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Denise Roberts
Denise Roberts, is an Australian actress, director, and founder of film and television acting school Screenwise in Sydney. She is known for her roles on TV in 1980s-90s medical drama '' G.P.'' and 2009 series ''Packed to the Rafters''. Career Roberts has worked in theatre, film and television since 1980. She gained initial fame when she played Julie Winters in the ABC TV medical drama '' G.P.'' from 1989 to 1996. Roberts's mentor was Hayes Gordon, with whom she studied solidly for three years. During her seven-year stint on ''G.P.'', she taught film and television for Hayes at his Ensemble Studios. In 2009 Roberts played the recurring role of Bonnie Bright in Channel 7's ''Packed to the Rafters'' and Faye on the feature film '' Subdivision'' which premiered in August 2009. Roberts played Helen Jones in '' Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback'', and starred as Aunty Barbara in the feature film '' Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance''. She is best known for her starring roles a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenwise
Screenwise is an Australian film and television school for actors based in Surry Hills, Sydney. The school, established in 2000 and using only Australian Film Institute Award winners as teachers, is overseen by actor Denise Roberts. By June 2010, Screenwise was considered one of Australia's leading film and television schools for actors. History In 2000 in a church hall in Crows Nest, Sydney, actor and director Denise Roberts began giving private acting lessons to around eight students. That led to the 2002 opening of Screenwise, a working industry, film and television school located in Sydney to provide specialist, career-focused training in acting for film and television. Noting that she "opened it because there are a lot of students who learn all their stuff about stage, but put them in front of a camera and they're just too big," Roberts limited the teachers to AFI Award winners, including actors Victoria Longely, Tina Bursill, Henri Szeps, Simon Burke, Nico Lathour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AACTA Awards
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). The awards recognise excellence in the cinema of Australia, film and television in Australia, television industry, both locally and internationally, including the producers, directors, actors, writers, and cinematographers. It is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Cinema of Australia, Australian film and Television in Australia, television industry. They are generally considered to be the Australian counterpart of the Academy Awards for the United States and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA Awards for the United Kingdom. The awards, previously called Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards, began in 1958, and involved 30 nominations across six categories. They expanded in 1986 to cover television as well as film. The AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. The AACTA Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kangaroo Jack
''Kangaroo Jack'' is a 2003 American buddy action comedy film directed by David McNally from a screenplay by Steve Bing and Scott Rosenberg with a story by Bing and Barry O'Brien. It is also produced by Jerry Bruckheimer with music by Trevor Rabin. The film tells the story of two childhood friends who get caught up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo. It stars Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Michael Shannon, and Christopher Walken, with Adam Garcia as the uncredited voice of the titular character. Originally conceived as an R-rated mob comedy entitled ''Down and Under'', negative test screenings led Bruckheimer to retool the film into a PG-rated film, heavily re-editing the film and adding scenes of an anthropomorphic kangaroo. ''Kangaroo Jack'' was released in the United States on January 17, 2003, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was strongly panned by critics, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Friends (1986 Film)
''Two Friends'' (stylized as ''2 Friends'') is a 1986 Australian television drama film directed by Jane Campion. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p157 The film is Campion’s first feature as a director. Plot The film begins in the present and works backward in time to show how Louise and Kelly, once inseparable best friends, grew apart over the course of a year. Louise is a studious high school student and has a typical love-hate relationship with her divorced mother. Kelly, who has bleached hair and identifies with the punk style, lives with friends at the beach and experiments with drugs and casual relationships. The film progressively shows the subtle changes that set the two girls on different paths. Cast * Kris Bidenko as Kelly * Emma Coles as Louise * Kris McQuade as Janet, Louise's mother * Peter Hehir as Malcolm * Kerry Dwyer as Alis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road To Nhill
''Road to Nhill'' is a 1997 Australian comedy-drama film directed by Sue Brooks. The film won the "Golden Alexander" (first prize) for Best Feature-Length Film at The International Thessaloniki Film Festival. Produced by Sue Maslin, it was shot on location in Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Plot A car carrying four lady lawn bowlers on its way to Nhill is involved in an accident on a deserted road in rural Victoria. Locals, not knowing where the accident was, or who was involved, embark on a journey to assist. Cast * Tony Barry as Jim * Vikki Blanche as Jill Whitton * Paul Chubb as Maurie * Bill Young as Brian * Patricia Kennedy as Jean * Alwyn Kurts as Jack * Pepe Trevor as Anne * Denise Roberts as Gwen * Monica Maughan as Nell * Matthew Dyktynski as Brett * Terry Norris as Ted * Andrew Curry as Geoff Box office ''Road to Nhill'' grossed $884,949 at the box office in Australia. See also *Cinema of Australia The cinema of Australia began with the 1906 production of ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Going Sane
