story, The Darkside. The smart and stylish thriller Cut Snake comes from a talented and experienced team and Kill Me Three Times is a well-told tale...
The feature projects include Kill Me Three Times from Red Dog director Kriv Stenders, The Darkside from writer/director Warwick Thornton, debut feature Fell from Kasimir Burgess, crime-thriller Cut Snake from director Tony Ayres (Home Song Stories) and comedy Now Add Honey from successful comedy team Wayne Hope and Robyn Butler (The Librarians).
Screen Australia.s Chief Executive Ruth Harley said, .It.s great to end the year investing in such a dynamic range of feature films from a good mix of experienced practitioners and emerging talent.
.I.m thrilled to announce Warwick Thornton.s highly creative and resonant Indigenous story, The Darkside. The smart and stylish thriller Cut Snake comes from a talented and experienced team and Kill Me Three Times is a well-told tale...
- 12/17/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Sullivan Stapleton ("Strike Back"), Ryan Kwanten ("True Blood") and Rachael Taylor ("Transformers") are set to star in Tony Ayres' Aussie thriller "Cut Snake" at Matchbox Pictures and eOne Hopscotch.
Blake Ayshford penned the script which is inspired by a real-life incident at Brisbane’s Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in 1973.
Kwanten and Stapleton will play two ex-cons. Stapleton's character, having just gotten out of jail, persuades Kwanten's reformed character to pull off a robbery. In the process they set fire to a nightclub, killing 15 people.
Taylor plays the fiancé to Kwanten's character. Trevor Blainey will produce and shooting on the film kicks off in the middle of next year.
Source: Deadline...
Blake Ayshford penned the script which is inspired by a real-life incident at Brisbane’s Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in 1973.
Kwanten and Stapleton will play two ex-cons. Stapleton's character, having just gotten out of jail, persuades Kwanten's reformed character to pull off a robbery. In the process they set fire to a nightclub, killing 15 people.
Taylor plays the fiancé to Kwanten's character. Trevor Blainey will produce and shooting on the film kicks off in the middle of next year.
Source: Deadline...
- 12/6/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Get ready for Cut Snake! We’ve just learned that Sullivan Stapleton and Ryan Kwanten are ready to join an Australian thriller which comes from director Tony Ayres, and already stars lovely Rachael Taylor. The whole thing is reportedly based on a real-life incident in 1973 when Brisbane’s Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub fire was torched, killing 15 people.
Ayres will direct Cut Snake from a script written by Blake Ayshford, and the movie will center on two ex-cons who are responsible for sparking the above mentioned blaze.
In other words, Stapleton is on board to play the man who gets out of jail and tries to convince his friend, played by Kwanten, to commit one more robbery with him.
But, as usual, there’s a litlle catch: Kwanten’s character is now a “good” guy, or if you prefer – he’s trying to lead a good life, and is about to marry his girlfriend,...
Ayres will direct Cut Snake from a script written by Blake Ayshford, and the movie will center on two ex-cons who are responsible for sparking the above mentioned blaze.
In other words, Stapleton is on board to play the man who gets out of jail and tries to convince his friend, played by Kwanten, to commit one more robbery with him.
But, as usual, there’s a litlle catch: Kwanten’s character is now a “good” guy, or if you prefer – he’s trying to lead a good life, and is about to marry his girlfriend,...
- 12/6/2012
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
Screen Australia has annouced development investment for 13 features, two animated shorts, two games and the completion of two shorts.
Projects include B Model, to be directed and produced by Rachel Griffiths, as well as new projects from the Spierig Brothers (Jungle), Bruce Beresford (The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney, co-production with China), Emile Sherman (Tracks) and Gregor Jordan (Five Spice)
Hannah Hilliard (Franswa Sharl) and Callum Cooper (Little Brother) were announced as the first recipients of the new Director’s Acclaim Fund, which recognises the importance of directors maintaining momentum following critical acclaim of their short film.
The projects are:
Features
B Model
Producers Rachel Griffiths, Louise Smith
Writer Samantha Strauss
Director Rachel Griffiths
Synopsis A young Australian girl gets swept up into the chaotic, exciting world of high fashion modelling. Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York. An innocent in a sex-soaked business, she is seeking love and validation, but isn...
Projects include B Model, to be directed and produced by Rachel Griffiths, as well as new projects from the Spierig Brothers (Jungle), Bruce Beresford (The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney, co-production with China), Emile Sherman (Tracks) and Gregor Jordan (Five Spice)
Hannah Hilliard (Franswa Sharl) and Callum Cooper (Little Brother) were announced as the first recipients of the new Director’s Acclaim Fund, which recognises the importance of directors maintaining momentum following critical acclaim of their short film.
The projects are:
Features
B Model
Producers Rachel Griffiths, Louise Smith
Writer Samantha Strauss
Director Rachel Griffiths
Synopsis A young Australian girl gets swept up into the chaotic, exciting world of high fashion modelling. Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York. An innocent in a sex-soaked business, she is seeking love and validation, but isn...
- 4/19/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
More than 84 Australian documentary filmmakers have signed a petition asking Prime Minister Julia Gillard “to confirm publicly Australia’s commitment to freedom of political comunication”, in support of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
They’re being coordinated by Carmela Baranowska, as part of a broader petition started on the ABC’s website and incorporating more than 500 signatures.
The petition has been signed by:
Carmela Baranowska – director, journalist Sharon Connolly – producer Bree Mckilligan – filmmaker Jono Van Hest – director Sarah Zadeh – filmmaker Joan Robinson – director Kerry Negara – director, producer Rebecca McLean – director Daryl Dellora – director, producer Sharyn Prentice – producer Fabio Cavadini – director, producer Mandy King – director, producer Sally Ingleton – documentary filmmaker Trish FitzSimons – filmmaker Georgia Wallace-Crabbe – producer, director Lana Schwarcz – puppeteer, filmmaker Tim Anderson – filmmaker Nick Torrens – director, producer Deborah Szapiro – producer Liz Burke – producer Nicholas Hansen – director, producer Philippa Campey – filmmaker Marsha Emerman – director, producer Trevor Blainey – producer Gil Scrine – distributor and...
They’re being coordinated by Carmela Baranowska, as part of a broader petition started on the ABC’s website and incorporating more than 500 signatures.
The petition has been signed by:
Carmela Baranowska – director, journalist Sharon Connolly – producer Bree Mckilligan – filmmaker Jono Van Hest – director Sarah Zadeh – filmmaker Joan Robinson – director Kerry Negara – director, producer Rebecca McLean – director Daryl Dellora – director, producer Sharyn Prentice – producer Fabio Cavadini – director, producer Mandy King – director, producer Sally Ingleton – documentary filmmaker Trish FitzSimons – filmmaker Georgia Wallace-Crabbe – producer, director Lana Schwarcz – puppeteer, filmmaker Tim Anderson – filmmaker Nick Torrens – director, producer Deborah Szapiro – producer Liz Burke – producer Nicholas Hansen – director, producer Philippa Campey – filmmaker Marsha Emerman – director, producer Trevor Blainey – producer Gil Scrine – distributor and...
- 12/16/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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