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Tania Nehme
Tania Nehme (born September 1966) is an Australian film editor. She has edited a number of films directed by Rolf de Heer and won and been nominated for many awards for her editing work, including an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Editing for the 2006 film ''Ten Canoes''. Career Nehme is a graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and has worked as a film editor since 1986. She began her career by working on commercials, documentaries and short drama films. In 1991 she was nominated for an AFI Award for her work on a short drama film, ''Once in a Time''. Apart from feature films (some of which are listed below), she worked on Barron Television children's series ''Chuck Finn'', the SBS Australia documentary ''Kumarangk 5214'', and a short feature funded by the Australian Film Commission The Australian Film Commission (AFC) was an Australian government agency was founded in 1975 with a mandate to promote the creation and distribution of films in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology. The film editor works with raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences which create a finished motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is often referred to as the "invisible art" because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that they are not aware of the editor's work. On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job of an editor is not simply to mechanically put pieces of a film togeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Flanagan
Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian writer, who has also worked as a film director and screenwriter. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel '' The Narrow Road to the Deep North''. Flanagan was described by the ''Washington Post'' as "one of our greatest living novelists". " nsidered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation", according to ''The Economist, the New York Review of Books'' described Flanagan as "among the most versatile writers in the English language". Early life and education Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land during the Great Famine in Ireland. Flanagan's father was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway and one of his three brothers is Australian rules football journalist Martin Flanagan. Flanagan was born with a severe hearing loss, which was corrected when he was six years old. He grew up in the remote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie's Country
''Charlie's Country'' is a 2013 Australian drama film directed by Rolf de Heer. It was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where David Gulpilil won the award for Best Actor. It was also screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and awarded the Best Fiction Prize and the Youth Jury Prize at the 2015 International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva. The film was selected as the Australian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Plot Charlie, an Aboriginal man who lives in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia, paints tree barks and fishes barramundi fish, all the while feeling out of place in an Australia which is no longer his. He laments the loss of his culture in modern Australia. After his spear is confiscated by the police, who think it is a weapon, he decides to leave his urban Abor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King Is Dead (film)
''The King Is Dead!'' is a 2012 Australian comedy drama thriller film directed by Rolf de Heer about a young couple who are tormented by the neighbour from hell. Plot Max (Dan Wyllie) and Therese (Bojana Novakovic) have just moved into a new house, unfortunately they are now next door to a strange man named King (Gary Waddell). At first, things seem to go smoothly until King and his friends become trouble with Max and Therese and they both suspect he may be a drug dealer, so Max and Therese concoct a plan to have King move out of their neighbourhood. Cast *Dan Wyllie as Max *Bojana Novakovic as Therese *Gary Waddell as King *Luke Ford Luke Ford (born 26 March 1981) is a Canadian-Australian actor. His career began in television in 2000 and his first film role was in 2006 before being cast in '' The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' in 2008. Ford's regular television roles ... as Shrek * Anthony Hayes as Escobar Production Forty percent of the budget came from Screen Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Butler (director)
Martin Butler (born 4 May 1952)According to information from the National Library of Australiabr>here ''Email from author, 15/7/2010 (No middle name. DOB 14/05/1952)''. is an Australian director, producer, and filmmaker. He is known for his work ''First Footprints'' (2013), '' Tanna'' (2015) and ''A Sense of Self'' (2016). For ''Tanna'', he received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ... at 89th Academy Awards. Filmography * ''A Sense of Self'' (director, producer) (2016) * '' Tanna'' (director, producer and writer) (2015) * ''First Footprints'' (director, producer and writer) (2013) Accolades References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Martin Australian film producers Australian film directors Australian scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contact (2009 Film)
''Contact'' is a 2009 Australian documentary film that tells the story of 20 Martu people who in 1964 became the last people in the Great Sandy Desert to have come into contact with Europeans. Synopsis In 1964, a Blue Streak test missile launched from Woomera by ELDO was expected to land in the Percival Lakes area of Western Australia, an area traditionally belonging to the Martu. Two Native Welfare patrol officers, Walter MacDougall and Terry Long, were sent to the area to make sure it was uninhabited. When they arrived, they located a group of 20 Martu women and children in the area. The group had never seen white skinned people before and upon seeing the patrol officers they wanted nothing to do with them, and they ran away from them. Despite the presence of the Martu people in the area, a missile was still fired from Woomera, but it went far off course, landing hundreds of miles away from the lakes. After several months, a second missile was scheduled to be deployed and Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twelve Canoes
