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Written by Forum Editor Monday, 22 June 2009 00:59

Reality TV. Would you really want it next door?

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NSW Film & TV gets extra $5mill

Written by Kelsey Brookes Monday, 22 June 2009 00:06

The NSW Film and Television Office has been given an additional $5 million in the state budget as part of an initiative to win back film production from Victoria and Queensland.

While Labour governments are typically perceived as unsupportive of the arts, the state budget has also granted additional funding to Sydney Theatre Company. NSW Government has also launched a 'film-friendly' policy to encourage councils to support production and successfully attracted Hollywood feature, Green Lantern to Fox Studios.

Full article on Brisbane Times.

DF Indie: low budget films

Written by Kelsey Brookes Sunday, 21 June 2009 23:43

The New York Times is running a piece on startup film company DF Indie Studios, dedicated to producing features with budgets of less than $10 million.

Headed up by chief executive Mary E. Dickinson and president Charlene Fisher, the group have identified a dearth of quality low-budget films in the era of disappointing blockbusters and believe they can attract quality producers with guaranteed U.S. releases and ample marketing budgets.

Full story on The New York Times.

MPC's mobile data lab

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 June 2009 23:21 Written by Kelsey Brookes Sunday, 21 June 2009 23:08

The Moving Picture Company have put up a time-lapse video on YouTube of a mobile data lab being setup in a hotel in Toronto.

MPC set up this mobile Data Lab in a hotel room in Toronto to capture and process the data from a shoot with 56 RED cameras shooting simultaneously. The data was processed to give the editor the rushes the same day with enough time to put together an edit and change anything for the next day. Forty one hours of footage was processed over the course of the three day shoot.

The War Begins... production

Written by Kelsey Brookes Wednesday, 17 June 2009 01:48

Stuart Beattie, screenwriter for Australia and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, is set to make his debut as a director with big-screen adaptation of Australian novel Tomorrow, When the War Began.

In an interesting twist, the producers plan to make the first three novels of the popular series into a film trilogy, and then produce the remaining four as a TV series if the movies prove successful.

Full story on The Moving Picture.