Screen Australia announces $2 million for 8 documentaries, including GoodThing’s Ellis Park

Screen Australia Media Release / May 04, 2023

Screen Australia announces $2 million for 8 documentaries, including GoodThing’s Ellis Park

Thrilled to have Screen Australia’s support for our new documentary Ellis Park, the feature documentary follows Australian musician Warren Ellis, member of rock groups Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. In the dark times of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ellis found his way to make a difference by helping create a wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra – giving life and dignity to animals rescued from human captivity. 

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Hot Docs Festival 2023 / April 18, 2023

You Can Go Now selected for HOT DOCS 2023

Thrilled to share our latest project about First Nations artist and provocateur Richard Bell will have its International Premiere at this year’s Hot Docs in Canada.

In addition to a profile of Richard’s career, we get an expansive history of 50 years of Aboriginal activism in Australia. Archival images of the Redfern movement of the 1970s and the Canberra Tent Embassy protest site offer insight into Bell’s experience of front-line activism and the way his work links the fight for Australian Aboriginal sovereignty with the American Civil Rights movement. You Can Go Now offers a vital primer, not only on the work of Bell, but also on the significance of Aboriginal Australian currents of 20th- and 21st-century art.

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Screen Australia Media Release / August 15, 2022

Screen Australia announces $1 million of story development funding for 33 projects, including The Border

Screen Australia has announced over $1 million of development funding for 19 feature films, 13 television dramas and one feature-length project to be released online. The projects include the first feature film from Aunty Donna’s production company Haven’t You Done Well Productions with The Alien Abduction of Emily Hill; the producers of Nude Tuesday teaming up on dark dystopian comedy The Border; and a young-adult dramedy about out-and-proud teenager Terry facing his bullies in The Outrageously Fabulous World of Terry Logan.

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A celebration of life’: the father who filmed his every moment – and his son who turned it into a movie

The Guardian / August 09, 2022

A celebration of life’: the father who filmed his every moment – and his son who turned it into a movie

Richard Crawley spent decades recording himself and his family – and now his son James has turned the camera on him to understand why, in his documentary Volcano Man.

By Sian Cain

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As his life fell apart, Richard turned the camera on himself. His son still wonders why

The Age / August 04, 2022

As his life fell apart, Richard turned the camera on himself. His son still wonders why

In his debut feature, Volcano Man, James Crawley charts the heartbreaking impact of his mother’s death.

By Jake Wilson

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Nude Tuesday review: left-of-field comedy magic, but not enough nudity

Screen Hub / June 23, 2022

Nude Tuesday review: left-of-field comedy magic, but not enough nudity

A complicated language, translated subtitles, sexual antics, and a goat. No, it’s not the SBS Midnight Movie, it’s Nude Tuesday, a new film from Armağan Ballantyne.

By Silvi Vann-Wall

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