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Screen Australia announces $5.6 million of production funding for 5 projects
Screen Australia has announced $5.6 million of production funding for three feature films and two television dramas. The projects include a new animated drama from Adam Elliot (Mary and Max); along with second seasons of Bump for Stan and The Secrets She Keeps for Network 10.
Also among the recipients are feature drama Petrol from writer/director Alena Lodkina and Western Australian feature film Kid Snow.
Screen Australia’s CEO Graeme Mason said, “We have been blown away by the volume of applications for production funding and are heartened at the breadth of distinct Australian stories that continue to come through. Adam Elliot is set to delight audiences around the world with a remarkable new drama in his signature claymation style; and we’re thrilled to support writer/director Alena Lodkina whose 2017 feature Strange Colours premiered at the Venice Film Festival, as she expands on her u
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Emily, which marks the writer-director debut for actress-turned-filmmaker Frances O Connor, a two-time Golden Globe nominee for performances in
The Missing and Madame Bovary.
From a self-penned script, O’Connor has imagined a transformative journey to womanhood of one of the world’s most famous, enigmatic and passionate writers. Emily Brontë’s writing is steeped in such passion, feeling, violence and fierce intelligence – that I’ve always yearned to know who she really was, said O Connor.
Emily is about a rebel and misfit, a young woman daring to form herself, to embrace her true nature, despite the consequences. And, in creating an imagined life for her, I hope Emily Brontë will live again.