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Top of the Lake: China Girl Q&A with Jane Campion
Catch Academy Award Winner Jane Campion discussing the eagerly awaited second season of her hit show Top of the Lake at the Opera House. Join the exclusive screening of China Girl as well as a panel with Jane and her creative team here.
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Creating CLEVERMAN
Catch Jada Alberts and Jake Nash at Carriageworks next month to de-brief on everything CLEVERMAN Season 2. The Video Junkee panel will be held on the 29th of July following the release of CLEVERMAN’s hotly anticipated second season. Click here to book your tickets.
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Top of the Lake Season 2 Premier
The next instalment of Jane Campion’s acclaimed series is debuting in full at the New Zealand International Film Festival. TOP OF THE LAKE: CHINA GIRL will follow detective Robin Griffin to Sydney. Watch the trailer below:
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Billie Pleffer to direct DEADLOCK
ABC and Screen Australia have announced the production of DEADLOCK, a teenage-focused ABC iview series set in and around Byron Bay, will begin on the north coast of NSW in July with writer/director Billie Pleffer at the helm. Based on an original concept from Deb Cox, and developed with Billie Pleffer, with additional workshop collaboration from SKINS creator Brian Elsley, DEADLOCK crashes though the incredible highs, heartbreak, camaraderie, laughs and bittersweet sorrow of what it is to be a teenager. ...
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SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY premiers on Thursday
Directed by Glendyn Ivin, SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY, is receiving rave reviews in anticipation of it’s premier on ABC1 on Thursday night. “Ivin infuses his work with a cool, composed sense of style, his images often hovering on the edge of abstraction as he photographs his characters largely in close-up. It’s another refined piece of artful direction, adding to his work on telemovie Beaconsfield and series Puberty Blues, Gallipoli and The Beautiful Lie. He has that gift for making shows ...
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ADG 2017 Award Nominess
Congratulations to Tony Krawitz & Luci Schroder who have been nominated in this year’s ADG Awards! BEST DIRECTION IN A SHORT FILM Luci Schroder for Slapper BEST DIRECTION IN A TV OR SVOD DRAMA SERIES Tony Krawitz for The Kettering Incident – The Search (Series 1, Episode 3) See the full list of nominees here
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HOGES premiers on Channel 7
Tune in to the premier of HOGES, this Sunday night on Channel 7! The two part biopic, written by Keith Thompson, chronicles the rise to fame of one of Australia’s most iconic figures, CROCODILE DUNDEE star, Paul Hogan.
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DARLENE JOHNSON JOINS HLA
HLA Management is thrilled to announce we now represent writer/director Darlene Johnson, an Australian Aborigine of the east-coast Dunghutti people of NSW. Darlene’s work explores themes of race, identity and perception in both documentary and fiction in STOLEN GENERATIONS (2001, nominated for an international Emmy Award), STRANGER IN MY SKIN (2002), FOLLOWING THE RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (2002), GULPILIL-ONE RED BLOOD (2002), CROCODILE DREAMING (2007), RIVER OF NO RETURN (2008), THE REDFERN STORY (2014, winner of Best Social Political documentary at the ...
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Stefan Duscio takes home Gold at the Victoria Tasmania ACS Awards
Congratulations to Stefan Duscio who took home Gold for both BARRACUDA (TV) and BACKTRACK (Feature) at the Victoria Tasmania ACS Awards on Saturday night!
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Tristram Baumber announced as one of Screen Australia’s Enterprise People Placements
Congratulations to comedy writer Tristram Baumber who has been announced as one of Screen Australia’s five successful Enterprise People placements. Tristram will expand on his credits at Aquarius Films where he will be mentored by creative partners Angie Fielder, Cecilia Ritchie and Polly Staniford (Lion, Berlin Syndrome, Wish You Were Here), and highly-respected script executive Greg Waters (Dance Academy, Secret City). See the full list of recipients here
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Alan John wins at the APRA Screen Music Awards
Congratulations to composer Alan John whose music for the ABC miniseries The Beautiful Lie, won the award for best music for a miniseries or telemovie in this year’s APRA Screen Music Awards.
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Congratulations 2016 APDG Award Winners!
