Australian film and TV animation pioneer Yoram Gross died on Monday night, aged 88, of natural causes.
The co-founder of Yoram Gross Film Studios with his wife Sandra, his legacy lives on in Flying Bark Productions, the rebranded company formerly known as Yoram Gross-Em.TV Pty Ltd.
It is fitting that a new cinema version of Blinky Bill, his most famous and enduring character, Flying Bark.s Blinky Bill: The Movie, opened in Australian cinemas last week.
Born in Kraków Poland in 1926, he studied music and musicology at Krakow University. He first entered the film industry in 1947 when, aged 20, he was one of the first film students of Jerzy Toeplitz, who founded the Polish Film Institute.
He endured World War II under the Nazi regime. His family was on Oskar Schindler.s infamous list but chose to make their own risky escape, moving hiding places 72 times.
He was a...
The co-founder of Yoram Gross Film Studios with his wife Sandra, his legacy lives on in Flying Bark Productions, the rebranded company formerly known as Yoram Gross-Em.TV Pty Ltd.
It is fitting that a new cinema version of Blinky Bill, his most famous and enduring character, Flying Bark.s Blinky Bill: The Movie, opened in Australian cinemas last week.
Born in Kraków Poland in 1926, he studied music and musicology at Krakow University. He first entered the film industry in 1947 when, aged 20, he was one of the first film students of Jerzy Toeplitz, who founded the Polish Film Institute.
He endured World War II under the Nazi regime. His family was on Oskar Schindler.s infamous list but chose to make their own risky escape, moving hiding places 72 times.
He was a...
- 9/22/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
An Australian movie featuring Ryan Kwanten, Toni Collette, Robin McLeavy, David Wenham, Rufus Sewell, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Barry Otto and Barry Humphries sounds like a casting director.s dream.
All are lending their voices to The Blinky Bill Movie, Flying Bark Productions. CGI feature now in production in Sydney.
The script is by Fin Edquist, whose Maya the Bee Movie opens here on November 1. The co-directors are Deane Taylor (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Maya.s Alexs Stadermann.
Kwanten voices the title character with McLeavy as the koala.s best friend Nutsy. The plot sees the duo racing across the outback to find Blinky.s missing father and save his hometown.
Collette will voice emus Beryl and Cheryl with Sewell as The Cat, Humphries as Wombo the wombat, Wenham as Jacko the frill-necked lizard, Mailman as Blinky.s mother and Otto as the mayor of Green Patch.
.The Blinky Bill...
All are lending their voices to The Blinky Bill Movie, Flying Bark Productions. CGI feature now in production in Sydney.
The script is by Fin Edquist, whose Maya the Bee Movie opens here on November 1. The co-directors are Deane Taylor (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Maya.s Alexs Stadermann.
Kwanten voices the title character with McLeavy as the koala.s best friend Nutsy. The plot sees the duo racing across the outback to find Blinky.s missing father and save his hometown.
Collette will voice emus Beryl and Cheryl with Sewell as The Cat, Humphries as Wombo the wombat, Wenham as Jacko the frill-necked lizard, Mailman as Blinky.s mother and Otto as the mayor of Green Patch.
.The Blinky Bill...
- 10/13/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
An Australian movie featuring Ryan Kwanten, Toni Collette, Robin McLeavy, David Wenham, Rufus Sewell, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Barry Otto and Barry Humphries sounds like a casting director.s dream.
All are lending their voices to The Blinky Bill Movie, Flying Bark Productions. CGI feature now in production in Sydney.
The script is by Fin Edquist, whose Maya the Bee Movie opens here on November 1, The co-directors are Deane Taylor (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Maya.s Alexs Stadermann.
Kwanten voices the title character with McLeavy as the koala.s best friend Nutsy. The plot sees the duo racing across the outback to find Blinky.s missing father and save his hometown.
Collette will voice emus Beryl and Cheryl, with Sewell as The Cat, Humphries as Wombo the wombat, Wenham as Jacko the frill-necked lizard, Mailman as Blinky.s mother and Otto as the mayor of Green Patch.
.The Blinky Bill...
All are lending their voices to The Blinky Bill Movie, Flying Bark Productions. CGI feature now in production in Sydney.
The script is by Fin Edquist, whose Maya the Bee Movie opens here on November 1, The co-directors are Deane Taylor (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Maya.s Alexs Stadermann.
Kwanten voices the title character with McLeavy as the koala.s best friend Nutsy. The plot sees the duo racing across the outback to find Blinky.s missing father and save his hometown.
Collette will voice emus Beryl and Cheryl, with Sewell as The Cat, Humphries as Wombo the wombat, Wenham as Jacko the frill-necked lizard, Mailman as Blinky.s mother and Otto as the mayor of Green Patch.
.The Blinky Bill...
- 10/13/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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