Shorts director Cris Jones will make his feature debut on The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
Xavier Samuel is attached to play the title character, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
Screen Australia, Film Victoria and the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund are financing the low budget drama which will shoot in Melbourne later this year.
The producers are Mish Armstrong, Alicia Brown and Melanie Coombs, with Jonathan Page as Ep. Coombs produced Jones. well-received 2008 short The Funk.
Page.s Bonsai Films will distribute in Australia and international sales will be handled by Global Screen, which reps Oddball.
The other two features which received funding at Screen Australia.s September board meeting are Hounds of Love and Emo (The Musical).
In Hounds of Love Stephen Curry is attached to play one half of a sinister couple, John and Evelyn White,...
Xavier Samuel is attached to play the title character, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
Screen Australia, Film Victoria and the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund are financing the low budget drama which will shoot in Melbourne later this year.
The producers are Mish Armstrong, Alicia Brown and Melanie Coombs, with Jonathan Page as Ep. Coombs produced Jones. well-received 2008 short The Funk.
Page.s Bonsai Films will distribute in Australia and international sales will be handled by Global Screen, which reps Oddball.
The other two features which received funding at Screen Australia.s September board meeting are Hounds of Love and Emo (The Musical).
In Hounds of Love Stephen Curry is attached to play one half of a sinister couple, John and Evelyn White,...
- 10/1/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Xavier Samuel, Miranda Otto and Sam Neill are attached to star in Midnight in Byzantium, a mystery/adventure about a young guy who is trapped in a remote town where nothing - and no one - is as it seems.
The film will mark the feature debut of Melbourne-based writer-director Cris Jones, who has directed numerous short films, music videos and TVCs. The producers are Optimism Films. Melanie Coombs, Alicia Brown and Mish Armstrong.
The project has received development funding from Screen Australia and a travel grant which enabled Jones to attend this year.s Binger Filmlab Directors Lab in Amsterdam.
Also attached is Jacek Koman, whose credits include Top of the Lake, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Spirited and Julius Avery.s upcoming movie Son of a Gun, which stars Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander and Brenton Thwaites.
The synopsis reads: .A young man wakes up in a small,...
The film will mark the feature debut of Melbourne-based writer-director Cris Jones, who has directed numerous short films, music videos and TVCs. The producers are Optimism Films. Melanie Coombs, Alicia Brown and Mish Armstrong.
The project has received development funding from Screen Australia and a travel grant which enabled Jones to attend this year.s Binger Filmlab Directors Lab in Amsterdam.
Also attached is Jacek Koman, whose credits include Top of the Lake, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Spirited and Julius Avery.s upcoming movie Son of a Gun, which stars Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander and Brenton Thwaites.
The synopsis reads: .A young man wakes up in a small,...
- 8/20/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The filmmakers behind Love and Fury have the blessing of producer Melanie Coombs (Mary and Max) for the documentary about the clandestine love affair between her grandfather, the influential public servant Nugget Coombs, and poet, environmentalist and Aboriginal rights campaigner Judith Wright.
.Grandpa was a public figure and for a lot of people this is a very interesting story,. Coombs told If Magazine.
.We all knew about it [the affair] but my grandmother was a very observant Catholic and while there was talk of them divorcing at some point early on in the Nugget/Judith affair I think that it was decided that it was best for the whole of both the Wright and Coombs families for it to be this secret..
Coombs was one of the first people the filmmakers . director John Hughes (What I Have Written), who wrote the script with Penelope Chai, and producer Philippa Campey (Murundak: Songs of...
.Grandpa was a public figure and for a lot of people this is a very interesting story,. Coombs told If Magazine.
.We all knew about it [the affair] but my grandmother was a very observant Catholic and while there was talk of them divorcing at some point early on in the Nugget/Judith affair I think that it was decided that it was best for the whole of both the Wright and Coombs families for it to be this secret..
Coombs was one of the first people the filmmakers . director John Hughes (What I Have Written), who wrote the script with Penelope Chai, and producer Philippa Campey (Murundak: Songs of...
- 7/4/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
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