12th March 2011 : Erick invited to the Adelaide Film Festival
Congratulations to Erick Lundqvist, one of our graduates from Sweden, who was invited by the Adelaide Film Festival to come to Adelaide for the world premier of his film Urban Sounds.
24th January 2011 : MOFILM FILM COMPETITION
This is MOFILM's first film competition for 2011.
It's your chance to make a film for a client. When you sign up you'll get a brief to make a 60-90 second ad or short film for a well known brand.
There are great prizes to be won:
All expenses paid trips to Barcelona
Part of a cash prize pot of $96,500
A Pounds UK 10,000 bursary to film and travel in Europe
Exclusive screening events for winning films
Shooting People, a popular online site for independent filmmakers, is working with Mofilm to promote this competition and they are offering filmmakers a free three month trial subscription. If you don't already know it, it's an interesting site and well worth a look.
To find out more about the Mofilm Competition and Shooting People just use this link:
http://shootingpeople.org/mofilm/
16th July 2010 : Buy a Frame of a Feature Film !!
Distracted Media have just launched their new website: www.thetunnelmovie.net The innovative funding idea is the brain child of producers Julian Harvey and Enzo Tedeschi. It's based on the notion that since a 90 minute movie consists of 135,000 individual frames they could raise the movie's cash budget of US$135,000 by selling each frame of the movie for US$1 to an internet audience. Once finished, the movie will be released online, worldwide, for free. The photos feature the 2 producers and the 2 lead actors, Bel Delia and Andy Rodoreda.
Why not go to the website and buy a frame or two? There's nothing like being one of the first to back an exciting new concept for funding films.
Bel is an APA graduate from a number of years ago and she has been cast in the lead role of journalist, Natasha Warner. After working in production for a number of years, she trained as an actor, but is still using her production skills to promote this exciting new venture. Small world that it is, Bel won Best Actress at TROPFEST 2010 for her role in graduate Matt Chuang's film 'The Last Role of the Dice' which was awarded 3rd place in the competition.
3rd June 2010 : Braille at Dungog
Despite wet weather Dungog was definitely the place to be on Saturday, 29th May. The town was decked out and in a festival mood with the locals putting on a great street parade. Braille screened to a packed audience and this low key, action packed movie was extremely well received. It was easy to see why Matt received one of the ACS's silver awards for cinematography for this film.
Director/Cinematographer Matthew Chuang, Producer Luke Graham and one of the lead actors, Nicky Wright, were there to answer questions from the movie goers at a lively Q & A session that followed.
Braille got great reviews including the following from Garry Maddox of the Sydney Morning Herald :- "The most outrageously ambitious film at the festival was Braille, an action-thriller featuring stunts, shoot-outs and a prison heist on a micro budget of $40,000. First time writer-director and cinematographer, Matthew Chuang, recruited non-actors - including an abseiler he met at a party, for a story about a blind ex-diamond smuggler who organises one final job..............." For full review visit the SMH website, http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/a-glimpse-of-emerging-talent-close-to-home-20100530-wnl0.html
Well done, Matt, Luke and all the other APA graduates who worked on this excellent film.
