Feature Film script
Writer/Creators: Rachael Turk, Jasmin Forbes-Watson,
Sebastian Goldspink, Stephen Jenner
Producer: John Edwards
[in development with John Edwards / Southern Star]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
this week at FOMM: adaptation
The Heart of Drama
Adapting Disgrace
We look at the key challenges and solutions in adapting J.M. Koetzee’s Booker Prize-winning novel to the screen in terms of character, dialogue and the story’s emotional core.
Special guests:
• Steve Jacobs – director (Disgrace, La Spagnola)
• Anna Maria Monticelli – screenwriter (Disgrace, La Spagnola)
Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, Aug 14
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter
Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.
Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.
The September Issue
Director: R. J. Cutler
Producers: R. J. Cutler, Eliza Hindmarch, Sadia Shepard
[in Australian cinemas August 20]
Behind every great woman is… another great woman.
Such is certainly the case in upcoming documentary The September Issue, which I just saw today. An exposé on the life of infamous Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, The September Issue is renowned for making time with Wintour’s fictionalised character in The Devil Wears Prada look like a walk in Hyde Park.
The film’s narrative throughline is the leadup to the magazine’s annual highlight: the September issue of the magazine. And issues they have. The dramatic tension is built up between Wintour and her fashion editor Grace Coddington, the art and soul of the magazine who started at Vogue the same time as Wintour.
In this way it is very much like Matt Tyrnauer’s doco Valentino, King of Couture, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and charts the similar politics and co-dependency at work between the legendary designer and long-suffering partner.
The politics between the mantis and her prey are cruel and at any moment in The September Issue, we can’t predict whether Coddington will resign, be fired or save the day – and one of these is indeed the film’s outcome.
this week at FOMM: Robert Connolly
In the Line of Fire
Robert Connolly
From The Boys to The Bank to Three Dollars, Robert Connolly’s films have always had a political dimension. In Balibo, he turns his eye to the international arena with his depiction of the death of six journalists in events surrounding Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor in 1975.
See my review of the film here.
Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, August 7
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter
Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.
Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.