Exclusive: Former eOne Asia Pacific boss Troy Lum is officially launching new Australia-New Zealand distributor Kismet, with a slate of projects including Cannes hits and pre-sale titles.
Kismet is headed by Lum, founder of local indie Hopscotch, and Jason Hernandez, former Head of Theatrical Distribution at eOne Australia and New Zealand.
As previously noted out of Cannes, the company have acquired Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winning horror-thriller Titane (pictured), Japanese animator Mamoru Hosoda’s eye-catching fairytale Belle, and Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s debut feature, the French romance Anaïs In Love. Titane will be the company’s first release in November.
In addition to its festival acquisitions, Kismet’s lineup also includes Zach Braff’s A Good Person, starring Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman; Nick Cassavettes’ Cus And Mike, which tells the story of Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer and manager Cus D’Amato; Kate Dennis’ All That I Am, based...
Kismet is headed by Lum, founder of local indie Hopscotch, and Jason Hernandez, former Head of Theatrical Distribution at eOne Australia and New Zealand.
As previously noted out of Cannes, the company have acquired Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winning horror-thriller Titane (pictured), Japanese animator Mamoru Hosoda’s eye-catching fairytale Belle, and Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s debut feature, the French romance Anaïs In Love. Titane will be the company’s first release in November.
In addition to its festival acquisitions, Kismet’s lineup also includes Zach Braff’s A Good Person, starring Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman; Nick Cassavettes’ Cus And Mike, which tells the story of Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer and manager Cus D’Amato; Kate Dennis’ All That I Am, based...
- 8/4/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Hopscotch Features’ Troy Lum and Andrew Mason have joined forces with UK producer Gabrielle Tana to form a new production house, Brouhaha Entertainment.
The company combines their respective slates, with upcoming projects including Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, starring Michelle Williams; Kate Dennis’ All That I Am, based on the novel by Anna Funder; Lee Tamahori’s The Convert; Richard E. Grant’s Majesty and Patrick Dickinson’s Cottontail.
To be based across Sydney and London, the company has received investment via the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which was launched in June 2019 in association with the British Film Institute (BFI).
The fund aims to support the growth of dynamic and ambitious UK companies, and has also backed the likes of Wonderhood Studios, Raindog Films, Maze Theory and Maven Screen Media.
Tana is the producer of the Oscar-nominated Philomena, The Invisible Woman and most recently, Netflix’s The Dig, from Australian director Simon Stone.
The company combines their respective slates, with upcoming projects including Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, starring Michelle Williams; Kate Dennis’ All That I Am, based on the novel by Anna Funder; Lee Tamahori’s The Convert; Richard E. Grant’s Majesty and Patrick Dickinson’s Cottontail.
To be based across Sydney and London, the company has received investment via the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which was launched in June 2019 in association with the British Film Institute (BFI).
The fund aims to support the growth of dynamic and ambitious UK companies, and has also backed the likes of Wonderhood Studios, Raindog Films, Maze Theory and Maven Screen Media.
Tana is the producer of the Oscar-nominated Philomena, The Invisible Woman and most recently, Netflix’s The Dig, from Australian director Simon Stone.
- 7/21/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The film-makers have shot for profundity and lyricism to match the Australian classic, but ended up with something flavourless – and occasionally cloying
Garrett Hedlund takes his shirt off a lot in the romantic movie Dirt Music – his creamy-skinned, chiselled-featured body seemingly belonging to a gene pool combining Errol Flynn with a Hemsworth brother. The American actor, who boasts an impressively convincing Australian accent, screams “beach hunk” in no uncertain terms. Some of the film’s problems arise when the script – adapted by director Gregor Jordan from Tim Winton’s Miles Franklin award-winning novel of the same name – requires his character to scream other things too, such as “mysterious person with a traumatic past” and “broken, emotionally reticent man”.
The narrative initially appears to be unfolding from the perspective of former nurse Georgie, who is the girlfriend of a wealthy fisherman (David Wenham) – although their relationship is going through a bad patch.
