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The episode of Wtf Really Happened to This Horror Movie covering Black Water was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Animal attack movies have been quite a lucrative genre for a very long time. Obviously, Jaws is the beginning and the end of the conversation but there’s so much more. Grizzlies, whales, dogs, you name it have been the focal point of horror films and will continue to be there with things like Cocaine Bear, The Meg 2, and others infiltrating theaters on a yearly basis. Most of these, of course, are fictional accounts like Stephen King giving us Cujo or any number of other on-screen animals gone wild. There are, however, the rare account that is based on a true story and today is one of those cases. Alligators and crocodiles...

Timothy Lee on location in ‘Mystery Road.’

After serving as a script editor on three seasons of House Husbands and writing episodes of Rush and Serangoon Road, Timothy Lee’s career has gone up a couple of gears.

Lee, who graduated from Aftrs in 2006, modestly credits his progression in part to the talent drain which has resulted in numerous Aussie writers plying their trade in the Us and the UK.

“That has created opportunities for the next generation of writers,” says Lee, who got his start as a script assistant/researcher on Rescue Special Ops after securing an Australian Writers’ Guild internship with Southern Star, mentored by Sarah Smith.

That led to writing episodes of the Nine Network drama and the fourth season of Network Ten’s cop show Rush. Working on Playmaker Media’s House Husbands, he reflects, “was good for my craft but not so good for my profile.

Jennifer Batty

Chief content officer at Hooq, comes from extensive background in development for television, with spells at Rtl CBS and Star.

Justin Deiman

Managing partner at Aurora Media Holdings, oversees $30 million media fund. Exec producer credits on “Abbie Rose and the Magic Suitcase” and “Eco-Warriors.”

Lee Thean Jeen

Showrunner for Viu-original series “The Bridge” (pictured) and veteran director with a string of TV and movie credits.

Lim Bee Lin

Producing partner at Singaporean production outfit Weiyu Films with spouse Lee Thean-jeen. Background in finance.

Jef Lim

Experienced production executive with Sony Pictures, FremantleAsia and Tiger Gate. Now at Netflix, looking after International Originals.

Chan Puiyin

Veteran Singaporean film producer is director of production and distribution at Ghy Culture and Media, overseeing slate of remakes for Chinese market.

Frank Smith

Founder of production outfit Infocus Media, with exec producer credits on Netflix series “Bardo,” and HBO Asia series “Teenage Psychic.

“Game of Thrones” star Essie Davis will take the title role in “Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears,” an Australian-made murder mystery film.

The film is a feature adaptation of “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries,” which was a hit series of crime novels by Kerry Greenwood before being adapted for TV. Davis took the title role as a glamorous 1920 private detective in the show, which has aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation since 2012. It was then licensed to 170 countries, and picked up by Netflix from 2015. The cast also includes series regulars Nathan Page, Miriam Margolyes, and Ashleigh Cummings (“Goldfinch”).

The principal investor is Screen Australia, in association with Film Victoria. Private investors and fans have contributed more than A$1 million to the budget for “Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears” through an extraordinarily successful crowd-funding campaign.

The film is an Every Cloud Production. Roadshow Films is the Australia and New Zealand distributor,...

Exclusive: Ahead of Cannes, Entertainment One’s boutique label Seville International has boarded international rights to United Nations-backed climate change and music documentary Great Green Wall, which is fronted by Malian singer and model Inna Modja (pictured) and executive-produced by City Of God and The Constant Gardener director Fernando Meirelles.

Currently in production, Great Green Wall focuses on the ongoing Africa-led project to grow an 8,000km wall of trees and plants across the width of the continent. The initiative will stretch from Senegal to Djibouti and is meant to provide food and jobs to millions. The film, described as “Buena Vista Social Club meets Years of Living Dangerously”, follows Modja across Africa as she assembles leading musicians and singers (pictured) to record an album that captures the spirit of the Wall, which once completed will be the largest living structure on earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.

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Apple space series For All Mankind comes from Ronald D. Moore of Outlander and Battlestar Galactica.

Attention, Battlestar Galactica fans! Ronald D. Moore is heading back to the stars for a planned space drama for Apple!

For All Mankind will see Moore, who is currently working on Starz's time travel romance Outlander, tasked to create and write, imagining what the world would be like if the global space race had never ended. Moore will undertake the project with Fargo executive producers Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi for Tall Ship Productions, which also makes Outlander. The show is the third original scripted series ordered by Apple, who is getting into the content creation market via its newly-formed worldwide programming division.

