SPA SELECTIONS
“Carmen,” “Foe,” “Limbo,” Australia’s Oscar contender “Shayda,” “Streets of Colour” and “The Royal Hotel” have obtained the six nominations for finest function movie at this yr’s Screen Producers Australia Awards. The SPA Awards can be held on Thursday, March 21, 2024, the ultimate night of the Screen Forever convention.
In the documentary function part, the nominations are “Flyaways,” “Harley & Katya,” “Living With Devils,” “ONEFOUR: Against All Odds,” “The Cape,” “The Giants,” “The Jewish Nazi?” and “The Platypus Garden.” Nominations for finest telemovie or miniseries manufacturing are “While the Men Are Away,” “The Claremont Murders,” “Wellmania,” “The Messenger,” “Bad Behaviour” and “The Clearing.”
“2023 was a yr crammed with quite a few challenges for our trade, however the Australian display sector continued to thrill audiences globally with tales that share our distinctive tradition and creativity,” mentioned SPA CEO Matthew Deaner.
NOT BUYING THAT
Korean mystery-thriller movie “Don’t Buy the Seller” is about for a uncommon theatrical launch in cinemas in India. Renamed “Target,” the movie can be launched by Star Entertainment in November. Directed by Park Hee-kon, the story begins with a girl who complains a couple of faulty second-hand washer that she has purchased on-line. But that straightforward motion exposes her to a scammer who may be a serial killer who units on-line traps for his victims. Starring Shin Hye-sun (“Collectors,” “Innocence”), Kim Sung-kyun (“Sinkhole,” “Golden Slumber”) and Kang Tae-oh (“Extraordinary Attorney Woo”) the movie launched in Korea on the finish of August and earned a modest $3.1 million.
STORM BREWING
Hong Kong-made crime motion movie “The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell” is about for a uncommon launch in cinemas in South Korea. The third title in a franchise directed by Herman Yau, the plot includes an undercover cop who infiltrates a drug cartel headed by a infamous Thai gangster. It has a stellar forged headed by Aaron Kwok, Louis Koo and Sean Lau Ching-wan. The launch, dealt with by NK Contents, is about for Dec. 7. It beforehand launched in July in China the place it earned over $40 million and likewise performed on the New York Asian Film Festival.
ADELAIDE AGAIN
The Adelaide Film Festival, which wrapped its 2023 version simply weeks in the past, has set its dates for subsequent yr as Oct. 23-Nov. 3, 2024. The 2023 pageant posted an viewers document, some 15 larger than in 2022 and up 81% from the final pre-pandemic version in 2018. The pageant introduced 141 movies from 42 nations throughout 198 classes and 5 Adelaide cinemas. Additionally, it included a youth program, a highlight on Indonesian movies and the progressive EXPAND Lab, an initiative targeted on the event of large-scale projection, immersive or gallery-specific works by greater than 30 artists.
DOCS DOSH
Screen Australia has introduced three documentaries funded by its Commissioned Program and 4 initiatives by its Producer Program that can share in over A$1.7 million ($1.13 million) of manufacturing funding.
Among the initiatives are “Deeper” that follows Thai cave rescue divers Richard Harris and Craig Challen on their exploration of the deepest freshwater cave on the earth; NITV function “Skin within the Game,” which dives into the highly-contested world of rugby league and girls’s sport in Australia — hosted by proud girls’s rugby league royalty, Marlee Silva; “Floodland,” which paperwork Australia’s most flood-prone postcode of Lismore and the aftermath of the 2022 floods; and SBS documentary “Osher Günsberg: My Journey Beyond Pain,” the follow-up to “Osher Günsberg: A Matter of Life and Death.”
