“Talk to Me” was the runaway winner at this year’s main awards from the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts.
The native production, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last year and was acquired by A24 for North American distribution, scored three of the evening’s top prizes, including wins for best film, best lead actress for Sophie Wilde and best direction for the filmmaking duo of brothers, Danny Philippou and Michael Philoppou.
Other winners from this year’s edition include “The New Boy” stars Aswan Reid and Deborah Mailman in lead actor and supporting actress, respectively, and Hugo Weaving in supporting actor for “The Rooster.”
The Aacta Awards were held Saturday evening at the Home of the Arts, Gold Coast in Queensland. Rebel Wilson served as host, while Australian star Margot Robbie was honored with the group’s trailblazer award.
See the full list of winners below.
The native production, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last year and was acquired by A24 for North American distribution, scored three of the evening’s top prizes, including wins for best film, best lead actress for Sophie Wilde and best direction for the filmmaking duo of brothers, Danny Philippou and Michael Philoppou.
Other winners from this year’s edition include “The New Boy” stars Aswan Reid and Deborah Mailman in lead actor and supporting actress, respectively, and Hugo Weaving in supporting actor for “The Rooster.”
The Aacta Awards were held Saturday evening at the Home of the Arts, Gold Coast in Queensland. Rebel Wilson served as host, while Australian star Margot Robbie was honored with the group’s trailblazer award.
See the full list of winners below.
- 2/10/2024
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
The casting directors behind Nitram, The Dry, High Ground, and The Furnace will battle it out in the feature film category of the Casting Guild of Australia Awards to be held later this month.
Nominees across eight categories were announced today ahead of the virtual ceremony on November 20.
Nikki Barrett has two nominations in the feature film, getting a nod for The Furnace and also Nitram with Alison Telford and Kate Leonard. Rounding out the category is High Ground‘s Anousha Zarkesh and The Dry‘s Jane Norris.
Barrett also features in the Best Casting in a TV Drama, TV Miniseries and Telemovie nominees for her work on Fires, going up against Eden‘s Danny Long – who has a total of four nominations – The Newsreader‘s Nathan Lloyd and Wakefield‘s Marianne Jade.
For Best Casting in a TV Comedy, Kirsty McGregor is recognised for Fisk and season two of Frayed,...
Nominees across eight categories were announced today ahead of the virtual ceremony on November 20.
Nikki Barrett has two nominations in the feature film, getting a nod for The Furnace and also Nitram with Alison Telford and Kate Leonard. Rounding out the category is High Ground‘s Anousha Zarkesh and The Dry‘s Jane Norris.
Barrett also features in the Best Casting in a TV Drama, TV Miniseries and Telemovie nominees for her work on Fires, going up against Eden‘s Danny Long – who has a total of four nominations – The Newsreader‘s Nathan Lloyd and Wakefield‘s Marianne Jade.
For Best Casting in a TV Comedy, Kirsty McGregor is recognised for Fisk and season two of Frayed,...
- 11/7/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Ryan Corr in ‘Below’ (Photo credit: David Dare Parker).
Madman Entertainment will release Maziar Lahooti’s debut feature Below on digital platforms and on DVD on July 8, bypassing cinemas.
Ryan Corr and Anthony Lapaglia star in the refugee detention centre action-drama produced by Nick Batzias of Good Thing Productions, Veronica Gleeson and Kate Neylon.
It will be the third Australian title to go straight to home entertainment since Covid-19 disrupted the film industry. Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones went out as a Premium VOD release via Madman on May 6.
Flying Bark Productions’ animated feature 100% Wolf, scripted by Fin Edquist and directed by Alexs Stadermann and produced by Barbara Stephen and Alexia Gates-Foale, is taking the Pvod route from tomorrow. The voice cast is headed by Jai Courtney, Rhys Darby, Jane Lynch, Samara Weaving, Magda Szubanksi and Akmal Saleh.
In the pre-pandemic era, all three would have played in cinemas.
Madman Entertainment will release Maziar Lahooti’s debut feature Below on digital platforms and on DVD on July 8, bypassing cinemas.
Ryan Corr and Anthony Lapaglia star in the refugee detention centre action-drama produced by Nick Batzias of Good Thing Productions, Veronica Gleeson and Kate Neylon.
It will be the third Australian title to go straight to home entertainment since Covid-19 disrupted the film industry. Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones went out as a Premium VOD release via Madman on May 6.
Flying Bark Productions’ animated feature 100% Wolf, scripted by Fin Edquist and directed by Alexs Stadermann and produced by Barbara Stephen and Alexia Gates-Foale, is taking the Pvod route from tomorrow. The voice cast is headed by Jai Courtney, Rhys Darby, Jane Lynch, Samara Weaving, Magda Szubanksi and Akmal Saleh.
In the pre-pandemic era, all three would have played in cinemas.
- 5/28/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Hearts and Bones’.
The casting directors behind Hearts and Bones, Judy and Punch, The Nightingale and Unsound will duke it out for the feature film prize at the upcoming Casting Guild of Australia Awards.