''Going Sane'' is a 1987 Australian comedy starring John Waters. It was one of several films made in the 1980s where Waters plays a character who has a mid life crisis.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p110 In 1994 when asked to name his worst movie, Waters said ''Going Sane'' was the one "that failed to achieve its brief more than any other." Cast * John Waters as Martin Brown * Linda Cropper as Irene Carter * Judy Morris as Ainslee Brown * Frank Wilson as Sir Colin Grant * Kate Raison as Nosh * Brett Climo as Matthew Brown * Maggie Blinco as Miss Griffiths * Denise Roberts Denise Roberts, is an Australian actress, director, and founder of film and television acting school Screenwise in Sydney. She is known for her roles on TV in 1980s-90s medical drama '' G.P.'' and 2009 series ''Packed to the Rafters''. Career ... as Mrs Chubb * Rob Steele as Sergeant Production Filming started 15 July 1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hector's Bunyip
''Hector's Bunyip'', is a 1986 Australian TV movie about a young boy who is abducted by a bunyip.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 79 Synopsis Six year old Hector in the youngest of three children in a poor foster family. His best friend is an imaginary creature he calls 'Bunyip'. One day a child welfare officer mistakenly deems the family home unsuitable for Hector, and makes arrangements for him to be placed in the care of an orphanage, but before the agency can follow through, Hector mysteriously 'disappears'. In reality, the family has hidden Hector, claiming he was taken by the 'Bunyip' - with the hope that in the meantime the counselor will change her mind. Cast * Robert Coleby as George Bailey * Barbara Stephens as Irene Bailey * Gordon Piper as Jack Benson * Tushka Bergen as Pandora Bailey * Denise Roberts as Gladys Glum * Joan Sydney as Maude Trembalt * Joyce Jacobs as Ivy Clements * Todd Boyce as Constable Gilb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Love Alone
''For Love Alone'' is a 1986 Australian film directed by Stephen Wallace, and starring Helen Buday, Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill. The screenplay was written by Wallace, based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Christina Stead. It marked Naomi Watts' film debut. The film was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In the 1930s, Teresa ( Buday) is a naive young woman dealing with the oppressive attitudes of society and her father's austere ways. She has a fling with university Latin professor Jonathan Crow (Weaving). It takes her some time to realize that he does not desire a serious relationship. Teresa then starts dating liberal-minded banker James Quick (Neill). Once she's settled down with Quick, the idealistic Teresa becomes enamored with another intellectual, poet Harry (Williams). Quick encourages the affair, hoping that Teresa will come to realize that there's more to true love than mere sexual impulsivity. Cast Production The film was a pet proj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)
''The Sunday Telegraph'' is an Australian tabloid newspaper, the separately published Sunday edition of ''The Daily Telegraph''. It is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. , ''The Sunday Telegraph'' was Australia's biggest selling weekend tabloid newspaper. History ''The Sunday Telegraph'' was founded in 1939 by Frank Packer, as the weekend version of the ''Daily Telegraph'', which he had acquired in 1936. On its first front page on 19 November 1939, it reported on Nazi Germany's oppression of the Czechs, after the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938. The first editor was Cyril Pearl who worked with the editor of the ''Daily Telegraph'' Brian Penton to fight against government censorship during the war. Packer sold the ''Sunday Telegraph'' along with the ''Daily Telegraph'' to News Limited on 5 June 1972. Publication ''The Sunday Telegraph'' is produced in the Holt S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schapelle (film)
''Schapelle'' is an Australian television film that aired in Australia on Nine Network on 9 February 2014 and in New Zealand on TV One on 20 February 2014. It was produced by Stephen Corvini Fremantle Media Australia, written by playwright Katherine Thomson and directed by Khoa Do, and is based on the true story of Schapelle Corby.Nine lifts curtain on secret Schapelle Corby telemovie for 2014 ''News.com.au'', 26 November 2013 It is based on the book ''Sins of the Father: The untold story behind Schapelle Corby's ill-fated drug run'' by Eamonn Duff. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AACTA Award
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). The awards recognise excellence in the film and television industry, both locally and internationally, including the producers, directors, actors, writers, and cinematographers. It is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian film and television industry. They are generally considered to be the Australian counterpart of the Academy Awards for the United States and the BAFTA Awards for the United Kingdom. The awards, previously called Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards, began in 1958, and involved 30 nominations across six categories. They expanded in 1986 to cover television as well as film. The AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. The AACTA International Awards, inaugurated on 27 January 2012, are presented every January in Los Angeles. History 1958–2010: AFI Awards The awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances O'Connor
Frances Ann O'Connor (born 12 June 1967) is a British-Australian actress and director. She appears in roles in the films '' Mansfield Park'', '' Bedazzled'', '' A.I. Artificial Intelligence'', '' The Importance of Being Earnest'', and ''Timeline''. O'Connor won an AACTA Award for her performance in '' Blessed'', and also earned two Golden Globe Award nominations for her performances in '' Madame Bovary'' and '' The Missing''. In 2022, her debut feature as writer and director, '' Emily'', was released. Early life O'Connor was born in Wantage, at the time part of Berkshire, England, to a pianist mother and nuclear physicist father; her family moved to Perth, Western Australia, when she was two years old. She is the middle of five children, with one older brother, one older sister, and two younger sisters. O'Connor was raised Roman Catholic, and attended the Mercedes College in Perth. She then went on to attend the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and earned a Bach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