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Exclusive: British-Nigerian filmmaker Joseph Adesunloye to direct The Great Green Wall for Make Productions.

City Of God director Fernando Meirelles will serve as executive producer and creative consultant on a new Un-backed documentary about climate change.

The Great Green Wall will focus on the ongoing Africa-led project to grow an 8,000km wall of trees and plants across the width of Africa.

The film will tell the story of the initiative through the eyes of Malian singer and model Inna Modja who is due to team up with African and international singers and musicians on the film’s score.

The film is due to end in Senegal where featured artists will take part in a concert at the Great Green Wall.

Backed by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the film will be produced by UK TV outfit Make Productions and be directed by British-Nigerian filmmaker Joseph Adesunloye, who was nominated for the BFI Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmakers...

Noah Taylor and Yael Stone (and soundie) on set. (Photo: Sean O'Reilly)

An old shed on Glebe Island wharf, littered with boat-building machinery and tools, sets the tone for one of the dramatic final scenes of Sbs.s new four-part series, Deep Water, starring Noah Taylor and Yael Stone..

Stone and Taylor play detectives investigating a brutal murder case which appears to be connected to the real-life gay hate crimes that swept through Sydney in the .80s and .90s.

But it was a more recent murder which spurred Blackfella Films. producers Darren Dale and Miranda Dear to get the series moving.

Dear and Dale, coincidentally were both in Potts Point, Sydney, when a particularly violent murder took place.

.He [Darren] was leaving and I was heading in and we both saw fire engines, ambulances, police cars and Darren stopped at the Atm near the building and heard from residents what had happened,...

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Noah Taylor and Orange is the New Black's Yael Stone will star in Sbs.s new four-part crime drama series, Deep Water, produced by Blackfella Films.

Joining them in the crime thriller are Stone's husband Dan Spielman (The Code, Accidental Soldier, Offspring), William McInnes (The Time of Our Lives, The Slap), Danielle Cormack (Wentworth, Rake, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries), Craig McLachlan (The Doctor Blake Mysteries), Ben Oxenbould (The Kettering Incident, Old School, Rake), Simon Burke (Devil.s Playground), John Brumpton (Catching Milat, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries) and others..

Sbs are billing Deep Water as its first "cross-genre, cross-platform event which will include a four-part drama series, a feature documentary and unique online web series and content".

The series is executive produced by Sbs.s Sue Masters, produced by Blackfella Films. Miranda Dear and Darren Dale and written by Kris Wyld...

Thunderbird, Sandpiper Entertainment and ScreenWest are developing "Modo," a film adaptation of Arthur Slade's steampunk novel "The Hunchback Assignments".

The first novel in a series, the story follows a child hunchback plucked from a freak show and raised in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association - a spy agency for Brittania and its efforts to oversee its empire.

At age fourteen, he's dumped on the streets of London and, with another Association agent, uncovers a plot by the Clockwork Guild behind the murders of important men.

Paul Barron ("Serangoon Road") and Alex Raffe ("I've Heard the Mermaids Singing") will produce.

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Director Peter Andrikidis was bowled over by the audience reactions to his romantic comedy Alex & Eve when it screened at the Greek Film Festival at Palace.s Norton Street Leichhardt cinemas on Sunday.

It was the first time he.d seen the film with a paid audience and he marvelled at their rollercoaster of emotions, from laughter to tears to laughter.

After several decades in the business Andrikidis knows not to get carried away - festival patrons don.t always reflect mainstream tastes - but the omens are favourable in the lead up to the opening this Thursday. After all, Oddball shows broad. Aussie comedies can resonate effectively.. .

.I am optimistic but you never know,. says the director, acknowledging that some of what he regarded as his best TV works did not succeed while programs he was less happy with did so.

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Acorn TV, the Brit-centric streaming service for American fans of international television, is bringing "Bridge of Spies" screenwriter Matt Charman's psychological thriller "Black Work" to the U.S. beginning Nov. 2. The series, which debuted on ITV earlier this year, features rising star Sheridan Smith as policewoman Jo Gillespie, who joins the investigation when her husband (Kenny Doughty) is killed while working undercover on a case. The cast also includes Matthew McNulty, Douglas Henshall, and Geraldine James. Read More: "Streaming Service Acorn TV Scores with Postwar Dramas 'A Place to Call Home,' 'Serangoon Road'" Acorn is part of a wave of streaming services working to develop a brand identity in an increasingly competitive landscape, and "Black Work"—whose three hourlong episodes will premiere Mondays beginning Nov. 2—may have breakout potential. From "Prime Suspect" and "Broadchurch" to "Top of the Lake"...

