Dop Emma Paine with Laura Nagy on the set of ‘Hook Up’ (Photo credit: Narika Mckenzie)
Laura Nagy first met Ian Collie when she was a casting coordinator on Doctor Doctor and he later hired her as his assistant at Essential Media in 2017.
Spotting her potential, Collie asked Laura to follow him and colleagues Rachael Turk and Tanya Phegan when he departed to launch Easy Tiger in 2018.
He then asked the emerging filmmaker to join the Easy Tiger development team, where the 2010 Aftrs graduate is nurturing several projects. “Laura is an absolute gem and multi-skilled – a filmmaker in her own right,” Collie tells If.
Laura says: “I am queer and I started writing those stories because a lot of it was exploring things I felt in my real life and wasn’t necessarily talking about.
“Once I started doing it, it got easier and people keep asking me to do it,...
Laura Nagy first met Ian Collie when she was a casting coordinator on Doctor Doctor and he later hired her as his assistant at Essential Media in 2017.
Spotting her potential, Collie asked Laura to follow him and colleagues Rachael Turk and Tanya Phegan when he departed to launch Easy Tiger in 2018.
He then asked the emerging filmmaker to join the Easy Tiger development team, where the 2010 Aftrs graduate is nurturing several projects. “Laura is an absolute gem and multi-skilled – a filmmaker in her own right,” Collie tells If.
Laura says: “I am queer and I started writing those stories because a lot of it was exploring things I felt in my real life and wasn’t necessarily talking about.
“Once I started doing it, it got easier and people keep asking me to do it,...
- 3/3/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘One Less God.’
Divya Salaskar was both moved and inspired when she first saw One Less God, writer-director Lliam Worthington’s thriller which centres on the three-day siege at Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in which 166 people died.
Salaskar has a personal connection to those horrific events: Her father, Mumbai police senior inspector Vijay Salaskar, was killed in an ambush by terrorists at the Cama & Albless Hospital on November 26 2008, part of the co-ordinated attacks on the city.
Her father, who headed the Anti-Extortion Cell, was honoured with the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest military award for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice, the equivalent of the Us Army’s Medal of Honour and the British George Cross.
The only surviving terrorist, Ajmal Amir Kasab, was convicted of the murder of Salaskar and five other cops and was hanged in 2011.
Divya, now 31, saw a trailer for the film on Facebook as...
Divya Salaskar was both moved and inspired when she first saw One Less God, writer-director Lliam Worthington’s thriller which centres on the three-day siege at Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in which 166 people died.
Salaskar has a personal connection to those horrific events: Her father, Mumbai police senior inspector Vijay Salaskar, was killed in an ambush by terrorists at the Cama & Albless Hospital on November 26 2008, part of the co-ordinated attacks on the city.
Her father, who headed the Anti-Extortion Cell, was honoured with the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest military award for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice, the equivalent of the Us Army’s Medal of Honour and the British George Cross.
The only surviving terrorist, Ajmal Amir Kasab, was convicted of the murder of Salaskar and five other cops and was hanged in 2011.
Divya, now 31, saw a trailer for the film on Facebook as...
- 10/8/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
L-r: The One Less God team - Joel Hagen (producer), Georgina Veneziani (associate producer), Maren Smith (producer), Lliam Worthington (writer/director/producer), and Nelson Lau (co-producer/executive producer). (Photo: Joshua Belinfante)
Lliam Worthington.s indie feature One Less God has taken out both the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature and the Industry Choice Award at Los Angeles. Dances With Films festival.
The film, which follows the events of the 2008 Mumbai attacks from both the perspective of the terrorists and victims, had its world premiere at the festival on June 8th, where it received a standing ovation. It was awarded the prizes at a ceremony on Sunday evening (La time)..
Directed and produced by Worthington,.One Less God.was filmed in the Blue Mountains and Nepal.
"I was so happy and honoured for One Less God to be recognised and win the Industry Choice Award here at Dance With Films in Los Angeles.
Lliam Worthington.s indie feature One Less God has taken out both the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature and the Industry Choice Award at Los Angeles. Dances With Films festival.
The film, which follows the events of the 2008 Mumbai attacks from both the perspective of the terrorists and victims, had its world premiere at the festival on June 8th, where it received a standing ovation. It was awarded the prizes at a ceremony on Sunday evening (La time)..
Directed and produced by Worthington,.One Less God.was filmed in the Blue Mountains and Nepal.
"I was so happy and honoured for One Less God to be recognised and win the Industry Choice Award here at Dance With Films in Los Angeles.
- 6/13/2017
- by Claudia Keech
- IF.com.au
After completing principal photography on One Less God, the producers of the psychological thriller inspired by the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai have launched a crowd-funding initiative. They aim is to raise $200,000 to cover post production, deliverables and publicity for the festival circuit by December 23.
The Indiegogo campaign kicked off on November 27 with rewards, a design competition, teaser and interviews with prominent commentators on issues explored in the film such as human rights, ideology, fundamentalism and compassion.
The experts include Dr. Munjed Al Muderis, Dr. Simon Longstaff, Dr. Anne Aly, Raimond Gaita, Kylie Sturgess and Dr. Sahar Amer. It.s the feature debut of writer-director Lliam Worthington, whose background is in music videos, corporate films and theatre.
The thriller centres around a group of international tourists trapped inside their hotel for 68 hours while two young Islamic terrorists, guided by a ruthless handler, sweep the hotel seeking to exterminate the guests. As days pass,...
The Indiegogo campaign kicked off on November 27 with rewards, a design competition, teaser and interviews with prominent commentators on issues explored in the film such as human rights, ideology, fundamentalism and compassion.
The experts include Dr. Munjed Al Muderis, Dr. Simon Longstaff, Dr. Anne Aly, Raimond Gaita, Kylie Sturgess and Dr. Sahar Amer. It.s the feature debut of writer-director Lliam Worthington, whose background is in music videos, corporate films and theatre.
The thriller centres around a group of international tourists trapped inside their hotel for 68 hours while two young Islamic terrorists, guided by a ruthless handler, sweep the hotel seeking to exterminate the guests. As days pass,...
- 11/30/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
One Less God, an Australian psychological thriller inspired by the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in 2008, starts principal photography on Monday.
It.s the feature debut of writer-director Lliam Worthington, whose background is in music videos, corporate films and theatre.
Worthington says he will aim to recreate the kind of emotions and tension experienced by the people who were held hostage by members of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organisation for three days in two Mumbai hotels.
His film is set in an Indian hotel where a bunch of international tourists is trapped for 48 hours. .It.s real theatre-of-the-mind, not a survival story or an action thriller,. Worthington tells If.
He.s producing the self-financed film with Greg Buchanan, his partner in New Realms Films, as executive producer, in association with Unravel Media, a post and production company owned by Brad Allen. The Dop is Ashley Barron and Maren Smith is associate producer.
The...
It.s the feature debut of writer-director Lliam Worthington, whose background is in music videos, corporate films and theatre.
Worthington says he will aim to recreate the kind of emotions and tension experienced by the people who were held hostage by members of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organisation for three days in two Mumbai hotels.
His film is set in an Indian hotel where a bunch of international tourists is trapped for 48 hours. .It.s real theatre-of-the-mind, not a survival story or an action thriller,. Worthington tells If.
He.s producing the self-financed film with Greg Buchanan, his partner in New Realms Films, as executive producer, in association with Unravel Media, a post and production company owned by Brad Allen. The Dop is Ashley Barron and Maren Smith is associate producer.
The...
- 1/8/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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