Ben Lawrence took home the main prize – Best Direction in a Feature Film (Budget $1M+) – at last night’s Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) Awards, for his debut narrative feature Hearts and Bones.
Held virtually and hosted by Greta Lee Jackson and Nina Oyama, this year’s Adg Awards also saw female directors take home 10 of the 19 prizes – marking the first time ever that women have made up more than 50 per cent of winners.
Among them were Josephine Mackerras, who took home Best Direction of A Feature Film (Budget under $1M) for the French-language Alice; Maya Newell whose In My Blood It Runs saw her win Best Direction of a Documentary Feature, and Emma Freeman, who won Best Direction of a TV or SVOD Mini-Series for Stateless: Episode 3.
The guild suggests this reflects the push for gender parity in the industry. Traditionally, women have been extremely underrepresented in director roles, and last week,...
Held virtually and hosted by Greta Lee Jackson and Nina Oyama, this year’s Adg Awards also saw female directors take home 10 of the 19 prizes – marking the first time ever that women have made up more than 50 per cent of winners.
Among them were Josephine Mackerras, who took home Best Direction of A Feature Film (Budget under $1M) for the French-language Alice; Maya Newell whose In My Blood It Runs saw her win Best Direction of a Documentary Feature, and Emma Freeman, who won Best Direction of a TV or SVOD Mini-Series for Stateless: Episode 3.
The guild suggests this reflects the push for gender parity in the industry. Traditionally, women have been extremely underrepresented in director roles, and last week,...
- 10/19/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
‘Hotel Mumbai’.
Nick Matthews was named Australian cinematographer of the year for his work on director Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai at the annual Australian Cinematographers Society (Acs) National Awards on Saturday night.
In addition, he collected the Gold Tripod for features budgeted above $2 million with Denson Baker receiving an award of distinction in that category for Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia.
In the awards presented online, Dion Beebe, Roger Lanser and John Wheeler were inducted into the Hall of Fame and the Ron Windon Award went to Robb Shaw-Velzen.
For features budgeted below $2 million Joshua Flavell received the Gold Tripod for David Barker’s Pimped and Chris Bland got the award of distinction for Heath Davis’ Locusts.
Among the other honorees, Zoe White won the drama series or telefeatures prize for The Handmaid’s Tale and Katie Milwright took the dramatised documentaries gong for Matthew Sleeth’s Guilty, which chronicles the final...
Nick Matthews was named Australian cinematographer of the year for his work on director Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai at the annual Australian Cinematographers Society (Acs) National Awards on Saturday night.
In addition, he collected the Gold Tripod for features budgeted above $2 million with Denson Baker receiving an award of distinction in that category for Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia.
In the awards presented online, Dion Beebe, Roger Lanser and John Wheeler were inducted into the Hall of Fame and the Ron Windon Award went to Robb Shaw-Velzen.
For features budgeted below $2 million Joshua Flavell received the Gold Tripod for David Barker’s Pimped and Chris Bland got the award of distinction for Heath Davis’ Locusts.
Among the other honorees, Zoe White won the drama series or telefeatures prize for The Handmaid’s Tale and Katie Milwright took the dramatised documentaries gong for Matthew Sleeth’s Guilty, which chronicles the final...
- 5/17/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Warwick Thornton and Sam Neill on the set of ‘Sweet Country’.
Warwick Thornton took home the top gong at last night’s Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) Awards for outback Western Sweet Country.
It joins a slew of other prizes for the film, which follows an Aboriginal stockman who a kills white station owner in self-defence, including the Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize, the Toronto International Film Festival Platform Prize, and six Aacta Awards, including Best Film and Best Direction.
Competing against Thornton for Best Direction in a Feature Film (budget $1 million or over) were Joel Edgerton for Boy Erased, Anthony Maras for Hotel Mumbai, and Garth Davis for Mary Magdelene.
The Adg Awards were held at Sydney’s City Recital Hall, with presenters including Rachel Griffiths, Claudia Karvan, Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward.
This year also saw the guild divide the feature film category for the first time, introducing...
Warwick Thornton took home the top gong at last night’s Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) Awards for outback Western Sweet Country.
It joins a slew of other prizes for the film, which follows an Aboriginal stockman who a kills white station owner in self-defence, including the Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize, the Toronto International Film Festival Platform Prize, and six Aacta Awards, including Best Film and Best Direction.
Competing against Thornton for Best Direction in a Feature Film (budget $1 million or over) were Joel Edgerton for Boy Erased, Anthony Maras for Hotel Mumbai, and Garth Davis for Mary Magdelene.
The Adg Awards were held at Sydney’s City Recital Hall, with presenters including Rachel Griffiths, Claudia Karvan, Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward.
