Key highlights this February on the essential, alternative streaming service Arrow include a second season of films from the legendary Brazilian director José Mojica Marins, a devilish double-bill from Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia, a season of wonderfully weird short films, Valentine’s Day done Arrow-style, and much more.
In February, Arrow presents a season of bite-sized shocks in the form of the very best wild and weird short films, including Smile, the extraordinarily imaginative and disturbing award-winning short from director Joanna Tsanis; as well as The Wyrm of Bwlch Pen Barras, a Welsh language folk horror film about modern Wales, rooted in the country’s rich mythology, shot on 16mm and featuring a score by Cian Ciaran and Dafydd Ieuan from The Super Furry Animals; and ab adaptation of the famous short story by W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey’s Paw, produced by the newly revived Hammer Films, and...
In February, Arrow presents a season of bite-sized shocks in the form of the very best wild and weird short films, including Smile, the extraordinarily imaginative and disturbing award-winning short from director Joanna Tsanis; as well as The Wyrm of Bwlch Pen Barras, a Welsh language folk horror film about modern Wales, rooted in the country’s rich mythology, shot on 16mm and featuring a score by Cian Ciaran and Dafydd Ieuan from The Super Furry Animals; and ab adaptation of the famous short story by W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey’s Paw, produced by the newly revived Hammer Films, and...
- 2/12/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Twelve Times Two
Production is under way on season two of “The Twelve,” a crime drama which follows a controversial murder trial as seen through the lens of the 12 jury members, ordinary members of the public with their own realities and struggles. On completion, it will screen on Foxtel’s Binge streaming service. International distribution is by Fifth Season. Western Australia premier Roger Cook said that the “The Twelve S2” is the largest ever production in the state.
As previously announced, Sam Neill and Frances O’Connor (“The End,” “AI”) reprise their roles as senior lawyers.
Joining them is an all-star Australian cast including: Tasma Walton (“Mystery Road,” “Sweet As”), Kris McQuade (“Rosehaven”), Amy Mathews (“A Place to Call Home”), Erroll Shand (“The Clearing”), Fayssal Bazzi (“Shantaram”), Josh McKenzie (“La Brea”), Anthony Brandon Wong (“Queen of Oz”), Stefanie Caccamo (“Fighting Season”), Sharon Johal (“Neighbours,” “Shantaram”), Luke Pegler (“Ladies In Black”), Adriano Cappelletta...
Production is under way on season two of “The Twelve,” a crime drama which follows a controversial murder trial as seen through the lens of the 12 jury members, ordinary members of the public with their own realities and struggles. On completion, it will screen on Foxtel’s Binge streaming service. International distribution is by Fifth Season. Western Australia premier Roger Cook said that the “The Twelve S2” is the largest ever production in the state.
As previously announced, Sam Neill and Frances O’Connor (“The End,” “AI”) reprise their roles as senior lawyers.
Joining them is an all-star Australian cast including: Tasma Walton (“Mystery Road,” “Sweet As”), Kris McQuade (“Rosehaven”), Amy Mathews (“A Place to Call Home”), Erroll Shand (“The Clearing”), Fayssal Bazzi (“Shantaram”), Josh McKenzie (“La Brea”), Anthony Brandon Wong (“Queen of Oz”), Stefanie Caccamo (“Fighting Season”), Sharon Johal (“Neighbours,” “Shantaram”), Luke Pegler (“Ladies In Black”), Adriano Cappelletta...
- 8/31/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Toronto-headquartered animation outfit Paperboat Animation Studios has revealed a new slate.
The slate is led by “Kabuliwala: Man from Kabul,” a 3D animated feature based on the classic short story by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The story, which has already been adapted several times as live-action features, tells the story of the bond between a 6-year-old girl from Kolkata, India, and an immigrant hawker from Kabul, Afghanistan.
Paperboat co-founder and chief creative director Soumitra Ranade, whose credits include “Bombay Rose” and “The World of Goopy and Bagha,” adapted the story and will direct. The project won a script development award at the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, Brisbane, and was selected for the MPA-apsa-Busan International Film Festival project pitch.
Paperboat was recently acquired by Singapore-based media content and technology company Vistas Media Capital.
“Kabuliwala” is being shepherded by veteran Hollywood producer and financier Benjamin Waisbren, who recently joined Vistas to lead...
The slate is led by “Kabuliwala: Man from Kabul,” a 3D animated feature based on the classic short story by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The story, which has already been adapted several times as live-action features, tells the story of the bond between a 6-year-old girl from Kolkata, India, and an immigrant hawker from Kabul, Afghanistan.
Paperboat co-founder and chief creative director Soumitra Ranade, whose credits include “Bombay Rose” and “The World of Goopy and Bagha,” adapted the story and will direct. The project won a script development award at the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, Brisbane, and was selected for the MPA-apsa-Busan International Film Festival project pitch.
Paperboat was recently acquired by Singapore-based media content and technology company Vistas Media Capital.
“Kabuliwala” is being shepherded by veteran Hollywood producer and financier Benjamin Waisbren, who recently joined Vistas to lead...
- 5/20/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
As another calendar year draws to a close, it’s time again for Deadline’s annual list of winter premiere dates for new and returning TV series. The list covers more than 250 broadcast, cable and streaming programs debuting from January 1 through March 31 and includes series and season/half-season debuts, shows’ return from hiatus and some one-off specials such as live sports and awards shows.
Please send any additions or adjustments to erik@deadline.com. We’ll update this post regularly as more dates are revealed.
January 1:
Ghost Hunters
2022 NHL Winter Classic (TNT, live sports special)
Crikey! It’s the Irwins
New York Homicide (Oxygen, new docuseries)
The ’80s: Top; Ten
The Uncommon History of Very Common Things (Crackle, Season 1B)
January 2:
The Equalizer
NCIS: Los Angeles
Seal Team
Next Level Chef
The Simpsons
The Great North
Mountain Monsters (Discovery+, Season 6)
Dirty Jobs
This Came Out of Me (Discovery, new docuseries)
Masterpiece: Around the World in 80 Days
Home Town
Ugliest House in America
Guy’s Chance of a Lifetime
Alex vs. America (Food Network, new competition series)
Come Follow Up
January 3:
The Bachelor
The Neighborhood
Bob ♥ Abishola
NCIS
NCIS: Hawai’i
Kenan
Ordinary Joe (Season 1B)
9-1-1 Lone Star (Fox, Season 3)
The Cleaning Lady (Fox, new drama series)
Antiques Roadshow (PBS, Season 26)
Doctors (BritBox, Season 23 of UK series; U.S. premiere)
January 4:
Abbott Elementary (ABC, new comedy series; time slot premiere)
Black-ish (ABC, Season 8; final season)
Queens
Judge Steve Harvey (ABC, new courtroom series)
FBI
FBI: International
FBI: Most Wanted
This Is Us
New Amsterdam
Action Pack
Family Dinner
Murder Under the Friday Night Lights (Investigation Discovery, new docuseries),
Finding Your Roots (PBS, Season 8)
Tyler Perry’s Sistas (OWN, Season 4)
Speak Sis
Chopped: Casino Royale (Food Network, new competition miniseries)
Itch (Byu tv, Season 2)
January 5:
The Goldbergs
The Wonder Years
The Conners
Home Economics
The Chase (ABC, Season 2)
The Amazing Race (CBS, Season 33)
Good Sam (CBS, new drama series)
Chicago Med
Chicago Fire
Chicago P.D.
