Cherub Pictures Festival Success
May 28th 2008 16:46
Cherub Pictures’ director, Justin Kurzel WINNER Best Music Video & Music Video Audience Choice Award at St Kilda Film Festival – SoundKILDA 2008
* St Kilda Film Festival
May 8 marked the commencement of a series of festival screenings which will see work from Cherub Pictures Directors screened nationally across Australia.
Justin Kurzel’s music clips ‘Pulse’ and ‘Keep Walking’ for The Mess Hall as well as Nash Edgerton’s ‘Never Let You Go’ for Evermore (also directed with Spencer Susser) featured in SoundKilda as part of the 2008 St Kilda Film Festival CHERUB PICTURES’ DIRECTOR KURZEL took out the Best Music Video Award for the clip ‘Pulse’ by The Mess Hall as well as the Music Video Audience Choice Award for ‘Keep Walking’ by The Mess Hall at this year’s St Kilda Film Festival. Both music videos were produced by Pip Smart.
”To have two music videos screening in St Kilda Film Festival was a great honour, and then to have both of them awarded by industry judges and audiences alike, was a great thrill for myself and The Mess Hall.” said Justin Kurzel.
Kurzel together with Briand is currently co-directing The Vines’ video for their new single ‘He’s A Rocker’. The single from the forthcoming album is to be released in mid July through Ivy League Records. 'He's A Rocker' was showcased live at the SXSW music festival in Austin and recently had its world-wide TV premiere at the Australian MTV Awards.
Ben Briand’s Hammer Bay a one hour drama commissioned by MTV (when Briand won the ONE80PROJECT) also screened.
www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au .
* Sydney Film Festival *
Nash Edgerton’s feature film directorial debut The Square has been invited to premiere in the 55th Sydney Film Festival’s inaugural Official Competition for ‘new directions in film’. Twelve films were selected for competition which sees Edgerton competing alongside directors including Mike Leigh, Martin McDonagh, Guy Maddin and Antonello Grimaldi amongst others. The winner will be announced at the Sydney Opera House on 16 June.
Edgerton’s short film Spider will also screen at the 55th Sydney Film Festival.
Screening Details: The 55th Sydney Film Festival, 4–22 June 2008. Further information available from www.sydneyfilmfestival.org .
For further information about Cherub Pictures go to: www.cherubpictures.com.au.
ABOUT CHERUB PICTURES
Cherub Pictures, founded in 1991 by producer Michele Bennett, is one of the few truly integrated production companies actively working across every film medium at the highest level in Australia. Award winning directors represented by Cherub Pictures include Ben Briand (Hammer Bay), Justin Kurzel (Blue Tongue), Nash Edgerton (The Square), Rowan Woods (The Boys, Little Fish), Samantha Lang (The Well, L’Idole), John Curran (The Painted Veil), Luke Shanahan (It Takes Two to Tango), Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), and Cate Shortland (Somersault). www.cherubpictures.com.au
ABOUT THE SQUARE (reviewed by Clare Stewart, Executive Director Sydney Film Festival)
Director Nash Edgerton, whose extensive experience as a stunt performer has honed his fine eye for action sequences, delivers on the promise of his short films with this broody, suburban noir. Construction supervisor Ray (David Roberts) is romantically entangled with Carla (Claire Van Der Boom), a flighty femme fatale whose motivations seem born of boredom and self-interest rather than passion. Their illicit affair prompts Ray to act outside his ordinary square and the imploding consequences propel the brilliantly layered plot forward. Matt Dabner and Joel Edgerton's script courageously centres the action on a hapless everyman whose false moves are made with such uncertainty that he will neither be the hero nor redeemed. The seething masculinity and craggy physicality of the ragtag gang of corrupt tradesmen and petty crims (Anthony Hayes, Joel Edgerton and Brendan Donoghue are particularly fine) remains doggedly colloquial while rooted in the 40s tradition of Robert Siodmak and Anthony Mann. The over-heated Christmas backdrop, both exotic and familiar, provides the perfect context for the film's peppering of comic and musical diversions. The Square will be distributed in Australia by Roadshow Films.
http://www.bluetonguefilms.com/squarewebsite/For further information on Cherub Pictures visit www.cherubpictures.com.au
or call 612 9360 7155
Source: Tsuki, Cherub Pictures
* St Kilda Film Festival
May 8 marked the commencement of a series of festival screenings which will see work from Cherub Pictures Directors screened nationally across Australia.
