Screen Canberra has backed seven projects with $355,000, including horror film Sissy, expected to shoot by the end of the year.
The Cbr Screen Fund has supported Sissy with production investment, and will also provide development support for Little One, a TV adaptation by Peter Papathanasiou of his memoir of the same title; Paranormal Blacktivity, a TV series conceived by Indigenous comedians, and comedy feature film Swing Set.
Cbr Screen Fund manager Sophie Harper said: “The quality, diversity and sheer number of projects we’re seeing as this challenging year comes to a close is heartening. It’s also wonderful to see feature film production up and running again in the Act with horror film Sissy set to shoot before the end of the year.”
Three projects will also share in development support via Made in Cbr, the agency’s Covid support fund. They include two TV series, Cipher from Naomi...
The Cbr Screen Fund has supported Sissy with production investment, and will also provide development support for Little One, a TV adaptation by Peter Papathanasiou of his memoir of the same title; Paranormal Blacktivity, a TV series conceived by Indigenous comedians, and comedy feature film Swing Set.
Cbr Screen Fund manager Sophie Harper said: “The quality, diversity and sheer number of projects we’re seeing as this challenging year comes to a close is heartening. It’s also wonderful to see feature film production up and running again in the Act with horror film Sissy set to shoot before the end of the year.”
Three projects will also share in development support via Made in Cbr, the agency’s Covid support fund. They include two TV series, Cipher from Naomi...
- 11/19/2020
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Sophie Harper.
Former Screen Australia and Australian Film Commission executive Sophie Harper has joined Screen Canberra as senior manager, overseeing the $5 million Cbr Screen Fund.
Launched last year, the fund has given conditional approval to five projects with $610,000 in combined funding.
The first three were writer-director Tony D’Aquino’s debut feature The Furies, Kim Beamish’s feature documentary Family and the Blackfella Films/ABC drama series Black B*tch.
The latest beneficiaries are WildBear Entertainment’s Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks, a feature doc which profiles the filmmaker Shaw Brothers who paved the way for the boom of the Kung fu film movement; and Scarlet Five Films’ One Eight Zero.
The latter is a female-driven drama/romance/thriller from rookie writer-director Denai Gracie, which centres on an elite show jump rider whose world is upended when her leg is amputated after a car accident.
The plot follows the...
Former Screen Australia and Australian Film Commission executive Sophie Harper has joined Screen Canberra as senior manager, overseeing the $5 million Cbr Screen Fund.
Launched last year, the fund has given conditional approval to five projects with $610,000 in combined funding.
The first three were writer-director Tony D’Aquino’s debut feature The Furies, Kim Beamish’s feature documentary Family and the Blackfella Films/ABC drama series Black B*tch.
The latest beneficiaries are WildBear Entertainment’s Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks, a feature doc which profiles the filmmaker Shaw Brothers who paved the way for the boom of the Kung fu film movement; and Scarlet Five Films’ One Eight Zero.
The latter is a female-driven drama/romance/thriller from rookie writer-director Denai Gracie, which centres on an elite show jump rider whose world is upended when her leg is amputated after a car accident.
The plot follows the...
- 4/29/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
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