Australian documentary Tyke Elephant Outlaw has been selected to screen at its 15th international film festival after winning a swag of awards at major international festivals in the Us, UK and Australia.
The film, directed and produced by Australian documentary filmmakers Susan Lambert and Stefan Moore, and co-produced by Megan McMurchy, has been selected as a finalist in the International Elephant Film Festival..
This follows its broadcast on the BBC Storyville strand, CBC's The Passionate Eye in Canada and Drtv in Denmark.
It is also available now on Netflix Worldwide (exclusive in the Us)..
The film has also recently sold to National Geographic in Latin America and will screen on Channel 9 in Australia mid 2016.
Tyke Elephant Outlaw was produced with the financial assistance of Screen Australia, Screen Nsw and Voiceless. .It is distributed by ABC Commercial and Dogwoof..
The winners of the International Elephant Film Festival will be announced at...
The film, directed and produced by Australian documentary filmmakers Susan Lambert and Stefan Moore, and co-produced by Megan McMurchy, has been selected as a finalist in the International Elephant Film Festival..
This follows its broadcast on the BBC Storyville strand, CBC's The Passionate Eye in Canada and Drtv in Denmark.
It is also available now on Netflix Worldwide (exclusive in the Us)..
The film has also recently sold to National Geographic in Latin America and will screen on Channel 9 in Australia mid 2016.
Tyke Elephant Outlaw was produced with the financial assistance of Screen Australia, Screen Nsw and Voiceless. .It is distributed by ABC Commercial and Dogwoof..
The winners of the International Elephant Film Festival will be announced at...
- 2/28/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Netflix has bought the Australian directed and produced documentary Tyke Elephant Outlaw.
The film is directed and produced by Australian documentary filmmakers Susan Lambert and Stefan Moore, and co-produced by Megan McMurchy.
The documentary will be released in the Us on December 1 and will be followed with an international release in August 2016.
The film tells the story of Tyke, a circus elephant who went on a rampage in Honolulu in 1994, killed her trainer in front of thousands of horrified spectators and died in a hail of gunfire..
Her break for freedom traumatised a city and ignited a global battle over the use of animals in the entertainment industry..
Tyke had three sold-out screenings at the Hawaii International Film Festival in Honolulu. .
The Hawaii premiere, attended by several State senators, took place just days before Hawaiian lawmakers voted on regulations that will make Hawaii the first Us state to ban...
The film is directed and produced by Australian documentary filmmakers Susan Lambert and Stefan Moore, and co-produced by Megan McMurchy.
The documentary will be released in the Us on December 1 and will be followed with an international release in August 2016.
The film tells the story of Tyke, a circus elephant who went on a rampage in Honolulu in 1994, killed her trainer in front of thousands of horrified spectators and died in a hail of gunfire..
Her break for freedom traumatised a city and ignited a global battle over the use of animals in the entertainment industry..
Tyke had three sold-out screenings at the Hawaii International Film Festival in Honolulu. .
The Hawaii premiere, attended by several State senators, took place just days before Hawaiian lawmakers voted on regulations that will make Hawaii the first Us state to ban...
- 11/30/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The National Film and Sound Archive and the Australian Film Television and Radio School have not escaped unscathed from the federal Budget cuts.
Meanwhile, the lack of transparency in a pending restructure of the Nfsa has been criticised by producers, directors, writers, actors, academics and journalists.
The Nfsa received $27.07 million from the government in the current financial year. That falls to $25.9 million for each of the next two fiscal years. The allocations beyond that are $25.74 million and $26.01 million.
It is not clear how the government.s announcement that $2.4 million will be saved over four years by consolidating the back office functions of a number of Canberra-based collection agencies including the Nfsa, National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia and Old Parliament House will affect the Archive.
In April, Nfsa CEO Michael Loebenstein announced a restructuring entailing shedding jobs and reducing its touring program and the number of events at its Arc cinema in Canberra,...
Meanwhile, the lack of transparency in a pending restructure of the Nfsa has been criticised by producers, directors, writers, actors, academics and journalists.
The Nfsa received $27.07 million from the government in the current financial year. That falls to $25.9 million for each of the next two fiscal years. The allocations beyond that are $25.74 million and $26.01 million.
It is not clear how the government.s announcement that $2.4 million will be saved over four years by consolidating the back office functions of a number of Canberra-based collection agencies including the Nfsa, National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia and Old Parliament House will affect the Archive.
In April, Nfsa CEO Michael Loebenstein announced a restructuring entailing shedding jobs and reducing its touring program and the number of events at its Arc cinema in Canberra,...
- 5/14/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The animated short Masterpiece by Vivien Mason has won Screenrights’ Rights on Screen competition.
The film, which compares the creation of a screen production to childbirth, aims to remind producers to register their work for royalties.
Participating films were asked to communicate the importance of registration, ideally in pre-production, for Screenrights to collect and deliver royalties to producers.
The judging panel for the competition included Ian Collie (Essential Media & Entertainment), Brain Beaton (Artemis International), Melanie Coombs (Melodrama Pictures), Veronica Fury (Fury Productions), Megan McMurchy (SuitCase Films) and Tony Wright (December Films).
Mason created the animated short with a digital camera and her computer; she won a $2,500 cash award.
The film, which compares the creation of a screen production to childbirth, aims to remind producers to register their work for royalties.
Participating films were asked to communicate the importance of registration, ideally in pre-production, for Screenrights to collect and deliver royalties to producers.
The judging panel for the competition included Ian Collie (Essential Media & Entertainment), Brain Beaton (Artemis International), Melanie Coombs (Melodrama Pictures), Veronica Fury (Fury Productions), Megan McMurchy (SuitCase Films) and Tony Wright (December Films).
Mason created the animated short with a digital camera and her computer; she won a $2,500 cash award.
- 5/3/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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