by Peter Giles
Australian Director Andrew Traucki of Black Water fame is currently shooting his next low budget suspense feature The Reef. The crew have been shooting for 3 weeks on location in deep water and will be web streaming live from the set later this week: Thurs 5th November at 9:30am EST in Australia – put it [...]
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Yesterday I attended the opening of Screen Worlds, a new exhibition space at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne. A massive crowd assembled to hear Ms Blanchett launch the show along with Victorian Premiere John Brumby. It’s a spectacular exhibition that profiles the development of film and television, games and interactive media [...]
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I have found myself getting particularly bored and irritated with evening television lately. Maybe I’m stating the obvious here but it’s not really getting any better is it? Is endlessly repeated programming meant to be so familiar it’s soothing and relaxing (snore!) or is it just designed so you have a better chance of programming [...]
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New Australian feature film Black Water is getting good critical acclaim in Europe and has just been released in Australia. Made by Australian filmmakers Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich it has reportedly already made its money back, a rarity for any Australian film. This is one of the viral videos being used to promote the [...]
Read More...It’s on the grapevine, Baz Lurhrman’s Set to Screen podcasts have hit the iTunes store offering young filmmakers an insight into the process behind the making of new feature film Australia. Critic Lynden Barber mentions it in his blog Eyes Wired Open and credits Luhrmann and Fox for a genuine effort to reach out to [...]
Read More...It’s a rare occurrence for a kid’s film to really touch you emotionally – especially with the assault of CG animated features which just keep coming and kids seem to lap up like ice cream. I’m thinking of The Bee Movie, Valiant, Madagascar – even Pixar’s offerings are getting stale and saccharine. The kid’s ‘effects’ [...]
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A new partnership has just been announced which will shape the future of Australia’s digital film industry in the coming years. Australia’s leading production company – Kennedy Miller Mitchell – has announced it will partner with the Omnilab group to advance the future of digital cinema creation in Australia. George Miller made the following statement [...]
Read More...Saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the weekend and was transported by the design, performances, visual effects and the sound. But what’s with Voldemort’s nose? There were quite a few shots where the digital prosthetics work looked decidedly smudgy. I don’t usually watch for these things but this one really took [...]
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Just finished reading Richard Harris’s essay in the Platform Papers series – ‘Film in the Age of Digital Distribution: The Challenge for Australian Content’. You can find out more about this paper by clicking here. That was the advertisement, now for the critique.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s timely for a paper like this to be [...]
I was lucky enough to speak at a panel tonight with director George Miller about the future of film. George lamented the fact that good stories just aren’t surfacing as much any more in cinema – either because studios are averting risk by financing sequels (rather than original content) or maybe because we have mined [...]
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