I Can See Your Voice
Next Level Chef
Worst Cooks in America
Aew: Dynamite
Married at First Sight (Lifetime, Season 14)
Married at First Sight: The Afterparty
Beyond Oak Island (History, Season 2)
American Greed (CNBC, Season 15)
Catfish: The TV Show (MTV, Season 8B)
The Wizard of Paws
January 6:
Women of the Movement (ABC, new drama limited series)
Let the World See
Young Sheldon
United States of Al
Ghosts
B Positive
Bull
The Blacklist
Law & Order: Svu
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (MTV, Season 5)
Go-Big Show (TBS, Season 2)
Growing Up Hip Hop
BattleBots (Discovery, Season 10)
Elite Youth (FS1, Season 3)
January 7:
Undercover Boss
Magnum P.I.
Blue Bloods
Dateline NBC
Penn & Teller: Fool Us (The CW, Season 8B)
Nancy Drew
Search Party (HBO Max, Season 5; final season)
El Deafo (Apple TV+, new children’s animated series)
Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch (Discovery, Season 2)
A Discovery of Witches
Btk: Confession of a Serial Killer (A&e, new documentary miniseries)
Love During Lockup (We tv, new docuseries)
Ladies Who List: Atlanta (OWN, new unscripted series)
January 8:
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW, Season 18B)
World’s Funniest Animals
January 9:
Call Me Kat
Pivoting
Bob’s Burgers
Family Guy
Critics Choice Awards (The CW/TBS, live awards special)
Euphoria
The Righteous Gemstones (HBO, Season 2)
All Creatures Great and Small
Darcey & Stacey
Vienna Blood
Simply Giada
Vera
Attack on Titan
Family Rules
January 10:
Street Outlaws: Farmtruck and Azn
Street Outlaws: Okc
Black Market with Michael K. Williams (Vice TV, Season 2)
Queens of Mystery (Acorn TV, Season 2)
January 11:
Superman & Lois (The CW, Season 2)
Naomi
Wipeout
The Kings of Napa (OWN, new drama series)
Street Outlaws: Fastest in America
January 12:
The Amazing Race (CBS, Season 33; time slot premiere)
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Batwoman
Leave It to Geege
January 13:
Peacemaker
Next Influencer (Paramount+, Season 3; new network)
Married to Real Estate (HGTV, new docuseries)
A House Divided (AllBlk, Season 4)
January 14:
Archive 81
Secrets of Sulphur Springs
24 Hours in Police Custody
January 16:
Two Sentence Horror Stories (The CW, Season 3)
Legends of the Hidden Temple
January 17:
4400
January 18:
How I Met You Father
Married to Real Estate
Father Brown
January 20:
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS, Season 7)
Supernatural Academy (Peacock, new animated series)
La Fortuna (AMC+, new drama series)
Single Drunk Female (Freeform, new comedy series)
Total Control (Sundance Now, Season 2)
Men of West Hollywood
January 21:
Servant (Apple TV+, Season 3)
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
As We See It (Prime Video, new drama series)
8 Out of 10
January 22:
The Good Dish
January 23:
Billions (Showtime, Season 6)
January 24:
Promised Land
The Gilded Age
Snowpiercer (TNT, Season 3)
American Dad!
Secrets of Playboy (A&e, new docuseries)
Social Society
January 26:
Resident Alien (Syfy, Season 2)
January 27:
Walker
Legacies
Swamp People
Grown-ish (Freeform, Season 4B)
Fast Foodies (TruTV, Season 2)
January 28:
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
In from the Cold (Netflix, new drama series)
The Afterparty
The Legend of Vox Machina (Prime Video, new adult animated series)
My Killer Body with K. Michelle
January 29:
Million Dollar Hustle
January 30:
Monarch (Fox, new drama series)
We Need To Talk About Cosby (Showtime, new docuseries)
January 31:
64th Grammy Awards
Hope Street
February 1:
The Resident
Monarch (Fox, new drama series; time slot premiere)
Raising Dion
The Real Housewives of New Jersey (Bravo, Season 12)
February 2:
Celebrity Big Brother (CBS, Season 3)
Pam & Tommy (Hulu, new drama limited series)
February 3:
My Killer Body with K. Michelle
Million Dollar Hustle
February 4:
2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony
Reacher
February 5:
Mary Makes It Easy
February 6:
Power Book IV: Force
February 7:
American Experience (PBS, Season 34)
February 8:
Holly Hobbie
February 11:
Inventing Anna (Netflix, new drama series)
Dollface (Hulu, new comedy series)
February 13:
Super Bowl Lvi
Bel-Air (Peacock, new drama series reboot)
February 16:
Dr. Pimple Popper
February 18:
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
February 20:
2022 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony
The Walking Dead (AMC, Season 11B; final season)
Talking Dead
From (Epix, new drama series)
February 21:
American Song Contest (NBC, new competition series)
The Endgame
All American (The CW, Season 4B)
February 22:
Doubling Down with the Derricos (TLC, Season 3)
February 23:
Snowfall
February 24:
Law & Order
America ReFramed
February 25:
The Blacklist
Vikings: Valhalla
February 27:
28th SAG Awards
Super Pumped: The Battle for Ube
February 28:
Killing Eve (BBC America, Season 4; final season)
Better Things (FX, Season 5; final season)
March 3:
The Dropout (Hulu, new drama limited series)
March 6:
Riverdale
Outlander
Shining Vale (Starz, new comedy series)
Unexpected
March 8:
The Thing About Pam
March 9:
The Flash
Kung Fu
March 10:
The Orville: New Horizons
March 11:
Charmed (The CW, Season 4)
Dynasty
March 15:
Young Rock
Mr. Mayor
March 16:
Expedition with Steve Backshall: Unpacked
March 20:
Masterpiece: Sanditon
Call the Midwife
Before We Die
March 22:
Bridgerton (Netflix, Season 2)
March 24:
Atlanta
March 27:
94th Academy Awards
March 31:
How We Roll (CBS, new comedy series)
March Tba:
Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition
Winter Tba:
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
Fairview
Washingtonia
Conjuring Kesha
Control
One Perfect Shot
About Last Night
Family or Fiancé
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell
This Is Life with Lisa Ling
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
Dark Was the Night: The Life of Hitler
Patagonia
Lbj: Triumph and Tragedy
Nomad with Carlton McCoy
Home Town Kickstart
Fix My Flip
Flip or Flop Nashville (HGTV, Season 3)
I Bought a Dump… Now What?
The Katie Button Project
Inn the Works
Restoration Road with Clint Harp (Magnolia Network, Season 2)
Getting Back to Bri
Senorita 89
The Eggventurers
Millie and Lou (YouTube, new animated children’s series)
Solving for Zero
Untitled Climate Change (Wondrium, new documentary series; working title)...
Please send any additions or adjustments to erik@deadline.com. We’ll update this post regularly as more dates are revealed.
