Screen Australia has injected almost $1.6 million in funding into eight new projects through its Multiplatform Drama program..
The program is intended to support unorthodox projects released on a variety of platforms.
Screen Australia senior investment manager, Tim Phillips, said the new slate demonstrated the fund.s twin goals of supporting exciting new teams and finding fresh ideas from established talent..
"Funding from Screen Australia helps deliver on the promise and potential of these ideas, and assists content makers release and market their stories worldwide,. he said.
Screen Australia head of production, Sally Caplan, said the fund was both creator and audience focused.
.Adelaide.s RackaRacka and Triptych Pictures are the latest team supported under the fund to deliver views in the many millions with their Versus series," she said..
"For brave local content which is connecting with audiences globally, you need look no further than our Multiplatform fund..
.The eight...
The program is intended to support unorthodox projects released on a variety of platforms.
Screen Australia senior investment manager, Tim Phillips, said the new slate demonstrated the fund.s twin goals of supporting exciting new teams and finding fresh ideas from established talent..
"Funding from Screen Australia helps deliver on the promise and potential of these ideas, and assists content makers release and market their stories worldwide,. he said.
Screen Australia head of production, Sally Caplan, said the fund was both creator and audience focused.
.Adelaide.s RackaRacka and Triptych Pictures are the latest team supported under the fund to deliver views in the many millions with their Versus series," she said..
"For brave local content which is connecting with audiences globally, you need look no further than our Multiplatform fund..
.The eight...
- 7/8/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Producer Bec Dakin realises that aiming to raise up to $150,000 via crowdfunding for a $3 million comedy adapted from a John Birmingham novel is a very tall order, but that.s not the point.
The primary aim of the Pozible campaign, she says, is to build a fan base for The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, which will pay off when the film is released in cinemas and on digital platforms.
It will be the second feature from Dakin (whose debut was 2008 crime thriller The Horseman) and the first from director Zenon Kohler, who has directed TV commercials and shorts.
.We are starting to build a fan base and we will take them on the journey,. said Dakin, whose day job is a producer at Brisbane-based Cutting Edge, where Kohler is creative director. The screenplay is by Karl Maher, who writes TVCs for an advertising agency.
"It's about starting to share the film...
The primary aim of the Pozible campaign, she says, is to build a fan base for The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, which will pay off when the film is released in cinemas and on digital platforms.
It will be the second feature from Dakin (whose debut was 2008 crime thriller The Horseman) and the first from director Zenon Kohler, who has directed TV commercials and shorts.
.We are starting to build a fan base and we will take them on the journey,. said Dakin, whose day job is a producer at Brisbane-based Cutting Edge, where Kohler is creative director. The screenplay is by Karl Maher, who writes TVCs for an advertising agency.
"It's about starting to share the film...
- 10/19/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Producer Bec Dakin realises that aiming to raise up to $150,000 via crowdfunding for a $3 million comedy adapted from a John Birmingham novel is a very tall order, but that.s not the point.
The primary aim of the Pozible campaign, she says, is to build a fan base for The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, which will pay off when the film is released in cinemas and on digital platforms.
It will be the second feature from Dakin (whose debut was 2008 crime thriller The Horseman) and the first from director Zenon Kohler, who has directed TV commercials and shorts.
.We are starting to build a fan base and we will take them on the journey,. said Dakin, whose day job is a producer at Brisbane-based Cutting Edge, where Kohler is creative director. The screenplay is by Karl Maher, who writes TVCs for an advertising agency
The comedy is set in a share...
The primary aim of the Pozible campaign, she says, is to build a fan base for The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, which will pay off when the film is released in cinemas and on digital platforms.
It will be the second feature from Dakin (whose debut was 2008 crime thriller The Horseman) and the first from director Zenon Kohler, who has directed TV commercials and shorts.
.We are starting to build a fan base and we will take them on the journey,. said Dakin, whose day job is a producer at Brisbane-based Cutting Edge, where Kohler is creative director. The screenplay is by Karl Maher, who writes TVCs for an advertising agency
The comedy is set in a share...
- 10/19/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Projects depicting a fight between Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker, a terrorism attack in Sydney and encounters between renowned Australians and international figures were among the winners of the inaugural Online Video Awards (OVAs). Danny Philippou.s Harry Potter vs Star Wars, which cost just $200 and has been viewed more than 11 million times, took out the top prize at the awards presented during the Open Channel.s Generation Next conference at Docklands on Tuesday night. Philippou wins a trip to YouTube.s Creator Space in Los Angeles to learn from world leaders in online video production and marketing, supported by YouTube. Event Zero, seven interconnected stories about people caught up in a terrorism event at Circular Quay, from Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey, creators of The Tunnel, was named best drama series. Alex Light.s Knapsack Bartender, a three-part documentary series that explores weird and wonderful drinking cultures across the world,...
- 10/14/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Azio - The Bogan Spy Agency, Crazy Bastards, I'm With Stupid, Fancy Boy, Food for Peasants and Pet Quarantine..judging by some of the titles and synopses , the ABC TV/Screen Australia Fresh Blood initiative will spawn some weird and wonderful comedies.
A mix of puppetry, animation, parodies, improv and absurdist humour, the 25 projects selected will each receive $10,000 to produce three short-form sketches.
The shows will air on ABC.s iView platform this year. ABC controller Brendan Dahill tells If that some may later screen on ABC2 after they premiere on the catch-up service.
The initiative is designed to unearth the next generation of comedy performers and producers. There were 492 applications, many of such a high calibre that the ABC and Screen Australia decided to commission 25, one more than originally planned.
Here are the recipients: Aunty Donna Mark Samual Bonanno, Adrian Dean, Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane
Mentored by Tim Minchin,...
