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Trish Lake
Trish Lake is an Australian producer of feature films and documentaries and former ABC TV journalist. Among her works are ''Gettin' Square ''(2003)'', The Burning Season (2008 film), The Burning Season ''(2008) and ''Frackman'' (2015). She is the CEO of Freshwater Pictures, based in Brisbane, Queensland, which she founded in 2001. Lake was National President of the Screen Producer’s Association of Australia – SPAA from 2005 - 2008 and is a former recipient of the SPAA Feature Film Producer of the Year award. Lake is an Adjunct Fellow at Griffith University, Brisbane where she leads a mentoring program for emerging producers at the Griffith Film School. Lake has been an advisor to the Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival (BOFA) in Tasmania since its inception, and has been the event's artistic director since 2012. She has collaborated professionally with her nephew Daniel (Dan) Lake on many productions. Dan Lake left Freshwater Pictures in November 2014 to take on a position as a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Burning Season (2008 Film)
''The Burning Season'' is a documentary about the burning of rainforests in Indonesia which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. The main characters featured in the film are: Dorjee Sun from Australia; Achmadi, a small-scale palm oil farmer from Jambi province in Indonesia; and Lone Drøscher Nielsen, a Danish conservationist based in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Synopsis Every year, there is a burning season in Indonesia. Areas of rainforest the size of Denmark are cut down and set alight by farmers and corporations to develop palm oil plantations. As well as destroying the habitat of critically endangered orangutans, new scientific evidence shows that deforestation comprises 20% of global carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change. A 30-year-old Australian environmental entrepreneur, Dorjee Sun, sets out to find a solution. Using expertise gained during the dot-com boom, Dorjee forms a small carbon-trading firm and signs up three pioneering Indones ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frackman
''Frackman'' is a 2015 Australian documentary film about the former construction worker turned anti-fracking activist Dayne Pratzky as he responds to the expansion of the coal seam gas industry near Tara, Queensland. The film was produced by Simon Nasht of Smith & Nasht in collaboration with Trish Lake of Freshwater Pictures and was co-directed by Richard Todd of Aquarius Productions with Jonathan Stack. The film also features the president of Lock the Gate, Drew Hutton, conservative radio personality Alan Jones and many other residents of Queensland and New South Wales. ''Frackman'' officially premiered in New South Wales in March 2015 and began a regional tour in marginal electorates before the 2015 New South Wales election. ''Frackman'' won Best Film and Best Environmental Film at the 2015 Byron Bay International Film Festival. The film was released on DVD and digital platforms on 9 December 2015. Production Aquarius Productions commenced production on ''Frackman'' in ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early Winter (film)
''Early Winter'' is a 2015 Canadian-Australian drama film written and directed by Michael Rowe. It was awarded Best Film in the Venice Days section at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. Plot A man lives a predictable life with his wife and children, but begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Cast * Suzanne Clément as Maya * Paul Doucet as David * Ambrosio De Luca as Maxime * Max Laferriere as André * Michael Riendeau as Sergei * Alexandre Marine as Alexandre References External links * *Early Winter' at Library and Archives Canada Library and Archives Canada (LAC; french: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is the federal institution, tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada. The national archive and library is th ... 2015 drama films 2015 films Australian drama films Canadian drama films English-language Canadian films 2010s English-language films 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rowe (director)
Michael Rowe (born 1971 in Ballarat, Australia) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. Rowe studied English post-colonial literature at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. His artistic career first began as a poet, winning the Melbourne Fringe Festival Poetry Prize. He then moved to theatre and wrote three plays. In 1994, at the age of 23, he traveled to Mexico and made it his adoptive home. In 1998, while in Mexico, he began a career as a journalist while studying screenwriting at a Vincente Leñero workshop. In 2005, one of his first scripts, '' Naturalezas muertas'' won at the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía. In 2006, he directed his first short film, '' Cacahuates''. '' Silencio'' followed in 2007. Though English is his native language, the bulk of his film work is done in Spanish. In 2010, Rowe directed '' Año bisiesto (Leap Year)'', which garnered him the Caméra d'Or prize for best first time feature film director at the Cannes Film Festival. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith & Nasht
Smith & Nasht is an Australian media production company formed by serial entrepreneur Dick Smith and filmmaker Simon Nasht. The company was established in 2010 and has specialised in "global issue" films. As of 2019, topics have included energy, climate change, science, natural history, over-population and cybercrime. Smith&Nasht's first film – ''I Can Change Your Mind About Climate'' – aired on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television in 2012 and was followed by a high rating episode of the TV discussion show, Q&A. Co-founder Dick Smith retired from the company in 2013 and no longer has any shareholding or management role. Simon Nasht Nasht is a film producer and former journalist. Honours garnered by his work include a Prix Jules Verne for international history film of the year in 2002, a Logie and Australian Writer's Guild and Director's Guild awards. In 2009, he received a shared Eureka Prize for Science Journalism. Nasht has written and directed some of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Henkel
Cathy Henkel is a South African documentary filmmaker who lives and works in Australia. Her works have typically focused on subjects of environmental activism, and to a lesser extent, the performing arts. Career Her career in documentary film and television writing, directing and producing began in 1988. She had previously worked as an artistic director for an Australian amateur theatre company, the Shopfront Theater for Young People, for which she also wrote and directed performances. Her first documentary film ''Heroes of our time'' (1991) provided the first inside look at Greenpeace during one of its 'direct action' campaigns confronting oil company Caltex. In 1992, Henkel met Jeff Canin on a sea turtle nesting beach in Queensland and they became partners in life and in work. Following the birth of their daughter Sam Lara, they formed Hatchling Productions with the intention of producing social issue and community-based documentaries. They also established a digital post-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Film Producers
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