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It’s been almost one full year since Shane Abbess’ Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child made its world premiere at Fantastic Fest late September 2016. We recently caught up with Shane to talk about his film. We discussed everything from production design to music to the economy of the film, notably the team’s efforts getting shots both done in budget in a timely manner. However, aside from a handful of scenes, you’d expect that he had the luxury of resources to build this fascinating world.

Culled from favorite childhood experiences/films, cherry-picked tropes from specific genres, and aimed at giving the audience things they’ve never seen before , the result of Abbess’ work is one of the most impressive sci-fi films this year. A long time coming for those of you who missed it on the festival circuit, but the ambitious sci-if gem that is The Osiris Child...

An intriguing trailer has launched for a new sci-fi movie series titled The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume One (or, vice versa, as Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child) from Australian filmmaker Shane Abbess. Described as an "adrenaline-fueled sci fi adventure", the story takes place in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, about a father who has to rescue a young woman amidst a global crisis. The full cast includes Kellan Lutz, Daniel MacPherson, Isabel Lucas, Luke Ford, Rachel Griffiths, Temuera Morrison, Bren Foster, Dwaine Stevenson, and Teagan Croft. As much as I was expecting this to look cheesy or too low budget, it actually looks pretty damn good, with some impressive visual effects and an interesting story. I don't know if the movie is any good, but I'm very curious about checking this out. Here's the first trailer for Shane Abbess' Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child,...

(l-r) Marc Furmie, Enzo Tedeschi, Dan Mor, Igor Breakenback.

Online sci-fi series Airlock,.starring Mark Coles Smith (Last Cab to Darwin) and Dan Mor (Arrowhead), will premiere in Australia on the SyFy Channel next month.

Premiering as a telemovie, Airlock is the work of creator-producer Enzo Tedeschi and director Marc Furmie (Terminus), and is about "a drifting derelict spaceship [which] docks with an isolated space station". .

"Inside is a dead crew and a band of stowaway refugees. Tasked with the investigation, security officer Jonah Ashbrook (Mark Coles Smith) is thrown headlong into a series of events that will turn life on the station into a life or death crisis".

It stars Dwaine Stevenson (Infini) as well as Kristy Best and was funded by Screen Australia through the Multi-platform Drama program..

Tedeschi's Deadhouse Films appointed Rockzeline as the international sales agent, and Rockzeline has sold the series to Studio Plus (CanalPlay International...

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Daniel MacPherson and director Shane Abbess are mates and close creative collaborators, but that didn.t stop the pair having some robust discussions before the actor signed on for futuristic thriller SFv1.

MacPherson had appeared in Abbess. Infini and was developing several projects with the director when he was offered the co-lead role of Kane.

The actor did not have a clear sense of the narrative or the characters in the screenplay by Abbess and co-creator Brian Cacha, which is divided into multiple chapters, and asked for elucidation.

.We had a couple of heated creative discussions before I got on board,. MacPherson tells If. .But once I was in, I was 110 per cent in. Shane gives the cast the absolute freedom to own their characters. It.s a pretty extraordinary, ambitious movie with breathtaking sets by George Liddle..

Set during a period of interplanetary colonisation, SFv1stars Twilight.s Kellan Lutz as Sy,...

Stars: Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang, Luke Hemsworth, Bren Foster, Luke Ford, Dwaine Stevenson, Louisa Mignone, Tess Haubrich, Harry Pavlidis | Written by Shane Abbess, Brian Cachia | Directed by Shane Abbess

Sometimes all it takes to hook me into a movie is a solid premise. Other times it’s strong world building. And occasionally it’s the misguided belief that Jonny Lee Miller is in said movie.

Jonny Lee Miller is not in Infini, but five minutes into my screening I believed he was, due to a painted poster of the cast featuring a main character who bears a vague resemblance to him. When the real lead was revealed, a wave of disappointment hit me; not only had I missold the film to myself, but I had done the same to the friend sitting next to me.

None of this is the movie’s fault, but unfortunately Infini never recovered from that initial disappointment.

Aussie actors Isabel Lucas ("Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen") and Luke Ford ("The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor") have joined the cast of the sci-fi thriller "SFv1".

Set in the future when humanity has spread out into interplanetary colonies, Kellan Lutz plays a drifter who falls in with an off-world military contractor (Daniel MacPherson) trying to rescue his daughter (Teagan Croft) from peril while evading a global crisis caused by the military contracting company he works for.