Garrett Hedlund takes his shirt off a lot in the romantic movie Dirt Music – his creamy-skinned, chiselled-featured body seemingly belonging to a gene pool combining Errol Flynn with a Hemsworth brother. The American actor, who boasts an impressively convincing Australian accent, screams “beach hunk” in no uncertain terms. Some of the film’s problems arise when the script – adapted by director Gregor Jordan from Tim Winton’s Miles Franklin award-winning novel of the same name – requires his character to scream other things too, such as “mysterious person with a traumatic past” and “broken, emotionally reticent man”.
The narrative initially appears to be unfolding from the perspective of former nurse Georgie, who is the girlfriend of a wealthy fisherman (David Wenham) – although their relationship is going through a bad patch.
- 10/8/2020
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Tony Briggs and Tracey Rigney.
Tony Birch’s Miles Franklin-shortlisted novel The White Girl is set in the 1960s but the themes of the courage, strength and dignity of Indigenous resistance are just as relevant today, according to Damienne Pradier.
Emerging producer Pradier and her partner, writer-actor Tony Briggs, optioned the novel and are developing a feature film with Tracey Rigney as the director and co-writer.
It’s among six Australian projects selected to participate in Attagirl, the feature film development lab devised and run by For Film’s Sake.
The plot follows Odette Brown, who is raising her granddaughter Sissy, who was conceived when she was raped by Joe Kane, a white pastoralist for whom Odette once worked as a domestic.
Traumatised by her violation and unable to cope with life as a mother, Odette’s daughter Lila fled to the big city, leaving behind Sissy, the white girl of Birch’s title.
Tony Birch’s Miles Franklin-shortlisted novel The White Girl is set in the 1960s but the themes of the courage, strength and dignity of Indigenous resistance are just as relevant today, according to Damienne Pradier.
Emerging producer Pradier and her partner, writer-actor Tony Briggs, optioned the novel and are developing a feature film with Tracey Rigney as the director and co-writer.
It’s among six Australian projects selected to participate in Attagirl, the feature film development lab devised and run by For Film’s Sake.
The plot follows Odette Brown, who is raising her granddaughter Sissy, who was conceived when she was raped by Joe Kane, a white pastoralist for whom Odette once worked as a domestic.
Traumatised by her violation and unable to cope with life as a mother, Odette’s daughter Lila fled to the big city, leaving behind Sissy, the white girl of Birch’s title.
- 9/8/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Fads and Miracles’ (Photo credit: Matt Sav.)
Tracey Rigney, Emma Freeman, Tanya Modini, Laura Scrivano, Zoe Pepper, Eve Spence and Amin Palangi are among the directors who will take part in Attagirl, the new lab dedicated to creating production and distribution pathways for feature films by female and non-binary creative teams.
Six Australian projects and one from New Zealand are among 13 from around the world selected for the lab designed and run by For Film’s Sake (Ffs), financially supported by Screen Australia’s Enterprise Business and Ideas funding program and other Australian and international screen agencies.
The first of three workshops consisting of nine days of project development during TIFF’s Industry Conference and digital festival begins tomorrow. The second next January will look at ways to identify and reach the target audience, including digital distribution and the future of exhibition.
The third, affiliated with the Sydney Film Festival in June,...
Tracey Rigney, Emma Freeman, Tanya Modini, Laura Scrivano, Zoe Pepper, Eve Spence and Amin Palangi are among the directors who will take part in Attagirl, the new lab dedicated to creating production and distribution pathways for feature films by female and non-binary creative teams.
Six Australian projects and one from New Zealand are among 13 from around the world selected for the lab designed and run by For Film’s Sake (Ffs), financially supported by Screen Australia’s Enterprise Business and Ideas funding program and other Australian and international screen agencies.
The first of three workshops consisting of nine days of project development during TIFF’s Industry Conference and digital festival begins tomorrow. The second next January will look at ways to identify and reach the target audience, including digital distribution and the future of exhibition.
The third, affiliated with the Sydney Film Festival in June,...
- 9/8/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Gregor Jordan on the set of ‘Dirt Music’. (Photo: Kerry Brown)
Once cinemas reopen, Universal Pictures intends to give Dirt Music a wide release – something director Gregor Jordan is thankful for.
Shot in Western Australia and based on Tim Winton’s Miles Franklin-winning novel, the film made its world at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.