Congratulations to Gabriela Tylesova and Annie Beauchamp for winning at last night’s APDG awards. Gabriela Tylesova – Jennie Tate Award for Costume design Live Performance (THE RABBITS) Annie Beauchamp – Photoplay Award for Design for a Commercial
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BARRACUDA Review
“Director of photography Stefan Duscio imbues the swimming scenes with a singular poetic beauty and power…” The Sydney Morning Herald gives BARRACUDA 4 stars in this wonderful review. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Barracuda: ABC TV series is The Slap of Olympic swimming dream July 10, 2016 Debi Enker ★★★★ Sunday, July 10, ABC, 8.40pm Danny Kelly (Elias Anton) is intense, stoic and watchful. When we first meet the 16-year-old scholarship student, he’s rising in darkness as the city sleeps. A talented ...
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CLEVERMAN first look review – “wickedly exciting and frantically thoughtful”
Directed by Wayne Blair, edited by Simon Price and designed by Jake Nash and Emily Seresin, the wickedly exciting and frantically thoughtful CLEVERMAN premiers on ABC 2, June. Read the full review here.
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SECRET CITY Trailer
Check out the new trailer for SECRET CITY, premiering on June 5. Featuring set design by Felicity Abbott and costume design by Mariot Kerr. Filmed in Parliament House and locations across Canberra and Sydney, SECRET CITY is inspired by the best-selling novels The Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code, written by Canberra political journalists Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis. Amidst rising tension between China and America, Canberra press gallery journalist Harriet Dunkley (played by Anna Torv) forces her way closer ...
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BLEAK featuring Jean Kittson premiers on ABC iView tonight
BLEAK featuring Jean Kittson, is among 6 pilots in the ABC’s new project Comedy Showroom. Premiering tonight on ABC iView, with one pilot airing each Wednesday on ABC TV, the broadcaster will be asking for audience feedback to help decide which show returns as a full series. Read more here
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THE KETTERING INCIDENT wins the special jury prize at the prestigious international Series Mania festival in Paris.
Congratulations to writer Cate Shortland and director Tony Krawitz, on THE KETTERING INCIDENT winning the special jury prize at the prestigious international Series Mania festival in Paris. The prestigious international Series Mania festival considered 80 series from more than 20 countries. Vikki Madden, producer of the eight-part series, said winning the special jury prize was “surreal”. “Little Tasmania has just made such an impact,” she said. “The French … they just fell in love with the imagery of The Kettering ...
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2016 ADG Award Nominees
Congratulations to all of our clients who have been nominated in the 2016 ADG Awards! TV COMMERCIAL Tim Bullock – Volkswagen: Bear Peter Carstairs – Ultrasound MUSIC VIDEO Peter Carstairs & Curtis Hill – Hallelujah (The Rubens) CHILDREN’S TV DRAMA Tony Krawitz – Ready For This / Ep13 TV MINI SERIES Kriv Stenders – The Principal / Ep 1 FEATURE FILM Jocelyn Moorhouse – The Dressmaker See the full list of nominees here.
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Directed by Wayne Blair and designed by Emily Seresin, ABC TV unveils Cleverman – Australia’s first indigenous superhero
Following the world debut screening of the first two episodes of Cleverman in Berlin today, ABC TV has released footage of the show. Cleverman, produced by Goalpost Pictures with New Zealand’s Pukeko Pictures, will screen on the ABC later this year as well as on AMC Networks’ Sundance TV channel in the US. Today it screened as part of the 2016 Berlin International Film Festivale, better known as Berlinale. Also screening at Berlinale today was the first episode of the ...
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CLEVERMAN WORLD PREMIER AT BERLINALE
Directed by Wayne Blair and with costume design by Emily Seresin, CLEVERMAN, will be joining Alice Englert’s THE BOYFRIEND GAME at this year’s Berlinale. Read the full Screen Australia Media Release here.
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CONGRATULATIONS DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND!
Wins ‘Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie’ at the 2015 Logie Awards. See all the winners here.
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NICHOLAS BEAUMAN A.S.E NOMINATED FOR SCREEN EDITORS AWARD
Editor Nicholas Beauman has been nominated for the Blue Post Award for Best Editing in a Television Drama. His work on the television movie CARLOTTA has been highlighted for the upcoming awards to be held on Saturday the 6th of December 2014 at the Paddington RSL in Sydney. Click HERE for the full list of nominees.
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