Amiel Courtin-Wilson
A Melbourne-based film director has formed a new production company with a team of directors, producers, composers, cinematographers and editors.
Amiel Courtin-Wilson, whose feature film Hail opened in limited release yesterday, has formed Flood Projects, a stable for directors with diverse skills, from cinema and visual art to performance-based projects, book publishing and album releases.
Joining Courtin-Wilson is Snowtown director Justin Kurzel and cinematographer Adam Arkapaw, who shot Snowtown, Animal Kingdom and Top of the Lake.
Also part of the team is Hail’s producer Michael Cody, director Amy Gebhardt, composer Oren Ambachi, editor Peter Sciberras and composer Steve Benwell.
Courtin-Wilson said of Flood Project’s aim: “Over the last several years we have witnessed the beginnings of a renaissance in Australian film and Flood Projects is a hugely exciting collection of artists whose primary aim is to seek out new forms and continue to push boundaries in Australian cinema.
A Melbourne-based film director has formed a new production company with a team of directors, producers, composers, cinematographers and editors.
Amiel Courtin-Wilson, whose feature film Hail opened in limited release yesterday, has formed Flood Projects, a stable for directors with diverse skills, from cinema and visual art to performance-based projects, book publishing and album releases.
Joining Courtin-Wilson is Snowtown director Justin Kurzel and cinematographer Adam Arkapaw, who shot Snowtown, Animal Kingdom and Top of the Lake.
Also part of the team is Hail’s producer Michael Cody, director Amy Gebhardt, composer Oren Ambachi, editor Peter Sciberras and composer Steve Benwell.
Courtin-Wilson said of Flood Project’s aim: “Over the last several years we have witnessed the beginnings of a renaissance in Australian film and Flood Projects is a hugely exciting collection of artists whose primary aim is to seek out new forms and continue to push boundaries in Australian cinema.
- 10/25/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne was named agency of the year at the Melbourne Advertising & Design Club Awards tonight.
The agency won top honours for the second year running. However, rival Gpy&R Melbourne – which won more lions at Cannes this year than any Australian agency – did not enter for the second consecutive year. Last year, Patts Ecd Ben Coulson cited cost reasons for not supporting the event, which is Melbourne’s top awards show.
The awards list in full:
The Adstream Award for Agency of the Year
Winner
Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne
The Madc Award for Best in Show
Winner
Guilt Trips V/Line Agency McCann
The Madc Award for Lifetime Achievement
Winner
Scott Whybin, Whybin Tbwa
The Blackley Award for Creative Leader of the Year
Winner
Jason Williams, Leo Burnett
The Madc Award for Client of the Year
Winner
Carlton United Brewers
The Exit Films Award for Best Junior
Winners
Jono...
The agency won top honours for the second year running. However, rival Gpy&R Melbourne – which won more lions at Cannes this year than any Australian agency – did not enter for the second consecutive year. Last year, Patts Ecd Ben Coulson cited cost reasons for not supporting the event, which is Melbourne’s top awards show.
The awards list in full:
The Adstream Award for Agency of the Year
Winner
Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne
The Madc Award for Best in Show
Winner
Guilt Trips V/Line Agency McCann
The Madc Award for Lifetime Achievement
Winner
Scott Whybin, Whybin Tbwa
The Blackley Award for Creative Leader of the Year
Winner
Jason Williams, Leo Burnett
The Madc Award for Client of the Year
Winner
Carlton United Brewers
The Exit Films Award for Best Junior
Winners
Jono...
- 10/4/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
More versions of the new brand campaign for Woolworths from Droga 5 go to air tonight featuring employees and suppliers.
There are 12 different commercials, which seek to emphasise that most Woolworths fresh produce is Australian grown.
As Mumbrella reported yesterday, the campaign is the first major work since Droga5 won the Woolworths account.
The staff come after a casting call featuring 400 people which was eventually whittled down to 55 call-backs and eventually cast nine people.
Among those featuring was truckie Harold Haigh, who travelled to South Australia for the shoot, his first time on a plane despite 20 years on the road.
The production featured four crews shooting simultaneously across the country, on formats including 16mm, digital, VHS and iPhone. The entire project was overseen by Exit director Amy Gebhardt .
David Nobay, Droga5 Creative Chairman added; “A lot of people scratched their heads when they saw Droga5 and Woolworths together in the same sentence,...