A mix of puppetry, animation, parodies, improv and absurdist humour, the 25 projects selected will each receive $10,000 to produce three short-form sketches.
The shows will air on ABC.s iView platform this year. ABC controller Brendan Dahill tells If that some may later screen on ABC2 after they premiere on the catch-up service.
The initiative is designed to unearth the next generation of comedy performers and producers. There were 492 applications, many of such a high calibre that the ABC and Screen Australia decided to commission 25, one more than originally planned.
Here are the recipients: Aunty Donna Mark Samual Bonanno, Adrian Dean, Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane
Mentored by Tim Minchin,...
- 2/16/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
As a Saturday Night Live fan, Australian writer-director Daley Pearson had a bright idea for a multi-platform comedy series with a fast turnaround, in which audiences participate.
Screen Australia, Screen Nsw and Screen Queensland funded the development of the project and the ABC commissioned a series. The result is 7 Days Later, which will premiere on ABC 2 at 9 pm on October 22 and on social media sites.
The concept seems a recipe for chaos. Seven days before the show goes to air, the producers will announce a key word via YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and 2Jjj.
Audiences are then invited to contribute storylines and characters, which Pearson and co-creator Nick Boshier will develop into a script which will be performed by a cast of YouTube identities, with a fair bit of improvisation.
Pearson is the Gen Y director from Brisbane who created, wrote and directed his first comedy series, The Strange Calls,...
Screen Australia, Screen Nsw and Screen Queensland funded the development of the project and the ABC commissioned a series. The result is 7 Days Later, which will premiere on ABC 2 at 9 pm on October 22 and on social media sites.
The concept seems a recipe for chaos. Seven days before the show goes to air, the producers will announce a key word via YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and 2Jjj.
Audiences are then invited to contribute storylines and characters, which Pearson and co-creator Nick Boshier will develop into a script which will be performed by a cast of YouTube identities, with a fair bit of improvisation.
Pearson is the Gen Y director from Brisbane who created, wrote and directed his first comedy series, The Strange Calls,...
- 10/1/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Check out the first poster for Robert Connolly's Underground: The Story of Julian Assange, staring Rachel Griffiths, Anthony Lapaglia and Alex Williams. This is the Australian version of the poster for the film which we have no Stateside release date for. It hits Ausieland on October 7th with a cast also including Laura Wheelright, Jordan Raskopoulos, Callan McAuliffe, Ben Crudwell, Benedict Samuel and Daniel Frederiksen. Set in suburban Melbourne in the late 1980s, Underground follows a teenage Julian Assange and his gang of friends – the International Subversives – as they try to break into the computer systems of the world’s most powerful organisations. Hoping to uncover the inner workings of these groups, the boys wage battle from their bedrooms with the technologies, with each other, and with the Afp Detective who is charged with the tracking and shutting down their group.
- 2/8/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the first poster for Robert Connolly's Underground: The Story of Julian Assange, staring Rachel Griffiths, Anthony Lapaglia and Alex Williams. This is the Australian version of the poster for the film which we have no Stateside release date for. It hits Ausieland on October 7th with a cast also including Laura Wheelright, Jordan Raskopoulos, Callan McAuliffe, Ben Crudwell, Benedict Samuel and Daniel Frederiksen. Set in suburban Melbourne in the late 1980s, Underground follows a teenage Julian Assange and his gang of friends – the International Subversives – as they try to break into the computer systems of the world’s most powerful organisations. Hoping to uncover the inner workings of these groups, the boys wage battle from their bedrooms with the technologies, with each other, and with the Afp Detective who is charged with the tracking and shutting down their group.
- 2/8/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Rachel Griffiths and Anthony Lapaglia have signed up to star in an upcoming drama about Julian Assange. Underground will follow the early life of WikiLeaks founder Assange, with newcomer Alex Williams in the lead role. The cast will also include Callan McAuliffe (I Am Number Four), Laura Wheelwright (Animal Kingdom), Benedict Samuel (Home and Away) and Jordan Raskopoulos (The Axis of Awesome). The project is written and directed by award-winning Australian filmmaker Robert Connolly and will be aired on Australia's Network Ten at a later date. It will be internationally distributed via NBC Universal. Filming is expected to begin later this month. Matchbox Pictures producer Helen Bowden said of the project: "Underground is the true story of a group of schoolboys in Melbourne who (more)...
- 4/8/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Rachel Griffiths and Anthony Lapaglia have signed up to star in an upcoming drama about Julian Assange. Underground will follow the early life of WikiLeaks founder Assange, with newcomer Alex Williams in the lead role. The cast will also include Callan McAuliffe (I Am Number Four), Laura Wheelwright (Animal Kingdom), Benedict Samuel (Home and Away) and Jordan Raskopoulos (The Axis of Awesome). The project is written and directed by award-winning Australian filmmaker Robert Connolly and will be aired on Australia's Network Ten at a later date. It will be internationally distributed via NBC Universal. Filming is expected to begin later this month. Matchbox Pictures producer Helen Bowden said of the project: "Underground is the true story of a group of schoolboys in Melbourne who (more)...
- 4/8/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Time to get your laugh on with the comedy band, The Axis of Awesome. The Australian comedy group consists of lead vocalist, Jordan Raskopoulos, keyboardist and vocalist Benny Davis and guitarist, Lee Naimo. The group is spreading their awesomeness throughout Australia and around the world with their mixture of original comedy songs and pop parodies. The Axis of Awesome’s song, “4 Chords” is one of the highest rated comedy videos of all time on YouTube and has received over 20 million hits. The giggles don’t stop there. The group recently won the Time Out Award for Best Australian Act at the Sydney Comedy Festival and they also received the Moosehead...
- 7/19/2011
- by lonnie
- ShockYa
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