Netflix has acquired exclusive subscription VOD rights in multiple territories to two series of an observational documentary that follows three Aussies on road trips through the Us.

The streaming giant will screen Unplanned America in North America, Australia/New Zealand and the UK in a deal with Sbs International.

The first season, which aired on SBS2 last May, featured former MTV Australia staffers Tim .Gonzo. Ryan and Pawel .Parv. Jarecki and their pal Nick Maher, a self-taught filmmaker, as they drove 35,000km across more than 35 states to investigate various subcultures.

The second season sees the trio visiting Portland strip clubs, skate colony Skatopia, a bondage, domination, sadism and masochism training chateau in upstate New York, and a New Orleans Voodoo priestess.

Other segments explore the legal marijuana revolution sweeping the Us, including a legal weed tour through Denver; devouring 20,000 calorie burgers at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, contrasted...

Don Hany (Serangoon Road) has landed a male lead in NBC's drama pilot Heart Matters. Inspired by the life of Dr. Kathy Magliato, the medical soap follows the outspoken Alex Panttiere (Melissa George), one of the rare female heart-transplant surgeons. Alex brings an innovative eye to treating patients week to week while also balancing the complications of her professional and romantic life. Hany, repped by Gersh, Shanahan Management, and Hansen Jacobson Teller, will play…...

Netflix already has a formidable line-up of exclusive content ready to unleash when it launches in Australia and New Zealand on March 24- and more is it come. The third series of Orange is the New Black, a Netflix production, will screen on the subscription VOD service after it premieres on Foxtel.s showcase in June. Moreover, the Us streaming giant is working on deals with MGM and Warner Bros which would mean their first-run movies will debut on Netflix at the same time as their pay-tv premieres on Foxtel Movies.

Neither has been signed but If understands the MGM arrangement is in final negotiations and WB is highly likely to pact with Netflix as its output deal with the Nine Network, worth a reported $150 million a year, has expired, and the studio needs to generate more revenue from its pay-tv and free-tv deals.

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Netflix has secured exclusive streaming rights to Chris Lilley.s Jonah from Tonga and the drama series Serangoon Road for its Australian and New Zealand service which launches March 28.

In a deal signed with ABC Commercial, Netflix gets non-exclusive rights to a slew of other ABC shows including Rake, Redfern Now, Upper Middle Bogan, The Time of Our Lives, Janet King, Jack Irish, Crownies and Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide.

The deal also covers Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (Australia only), Lilley.s Ja.mie: Private School Girl, Summer Heights High and We Can Be Heroes and kids shows Angelina Ballerina, Barney, Bob The Builder, Sesame Street, The Wiggles and Thomas the Tank Engine.

Last December SVoD rival Stan announced a non-exclusive deal with ABC Commercial encompassing the same content.

Netflix has also nabbed exclusive SVoD rights to British dramas Broadchurch and The Tunnel from Roadshow Entertainment, and the rights to Roadshow.s extensive library.

The ABC has today announced that Deputy Head of Fiction, Greer Simpkin, will step down from her role on February 27.

Simpkin, who has held the role for just under five years, will move into the independent production sector and has been appointed as Head of Television for Bunya Productions, the film production company co-owned by producer David Jowsey and writer/director Ivan Sen (Mystery Road). The new position is supported by a Screen Queensland Enterprise grant and is based out of Queensland.

During her time at the ABC, Simpkin has been responsible for a number of award-winning and critically acclaimed shows, such as The Slap, Rake, Jack Irish, Mabo, Janet King, Upper Middle Bogan, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries, Please Like Me, Carlotta, Paper Giants and Devil.s Dust.

She was also an Executive Producer for The Code, Parer.s War, Hiding, The Secret River and co-production Serangoon Road.

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Actor Paul Ireland is set to make his feature directing debut on Pawno, a dramedy set in a seedy pawn shop in Melbourne's western suburbs.

Scripted by actor-turned-writer Damian Hill, the film will follow one day in the lives of 14 characters as they attempt to survive, thrive or maintain their way of life in an often cruel world.

