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An audience in Melbourne – and online – will tonight be treated to a one-hour horror film shot, performed, edited and scored live. Here & Now is a ‘live cinema’ initiative spearheaded by directors Michael Beets and S.C. Wilson, who have spent the last five days working with filmmaking students at the Abbotsford Convent to prepare for tonight’s simultaneous shoot and premiere. The film will be shot around the Abbotsford Convent site using live-streaming cameras from LiveU, carried in backpacks. Each contain...

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There might not be a better miner to ever appear on Gold Rush than Tony Beets. When other miners struggle, Tony keeps rolling and bringing in fortunes of gold every season. However, part of the reason for his success is making sure he has his team up to par. That paid off again this week as Tony faced a serious problem, and Cousin Mike was there to save the day.

Here is what happened with Tony and Cousin Mike on Gold Rush.

Cousin Mike Saves Tony Beets On Gold Rush

When Tony Beets unexpectedly lost his son Kevin Beets, who refused to report to work last season for his dad, he had to find a replacement. It was a good thing that Tony quickly made up for the loss since Kevin decided to come back and work on his own rather than work with his dad again.

Tony Beets – Gold...

Interactive exhibition of film, extended reality and art to be made available globally.

A focus on climate change, conspiracy theory QAnon and death row are among the projects selected for the online Inter:Active line-up at Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:dox) which runs from April 21 to May 2.

The Inter:Active strand will comprise 13 new projects and will be available to access online from around the world. The pieces are a mix of film, extended reality and digital art, and will be presented as live events.

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The programme will open with Anthropocene In C Major, a live...

Vessela Karadjova.

Writer-director Michael Beets plans to stage horror movie In the Shadow It Waits as a live performance with the actors in their own homes in different states across Australia.

In another twist, the filmmaker and his cast have never met: All their interaction, from auditions to rehearsals and technical preparations, has been online.

The highly topical plot follows five twenty-something co-workers who are bored with their day jobs and sick of being locked up in isolation.

Looking for escapism, they play an online game, Billybillybilly.net, which unwittingly proves the truth of an urban legend.

The five will be played by Vessela Karadjova, Eddie Orton, Robert Pham, Nalani Wakita and Sc Wilson, while Naomi Plucke has a supporting role.

Most are fresh faces. Pham has had guests roles in Neighbours, Hungry Ghosts, It’s a Date, The Time of Our Lives and Kinne .

A National Theatre Drama School graduate,...

On tonight’s Gold Rush on Discovery, fuel troubles and labored engines are what is in store for Juan Ibarra, Tony Beets and his Master Mechanic son, Michael Beets. The noise tells it all as the two are inside the boat hauling equipment to the wash plant, and the engines are barely able to function. The exclusive clip opens with Beets and Ibarra side-eyeing each other as they roll on the river. Why? Their boat isn’t really going anywhere too fast and the groaning from the engines sends Juan on a “look and see” mission to find out what’s going on down […]

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‘Hotel Mumbai’ cast and crew at the Aff premiere.

Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai was voted best film and Erica Glynn’s She Who Must Be Loved best documentary at the Adelaide Film Festival audience awards.

Matthew Bate’s The Art of the Game, a hybrid documentary produced by Katrina Lucas, which follows two of Australia’s most innovative photographers – Trent Parke and Narelle Autio – as they bring together the worlds of art and sport in their first ever moving-image work Summation of Force, was deemed best short.

All three were supported by the Adelaide Film Festival Fund.

Icon plans to launch Hotel Mumbai, the thriller about those trapped in the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in the 2008 terrorist attacks, starring Armie Hammer, Dev Patel, Jason Isaacs and Tilda Cobham-Hervey, in April following the Us release via Bleecker Street, which is likely to be in March.

Co-commissioned by Nitv, Glynn’s film profiles her mother Freda Glynn,...

Kamila Andini.

There’s an Australian connection among each of the competition winning films at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival.

The prizes for the best fiction feature, documentary and Vr films were presented yesterday evening at the festival, ahead of the Australian premiere of Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy.

Indonesian writer-director Kamila Andini’s The Seen and Unseen, a co-production between Indonesia, the Netherlands, Australia and Qatar, took out the $20,000 prize for International Feature Fiction Competition. Set in Bali, the film follows a young girl who seeks out imaginative ways to cope with the death of her twin brother, and it has also won 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Youth Feature and the Crystal Bear in Berlin.

The award was presented by director Scott Hicks, on behalf of the International Jury, which also comprised of Paolo Bertolin, filmmaker and selector for Venice and selection committee for Cannes Directors Fortnight,...