It stars Kelly Macdonald as Georgie, a sometime sailor, diver and nurse who is stranded in a remote fishing town with Jim (David Wenham), a man she doesn’t love, and his young sons whose dead mother she can never replace. A reckless moment leads Georgie to an intense, sexually charged affair with Lu Fox (Garrett Hedlund), an enigmatic loner, musician and poacher who is traumatised by a tragic accident from his past.
When Lu retreats into the wilderness, Georgie embarks on a journey to bring him back with the unlikely help of Jim,...
Once cinemas reopen, Universal Pictures intends to give Dirt Music a wide release – something director Gregor Jordan is thankful for.
Shot in Western Australia and based on Tim Winton’s Miles Franklin-winning novel, the film made its world at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.
It stars Kelly Macdonald as Georgie, a sometime sailor, diver and nurse who is stranded in a remote fishing town with Jim (David Wenham), a man she doesn’t love, and his young sons whose dead mother she can never replace. A reckless moment leads Georgie to an intense, sexually charged affair with Lu Fox (Garrett Hedlund), an enigmatic loner, musician and poacher who is traumatised by a tragic accident from his past.
When Lu retreats into the wilderness, Georgie embarks on a journey to bring him back with the unlikely help of Jim,...
- 5/21/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Melissa Lucashenko.
Melissa Lucashenko’s novel ‘Too Much Lip’, which won the Miles Franklin Award last night, is headed for screen – having been optioned in May this year by newly-formed production company Cenozoic Pictures.
Lucashenko is a multi-award-winning Goorie writer, a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of the prisoner’s human rights group, Sisters Inside. ‘Too Much Lip’ tracks the story of wisecracking Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman whose intention to return home for 24 hours to farewell her Pop becomes a life-changing stay as she confronts family, corruption, buried secrets and the possibility of love.
‘Too Much Lip’ was also shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the Nsw Premier’s Literary Awards and the Australian Book Industry Awards.
Filmmakers Veronica Gleeson, Luke Walker and Suzanne Walker founded the Melbourne-based Cenozoic Pictures last year, with an strong emphasis on providing writers with a creatively supportive environment.
Melissa Lucashenko’s novel ‘Too Much Lip’, which won the Miles Franklin Award last night, is headed for screen – having been optioned in May this year by newly-formed production company Cenozoic Pictures.
Lucashenko is a multi-award-winning Goorie writer, a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of the prisoner’s human rights group, Sisters Inside. ‘Too Much Lip’ tracks the story of wisecracking Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman whose intention to return home for 24 hours to farewell her Pop becomes a life-changing stay as she confronts family, corruption, buried secrets and the possibility of love.
‘Too Much Lip’ was also shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the Nsw Premier’s Literary Awards and the Australian Book Industry Awards.
Filmmakers Veronica Gleeson, Luke Walker and Suzanne Walker founded the Melbourne-based Cenozoic Pictures last year, with an strong emphasis on providing writers with a creatively supportive environment.
- 7/31/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Stars: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Peter Whitford | Written by Eleanor Whitcombe | Directed by Gillian Armstrong
In the 19th century, on a remote Australian farm, teenager Sybylla (Judy Davis) dreams of a life of culture. Definitely a dreamer rather than a doer, she is shipped around various pockets of her extended family, mostly with a view to finding a matriarch who can curtail her “godless” behaviour. Everyone fails; and when she meets Harry (Sam Neill), she finds a muse for her mischievous energy. The obvious next step is marriage, particularly when you consider that the moneyed Harry is willing to wait years for Sybylla’s hand. But marriage is not Sybylla’s way. She is a young firebrand who is fiercely defensive of her independence. The push and pull between duty and independence is the basis for what becomes a very nuanced and involving character study.
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In the 19th century, on a remote Australian farm, teenager Sybylla (Judy Davis) dreams of a life of culture. Definitely a dreamer rather than a doer, she is shipped around various pockets of her extended family, mostly with a view to finding a matriarch who can curtail her “godless” behaviour. Everyone fails; and when she meets Harry (Sam Neill), she finds a muse for her mischievous energy. The obvious next step is marriage, particularly when you consider that the moneyed Harry is willing to wait years for Sybylla’s hand. But marriage is not Sybylla’s way. She is a young firebrand who is fiercely defensive of her independence. The push and pull between duty and independence is the basis for what becomes a very nuanced and involving character study.