Justin Kurzel’s music clips ‘Pulse’ and ‘Keep Walking’ for The Mess Hall as well as Nash Edgerton’s ‘Never Let You Go’ for Evermore (also directed with Spencer Susser) featured in SoundKilda as part of the 2008 St Kilda Film Festival CHERUB PICTURES’ DIRECTOR KURZEL took out the Best Music Video Award for the clip ‘Pulse’ by The Mess Hall as well as the Music Video Audience Choice Award for ‘Keep Walking’ by The Mess Hall at this year’s St Kilda Film Festival. Both music videos were produced by Pip Smart.
”To have two music videos screening in St Kilda Film Festival was a great honour, and then to have both of them awarded by industry judges and audiences alike, was a great thrill for myself and The Mess Hall.” said Justin Kurzel.
Kurzel together with Briand is currently co-directing The Vines’ video for their new single ‘He’s A Rocker’. The single from the forthcoming album is to be released in mid July through Ivy League Records. 'He's A Rocker' was showcased live at the SXSW music festival in Austin and recently had its world-wide TV premiere at the Australian MTV Awards.
Ben Briand’s Hammer Bay a one hour drama commissioned by MTV (when Briand won the ONE80PROJECT) also screened.
www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au .
* Sydney Film Festival *
Nash Edgerton’s feature film directorial debut The Square has been invited to premiere in the 55th Sydney Film Festival’s inaugural Official Competition for ‘new directions in film’. Twelve films were selected for competition which sees Edgerton competing alongside directors including Mike Leigh, Martin McDonagh, Guy Maddin and Antonello Grimaldi amongst others. The winner will be announced at the Sydney Opera House on 16 June.
Edgerton’s short film Spider will also screen at the 55th Sydney Film Festival.
Screening Details: The 55th Sydney Film Festival, 4–22 June 2008. Further information available from www.sydneyfilmfestival.org .
For further information about Cherub Pictures go to: www.cherubpictures.com.au.
ABOUT CHERUB PICTURES
Cherub Pictures, founded in 1991 by producer Michele Bennett, is one of the few truly integrated production companies actively working across every film medium at the highest level in Australia. Award winning directors represented by Cherub Pictures include Ben Briand (Hammer Bay), Justin Kurzel (Blue Tongue), Nash Edgerton (The Square), Rowan Woods (The Boys, Little Fish), Samantha Lang (The Well, L’Idole), John Curran (The Painted Veil), Luke Shanahan (It Takes Two to Tango), Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), and Cate Shortland (Somersault). www.cherubpictures.com.au
ABOUT THE SQUARE (reviewed by Clare Stewart, Executive Director Sydney Film Festival)
Director Nash Edgerton, whose extensive experience as a stunt performer has honed his fine eye for action sequences, delivers on the promise of his short films with this broody, suburban noir. Construction supervisor Ray (David Roberts) is romantically entangled with Carla (Claire Van Der Boom), a flighty femme fatale whose motivations seem born of boredom and self-interest rather than passion. Their illicit affair prompts Ray to act outside his ordinary square and the imploding consequences propel the brilliantly layered plot forward. Matt Dabner and Joel Edgerton's script courageously centres the action on a hapless everyman whose false moves are made with such uncertainty that he will neither be the hero nor redeemed. The seething masculinity and craggy physicality of the ragtag gang of corrupt tradesmen and petty crims (Anthony Hayes, Joel Edgerton and Brendan Donoghue are particularly fine) remains doggedly colloquial while rooted in the 40s tradition of Robert Siodmak and Anthony Mann. The over-heated Christmas backdrop, both exotic and familiar, provides the perfect context for the film's peppering of comic and musical diversions. The Square will be distributed in Australia by Roadshow Films.
http://www.bluetonguefilms.com/squarewebsite/For further information on Cherub Pictures visit www.cherubpictures.com.au
or call 612 9360 7155
Source: Tsuki, Cherub Pictures
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