.It is a unique and unapologetic journey into the underbelly of our society,. said Hill, who is producing with Ireland through their company Toothless Pictures.

Due to start shooting in Footscray on November 23, the film.s ensemble cast includes John Brumpton, Hill, Maeve Dermody, Malcolm Kennard, Mark Coles Smith and Tony Rickards.

Hill and Ireland, who formed Toothless Pictures last year, raised $12,500 via crowd-funding site Pozible and the balance of the budget from philanthropic investors after two years of toil.

.Our focus is to tell a compelling, poignant and layered story that will move and entertain,...

Sue Masters has re-joined Sbs as the executive producer of drama.

Masters reports to Alison Sharman, who was named head of commissioning for Sbs One and Sbs 2 last year.

Her appointment follows the retirement of Caterina de Nave as Ep of drama and comedy, TV and online.

.Sue will be a fantastic addition to the team and we are very much looking forward to having her on board to continue progressing our drama slate,. Sbs Head of TV Tony Iffland told If.

.Sue has an outstanding track record in Australian drama production, which our Sbs audience will soon come to appreciate..

Sbs has not announced a new local drama this year but a spokeswoman said, "We have several in development at the moment and hope to make a key announcement for 2015 very soon."

Masters was appointed supervising executive producer for comedy and drama for Sbs in 2008. In 2010 she was the...

Singaporean actor Chin Han has joined the cast of Marco Polo, which is currently shooting in Malaysia for Netflix and The Weinstein Company (TWC).

He will play Jia Sidao, the villain of the series, which stars Italian actor Lorenzo Richelmy stars as Marco Polo.

Created by John Fusco, the 10-episode drama focuses on the explorer’s journey to the centre of a brutal war in 13th century China. It is currently shooting at the Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios.

Chin Han recently starred in the Australian Broadcasting and HBO Asia series Serangoon Road and was also seen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. He is managed by Echelon Talent Management and The Van Johnson Company.

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The ultimate multi-tasker, Murray Fahey is getting ready to produce romantic comedy Alex & Eve and to release his feature documentary and an improvised comedy via his own distribution company.

Peter Andrikidis will direct Alex & Eve, with a screenplay by Alex Lykos based on his stage play Alex and Eve which played in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, selling 20,000 tickets.

Casting is underway for the leads. Alex is a handsome Greek Orthodox man aged 35, a school teacher still living with his parents, who expect him to marry a good Greek girl. Alex falls in love with Eve, a Lebanese Muslim corporate lawyer. Her parents have arranged for her to marry a Lebanese Muslim man.

Shooting is due to start in Sydney next month, financed by private investors and the producer offset. Screen Australia supported the development of the project. It.s Andrikidis. second feature; his first was...

Fresh from playing the lead in Fat Tony & Co, Robert Mammone will play a homeless man who is confronted by a malevolent presence on a late-night commuter train in Bunny.

The supernatural thriller is due to start shooting in Sydney in May, the feature directing debut of Us screenwriter Peter Schink, who wrote and was associate producer on the 2010 pic Legion, which starred Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid.

Mammone, who came back last week after playing a Greek general in Russell Crowe.s The Water Diviner, will also serve as an executive producer on Bunny.

The plot revolves around a group of strangers on the train who find the body of a young junkie. The original idea came from Sydney-based, Us producer Jeff Wannberg, who regularly commutes to and from Sydney late at night.

.Jeff pitched it to me as The Conjuring on a train,. Schink told If on the line from the Us.

A new horror series is getting ready to make its way to the Far East via HBO Asia, and we have your first details right here faster than you can say "Grace." Well... honestly, you did say that pretty quickly, but we were a bit faster. Doesn't matter though as everyone wins.

According to Variety, HBO Asia is to kick off its second original production with “Grace,” a contemporary horror mini-series. Production begins next week in association with Singapore-based producer Infocus Asia and with the financial support of Singapore’s Media Development Authority.

The four-part hour-long horror mini-series in English and Mandarin is about a father’s mistake which condemns his family to unspeakable horror. Set in present day urban Asia, “Grace” examines the Asian concepts of family, sacrifice, and vengeance.

It will be directed by Tony Tilse, who co-directed the 10-part 1960s detective series “Serangoon Road,” which last year...

