Kamila Andini.
There’s an Australian connection among each of the competition winning films at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival.
The prizes for the best fiction feature, documentary and Vr films were presented yesterday evening at the festival, ahead of the Australian premiere of Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy.
Indonesian writer-director Kamila Andini’s The Seen and Unseen, a co-production between Indonesia, the Netherlands, Australia and Qatar, took out the $20,000 prize for International Feature Fiction Competition. Set in Bali, the film follows a young girl who seeks out imaginative ways to cope with the death of her twin brother, and it has also won 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Youth Feature and the Crystal Bear in Berlin.
The award was presented by director Scott Hicks, on behalf of the International Jury, which also comprised of Paolo Bertolin, filmmaker and selector for Venice and selection committee for Cannes Directors Fortnight,...
There’s an Australian connection among each of the competition winning films at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival.
The prizes for the best fiction feature, documentary and Vr films were presented yesterday evening at the festival, ahead of the Australian premiere of Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy.
Indonesian writer-director Kamila Andini’s The Seen and Unseen, a co-production between Indonesia, the Netherlands, Australia and Qatar, took out the $20,000 prize for International Feature Fiction Competition. Set in Bali, the film follows a young girl who seeks out imaginative ways to cope with the death of her twin brother, and it has also won 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Youth Feature and the Crystal Bear in Berlin.
The award was presented by director Scott Hicks, on behalf of the International Jury, which also comprised of Paolo Bertolin, filmmaker and selector for Venice and selection committee for Cannes Directors Fortnight,...
- 10/16/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
L-r: Warwick Thornton, Beck Cole, Thibul Nettle, Natasha Wanganeen, Isaac Lindsey, Tess O'Flaherty, Edoardo Crismani, Kiara Milera, Georgia Humphreys, Dylan Coleman and Garth Agius.
Five aboriginal filmmakers from Sa will receive $20,000 each to make a short, along with mentoring and professional development from industry figures.
Edoardo Crismani, Isaac Lindsay, Kiara Milera, Thibul Nettle and Dylan Coleman will all receive funding and support as part of the new Safc Aboriginal Short Film Initiative.
The five selected filmmakers plus another five are this week participating in an intensive 5-day Production and Development Workshop at Safc.s Adelaide Studios. They are joined by three non-indigenous emerging producers who will be partnering on three of the projects.
The workshop is being led by writer-directors Beck Cole (Here I Am) and Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah)..
Other guest lecturers at the workshop include film editor Tania Nehme (Tanna, Charlie.s Country), and cinematographer Allan Collins (Mad Bastards,...
Five aboriginal filmmakers from Sa will receive $20,000 each to make a short, along with mentoring and professional development from industry figures.
Edoardo Crismani, Isaac Lindsay, Kiara Milera, Thibul Nettle and Dylan Coleman will all receive funding and support as part of the new Safc Aboriginal Short Film Initiative.
The five selected filmmakers plus another five are this week participating in an intensive 5-day Production and Development Workshop at Safc.s Adelaide Studios. They are joined by three non-indigenous emerging producers who will be partnering on three of the projects.
The workshop is being led by writer-directors Beck Cole (Here I Am) and Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah)..
Other guest lecturers at the workshop include film editor Tania Nehme (Tanna, Charlie.s Country), and cinematographer Allan Collins (Mad Bastards,...
- 8/10/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Remember that one year (2001) when the list-happy AFI (American Film Institute) decided to compete with the Globes and the Oscars in year end prizes? No, that didn't last long. But there's another AFI, The Australian Film Institute, that has been around for a long time and is in no such danger of being a one-off. This year, they're all about the amazing family crime drama Animal Kingdom which they awarded with a record breaking 18 nominations. Sure, the film is in danger of being way overhyped for people who are coming to it late (which is just about everyone given the sorry state of international distribution for dramas of virtually any kind) but for those who can slough off the "omg" raves, I guarantee you'll think it at least an insinuating and well executed crime drama.
AFI Favorites with multiple nominations
Its main competition for the coveted prizes, if you go by nomination counts,...
AFI Favorites with multiple nominations
Its main competition for the coveted prizes, if you go by nomination counts,...
- 10/29/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Animal Kingdom received 18 nominations for this year’s Australian Film Institute Awards, followed by Beneath Hill 60 (12), Bright Star (11), Tomorrow, When the War Began (8), The Tree, Bran Nue Dae (7 each) and The Boys Are Back (4)
The Best Film category will see Animal Kingdom competing against Beneath Hill 60, Bright Star, Bran Nue Dae, The Tree and Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Australia’s top rated drama productions – Packed to the Rafters and Underbellly: The Golden Mile – were both absent from the main Television categories (except for Underbelly‘s two acting nods).
The winners will be revealed on December 10 (Industry Awards) and 11 (main Awards Ceremony) in Melbourne.
This is the full list of nominees:
AFI Members’ Choice Award
Animal Kingdom. Liz Watts. Beneath Hill 60. Bill Leimbach. Bran Nue Dae. Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac. Bright Star. Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt. The Boys Are Back. Greg Brenman, Tim White. Tomorrow When The War Began.