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- 5/27/2019
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Eleanor Witcombe in 2017.
Screenwriter and playwright Eleanor Witcombe, whose most enduring works were the adaptations of My Brilliant Career and The Getting of Wisdom, has died in Sydney. She was 95.
My Brilliant Career producer Margaret Fink, who hired Witcombe to adapt Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel, a coming-of-age story about a headstrong young woman played by Judy Davis, tells If: “Her contribution to the film is incalculable.”
She began her professional career as a playwright in 1948 when the Mosman Children’s Theatre Club commissioned her to write three plays for children: Pirates at the Barn, The Bushranger and Smugglers Beware.
In 1952 she left for two years’ work and study in London. On her return she wrote one-hour adaptations of plays, books, and stories for ABC radio, the Lux Radio Theatre and the Macquarie Radio Theatre.
She also wrote the books for stage musicals A Ride on a Broomstick and Mistress Money for the Philllip Street Theatre.
Screenwriter and playwright Eleanor Witcombe, whose most enduring works were the adaptations of My Brilliant Career and The Getting of Wisdom, has died in Sydney. She was 95.
My Brilliant Career producer Margaret Fink, who hired Witcombe to adapt Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel, a coming-of-age story about a headstrong young woman played by Judy Davis, tells If: “Her contribution to the film is incalculable.”
She began her professional career as a playwright in 1948 when the Mosman Children’s Theatre Club commissioned her to write three plays for children: Pirates at the Barn, The Bushranger and Smugglers Beware.
In 1952 she left for two years’ work and study in London. On her return she wrote one-hour adaptations of plays, books, and stories for ABC radio, the Lux Radio Theatre and the Macquarie Radio Theatre.
She also wrote the books for stage musicals A Ride on a Broomstick and Mistress Money for the Philllip Street Theatre.
- 11/5/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Scott Free has set David Kajganich to adapt Australian author Tim Winton’s Booker Prize finalist novel The Riders.
In the book, an expatriate Australian eagerly awaits the return of his family in Ireland, but discovers that his wife has mysteriously vanished, and goes on a frantic search for her with his traumatized daughter.
Scott Free’s Ridley Scott, Kevin Walsh & Michael Pruss are producing. No director has been set yet. Kajganich specifically brought The Riders to Scott to consider as their second collaboration following their spring AMC TV series The Terror, on which Scott executive produced.
Kajganich, who is repped by UTA, Madhouse Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein, recently adapted the Amazon remake of Dario Argento’s horror pic Suspiria which Luca Guadagnino directed. The pic, starring Dakota Johnson, hits theaters on Oct. 26. Kajganich also wrote True Story starring James Franco and Jonah Hill,...
In the book, an expatriate Australian eagerly awaits the return of his family in Ireland, but discovers that his wife has mysteriously vanished, and goes on a frantic search for her with his traumatized daughter.
Scott Free’s Ridley Scott, Kevin Walsh & Michael Pruss are producing. No director has been set yet. Kajganich specifically brought The Riders to Scott to consider as their second collaboration following their spring AMC TV series The Terror, on which Scott executive produced.
Kajganich, who is repped by UTA, Madhouse Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein, recently adapted the Amazon remake of Dario Argento’s horror pic Suspiria which Luca Guadagnino directed. The pic, starring Dakota Johnson, hits theaters on Oct. 26. Kajganich also wrote True Story starring James Franco and Jonah Hill,...
- 10/8/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Winton’s award-winning coming of age novel had a ‘profound effect’ on Baker, who translated it for the big screen in his directorial debut
An image of two teenage boys suspended in a murky ocean opens the trailer for Breath, the new film adaptation of Tim Winton’s Miles Franklin award-winning novel, featuring Richard Roxburgh, Elizabeth Debicki and Rachael Blake.
