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Funding approvals for documentaries
A number of documentaries have been approved for funding by Screen Australia, set to screen on ABC and the History Channel. They include a second series of Anatomy, a doco on the Wood Royal Commission, a profile on Justice Michael Kirby (pictured) and another on Father Peter Kennedy-the first Catholic priest ever to be sacked in Australia.
* Three also received funding from Film Victoria.
SCREEN AUSTRALIA DOCUMENTARIES
International Documentary
GALLIPOLI’S DEEP SECRETS
Prospero Productions
Producers Ed Punchard, Julia Redwood
Director Julia Redwood
Sales and Domestic Broadcaster NGTV, NGUS, RAI, NGTI and History Channel Australia
Synopsis An unparalleled underwater exploration …
Online to drive rebranded ABC Arts
ABC TV has revealed its overhaul of Arts programming with the announcement of a slew of new titles, a ‘digital Arts Gateway’ website and the rebranding of Sunday Arts to a half hour format to be known as Art Nation.
The move follows continued speculation the long-running Sunday afternoon show would indeed be trimmed with content shifted online.
The rebranded Art Nation will contain news, reviews, performance, features and interviews and showcase submitted work that has premiered on the Arts Gateway. At 30 minutes instead of its current one hour, the …
New 13 part SBS drama for Tony Ayres
Filmmaker Tony Ayres is certainly a busy man.
His telemovie Saved went to air on Sunday night on SBS with positive reviews all round. He has also co-produced the three documentaries, Anatomy, starting tonight on the ABC, with his co-producer Michael McMahon.
Next up he is co-producing a feature film Lou, directed by Saved’s writer Belinda Chayko staring John Hurt and Emily Barclay (Prime Move, Suburban Mayhem, In My Father’s Den). And for SBS he has a new drama series in development.
“We’re in development with SBS on a 13 part drama series, written …
ABC 2009: a closer look
Now that the fanfare about The Chaser, Andrew Denton, John Safran and new dramas are out of the way, it’s time to look a little closer at the ABC goodies for 2009. There are more documentaries, arts and natural history programmes that didn’t make the headlines yesterday.
Amongst some of the other treats are the comedy series Laurence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure and The Urban Monkey starring Sam Simmons “out to draw conclusions on the similarities between the animal and human world.”
There are documentaries on Skippy, Nigerian missionaries, surfing, kayaking, Charles …