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Ivan and Beth Hodge.
In 1961 New Zealand couple Beth and Ivan Hodge set off in their newly acquired Vw Beetle on an extended honeymoon, driving from London to Calcutta.
In 1996 the couple, who moved to Australia in the 1960s, embarked on that same journey in that same car, this time ending in Mumbai.
That’s the inspiration for The Road Less Travelled, the first Australian script to emerge from Imagine Entertainment’s inaugural global content accelerator in Hollywood in late 2018.
Faraway Films Entertainment’s Steve Turnbull and Lynda Heys, who met the Hodges – Beth is a retired teacher and Ivan is a former insurance executive – at a film screening in 2015, wrote the screenplay and Heys will direct, her feature directing debut.
The duo optioned Beth and Ivan’s life rights and then spent two years interviewing the Hodges and their family and sifting through their archival material including photos, diaries and audio tape.
In 1961 New Zealand couple Beth and Ivan Hodge set off in their newly acquired Vw Beetle on an extended honeymoon, driving from London to Calcutta.
In 1996 the couple, who moved to Australia in the 1960s, embarked on that same journey in that same car, this time ending in Mumbai.
That’s the inspiration for The Road Less Travelled, the first Australian script to emerge from Imagine Entertainment’s inaugural global content accelerator in Hollywood in late 2018.
Faraway Films Entertainment’s Steve Turnbull and Lynda Heys, who met the Hodges – Beth is a retired teacher and Ivan is a former insurance executive – at a film screening in 2015, wrote the screenplay and Heys will direct, her feature directing debut.
The duo optioned Beth and Ivan’s life rights and then spent two years interviewing the Hodges and their family and sifting through their archival material including photos, diaries and audio tape.
- 3/15/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Ron Howard.
Faraway Films Entertainment’s Lynda Heys and Steve Turnbull are heading to La this weekend to take meetings for their feature film The Road Less Traveled, which they developed last year via Imagine Entertainment’s Impact program.
Heys and Turnbull were the only Australians to participate in the first incarnation of the eight-week, La-based program, devised by Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard.
Impact, described as an “content accelerator program” pairs creatives with experienced showrunners and screenwriters so that they can take a project from the ‘idea stage’ through to a sellable screenplay. It culminates in a pitch day with select Hollywood buyers. Participants are paid a stipend and are given office space to work out of, and along the way attend a series of keynote dinners and functions. Some of the speakers during Impact 1 included Judd Apatow, Ryan Murphy, Jason Bateman and Universal Pictures chair Donna Langley.
Faraway Films Entertainment’s Lynda Heys and Steve Turnbull are heading to La this weekend to take meetings for their feature film The Road Less Traveled, which they developed last year via Imagine Entertainment’s Impact program.
Heys and Turnbull were the only Australians to participate in the first incarnation of the eight-week, La-based program, devised by Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard.
Impact, described as an “content accelerator program” pairs creatives with experienced showrunners and screenwriters so that they can take a project from the ‘idea stage’ through to a sellable screenplay. It culminates in a pitch day with select Hollywood buyers. Participants are paid a stipend and are given office space to work out of, and along the way attend a series of keynote dinners and functions. Some of the speakers during Impact 1 included Judd Apatow, Ryan Murphy, Jason Bateman and Universal Pictures chair Donna Langley.
- 1/20/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
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Cuban-born dancer to star in Australian production, set to shoot in late 2014.
Carlos Acosta has joined the cast of Tackling Romeo.
Written and directed by Lynda Heys, the film tells the story of Bobby Sherwood who finds his seemingly perfect life imploding after he rehearses in secret for a contemporary ballet of Romeo and Juliet.
Cuban-born dancer Acosta will play Bobby’s mentor and choreographer.
Tackling Romeo is set for production in late 2014 and will be produced by Steve Turnbull.
Turnbull commented: “We are especially excited by the teaming of one of Australia’s most extraordinary choreographers, Graeme Murphy, and one of the world’s most breathtaking dancers, Carlos Acosta.”
The Australian production was financed with major offshore equity and the Producer Offset.
Carlos Acosta has joined the cast of Tackling Romeo.
Written and directed by Lynda Heys, the film tells the story of Bobby Sherwood who finds his seemingly perfect life imploding after he rehearses in secret for a contemporary ballet of Romeo and Juliet.
Cuban-born dancer Acosta will play Bobby’s mentor and choreographer.
Tackling Romeo is set for production in late 2014 and will be produced by Steve Turnbull.
Turnbull commented: “We are especially excited by the teaming of one of Australia’s most extraordinary choreographers, Graeme Murphy, and one of the world’s most breathtaking dancers, Carlos Acosta.”
The Australian production was financed with major offshore equity and the Producer Offset.
- 6/30/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
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