There are 12 different commercials, which seek to emphasise that most Woolworths fresh produce is Australian grown.
As Mumbrella reported yesterday, the campaign is the first major work since Droga5 won the Woolworths account.
The staff come after a casting call featuring 400 people which was eventually whittled down to 55 call-backs and eventually cast nine people.
Among those featuring was truckie Harold Haigh, who travelled to South Australia for the shoot, his first time on a plane despite 20 years on the road.
The production featured four crews shooting simultaneously across the country, on formats including 16mm, digital, VHS and iPhone. The entire project was overseen by Exit director Amy Gebhardt .
David Nobay, Droga5 Creative Chairman added; “A lot of people scratched their heads when they saw Droga5 and Woolworths together in the same sentence,...
- 6/18/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
Zak Hilditch's short film Transmission took out the prize for Best Short Film at the St Kilda Film Festival overnight.
Hilditch and producer Liz Kearney were presented with a $10,000 cheque City of Port Phillip Mayor Rachel Powning at the St Kilda Town Hall.
The film, which tells the story of a deadly pandemic and its impact on a father-daughter relationship, also picked up awards for Best Director (for Hilditch), Best Actor (Angourie Rice) and Best Achievement in Editing (for Merlin Cornish).
Screen Australia supported the production of Transmission via its Springboard program. The short was made to support upcoming feature film These Final Hours, which is set to shoot in and around Perth in the second half of this year.
Seven minute documentary The Globe Collector took out Best Documentary for director Summer DeRoche and producer Andrea Distefano.
Any Questions for Ben? actor Josh Lawson won Best Achievement in Screenplay for After Credits,...
Hilditch and producer Liz Kearney were presented with a $10,000 cheque City of Port Phillip Mayor Rachel Powning at the St Kilda Town Hall.
The film, which tells the story of a deadly pandemic and its impact on a father-daughter relationship, also picked up awards for Best Director (for Hilditch), Best Actor (Angourie Rice) and Best Achievement in Editing (for Merlin Cornish).
Screen Australia supported the production of Transmission via its Springboard program. The short was made to support upcoming feature film These Final Hours, which is set to shoot in and around Perth in the second half of this year.
Seven minute documentary The Globe Collector took out Best Documentary for director Summer DeRoche and producer Andrea Distefano.
Any Questions for Ben? actor Josh Lawson won Best Achievement in Screenplay for After Credits,...
- 5/28/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
Post-apocalyptic feature film Transmission dominated the St Kilda Film Festival Awards last night.
The short feature, about a deadly pandemic and its impact on a father-daughter relationship, won top prize of Best Short Film at the awards plus a $10,000 cash prize.
Of the nominees in the Best Short Film category, Transmission beat out Anthony Maras’s The Palace, Peekaboo directed by Damien Power and At The Formal directed by Andrew Kavanagh.
Produced by Liz Kearney and written and directed by Zak Hilditch it was a big night for Transmission with Hilditch winning Best Director and Angourie Rice who plays the daughter winning Best Actor while editor Merlin Cornish won Best Achievement in Editing.
The film was one of three recipients of Screen Australia’s 2011 Springboard Short Film Course. The course mentors creative duos to produce a short film which will be the grounding for a feature film idea.
The win...
The short feature, about a deadly pandemic and its impact on a father-daughter relationship, won top prize of Best Short Film at the awards plus a $10,000 cash prize.
Of the nominees in the Best Short Film category, Transmission beat out Anthony Maras’s The Palace, Peekaboo directed by Damien Power and At The Formal directed by Andrew Kavanagh.
Produced by Liz Kearney and written and directed by Zak Hilditch it was a big night for Transmission with Hilditch winning Best Director and Angourie Rice who plays the daughter winning Best Actor while editor Merlin Cornish won Best Achievement in Editing.
The film was one of three recipients of Screen Australia’s 2011 Springboard Short Film Course. The course mentors creative duos to produce a short film which will be the grounding for a feature film idea.
The win...
- 5/28/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Short film fest, The St Kilda Film Festival has announced its award nominees across 18 categories. Winners will be announced on Sunday 27 May
The announcement:
Now in its 29th year the St Kilda Film Festival’s (Skff) Top 100 competition recognises and awards local filmmakers of all levels of experience who excel in creative and craft and who show potential for growth within the industry.
From an increasingly competitive field of entrants, 62 nominees are in the running for 18 prestigious awards and their share of $40,000 of cash and in-kind prizes, with the winner of the Best Film being awarded $10,000 cash.