January 1:
Ghost Hunters
2022 NHL Winter Classic (TNT, live sports special)
Crikey! It’s the Irwins
New York Homicide (Oxygen, new docuseries)
The ’80s: Top; Ten
The Uncommon History of Very Common Things (Crackle, Season 1B)
January 2:
The Equalizer
NCIS: Los Angeles
Seal Team
Next Level Chef
The Simpsons
The Great North
Mountain Monsters (Discovery+, Season 6)
Dirty Jobs
This Came Out of Me (Discovery, new docuseries)
Masterpiece: Around the World in 80 Days
Home Town
Ugliest House in America
Guy’s Chance of a Lifetime
Alex vs. America (Food Network, new competition series)
Come Follow Up
January 3:
The Bachelor
The Neighborhood
Bob ♥ Abishola
NCIS
NCIS: Hawai’i
Kenan
Ordinary Joe (Season 1B)
9-1-1 Lone Star (Fox, Season 3)
The Cleaning Lady (Fox, new drama series)
Antiques Roadshow (PBS, Season 26)
Doctors (BritBox, Season 23 of UK series; U.S. premiere)
January 4:
Abbott Elementary (ABC, new comedy series; time slot premiere)
Black-ish (ABC, Season 8; final season)
Queens
Judge Steve Harvey (ABC, new courtroom series)
FBI
FBI: International
FBI: Most Wanted
This Is Us
New Amsterdam
Action Pack
Family Dinner
Murder Under the Friday Night Lights (Investigation Discovery, new docuseries),
Finding Your Roots (PBS, Season 8)
Tyler Perry’s Sistas (OWN, Season 4)
Speak Sis
Chopped: Casino Royale (Food Network, new competition miniseries)
Itch (Byu tv, Season 2)
January 5:
The Goldbergs
The Wonder Years
The Conners
Home Economics
The Chase (ABC, Season 2)
The Amazing Race (CBS, Season 33)
Good Sam (CBS, new drama series)
Chicago Med
Chicago Fire
Chicago P.D.
I Can See Your Voice
Next Level Chef
Worst Cooks in America
Aew: Dynamite
Married at First Sight (Lifetime, Season 14)
Married at First Sight: The Afterparty
Beyond Oak Island (History, Season 2)
American Greed (CNBC, Season 15)
Catfish: The TV Show (MTV, Season 8B)
The Wizard of Paws
January 6:
Women of the Movement (ABC, new drama limited series)
Let the World See
Young Sheldon
United States of Al
Ghosts
B Positive
Bull
The Blacklist
Law & Order: Svu
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (MTV, Season 5)
Go-Big Show (TBS, Season 2)
Growing Up Hip Hop
BattleBots (Discovery, Season 10)
Elite Youth (FS1, Season 3)
January 7:
Undercover Boss
Magnum P.I.
Blue Bloods
Dateline NBC
Penn & Teller: Fool Us (The CW, Season 8B)
Nancy Drew
Search Party (HBO Max, Season 5; final season)
El Deafo (Apple TV+, new children’s animated series)
Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch (Discovery, Season 2)
A Discovery of Witches
Btk: Confession of a Serial Killer (A&e, new documentary miniseries)
Love During Lockup (We tv, new docuseries)
Ladies Who List: Atlanta (OWN, new unscripted series)
January 8:
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW, Season 18B)
World’s Funniest Animals
January 9:
Call Me Kat
Pivoting
Bob’s Burgers
Family Guy
Critics Choice Awards (The CW/TBS, live awards special)
Euphoria
The Righteous Gemstones (HBO, Season 2)
All Creatures Great and Small
Darcey & Stacey
Vienna Blood
Simply Giada
Vera
Attack on Titan
Family Rules
January 10:
Street Outlaws: Farmtruck and Azn
Street Outlaws: Okc
Black Market with Michael K. Williams (Vice TV, Season 2)
Queens of Mystery (Acorn TV, Season 2)
January 11:
Superman & Lois (The CW, Season 2)
Naomi
Wipeout
The Kings of Napa (OWN, new drama series)
Street Outlaws: Fastest in America
January 12:
The Amazing Race (CBS, Season 33; time slot premiere)
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Batwoman
Leave It to Geege
January 13:
Peacemaker
Next Influencer (Paramount+, Season 3; new network)
Married to Real Estate (HGTV, new docuseries)
A House Divided (AllBlk, Season 4)
January 14:
Archive 81
Secrets of Sulphur Springs
24 Hours in Police Custody
January 16:
Two Sentence Horror Stories (The CW, Season 3)
Legends of the Hidden Temple
January 17:
4400
January 18:
How I Met You Father
Married to Real Estate
Father Brown
January 20:
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS, Season 7)
Supernatural Academy (Peacock, new animated series)
La Fortuna (AMC+, new drama series)
Single Drunk Female (Freeform, new comedy series)
Total Control (Sundance Now, Season 2)
Men of West Hollywood
January 21:
Servant (Apple TV+, Season 3)
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
As We See It (Prime Video, new drama series)
8 Out of 10
January 22:
The Good Dish
January 23:
Billions (Showtime, Season 6)
January 24:
Promised Land
The Gilded Age
Snowpiercer (TNT, Season 3)
American Dad!
Secrets of Playboy (A&e, new docuseries)
Social Society
January 26:
Resident Alien (Syfy, Season 2)
January 27:
Walker
Legacies
Swamp People
Grown-ish (Freeform, Season 4B)
Fast Foodies (TruTV, Season 2)
January 28:
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
In from the Cold (Netflix, new drama series)
The Afterparty
The Legend of Vox Machina (Prime Video, new adult animated series)
My Killer Body with K. Michelle
January 29:
Million Dollar Hustle
January 30:
Monarch (Fox, new drama series)
We Need To Talk About Cosby (Showtime, new docuseries)
January 31:
64th Grammy Awards
Hope Street
February 1:
The Resident
Monarch (Fox, new drama series; time slot premiere)
Raising Dion
The Real Housewives of New Jersey (Bravo, Season 12)
February 2:
Celebrity Big Brother (CBS, Season 3)
Pam & Tommy (Hulu, new drama limited series)
February 3:
My Killer Body with K. Michelle
Million Dollar Hustle
February 4:
2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony
Reacher
February 5:
Mary Makes It Easy
February 6:
Power Book IV: Force
February 7:
American Experience (PBS, Season 34)
February 8:
Holly Hobbie
February 11:
Inventing Anna (Netflix, new drama series)
Dollface (Hulu, new comedy series)
February 13:
Super Bowl Lvi
Bel-Air (Peacock, new drama series reboot)
February 16:
Dr. Pimple Popper
February 18:
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
February 20:
2022 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony
The Walking Dead (AMC, Season 11B; final season)
Talking Dead
From (Epix, new drama series)
February 21:
American Song Contest (NBC, new competition series)
The Endgame
All American (The CW, Season 4B)
February 22:
Doubling Down with the Derricos (TLC, Season 3)
February 23:
Snowfall
February 24:
Law & Order
America ReFramed
February 25:
The Blacklist
Vikings: Valhalla
February 27:
28th SAG Awards
Super Pumped: The Battle for Ube
February 28:
Killing Eve (BBC America, Season 4; final season)
Better Things (FX, Season 5; final season)
March 3:
The Dropout (Hulu, new drama limited series)
March 6:
Riverdale
Outlander
Shining Vale (Starz, new comedy series)
Unexpected
March 8:
The Thing About Pam
March 9:
The Flash
Kung Fu
March 10:
The Orville: New Horizons
March 11:
Charmed (The CW, Season 4)
Dynasty
March 15:
Young Rock
Mr. Mayor
March 16:
Expedition with Steve Backshall: Unpacked
March 20:
Masterpiece: Sanditon
Call the Midwife
Before We Die
March 22:
Bridgerton (Netflix, Season 2)
March 24:
Atlanta
March 27:
94th Academy Awards
March 31:
How We Roll (CBS, new comedy series)
March Tba:
Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition
Winter Tba:
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
Fairview
Washingtonia
Conjuring Kesha
Control
One Perfect Shot
About Last Night
Family or Fiancé
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell
This Is Life with Lisa Ling
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
Dark Was the Night: The Life of Hitler
Patagonia
Lbj: Triumph and Tragedy
Nomad with Carlton McCoy
Home Town Kickstart
Fix My Flip
Flip or Flop Nashville (HGTV, Season 3)
I Bought a Dump… Now What?
