"It’s no good just doing remakes of the Tooth Fairy, even though that’s valid in its own right as a money-making tool. You need something else. And it’s this “something else” that’s important."
The Australian Film Television and Radio School popped a question that makes the screen sector mumble and look at its collective feet. Why doesn’t Australia make Romantic Comedies? Rachael Turk watches a certain determination to not get personal...
Faraway Bay, famed Kimberley resort and location, may be mystically fertile (just ask Nicole) but it hasn't been a fountain of youth for its aging owners. So, they are moving on. In revenge, it will be bought by a consortium of whale hunters and strip mined for iron ore to be used only for harpoon tips.
Move to Los Angeles, get the career choofing, spend too long in traffic, decide to make an indy feature - the story of Michael Bond, Cameron Daddo, László Baranyai and a carload of invisible ninja crew on the freeway is truly wonderful.
Unable to commercialise amateur 8mm footage of Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits, the Australian owner will sell it online, using a site run by a man called Pike Barkerding. It is a tad poignant, if a bit pink.
Married couple who edited The Hurt Locker are interviewed - "Your mind and your mouth just disconnect at that moment. It feels like centuries are passing."
Rani Mukherjee is one of the biggest stars in world cinema, but few people in Australia know she exists, and the media is seemingly uninterested in her arrival this week to open Bollywood and Beyond, the Indian Film Festival for 2010.
Are indy dox just the blogosphere with pictures and smeary-bois with deeper poketz? WaPo, no innocent in the bias game either, raises an interesting case study about objectivity, collapsed journalistic standards, and an outraged nice-guy foundation with furry feet and big, dewy eyes.
Barry Cohen, not the deepest thinker in the Hawke government, has a lofty op-ed sneer at artists who think they should maybe get rewarded for their work. After all, Barry's wife doesn't and she is good at it so youse shouldn't either.
South Pacific Pictures (SPP) and London’s Harbour Pictures will produce a feature based on the extraordinary women who served in World War II British Air Transport Auxiliary (BATA). Spitfire Girls will be produced by SPP’s John Barnett and Paul Davis, and Harbour Pictures’ Nick Barton, as a UK-NZ co-production.
Selling people on the emotional arc, look, narrative structure and characters of a doco - while still retaining a unique perspective and making the film relevant - proved to be a huge ask at the annual Pitching Competition.
When we talk about “re-creating reality” in a documentary, most of us tend to think of a “dramatised reconstruction”, where actors are often chosen more for their resemblance to the real person they’re playing than their acting skill. But this seminar showed us that this conception is far too narrow.
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