The Best Film category will see Animal Kingdom competing against Beneath Hill 60, Bright Star, Bran Nue Dae, The Tree and Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Australia’s top rated drama productions – Packed to the Rafters and Underbellly: The Golden Mile – were both absent from the main Television categories (except for Underbelly‘s two acting nods).
The winners will be revealed on December 10 (Industry Awards) and 11 (main Awards Ceremony) in Melbourne.
This is the full list of nominees:
AFI Members’ Choice Award
Animal Kingdom. Liz Watts. Beneath Hill 60. Bill Leimbach. Bran Nue Dae. Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac. Bright Star. Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt. The Boys Are Back. Greg Brenman, Tim White. Tomorrow When The War Began.
- 10/27/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
- Ten Canoes, the most critically acclaimed Australian film of the year, swept the Australian Film Institute awards last week. The film depicts the cautionary tale of lust and loyalty that an Aboriginal tribe recounts to a young member. Incredibly it is first feature from Australia made in a language indigenous. The film, directed by the experienced Rolf de Heer and newcomer Peter Djigirr, has been generating award buzz since it was selected, and won a Special Jury Prize, at Cannes earlier this year. On Thursday the film won, Best Direction, the much deserved Best Cinematography for Ian Jones, Best Editing, Best Sound and Best Original Screenplay. Unsurprisingly Ten Canoes also managed to secure the L’Oreal Paris AFI Award for Best Film. De Heer was further honoured with the Brian Kennedy Award, an award that is given in respect of a filmmaker’s relentless pursuit of excellence in filmmaking.
- 12/12/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
SYDNEY -- U.S. independent films fared well in the prize lineup on the closing night of the Sydney Film Festival this year, with Sundance sparkler Little Miss Sunshine, Hong Kong-U.S. martial arts feature Fearless, documentary An Inconvenient Truth and Brazil/U.S. music documentary Favela Rising, taking home key awards, while local short film, Girl in a Mirror swept the Dendy Awards announced Saturday. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' debut feature, Little Miss Sunshine, one of many sold-out sessions at the festival, was the audience favorite, taking away the Urban Cinefile best feature-world cinema award, while Ronny Yu's Fearless, starring Jet Li as 19th century martial arts legend Huo Juan Jia won the audience award for best feature-sidebar program. David Guggenheim's engrossing documentary on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, presented by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, won the audience-voted best documentary--world cinema, while the "making of" documentary, that followed the progress of Australian feature Ten Canoes, The Balanda and The Bark Canoes, directed by Molly Reynolds, Tania Nehme and Rolf de Heer, won the best documentary in the sidebar program.
- 6/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- A joke about flatulence comes early in Australian writer-director Rolf de Heer's tragicomedy Ten Canoes, yet this richly layered film couldn't be further removed from the low-brow concerns of a Hollywood sex comedy.
Set a thousand years ago in Australia's far northern Arnhem Land, it manages to skirt the issue of race relations, a hot-button topic in a country where black and white Australians are still coming to grips with their recent disharmonious history. Yet, in telling this ancient story with style and humor, de Heer and his Aboriginal collaborators promote cultural understanding and acceptance by stealth, if you will.
The beauty of the otherworldly landscapes and the authenticity of the detail gleaned from anthropologist Donald Thomson's mid-1930s photographs will appeal to arthouse audiences, and the film should have legs on the international festival circuit. (It will open the Sydney Film Festival on June 9, ahead of its Australian release June 29.)
De Heer's latest outing -- co-directed by Peter Djigirr and written in collaboration with the Arnhem Land community of Ramingining -- is playful where his 2002 political allegory The Tracker was potent.
Frequent bursts of bawdy humor are as unexpected as they are welcome, leavening the ethnographic raw material and providing handy points of entry into the first Australian feature shot entirely in a number of indigenous languages, predominantly Ganalbingu.
This mythic history lesson also is buoyed by naturalistic performances from a cast of first-time Aboriginal actors and chatty narration by the legendary David Gulpilil.
Ten Canoes opens with a grand aerial swoop over the remote Arafura swamp region of northeast Arnhem Land while Gulpilil's Storyteller solemnly intones: "Once upon a time in a land far, far away ..." The spell is broken -- and a capricious tone set -- when the voice cracks up at the fairytale stereotype and says, I'm only joking.
Old Minygululu (Peter Minygululu) discovers that his younger brother Dayindi (played by Gulpilil's 22-year-old son, Jamie) covets his third and youngest wife, and decides to tell him an ancestral story to, in the words of the narrator, "help him live proper way."
The screen is saturated with color as this parable -- set in the mythical past -- begins. The action then switches nimbly between the two periods for the remainder of the film.
Minygululu's cautionary tale concerns Yeeralparil (also played by Jamie Gulpilil), a young single man who desires one of the wives of his older brother, Ridjimiraril (sculptor and dancer Crusoe Kurddal.)