The Katie Button Project
Inn the Works
Restoration Road with Clint Harp (Magnolia Network, Season 2)
Getting Back to Bri
Senorita 89
The Eggventurers
Millie and Lou (YouTube, new animated children’s series)
Solving for Zero
Untitled Climate Change (Wondrium, new documentary series; working title)...
- 12/25/2021
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Short films Two Sands and In Australia have snared the lion’s share of nominations for the Wa Screen Culture Awards, recognised across both the innovation and outstanding achievement award categories.
Now in its second year, the WASCAs are presented and produced by the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Wa screen industry, to recognise new, established, and emerging screen practitioners across a variety of disciplines.
Of this year’s nominees, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger’s Two Sands is the most represented with eight nods, while Miley Tunnecliffe’s In Australia has seven.
There is also good news for Rush Films, with Gracie Otto’s Under the Volcano, Frances Elliott and Samantha Marlow’s Girl Like You, and Jacqueline Pelczar’s Sparkles all scoring multiple nominations.
Revelation Film Festival director Richard Sowada said he couldn’t wait to reveal the deliberations of the 36 screen professionals that make up the jury for the awards.
Now in its second year, the WASCAs are presented and produced by the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Wa screen industry, to recognise new, established, and emerging screen practitioners across a variety of disciplines.
Of this year’s nominees, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger’s Two Sands is the most represented with eight nods, while Miley Tunnecliffe’s In Australia has seven.
There is also good news for Rush Films, with Gracie Otto’s Under the Volcano, Frances Elliott and Samantha Marlow’s Girl Like You, and Jacqueline Pelczar’s Sparkles all scoring multiple nominations.
Revelation Film Festival director Richard Sowada said he couldn’t wait to reveal the deliberations of the 36 screen professionals that make up the jury for the awards.
- 11/24/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Screen Producers Australia (Spa) has unveiled the first finalists for its 2022 awards, which will cover an extended, two-year period due to Covid-19.
Announced today are the nominees in three categories: Animated Series Production of the Year, Children’s Series Production of the Year and Online Series Production of the Year.
The children’s category looks to be particularly competitive, including second seasons of the Emmy-winning Bluey (Ludo Studio) and Hardball (Northern Pictures) and the currently Emmy-nominated First Day (Epic Films), in addition to 100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone (Flying Bark Productions), Are You Tougher Than Your Ancestors? (Sticky Pictures/Flying Kite Pictures), Itch (Komixx Entertainment) and The New Legends of Monkey (See-Saw Films).
Flying Bark is also up for the animated series gong for Lego: Monkie Kid, as is Ludo Studio for The Strange Chores with Media World Pictures. Also earning two nominations is Mashup Pictures, with Phenomena and Youth on Strike!
Announced today are the nominees in three categories: Animated Series Production of the Year, Children’s Series Production of the Year and Online Series Production of the Year.
The children’s category looks to be particularly competitive, including second seasons of the Emmy-winning Bluey (Ludo Studio) and Hardball (Northern Pictures) and the currently Emmy-nominated First Day (Epic Films), in addition to 100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone (Flying Bark Productions), Are You Tougher Than Your Ancestors? (Sticky Pictures/Flying Kite Pictures), Itch (Komixx Entertainment) and The New Legends of Monkey (See-Saw Films).
Flying Bark is also up for the animated series gong for Lego: Monkie Kid, as is Ludo Studio for The Strange Chores with Media World Pictures. Also earning two nominations is Mashup Pictures, with Phenomena and Youth on Strike!
- 9/28/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Shorts have arguably suffered the most in the wake of the mass cinema closures over the last year. Almost always relegated to the dim light of a laptop screen anyway, without our live, in-person, in-cinema film festivals, shorts haven’t been seen big and loud in much too long, and when they have been, have only done so in punishingly small numbers.
But with FrightFest’s return, there’s hope, as the fest and its programmers show no sign of taking a step back with its Short Film Showcases, packing three feature-length slots full of the good stuff. The best of which we’ve cobbled together and outlined below:
David J. Ellison’s Familiar is, as it’s title might suggest, nothing sensationally new. But while it ticks a lot of the classic gothic horror boxes, it’s Ellison’s terrific appetite for atmosphere that makes it a must, building...
But with FrightFest’s return, there’s hope, as the fest and its programmers show no sign of taking a step back with its Short Film Showcases, packing three feature-length slots full of the good stuff. The best of which we’ve cobbled together and outlined below:
David J. Ellison’s Familiar is, as it’s title might suggest, nothing sensationally new. But while it ticks a lot of the classic gothic horror boxes, it’s Ellison’s terrific appetite for atmosphere that makes it a must, building...
- 8/30/2021
- by Ben Robins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
English actress, television presenter, and comedian Sally Phillips will lead writer/director Renée Webster’s debut feature How to Please a Woman when filming on the comedy/drama gets underway in Wa this month.
Phillips plays Gina, a 50-something woman who has a business idea to launch an all-male house-cleaning service. However, when her business grows out of control, Gina must acknowledge her own appetite if she is to make a new life for herself.
The cast also includes Erik Thomson, Alexander England, Caroline Brazier, Tasma Walton, Roz Hammond, Cameron Daddo and New Zealander Josh Thomson.
How to Please a Woman is being produced by Tania Chambers of Feisty Dame Productions and Judi Levine of Such Much Films, with Deanne Weir, Roxana McMallan, Olivia Humphrey, Adrian and Michela Fini, and Pam and Julius Colman coming on board as executive producers.
Phillips said the opportunity to work with the team of...
Phillips plays Gina, a 50-something woman who has a business idea to launch an all-male house-cleaning service. However, when her business grows out of control, Gina must acknowledge her own appetite if she is to make a new life for herself.
The cast also includes Erik Thomson, Alexander England, Caroline Brazier, Tasma Walton, Roz Hammond, Cameron Daddo and New Zealander Josh Thomson.
How to Please a Woman is being produced by Tania Chambers of Feisty Dame Productions and Judi Levine of Such Much Films, with Deanne Weir, Roxana McMallan, Olivia Humphrey, Adrian and Michela Fini, and Pam and Julius Colman coming on board as executive producers.
Phillips said the opportunity to work with the team of...
- 4/12/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
The ABC has commissioned two new live-action children’s series, Aquarius Films’ Parent Up and Fremantle Australia’s The Pm’s Daughter.
Both supported by Screen Australia, the series will go into production this year, joining MaveriX, Itch season 2 and Hardball season 2 on ABC Me’s narrative drama slate.