HBO Asia is set to begin production on its second Singapore-set original mini-series, Grace. The project stars American actor Russell Wong (What Women Want; HBO Asia’s Serangoon Road) as Roy Chan, a loving but unfaithful husband, who makes a mistake that "condemns his family to unspeakable horror." Photos: 2014's New Broadcast and Cable TV Shows The show is set in present day Asia and is said to examine the region's cultural values of concepts of family, sacrifice and vengeance. Singaporean veteran actress Constance Song (Point Of Entry; The Ultimatum) plays Roy Chan's wife, Angela Chan, while Pamelyn Chee

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Kodi Smit-McPhee, Harry Greenwood, Tom Budge, Lincoln Lewis, Matt Nable, Anthony Hayes, Lachy Hulme and Ashleigh Cummings are among the big ensemble cast announced today for the Endemol Australia/Nine Network miniseries Gallipoli.

A three-month shoot starts in and around Melbourne on March 17 with Glendyn Ivin (Beaconsfield, Puberty Blues) directing. The screenplay by Christopher Lee (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Paper Giants, Rush, Police Rescue) is adapted from the best-selling book by Les Carlyon.

The producers are John Edwards (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Beaconsfield, Paper Giants, and Offspring), Imogen Banks (Puberty Blues, Offspring) and Robert Connolly (producer of Balibo and The Boys, director of Underground: The Julian Assange Story, The Slap). Nine.s co-Heads of Drama Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan and Endemol Australia CEO Janeen Faithfull are executive producers. .Smit-McPhee plays 17-year-old Thomas .Tolly. Johnson, who lies about his age to enlist with his brother Bevan in the...

Ben Lawson is the latest Aussie to land a major role in a Us TV pilot. He.ll play Michael, a smart, funny, good-natured, dermatologist in the ABC comedy Damaged Goods. The show will feature Justin Hartley and Steve Talley as screwed-up guys who hook up with equally screwed-up women.

This is a big year for Lawson. with roles in Hoodlum Entertainment.s Network Ten drama Secrets & Lies, Wayne Hope.s comedy Now Add Honey, Playmaker Media.s Love Child on Nine, and his brother Josh Lawson.s directing debut, black comedy The Little Death. He.s also had guest roles in Rake and the Us series The Exes, Bones and Friends with Better Lives.. He's repped in Australia by United Management.

Aussie actress Indiana Evans has just been added to the cast of ABC.s drama pilot Secrets & Lies, which. starts shooting today in Wilmington, North Carolina. She plays Natalie,...

Aaron Pedersen and Mark Leonard Winter have been added to the cast of The Fear of Darkness, writer-director Chris Fitchett.s supernatural thriller which starts shooting on March 6 on the Gold Coast.

They join the already announced cast of Maeve Dermody, Penelope Mitchell and Damien Garvey.

Mitchell (Hemlock Grove, The Vampire Diaries) will play Skye Williams, a patient in a psychiatric clinic who is accused of a gruesome murder. Dermody (Serangoon Road, Griff the Invisible) is Dr Sarah Faithfull, an empathetic psychiatrist who believes there is more to the case.

Pedersen, who played the lead in Ivan Sen.s Mystery Road and is a regular in the ABC Jack Irish telemovies,. will portray Dr Nicholas Trengrove, a criminal psychologist who tries desperately to ensure that those around him stay grounded and not surrender to any imagined horrors in the dark.

Winter, who appears in Craig Monahan.s upcoming drama Healing...

It has been a full decade since TV's "Farscape" franchise came to a close with "The Peacekeeper Wars" mini-series.

Now, Inside Film reports that screenwriter Justin Monjo has worked on a script for a "Farscape" spinoff movie to be directed by the show's former executive producer Brian Henson. Henson also helmed the 'Peacekeeper' mini-series.

Monjo worked on the series back in the day and the scribe has scored good notices in Australia lately for his script work on the recent Inxs mini-series "Never Tear Us Apart" along with the 1960s Singapore-set drama "Serangoon Road".

The interview was to announce "Mongo," a new HBO series he's developing based on George C. Chesbro's detective novel series that could star Peter Dinklage.

But talk quickly turned to "Farscape" and his film script which, if it were to go forward, would likely be a telemovie. There's also a synopsis:

"In the finale, the protagonists,...

Game of Thrones. Peter Dinklage is in talks to star in the pilot for an HBO series scripted by Sydney-based Justin Monjo and produced by Ben Stiller.s Red Hour Films.

The prolific Monjo is also writing the screenplay for Farscape, a movie spin-off of the sci-fi series that ran on the Nine Network and the Sci-Fi Channel in the Us, for Jim Henson Productions, to be directed by Brian Henson.

