Monthly Archives: April 2009

by Rachael

this week at FOMM: Balibo

Adapting Current Affairs
Balibo‘s Tony Maniaty

In their innate drama, current affairs can make great film material. But not without struggles of their own. In the context of films like The Year of Living Dangerously and The Killing Fields, journalist Tony Maniaty – who covered the 1975 war in East Timor for ABC TV and experienced the shelling at Balibo – talks about his consulting role in adapting news stories to the screen for Robert Connolly’s new film Balibo, and the changing role of the journalist.

Venue: AFTRS Theatrette, Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park
Date: Friday, May 1
Time: 5-6pm
Entry: Free (2-hr free parking)

Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

by Rachael

fomm: Cannes!

Friday On My Mind is delighted with the official news that Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion, prod. Jan Chapman) and Samson & Delilah (dir. Warwick Thornton, prod. Kath Shelper) have been selected to screen at the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival.

Bright Star will screen in Official Competition while Samson & Delilah has been selected for the Festival’s Un Certain Regard section.

Samson and Delilah screened to a full house tonight at Friday On My MInd after the news came through late yesterday. Jan Chapman also had the theatre full to overflowing when she joined us on April 3.

Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

by Rachael

Screen Hub: Green Lantern greenlights NSW

My latest story for Screen Hub:

FTO hangs out Green Lantern

After a tough four years that saw the state’s production levels flag, it’s all systems go for New South Wales film industry after yesterday’s announcement that big-budget Hollywood film Green Lantern will be shot in the state, creating around 500 jobs and providing a major boost for the state’s film industry…

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by Rachael

The Dreaming (treatment)

(feature film adaptation)

I have recently completed a feature treatment at the request of TokyoPop U.S. for a series of books by Australian manga artist Queenie Chan. My aim was to give the thriller/horror genre a brooding, female twist along the lines of The Virgin Suicides, Twilight, The Orphanage and Australian classic Picnic at Hanging Rock. And – by using the webcam device – a distinct teen audience hook.

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by Rachael

this week at FOMM: Being Frank Miller

Being Frank Miller
Spirit and 300

Just as DC comic Green Lantern announces it will film in NSW, we look at various local approaches to visually interpreting Frank Miller: Fuel on its 310 shots for The Spirit, and Animal Logic on Zac Snyder’s interpretation of the graphic book novelist’s 300.

Special guests:
• Dave Morely – VFX Supervisor, Fuel
• Kurtis Richmond – Art Director, Fuel
• Grant Freckelton – Concept Artist, Animal Logic

Venue: AFTRS Theatrette, Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park
Date: Friday, April 17
Time: 5-6pm
Entry: Free (2-hr free parking)

Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.

by Rachael

Screen Hub: NBCal new lender for film projects

My latest story for Screen Hub:

NBCal flies high (if solo) in Aust

Independent American community bank the National Bank of California (NBCal) is taking its “remote services” to a new level with a lend offering to the Australian film industry.

A much needed source of lending capability in this country, NBCal is offering film and television production loans (including discounting pre-sales, cash flow of domestic and international tax incentives, and gap financing), corporate lines of credit and acquisition financing…

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