Charlie Hill-Smith.s feature documentary Motorkite Dreaming, screening at Dungog Festival this weekend, isn.t your typical adventure film..
Motorkite Dreaming follows two friends and their fiancés on a 4,000 kilometre journey across outback Australia — from Adelaide to Broome — on second-hand microlight aircraft, essentially 'hang-gliders with lawn mower engines'.
The pilots — Aidan Glasby and Daryl Clarke — are amateurs, so there were .just the right number of crashes. along the way, director Hill-Smith told If.
.If there is a perfect type or number of plane crashes, I think we had it. No one got hurt seriously and no one died,. he said. .These guys only got their licences a week before we left. So inexperienced isn.t really summing it up..
Motorkite Dreaming had a limited cinema tour back in August and continues to travel, doing roadshow screenings in local communities. A 5x26 TV series version will also broadcast later this year on Nitv and Sbs Viceland,...
Motorkite Dreaming follows two friends and their fiancés on a 4,000 kilometre journey across outback Australia — from Adelaide to Broome — on second-hand microlight aircraft, essentially 'hang-gliders with lawn mower engines'.
The pilots — Aidan Glasby and Daryl Clarke — are amateurs, so there were .just the right number of crashes. along the way, director Hill-Smith told If.
.If there is a perfect type or number of plane crashes, I think we had it. No one got hurt seriously and no one died,. he said. .These guys only got their licences a week before we left. So inexperienced isn.t really summing it up..
Motorkite Dreaming had a limited cinema tour back in August and continues to travel, doing roadshow screenings in local communities. A 5x26 TV series version will also broadcast later this year on Nitv and Sbs Viceland,...
- 10/28/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Motorkite Dreaming.
New distribution start-up Screen Impact is premiering its first feature, Motorkite Dreaming, at the inaugural Hot Docs in Sydney this week..
The film follows two amateur adventurer mates and their fiancés as they complete a daring flight across 4000kms of outback Australia in .microlight. aircraft, described as "a hang-glider with a lawn-mower engine"..
Following festival screenings in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney, the film will tour select cinemas nationally in August..
Later in the year, a five-part television version of the film will broadcast on Sbs 2 and Nitv.
.Motorkite Dreaming is a new way of story-telling using a new model to bring it to audiences,. said Screen Impact founder Simon Nasht. .It will be available in many formats, for many screens, when and where people want to enjoy it..
Screen Impact will be making the film available globally to digitally stream and download, while Red Bull will be screening...
New distribution start-up Screen Impact is premiering its first feature, Motorkite Dreaming, at the inaugural Hot Docs in Sydney this week..
The film follows two amateur adventurer mates and their fiancés as they complete a daring flight across 4000kms of outback Australia in .microlight. aircraft, described as "a hang-glider with a lawn-mower engine"..
Following festival screenings in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney, the film will tour select cinemas nationally in August..
Later in the year, a five-part television version of the film will broadcast on Sbs 2 and Nitv.
.Motorkite Dreaming is a new way of story-telling using a new model to bring it to audiences,. said Screen Impact founder Simon Nasht. .It will be available in many formats, for many screens, when and where people want to enjoy it..
Screen Impact will be making the film available globally to digitally stream and download, while Red Bull will be screening...
- 6/27/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
New production company Pavillion Entertainment and Financing's first two projects - Motorkite Dreaming and Own the Sky - are now in advanced stages of production.
This comes six months after the company was established to finance and produce feature documentaries, scripted features based on true stories and blue chip documentaries for television.
Pavillion Entertainment & Finance was established by award winning producer Marcus Gillezeau (Storm Surfers 3D, Scorched). .
Gillezeau said: .Through the establishment of Pavilion we are providing a single destination for creatives to finance, produce and rights manage their factual productions and projects.. .The first two productions are:
The feature documentary Own the Sky chronicles one man.s quest to design, build and fly the world.s first jetpack. .
Filmed over ten years, filmmaker Greg Read follows the story of 80 year old inventor Nelson Tyler, test pilot Bill Suitor and Australian entrepreneur David Mayman as they attempt a spectacular jetpack...
This comes six months after the company was established to finance and produce feature documentaries, scripted features based on true stories and blue chip documentaries for television.
