Kyas Sherriff (Head of the Indigenous Unit) Guillermo Arriaga, Sue Elphinstone (Indigenous Unit Project Officer). Photographer: Graeme Taylor.
Last week Aftrs relaunched its Indigenous Unit with the first instalment of its Black Talk series..
The Unit's new head, Kyas Sherriff, hosted a session with Mexican writer Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel), in town as a guest of Nitv.
Arriaga was in mischevious form, riffing for an hour on everything from his writing process, his fights with director Warwick Thornton, his creative divorce from Alejandro González Iñárritu, and the damage his "friend" Tarantino has had on cinema.
The screenwriter and novelist started the session off with a flourish, producing an aboriginal flag from his pocket and laying it in front of him, declaring "I want to show my love".
Arriaga was first brought to Australia by Sally Riley, who met Arriaga at the Sundance Labs the same year that Amores Perros bowed at the festival.
Last week Aftrs relaunched its Indigenous Unit with the first instalment of its Black Talk series..
The Unit's new head, Kyas Sherriff, hosted a session with Mexican writer Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel), in town as a guest of Nitv.
Arriaga was in mischevious form, riffing for an hour on everything from his writing process, his fights with director Warwick Thornton, his creative divorce from Alejandro González Iñárritu, and the damage his "friend" Tarantino has had on cinema.
The screenwriter and novelist started the session off with a flourish, producing an aboriginal flag from his pocket and laying it in front of him, declaring "I want to show my love".
Arriaga was first brought to Australia by Sally Riley, who met Arriaga at the Sundance Labs the same year that Amores Perros bowed at the festival.
- 2/22/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Lauren Edwards has joined the team at Goalpost Pictures, the production company currently filming The Sapphires, directed by Wayne Blair in Sydney, which Edwards is Associate Producer on.
Edwards was producer on the Nash Edgerton directed, Edgerton/David Michod written short film, Bear which screened in competition at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival.
Goalpost’s Rosemary Blight said in a statement, “Goalpost is very committed to identifying, mentoring and working with the most dynamic and creative talent in the country – whether writers, directors, producers, actors or technicians. In Lauren we see an exceptional talent and we believe she will have a stellar career as a producer. We are delighted that she has joined the Goalpost team and very much look forward to working alongside her as her first feature film as Producer, Mixtape, becomes a reality.”
Mixtape, which will be Maia Horniak’s feature film debut, is a rom-com that connects music and love.
Edwards was producer on the Nash Edgerton directed, Edgerton/David Michod written short film, Bear which screened in competition at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival.
Goalpost’s Rosemary Blight said in a statement, “Goalpost is very committed to identifying, mentoring and working with the most dynamic and creative talent in the country – whether writers, directors, producers, actors or technicians. In Lauren we see an exceptional talent and we believe she will have a stellar career as a producer. We are delighted that she has joined the Goalpost team and very much look forward to working alongside her as her first feature film as Producer, Mixtape, becomes a reality.”
Mixtape, which will be Maia Horniak’s feature film debut, is a rom-com that connects music and love.
- 8/30/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Adapted from the stage, The Sapphires, about a 1960s Indigenous all-girl soul group scouted from the outback and sent to Vietnam to entertain the troops is due to start filming in Sydney in August, before moving on location to Vietnam later in the year.
The doo-wop group billed as the next Supremes will be made up of Jessica Mauboy (Bran Nue Dae), Deborah Mailman (Rabbit Proof Fence, Offspring) joined by Nida graduates Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell.
Adapted by Keith Thompson (Clubland) and playwright Tony Briggs, it is directed by actor/theatre director Wayne Blair and produced by Rosemary Blight and Kylie du Fresne of Goalpost Pictures Australia.
The film will be distributed by Hopscotch Films throughout Australia and New Zealand. Managing Director Troy Lum said, “The Sapphires has it all – a great story with lots of love and laugher, set against the backdrop of the social upheaval of the late 1960’s,...
The doo-wop group billed as the next Supremes will be made up of Jessica Mauboy (Bran Nue Dae), Deborah Mailman (Rabbit Proof Fence, Offspring) joined by Nida graduates Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell.
Adapted by Keith Thompson (Clubland) and playwright Tony Briggs, it is directed by actor/theatre director Wayne Blair and produced by Rosemary Blight and Kylie du Fresne of Goalpost Pictures Australia.
The film will be distributed by Hopscotch Films throughout Australia and New Zealand. Managing Director Troy Lum said, “The Sapphires has it all – a great story with lots of love and laugher, set against the backdrop of the social upheaval of the late 1960’s,...
- 7/19/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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