Female directors have dominated the Documentary Feature category of the 2014 Australian Directors Guild Awards, whilst Home & Away has muscled out any other competition for TV Drama Serial. The nominees, announced this morning, cover 16 categories across film, television, multiplatform, music and advertising. This year has seen the Adg receive more entries than ever before, making the judging process a difficult one. .In the TV drama category, the documentary feature category and the feature film categories especially, the caliber is really high so that.s why there are so many nominations,. says Adg Executive Director Kingston Anderson. .The judges take it very seriously and fully understand the recognition the awards can bring.. In the feature film category, Baz Luhrmann was unsurprisingly nominated for box office hit The Great Gatsby alongside strong contenders Kim Mordaunt (The Rocket), Ivan Sen (Mystery Road), Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man) and Zak Hilditch, whose film These Final Hours,...
- 4/9/2014
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
The 2013 Margaret Mead Film Festival will be held from Thursday, October 17th through Sunday, October 20th at the American Museum of Natural History. The theme of this year's festival delves into how humans perceive culture by way of various and distinct artistic narratives. The festivals' lineup will include 16 U.S. premieres, including "Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls," which will screen opening night on Thursday, October 17th. Here's a selection of the films included, with descriptions from the festival: Allan Baldwin: In Frame, directed by Tearepa Kahi Gyumri. Photographer-turned-historian Allan Baldwin’s magnificent pictures of Maori tattoos are a tribute to a dying traditional art form. (U.S. premiere) And Who Taught You to Drive?, directed by Andrea Thiele. Three people’s humorous attempts to get driver’s licenses while living abroad—American Jake in Japan, German Mirela in India, and South Korean Hye-Won in Germany—create a sly, warmhearted exploration of cultural.
- 9/6/2013
- by Ohad Amram
- Indiewire
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