Roger Monk.
When screenwriter Roger Monk was offered a gig on the Aquarius Films/Sbs crime caper The Unusual Suspects, he seized the opportunity to channel his favourite film, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Tonally he saw similarities with Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-winning 1988 black comedy-drama about a woman who embarks on a strange journey to try to discover why lover suddenly left her without any explanation.
Set in Sydney’s affluent Eastern suburbs, The Unusual Suspects revolves around the theft of a $10 million necklace from self-made Filipino businesswoman Roxanne Waters’ home during her twins’ birthday party,
The suspects include including socialite Sara Beasley, whose life is crumbling fast, and her long-suffering nanny, Evie De La Rosa, a godmother of sorts for other Filipino domestic workers.
“The show is about female frenemies, disparate characters who come together through circumstance and become friends,” Monk tell If.
Producers Angie Fielder...
When screenwriter Roger Monk was offered a gig on the Aquarius Films/Sbs crime caper The Unusual Suspects, he seized the opportunity to channel his favourite film, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Tonally he saw similarities with Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-winning 1988 black comedy-drama about a woman who embarks on a strange journey to try to discover why lover suddenly left her without any explanation.
Set in Sydney’s affluent Eastern suburbs, The Unusual Suspects revolves around the theft of a $10 million necklace from self-made Filipino businesswoman Roxanne Waters’ home during her twins’ birthday party,
The suspects include including socialite Sara Beasley, whose life is crumbling fast, and her long-suffering nanny, Evie De La Rosa, a godmother of sorts for other Filipino domestic workers.
“The show is about female frenemies, disparate characters who come together through circumstance and become friends,” Monk tell If.
Producers Angie Fielder...
- 8/24/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
(L-r) Nicci Wilks, Sarah Ward and Peta Brady.
In a three week window between the floods and the pandemic, a resourceful female-led creative team filmed a feature drama based on a Patricia Cornelius play.
Trudy Hellier and Susie Dee co-directed Shit, adapted by Cornelius, produced by Eyvonne Carfora and featuring the same cast led by Nicci Wilks, Peta Brady and Sarah Ward.
The plot follows three wild and dangerous women who believe the world is shit, their lives are shit and they are shit. After committing a terrible crime they are terrified they will never see each other again.
In their feature directing debuts Dee, who directed the play, called the shots on the studio-set scenes drawn from the play while Hellier helmed the new material on location.
The supporting cast includes Madeline Dyer, Sam O’Reilly and Emilie Bloom. Sky Davies is the Dop.
“Rather than go through a long...
In a three week window between the floods and the pandemic, a resourceful female-led creative team filmed a feature drama based on a Patricia Cornelius play.
Trudy Hellier and Susie Dee co-directed Shit, adapted by Cornelius, produced by Eyvonne Carfora and featuring the same cast led by Nicci Wilks, Peta Brady and Sarah Ward.
The plot follows three wild and dangerous women who believe the world is shit, their lives are shit and they are shit. After committing a terrible crime they are terrified they will never see each other again.
In their feature directing debuts Dee, who directed the play, called the shots on the studio-set scenes drawn from the play while Hellier helmed the new material on location.
The supporting cast includes Madeline Dyer, Sam O’Reilly and Emilie Bloom. Sky Davies is the Dop.
“Rather than go through a long...
- 4/22/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Rachel Griffiths addresses the Screen Forever conference.
Is it a coincidence that three of the highest-grossing Australian films of 2019 – Rachel Griffiths’ Ride Like A Girl, Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding and Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach – have all been helmed by directors who have backgrounds as actors? Not according to Griffiths.
“It’s not surprising to me that, in a moment where audiences for cinema releases are getting increasingly challenging, actor-directed content is punching above its weight at the box office, because performers have unique sensitivities that we develop by being at the coalface of the final content delivery,” Griffiths told Screen Producers Australia’s Screen Forever delegates last week.
Delivering the conference’s annual Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture, the Golden Globe-winning and Emmy and Oscar-nominated actor, who in recent years has also successfully turned to producing and directing, issued a rallying call to producers to break down silos...
Is it a coincidence that three of the highest-grossing Australian films of 2019 – Rachel Griffiths’ Ride Like A Girl, Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding and Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach – have all been helmed by directors who have backgrounds as actors? Not according to Griffiths.
“It’s not surprising to me that, in a moment where audiences for cinema releases are getting increasingly challenging, actor-directed content is punching above its weight at the box office, because performers have unique sensitivities that we develop by being at the coalface of the final content delivery,” Griffiths told Screen Producers Australia’s Screen Forever delegates last week.
Delivering the conference’s annual Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture, the Golden Globe-winning and Emmy and Oscar-nominated actor, who in recent years has also successfully turned to producing and directing, issued a rallying call to producers to break down silos...
- 11/19/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
(Top to Bottom L – R) Erin Good, Jane Eakin, Joanna Beveridge, Tel Benjanmin, Warwick Young, Maria Theodorakis, Nicholas Verso, Eddie Diamandi, Victoria Thaine, Henry Inglis, Wade Kimberley Savage, Caro Macdonald, Tamara Whyte, Laura Clelland and Tam Sainsbury.
