Screen Australia has announced nearly $2 million of production funding for two documentaries through the Commissioned program and eight through the Producer Program.
The projects include series Could You Survive on the Breadline? exploring financial disadvantage for Sbs; The Secret World of Fungi, a documentary for IMAX; and a series investigating racism in Australia called Unheard.
There’s also Medalia Productions and Sweetshop & Green’s feature documentary Prisoner X, coincidentally about the same man – and with the same title – as the narrative series Fremantle Australia announced it is developing with Stephen Corvini and Israeli production company Abot Hameiri.
Screen Australia’s head of content Sally Caplan said: “We’re very pleased to support these documentaries that will shine a light on issues including mental health and wellbeing, racism and the natural environment, and are sure to spark conversations. We’re excited to back the first ever Israeli documentary co-production with compelling feature Prisoner X,...
The projects include series Could You Survive on the Breadline? exploring financial disadvantage for Sbs; The Secret World of Fungi, a documentary for IMAX; and a series investigating racism in Australia called Unheard.
There’s also Medalia Productions and Sweetshop & Green’s feature documentary Prisoner X, coincidentally about the same man – and with the same title – as the narrative series Fremantle Australia announced it is developing with Stephen Corvini and Israeli production company Abot Hameiri.
Screen Australia’s head of content Sally Caplan said: “We’re very pleased to support these documentaries that will shine a light on issues including mental health and wellbeing, racism and the natural environment, and are sure to spark conversations. We’re excited to back the first ever Israeli documentary co-production with compelling feature Prisoner X,...
- 3/16/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Sycamore Entertainment Group Inc. is pleased to announce it has acquired Us rights to the Fred Schepisi film The Eye Of The Storm, starring Academy Award-winner® Geoffrey Rush (“The Kings’ Speech,” “Pirates of the Caribbean”), Charlotte Rampling (“The Swimming Pool,” “Melancholia”) and Golden Globe® nominee Judy Davis (“Barton Fink” & Woody Allen’s upcoming “Nero Fiddled“). The Eye Of The Storm screened at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011.
The screen play adaptation by Judy Morris is based on the 1973 literary classic by Australia’s only Nobel Prize-winner for Literature, Patrick White. The Eye Of The Storm is a savage exploration of the family relationships . and the sharp undercurrents of love and hate, comedy and tragedy . which define them.
CEO Edward Sylvan with the help of the hard working team at Sycamore, started the company to maximize the potential for hybrid Print & Advertising (P&A) and full service distribution deals,...
The screen play adaptation by Judy Morris is based on the 1973 literary classic by Australia’s only Nobel Prize-winner for Literature, Patrick White. The Eye Of The Storm is a savage exploration of the family relationships . and the sharp undercurrents of love and hate, comedy and tragedy . which define them.
CEO Edward Sylvan with the help of the hard working team at Sycamore, started the company to maximize the potential for hybrid Print & Advertising (P&A) and full service distribution deals,...
- 1/17/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Eye Of The Storm recently won The Age Critics Award at Miff. Director Fred Schepisi spoke with Alice Terlikowski about his return to Australian storytelling, upcoming projects and the industry at large.
Roxanne, The Russia House and Six Degrees Of Separation, to name a few, are all under the belt of Australian director Fred Schepisi but it’s his latest work starring Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis that holds a particular significance to the Australian industry.
The 71-year-old director told Encore he’s been working on Australian stories for “quite a long time” but has always aimed to strike a balance between work in Hollywood and at home. The Eye Of The Storm is his first Australian film in 22 years, since Evil Angels – based on the story of Lindy Chamberlain.
“My generation grew up on very few Australian films. In most of the cinemas were American films but if...
Roxanne, The Russia House and Six Degrees Of Separation, to name a few, are all under the belt of Australian director Fred Schepisi but it’s his latest work starring Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis that holds a particular significance to the Australian industry.