''Ten Canoes'' is a 2006 Australian drama film directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr and starring Crusoe Kurddal. The title of the film arose from discussions between de Heer and David Gulpilil about a photograph of ten canoeists poling across the Arafura Swamp, taken by anthropologist Donald Thomson in 1936. It is the first ever movie entirely filmed in Australian Aboriginal languages. The film is partly in colour and partly in black and white, in docudrama style largely with a narrator explaining the story. The overall format is that of a moral tale. Synopsis The film is set in Arnhem Land, in a time separate of Western influence, and tells the story of a group of ten men in a traditional hunting context. The leader of the group, Minygululu, tells the young Dayindi (Jamie Gulpilil) a story about another young man even further back in time who, like Dayindi, coveted his elder brother's youngest wife. The sequences featuring Dayindi and the hunt are in black and white, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards 2006
The 15th Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, 2006, honoured the best in film for 2006. Winners Best Film *''Ten Canoes'' ( Rolf de Heer, Julie Ryan) Best Director * Ray Lawrence (''Jindabyne'') Best Actress *Abbie Cornish (''Candy'') Best Actor *Shane Jacobson (''Kenny'') Best Original Screenplay *Shane Jacobson and Clayton Jacobson (''Kenny'') Best Adapted Screenplay * Beatrix Christian (''Jindabyne'') Best Cinematography *Ian Jones, Ten Canoes David Williamson (''Jindabyne'') Best Editing * Tania Nehme (''Ten Canoes'') Best Actor — Supporting Role *Geoffrey Rush (''Candy'') Best Actress — Supporting Role *Deborra-Lee Furness (''Jindabyne') Best Music Score: *Cezary Skubiszewski (''The Book of Revelation'') Best Foreign Language Film *'' Caché (Hidden)'' (Director: Michael Haneke, France) Best Foreign Film – English Language *'' Good Night, and Good Luck.'' (Director: George Clooney) Best Australian Short Film *'' Stranded'' (dir: Stuart McDonald; Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IF Awards
The Inside Film Awards (now known as the IF Awards) is an annual awards ceremony and broadcast platform for the Australian film industry, developed by the creators of Inside Film Magazine, Stephen Jenner and David Barda, and originally produced for television by Australian Producer Andrew Dillon. The awards are determined by a national audience poll, which differentiates it from the Australian AACTA Awards, which are judged by industry professionals. The event is held in November each year, and is broadcast on SBS television and showtime movie channels. The IF Awards were first held in 1999, and until 2006 were also known as the Lexus Inside Film Awards, in recognition of its principal sponsor Lexus. Sponsorship since then has included multiple broadcast and event partners, with the new naming rights partner for 2011 being Jameson Irish Whiskey. In 2011, the Jameson IF Awards were held in November in Sydney again. As of 2012, the IF Awards have been 'on hold'. 2007 nominations Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
''The Old Man Who Read Love Stories'' is a 2001 Australian adventure drama film directed by Rolf de Heer. It is based on the book of the same name by Luis Sepulveda. Although the film premiered in 2001 it was not seen in cinemas until 2004. Retrieved 14 November 2012 Cast * Richard Dreyfuss as Antonio Bolivar * as Mayor Luis Agalla * |
Alexandra's Project
''Alexandra's Project'' is a 2003 Australian drama thriller film written and directed by Rolf de Heer and starring Gary Sweet and Helen Buday. Plot Upon returning home from work on his birthday, Steve (Gary Sweet), a middle class husband and father of two, finds the house dark and his family not home. He notices a chair, his television set, and a video tape obviously set out for his viewing. He turns the TV and VCR on, and begins to watch a tape made for him by his wife, Alexandra (Helen Buday). The first clip shows his wife and children wishing him a happy birthday, but after the kids leave the room, Alexandra begins a striptease, and it appears to be nothing more than a birthday gift. As it progresses, however, it becomes clear that the tape is designed to humiliate and torture Steve for marital problems that Alexandra has been stewing about for years. As part of her 'show', Alexandra feigns breast cancer, has sex with their neighbor, and tells Steve that neither she nor their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Critics Circle Of Australia
The Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) is an association of cinema critics and reviewers. It includes journalists in "media, television, major national and state papers, radio, national and state, online and freelance writers, Australian representatives from international magazines..and local specialist film magazines", and is based in Sydney. The FCCA Annual Awards for Australian Film, rewarding makers of feature films and documentaries is highly regarded. History The Sydney Film Critics' Circle became a national organisation as the Film Critics' Circle of Australia by October 1988. It joined International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), "which will allow its members to be considered for jury duty at international festivals, accreditation at festivals and markets." The FCCA Awards have been presented each year since September 1988, with the inaugural winners including two awards each for ''The Year My Voice Broke'': best director (John Duigan) and best male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