The trailer’s launch on Sunday offered the first glimpse into The Mentalist star Simon Baker’s filmic interpretation of Winton’s 2008 coming-of-age novel, which follows two risk-taking teenage boys, Pikelet and Loonie, inhabitants of a small coastal Western Australian town, whose chance encounter with an older local surfer, Sando, opens them up to new ways of understanding the world.
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An image of two teenage boys suspended in a murky ocean opens the trailer for Breath, the new film adaptation of Tim Winton’s Miles Franklin award-winning novel, featuring Richard Roxburgh, Elizabeth Debicki and Rachael Blake.
The trailer’s launch on Sunday offered the first glimpse into The Mentalist star Simon Baker’s filmic interpretation of Winton’s 2008 coming-of-age novel, which follows two risk-taking teenage boys, Pikelet and Loonie, inhabitants of a small coastal Western Australian town, whose chance encounter with an older local surfer, Sando, opens them up to new ways of understanding the world.
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- 12/2/2017
- by Stephanie Convery
- The Guardian - Film News
New feature film Hounds of Love is set to start shooting in Western Australia early next year.
The project, from writer/director Ben Young and producer Melissa Kelly, has been supported by Screen Australia and ScreenWest.
Hounds of Love is the debut feature film for Young and is a thriller drawn from a number of infamous local and international crimes. ..
Producer Melissa Kelly said Hounds of Love explored some of the same territory as the gripping Australian crime thrillers Animal Kingdom, Suburban Mayhem and Mystery Road.
The project participated in the ScreenWest script and talent development initiatives Feature Navigator and eQuinoxe in 2014 and attracted international recognition when it was pitched at European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin earlier this year. ..
In 2014 the project was awarded production funding through ScreenWest.s West Coast Visions initiative, which aims to uncover, inspire and develop local filmmakers..
Screen Australia chief executive, Graeme Mason said...
The project, from writer/director Ben Young and producer Melissa Kelly, has been supported by Screen Australia and ScreenWest.
Hounds of Love is the debut feature film for Young and is a thriller drawn from a number of infamous local and international crimes. ..
Producer Melissa Kelly said Hounds of Love explored some of the same territory as the gripping Australian crime thrillers Animal Kingdom, Suburban Mayhem and Mystery Road.
The project participated in the ScreenWest script and talent development initiatives Feature Navigator and eQuinoxe in 2014 and attracted international recognition when it was pitched at European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin earlier this year. ..
In 2014 the project was awarded production funding through ScreenWest.s West Coast Visions initiative, which aims to uncover, inspire and develop local filmmakers..
Screen Australia chief executive, Graeme Mason said...
- 9/11/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Originally scorned by audiences, director Ray Lawrence’s shocking Kafkaesque comedy starring Barry Otto became an arthouse sleeper hit
The DVD synopsis of director Ray Lawrence’s debut film Bliss describes it as a “controversial Australian film that both shocked and thrilled audiences at the 1985 Cannes film festival”.
Shocked and thrilled is one way to put it; another would be to say that the audience walked out in droves. The first screening resulted in a legendary shuffle to the exits: some 400 people abandoned Lawrence’s strikingly atmospheric adaptation of the author Peter Carey’s novel, recipient of the Miles Franklin award in 1981.
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The DVD synopsis of director Ray Lawrence’s debut film Bliss describes it as a “controversial Australian film that both shocked and thrilled audiences at the 1985 Cannes film festival”.
Shocked and thrilled is one way to put it; another would be to say that the audience walked out in droves. The first screening resulted in a legendary shuffle to the exits: some 400 people abandoned Lawrence’s strikingly atmospheric adaptation of the author Peter Carey’s novel, recipient of the Miles Franklin award in 1981.
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- 6/27/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
In a keynote address to the Australian International Movie Convention, News Limited CEO Kim Williams argued that download films, TV shows or music without paying for it is no better than looting
My subject today is copyright. It’s a topic as potentially dry as a pub with no beer. Its mere mention makes you think of lawyers. And fees. And trademarks. And fine print. So let’s put that all aside for a moment and talk about what copyright is really about. Let’s cut right to the chase. Copyright is about enabling the production of great art and great commercial work – hopefully both. It’s about nurturing the creative process. It’s about supporting business cases and employment. About getting the noblest imaginings of the human mind and human emotions into a form that the whole world can see and share.
