Three Western Australian Lgbtqia+ web series will begin production next year after each receiving $100,000 funding via Screenwest and Screen Australia’s Out Now initiative.
Out of Here, The Curse of Baba Yaga and Yokai were selected from the six projects shortlisted for development earlier this year.
Produced by Sophia Armstrong, Out of Here will be written by Tina Fielding and directed by Jacqueline Pelczar, the pair behind CinefestOZ-selected short film, Sparkles.
Producer Brooke Batka and writer/director Christopher Colley will produce The Curse of Baba Yaga, which follows a gay high school student from a family with a magical twist.
Ramu Productions producer Jodie Bell, writer/producer Brooke Collard and director Ngaire Pigram will explore the life of a Noongar teen who finds herself through her connection to cosplay in Yokai.
Tina Fielding, Jacqueline Pelczar, and Gary Cooper on the set of ‘Sparkles’. (Image: Liang Xu)
It comes after the...
Out of Here, The Curse of Baba Yaga and Yokai were selected from the six projects shortlisted for development earlier this year.
Produced by Sophia Armstrong, Out of Here will be written by Tina Fielding and directed by Jacqueline Pelczar, the pair behind CinefestOZ-selected short film, Sparkles.
Producer Brooke Batka and writer/director Christopher Colley will produce The Curse of Baba Yaga, which follows a gay high school student from a family with a magical twist.
Ramu Productions producer Jodie Bell, writer/producer Brooke Collard and director Ngaire Pigram will explore the life of a Noongar teen who finds herself through her connection to cosplay in Yokai.
Tina Fielding, Jacqueline Pelczar, and Gary Cooper on the set of ‘Sparkles’. (Image: Liang Xu)
It comes after the...
- 9/9/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Four female-driven stories covering a broad range of subject matter make up the contribution of Rush Films to this year’s CinefestOZ program.
Documentary projects Under the Volcano and Girl Like You join will join shorts Sparkles and Tooly at next month’s festival, showcasing a healthy cross-section of the company’s slate.
The selections are an endorsement for founder Cody Greenwood, who started Rush in 2016.
She said told If was “very exciting” to see the projects come together for the event.
“For me, I think it reflects an appetite from Australian audiences to view films that have different subject matter because when you look at them as a whole, they are four very different films made under very different circumstances,” she said.
There has already been a global appetite for Gracie Otto’s Under the Volcano, which premiered at this year’s SXSW in March and was due to...
Documentary projects Under the Volcano and Girl Like You join will join shorts Sparkles and Tooly at next month’s festival, showcasing a healthy cross-section of the company’s slate.
The selections are an endorsement for founder Cody Greenwood, who started Rush in 2016.
She said told If was “very exciting” to see the projects come together for the event.
“For me, I think it reflects an appetite from Australian audiences to view films that have different subject matter because when you look at them as a whole, they are four very different films made under very different circumstances,” she said.
There has already been a global appetite for Gracie Otto’s Under the Volcano, which premiered at this year’s SXSW in March and was due to...
- 7/29/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
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