This year also saw the guild divide the feature film category for the first time, introducing...
- 5/7/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Warwick Thornton, Garth Davis, Joel Edgerton and Anthony Maras go head to head at the Australian Directors Guild Awards. They are each nominated as best director in the category of films with a budget of A$1 million Donna McRae Dustin Feneley (“Stray”) and Jason Perini (“Chasing Comets”).
Some of Australia’s most respected directors have been recognized in the television/SVoD categories. Rachel Perkins, Nash Edgerton, Tony Krawitz and Emma Freeman all receive nominations in the best direction in a TV or Svod drama series episode category.
Ben Lawrence Catherine Scott Mark Joffe Matthew Sleeth Paul Damien Williams (“Gurrumul”) and Richard Tood (“Dying to Live”) are nominated for best direction in a documentary feature.
Some of Australia’s most respected directors have been recognized in the television/SVoD categories. Rachel Perkins, Nash Edgerton, Tony Krawitz and Emma Freeman all receive nominations in the best direction in a TV or Svod drama series episode category.
Ben Lawrence Catherine Scott Mark Joffe Matthew Sleeth Paul Damien Williams (“Gurrumul”) and Richard Tood (“Dying to Live”) are nominated for best direction in a documentary feature.
- 4/8/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Sophie Hyde, Rachel Perkins.
Warwick Thornton, Garth Davis, Joel Edgerton and Anthony Maras have been nominated for best direction in a feature film budgeted at $1 million or more in the 2019 Australian Directors’ Guild Awards.
So Sweet Country, Mary Magdalene, Boy Erased and Hotel Mumbai will compete in the awards to be announced on Monday May 6 at the City Recital Hall in Sydney.
In the new category of best direction in a feature budgeted below $1 million, the nominees are Christopher Kay (Just Between Us), Donna McRae (Lost Gully Road), Dustin Feneley (Stray) and Jason Perini (Chasing Comets).
The nominees for best direction in a TV or SVoD drama series episode are Rachel Perkins (Mystery Road series 1), Nash Edgerton (Mr Inbetween series 1), Tony Krawitz and Emma Freeman.
Jeffrey Walker (Riot), Daina Reid and Shannon Murphy (On The Ropes) have been nominated for best direction in a TV or SVoD miniseries and telefeature.
Warwick Thornton, Garth Davis, Joel Edgerton and Anthony Maras have been nominated for best direction in a feature film budgeted at $1 million or more in the 2019 Australian Directors’ Guild Awards.
So Sweet Country, Mary Magdalene, Boy Erased and Hotel Mumbai will compete in the awards to be announced on Monday May 6 at the City Recital Hall in Sydney.
In the new category of best direction in a feature budgeted below $1 million, the nominees are Christopher Kay (Just Between Us), Donna McRae (Lost Gully Road), Dustin Feneley (Stray) and Jason Perini (Chasing Comets).
The nominees for best direction in a TV or SVoD drama series episode are Rachel Perkins (Mystery Road series 1), Nash Edgerton (Mr Inbetween series 1), Tony Krawitz and Emma Freeman.
Jeffrey Walker (Riot), Daina Reid and Shannon Murphy (On The Ropes) have been nominated for best direction in a TV or SVoD miniseries and telefeature.
- 4/8/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Sir Richard Branson and Raji Sukumaran at the World Day screening of ‘Guilty’ (Photo credit: Peter Casamento)
Matthew Sleeth’s Guilty, the feature documentary which chronicles the final 72 hours of Bali 9 convicted criminal Myuran Sukumaran before his execution in 2015, continues to have a powerful impact internationally.
The Australian government tied the launch of its strategy for the abolition of the death penalty to national screenings of Guilty last October on the World Day Against the Death Penalty.
Next, the film produced by Maggie Miles, who co-wrote the script with Sleeth and Matthew Bate, will screen at the triennial World Congress for Abolition of the Death Penalty in the Egmont Palace library in Brussels on March 1.
Miles will host a post-screening discussion with Sukumaran’s lawyer Julian McMahon Sc, the president of Reprieve Australia, on the relationship between art and the death penalty. Sukumaran became an accomplished artist while he was on death row,...
Matthew Sleeth’s Guilty, the feature documentary which chronicles the final 72 hours of Bali 9 convicted criminal Myuran Sukumaran before his execution in 2015, continues to have a powerful impact internationally.
The Australian government tied the launch of its strategy for the abolition of the death penalty to national screenings of Guilty last October on the World Day Against the Death Penalty.
Next, the film produced by Maggie Miles, who co-wrote the script with Sleeth and Matthew Bate, will screen at the triennial World Congress for Abolition of the Death Penalty in the Egmont Palace library in Brussels on March 1.