From more than 100 applications, the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) has selected 15 directors to attend Screen Producers Australia’s (Spa) annual conference Screen Forever in Melbourne next month.
These directors will join the Spa’s Ones to Watch undertaking a special program of panel discussions, workshops and networking events. All the directors attending will be presenting the projects they have developed that are ready for production at Spa Connect, the conference’s marketplace.
“This will be the second year we have taken a directors delegation to Spa, and this year we build on last year’s program to ensure the directors are more integrated into the conference program,” said Adg CEO Kingston Anderson. “We...
From more than 100 applications, the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) has selected 15 directors to attend Screen Producers Australia’s (Spa) annual conference Screen Forever in Melbourne next month.
These directors will join the Spa’s Ones to Watch undertaking a special program of panel discussions, workshops and networking events. All the directors attending will be presenting the projects they have developed that are ready for production at Spa Connect, the conference’s marketplace.
“This will be the second year we have taken a directors delegation to Spa, and this year we build on last year’s program to ensure the directors are more integrated into the conference program,” said Adg CEO Kingston Anderson. “We...
- 10/24/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Comedy webseries.Little Acorns goes inside the world of that long-suffering breed: the childcare worker.
The series, which stars Rachel Griffiths, is written and directed by actors Trudy Hellier and Maria Theodorakis and funded by Screen Australia.
Hellier has appeared in the likes of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom and The Doctor Blake Mysteries, and previously wrote four episodes of TV series Lowdown. Theodorakis' credits include The Castle, Walking on Water and Holding the Man..
Little Acorns consists of nine 3-5 minute episodes, available online from September 1..
.We wanted to celebrate the world's unsung heroines, but ultimately we wanted to make a show about women behaving badly,. said Theodorakis.
.These are women we all know but rarely see on our screens. They are bold, fearless, contradictory and ridiculously funny,. said Hellier.
.We are tired of seeing women in stereotypical roles; men are having all the fun and we...
The series, which stars Rachel Griffiths, is written and directed by actors Trudy Hellier and Maria Theodorakis and funded by Screen Australia.
Hellier has appeared in the likes of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom and The Doctor Blake Mysteries, and previously wrote four episodes of TV series Lowdown. Theodorakis' credits include The Castle, Walking on Water and Holding the Man..
Little Acorns consists of nine 3-5 minute episodes, available online from September 1..
.We wanted to celebrate the world's unsung heroines, but ultimately we wanted to make a show about women behaving badly,. said Theodorakis.
.These are women we all know but rarely see on our screens. They are bold, fearless, contradictory and ridiculously funny,. said Hellier.
.We are tired of seeing women in stereotypical roles; men are having all the fun and we...
- 8/10/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
TItle: The Eye Of The Storm Sycamore Entertainment Group Director: Fred Schepisi Screenwriter: Judy Morris, from Patrick White’s novelCast: Charlotte Rampling, Georffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Robyn Nevin, John Gaden, Helen Morse, Alexandra Schepisi, Maria Theodorakis, Dustin Clare Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 8/22/12 Opens: September 7, 2012 Clashes over potential inheritances, featuring sons and daughters who hover over rich, dying parents, can be the basis of soap opera or the foundation of Shakespearean drama. “The Eye of the Storm,” which is in part a tale of two vultures traveling thousands of miles to cajole their dying mother to grant them the bulk of an estate, is a filmed [ Read More ]...
- 9/3/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Rabbit-Proof Fence has taken out top honors in the Australian Film Institute awards, which were announced at a Saturday ceremony in Melbourne. The Phillip Noyce-directed drama, which chronicles the true story of three half-aboriginal girls in 1930s Australia who defied a government policy that removed them from their families, was competing against three other indigenous-themed dramas in the best film category. It also won awards for sound and for Peter Gabriel's music score. But while Rabbit-Proof Fence scored the evening's main prize, it was the bittersweet contemporary comedy Walking on Water that ended up with the highest number of awards, picking up gongs in five categories: best actress (Maria Theodorakis), supporting actor and actress (Nathaniel Dean and Judi Farr), original screenplay (Roger Monk) and editing (Reva Childs).
- 12/9/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MELBOURNE, Australia -- The race-relations drama Australian Rules, which screened at Sundance earlier this year, leads the nominations list for the Australian Film Critics Circle Awards with eight, including a nom for best film. The winners will be announced at an Oct. 31 ceremony in Sydney. Other titles featured prominently in the AFC choices are fellow best film nominees Walking on Water and The Tracker (seven nominations each) and Rabbit-Proof Fence (six nominations). In the best actress category, Toni Collette (Dirty Deeds) is up against Danielle Hall (Beneath Clouds), Everlyn Sampi (Rabbit-Proof Fence) and Maria Theodorakis (Walking on Water), while the best actor contenders are Vince Colosimo (Walking on Water), David Gulpilil (The Tracker), Guy Pearce (The Hard Word) and Nathan Phillips (Australian Rules). Nominated for best director are Tony Ayres (Walking on Water), Rolf de Heer (The Tracker), Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence) and Ivan Sen (Beneath Clouds). More than 50 critics are eligible to vote for the awards, which have become the curtain-raiser of Australia's awards season.
- 10/9/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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