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Australian Screen Editors
Australian Screen Editors (ASE) was founded in 1996 by Henry Dangar (who became its first president) and Jenny Ward. The guild is "dedicated to the pursuit and recognition of excellence in the arts, sciences and technology of motion picture and televisual post production. It aims to promote, improve and protect the role of editor as an essential and significant contributor to all screen productions." The current President of ASE is Fiona Strain. Immediate past presidents include Deborah Peart, Dany Cooper, Jason Ballantine, Karen Pearlman, Lindi Harrison and Peter Whitmore. It currently has about 500 members in all Australian states, predominantly in NSW and Victoria. Membership Applications for ASE membership are invited from professional screen editors, assistant editors, students of screen editing and associated film industry professionals. Applicants must have a folio of significant editorial work in film and/or television. There are three types of memberships: Full member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dangar (film Editor)
Henry Dangar (1796–1861) was a surveyor and European land exploration of Australia, explorer of Australia in the early period of British colonisation. He became a successful pastoralist and businessman, and also served as a magistrate and politician. From 1845 to 1851 Dangar was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Early life He was born on 18 November 1796 at St Neot, Cornwall, United Kingdom, and was the first of six brothers to emigrate as free settlers to the Colony of New South Wales. Government surveyor and explorer Soon after arrival in the ''Jessie'' on 2 April 1821 he was appointed assistant government surveyor under John Oxley, and employed in the counties of Camden, New South Wales, Camden and Argyle County, Argyle. In 1822, Dangar was transferred to Newcastle to survey the Hunter Valley in preparation for British pastoral occupation. He prepared the plans of King's Town (Newcastle) and in the next two years measured and marked out village reser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Invisible Man (2020 Film)
''The Invisible Man'' is a 2020 science fiction horror film written and directed by Leigh Whannell. Inspired by H. G. Wells' novel of the same name, it stars Elisabeth Moss as a woman who believes she is being stalked and gaslit by her seemingly deceased ex-boyfriend (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) after he acquires the ability to become invisible. Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Harriet Dyer, and Michael Dorman appear in supporting roles. Development on a contemporary film adaptation of the novel began in 2006, but was halted in 2011. An attempt at reviving the project in 2016 as part of Universal Pictures' cinematic Dark Universe was also cancelled following the critical and financial failure of ''The Mummy'' in 2017. After Universal moved away from a serialized universe to standalone films, the project reentered development in 2019 with Whannell attached. ''The Invisible Man'' was released in the United States on February 28, 2020. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lion (2016 Film)
''Lion'' is a 2016 Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the 2013 non-fiction book '' A Long Way Home'' by Saroo Brierley. The film stars Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, and Nicole Kidman, as well as Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. It tells the true story of how Brierley, 25 years after being separated from his family in India, sets out to find them. It is a joint production between Australia and the United Kingdom. The film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2016, was given a limited release in North America on 25 November 2016, by The Weinstein Company before opening generally on 6 January 2017. It was released in Australia on 19 January 2017 and in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2017. ''Lion'' was well-received by critics, with p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upgrade (film)
''Upgrade'' is a 2018 cyberpunk action film written and directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, and Harrison Gilbertson. The film follows a technophobe who is implanted with a chip that allows him to control his body after a mugging left him paralyzed. The film was produced by Jason Blum, under his Blumhouse Productions banner. After premiering on 10 March 2018 at South by Southwest, the film was released on 1 June 2018 in the United States by OTL Releasing and Blumhouse Tilt, and on 14 June 2018 in Australia. The film received positive reviews from critics, who called it "one part ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', one part ''Death Wish'' revenge fantasy", and praised the film's dark humor and action sequences. Plot Grey Trace, an auto mechanic, lives with his wife Asha who works for Cobolt, one of the companies contributing to human-computer augmentations. Grey asks Asha to help him return a refurbished car to his client Eron Keen, a renown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Country (2017 Film)
''Sweet Country'' is a 2017 Australian drama film, directed by Warwick Thornton. Set in 1929 in the sparsely populated outback of the Northern Territory and based on a series of true events, it tells a harsh story against the backdrop of a divided society (between the white settlers and Aboriginal Australians) in the interwar period in Australia. It was first screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival in September 2017 and after winning the Special Jury Prize award there, went on to win several awards internationally. Plot Sam Kelly is a middle-aged Aboriginal farm worker in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory some time after the end of the First World War. His employer, Fred Smith, a kindly preacher, agrees to lend Sam his wife Lizzie and niece Lucy to a bitter, abusive, and alcoholic veteran of World War I named Harry March on a neighbouring farm to renovate the latter's paddock fences. After sending Sam out to round up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jungle (2017 Film)
''Jungle'' is a 2017 Australian biographical survival drama film, based on the true story of Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg's 1981 journey into the Amazon rainforest. Directed by Greg McLean and written by Justin Monjo, the film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Ghinsberg, with Alex Russell, Thomas Kretschmann, Yasmin Kassim, Joel Jackson, and Jacek Koman in supporting roles. Plot In the early 1980s, an Israeli adventurer named Yossi Ghinsberg travels to Bolivia planning to journey into the heart of the Amazon rainforest. There, he meets Marcus Stamm, a Swiss school teacher, and his friend Kevin Gale, an American hiker and avid photographer. The three are staying in La Paz, at an Israeli community hostel. Yossi is out in the market one day where a stranger asks if he is an American; Yossi replies ”no”. During conversation the Austrian stranger, Karl Ruprechter, claims the existence of an indigenous tribe in the jungle that they should go see. Karl says he knows the jungle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jirga (film)