A comedy action series for 8-13 year olds, Parent Up is created and executive produced by Justine Flynn (The Unlisted). It follows Yu Na and Min Park, who want more excitement in their lives. However, they don’t realise just how crazy their lives will become when they discover their once unremarkable parents are actually international spies and have disappeared in suspicious circumstances.
Writing with Flynn are Michelle Lim Davidson, Andrew Lee, Tiffany Zehnal, Melissa Lee Speyer, Tristram Baumber, Sophia Chung, Hyun Lee, Alice McCredie-Dando and David Park.
Directors will include Nick Verso, Chase Lee, Hyun Lee, Darlene Johnson, Neil Sharma and Flynn.
Both supported by Screen Australia, the series will go into production this year, joining MaveriX, Itch season 2 and Hardball season 2 on ABC Me’s narrative drama slate.
A comedy action series for 8-13 year olds, Parent Up is created and executive produced by Justine Flynn (The Unlisted). It follows Yu Na and Min Park, who want more excitement in their lives. However, they don’t realise just how crazy their lives will become when they discover their once unremarkable parents are actually international spies and have disappeared in suspicious circumstances.
Writing with Flynn are Michelle Lim Davidson, Andrew Lee, Tiffany Zehnal, Melissa Lee Speyer, Tristram Baumber, Sophia Chung, Hyun Lee, Alice McCredie-Dando and David Park.
Directors will include Nick Verso, Chase Lee, Hyun Lee, Darlene Johnson, Neil Sharma and Flynn.
- 2/25/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The second instalment of ABC/Komixx Entertainment’s Itch was the first drama to recommence in Western Australia last year, thanks in part to virtual production technology used to contain sets.
Like many in the industry, Komixx Entertainment MD and head of global production Amanda Morrison had followed with interest the technology used by Jon Favreau on Disney’s The Mandalorian.
After then attending an R&d demo of LED screens by Perth company Last Pixel, she was convinced virtual production could be done locally on Itch.
Indeed, the pandemic seems to have ramped up broader industry interest in VP as such shoots can allow for smaller crews, contained sets, and the technology can create photo-realistic environments.
Set up within ABC Studios, Last Pixel provided Komixx with both the VFX and LED screens to be used for simulated car chases and scenes within an underground bunker. Morrison believes Itch may...
Like many in the industry, Komixx Entertainment MD and head of global production Amanda Morrison had followed with interest the technology used by Jon Favreau on Disney’s The Mandalorian.
After then attending an R&d demo of LED screens by Perth company Last Pixel, she was convinced virtual production could be done locally on Itch.
Indeed, the pandemic seems to have ramped up broader industry interest in VP as such shoots can allow for smaller crews, contained sets, and the technology can create photo-realistic environments.
Set up within ABC Studios, Last Pixel provided Komixx with both the VFX and LED screens to be used for simulated car chases and scenes within an underground bunker. Morrison believes Itch may...
- 1/19/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Willie Rowe has announced his resignation as CEO of Screenwest, due to depart next July next year or whenever a suitable replacement is found.
Rowe initially came on as Screenwest CEO in an interim capacity following the abrupt departure of Seph McKenna in September 2018, before being officially appointed for a three year term.
He was a fit for the role having previously been Screenwest chair. Rowe had also held positions such as interim CEO of the Wa Aids Council, chief of staff to Wa Premier Colin Barnett, a director of consulting group Gryphon Management Australia and director of policy for Wa Premier Richard Court.
As CEO, Rowe helped lead Screenwest as it transitioned from a state screen agency to an independent non-profit, and as Wa saw a production upswing with projects such as Mystery Road, Itch, Dirt Music, Rams, Upright and H is for Happiness.
Furhter, Rowe helped to secure...
Rowe initially came on as Screenwest CEO in an interim capacity following the abrupt departure of Seph McKenna in September 2018, before being officially appointed for a three year term.
He was a fit for the role having previously been Screenwest chair. Rowe had also held positions such as interim CEO of the Wa Aids Council, chief of staff to Wa Premier Colin Barnett, a director of consulting group Gryphon Management Australia and director of policy for Wa Premier Richard Court.
As CEO, Rowe helped lead Screenwest as it transitioned from a state screen agency to an independent non-profit, and as Wa saw a production upswing with projects such as Mystery Road, Itch, Dirt Music, Rams, Upright and H is for Happiness.
Furhter, Rowe helped to secure...
- 12/1/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Aacta has unveiled the final set of nominees for its upcoming awards, including the craft categories in television and documentary, as well as those up for the VFX, casting and the Best Asian Film awards.
Leading the charge in television is Matchbox Pictures/Dirty Films’ Stateless, which notched another 11 nominations today, taking its overall tally to 18.
Fellow ABC series Mystery Road, produced by Bunya Productions, follows with a total of 14 nominations.
Stateless helmers Emma Freeman and Jocelyn Moorhouse are both nominated for Best Direction in A Television Drama or Comedy. They will vie against Mystery Road‘s Wayne Blair and Warwick Thornton, and Simon Francis, who shot Anne Edmond’s Amazon stand-up special.
Thornton is a double nominee, also garnering recognition for his cinematography on Mystery Road, up against Marden Dean for The Commons; Martin McGrath for Operation Buffalo, and Bonnie Elliott for Stateless.
Nominated in the TV screenplay category...
Leading the charge in television is Matchbox Pictures/Dirty Films’ Stateless, which notched another 11 nominations today, taking its overall tally to 18.
Fellow ABC series Mystery Road, produced by Bunya Productions, follows with a total of 14 nominations.
Stateless helmers Emma Freeman and Jocelyn Moorhouse are both nominated for Best Direction in A Television Drama or Comedy. They will vie against Mystery Road‘s Wayne Blair and Warwick Thornton, and Simon Francis, who shot Anne Edmond’s Amazon stand-up special.
Thornton is a double nominee, also garnering recognition for his cinematography on Mystery Road, up against Marden Dean for The Commons; Martin McGrath for Operation Buffalo, and Bonnie Elliott for Stateless.
Nominated in the TV screenplay category...
- 11/18/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Australia’s leading children’s TV producers today called on the Federal Government to review its planned media reforms, warning that abolishing the free-to-air broadcasters’ children content quotas will result in thousands of job losses.
The coalition is seeking an urgent meeting with the government to work on changing policies to sustain children’s production and enable producers to continue to access the Producer Offset.
“Unless these amendments are urgently implemented we fear many thousands of jobs will be lost and highly successful and profitable production companies will be forced to close,” the group said.
“The government’s decision to effectively shut down the production of local children’s content will have a detrimental impact on the Australian community and especially its children.”
By abolishing the quotas for children’s content and with no requirements on the streamers or other adjustments, the government has left the sector stranded, it says.
The coalition is seeking an urgent meeting with the government to work on changing policies to sustain children’s production and enable producers to continue to access the Producer Offset.
“Unless these amendments are urgently implemented we fear many thousands of jobs will be lost and highly successful and profitable production companies will be forced to close,” the group said.
“The government’s decision to effectively shut down the production of local children’s content will have a detrimental impact on the Australian community and especially its children.”
By abolishing the quotas for children’s content and with no requirements on the streamers or other adjustments, the government has left the sector stranded, it says.
- 10/11/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Nakkiah Lui, Sarah Kern and Tai Hara.
