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11th AACTA Awards
The 11th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (generally known as the AACTA Awards) is an award's ceremony to celebrate the best of Australian films and television of 2021. The main ceremony occurred on 8 December 2021 at the Sydney Opera House and was broadcast on Network 10 Network 10 (commonly known as Ten Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network owned by Ten Network Holdings, a division of the Paramount Networks UK & Australia subsidiary of Paramount Global. One of five ... and Fox Arena, returning to Network 10 after a six year absence. Feature film The nominations are as follows: Television Documentary Short form and online Additional awards References External links Official AACTA website {{Australian Film Institute Awards AACTA Awards ceremonies 2021 in Australian cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxtel Group
Foxtel is an Australian pay television company—operating in cable television, direct broadcast satellite television, and IPTV streaming services. It was formed in April 2018, superseding an earlier company from 1995. The service was established as a 50/50 joint venture between News Corporation (now the present day News Corp; through News Limited, now News Corp Australia) and Telstra, with News Corp and Telstra holding 65% and 35% ownership shares respectively. It shares many features with the Sky service in the UK and Ireland — including the iQ box, the electronic programme guide, a similar remote control, and Red Button Active. History In 1995, a venture between News Corporation (in particular 20th Century Fox Media) and Telstra took place whereby Telstra would transmit a TV signal through its coaxial network and News Corporation would be the basis for offering channel negotiations and connections. Foxtel was formed ("Fox" representing News Corporation's Fox and "Tel" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News Corp Australia
News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp. One of Australia's largest media conglomerates, News Corp Australia employs more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,000 journalists. The group's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, subscription television in the form of Foxtel, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television production trading assets. News Pty Limited (formerly News Limited) is the holding company of the group. News Corp Australia owns approximately 142 daily, Sunday, weekly, bi-weekly, and tri-weekly newspapers, of which 102 are suburban publications (including 16 in which News Corp Australia has a 50% interest). News Corp Australia publishes a nationally distributed newspaper in Australia, a metropolitan newspaper in each of the Australian cities of Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, and Sydney, as well as groups of suburban news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Watts
Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968) is a British actress. After her family moved to Australia, she made her film debut there in the drama '' For Love Alone'' (1986) and then appeared in three television series, '' Hey Dad..!'' (1990), ''Brides of Christ'' (1991), and '' Home and Away'' (1991), and the film ''Flirting'' (1991). After moving to the United States, Watts initially struggled as an actress, taking roles in small-scale films until she starred in David Lynch's psychological thriller ''Mulholland Drive'' in 2001 as an aspiring actress. This role started her rise to international prominence. Watts then played a tormented journalist in the horror remake '' The Ring'' (2002). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a grief-stricken mother in Alejandro González Iñárritu's film '' 21 Grams'' (2003). Her profile continued to grow with starring roles in ''I Heart Huckabees'' (2004), ''King Kong'' (2005), ''Eastern Promises'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruna Papandrea
Bruna Papandrea (born 1971) is an Australian Film producer, film and television producer and the founder of production company Made Up Stories (company), Made Up Stories. Prior to Made Up Stories (company), Made Up Stories, Papandrea co-founded the production company Hello Sunshine (company), Pacific Standard with Reese Witherspoon. Early life and education Papandrea was raised in Adelaide, South Australia, by a single parent, single mother. Career She moved to New York City in the 1990s after establishing a career in film production. She briefly returned to Australia to produce the 2000 film ''Better Than Sex (film), Better Than Sex'', which was nominated for the AACTA Awards, AFI Award for AACTA Award for Best Film, Best Film, before moving to London in 2001. She served as a production executive at the film studio Mirage Enterprises and later returned to New York to work for GreeneStreet Films, a production company for independent films, as a creative director. At GreeneStr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin Bloom
''Penguin Bloom'' is a 2020 Australian drama (film and television), drama film directed by Glendyn Ivin, from a screenplay by Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps, and is based on the book of the same name by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive. It stars Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln and Jacki Weaver. The book and film are based on a true story of Sam and Cameron Bloom's family and their interactions with an Australian magpie named 'Penguin'. It was theatrically released in Australia by Roadshow Films on 21 January 2021 and digitally in the United States by Netflix on 27 January. Plot During a family vacation in Thailand, Sam Bloom (Naomi Watts) accidentally falls off a high balcony and breaks her T6 thoracic vertebrae resulting in partial paralysis. Back home in Australia, Sam, an avid surfer, struggles to adjust to life in a wheelchair, but is supported by her husband Cameron (Andrew Lincoln), their three sons Noah, Rueben and Oli, and Sam's overbearing mother Jan (Jacki Weaver). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Maxwell Johnson
Stephen Maxwell Johnson is an Australian filmmaker, best known for his films ''Yolngu Boy'' (2001) and ''High Ground'' (2020). He is also known for directing Yothu Yindi's music videos in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Early life and education Johnson was born in England. His parents were teachers, who worked in several places around the world. He grew up in the Bahamas, Africa and the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia. His father became a senior teacher at Kormilda College, a secondary school for Aboriginal students in Darwin, and Johnson made friends with many of the students there. He has spoken of his appreciation of his "incredible childhood growing up in the wild and all of those countries and then being immersed also in the culture of those countries, particularly very, very intimately with Aboriginal culture n Australia. He has spent most of his life in Arnhem Land, where he became friends with Witiyana Marika when quite young. He also learnt much about the histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Simpkin
