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Tuesday 16 June 2009
Screen Australia has announced support for five feature films generating $38.9 million worth of production.
Projects receiving production investment include Stuart Beattie’s directorial debut Tomorrow When the War Began and Nick Giannopoulos’ return to the screen in Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos. Writer/director Bill Bennett has also been supported for Uninhabited.
Tomorrow When the War Began is based on the best-selling book by author John Marsden and follows the journey of Ellie and her friends who band together when their country is invaded and their families are taken. Renowned screenwriter Stuart Beattie, whose credits include Australia and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, will write and direct. The film will be produced by Andrew Mason for Ambience Entertainment.
Director Peter Andrikidis has teamed up with writer Chris Anastassiades, writer/producer Nick Giannopoulos and producer Emile Sherman to make Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos. Nick Giannopoulos will again play Steve ‘The Wog Boy’ Karamitsis. The film follows Steve’s adventures when he inherits a beach on the resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he’s never met.
Writer/director Bill Bennett will tell the story of a young couple whose island paradise becomes a nightmare in Uninhabited, starring Geraldine Hakewill and Henry James. Bennett shares the producing credit with Silvana Milat and Paul Quin.
Completion loans were also recently approved for two new Australian films, Khoa Do’s Missing Water and Jonathan auf der Heide’s Van Diemen’s Land. Both films had their premieres at the Sydney Film Festival earlier this month.
Victoria Buchan, The Lantern Group, victoria@lanterngroup.com.au
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| Producer | Andrew Mason |
| Executive Producers | Christopher Mapp, Matthew Street and David Whealy |
| Writer/Director | Stuart Beattie |
| Sales and Distribution | Paramount |
| Synopsis | When their country is invaded and families taken, eight unlikely high school teenagers band together to fight. |
| Producers | Emile Sherman and Nick Giannopoulos |
| Executive Producers | Iain Canning and Andrew Penney |
| Co-Producer | Sally Ayre Smith |
| Writers | Chris Anastassiades and Nick Giannopoulos |
| Director | Peter Andrikidis |
| Cast | Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo |
| Sales and Distribution | Arclight Films International and Transmission/Paramount |
| Synopsis | Steve ‘The Wog Boy’ Karamitsis inherits a beach on the resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he’s never met. |
| Producers | Bill Bennett, Silvana Milat, Paul Quin |
| Writer/Director | Bill Bennett |
| Sales and Distribution | SC Films International Limited and Polyphony Entertainment Pty Ltd |
| Synopsis | A young couple goes to a remote and deserted coral island for a holiday. But their paradise becomes a nightmare when they discover that the island is not uninhabited after all. |
| Producer/Writer/Director | Khoa Do |
| Synopsis | Missing Water tells the story of four refugees fleeing Vietnam in 1980, but in a most unusual way. The present melds with the past as a quiet factory worker recalls the time she took to the sea in a creaky riverboat in search of a better life. But what she experienced on that journey haunts her still... |
| Producer | Maggie Miles |
| Writers | Jonathan auf der Heide, Oscar Redding |
| Director | Jonathan auf der Heide |
| Sales and Distribution | Bavaria Film International and Madman |
| Synopsis | Based on the true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia’s most notorious convict, whose confessions were so confronting and horrific they were not at first believed. |