Screen Australia today announced $2.7 million of production funding, going towards two features, one TV drama, one children’s drama and five online projects.
The slate includes the Roache-Turner brothers’ Wyrmwood Apocalypse, sequel to 2014’s Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead; writer/director Sara Kern’s debut feature Vesna; Nakkiah Lui and Gabe Dowrick’s ABC comedy Preppers; and a second season of Komixx Entertainment’s Itch.
Screen Australia head of content Sally Caplan said: “This slate of projects is testament to the breadth of Australian storytellers and what they’re capable of creating when supported. We are committed to elevating the careers of emerging talent and it’s exciting to see the likes of Sara Kern making her feature film debut, Nakkiah Lui creating her first longer form TV series and actor Tai Hara moving into directing with online series Colour Blind.”
“I’m...
Screen Australia today announced $2.7 million of production funding, going towards two features, one TV drama, one children’s drama and five online projects.
The slate includes the Roache-Turner brothers’ Wyrmwood Apocalypse, sequel to 2014’s Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead; writer/director Sara Kern’s debut feature Vesna; Nakkiah Lui and Gabe Dowrick’s ABC comedy Preppers; and a second season of Komixx Entertainment’s Itch.
Screen Australia head of content Sally Caplan said: “This slate of projects is testament to the breadth of Australian storytellers and what they’re capable of creating when supported. We are committed to elevating the careers of emerging talent and it’s exciting to see the likes of Sara Kern making her feature film debut, Nakkiah Lui creating her first longer form TV series and actor Tai Hara moving into directing with online series Colour Blind.”
“I’m...
- 8/26/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Libbie Doherty.
Libbie Doherty, the ABC’s head of children’s content, is at the forefront of the broadcaster’s drive to achieve better representation of Australia’s diverse population on screen and among its workforce.
“Our content needs to look like what children are experiencing in classrooms, sports clubs and hanging out in the mall. We want our world on screen to reflect what they’re doing,” Doherty said in a webinar this week with Screen Producers Australia CEO Matt Deaner.
The executive outlined a raft of initiatives designed to redress gender imbalance and improve cultural and linguistic diversity (Cald) in the workforce, and paid tribute to animation producers for continuing to work during the pandemic.
Later this year, Covid-19 restrictions permitting, the ABC will invite three mid-career directors from Cald backgrounds to work on Play School.
Each year the ABC teams up with Screen Australia on an initiative...
Libbie Doherty, the ABC’s head of children’s content, is at the forefront of the broadcaster’s drive to achieve better representation of Australia’s diverse population on screen and among its workforce.
“Our content needs to look like what children are experiencing in classrooms, sports clubs and hanging out in the mall. We want our world on screen to reflect what they’re doing,” Doherty said in a webinar this week with Screen Producers Australia CEO Matt Deaner.
The executive outlined a raft of initiatives designed to redress gender imbalance and improve cultural and linguistic diversity (Cald) in the workforce, and paid tribute to animation producers for continuing to work during the pandemic.
Later this year, Covid-19 restrictions permitting, the ABC will invite three mid-career directors from Cald backgrounds to work on Play School.
Each year the ABC teams up with Screen Australia on an initiative...
- 8/20/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Holden Sheppard.
Feisty Dame Productions’ Tania Chambers and writer-director Nick Verso have optioned Invisible Boys, Holden Sheppard’s debut novel which follows three 16-year-olds as they come to terms with their homosexuality in a small town in Western Australia.
The protagonists are Charlie, a hardcore rocker who’s not as tough as he looks, Hammer, a footy jock with big Afl dreams and an even bigger ego, and Zeke, a shy over-achiever who is never macho enough for his family.
All three boys hide who they really are. According to the publishers, the novel “depicts the complexities and trauma of rural gay identity with painful honesty, devastating consequence and, ultimately, hope.”
Sheppard fielded a number of offers for the screen rights. “Nick and I clicked really well. Nick is also a gay man, and we spent time over the phone and on Skype discovering that we both have very similar...
Feisty Dame Productions’ Tania Chambers and writer-director Nick Verso have optioned Invisible Boys, Holden Sheppard’s debut novel which follows three 16-year-olds as they come to terms with their homosexuality in a small town in Western Australia.
The protagonists are Charlie, a hardcore rocker who’s not as tough as he looks, Hammer, a footy jock with big Afl dreams and an even bigger ego, and Zeke, a shy over-achiever who is never macho enough for his family.
All three boys hide who they really are. According to the publishers, the novel “depicts the complexities and trauma of rural gay identity with painful honesty, devastating consequence and, ultimately, hope.”
Sheppard fielded a number of offers for the screen rights. “Nick and I clicked really well. Nick is also a gay man, and we spent time over the phone and on Skype discovering that we both have very similar...
- 8/17/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Melvin Montalban and Natalie Bailey.
Short films, music videos and Tvc director Melvin Montalban will make his TV debut on The Unusual Suspects, Aquarius Films’ four-part heist caper commissioned by Sbs.
Natalie Bailey, whose recent credits include helming three episodes of Avenue 5, Armando Iannucci’s HBO comedy starring Hugh Laurie and Run, an HBO series starring and executive produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, will direct the other two episodes.
Scripted by Vonne Patiag (Halal Gurls), Jessica Redenbach and Roger Monk and set in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs, the plot revolves around the theft of a $10 million necklace from self-made Filipina businesswoman Roxanne Waters’ home during her twins’ birthday party,
The ensuing police investigation exposes hidden rivalries, shady business deals and forbidden affairs. No one is safe from suspicion, including socialite Sara Beasley whose life is crumbling fast, and her long-suffering nanny, Evie De La Rosa, a godmother of sorts for other Filipino domestic workers.
Short films, music videos and Tvc director Melvin Montalban will make his TV debut on The Unusual Suspects, Aquarius Films’ four-part heist caper commissioned by Sbs.
Natalie Bailey, whose recent credits include helming three episodes of Avenue 5, Armando Iannucci’s HBO comedy starring Hugh Laurie and Run, an HBO series starring and executive produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, will direct the other two episodes.
Scripted by Vonne Patiag (Halal Gurls), Jessica Redenbach and Roger Monk and set in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs, the plot revolves around the theft of a $10 million necklace from self-made Filipina businesswoman Roxanne Waters’ home during her twins’ birthday party,
The ensuing police investigation exposes hidden rivalries, shady business deals and forbidden affairs. No one is safe from suspicion, including socialite Sara Beasley whose life is crumbling fast, and her long-suffering nanny, Evie De La Rosa, a godmother of sorts for other Filipino domestic workers.
- 8/16/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Tania Chambers.
Years of perseverance in developing feature films and TV series with multiple collaborators are paying off for producer Tania Chambers.
The MD of Feisty Dame Productions is in the midst of financing How to Please a Woman and casting the co-lead of Time to Tango, a feature inspired by Miranda Edmonds and Khrob Edmonds’ short film Tango Underpants.
In addition, she is holding a writers’ room on a TV drama with such talent as Renée Webster, Miley Tunnecliffe and Kelly Lefever.
Webster is writing and will direct How to Please a Woman, a comedy-drama about a mature woman who must embrace her sexuality when her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control.
Supported in development since 2016 by Screen Australia and Screenwest, the film has an Australian distributor and sales agent attached and the plan is to start shooting in Perth in March with funding from Screenwest’s West Coast Visions.