Dinklage would play a dwarf detective in The Beasts of Valhalla, based on a series of novels by the late George C. Chesbro. Monjo read the books years ago but could not think of an actor who was right for the role of the sleuth named Mongo until he saw Dinklage in Game of Thrones.

.It.s a grounded sci-fi series,. says Monjo, who flies to New York next month to discuss the project with Dinklage, with whom he has corresponded.

After 15 years of impressive. work in Australian films and TV series, Don Hany has the chance to make a name for himself in the Us.

Meanwhile young Aussie actress Natasha Bassett has scored a role in a Fox network comedy pilot, Here.s Your Damn Family.

Hany, who starred in The Broken Shore, Serangoon Road, Devils Dust and Offspring, has landed the lead role in Warriors, the pilot for a Us drama series.

Hany will play George Mann, a trauma surgeon for a Us military hospital inspired by the Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Caring for injured servicemen takes its toll on Hany.s character. The pilot was written by Chris Keyser (Party of Five, Sisters) and will be produced by Mandeville TV and ABC Studios for the ABC network.

Bassett, whose credits include Mental, Rake, Wild Boys and the Oz-shot NBC series Camp, will play a...

Maeve Dermody, Penelope Mitchell and Damien Garvey have been cast in The Fear of Darkness, a supernatural thriller from writer-director Chris Fitchett which starts shooting March 6 on the Gold Coast.

Dermody (Serangoon Road, Griff the Invisible) will play a brilliant young psychiatrist who is forced to confront the dark creature that dwells deep within her when she investigates the disappearance of a female university student.

Mitchell, who was a regular in the Us TV series Hemlock Grove and appears in The Vampire Diaries, plays a patient in a psychiatric clinic who is accused of a gruesome crime.

Damien Garvey (Rake, Network Ten.s upcoming Secrets & Lies) will portray a cop who investigates the disappearance. Casting of two other key roles is due to be confirmed shortly.

The project was developed through Screen Queensland.s low budget feature film initiative. The producer is Mark Overett (Iron Sky, Separation City,. Unfinished Sky...

If the 3rd annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards could be categorised as a David vs Goliath battle between The Rocket and The Great Gatsby, Goliath is the hands-down winner.

Baz Luhrmann.s opulent romantic drama won six awards tonight, for best film, director, adapted screenplay, lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio, supporting actor Joel Edgerton and supporting actress Elizabeth Debicki.

That.s in addition to the six awards in craft categories plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects bestowed on Luhrmann.s film on Tuesday.

Kim Mordaunt's The Rocket, which had 12 nominations versus 14 for Gatsby, had to be content with just one trophy, for Mordaunt.s original screenplay.

The outcome is likely to reignite the debate about the near-impossibility of comparing a lavishly-mounted 3D film financed by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, which cost $160 million, with an independently-funded Lao-set film from a first-time director budgeted at about $2 million.

At ScreenSingapore/Asian Television Forum (Atf) today, Singapore’s Infinite Studios signed an Mou on a joint venture with Indonesia’s Screenplay Productions to produce a slate of six Indonesian theatrical features.

Aiming in the long term to build a library of films that will work commercially in and out of the Indonesian market, the partnership will start with this first slate of six films with a total budget of $4m. It plans to move forward with an average of six films yearly.

With facilities in Singapore and Indonesia, Infinite Studios boasts sound stages, backlot and post-production services that have worked for the HBO Asia for its original series Serangoon Road and original film Dead Mine. The company recently provided production services for the Jakarta shoot of Michael Mann’s upcoming action thriller Cyber and also collaborates with Eric Khoo’s genre label Gorylah Productions.

“We are now looking to get into content creation that will further...

HBO Asia.s first original co-production with ABC TV, Serangoon Road, promises to be one of the biggest mini-series to hit Australia, although recreating the action-packed streets of 1960s Singapore came at a steep price.

Production was shut down for several weeks when a stunt involving lead Australian actor Don Hany went horribly wrong.

.He was going too fast and he grabbed the guy too high and missed the mat and went onto the cement and dislocated his arm... the tendon ripped off and he chipped the bone,. director Peter Andrikidis says..

.That was in Indonesia so we had to race him to hospital in Singapore, obviously to get him on the ferry. So we were shut down for about two months until he got better because it.s a big action series . there.s quite a bit of action in it..

The detective drama tells the story of Australian-born...