The 71-year-old director told Encore he’s been working on Australian stories for “quite a long time” but has always aimed to strike a balance between work in Hollywood and at home. The Eye Of The Storm is his first Australian film in 22 years, since Evil Angels – based on the story of Lindy Chamberlain.
“My generation grew up on very few Australian films. In most of the cinemas were American films but if...
- 9/15/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has announced an investment of $15m on 13 productions, including a German/Australian co-production directed by Cate Shortland and development for Bruce Beresford, Sarah Watt and Phillip Noyce projects.
In terms of films, Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm - which began production without financial support from Screen Australia – is one of the beneficiaries.
Shortland’s co-production Lore will be produced by Liz Watts, Karsten Stöter, Benny Drechsel, Paul Welsh and Gabriele Kranzelbinder and set in 1945 Germany.
The third feature to receive support is Kieran Darcy-Smith’s debut Say Nothing, written in conjuction with Felicity Price and produced by Angie Felder.
TV series The Slap, Cleo and Blood Brother, as well as series two of Spirited. also received financial support.
The agency estimates that these projects will generate production worth $72m.
The projects are:
The Eye Of The Storm
Paper Bark Films Eos Pty Ltd
Executive Producers Jonathan Shteinman,...
In terms of films, Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm - which began production without financial support from Screen Australia – is one of the beneficiaries.
Shortland’s co-production Lore will be produced by Liz Watts, Karsten Stöter, Benny Drechsel, Paul Welsh and Gabriele Kranzelbinder and set in 1945 Germany.
The third feature to receive support is Kieran Darcy-Smith’s debut Say Nothing, written in conjuction with Felicity Price and produced by Angie Felder.
TV series The Slap, Cleo and Blood Brother, as well as series two of Spirited. also received financial support.
The agency estimates that these projects will generate production worth $72m.
The projects are:
The Eye Of The Storm
Paper Bark Films Eos Pty Ltd
Executive Producers Jonathan Shteinman,...
- 7/9/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
HollywoodNews.com: Clay Epstein, VP of Sales & Acquisitions of The Little Film Company announced today that the company’s new label Accelerator will be presenting the World premiere of the Australian thriller The Clinic at this year’s 14th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in Korea.
Starring Andy Whitfield, best known to worldwide audiences as Spartacus in Sam Raimi’s “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” The Clinic is a frighteningly real story inspired by true events that asks just how far will a mother go to save her child?
Written and directed by James Rabbitts, the film also stars Tabrett Bethell, (“Legend of the Seeker”) alongside Whitfield as Beth his pregnant Fiancé who is kidnapped while traveling across country. She wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother’s worst nightmare. Her child has been abducted. Trapped and facing an unknown enemy, Beth struggles to piece together the clinic’s deadly secret.
Starring Andy Whitfield, best known to worldwide audiences as Spartacus in Sam Raimi’s “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” The Clinic is a frighteningly real story inspired by true events that asks just how far will a mother go to save her child?
Written and directed by James Rabbitts, the film also stars Tabrett Bethell, (“Legend of the Seeker”) alongside Whitfield as Beth his pregnant Fiancé who is kidnapped while traveling across country. She wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother’s worst nightmare. Her child has been abducted. Trapped and facing an unknown enemy, Beth struggles to piece together the clinic’s deadly secret.
- 7/6/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
- At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features six projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel, are worth signaling out. This September is when Blacklist's 2008 top title goes into production - Jodie Foster helms The Beaver for Summit. Scribe Rowan Joffe begins his career as a director with Brighton Rock, - Joffe penned Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort. Not much news has been made since a Cannes announcement for Andrew Niccol's 4th film. We'll keep tabs on whether filming for The Cross does take place down under. The very rich Todd Phillips already has a due date of November for Due Date. Edward Zwick finally gets into the saddle for Love and Other Drugs, and we are still awaiting more news on Tommy Lee Jones, who should begin filming The Sunset Limited this month. Those that didn't make the list, but
- 9/1/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Bond girl Olga Kurylenko joins "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Orlando Bloom and "Ocean's 12" actor Vincent Cassel in a new border-war film "Cross."
