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Slim Dusty
‘Slim & I’, ‘Morgana’ take home Gold Coast Film Festival awards
Slim Dusty
The Screen Industry Gala Awards.

Despite the event itself being cancelled, Gold Coast Film Festival soldiered on with its annual Screen Industry Gala Awards last night – albeit online.

Winner of the Best Australian Film was director Kriv Stenders’ documentary on Slim Dusty’s wife Joy McKean, Slim & I. Produced by Chris Brown and Aline Jacques, the film sees McKean tell the story of her career, marriage, and her determination to be recognised as a performer and songwriter in her own right.

Indie doco Morgana, co-directed by Josie Hess and Isabel Peppard, took home the Blackmagic Design Best Australian Independent Film Award, winning a Blackmagic Pocket Camera 6K. The film follows Morgana Muses, who in her 40s was an unhappy housewife in Albury. By 50, she was a feminist pornography icon.

Post-production house The Post Lounge won the inaugural Queensland Screen Business of the Year Award and special FX makeup and prosthetics...
See full article at IF.com.au
  • 4/17/2020
  • by jkeast
  • IF.com.au
Aacta announces short-form nominees
‘Robbie Hood’.

Aacta unveiled the nominees for this year’s awards for Best Short Film, Best Short Animation, Best Short Documentary and Best Scripted Online Video this evening at Shorts+Web Fest in Sydney.

In contention for Best Short Film are: Jane Cho’s The Egg; Michael Shanks’ Rebooted; Madeleine Gottlieb’s Snare; and Curtis Taylor and Nathan Mewett’s Flickerfest winner Yulubidyi – Until The End.

Up for Best Short Animation are Lee Whitmore’s Sohrab and Rustum; Yori Narpati, Erika Ju and Quynh Truong’s Sole; Simon Rippingale’s Jasper and Greg Holfeld’s Pinchpot.

Aacta introduced the award for Short Documentary earlier this year, with the inaugural nominees Pia Borg’s Demonic, which premiered in Cannes earlier this year; Luke Taylor’s Home Front – Facing Australia’s Climate Emergency; Stefan Bugryn’s War Mothers: Unbreakable, which premiered in Tribeca, and Michi Marosszeky’s Woven Threads.

Ludo Studio are...
See full article at IF.com.au
  • 8/31/2019
  • by jkeast
  • IF.com.au
Shorts and web series shortlisted for Aacta Awards to screen at festival event
‘Sarah’s Channel’ is among the projects shortlisted for the Aacta Award for Best Online Series.

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) will screen a selection of the projects shortlisted for the Aacta Awards for best short film, best short animation, best short documentary and best online series as part of Shorts+Web Fest, a free event to be held in Sydney late August.

The two-day festival, to be hosted by Jan Fran (The Feed), will feature screenings, masterclasses, Q&a interviews, stand-up comedy, as well as food trucks, pop-up bars and a live DJ. The event will culminate in special guests Danielle Cormack and Jake Ryan announcing the nominees for each category.

Among the projects shortlisted for best short film are Gracie Otto’s Desert Dash; Jane Cho’s The Egg; Marcus McKenzie’s The Projectionist, which won five prizes at the South Australian Screen Awards; Madeleine Gottlieb’s Snare,...
See full article at IF.com.au
  • 7/29/2019
  • by jkeast
  • IF.com.au
Melissa Lee Speyer calls for a reality check on over-hyped screen diversity claims
Melissa Lee Speyer (Photo credit: Darwin Morales).

Emerging screenwriter Melissa Lee Speyer is gratified by the advances in screen diversity in the past three years but worries that progress has been exaggerated and there is still a significant imbalance.

Born in the UK to Chinese-Malaysian parents, Speyer sometimes finds she is the only non-white writer in writers rooms.

“For every diverse show loudly championed there are a dozen more with representation issues that nobody notices,” she tells If.

“I know it feels like all the money and opportunities are going in a very specific direction. Trust me, that’s not where 100 per cent of it is going. It’s often just talked about the loudest.

“In the last three years there’s been a lot of loud mainstream talk about diversity, coming off the back of 50 years of virtual silence.

“It’s not just about ‘not being the only non-white writer in the room,...
See full article at IF.com.au
  • 7/3/2019
  • by The IF Team
  • IF.com.au
Flickerfest prizes for ‘Yulubidyi – Until the End’, ‘Della Mortika: Carousel of Shame’
(L-) Marisa Martin, Bronwyn Kidd and Geraldine Martin.

Nathan Mewett and Curtis Taylor’s Yulubidyi – Until the End was named best Australian short and Marisa Martin’s Della Mortika: Carousel of Shame best Australian animated short at the 28th annual Flickerfest International Short Film Festival.

Among the other honorees announced on Sunday night at the Bondi Pavilion, Renée Marie Petropoulos took the prize for best direction in an Australian short for Tangles and Knots and Calling writer-director Miley Tunnecliffe was feted as outstanding emerging female director in honour of Samantha Rebillet.

Produced by Glen Stasiuk, Yulubidyi – Until The End follows Jarman, a young Aboriginal who is tasked with protecting his younger disabled brother in a harsh remote community. His father Thunder wants him to become the leader of the tribe and mocks any weakness in him.

Martin’s short, which was written by her mother Geraldine Martin, delves into the fantastical world of Della Mortika,...
See full article at IF.com.au
  • 1/20/2019
  • by The IF Team
  • IF.com.au
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