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May 13th 2009 16:18
One More Day, is a feature length film made up of four different stories, all set on the one day, in the same 24 hour period, connected by a single metaphor, of a city ringed by the threat of fires. The joint production will provide an opportunity for AFTRS’ Graduate Diploma students in Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, and Screen Music to collaborate with NIDA’s 3rd year Acting and Design & Production students.
Filming will commence in mid June 2009 at AFTRS new state of the art facility located in the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park.
Prominent writers Alice Bell, Shirley Barrett, Judy Morris and Christopher Lee have scripted the four stories - Violet, Steamboat, Legend and Nicky Two-Tone.
The project will involve over 70 students: 25 acting students, 4 directors, 7 cinematographers, 7 editors, 10 screen composers, 10 production design students, and 8 other directors creating other parts of the production. This ambitious and unique project is additional to and complements their existing coursework.
Pre production on the feature is well underway with workshops, readings and plans for set designs all tracking along nicely. The AFTRS Graduate Diploma student directors are loving their cast and the NIDA third year actors are loving their Directors says the grapevine .
SAVED by Tony Ayres.
The latest from award wining writer-director Tony Ayres ‘Saved’, starring Claudia Karvan, is the latest Tony Ayres project to make it to Australian screens.
Described as an intelligent, contemporary and compelling Australian drama Saved screened on the evening of Easter Sunday on SBS and told the story of Julia, a young mother wracked by grief following the death of her baby daughter.
Julia attempts to ease her pain by volunteering at an immigration detention centre where she becomes obsessed with helping a young Iranian asylum-seeker in danger of being deported. The telemovies’ lead character - Julia - was conceived especially for Karvan by the film's director, award winning Tony Ayres, who graduated from AFTRSin 1990.
Believing the project would benefit from a ‘female sensibility’, Ayres enlisted fellow writer-director and AFTRS graduate Belinda Chayko to help flesh out the story. Rounding out the AFTRS connections to Saved was the involvement of Amin Palangi, who was studying Screewriting at AFTRS in 2008, who took on the role of Directors attachment during the shoot which took place in August last year.
Alice Bell at the 2008 FILMINK Awards. Picture courtesy of Getty Images
Prominent writers Alice Bell, Shirley Barrett, Judy Morris and Christopher Lee have scripted the four stories - Violet, Steamboat, Legend and Nicky Two-Tone.
The project will involve over 70 students: 25 acting students, 4 directors, 7 cinematographers, 7 editors, 10 screen composers, 10 production design students, and 8 other directors creating other parts of the production. This ambitious and unique project is additional to and complements their existing coursework.
Pre production on the feature is well underway with workshops, readings and plans for set designs all tracking along nicely. The AFTRS Graduate Diploma student directors are loving their cast and the NIDA third year actors are loving their Directors says the grapevine .
SAVED by Tony Ayres.
The latest from award wining writer-director Tony Ayres ‘Saved’, starring Claudia Karvan, is the latest Tony Ayres project to make it to Australian screens.
Described as an intelligent, contemporary and compelling Australian drama Saved screened on the evening of Easter Sunday on SBS and told the story of Julia, a young mother wracked by grief following the death of her baby daughter.
Claudia Karvan - Saved courtesy www.tvtonight.com.au
Believing the project would benefit from a ‘female sensibility’, Ayres enlisted fellow writer-director and AFTRS graduate Belinda Chayko to help flesh out the story. Rounding out the AFTRS connections to Saved was the involvement of Amin Palangi, who was studying Screewriting at AFTRS in 2008, who took on the role of Directors attachment during the shoot which took place in August last year.
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