Miles will host a post-screening discussion with Sukumaran’s lawyer Julian McMahon Sc, the president of Reprieve Australia, on the relationship between art and the death penalty. Sukumaran became an accomplished artist while he was on death row,...
- 2/6/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Gurrumul’.
For the first time, ten documentaries are in competition for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Award for Best Feature Length Documentary.
The ten films on the shortlist, determined by Aacta’s documentary branch (made up of past winners/nominees as well as other members of the documentary sector), include: Backtrack Boys, Dying to Live, Ghosthunter, Guilty, Gurrumul, Have You Seen the Listers?, Island of the Hungry Ghosts, Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible, Mountain and Working Class Boy.
All Aacta members will then vote to determine the nominees in October, with the winner then to be determined during a second round of voting in November.
Each of the ten films will screen as part of a standalone Docs Fest across the first week of October in Sydney at Aftrs, in Melbourne at Cinema Nova and in Brisbane at Griffith Film School, as well as online via Aacta TV.
For the first time, ten documentaries are in competition for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Award for Best Feature Length Documentary.
The ten films on the shortlist, determined by Aacta’s documentary branch (made up of past winners/nominees as well as other members of the documentary sector), include: Backtrack Boys, Dying to Live, Ghosthunter, Guilty, Gurrumul, Have You Seen the Listers?, Island of the Hungry Ghosts, Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible, Mountain and Working Class Boy.
All Aacta members will then vote to determine the nominees in October, with the winner then to be determined during a second round of voting in November.
Each of the ten films will screen as part of a standalone Docs Fest across the first week of October in Sydney at Aftrs, in Melbourne at Cinema Nova and in Brisbane at Griffith Film School, as well as online via Aacta TV.
- 9/10/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Melding archival footage with drama, Matthew Sleeth's independent film Guilty aims to document the final 72 hours of Bali Nine drug trafficker Myuran Sukumaran, who was executed by Indonesian firing squad in April 2015.
Sleeth, an artist, ran workshops with the Australian in Kerobokan prison alongside acclaimed artist Ben Quilty, and the film was made with the Sukumaran family's involvement. Adam McConvell plays Sukumaran in reconstructions, and is joined by Sukumaran's spiritual adviser, Pastor Christie Buckingham, who plays herself.
The film is screening as part of the Human Rights Arts & Film festival, which opens in Melbourne on 3 May before travelling to Tasmania and Canberra. An abridged version of the film is available to watch on iView
Watch the trailer...
Sleeth, an artist, ran workshops with the Australian in Kerobokan prison alongside acclaimed artist Ben Quilty, and the film was made with the Sukumaran family's involvement. Adam McConvell plays Sukumaran in reconstructions, and is joined by Sukumaran's spiritual adviser, Pastor Christie Buckingham, who plays herself.
The film is screening as part of the Human Rights Arts & Film festival, which opens in Melbourne on 3 May before travelling to Tasmania and Canberra. An abridged version of the film is available to watch on iView
Watch the trailer...
- 4/28/2018
- The Guardian - Film News
Broadcasters reveal plans at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Forging partnerships with arts organisations has become increasingly critical to broadcasters looking to expand the scale of their factual programming (writes Broadcast).
Arts bosses from the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky revealed their plans at Sheffield Doc/Fest panel, Commissioner Question Time: Arts Documentaries for All Platforms.
Sky Arts director Phil Edgar-Jones said a boost in his factual budget would be pumped into creating more programming with partners.
He highlighted deals with Tate Britain and Creative England for 7 Wonder travelogue Great British Walks [pictured] and Art 50, a £1m post-Brexit project with the Barbican gallery and Sage concert hall in which 50 artists respond to the idea of what it means to be British.
“It’s all about how we can make those partnerships work with original TV formats,” he said.
BBC head of arts commissioning Mark Bell is also keen for stronger ties to be forged between the TV industry and arts...
Forging partnerships with arts organisations has become increasingly critical to broadcasters looking to expand the scale of their factual programming (writes Broadcast).
Arts bosses from the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky revealed their plans at Sheffield Doc/Fest panel, Commissioner Question Time: Arts Documentaries for All Platforms.
Sky Arts director Phil Edgar-Jones said a boost in his factual budget would be pumped into creating more programming with partners.
He highlighted deals with Tate Britain and Creative England for 7 Wonder travelogue Great British Walks [pictured] and Art 50, a £1m post-Brexit project with the Barbican gallery and Sage concert hall in which 50 artists respond to the idea of what it means to be British.
“It’s all about how we can make those partnerships work with original TV formats,” he said.
BBC head of arts commissioning Mark Bell is also keen for stronger ties to be forged between the TV industry and arts...
- 6/13/2017
- ScreenDaily
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