The nominations for the 2012 Best Short Film include: At The Formal (Directed by Andrew Kavanagh & Produced by Ramona Telecican). Peekaboo (Directed by Damien Power & Produced by Joe Weatherstone) The Palace (Directed by Anthony Maras & Produced by Anthony Maras, Kate Croser, Andros Achilleos) and Transmission (Directed by Zak Hilditch & Produced by Liz Kearney)
Nominees...
The announcement:
Now in its 29th year the St Kilda Film Festival’s (Skff) Top 100 competition recognises and awards local filmmakers of all levels of experience who excel in creative and craft and who show potential for growth within the industry.
From an increasingly competitive field of entrants, 62 nominees are in the running for 18 prestigious awards and their share of $40,000 of cash and in-kind prizes, with the winner of the Best Film being awarded $10,000 cash.
The nominations for the 2012 Best Short Film include: At The Formal (Directed by Andrew Kavanagh & Produced by Ramona Telecican). Peekaboo (Directed by Damien Power & Produced by Joe Weatherstone) The Palace (Directed by Anthony Maras & Produced by Anthony Maras, Kate Croser, Andros Achilleos) and Transmission (Directed by Zak Hilditch & Produced by Liz Kearney)
Nominees...
- 5/24/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
For the second consecutive year, Encore has chosen a select group of screen professionals who have achieved new heights in 2010/2011, whose decisions influence and shape Australia’s audiovisual industry, and whose work has stood out from the crowd. These are our Power 50.
1. Emile Sherman – Producer
Last February, Sherman became the first Australian producer to receive an Academy Award for Best Picture, alongside his See-Saw Films partner Iain Canning, and Bedlam Productions’ Gareth Unwin. It also won at the BAFTAs and the Producers Guild of America, in addition to the many other honours for its cast and crew.
While technically a UK production, the Australianness of the film is undeniable – and so is its success; with a modest U$15m budget, The King’s Speech has grossed more than $405m worldwide – one of the most successful independent films of all time. Read Emile Sherman interview
2. Baz Luhrmann – Director, writer, producer
There...
1. Emile Sherman – Producer
Last February, Sherman became the first Australian producer to receive an Academy Award for Best Picture, alongside his See-Saw Films partner Iain Canning, and Bedlam Productions’ Gareth Unwin. It also won at the BAFTAs and the Producers Guild of America, in addition to the many other honours for its cast and crew.
While technically a UK production, the Australianness of the film is undeniable – and so is its success; with a modest U$15m budget, The King’s Speech has grossed more than $405m worldwide – one of the most successful independent films of all time. Read Emile Sherman interview
2. Baz Luhrmann – Director, writer, producer
There...
- 6/9/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
A reprieve from the Melbourne winter may be out of the question, but with two films premiering at the Sydney Film Festival (Sff) this month, Amy Gebhardt is still looking forward to her harbourside stay. .It's kind of the high point of going through the filmmaking process ..to present your film; to be there; to share a unified space with the public in watching your film on the big screen,. the filmmaker told If last week, .to me that.s the big reason why I make films.. Her first offering for festival-goers is the Moira Finucane-centred documentary Carnival Queen ..one Melbourne icon, 40 artists and three weeks to put together a two-hour show for the Melbourne International Arts Festival. .It was pretty chaotic,....
- 6/1/2011
- by Ruby Lennon
- IF.com.au
The role of awards in the film industry is bound to be a contentious discussion at any dinner table.. Gwyneth Paltrow.s Oscar acceptance speech springs to mind.. but for an emerging filmmaker it might be just the thing they need. If caught up with two of the 2008 nominees for the Efilm If Rising Talent Award.. Amy Gebhardt and Leon Ford.. to discuss how awards factor into a director.s career. .It's not like it will be the reason you get a job, or the reason people send you scripts,. says Ford, who won in 2008 and recently directed romantic-comedy Griff the Invisible. .[But] the If Awards sort of make people feel more secure about employing you because they might have a feeling about you and they might...
