Tickets are now on sale for the world premiere of four short films directed by the recipients of the 2016 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship.
The filmmakers will screen their shorts at Dendy Opera Quays on June 13 during this year.s Sydney Film Festival..
One of the four, Anya Beyersdorf, teamed up with producer Nicole Coventry for her short How the Light Gets In, the story of a single mother who wakes up in the middle of the night to find that she.s glowing.
Beyersdorf, who worked with Coventry on her previous short, Vampir, starring director Tony Rogers (Wilfred, Bruce), describes the Sydney shoot for her latest as .very difficult..
.I actually almost died,. Beyersdorf says. .On day two I woke up in the morning and I was so sick I couldn.t even stand up. I literally couldn.t even stand up in the shower. [Dp] Warwick Field had to...
The filmmakers will screen their shorts at Dendy Opera Quays on June 13 during this year.s Sydney Film Festival..
One of the four, Anya Beyersdorf, teamed up with producer Nicole Coventry for her short How the Light Gets In, the story of a single mother who wakes up in the middle of the night to find that she.s glowing.
Beyersdorf, who worked with Coventry on her previous short, Vampir, starring director Tony Rogers (Wilfred, Bruce), describes the Sydney shoot for her latest as .very difficult..
.I actually almost died,. Beyersdorf says. .On day two I woke up in the morning and I was so sick I couldn.t even stand up. I literally couldn.t even stand up in the shower. [Dp] Warwick Field had to...
- 4/26/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
(l-r) Jurors Judy Davis, Lexus' Adrian Weimers and Sff director Nashen Moodley.
The winners of the inaugural Lexus Short Film Fellowship were announced last night at the Sydney Film Festival, with jury chair Judy Davis touting the promise of the next generation of Aussie filmmakers..
The four winners will receive $50,000 each to make a short..
They are Anya Beyersdorf, Alex Ryan, Brooke Goldfinch and Alex Murawski, who were chosen from a shortlist of 21 filmmakers, whittled down to four by Davis, Sff director Nashen Moodley, Lexus Australia's Adrian Weimers, Jan Chapman and Darren Dale.
"We spent the day in a big office in Sydney", Davis told If..
"I just found it very impressive that a writer can distill what they're saying, then communicate it effectively in ten or twelve minutes and, at times, achieve great complexity", Davis said.
"That really impressed me, and I felt very privileged to be able to read them, because normally I would never get to read a short film script. I've never been offered a short film."
The even gender split of the winners was an accident, Davis said.
"At the end of the process, one of the other jurors said, this is good because it's looking like two [men], two [women]. And I'll be honest, for me, it wouldn't make any difference.".
"I would just pick the four I thought were the best. If it had ended up being four men, I might have gone: oops. But still you've got to choose the four best. In this particular case, the two scripts that the women wrote are beautiful. It was not a painful decision.".
The four films tendered by the winners will premiere at next year's Sff, with a maximum length of fifteen minutes.
Uts and Aftrs grad Alex Ryan is making a short loosely inspired by the story of Brazilian student Roberto Curti, who was tasered by police and died in 2012, while Goldfinch's film is "a sci-fi thriller set in Woolongong with a female protagonist".
Aftrs grad Murawski aims to make a film "about a boy who leaves his friend behind after an accident and has to deal with the guilt of that situation"..
"It centers on grief and separation and the end of childhood", Murawski said. "It's called Snow."
Titled How the Light Gets In, Beyersdorf's short will reunite the team behind her previous film Vampir..
The idea for the film, "a meditation on terminal illness in a close-knit family", came to the director in the middle of the night.
"I woke up one night and thought, imagine if my fingers and hands were glowing. And I thought, what if there was a way you could represent an illness not as an illness but as this beautiful glow that's threatening to envelope you. So that's the crazy idea I had, and I wrote it for this very quickly."
Davis announced the four winners before a screening of Damian Walshe-Howling's MESSiAH, one of four winners of the International Lexus Short Films initiative.
The winners of the inaugural Lexus Short Film Fellowship were announced last night at the Sydney Film Festival, with jury chair Judy Davis touting the promise of the next generation of Aussie filmmakers..
The four winners will receive $50,000 each to make a short..