To be held November 29 in Melbourne, the awards will be hosted by actors Zahra Newman (Wentworth) and Mark Coles Smith (Picnic at Hanging Rock), with special guest Aacta Award-winning producer Todd Abbott from Guesswork.
In TV drama, the casting directors behind Diary of an Uber Driver, The Heights (series 1), Total Control and Wentworth (Season 7) have each been recognised with nods, while in the TV Miniseries & Telemovie category it will be a battle between those who worked on Lambs of God, On the Ropes, Secret Bridesmaids Business and The Hunting.
Casting Guild of Australia president Kirsty McGregor leads with seven nominations, three of which are shared with Gemma Brown and one with Stevie Ray (Diary of an Uber Driver...
The casting directors behind Hearts and Bones, Judy and Punch, The Nightingale and Unsound will duke it out for the feature film prize at the upcoming Casting Guild of Australia Awards.
To be held November 29 in Melbourne, the awards will be hosted by actors Zahra Newman (Wentworth) and Mark Coles Smith (Picnic at Hanging Rock), with special guest Aacta Award-winning producer Todd Abbott from Guesswork.
In TV drama, the casting directors behind Diary of an Uber Driver, The Heights (series 1), Total Control and Wentworth (Season 7) have each been recognised with nods, while in the TV Miniseries & Telemovie category it will be a battle between those who worked on Lambs of God, On the Ropes, Secret Bridesmaids Business and The Hunting.
Casting Guild of Australia president Kirsty McGregor leads with seven nominations, three of which are shared with Gemma Brown and one with Stevie Ray (Diary of an Uber Driver...
- 11/17/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
‘2040’
The world premiere of Damon Gameau’s innovative documentary 2040 at the Berlin International Film Festival has elicited strong interest from international buyers and hugely positive responses from audiences.
The producers, Good Thing Productions’ Nick Batzias, Anna Kaplan and Virginia Whitwell, held off on doing pre-sales, figuring they would get better deals after the premiere in the Kplus section of the Generation program.
A three year self-described labour of love, 2040 takes the form of a visual letter from the filmmaker to his four-year-old daughter Velvet, showing her what the year 2040 could look like “if we simply embraced the best solutions that exist today.”
“We have had discussions with various platforms and distributors,” Gameau tells If on the line from Berlin. “Platforms are very open to having event screenings because they understand people want that experience. We are talking to a heap of people. There are some good options out there, including Netflix,...
The world premiere of Damon Gameau’s innovative documentary 2040 at the Berlin International Film Festival has elicited strong interest from international buyers and hugely positive responses from audiences.
The producers, Good Thing Productions’ Nick Batzias, Anna Kaplan and Virginia Whitwell, held off on doing pre-sales, figuring they would get better deals after the premiere in the Kplus section of the Generation program.
A three year self-described labour of love, 2040 takes the form of a visual letter from the filmmaker to his four-year-old daughter Velvet, showing her what the year 2040 could look like “if we simply embraced the best solutions that exist today.”
“We have had discussions with various platforms and distributors,” Gameau tells If on the line from Berlin. “Platforms are very open to having event screenings because they understand people want that experience. We are talking to a heap of people. There are some good options out there, including Netflix,...
- 2/13/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Anthony Lapaglia and Ryan Corr.
Ladies in Black’s Ryan Corr and Anthony Lapaglia will play the leads in refugee detention centre action-drama Below, director Maziar Lahooti’s debut feature.
Rounding out the cast are Phoenix Raei, Alison Whyte (The Kettering Incident), Morgana O’Reilly and Zenia Starr.
Seville International has launched pre-sales on the film, which was adapted by Ian Wilding from his award-winning play of the same name, at the American Film Market.
Shooting is due to start in Wa on January 19 produced by Nick Batzias of Good Thing Productions, Veronica Gleeson and Kate Neylon. Madman Entertainment will distribute in Australia.
The plot follows Corr as directionless dreamer Dougie, who is recruited to work in a detention centre for asylum seekers situated in a legal no man’s land. He discovers the centre is home to a ‘Fight Club’-style underground operation where detainees are blackmailed into fighting,...
Ladies in Black’s Ryan Corr and Anthony Lapaglia will play the leads in refugee detention centre action-drama Below, director Maziar Lahooti’s debut feature.
Rounding out the cast are Phoenix Raei, Alison Whyte (The Kettering Incident), Morgana O’Reilly and Zenia Starr.
Seville International has launched pre-sales on the film, which was adapted by Ian Wilding from his award-winning play of the same name, at the American Film Market.
Shooting is due to start in Wa on January 19 produced by Nick Batzias of Good Thing Productions, Veronica Gleeson and Kate Neylon. Madman Entertainment will distribute in Australia.
The plot follows Corr as directionless dreamer Dougie, who is recruited to work in a detention centre for asylum seekers situated in a legal no man’s land. He discovers the centre is home to a ‘Fight Club’-style underground operation where detainees are blackmailed into fighting,...
