Australian children’s author and illustrator Graeme Base, whose work includes Animalia and The Eleventh Hour, is to make his film directorial debut.
Base will co-direct with Katrina Mathers the film The Gallant Captain, an adaptation of his book The Legend of the Golden Snail.
Mathers with Daryl Munton of The Lampshade Collective was behind last year’s The Nullabor which won Sydney Film Festival’s Best Animated Short Film Award at both the Sydney Film Festival 2011 and the Aacta Awards 2012.
The short film has received funding from Screen Australia through the agency’s short animation production program.
Also to receive funding from Screen Australia is The Crossing, a stop-motion sand animation from writer/director/animator and visual artists Marieka Walsh. Sand animation is the use of sand on a lighted piece of glass to create each frame.
The film follows on from the success of Walsh’s team with The Hunter,...
Base will co-direct with Katrina Mathers the film The Gallant Captain, an adaptation of his book The Legend of the Golden Snail.
Mathers with Daryl Munton of The Lampshade Collective was behind last year’s The Nullabor which won Sydney Film Festival’s Best Animated Short Film Award at both the Sydney Film Festival 2011 and the Aacta Awards 2012.
The short film has received funding from Screen Australia through the agency’s short animation production program.
Also to receive funding from Screen Australia is The Crossing, a stop-motion sand animation from writer/director/animator and visual artists Marieka Walsh. Sand animation is the use of sand on a lighted piece of glass to create each frame.
The film follows on from the success of Walsh’s team with The Hunter,...
- 3/29/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Alex Weight, lead animator of Happy Feet and animation supervisor of Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, will direct a Blinky Bill 3D animated feature film.
Weight has 13 years experience working for companies such as Disney, Rising Sun Pictures and Animal Logic.
Signing on as line producer is Marie-Cecile Dahan, who has worked as Department Manager on Avatar, Series line producer on Animalia and VFX production Manager on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows and District 9.
The film produced by Flying Bark Productions formerly Yoram Gross Film Studios will begin production this year. Flying Bark Productions’ Managing Director, Jim Ballantine said, “Blinky Bill is a timeless Australian classic character so it is an absolute honour for our team at Flying Bark Productions to be bringing the stories of Blinky Bill and his Australian bush friends to life in 3D for a new generation of children – and...
Weight has 13 years experience working for companies such as Disney, Rising Sun Pictures and Animal Logic.
Signing on as line producer is Marie-Cecile Dahan, who has worked as Department Manager on Avatar, Series line producer on Animalia and VFX production Manager on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows and District 9.
The film produced by Flying Bark Productions formerly Yoram Gross Film Studios will begin production this year. Flying Bark Productions’ Managing Director, Jim Ballantine said, “Blinky Bill is a timeless Australian classic character so it is an absolute honour for our team at Flying Bark Productions to be bringing the stories of Blinky Bill and his Australian bush friends to life in 3D for a new generation of children – and...
- 9/20/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
SYDNEY -- Michael Moore's Sicko will have its Australian premiere in the prized opening-night slot at the Melbourne International Film Festival, festival director Richard Moore said Wednesday as he unveiled the 19-day fest's more than 300 films.
" 'Sicko' proves the power of documentary to place important issues on the social and political agenda," Richard Moore said. "I can't say I've always agreed with him, ... but this is Mike Moore in vintage form. 'Sicko' is brilliant in its execution, full of humor and intelligence."
Bookending the festival for the closing night on Aug. 12 is Shane Meadows' This Is England.
The 2007 edition of Australia's largest film festival includes 10 new sidebars, with two focused on African and Israeli films and two Japanese retrospectives -- one on the work of director Shohei Imamura and another focusing on writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
The festival also will host nine world premieres of Australian films, including the first feature from the festival's "accelerator" development program, Ben Hackworth's Corroboree, and the first feature funded by short film festival Tropfest's feature program, Peter Carstairs' debut feature September.
David Scotts' epic animated TV series Animalia, produced for Network Ten and Nickelodeon, will debut a feature-length cut of its first two episodes in the new kids sidebar, Next Gen.
" 'Sicko' proves the power of documentary to place important issues on the social and political agenda," Richard Moore said. "I can't say I've always agreed with him, ... but this is Mike Moore in vintage form. 'Sicko' is brilliant in its execution, full of humor and intelligence."
Bookending the festival for the closing night on Aug. 12 is Shane Meadows' This Is England.
The 2007 edition of Australia's largest film festival includes 10 new sidebars, with two focused on African and Israeli films and two Japanese retrospectives -- one on the work of director Shohei Imamura and another focusing on writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
The festival also will host nine world premieres of Australian films, including the first feature from the festival's "accelerator" development program, Ben Hackworth's Corroboree, and the first feature funded by short film festival Tropfest's feature program, Peter Carstairs' debut feature September.
David Scotts' epic animated TV series Animalia, produced for Network Ten and Nickelodeon, will debut a feature-length cut of its first two episodes in the new kids sidebar, Next Gen.
- 6/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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