The core story is a relatively simple one of forbidden love, made epic by the many narrative offshoots and asides that flesh out the meandering tale. Soon we are up to our ears in kidnapping, sorcery, murder and bloody revenge -- though de Heer always has time for a jokey aside about the rampaging sweet tooth of the Honey Man (Richard Birrinbirrin.)
Ian Jones' superb photography underscores the majestic beauty of the landscapes and leaves a lingering impression, while intuitive editing by Tania Nehme keeps the narrative threads from tangling. Kudos also to the cast and crew for enduring the hard slog of a weeks-long shoot fending off leeches, mosquitoes and crocodiles in the unforgiving swamplands of Australia's top end.
TEN CANOES
Vertigo Prods./Fandango Australia
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Rolf de Heer
Co-director: Peter Djigirr
Producers: Rolf de Heer, Julie Ryan
Executive producers: Sue Murray, Domenico Procacci, Bryce Menzies
Director of photography: Ian Jones
Production designer: Beverley Freeman
Co-producers: Richard Birrinbirrin, Belinda Scott, Nils Erik Nielsen
Costumes: Beverley Freeman
Editor: Tania Nehme
Cast:
Ridjimiraril: Crusoe Kurddal
Dayindi/Yeeralparil: Jamie Gulpilil
Honey Man: Richard Birrinbirrin
Minygululu: Peter Minygululu
Nowalingu: Frances Djulibing
The Storyteller: David Gulpilil
The Sorcerer: Philip Gudthaykudthay
The Stranger: Michael Dawu
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 91 minutes...
Set a thousand years ago in Australia's far northern Arnhem Land, it manages to skirt the issue of race relations, a hot-button topic in a country where black and white Australians are still coming to grips with their recent disharmonious history. Yet, in telling this ancient story with style and humor, de Heer and his Aboriginal collaborators promote cultural understanding and acceptance by stealth, if you will.
The beauty of the otherworldly landscapes and the authenticity of the detail gleaned from anthropologist Donald Thomson's mid-1930s photographs will appeal to arthouse audiences, and the film should have legs on the international festival circuit. (It will open the Sydney Film Festival on June 9, ahead of its Australian release June 29.)
De Heer's latest outing -- co-directed by Peter Djigirr and written in collaboration with the Arnhem Land community of Ramingining -- is playful where his 2002 political allegory The Tracker was potent.
Frequent bursts of bawdy humor are as unexpected as they are welcome, leavening the ethnographic raw material and providing handy points of entry into the first Australian feature shot entirely in a number of indigenous languages, predominantly Ganalbingu.
This mythic history lesson also is buoyed by naturalistic performances from a cast of first-time Aboriginal actors and chatty narration by the legendary David Gulpilil.
Ten Canoes opens with a grand aerial swoop over the remote Arafura swamp region of northeast Arnhem Land while Gulpilil's Storyteller solemnly intones: "Once upon a time in a land far, far away ..." The spell is broken -- and a capricious tone set -- when the voice cracks up at the fairytale stereotype and says, I'm only joking.
Old Minygululu (Peter Minygululu) discovers that his younger brother Dayindi (played by Gulpilil's 22-year-old son, Jamie) covets his third and youngest wife, and decides to tell him an ancestral story to, in the words of the narrator, "help him live proper way."
The screen is saturated with color as this parable -- set in the mythical past -- begins. The action then switches nimbly between the two periods for the remainder of the film.
Minygululu's cautionary tale concerns Yeeralparil (also played by Jamie Gulpilil), a young single man who desires one of the wives of his older brother, Ridjimiraril (sculptor and dancer Crusoe Kurddal.)
The core story is a relatively simple one of forbidden love, made epic by the many narrative offshoots and asides that flesh out the meandering tale. Soon we are up to our ears in kidnapping, sorcery, murder and bloody revenge -- though de Heer always has time for a jokey aside about the rampaging sweet tooth of the Honey Man (Richard Birrinbirrin.)
Ian Jones' superb photography underscores the majestic beauty of the landscapes and leaves a lingering impression, while intuitive editing by Tania Nehme keeps the narrative threads from tangling. Kudos also to the cast and crew for enduring the hard slog of a weeks-long shoot fending off leeches, mosquitoes and crocodiles in the unforgiving swamplands of Australia's top end.
TEN CANOES
Vertigo Prods./Fandango Australia
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Rolf de Heer
Co-director: Peter Djigirr
Producers: Rolf de Heer, Julie Ryan
Executive producers: Sue Murray, Domenico Procacci, Bryce Menzies
Director of photography: Ian Jones
Production designer: Beverley Freeman
Co-producers: Richard Birrinbirrin, Belinda Scott, Nils Erik Nielsen
Costumes: Beverley Freeman
Editor: Tania Nehme
Cast:
Ridjimiraril: Crusoe Kurddal
Dayindi/Yeeralparil: Jamie Gulpilil
Honey Man: Richard Birrinbirrin
Minygululu: Peter Minygululu
Nowalingu: Frances Djulibing
The Storyteller: David Gulpilil
The Sorcerer: Philip Gudthaykudthay
The Stranger: Michael Dawu
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 91 minutes...
- 5/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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