Pavillion Entertainment & Finance was established by award winning producer Marcus Gillezeau (Storm Surfers 3D, Scorched). .
Gillezeau said: .Through the establishment of Pavilion we are providing a single destination for creatives to finance, produce and rights manage their factual productions and projects.. .The first two productions are:
The feature documentary Own the Sky chronicles one man.s quest to design, build and fly the world.s first jetpack. .
Filmed over ten years, filmmaker Greg Read follows the story of 80 year old inventor Nelson Tyler, test pilot Bill Suitor and Australian entrepreneur David Mayman as they attempt a spectacular jetpack...
- 2/28/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The latest rounds from Screen Australia.s Documentary Production Broadcast and Producer programs have seen 16 documentaries receive close to $4.4 million in funding..
This investment is expected to generate a total production expenditure of close to $16.7 million.
In a statement released to the media, Screen Australia.s Senior Manager, Documentary, Liz Stevens, said, .In the second round of the Producer program we are pleased to see producers aiming at ambitious and multi-layered release plans for stories that will appeal. The documentaries coming through the Broadcast program offer audiences good insights and a few surprises into many compelling Australian stories..
The Producer program enables filmmakers the flexibility to find the best pathway to their audience, whatever and whoever they might be.
The Documentary Production Producer and Broadcast programs now accept applications through the Online Application Portal. The next deadline for the Producer program is 18 September 2015. From 1 July 2015, the Broadcast program will accept applications at any time.
This investment is expected to generate a total production expenditure of close to $16.7 million.
In a statement released to the media, Screen Australia.s Senior Manager, Documentary, Liz Stevens, said, .In the second round of the Producer program we are pleased to see producers aiming at ambitious and multi-layered release plans for stories that will appeal. The documentaries coming through the Broadcast program offer audiences good insights and a few surprises into many compelling Australian stories..
The Producer program enables filmmakers the flexibility to find the best pathway to their audience, whatever and whoever they might be.
The Documentary Production Producer and Broadcast programs now accept applications through the Online Application Portal. The next deadline for the Producer program is 18 September 2015. From 1 July 2015, the Broadcast program will accept applications at any time.
- 6/16/2015
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
This year’s BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will present 20 world premieres of new Australian works, and a total of 48 local features and shorts.
The 12 films competing for the International Award for Best Feature Film have also been announced: Four Times (Italy, dir: Michelangelo Frammartino); Here I Am (Australia, dir: Beck Cole); Tuesday After Christmas (Romania, dir: Radu Muntean); Incendies (Canada,dir:: Denis Villeneuve); Meek’s Cutoff (USA, dir: Kelly Reichardt); Mysteries of Lisbon (Portugal, dir: Raoul Ruiz); Nostalgia For the Light (Chile, dir: Patricio Guzman); October (Peru, dir: Daniel Vega Vidal and Diego Vega Vidal); Piano in a Factory (China, dir: Zhang Meng); Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Australia, dir: Matt Bate); Whisper with the Wind (Iraq, dir: Shahram Alidi); and Year Without a Summer (Malaysia, dir: Tan Chui Mui).
The films will be judged by Julietta Sichel (jury president/Karlovy Vary Film Festival), Pierre Rissient (Cannes), Hossein...
The 12 films competing for the International Award for Best Feature Film have also been announced: Four Times (Italy, dir: Michelangelo Frammartino); Here I Am (Australia, dir: Beck Cole); Tuesday After Christmas (Romania, dir: Radu Muntean); Incendies (Canada,dir:: Denis Villeneuve); Meek’s Cutoff (USA, dir: Kelly Reichardt); Mysteries of Lisbon (Portugal, dir: Raoul Ruiz); Nostalgia For the Light (Chile, dir: Patricio Guzman); October (Peru, dir: Daniel Vega Vidal and Diego Vega Vidal); Piano in a Factory (China, dir: Zhang Meng); Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Australia, dir: Matt Bate); Whisper with the Wind (Iraq, dir: Shahram Alidi); and Year Without a Summer (Malaysia, dir: Tan Chui Mui).
The films will be judged by Julietta Sichel (jury president/Karlovy Vary Film Festival), Pierre Rissient (Cannes), Hossein...
- 1/28/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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