''Jirga'' (, meaning "meeting") is a 2018 Australian drama film written and directed by Benjamin Gilmour and produced by John Maynard. It stars Sam Smith as a former Australian soldier returning to Afghanistan to seek forgiveness from the family of a man he killed while serving in the war. The film was shot under extreme circumstances, in dangerous locations and with assistance from the local people of Afghanistan. Deemed too politically divisive to be produced in Pakistan the film moved production at the last minute to Afghanistan and shot in one of the most dangerous regions in the world, Kandahar Province. Gilmour sought to create a film which showed the beauty of the Afghan country and people as well as highlight the detrimental impact of the War in Afghanistan on Western and Afghan people. He also wanted to create a film in which line between truth and fiction is blurred. Gilmour stated he wishes to "make an audience feel like they're not quite sure if they're watching a docu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breath (2017 Film)
''Breath'' is a 2017 Australian sports drama film based on the novel of the same name by Tim Winton, and directed by Simon Baker, from a screenplay that Baker and Winton co-wrote with Gerard Lee. Baker also stars in the film alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Samson Coulter, Ben Spence and Richard Roxburgh. It premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2017 Zurich Film Festival. It was released on 3 May 2018 in Australia by Roadshow Films, and on 1 June 2018 in the United States by FilmRise. Plot In the 1970s two teenage surfer boys, Pikelet and Loonie, growing up in a small town meet and form a connection with an older surfer named Sando, who challenges them to take greater and more dangerous risks. Cast * Simon Baker as Sando * Elizabeth Debicki as Eva * Samson Coulter as Pikelet * Ben Spence as Loonie * Richard Roxburgh as Mr Pike * Rachael Blake as Mrs Pike Production The film is the feature directorial debut of Simon Baker, who also acted in the fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Guthrie
Timothy Sean Guthrie (born 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker. Guthrie's work is in collections throughout the United States, including the Boise Art Museum, and the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Plemmons Collection of Contemporary Art, (Boone, North Carolina), and the Leigh Lane Edwards Collection of Contemporary Art, ( Appalachian State University). Tim Guthrie gave a TEDxOmaha talk in October 2018 about ''An Artist's Journey Through Love and Loss''. The talk focused on the death of his wife in 2015, and his grieving process, as well as the mini-documentary he created about her, called ''Missing Piece'', which won numerous national and International awards. The works were also featured on the cover and in an article of Omaha Magazine. He won a Top 25 MFA Sculptors in the Nation award from the International Sculpture Center and Sculpture Magazine, and worked on the Lied Jungle at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, and he references both in a Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy And Punch
''Judy and Punch'' is a 2019 Australian period black comedy film written and directed by Mirrah Foulkes in her feature directorial debut, based on a story by Foulkes, Eddy Moretti, Lucy Punch, and Tom Punch. Starring Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Tom Budge, Benedict Hardie, Gillian Jones, Terry Norris, Brenda Palmer, and Lucy Velik, the film follows the titular couple struggling to resurrect their marionette show in the small town of Seaside. After an intoxicated Punch accidentally kills his daughter and assaults Judy, she recruits a group of outcast heretics to seek vengeance against Punch and the townspeople. ''Judy and Punch'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 27 January 2019, where it was nominated for the World Cinema Jury Prize. The film was theatrically released in Australia on 21 November 2019, to positive reviews from critics. Plot Judy and Punch are puppeteers in the town of Seaside, England who, alongside their baby daughter, are attempting to bring their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Am Mother
''I Am Mother'' is a 2019 Australian cyberpunk thriller film directed by Grant Sputore, from a screenplay by Michael Lloyd Green, based on a story by both. Starring Clara Rugaard, Luke Hawker, Rose Byrne, and Hilary Swank, the film follows Daughter, a girl in a post-apocalyptic bunker, being raised by Mother, a robot aiding the repopulation of Earth. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on 25 January 2019. Netflix released it in several countries on 7 June 2019. Plot After an extinction event, an automated bunker that is designed to repopulate humanity activates. A robot named Mother grows a human embryo and cares for her over several years. About 38 years later, a teenage girl named Daughter fixes Mother's hand. Mother teaches Daughter complex moral and ethical lessons, warning her about an upcoming exam. Mother forbids any contact with the world outside the bunker, telling Daughter that it is contaminated, but Daughter remains curious. While explorin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Warner (film Editor)
Mark Warner (born February 24, 1954) is an American film editor who was nominated at the 1989 Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for the film ''Driving Miss Daisy''. He has done over 30 films since 1978. In addition, he was nominated for an Emmy with Edward Warschilka for ''And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself'' in the category Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special. He often works with director Bruce Beresford (see List of film director and editor collaborations). Filmography *''Tiger'' (2018) (also editorial consultant) *'' The Comedian'' (2016) *'' Parker'' (2013) *'' Goddess'' (2013) *''Careless Love'' (2012) *'' Sanctum'' (2011) *'' Matching Jack'' (2010) *'' Accidents Happen'' (2009) (additional editor) *'' Mao's Last Dancer'' (2009) *'' The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep'' (2007) *''The Contract'' (2006) *''Like Minds'' (2006) *'' Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid'' (2004) (additional editor) *''And Starring Pancho Vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
