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Australian Films

by Jessica on 11/02/2010

in Australian Actors, Australian film, Industry News, Queensland Film

Daybreakers
A vampire thriller film set in the year 2019.
Just grossed $32,175,979 with the
$29,975,979 (5 February 2010) being in the US.
Daybreakers was filmed on the Gold Coast Queensland at Warner Bros. Movie World studios. Staring an array of locally grown talent, and some big international names as well. It seems that the Australian [...]

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HBO’s “Pacific”

by Olivia Taylor on 17/12/2009

in Australian Actors, Australian Artist, Australian film, Casting Director, Production, TV/Film Companies

HBO’s “The Pacific”, which was cast in Australia by Christine King and Meg Liberman in Los Angeles” stars James Badge Dale, Joe Mazzello and Jon Seda, examines a select group of Marines who make their way through the Pacific Theater, including battles at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima.
HBO will debut 10-part miniseries “The Pacific” March 14 [...]

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Essie Davis returns to the Sydney stage

by Olivia Taylor on 12/12/2009

in Australian Actors, UK Actors

Tot Mom opens at Wharf 1 on December 23
Torn between two countries and juggling the demands of career and motherhood, Essie Davis returns to the Sydney stage in a play by Steven Soderbergh, based on tragic events that are still unfolding.
…Despite relishing the words of Shakespeare and Williams and seducing audiences with her eloquent and [...]

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13 Australian Documentaries Screening

by Heather Nichols on 01/11/2009

in Australian Actors, Australian Artist, Australian film, Awards, Film Festivals

On 19th, November, in Amsterdam, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam will screen 13 Australian documentaries.
In the Competition section of the festival, a record of seven Australian films have been to selected to compete;
“Contact”
“The Miscreants of Taliwood”
“The Snowman”
“The Matilda Candidate”
Screening in the Short Documentary Competition section are:
“My Uncle Bluey”
“Salt”
This is the first time that seven [...]

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Australian Actor

by Gary Robinson on 10/09/2009

in Australian Actors, Australian Artist, Australian film, Industry News

Australian actor Ray Barrett dies aged 82.
One of Australia’s best-known veteran actors, Ray Barrett, who most recently starred in Baz Luhrman’s “Australia”.
Barrett preferred to keep working rather than retire: in Australia he played the father of Nicole Kidman’s character.
Jane Cameron, his talent agent, said Barrett died in hospital on Tuesday from a brain [...]

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Toronto International Film Festival

by Gary Robinson on 28/08/2009

in Australian Actors, Australian Artist, Australian film, Film Festivals, Production

A record 17 Australian films have been selected for Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Some of the films selected include Mao’s Last Dancer, Bright Star, Balibo, My Year Without Sex, Beautiful Kate, Samson & Delilah and Wake in Fright. Toronto selectors received more than 4,300 submissions from more than 60 countries for this year’s [...]

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Typecasting in Australian Films

by Olivia Taylor on 23/07/2009

in Australian Actors, Australian film

When Les Chantery was at drama school in Sydney, the young Australian-born Lebanese actor was given a blunt message.
“I was told I would be offered three kinds of roles – drug dealers, terrorists and gang rapists,” he said.
(Australian actress Rachel Taylor & Les Chantery pictured).

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My Year Without Sex at AFF

by Olivia Taylor on 22/01/2009

in Australian Actors, Awards, Film Festivals

The 2009 Adelaide Film Festival program has been launched and will open with Sarah Watts‘ new Australian feature film, My Year Without Sex, starring Aussie actor Matt Day.
…The fourth AFF will present 23 world premieres and 62 Australian premieres, with 38 Australian films, including nine new Australian features which are among 143 films from more [...]

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Aussie Actor Meets Hollywood

by Olivia Taylor on 19/01/2009

in Australian Actors, Talent Agents

Australian Actor Paul O’Brien and his Talent Agent, Madonna Williams of Williams Talent, have had a busy week in Los Angeles, meeting with Talent Agents & Managers hoping to launch O’Brien’s already successful acting career to Hollywood status.
There timely trip coincided with the annual Australians In Film event, which promotes our Aussie talent to Tinseltown.

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Uniting Australasian Filmmakers

by Olivia Taylor on 17/01/2009

in Film Festivals, Industry News

Inside Film Reports…Director Tony Ayres has thrown his support behind the inaugural Sydney China Film Festival, which he believes will strengthen ties between the Chinese and Australian film industries.
…Following the success of Chinese film festivals in the United States, Canada and China, there are plans to start a similar festival in China that [...]

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