Years of perseverance in developing feature films and TV series with multiple collaborators are paying off for producer Tania Chambers.
The MD of Feisty Dame Productions is in the midst of financing How to Please a Woman and casting the co-lead of Time to Tango, a feature inspired by Miranda Edmonds and Khrob Edmonds’ short film Tango Underpants.
In addition, she is holding a writers’ room on a TV drama with such talent as Renée Webster, Miley Tunnecliffe and Kelly Lefever.
Webster is writing and will direct How to Please a Woman, a comedy-drama about a mature woman who must embrace her sexuality when her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control.
Supported in development since 2016 by Screen Australia and Screenwest, the film has an Australian distributor and sales agent attached and the plan is to start shooting in Perth in March with funding from Screenwest’s West Coast Visions.
- 8/3/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘H is for Happiness’, previously supported by the Warff.
The Western Australian Government has topped up the state’s regional film fund with a further $16 million over the next four years.
Screenwest will administer the Wa Screen Fund, designed to encourage production in regional areas, boost local economies and drive tourism.
The funds come via the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development.
First launched in 2016, the Warff has helped to drive an upswing in production in Wa in recent years.
Among the projects the fund has backed are both seasons of Bunya Productions’ ABC drama Mystery Road, Lingo Pictures’ Upright, Komixx Entertainment’s children’s series Itch, docuseries Aussie Gold Hunters, as well as films such as Gregor Jordan’s Dirt Music, Simon Baker’s Breath, Jeremy Sims’ Rams, Owen Trevor’s Go!, Ben Elton’s Three Summers and John Sheedy’s H is for Happiness.
The new fund...
The Western Australian Government has topped up the state’s regional film fund with a further $16 million over the next four years.
Screenwest will administer the Wa Screen Fund, designed to encourage production in regional areas, boost local economies and drive tourism.
The funds come via the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development.
First launched in 2016, the Warff has helped to drive an upswing in production in Wa in recent years.
Among the projects the fund has backed are both seasons of Bunya Productions’ ABC drama Mystery Road, Lingo Pictures’ Upright, Komixx Entertainment’s children’s series Itch, docuseries Aussie Gold Hunters, as well as films such as Gregor Jordan’s Dirt Music, Simon Baker’s Breath, Jeremy Sims’ Rams, Owen Trevor’s Go!, Ben Elton’s Three Summers and John Sheedy’s H is for Happiness.
The new fund...
- 6/17/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Rachel Griffiths, Liz Doran and Que Minh Luu.
Screen Australia has announced the 18 members of the new iteration of the Gender Matters Taskforce, which provides independent advice to the agency, and works beyond Screen Australia’s direct sphere of influence to deliver outcomes for female creatives and assist in broader industry efforts to achieve gender parity.
Formed in 2016 and updated in 2018, the Gender Matters Taskforce is a volunteer-based advisory body made up of women working across the Australian screen sector. Returning members include taskforce chair Joanna Werner; deputy chair Deanne Weir and Lisa French.
Werner said: “These 18 brilliant women represent a cross section of the screen sector and come from varying backgrounds with a range of expertise locally and internationally. This taskforce will be integral in helping to shape Screen Australia’s next steps as well as promoting the broader industry systemic change that is needed.”
“Whilst Screen Australia’s...
Screen Australia has announced the 18 members of the new iteration of the Gender Matters Taskforce, which provides independent advice to the agency, and works beyond Screen Australia’s direct sphere of influence to deliver outcomes for female creatives and assist in broader industry efforts to achieve gender parity.
Formed in 2016 and updated in 2018, the Gender Matters Taskforce is a volunteer-based advisory body made up of women working across the Australian screen sector. Returning members include taskforce chair Joanna Werner; deputy chair Deanne Weir and Lisa French.
Werner said: “These 18 brilliant women represent a cross section of the screen sector and come from varying backgrounds with a range of expertise locally and internationally. This taskforce will be integral in helping to shape Screen Australia’s next steps as well as promoting the broader industry systemic change that is needed.”
“Whilst Screen Australia’s...
- 2/27/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Top row (l-r) Polly Staniford, Sarah Shaw, Tania Chambers, Clayton Jacobson; middle: Jason Byrne, Rikki Lea Bestall, Dena Curtis, Liz Watts, Vincent Sheehan, Anna Vincent; bottom: Steve Jaggi, Scott Corfield, Kristian Moliere.
Polly Staniford, Sarah Shaw, Tania Chambers, Kristian Moliere, Liz Watts and Vincent Sheehan are among a delegation of 13 film and television producers who will travel to Los Angeles to meet with more than 30 development companies and streaming services next month.
The mission is led by Ausfilm as part of its annual Partner with Australia producer connection program. The goal is to provide strategic opportunities for Australian producers with commercially viable feature and TV projects that hold international appeal.
The initiative also supports Ausfilm’s corporate membership of screen services businesses by connecting these companies to Us film and television executives and Australian producers. The program runs from April 14-17.
Supported by Create Nsw, Film Victoria, Screen Queensland, the...
Polly Staniford, Sarah Shaw, Tania Chambers, Kristian Moliere, Liz Watts and Vincent Sheehan are among a delegation of 13 film and television producers who will travel to Los Angeles to meet with more than 30 development companies and streaming services next month.
The mission is led by Ausfilm as part of its annual Partner with Australia producer connection program. The goal is to provide strategic opportunities for Australian producers with commercially viable feature and TV projects that hold international appeal.
The initiative also supports Ausfilm’s corporate membership of screen services businesses by connecting these companies to Us film and television executives and Australian producers. The program runs from April 14-17.
Supported by Create Nsw, Film Victoria, Screen Queensland, the...
- 3/14/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Young adult, action-adventure TV series “Itch” has begun shooting in Western Australia through indie film and TV producer Komixx Entertainment. The show, to be delivered next year, will be broadcast in Australia by ABC Me, part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and distributed worldwide by ABC Commercial.
The 10-part series is a TV adaptation of former BBC 2 Radio broadcaster Simon Mayo’s best-selling teen novel of the same name, after Komixx acquired the rights in 2013. “Itch” tells the tale of a science obsessed teenager who discovers a new chemical element with extraordinary powers and is forced to go on the run to protect it from a sinister organization which wants it for its own ends.
It was developed for television by Komixx’s head of development, Melanie Halsall and writer Dan Berlinka. Other writing credits go to Ron Elliott, Heather Wilson, Jessica Brookman and Roger Monk. The producers are Amanda Morrison...
The 10-part series is a TV adaptation of former BBC 2 Radio broadcaster Simon Mayo’s best-selling teen novel of the same name, after Komixx acquired the rights in 2013. “Itch” tells the tale of a science obsessed teenager who discovers a new chemical element with extraordinary powers and is forced to go on the run to protect it from a sinister organization which wants it for its own ends.
It was developed for television by Komixx’s head of development, Melanie Halsall and writer Dan Berlinka. Other writing credits go to Ron Elliott, Heather Wilson, Jessica Brookman and Roger Monk. The producers are Amanda Morrison...
- 2/25/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Charles Russell, Samuel Ireland, Melanie Wozniak and Kylah Day in ‘Itch’ (Photo credit – Nic Duncan).