Lucas and Ford will play the roles of Gyp and Bill respectively. The film is currently shooting in both Sydney and the Australian Outback. Temuera Morrison, Bren Foster, Rachel Griffiths, Firass Dirani, Dwaine Stevenson and Grace Huang also star.

Matthew Graham, Brett Thornquest, Sidonie Abbene and Shane Abbess are producers. Abbess directs from his own screenplay

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Isabel Lucas and Luke Ford have joined the cast of Shane Abbess. new sci-fi feature SFv1.

They join Kellan Lutz (Expendables 3, Hercules 3-D, The Twilight Saga) and Daniel MacPherson (Infini, Shannara Chronicles, The Cup).

The ensemble cast includes Temuera Morrison (Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III . Revenge of the Sith, Once Were Warriors), Bren Foster (Infini, The Last Ship, Terminus, Days Of Our Lives), with Rachel Griffiths (Saving Mr Banks, Beautiful Kate, Brothers & Sisters, Six Feet Under, Muriel.s Wedding), Firass Dirani (House Husbands, Underbelly: The Golden Mile, The Combination, The Black Balloon) Dwaine Stevenson (Infini, Gabriel), Grace Huang (The Man with the Iron Fists 1 and 2, Infini, Hiding) and introduces Teagan Croft.

Currently filming in Sydney and outback South Australia, the film is set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, when Sy (Kellan Lutz), a drifter,...

*full disclosure: an online screener of this film was provided by Vertical Entertainment. *there are spoilers here. It would be best if viewers saw the film before reading this review. Director: Shane Abbess. Writers: Shane Abbess and Brian Cachia. Cast: Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang, Luke Hemsworth, Bren Foster, Luke Ford and Dwaine Stevenson. Infini is a science fiction horror feature. In the bloody vein of Event Horizon (1997), the film takes place on a distant mining facility. Here, an ancient organism is spreading through a vulnerable crew. The film stars Daniel MacPherson as the protagonist, Whit Carmichael. Grace Huang, Luke Hemsworth and Bren Foster also star. Truly remarkable, the film offers a good deal of conflict and violent sequences as exposure to a virus wreaks havoc on everyone's psychology. The film also offers an ambivalent ending, but this viewer has a dark interpretation of the final scenes. Infini even offers a social message,...

The Tunnel producer Enzo Tedeschi is launching a global online distribution platform for genre movies and series.

Monikered Deadhouse Films, the site will offer content to rent or download-to-own, starting with the 3-part sci-fi web series Airlock produced by Tedeschi.s Distracted Media.

The producer tells If he is in final negotiations to handle two third-party titles. He aims to tap into Distracted Media.s sizable database of genre fans built from The Tunnel and the web series Event Zero.

Funded by Screen Australia and. Distracted Media and directed by Marc Furmie, Airlock stars Dan Mor, Mark Coles Smith, Zoe Carides, Dwaine Stevenson, Brendan Clearkin, Dean Kyrwood and Branden Christine.

The plot follows a derelict space ship which docks with the remote Dakota space station. Lieutenant Jonah Ashbrook (Coles Smith) is charged with leading an investigation into the mysterious deaths of the crew. The discovery of a group of hidden...

The Tunnel producer Enzo Tedeschi is launching a global online distribution platform for genre movies and series.

Monikered Deadhouse Films, the site will offer content to rent or download-to-own, starting with the 3-part sci-fi web series Airlock produced by Tedeschi.s Distracted Media.

The producer tells If he is in final negotiations to handle two third-party titles. He aims to tap into Distracted Media.s sizable database of genre fans built from The Tunnel and the web series Event Zero.

Funded by Screen Australia and. Distracted Media and directed by Marc Furmie, Airlock stars Dan Mor, Mark Coles Smith, Zoe Carides, Dwaine Stevenson, Brendan Clearkin, Dean Kyrwood and Branden Christine.

The plot follows a derelict space ship which docks with the remote Dakota space station. Lieutenant Jonah Ashbrook (Mor) is charged with leading an investigation into the mysterious deaths of the crew. The discovery of a group of hidden refugees...

Infini, a futuristic sci-fi thriller from director Shane Abbess, starts shooting in Sydney on Monday.

Scripted by Abbess and Brian Cachia, the privately financed film focuses on a search and rescue team sent into deep space to retrieve a stranded soldier.

