The award recipients.
Screenwest has named Brooke Silcox and Mat de Koning’s 29 Years Eight Days and Sam Lara and Cathy Henkel’s Laura’s Choice the joint recipients of the 2019 Brian Beaton Award.
The award is awarded annually to a filmmaker or filmmakers with social impact projects that need further support to reach their full potential.
de Koning and Silcox’s 29 Years Eight Days later looks at the rise of a late Western Australian artist and his experience of epilepsy.
Lara and Henkel’s Laura Choice follows three generations of women coming to terms with a radical approach to dying.
Each team will receive $8,000 in production, development and outreach campaign funding for their social impact projects.
The award honours the contribution the late Brian Beaton made to the screen industry in Western Australia as a documentary filmmaker. Beaton was an executive producer at Artemis, and worked on projects such...
Screenwest has named Brooke Silcox and Mat de Koning’s 29 Years Eight Days and Sam Lara and Cathy Henkel’s Laura’s Choice the joint recipients of the 2019 Brian Beaton Award.
The award is awarded annually to a filmmaker or filmmakers with social impact projects that need further support to reach their full potential.
de Koning and Silcox’s 29 Years Eight Days later looks at the rise of a late Western Australian artist and his experience of epilepsy.
Lara and Henkel’s Laura Choice follows three generations of women coming to terms with a radical approach to dying.
Each team will receive $8,000 in production, development and outreach campaign funding for their social impact projects.
The award honours the contribution the late Brian Beaton made to the screen industry in Western Australia as a documentary filmmaker. Beaton was an executive producer at Artemis, and worked on projects such...
- 10/3/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Svod service iwonder has launched in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, initially offering more than 500 hours of documentaries and current affairs programming for $6.99 per month or $69.95 a year.
Co-founder James Bridges tells If he plans to double the volume of content by the end of this month, including local acquisitions; he estimates more than 70 per cent of the programming is not available on any other platform.
He is attending the Australian International Documentary Conference in Melbourne where he will initiate discussions with Australian producers on commissions and co-productions.
The direct-to-consumer platform’s documentaries span the spectrum of entertainment, sports, history, politics, science and technology, religion, music, movies, nature, war and biographies.
The exclusives include Meal Tickets, Mat de Koning’s film about a Perth rock band whose ambitions were never realised, which premiered at Miff in 2016; Israel Cannan’s Fish Out of Water, which traces the journey of two ordinary...
Co-founder James Bridges tells If he plans to double the volume of content by the end of this month, including local acquisitions; he estimates more than 70 per cent of the programming is not available on any other platform.
He is attending the Australian International Documentary Conference in Melbourne where he will initiate discussions with Australian producers on commissions and co-productions.
The direct-to-consumer platform’s documentaries span the spectrum of entertainment, sports, history, politics, science and technology, religion, music, movies, nature, war and biographies.
The exclusives include Meal Tickets, Mat de Koning’s film about a Perth rock band whose ambitions were never realised, which premiered at Miff in 2016; Israel Cannan’s Fish Out of Water, which traces the journey of two ordinary...
- 3/3/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
'Watch the Sunset'..
Revelation Perth International Film Festival.s 20th incarnation promises to be its biggest to date, with 200 films set to screen - among them 15 world premieres and 41 Australian premieres.
The festival will open with Josh Greenbaum.s.Becoming Bond, a documentary about the life of Australia.s James Bond, George Lazenby. Lazenby-starrer On Her Majesty.s Secret Service is also set to screen, with the actor in attendance for a Q&A.
Australian film Watch the Sunset, from Tristian Barr and Michael Godsen, will make its world debut at the festival with cast and crew to appear in Q&A. Other Aussie features to screen include Michael Jones. Lazybones and Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce.s Top Knot Detective.
Local documentaries will get a good showing, with a line-up that includes Kriv Stenders. The Go Betweens: Right Here, Mat de Koning.s Meal Tickets, and Kate Hickey.s Roller Dreams.
Revelation Perth International Film Festival.s 20th incarnation promises to be its biggest to date, with 200 films set to screen - among them 15 world premieres and 41 Australian premieres.
The festival will open with Josh Greenbaum.s.Becoming Bond, a documentary about the life of Australia.s James Bond, George Lazenby. Lazenby-starrer On Her Majesty.s Secret Service is also set to screen, with the actor in attendance for a Q&A.
Australian film Watch the Sunset, from Tristian Barr and Michael Godsen, will make its world debut at the festival with cast and crew to appear in Q&A. Other Aussie features to screen include Michael Jones. Lazybones and Aaron McCann and Dominic Pearce.s Top Knot Detective.
Local documentaries will get a good showing, with a line-up that includes Kriv Stenders. The Go Betweens: Right Here, Mat de Koning.s Meal Tickets, and Kate Hickey.s Roller Dreams.
- 6/13/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Joe Cinque's Consolation.
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
- 7/7/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
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