Meryl Tankard.
The Adelaide Film Festival has named adventurer and environmental scientist Tim Jarvis and dancer and choreographer Meryl Tankard dual-recipients of the 2016 Jim Bettison and Helen James Award. Both recipients intend to use the $50,000 award — designed to recognise lifelong high achievement in an area of expertise and enable further work of benefit to the community — to develop films. .Now in its second year, the calibre of applications was so strong that the panel decided to award two prizes,. said Doreen Mellor, spokesperson for the Jim Bettison and Helen James Foundation. Tankard is a former artistic director of Adelaide based Australian Dance Theatre, soloist with Pina Bausch.s world renowned Wuppertal Tanztheater and a creator of ballet, opera and music and dance theatre. More recently, Tankard has focused on film as a means of artistic expression. An Aftrs graduate, Tankard was the subject of the documentary The Black Swan, starred...
The Adelaide Film Festival has named adventurer and environmental scientist Tim Jarvis and dancer and choreographer Meryl Tankard dual-recipients of the 2016 Jim Bettison and Helen James Award. Both recipients intend to use the $50,000 award — designed to recognise lifelong high achievement in an area of expertise and enable further work of benefit to the community — to develop films. .Now in its second year, the calibre of applications was so strong that the panel decided to award two prizes,. said Doreen Mellor, spokesperson for the Jim Bettison and Helen James Foundation. Tankard is a former artistic director of Adelaide based Australian Dance Theatre, soloist with Pina Bausch.s world renowned Wuppertal Tanztheater and a creator of ballet, opera and music and dance theatre. More recently, Tankard has focused on film as a means of artistic expression. An Aftrs graduate, Tankard was the subject of the documentary The Black Swan, starred...
- 9/22/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Rosemary Myers' Girl Asleep has won the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival Best Feature People Choice's Award for her coming of age drama starring Eamon Farren and Bethany Whitmore.
Funded by the Festival.s Film Investment Fund and developed out of the Hive Lab, Girl Asleep is based on Windmill Theatre.s hit stage show.
The film was not only a critical favourite but was loved just as much by audiences, screening to sell out sessions across the Festival.
Holding the Man documentary, Remembering the Man won the People's Choice Award for Best Documentary, while the most popular short was Meryl Tankard's Michelle's Story.
Remebering the Man traces the story Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, who fell in love at at Catholic boys' school in 1976..
Their romance lasted for 16 years, facing disapproval, temptation, separation, and the looming shadow of the Grim Reaper..
Their relationship has been immortalised in Conigrave's...
Funded by the Festival.s Film Investment Fund and developed out of the Hive Lab, Girl Asleep is based on Windmill Theatre.s hit stage show.
The film was not only a critical favourite but was loved just as much by audiences, screening to sell out sessions across the Festival.
Holding the Man documentary, Remembering the Man won the People's Choice Award for Best Documentary, while the most popular short was Meryl Tankard's Michelle's Story.
Remebering the Man traces the story Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, who fell in love at at Catholic boys' school in 1976..
Their romance lasted for 16 years, facing disapproval, temptation, separation, and the looming shadow of the Grim Reaper..
Their relationship has been immortalised in Conigrave's...
- 11/4/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
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