When BBC announcer Simon Mayo wrote a short story for Joe, his then 10-year-old son, he had no agent or publisher and he could not imagine the book turning into a TV series set halfway across the world in Australia.
Mayo’s tome Itch was published in 2012 and optioned the following year by Komixx Entertainment, the film and TV production company with headquarters in London and offices in Los Angeles.
Melanie Halsall, Komixx’s head of development, laboured for years on the project, which chronicles the adventures of Itchingham Lofte, a science-obsessed teenager who pursues the unusual and sometimes dangerous hobby of collecting all the elements on the periodic table.
When he discovers a new element with extraordinary powers he is forced to go on the run to protect it from sinister organisations who want it for their own ends.
When BBC announcer Simon Mayo wrote a short story for Joe, his then 10-year-old son, he had no agent or publisher and he could not imagine the book turning into a TV series set halfway across the world in Australia.
Mayo’s tome Itch was published in 2012 and optioned the following year by Komixx Entertainment, the film and TV production company with headquarters in London and offices in Los Angeles.
Melanie Halsall, Komixx’s head of development, laboured for years on the project, which chronicles the adventures of Itchingham Lofte, a science-obsessed teenager who pursues the unusual and sometimes dangerous hobby of collecting all the elements on the periodic table.
When he discovers a new element with extraordinary powers he is forced to go on the run to protect it from sinister organisations who want it for their own ends.
- 2/25/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Simon Brew Published Date Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 05:09
When Steven Spielberg came to make his film of Minority Report, the instruction he gave to his production designers was to make use of existing buildings and make them just look a little older. That, just because the story was set in the future, he reasoned we still lived in buildings 100 years old, and that ethos wouldn’t be any different in many decades time.
Simon Mayo’s latest novel, Blame, utilises a similar approach. The world he sets his slightly futuristic story in is eerily familiar, probably even more so than when he started writing the book. He uses familiar names and locations. He has a tootle down the motorway at one point. There’s much of modern Britain here, just framed from a slightly different angle.
We’re in a dystopia of sorts, where society’s thirsting for scapegoats and...
When Steven Spielberg came to make his film of Minority Report, the instruction he gave to his production designers was to make use of existing buildings and make them just look a little older. That, just because the story was set in the future, he reasoned we still lived in buildings 100 years old, and that ethos wouldn’t be any different in many decades time.
Simon Mayo’s latest novel, Blame, utilises a similar approach. The world he sets his slightly futuristic story in is eerily familiar, probably even more so than when he started writing the book. He uses familiar names and locations. He has a tootle down the motorway at one point. There’s much of modern Britain here, just framed from a slightly different angle.
We’re in a dystopia of sorts, where society’s thirsting for scapegoats and...
- 7/20/2016
- Den of Geek
Simon Brew Jul 21, 2016
Simon Mayo chats to us about writing, the importance of Stephen King, politics, Blame, and Basil Exposition...
Simon Mayo is a man of many talents. To cinema folk, he's one of the two voices behind Wittertainment, the BBC's flagship film programme (wassup, etc). To others, he plays choice songs on Radio 2. To me: he was also chairman of Melchester Rovers. And to a growing number of people, he's the author of some really fine works of fiction.
His latest, Blame, sees him heading into the world of Young Adult. And over a hot drink (him: civilised green tea, me: coffee caffeine rocket fuel concoction, no biscuits) we had a chat about what could almost be an accidental shift into non-fiction...
The last time I interviewed you I messed up my opening question when I tried to follow the Simon Mayo interview handbook, but I think I’ve got this nailed now.
Simon Mayo chats to us about writing, the importance of Stephen King, politics, Blame, and Basil Exposition...
Simon Mayo is a man of many talents. To cinema folk, he's one of the two voices behind Wittertainment, the BBC's flagship film programme (wassup, etc). To others, he plays choice songs on Radio 2. To me: he was also chairman of Melchester Rovers. And to a growing number of people, he's the author of some really fine works of fiction.
His latest, Blame, sees him heading into the world of Young Adult. And over a hot drink (him: civilised green tea, me: coffee caffeine rocket fuel concoction, no biscuits) we had a chat about what could almost be an accidental shift into non-fiction...
The last time I interviewed you I messed up my opening question when I tried to follow the Simon Mayo interview handbook, but I think I’ve got this nailed now.
- 7/19/2016
- Den of Geek
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Speaking to Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, Spectre director Sam Mendes has talked about trying to top Skyfall and avoiding reviews…
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo recorded a special Spectre edition of their BBC Radio 5 Live podcast today, at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square.
As well as a surprise appearance from Andrew Scott and a pre-recorded video interview with Daniel Craig, they were also joined by the director Sam Mendes for a hefty 20 minutes of chat. Soon after revealing that he doesn’t remember meeting Jason Isaacs at a New Year's Eve party, Mendes was asked what he thought of the critical reception Spectre has had so far. Many reviewers, ours included, have heaped praise on his second James Bond effort. How does this make him feel?
“Relieved,” he admitted. “Because everyone walking around the corridors at the press junket are smiling, which is always a good sign.
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Speaking to Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, Spectre director Sam Mendes has talked about trying to top Skyfall and avoiding reviews…
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo recorded a special Spectre edition of their BBC Radio 5 Live podcast today, at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square.
As well as a surprise appearance from Andrew Scott and a pre-recorded video interview with Daniel Craig, they were also joined by the director Sam Mendes for a hefty 20 minutes of chat. Soon after revealing that he doesn’t remember meeting Jason Isaacs at a New Year's Eve party, Mendes was asked what he thought of the critical reception Spectre has had so far. Many reviewers, ours included, have heaped praise on his second James Bond effort. How does this make him feel?
“Relieved,” he admitted. “Because everyone walking around the corridors at the press junket are smiling, which is always a good sign.
- 10/23/2015
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
Why Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's film review programme is an unmissable weekly listen for movie fans...
Here's an exchange between Mark Kermode (bold) and Simon Mayo (italics) that took place on Friday 21st August 2015, as part of Kermode & Mayo's Film Review programme. For the purpose of context, this conversation was initially sparked by the film Sinister 2. A film that, despite the words that follow, Mr Kermode wasn't keen on.
"I like anything that involves Super 8 movies, and the idea of cameras, and the lacing up of projectors. There's something very... almost erotic about lacing up a projector."
"No there's not."
"There is."
"No there isn't."
"I'm sorry, there's..."
"What is erotic about lacing up a camera?"
"I can't explain it..."
"Well."
"There's a frisson. The way the celluloid goes through the sprockets."
"Is it to do with sprockets and holes? Is that what you're talking about?"
"No!
Here's an exchange between Mark Kermode (bold) and Simon Mayo (italics) that took place on Friday 21st August 2015, as part of Kermode & Mayo's Film Review programme. For the purpose of context, this conversation was initially sparked by the film Sinister 2. A film that, despite the words that follow, Mr Kermode wasn't keen on.
"I like anything that involves Super 8 movies, and the idea of cameras, and the lacing up of projectors. There's something very... almost erotic about lacing up a projector."
"No there's not."
"There is."
"No there isn't."
"I'm sorry, there's..."
"What is erotic about lacing up a camera?"
"I can't explain it..."
"Well."
"There's a frisson. The way the celluloid goes through the sprockets."
"Is it to do with sprockets and holes? Is that what you're talking about?"
"No!
- 9/7/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
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