The ensemble cast includes Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang, Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Copeland, Dwaine Stevenson, Harry Pavlidis, Louisa Mignone, Tess Haubrich, Bren Foster and Luke Ford.

It.s the first project from Storm Vision Entertainment, a joint venture between production companies Storm Alley Entertainment (Shane Abbess and Sidonie Abbene) and Eclectik Vision (Brett Thornquest).

The Storm Vision partners plans to collaborate on a number of genre projects of varying budget sizes for 2014 and beyond. Matthew Graham is the lead producer on Infini, which is Abbess. follow-up to Gabriel, a fantasy-action-horror film about an archangel who fights to bring light back to purgatory and save the souls of the city's inhabitants.

Know what makes us happy? When we watch a new trailer and within ten seconds someone gets their eye blown clear out of their skull. Well, you get that and more from the official trailer debut of writer/director Joseph Sims' new movie Bad Behaviour.

Sims' Bad Behaviour stars the lovably maniacal John Jarratt as well as Robert Coleby, Georgina Symes, Dwaine Stevenson, Jean Kittson, Roger Ward and Lindsay Farris.

Dig on the trailer, and then hit up the link below to visit the official Bad Behaviour website. For even more visit the official Bad Behaviour Facebook page!

Synopsis

The weekend is about to kick off. With the ocean calm, the weather warm and the sun setting over the hills, two psychopathic siblings - Emma and Peterson - pit stop on their road trip of bloodshed at the sleepy beach-side town of Cecil Bay.

'Bad Behaviour' will have...

Courtesy of the producers, we have passes to Joseph Sims’ film Bad Behaviour at the Australian Film Festival in Sydney.

Bad Behaviour is, according to its creators, a black comedy/neo-noir picture. It follows two psychopathic siblings – Emma and Peterson – on a road trip of bloodshed, as they encounter a debt collector, a cop confronting the people who murdered his son, and a man who finds his wife is cheating on him.

Bad Behaviour will screen at 7pm on March 7 at the Ritz Cinema in Sydney.

The film stars John Jarratt, Robert Coleby, Georgina Symes, Dwaine Stevenson, Jean Kittson, Roger Ward and Lindsay Farris. It was written and directed by Joseph Sims, and produced by Kris Maric, Steven Caldwell and Craig A Kocinski.

To win, email encoregiveaways@gmail.com and tell us, when was the last time you behaved badly?...

Joseph Stephen Sims' new flick 'Bad Behaviour' may have everybody's favourite outback psycho John Jarratt amongst its cast but it's not just 'Wolf Creek's Mick Taylor involved in the killing in this new Aussie slasher. The intersecting storys in 'Bad Behaviour' combine a number of tales involving murder and revenge and it all looks like jolly good fun. Along with Jarratt the movie stars Robert Coleby, Georgina Symes, Dwaine Stevenson, Jean Kittson, Roger Ward and Lindsay Farris. Check out the full plot synopsis, trailer and poster below....

Nice weather. Good tunes. Hot chicks. Plentiful alcohol. Sounds like a damned good time, doesn't it? Add a couple of psychos into the mix to maim and dismember the party-goers, and now we're really talking!

That's exactly what you're in for with writer/director Joseph Sims' new movie, Bad Behaviour, starring the lovably maniacal John Jarratt as well as Robert Coleby, Georgina Symes, Dwaine Stevenson, Jean Kittson, Roger Ward and Lindsay Farris.

Check out the teaser trailer, the plot crunch, and some artwork below. For more visit the official Bad Behaviour website and Bad Behaviour Facebook page!

Synopsis

The weekend is about to kick off. With the ocean calm, the weather warm and the sun setting over the hills, two psychopathic siblings - Emma and Peterson - pit stop on their road trip of bloodshed at the sleepy beach-side town of Cecil Bay.

'Bad Behaviour' will have you...

After deciding to try his hand at acting after 14 years in the army, which ended because of injury in 2000, Dwaine Stevenson doesn't have the traditional actor's story. For the past ten years, he has been building his name through short films, stage and, more recently, in feature films with starring roles in Gabriel and the upcoming Bad Behaviour.   The laid-back actor says he had been waiting for a great role when the part of Mark in Bad Behaviour opened up for him. "They contacted me and I knew they were having some ups and downs trying to get the film going.