- 10/31/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Molly Haddon has joined Arri Anz as a technical sales advisor..
In this wrap:
– Casting director Alison Telford goes freelance
– Sixty40 brings on three new directors
– Prime Focus Technologies opens Sydney office, hires Graeme Whineray.
– Molly Haddon joins Arri Anz
– David Blackett named group Gm Magna Systems and Engineering.
Casting director Alison Telford goes freelance.
After 20 years as a casting director for ABC TV, Alison Telford has gone freelance, establishing her own agency in South Melbourne.
Telford has cast ABC shows such as Glitch, Please Like Me, Kath and Kim, We Can Be Heroes, Summer Heights High, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries and Sea Change. She has set up an office, audition studio, meeting room and viewing lounge in The Irish Linen House, 253 Moray St, South Melbourne. https://alisontelfordcasting.com.au/
Sixty40 brings on three new directors
Brazilian mixed media director Boca (Marcos Ceravolo), French animation director-illustrator Skull (Frédérick Venet...
In this wrap:
– Casting director Alison Telford goes freelance
– Sixty40 brings on three new directors
– Prime Focus Technologies opens Sydney office, hires Graeme Whineray.
– Molly Haddon joins Arri Anz
– David Blackett named group Gm Magna Systems and Engineering.
Casting director Alison Telford goes freelance.
After 20 years as a casting director for ABC TV, Alison Telford has gone freelance, establishing her own agency in South Melbourne.
Telford has cast ABC shows such as Glitch, Please Like Me, Kath and Kim, We Can Be Heroes, Summer Heights High, Miss Fisher.s Murder Mysteries and Sea Change. She has set up an office, audition studio, meeting room and viewing lounge in The Irish Linen House, 253 Moray St, South Melbourne. https://alisontelfordcasting.com.au/
Sixty40 brings on three new directors
Brazilian mixed media director Boca (Marcos Ceravolo), French animation director-illustrator Skull (Frédérick Venet...
- 7/7/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Last Cab to Darwin.s Mark Coles Smith and Looking for Grace.s Odessa Young have won the inaugural Sirius Award presented by the Casting Guild of Australia.
The annual award was created to recognise Australia.s top 10 emerging actors, modelled on the Berlin Film Festival.s Shooting Stars initiative.
.The list of the next big things, actors whose careers will pop overseas in the very near future, was chosen by full-time casting directors, not a celebrity list of actors," Cga president Greg Apps tells If. "We wanted to claim ownership of our rising stars before the Us does."
Dr George Miller presented the Sirius award at the ceremony in Sydney on Monday night hosted by Sarah Snook and Ewen Leslie.
Apps said Coles Smith and Young were the two stand outs, particularly considering how far their careers had advanced over the past 12 months.
Coles Smith.s credits include Pawno,...
The annual award was created to recognise Australia.s top 10 emerging actors, modelled on the Berlin Film Festival.s Shooting Stars initiative.
.The list of the next big things, actors whose careers will pop overseas in the very near future, was chosen by full-time casting directors, not a celebrity list of actors," Cga president Greg Apps tells If. "We wanted to claim ownership of our rising stars before the Us does."
Dr George Miller presented the Sirius award at the ceremony in Sydney on Monday night hosted by Sarah Snook and Ewen Leslie.
Apps said Coles Smith and Young were the two stand outs, particularly considering how far their careers had advanced over the past 12 months.
Coles Smith.s credits include Pawno,...
- 11/23/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
George Miller and Sarah Snook are set to present the first Casting Guild of Australia Awards for casting directors in film, television, theatre and advertising.
The Cga members boast a list of some major casting directors in the country..
Credits include: Gatsby, Pirates of the Carribbean, Animal Kingdom, Top of the Lake, The Code, Redfern Now, Rake, Mad Max, to name a few..
Combined, our members have cast in excess of 150 feature films, a mountain of TV series and TV Commercials well into their hundreds of thousands.
Miller (Mad Max Fury Road) will present the Sirius Award .- New Talent of the Future.
This recognises the skill to foresee and identify the future stars of the industry and the unique contribution made by Casting Directors.
Sarah Snook (The Dressmaker) and Ewen Leslie (The Daughter) will be co-hosting the event in Sydney on November 23.
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Cga Annual Awards Evening
Sirius Awards-new Talent...
The Cga members boast a list of some major casting directors in the country..
Credits include: Gatsby, Pirates of the Carribbean, Animal Kingdom, Top of the Lake, The Code, Redfern Now, Rake, Mad Max, to name a few..
Combined, our members have cast in excess of 150 feature films, a mountain of TV series and TV Commercials well into their hundreds of thousands.
Miller (Mad Max Fury Road) will present the Sirius Award .- New Talent of the Future.
This recognises the skill to foresee and identify the future stars of the industry and the unique contribution made by Casting Directors.
Sarah Snook (The Dressmaker) and Ewen Leslie (The Daughter) will be co-hosting the event in Sydney on November 23.
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Cga Annual Awards Evening
Sirius Awards-new Talent...
- 11/10/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
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