If you want to know why you should care about copyright,...
My subject today is copyright. It’s a topic as potentially dry as a pub with no beer. Its mere mention makes you think of lawyers. And fees. And trademarks. And fine print. So let’s put that all aside for a moment and talk about what copyright is really about. Let’s cut right to the chase. Copyright is about enabling the production of great art and great commercial work – hopefully both. It’s about nurturing the creative process. It’s about supporting business cases and employment. About getting the noblest imaginings of the human mind and human emotions into a form that the whole world can see and share.
If you want to know why you should care about copyright,...
- 8/21/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
The ABC has commissioned Melbourne writer Andrew Knight to adapt another Peter Temple novel, after.penning the.successful script of Jack Irish telemovie Bad Debts. And Knight says.the novel.is Temple.s true .masterpiece. . The Broken Shore. .It.s one of the best bits of writing going round,. Knight says of the 2005 novel which has netted several awards including the Duncan Lawrie Dagger trophy. Temple, one of Australia's best crime writers who is also based in Victoria, won the Miles Franklin Award for his subsequent book Truth, but Knight says The Broken Shore was more deserving. The book tells the story of Melbourne homocide detective Joe Cashin, who, after a history of family tragedy, racism and police corruption,...
- 10/30/2011
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
ABC's The Slap will first screen not on television but at a film festival. The first two episodes of the much-anticipated miniseries will be shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival next month, as reported by The Australian. The Slap, which features a high-profile cast including Melissa George and Sophie Okonedo, follows the repercussions of an incident at a Melbourne barbecue where a man slaps another parent's child. The first two episodes of the Matchbox Pictures production were directed by Jessica Hobbs (Rake). Earlier this month, the international rights were acquired by distributor Dcd. The company will launch the series at Mipcom in Cannes later this year. Christos Tsiolkas's novel, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary...
- 6/29/2011
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
Tim Winton’s much-loved Australian novel Cloudstreet has been adapted for the small screen two decades after
it was first published. Laine Lister visited the West Australian set to document the ride.
When the screen rights to Cloudstreet returned to Australian ownership, Tim Winton devotees celebrated the great coup; the quintessential Australian story was finally coming home.
Years earlier, Hollywood producers had snapped up the Cloudscreet screen rights after hearing of its broad commercial appeal. The novel has been translated into 25 languages and gained literary acclaim through the Miles Franklin and NBC Awards. It has even found its way into the hearts and imaginations of thousands of Aussie kids after it was added to the senior secondary English curricula in many states.
Despite this, the story sat idle in the Us until a holding deal matured. It was then that Australian patriot Des Monahan of Screentime swooped in and brought it home.
it was first published. Laine Lister visited the West Australian set to document the ride.
When the screen rights to Cloudstreet returned to Australian ownership, Tim Winton devotees celebrated the great coup; the quintessential Australian story was finally coming home.
Years earlier, Hollywood producers had snapped up the Cloudscreet screen rights after hearing of its broad commercial appeal. The novel has been translated into 25 languages and gained literary acclaim through the Miles Franklin and NBC Awards. It has even found its way into the hearts and imaginations of thousands of Aussie kids after it was added to the senior secondary English curricula in many states.
Despite this, the story sat idle in the Us until a holding deal matured. It was then that Australian patriot Des Monahan of Screentime swooped in and brought it home.
- 5/17/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
“The Mentalist” star Simon Baker and producer Mark Johnson have picked feature rights to the Tim Winton novel “Breath.” Baker and Johnson will produce and Baker may have a leading role. No director has been set yet but, according to Variety, they plan to have one before setting up funding. The novel was published in 2008 and is set in a small town in Western Australia. Two sixteen-year old boys take up surfing under the tutelage of Sando (Baker) and his mysterious wife. Spurred on by their mentor, the boys test their courage and recklessness both on and off the water in an effort to escape their ordinary lives. Winton is the winner of four Miles Franklin Awards including for this book. “Dirt Music,” his 2001 book, is also finding film under the Phillip Noyce and "Cloudstreet" is being made into a miniseries by Screentime.
- 11/19/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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