Screenrights’ 2021 Cultural Fund is open for applications, with this year’s focus revealed as New Teams. “Ours is an industry that thrives on collaboration, and we’re all finding new ways of working together in the time of COVID. The 2021 Cultural Fund focus aims to support projects that bring together new teams: collaborations between people…
Stereotypes in Adverting
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Personally, I feel that Stereotypes especially in movies are both a good thing and a bad thing. There use especially in movies is usually because of lazy writing. Today I was sent a press release from a Stereotypes Activist, who says the new AANA Code just announced will be ineffective and continue to cause domestic…
NFSA Restores The Corrick Collection
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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has digitally restored The Corrick Collection, containing 135 of the world’s earliest films, which formed part of the Corrick Family Entertainers variety act over 100 years ago. A selection of these priceless films will have a world premiere at Ten Days on the Island from 5-21…
Tarantino Signs two-book deal with Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has signed a two-book deal with Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, which will be published in Australia by Hachette Australia. Tarantino’s first work of fiction, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, will be published in July 2021. The novel is based on his Oscar-winning film, which…
The Lighthorsemen
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Director Simon Wincer Starring Jon Blake, Sigrid Thronton & Peter Phelps Rated PG Score 6/6 In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock. Okay, perhaps it would have been historically relevant if…
ACT Government Launches Energy Assessment Webtool
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Canberra’s renters will be able to assess their home energy efficiency and reduce their energy costs, after the ACT Government launched the Actsmart Home Energy Assessment Webtool. The online tool, which asks the renter a series of questions, instantly downloads a tailored report that lists the best actions the household can take to reduce energy…
Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Rights to 12 Mighty Orphans
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Sony Pictures Classics have announced that they have acquired worldwide rights in all media to 12 MIGHTY ORPHANS directed by Ty Roberts and starring Luke Wilson, Martin Sheen, Vinessa Shaw, Wayne Knight, Jake Austin Walker, Treat Williams, Ron White, Scott Haze, and Robert Duvall. This marks Sheen and Duvall’s first onscreen reunion since APOCALYPSE NOW.…
The Dry
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Director Robert Connolly Starring Eric Bana Rated MA Score 6/6 Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound – the unsolved death of a teenage girl. I finally got my act together and got out to see The Dry while it is still at…
The Last Days of American Crime
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Director Olivier Megaton Starring Edgar Ramírez, Michael Pitt & Anna Brewster Rated MA Score 3/6 In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. For those of you who might be interested The Last…
Midsumma Festival Returning in 2021
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Australia’s premier LGBTQIA+ arts and cultural experience, Midsumma Festival, has announced its long-awaited 2021 dates, specially returning for the one-time period of 19th April until 5th May, with signature annual Midsumma Pride March taking place on Sunday 23rd May. “We know that our artists and our communities are struggling, they have missed a lot of…