Leading Australian producers Cathy Rodda (“Unfinished Sky”) and Lisa Duff (“Last Cab to Darwin”) are joining Anupam Sharma’s English and Hindi-language “Honour” as the film project heads for Film Bazaar in Goa, India.
“Honour” is a social thriller based on true events and is the story of a bride who goes to Australia with a million dreams which soon turn into a nightmare of dowry and domestic abuse. Trapped in a web of deceit, greed, visa regulations, and pressures to protect the honour of her family, herself and the Indian community in Australia, the woman decides to run when she gets pregnant and is forced to abort
The film is currently in final stages of development. It is expected to shoot in Victoria state.
Forum Films has acquired distribution rights for Australia, New Zealand, Fiji Islands and Papua New Guinea with Janine Barnes also serving as producer. Rodda will...
“Honour” is a social thriller based on true events and is the story of a bride who goes to Australia with a million dreams which soon turn into a nightmare of dowry and domestic abuse. Trapped in a web of deceit, greed, visa regulations, and pressures to protect the honour of her family, herself and the Indian community in Australia, the woman decides to run when she gets pregnant and is forced to abort
The film is currently in final stages of development. It is expected to shoot in Victoria state.
Forum Films has acquired distribution rights for Australia, New Zealand, Fiji Islands and Papua New Guinea with Janine Barnes also serving as producer. Rodda will...
- 11/2/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Diana Burnett.
Diana Burnett, the incoming executive director of the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg), cites supporting female and other under-represented directors and helping directors to get more work internationally as among her objectives.
A Screen Australia executive for nearly 10 years, Burnett also lists building the guild’s presence in Canberra and continuing the industrial advocacy so ably handled by the Adg’s outgoing CEO Kingston Anderson as other priorities.
One of her first tasks will be to form a committee comprising the guild’s foundation members including Phil Noyce, Gillian Armstrong and Donald Crombie.
A ground-breaking industrial agreement for TV drama directors which Anderson has negotiated with Screen Producers Australia is expected to be unveiled at Screen Forever next month. Anderson tells If he hopes that will be followed by deals covering factual directors and feature directors.
Currently Screen Australia’s senior manager, business partnerships and corporate development, she starts...
Diana Burnett, the incoming executive director of the Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg), cites supporting female and other under-represented directors and helping directors to get more work internationally as among her objectives.
A Screen Australia executive for nearly 10 years, Burnett also lists building the guild’s presence in Canberra and continuing the industrial advocacy so ably handled by the Adg’s outgoing CEO Kingston Anderson as other priorities.
One of her first tasks will be to form a committee comprising the guild’s foundation members including Phil Noyce, Gillian Armstrong and Donald Crombie.
A ground-breaking industrial agreement for TV drama directors which Anderson has negotiated with Screen Producers Australia is expected to be unveiled at Screen Forever next month. Anderson tells If he hopes that will be followed by deals covering factual directors and feature directors.
Currently Screen Australia’s senior manager, business partnerships and corporate development, she starts...
- 10/9/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Kingston Anderson.
Kingston Anderson is stepping down after eight years as CEO of the Australian Directors’ Guild.
One of the screen industry’s most respected leaders, he will depart in late September and plans to return to producing documentaries with his partner Claire Haywood.
The guild had offered him a new, three-year contract but he tells If: “Eight years is a long time. It’s a good time to go and hand over to someone else. Everything is running well.”
While his focus for the time being will be on making documentaries with Haywood, whose credits include The Pink House, Kings Cross ER, Being Lara Bingle and Territory Cops, he says: “I may do something else in the future.”
Among his achievements at the helm of the Adg have been the transformation of the guild into a union three and a half years ago, which enabled the organisation to represent...
Kingston Anderson is stepping down after eight years as CEO of the Australian Directors’ Guild.
One of the screen industry’s most respected leaders, he will depart in late September and plans to return to producing documentaries with his partner Claire Haywood.
The guild had offered him a new, three-year contract but he tells If: “Eight years is a long time. It’s a good time to go and hand over to someone else. Everything is running well.”
While his focus for the time being will be on making documentaries with Haywood, whose credits include The Pink House, Kings Cross ER, Being Lara Bingle and Territory Cops, he says: “I may do something else in the future.”
Among his achievements at the helm of the Adg have been the transformation of the guild into a union three and a half years ago, which enabled the organisation to represent...
- 8/7/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Leah Purcell accepting the Sydney Unesco City of Film Award..
Sydney Film Festival closed last night, with Ildikó Enyedi.s On Body and Soul awarded the $60,000 Sydney Film Prize..
The film from the Hungarian director has previously also won the Berlinale Golden Bear, and follows an unconventional romance between two co-workers who discover that each night they have exactly the same dreams.
Accepting the award Enyedi said: .It was such an amazingly strong competition. It.s marvellous that.such a film can move so many people, it gives me so much hope in cinema and in human communication.
Sydney filmmakers Sascha Ettinger Epstein and Claire Haywood were awarded the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary for The Pink House, about the last brothel in Kalgoorlie.
In a joint statement, the jury, which was made up of Ramona S. Diaz, CEO Documentary Australia Foundation Dr Mitzi Goldman and Amin Palangi said:.
"Amongst ten noteworthy films,...
Sydney Film Festival closed last night, with Ildikó Enyedi.s On Body and Soul awarded the $60,000 Sydney Film Prize..
The film from the Hungarian director has previously also won the Berlinale Golden Bear, and follows an unconventional romance between two co-workers who discover that each night they have exactly the same dreams.
Accepting the award Enyedi said: .It was such an amazingly strong competition. It.s marvellous that.such a film can move so many people, it gives me so much hope in cinema and in human communication.
Sydney filmmakers Sascha Ettinger Epstein and Claire Haywood were awarded the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary for The Pink House, about the last brothel in Kalgoorlie.
In a joint statement, the jury, which was made up of Ramona S. Diaz, CEO Documentary Australia Foundation Dr Mitzi Goldman and Amin Palangi said:.
"Amongst ten noteworthy films,...
- 6/19/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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