The Bells family spend 52 weeks a year setting up funfairs around the country. A new film runs away with the circus – and reveals the tensions within
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Seizing fate, I once placed a personal ad in a magazine, trying to track down a nameless, attractive ride operator who’d swept into my town with a travelling carnival. I was 13 and desperate to escape. Just placing the ad let in a ray of light.
Isabel Darling, director of the feature-length documentary The Carnival, can relate. She followed Bells Family Carnival around Australia for seven years – but sometimes just turning up to film vignettes wasn’t enough.
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Seizing fate, I once placed a personal ad in a magazine, trying to track down a nameless, attractive ride operator who’d swept into my town with a travelling carnival. I was 13 and desperate to escape. Just placing the ad let in a ray of light.
Isabel Darling, director of the feature-length documentary The Carnival, can relate. She followed Bells Family Carnival around Australia for seven years – but sometimes just turning up to film vignettes wasn’t enough.
- 6/10/2023
- by Jenny Valentish
- The Guardian - Film News
The shortlisted teams for the Australian International Documentary Conference’s (Aidc) three key pitching programs have been revealed ahead of the online event later this month.
State of Play, Australia Uncovered, and Reel Smart Academic Roundtables will give participants the opportunity to pitch their projects to decision-makers at the four-day conference, with a view to securing funding or production partnerships.
Alice Burgin, Aidc CEO and conference director, said the annual event’s many pitching opportunities are part of what makes the annual event so important.
“We are so grateful for the continued support of Film Victoria, and our partnerships with Sbs and La Trobe University, as they help us realise these important opportunities,” she said.
“We’re extremely grateful that these organisations share our vision for an Australian nonfiction sector that is relevant, curiously imaginative and perpetually excited by what the future has to offer.”
State Of Play
Developed in partnership with Film Victoria,...
State of Play, Australia Uncovered, and Reel Smart Academic Roundtables will give participants the opportunity to pitch their projects to decision-makers at the four-day conference, with a view to securing funding or production partnerships.
Alice Burgin, Aidc CEO and conference director, said the annual event’s many pitching opportunities are part of what makes the annual event so important.
“We are so grateful for the continued support of Film Victoria, and our partnerships with Sbs and La Trobe University, as they help us realise these important opportunities,” she said.
“We’re extremely grateful that these organisations share our vision for an Australian nonfiction sector that is relevant, curiously imaginative and perpetually excited by what the future has to offer.”
State Of Play
Developed in partnership with Film Victoria,...
- 2/17/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
(Top row: Samuel Rodwell, Isabel Darling, Hiromi Matsuoka, middle row: Michelle Patkowski, Jess Wheatley, bottom row: Rebecca O’Brien, Jo Coby, Robyn Marais)
Seven creatives from across regional Nsw and one from the Pilbara in Western Australia have been selected to participate in Screenworks 2020 Career Pathways Program, funded by Screen Nsw and Screenwest.
The selected early-career regional writers, directors and producers will each receive support to progress their careers from Screenworks, Screen Producers Australia, the Australian Directors’ Guild and a number of top Australian production companies through placements, mentoring, industry introductions and professional development.
Selected for the 2020 Regional Producer Elevator Program are Northern Rivers Nsw based Jo Coby, South Coast Nsw based Hiromi Matsuoka and Robyn Marais from the Pilbara in Western Australia.
Screenworks has partnered with Jungle Entertainment, Matchbox Pictures and Fremantle for this programs. Participants will spend at least five days at one of these production companies to shadow...
Seven creatives from across regional Nsw and one from the Pilbara in Western Australia have been selected to participate in Screenworks 2020 Career Pathways Program, funded by Screen Nsw and Screenwest.
The selected early-career regional writers, directors and producers will each receive support to progress their careers from Screenworks, Screen Producers Australia, the Australian Directors’ Guild and a number of top Australian production companies through placements, mentoring, industry introductions and professional development.
Selected for the 2020 Regional Producer Elevator Program are Northern Rivers Nsw based Jo Coby, South Coast Nsw based Hiromi Matsuoka and Robyn Marais from the Pilbara in Western Australia.
Screenworks has partnered with Jungle Entertainment, Matchbox Pictures and Fremantle for this programs. Participants will spend at least five days at one of these production companies to shadow...
- 12/17/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
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