- 4/5/2011
- by Ruby Lennon
- IF.com.au
Amy Gebhardt has won the YouTube-Screen Australia online initiative, Map My Summer, and will now make a short film which will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival. Gebhardt, a former If Award rising talent nominee, was selected by filmmaker George Miller, who will now also mentor her project. The new short film will include footage submitted by the public to the Map My Summer initiative, where Australians can upload footage of how they spent their summer. Miller selected Gebhardt's short film, Into the Sun, over two other short films by Ariel Kleiman and Luke Doolan. In an unusual move, Screen Australia and YouTube selected each of the initial three filmmakers, paying them $5000 in exchange for the exclusive rights to their short.films until July 1, and non-exclusive...
- 3/8/2011
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
George Miller has selected Amy Gebhardt to make a short film from the raw footage from the Map My Summer Screen Australia/YouTube promotion.
“I went with Amy’s film because I responded to [her short Into the Sun] viscerally. Although its narrative was minimal, it was, moment to moment, compelling to watch. And once seen it stuck in the mind,” said Miller of his decision.
Gebhardt was one of three directors (including Ariel Kleiman and Luke Doolan) initially chosen by Screen Australia and YouTube to create a short for the Map My Summer campaign – which asked the public to upload footage of how they spent their summer. She will now use that footage as the basis for a final film, set to be a tribute to what summer means in Australia.
“The invitation to build a film from the general public’s uploaded content is a creative challenge unlike anything I’ve ever encountered,...
“I went with Amy’s film because I responded to [her short Into the Sun] viscerally. Although its narrative was minimal, it was, moment to moment, compelling to watch. And once seen it stuck in the mind,” said Miller of his decision.
Gebhardt was one of three directors (including Ariel Kleiman and Luke Doolan) initially chosen by Screen Australia and YouTube to create a short for the Map My Summer campaign – which asked the public to upload footage of how they spent their summer. She will now use that footage as the basis for a final film, set to be a tribute to what summer means in Australia.
“The invitation to build a film from the general public’s uploaded content is a creative challenge unlike anything I’ve ever encountered,...
- 3/8/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Everyone’s going to Adelaide this week, to be at the country’s most risk-taking festival. Encore spoke with festival director Katrina Sedgwick and associate director Adele Hann about the secrets behind its success.
The first point of differenceis the festival’s Investment Fund, which has delivered some of Australia’s most acclaimed films of recent times, including 2009’s Samson & Delilah. The pressure to continue this high level of performance from its slate hasn’t seen the funded projects become safe, predictable choices. It’s been quite the opposite.
“The Investment Fund has meant that Australian cinema is put to the forefront. Over time the success of the slate has generated anticipation; it’s become the element of the program that people really look forward to, the one that sells out first and excites the industry. One of the great things festival director Katrina Sedgwick does with that money is...
The first point of differenceis the festival’s Investment Fund, which has delivered some of Australia’s most acclaimed films of recent times, including 2009’s Samson & Delilah. The pressure to continue this high level of performance from its slate hasn’t seen the funded projects become safe, predictable choices. It’s been quite the opposite.
“The Investment Fund has meant that Australian cinema is put to the forefront. Over time the success of the slate has generated anticipation; it’s become the element of the program that people really look forward to, the one that sells out first and excites the industry. One of the great things festival director Katrina Sedgwick does with that money is...
- 2/22/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has launched its YouTube channel, as well as the Map My Summer initiative, inviting Australians to share footage of their summer experience for use in a short film that will be developed under the mentorship of George Miller, set to debut at the Sydney Film Festival.
“Acting as a sort of curator and having a lot of people visit this channel because the Map My Summer promotion and through word of mouth, we can become a ‘door’ for the combined output of Australian screen content,” head of marketing Kathleen Drumm told Encore.
“[The YouTube channel] is heading in a new exciting direction, and we hope it will be of great benefit to the industry. And from our point of view, we have a lot of really talented people with particular expertise within the organisation, so it’s been an agency-wide initiative: legal, It, communications, sales and library, etc. All kinds of people have worked on it.
“Acting as a sort of curator and having a lot of people visit this channel because the Map My Summer promotion and through word of mouth, we can become a ‘door’ for the combined output of Australian screen content,” head of marketing Kathleen Drumm told Encore.
“[The YouTube channel] is heading in a new exciting direction, and we hope it will be of great benefit to the industry. And from our point of view, we have a lot of really talented people with particular expertise within the organisation, so it’s been an agency-wide initiative: legal, It, communications, sales and library, etc. All kinds of people have worked on it.
- 1/31/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Mrs. Carey’s Concert, Bob Connolly’s first documentary since 2001′s Facing the Music, will open next month’s BigPond Adelaide Film Festival on February 24.
