Tanna is based on a true story about a girl who runs away from an arranged marriage.
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Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
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Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
- 5/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Tanna is based on a true story about a girl who runs away from an arranged marriage.
.
Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
.
Tanna, Sherpa and Peter Allen - Not the Boy Nex Door have taken top honours at the 2016 Australian Director's Guild Awards.
Jennifer Peedom has won Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Awards in Melbourne, in the same week as her film Sherpa passed $1 million at the local box office.
Hosted by Nazeem Hussain, the awards honoured the outstanding work over the past year of Australian directors working in film, television, music and advertising..
Other winners included Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who won Best Direction in a Feature Film for Tanna..
The film was made in collaboration with the Yakel people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
Rachel Perkins won her second Adg Award, this time for Best Direction in a Telemovie for Redfern Now: Promise Me..
Best Direction in a TV Drama Series...
- 5/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Essie Davis as.Miss Fisher.
ABC TV has received a record thirty-three nominations — the most of any network — for this year.s Logie Awards, to be held May 8.
Essie Davis, star of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, is in the running for big prize, the Gold Logie.
Davis is also nominated for the Best Actress and Most Outstanding Actress awards.
The Doctor Blake Mysteries star Craig McLachlan is up against Please Like Me's Josh Thomas for the Best Actor award.
Other ABC acting nominees include Patrick Brammall (Glitch), Sarah Snook (The Beautiful Lie), Deborah Mailman (Redfern Now: Promise Me), Tim Minchin (The Secret River), Emily Barclay (Glitch) and Rarriwuy Hick (Redfern Now: Promise Me).
In the entertainment and comedy categories, The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, Utopia, Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, Please Like Me and Gruen all picked up nominations..
Sarah Ferguson's Hitting Home and The Killing Season will...
ABC TV has received a record thirty-three nominations — the most of any network — for this year.s Logie Awards, to be held May 8.
Essie Davis, star of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, is in the running for big prize, the Gold Logie.
Davis is also nominated for the Best Actress and Most Outstanding Actress awards.
The Doctor Blake Mysteries star Craig McLachlan is up against Please Like Me's Josh Thomas for the Best Actor award.
Other ABC acting nominees include Patrick Brammall (Glitch), Sarah Snook (The Beautiful Lie), Deborah Mailman (Redfern Now: Promise Me), Tim Minchin (The Secret River), Emily Barclay (Glitch) and Rarriwuy Hick (Redfern Now: Promise Me).
In the entertainment and comedy categories, The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, Utopia, Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, Please Like Me and Gruen all picked up nominations..
Sarah Ferguson's Hitting Home and The Killing Season will...
- 4/4/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia recouped just $2.2 million from its investments in feature films, $2.5 million from TV sales and $500,000 from documentaries in 2014/2015.
The agency.s annual report revealed total income of $102 million and a deficit of $2.84 million, which was in line with the $3 million deficit previously approved by the Finance Minister.
After budget cuts which saw the head count reduced by 10 per cent, operating costs were cut by 10.9 per cent to $17.2 million.
Total recoupment of production investment for the financial year was $6.2 million, of which $900,000 was returned to producers under the legacy agencies. producer revenue entitlement scheme and the revenue reversion policy.
Of the net recoupment, $1.8 million (35 per cent) came from Australia and $3.5 million from international sales.. Investment in children.s programming recouped $800,000 while adult TV returned $1.7 million.
As the report notes, documentary funding has largely been provided as grants since 2010.
By contrast in the previous fiscal year, Screen Australia recouped $6.8 million including $2.1 million from features,...
The agency.s annual report revealed total income of $102 million and a deficit of $2.84 million, which was in line with the $3 million deficit previously approved by the Finance Minister.
After budget cuts which saw the head count reduced by 10 per cent, operating costs were cut by 10.9 per cent to $17.2 million.
Total recoupment of production investment for the financial year was $6.2 million, of which $900,000 was returned to producers under the legacy agencies. producer revenue entitlement scheme and the revenue reversion policy.
Of the net recoupment, $1.8 million (35 per cent) came from Australia and $3.5 million from international sales.. Investment in children.s programming recouped $800,000 while adult TV returned $1.7 million.
As the report notes, documentary funding has largely been provided as grants since 2010.
By contrast in the previous fiscal year, Screen Australia recouped $6.8 million including $2.1 million from features,...
- 11/5/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Nine features have been nominated for this year's Awgie Awards for performance writing.
Eight telemovies and miniseries are in contention. The Australian Writers. Guild says nominations in the 25 categories for the 48th Annual Awgie Awards reflect the abundance of outstanding work currently being produced in Australia. Nominees for best original telemovie are Steven McGregor for Redfern Now: Promise Me and Katherine Thomson for House of Hancock, while Christopher Lee.s Gallipoli and Jan Sardi and Mac Gudgeon.s The Secret River contend for best adaptation in a television miniseries. There are four nominees for original television mini-series: The Principal by Alice Addison and Kristen Dunphy; The Kettering Incident by Vicki Madden, Andrew Knight, Cate Shortland and Louise Fox; Deadline Gallipoli by Jacquelin Perske, Stuart Beattie, Shaun Grant and Cate Shortland; and Love Child: Series 2 from Tim Pye, Cathryn Strickland, Chris McCourt, Jane Allen and Tamara Asmar. In the categories...
Eight telemovies and miniseries are in contention. The Australian Writers. Guild says nominations in the 25 categories for the 48th Annual Awgie Awards reflect the abundance of outstanding work currently being produced in Australia. Nominees for best original telemovie are Steven McGregor for Redfern Now: Promise Me and Katherine Thomson for House of Hancock, while Christopher Lee.s Gallipoli and Jan Sardi and Mac Gudgeon.s The Secret River contend for best adaptation in a television miniseries. There are four nominees for original television mini-series: The Principal by Alice Addison and Kristen Dunphy; The Kettering Incident by Vicki Madden, Andrew Knight, Cate Shortland and Louise Fox; Deadline Gallipoli by Jacquelin Perske, Stuart Beattie, Shaun Grant and Cate Shortland; and Love Child: Series 2 from Tim Pye, Cathryn Strickland, Chris McCourt, Jane Allen and Tamara Asmar. In the categories...
- 7/23/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
The telemovie Redfern Now: Promise Me almost certainly won.t be the final chapter in the saga of the mostly indigenous residents of inner-city Sydney.
ABC TV head of programming Brendan Dahill hopes the creative team will get back together for another instalment in the franchise.
In a sense the drama produced by Blackfella Films. Darren Dale and Miranda Dear, which starred Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair, Leah Purcell, Aaron Pederson, Rarriwuy Hick, Lisa Flanagan, Kelton Pell and Kirk Page, is a victim of its own success.
Dahill tells If, .The first two series were so popular the cast members are in heavy demand. But we hope to get the team back together when they are available..
Due to air in the next couple of months, Redfern Now: Promise Me will explore the impact of a violent crime on two women and the fight for justice that ensues. Anthony Hayes, Daniella...
ABC TV head of programming Brendan Dahill hopes the creative team will get back together for another instalment in the franchise.
In a sense the drama produced by Blackfella Films. Darren Dale and Miranda Dear, which starred Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair, Leah Purcell, Aaron Pederson, Rarriwuy Hick, Lisa Flanagan, Kelton Pell and Kirk Page, is a victim of its own success.
Dahill tells If, .The first two series were so popular the cast members are in heavy demand. But we hope to get the team back together when they are available..
Due to air in the next couple of months, Redfern Now: Promise Me will explore the impact of a violent crime on two women and the fight for justice that ensues. Anthony Hayes, Daniella...
- 2/1/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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