David Jowsey is an Australian film producer, co-founder of Bunya Productions. He is known for producing many films made by Indigenous Australian filmmakers. Bunya Productions' co-owners are Indigenous filmmaker Ivan Sen, and Jowsey's wife Greer Simpkin. Early life and education Jowsey was born in Auckland, New Zealand. His mother used to take him to the cinema a lot and he developed a deep love of storytelling and films as a child. At Auckland University, he ran a drama group, which led to a job at TVNZ. Career In his work at TVNZ, he worked for some time in the Māori department, and developed an affinity for telling Indigenous stories. He was on the production team for the first episode of ''Waka Huia'', which went to air in 1987. This is a long-running TV series aiming to record and preserve Māori culture and customs as well as covering social and political concerns, and presented completely in te reo Māori (language). Moving to Australia, Jowsey married an Aborigina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witiyana Marika
Witiyana Marika is an Aboriginal Australian musician, filmmaker, and Aboriginal elder, elder, known for being a founding member of the band Yothu Yindi and producer of the film ''High Ground (2020 film), High Ground''. Background Marika was born into the Rirratjingu clan of the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory of Australia, and raised in Yirrkala. He a member of the Marika#People with the surname, Marika family, and is also a son Yolngu#Yolŋu culture, law and mythology, by lore of the actor David Gulpilil (who died in 2021). His mother was noted artist Ms. D. (Djerrkngu) Eunice Yunupingu (1945–2022). She won the 2022 NATSIAA List of NATSIAA award winners#Telstra Bark Painting Award, Telstra Bark Painting Award. Music career Marika was in the original line-up of Yothu Yindi when they formed in 1986. He sang in traditional style, singing clan songs of the Yolngu people known as manikay, played bilma clapsticks, and danced. In 2017, along with fellow longtime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Jowsey
David Jowsey is an Australian film producer, co-founder of Bunya Productions. He is known for producing many films made by Indigenous Australian filmmakers. Bunya Productions' co-owners are Indigenous filmmaker Ivan Sen, and Jowsey's wife Greer Simpkin. Early life and education Jowsey was born in Auckland, New Zealand. His mother used to take him to the cinema a lot and he developed a deep love of storytelling and films as a child. At Auckland University, he ran a drama group, which led to a job at TVNZ. Career In his work at TVNZ, he worked for some time in the Māori department, and developed an affinity for telling Indigenous stories. He was on the production team for the first episode of ''Waka Huia'', which went to air in 1987. This is a long-running TV series aiming to record and preserve Māori culture and customs as well as covering social and political concerns, and presented completely in te reo Māori (language). Moving to Australia, Jowsey married an Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Ground (2020 Film)
''High Ground'' is a 2020 Australian film directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson, based on historical events that took place in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, set just after World War I. It has variously been called a revisionist Western and meat pie Western, but the filmmakers prefer to call it a "Northern", as it tells of a true historical event in a fictionalised manner but with very close attention to and respect for Aboriginal culture. The film premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival on 23 February 2020, with the Australian premiere at the Brisbane International Film Festival later that year, and theatrical release in Australia on 28 January 2021. Plot After fighting in World War I as a sniper, Travis, now a policeman in northern Australia, loses control of an operation that results in the massacre of a group of Yolngu people in Arnhem Land) in 1919. After his superiors insist on burying the truth, Travis leaves in disgust, only t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Furnace (2020 Film)
''The Furnace'' is a 2020 Australian adventure drama film written and directed by Roderick MacKay. Set in the Western Australian outback during the goldrushes of the 1890s, the film's characters include "Afghan" cameleers, a white gold thief, and local Aboriginal people. It was nominated for several AACTA Awards. Cast Synopsis The film is set during the Western Australian gold rushes of the 1890s, and its characters represent some of the "Afghan" cameleers (who actually came from India, Persia, and other parts of the Middle East, and belonged to Islamic, Sikh and Hindu faiths) who brought their camel trains to help open up the Australian outback from the mid-19th century. Two young Afghan cameleers, Hanif and Jundah, form a friendship with an Aboriginal hunter, Woorak. Hanif is trying to find an illegal furnace so that he can melt two bars of stolen gold, which he acquired by chance after coming across the sole survivor of a group massacre, Mal. The two men have to compromis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Bana
Eric Banadinović, (born 9 August 1968), known professionally as Eric Bana (), is an Australian actor and comedian. He began his career in the sketch comedy series '' Full Frontal'' before gaining notice in the comedy drama '' The Castle'' (1997). He achieved further critical recognition for starring in the biographical crime film '' Chopper'' (2000). After a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Bana gained Hollywood's attention for his performance in the war film '' Black Hawk Down'' (2001), and as the title character in ''Hulk'' (2003). He played Hector in the war epic ''Troy'' (2004), and took a leading role in Steven Spielberg's historical thriller ''Munich'' (2005). In 2009, he played the villain Nero in the science fiction ''Star Trek'', which was a critical and commercial success. Bana continued to work steadily in the 2010s, portraying Lieutenant commander Erik S. Kristensen in ''Lone Survivor'' (2013)'','' and playing police sergeant Ralph Sarchie in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
