Connecting Cottbus took place November 9-11.
Polish writer-director Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska’s debut feature Dolphin was voted as the best pitch at the 24th edition of the East-West Co-Production Market Connecting Cottbus, which took place during FilmFestival Cottbus.
Orlewicz-Zakrzewska and her producer Magdalena Sztorc of Warsaw-based Before My Eyes also received the Croatian Audiovisual Centre’s Project Development Award of € 5,000 toward the project’s further development.
The project, described as “an intimate dramedy with a surreal touch”, sees a singer’s boyfriend coming back from holiday with a dolphin growing inside his belly. Orlewicz-Zakrzewska said that “using the role reversal...
Polish writer-director Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska’s debut feature Dolphin was voted as the best pitch at the 24th edition of the East-West Co-Production Market Connecting Cottbus, which took place during FilmFestival Cottbus.
Orlewicz-Zakrzewska and her producer Magdalena Sztorc of Warsaw-based Before My Eyes also received the Croatian Audiovisual Centre’s Project Development Award of € 5,000 toward the project’s further development.
The project, described as “an intimate dramedy with a surreal touch”, sees a singer’s boyfriend coming back from holiday with a dolphin growing inside his belly. Orlewicz-Zakrzewska said that “using the role reversal...
- 11/11/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Griff Rhys Jones.
British comedian and TV travel presenter Griff Rhys Jones is hosting a factual series which traverses Australia on the country’s most famous trains.
Essential Media Group is producing Griff Off the Rails: Down Under (6×60’), which has been pre-bought by the ABC.
Produced and directed by Julia Peters, the series follows Rhys Jones as he travels on the trans-continental Indian Pacific, The Ghan from Adelaide to Darwin and the Spirit of Queensland from Brisbane to Cairns.
He will also explore the origins of the railroads, the stories of the people who operate them and the communities that rely on them.
The executive producer is Brendan Dahill, Emg’s general manager for Australasia, who said: “We’re thrilled to be working with Griff to create a very distinctive series that will offer viewers an entertaining outsider’s perspective on the foundation of a modern country and the origins...
British comedian and TV travel presenter Griff Rhys Jones is hosting a factual series which traverses Australia on the country’s most famous trains.
Essential Media Group is producing Griff Off the Rails: Down Under (6×60’), which has been pre-bought by the ABC.
Produced and directed by Julia Peters, the series follows Rhys Jones as he travels on the trans-continental Indian Pacific, The Ghan from Adelaide to Darwin and the Spirit of Queensland from Brisbane to Cairns.
He will also explore the origins of the railroads, the stories of the people who operate them and the communities that rely on them.
The executive producer is Brendan Dahill, Emg’s general manager for Australasia, who said: “We’re thrilled to be working with Griff to create a very distinctive series that will offer viewers an entertaining outsider’s perspective on the foundation of a modern country and the origins...
- 3/6/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Julia Peters at Deakin Edge yesterday.
Executive producer Julia Peters has won the inaugural ABC Factual Format Initiative.
The Factual Format development pitches took place at Melbourne's Deakin Edge auditorium yesterday as part of Aidc's FACTory.day, in which producers pitched their ideas - both short and long form - to a formidable lineup of local and international 'decision makers'.
They included representatives from PBS, Discovery, the BBC, World Channel, Vice, Dazed, Sbs, the ABC, Foxtel and Madman.
Peters now receives $15,000 in development funding for her format idea.Detention, in which ordinary people are sent to stay in a detention centre.
Her pitch followed another with an identical concept (and which was to have been executive produced by Pulse's Roy Ackerman).
Peters worked at Essential Media and Entertainment as an Ep between 2011-2013, and as the investment development manager for documentary at Screen Australia after that.
She also works at...
Executive producer Julia Peters has won the inaugural ABC Factual Format Initiative.
The Factual Format development pitches took place at Melbourne's Deakin Edge auditorium yesterday as part of Aidc's FACTory.day, in which producers pitched their ideas - both short and long form - to a formidable lineup of local and international 'decision makers'.
They included representatives from PBS, Discovery, the BBC, World Channel, Vice, Dazed, Sbs, the ABC, Foxtel and Madman.
Peters now receives $15,000 in development funding for her format idea.Detention, in which ordinary people are sent to stay in a detention centre.
Her pitch followed another with an identical concept (and which was to have been executive produced by Pulse's Roy Ackerman).
Peters worked at Essential Media and Entertainment as an Ep between 2011-2013, and as the investment development manager for documentary at Screen Australia after that.
She also works at...
- 3/2/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Julia Peters has joined Screen Australia in the role of Investment/Development Manager for Documentary.
Coming from Essential Media, Peters started working with Screen Australia.s Production Investment Team on May 1..
Peters has over 25 years of experience in the industry and has worked with all of the Australian free-to-air networks in the past..
Her recent credits include Raising the Curtain and Do or Die. She has also lectured on Creative Development at Aftrs..
Screen Australia.s Documentary Manager, Liz Stevens, said, .I am delighted that Julia will be joining the Screen Australia team. Her extensive and diverse experience in programming will be a valuable asset to both staff and industry...
Peters will be working on a number of projects across documentary, reality, factual and entertainment.
Coming from Essential Media, Peters started working with Screen Australia.s Production Investment Team on May 1..
Peters has over 25 years of experience in the industry and has worked with all of the Australian free-to-air networks in the past..
Her recent credits include Raising the Curtain and Do or Die. She has also lectured on Creative Development at Aftrs..
Screen Australia.s Documentary Manager, Liz Stevens, said, .I am delighted that Julia will be joining the Screen Australia team. Her extensive and diverse experience in programming will be a valuable asset to both staff and industry...
Peters will be working on a number of projects across documentary, reality, factual and entertainment.
- 5/3/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has invested $2.4m across seven documentaries to create what it says will be $6.5m worth of production.
Cordell Jigsaw will return with a second series of Sbs’s successful Go Back to Where You Came From to test six Australians about their preconcieved notions of asylum seekers by visiting refugees from regions not previously covered.
Producer Tristram Miall and writer/director Robin Hughes will create a six-part series called Creative Minds, exploring the lives of six Australia artists who have significantly contributed to the nation’s cultural landscape.
Using the ‘new science of happiness’ principles, experts will see if science can help couples save their relationships in Making Couples Happy, a four-part ABC series.
Photographer Murray Fredericks captures the Greenland Icecap in Nothing on Earth, produced, directed and written by the team behind award winning documentary, Salt.
Coming out of the National Documentary Program, Raising the Curtain traces...
Cordell Jigsaw will return with a second series of Sbs’s successful Go Back to Where You Came From to test six Australians about their preconcieved notions of asylum seekers by visiting refugees from regions not previously covered.
Producer Tristram Miall and writer/director Robin Hughes will create a six-part series called Creative Minds, exploring the lives of six Australia artists who have significantly contributed to the nation’s cultural landscape.
Using the ‘new science of happiness’ principles, experts will see if science can help couples save their relationships in Making Couples Happy, a four-part ABC series.
Photographer Murray Fredericks captures the Greenland Icecap in Nothing on Earth, produced, directed and written by the team behind award winning documentary, Salt.
Coming out of the National Documentary Program, Raising the Curtain traces...
- 10/12/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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