The film is set in a futuristic border town. Bloom plays a man who wants to cross the mysterious border, something no one else has achieved before, while Cassel plays the guard who will go to any lengths to thwart him from his goal. Kurylenko will play the female lead.
The Australian-France-Germany co-production is being produced by Bluewater Pics in Sydney, Spangherabero Films in Paris, and Opal Film Produktion in Berlin, as per Variety.
Andrew Niccoll will direct and co-produce the million sci-fi escape project, which kicks off shooting in July. Wieland Schulz-Keil, Jonathan Shteinman, Jean-Vincent Puzos, and Remi Burah will also produce.
The film is set in a futuristic border town. Bloom plays a man who wants to cross the mysterious border, something no one else has achieved before, while Cassel plays the guard who will go to any lengths to thwart him from his goal. Kurylenko will play the female lead.
The Australian-France-Germany co-production is being produced by Bluewater Pics in Sydney, Spangherabero Films in Paris, and Opal Film Produktion in Berlin, as per Variety.
Andrew Niccoll will direct and co-produce the million sci-fi escape project, which kicks off shooting in July. Wieland Schulz-Keil, Jonathan Shteinman, Jean-Vincent Puzos, and Remi Burah will also produce.
- 2/5/2009
- icelebz.com
- I guess before finding immersing himself into Dada movement and surrealist biopic turf of the Pacino-starring project titled Dali & I: The Surreal Story, helmer Andrew Niccol will go back to an area that he is suited for with a space odyssey about crossing a mysterious border (which nothing to do with North Korea). Currently being packaged at the Berlin's Film Market, The Cross would include the likes of Orlando Bloom, Vincent Cassel and Olga Kurylenko, Niccol is looking for an international cast of players who also happen to be popular in English speaking territories. Bloom plays the protag -- a man seeking to cross a border, something that no one else has achieved; while Cassel takes on the role of the antagonist. Currently in pre-production, the $24 million dollar project is scheduled to start principal photography in July in Australia and is co-production between Australia, France and – Germany. is being
- 2/5/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- Sony Pictures Classics has picked up all North American rights to The Children of Huang Shi, a fact-based war drama filmed in China starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh.
Roger Spottiswoode's feature, which wrapped three months of shooting Friday in Shanghai, tells the story of a British reporter (Rhys Meyers) in China during the country's invasion by Japan in 1937. He rescues 60 war orphans by leading them on a thousand-mile journey to a village near the end of China's Great Wall with the help of a local political leader (Chow), an aristocrat (Yeoh) and the nurse he falls in love with (Mitchell).
Children was written by James MacManus and Jane Hawksley. The film is tentatively set for release in the fourth quarter.
Arthur Cohn and Wieland Schulz-Keil produced the film with Peter Loehr of Beijing's Ming Prods., Jonathan Shteinman of Sydney's Bluewater Pictures and Martin Hagemann of Berlin's Zero Fiction.
Roger Spottiswoode's feature, which wrapped three months of shooting Friday in Shanghai, tells the story of a British reporter (Rhys Meyers) in China during the country's invasion by Japan in 1937. He rescues 60 war orphans by leading them on a thousand-mile journey to a village near the end of China's Great Wall with the help of a local political leader (Chow), an aristocrat (Yeoh) and the nurse he falls in love with (Mitchell).
Children was written by James MacManus and Jane Hawksley. The film is tentatively set for release in the fourth quarter.
Arthur Cohn and Wieland Schulz-Keil produced the film with Peter Loehr of Beijing's Ming Prods., Jonathan Shteinman of Sydney's Bluewater Pictures and Martin Hagemann of Berlin's Zero Fiction.
- 2/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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