They are Anya Beyersdorf, Alex Ryan, Brooke Goldfinch and Alex Murawski, who were chosen from a shortlist of 21 filmmakers, whittled down to four by Davis, Sff director Nashen Moodley, Lexus Australia's Adrian Weimers, Jan Chapman and Darren Dale.
"We spent the day in a big office in Sydney", Davis told If..
"I just found it very impressive that a writer can distill what they're saying, then communicate it effectively in ten or twelve minutes and, at times, achieve great complexity", Davis said.
"That really impressed me, and I felt very privileged to be able to read them, because normally I would never get to read a short film script. I've never been offered a short film."
The even gender split of the winners was an accident, Davis said.
"At the end of the process, one of the other jurors said, this is good because it's looking like two [men], two [women]. And I'll be honest, for me, it wouldn't make any difference.".
"I would just pick the four I thought were the best. If it had ended up being four men, I might have gone: oops. But still you've got to choose the four best. In this particular case, the two scripts that the women wrote are beautiful. It was not a painful decision.".
The four films tendered by the winners will premiere at next year's Sff, with a maximum length of fifteen minutes.
Uts and Aftrs grad Alex Ryan is making a short loosely inspired by the story of Brazilian student Roberto Curti, who was tasered by police and died in 2012, while Goldfinch's film is "a sci-fi thriller set in Woolongong with a female protagonist".
Aftrs grad Murawski aims to make a film "about a boy who leaves his friend behind after an accident and has to deal with the guilt of that situation"..
"It centers on grief and separation and the end of childhood", Murawski said. "It's called Snow."
Titled How the Light Gets In, Beyersdorf's short will reunite the team behind her previous film Vampir..
The idea for the film, "a meditation on terminal illness in a close-knit family", came to the director in the middle of the night.
"I woke up one night and thought, imagine if my fingers and hands were glowing. And I thought, what if there was a way you could represent an illness not as an illness but as this beautiful glow that's threatening to envelope you. So that's the crazy idea I had, and I wrote it for this very quickly."
Davis announced the four winners before a screening of Damian Walshe-Howling's MESSiAH, one of four winners of the International Lexus Short Films initiative.
- 6/15/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Anya Beyersdorf is an actress (Blue Heelers, Crownies) turned director, whose 2014 short Gayby.was made as a Masters project at the Sydney College of the Arts before touring to festivals at home and abroad.
While studying she was taught screenwriting by Blue Murder's Ian David, and "fell hard" for it.
Her new film, Vampir, was produced by Nicole Coventry and will premiere at next month's St Kilda Film Festival..
Off the back of it, Beyersdorf was also shortlisted for Sydney Film Festival's Lexus Short Film Fellowship, presided over by Judy Davis.
Vampir came out of a single image, of "a guy walking across a field", said Beyersdorf.
"I started to think how easy it is to misunderstand people, and to judge people by the way that they look, and for the consequences to be quite full on."
To play the lead role, she enlisted Tony Rogers, a director best...
While studying she was taught screenwriting by Blue Murder's Ian David, and "fell hard" for it.
Her new film, Vampir, was produced by Nicole Coventry and will premiere at next month's St Kilda Film Festival..
Off the back of it, Beyersdorf was also shortlisted for Sydney Film Festival's Lexus Short Film Fellowship, presided over by Judy Davis.
Vampir came out of a single image, of "a guy walking across a field", said Beyersdorf.
"I started to think how easy it is to misunderstand people, and to judge people by the way that they look, and for the consequences to be quite full on."
To play the lead role, she enlisted Tony Rogers, a director best...
- 4/27/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
When we last highlighted the work of talented Australian director Anya Beyersdorf in these pages it was with the teaser for her upcoming short film Vampir, and if that happened to whet the appetite for more of Beyersdorf's work then you're in luck. Because her previous short film, Gayby, was a finalist at Australia's prestigious Tropfest festival and that festival has just posted the complete film online. It's an atmospheric coming of age story with a healthy dose of whimsy and you can check the entire film below!...
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- 11/16/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Acclaimed Australian writer-director Anya Beyersdorf (Gayby) returns to screens with her new short, Vampir, which we last heard of back in March when she was running a crowd funding campaign to source the final bit of their budget for the project. That campaign since successful and the film now nearing completion, the first trailer has arrived online to give a taste.When a strange loner comes in to town, a bloody encounter with the local youth will reveal the true nature of what it means to be human.Take a look below!...
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- 8/13/2015
- Screen Anarchy
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