The biannual event will be closed by Brendan Fletcher’s Mad Bastards.
Mrs. Carey’s Concert (co-directed by Sophie Raymond) is one of the 14 projects supported by the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund. The film chronicles the preparations for a classical music concert at a Sydney’s girl school; both directors will be in attendance, alongside the school’s music director Karen Carey and some of her students.
Other guests in attendance will include:
The International Award jury – Julietta Sichel, Pierre Rissient, Hossein Valamanesh, Trevor Groth, and Robin Gutch; The Hive participants (Richard Tognetti, Meryl Tankard, Garry Stewart, Gideon Obarzanek, Kate Champion, Michael Kantor, Rose Myers, Chris Drummond, Matthew Whittet, Lynette Wallworth, Susan Norrie, Tony Krawitz Glendyn Ivin, Anna Broinowski, Ashlee Page, Amy Gebhardt and...
The biannual event will be closed by Brendan Fletcher’s Mad Bastards.
Mrs. Carey’s Concert (co-directed by Sophie Raymond) is one of the 14 projects supported by the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund. The film chronicles the preparations for a classical music concert at a Sydney’s girl school; both directors will be in attendance, alongside the school’s music director Karen Carey and some of her students.
Other guests in attendance will include:
The International Award jury – Julietta Sichel, Pierre Rissient, Hossein Valamanesh, Trevor Groth, and Robin Gutch; The Hive participants (Richard Tognetti, Meryl Tankard, Garry Stewart, Gideon Obarzanek, Kate Champion, Michael Kantor, Rose Myers, Chris Drummond, Matthew Whittet, Lynette Wallworth, Susan Norrie, Tony Krawitz Glendyn Ivin, Anna Broinowski, Ashlee Page, Amy Gebhardt and...
- 1/21/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Audience members gave Doris Dorris' Cherry Blossoms -- Hanami the best film Golden Space Needle Award at the 34th Seattle International Film Festival, which ended Sunday. The jury's grand prize went to Tony Barbieri's "Em."
At the 25-day fest, the jury awarded a special jury prize to writer-director Russell Brown for The Bluetooth Virgin.
Within the fest's New Directors Showcase competition, the grand jury prize was awarded to Yves-Christian Fournier's Everything Is Fine, while the special jury prize was bestowed on Anna Melikyan's Mermaid.
The grand jury prize for documentary was presented to Isaac Julien's Derek, and special jury prizes were awarded to Raphael Mathie's Combalion and Timothy Hotchner's Accelerating America.
The short film winners were Rebecca Dreyfus' "Self Portrait With Cows Going Home and Other Works: A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy" in the documentary category, with Christina Voros' The Ladies picking up the special prize; Luis Cook's The Pearce Sisters in the animation category, with Kim Slate's Home winning the special prize; and Atul Taishete's Rewind in the narrative category. Narrative special jury prizes were handed out to Amy Gebhardt's Walnut, Paddy Considine's Dog Altogether, Teemu Nikki's A Mate and Steph Green's New Boy.
John Grigsby's Introduction to Lucid Dreaming and Adam Keker's "On the Assassination of the President" earned honorable mentions for inventive filmmaking.
At the 25-day fest, the jury awarded a special jury prize to writer-director Russell Brown for The Bluetooth Virgin.
Within the fest's New Directors Showcase competition, the grand jury prize was awarded to Yves-Christian Fournier's Everything Is Fine, while the special jury prize was bestowed on Anna Melikyan's Mermaid.
The grand jury prize for documentary was presented to Isaac Julien's Derek, and special jury prizes were awarded to Raphael Mathie's Combalion and Timothy Hotchner's Accelerating America.
The short film winners were Rebecca Dreyfus' "Self Portrait With Cows Going Home and Other Works: A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy" in the documentary category, with Christina Voros' The Ladies picking up the special prize; Luis Cook's The Pearce Sisters in the animation category, with Kim Slate's Home winning the special prize; and Atul Taishete's Rewind in the narrative category. Narrative special jury prizes were handed out to Amy Gebhardt's Walnut, Paddy Considine's Dog Altogether, Teemu Nikki's A Mate and Steph Green's New Boy.
John Grigsby's Introduction to Lucid Dreaming and Adam Keker's "On the Assassination of the President" earned honorable mentions for inventive filmmaking.
- 6/15/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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