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Bojana Novaković
Bojana Novakovic (, sr-Latn, Bojana Novaković) is an Australian actress. She is known for starring in the police procedural television series ''Instinct'' (2018–2019). In film, she has appeared in ''Drag Me to Hell'' (2009), ''Edge of Darkness'' (2010), ''Devil'' (2010), '' Generation Um...'' (2012), '' The Little Death'' (2014), ''I, Tonya'' (2017) and ''Birds of Prey'' (2020). Early life and education Novakovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia. Her younger sister, Valentina Novakovic, is also an actress. Novakovic moved to Australia in 1988 at age seven. She was initially interested in becoming a social worker or doctor, but eventually decided to pursue performing arts. Novakovic studied at The McDonald College in Sydney, where she was dux in 1998. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2002. Career In 2003, Novakovic played Randa in the ABC mini-series ''Marking Time'', a role which won her an AFI Award for "Best Actress in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NATIONALITY
Nationality is the legal status of belonging to a particular nation, defined as a group of people organized in one country, under one legal jurisdiction, or as a group of people who are united on the basis of culture. In international law, nationality is a legal identification establishing the person as a subject, a ''national'', of a sovereign state. It affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state against other states. The rights and duties of nationals vary from state to state,Weis, Paul''Nationality and Statelessness in International Law''. BRILL; 1979 ited 19 August 2012 . p. 29–61. and are often complemented by citizenship law, in some contexts to the point where citizenship is synonymous with nationality. However, nationality differs technically and legally from citizenship, which is a different legal relationship between a person and a country. The noun "national" can include both citizens and non-citizens. The mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackrock (film)
''Blackrock'' is a 1997 Australian teen drama thriller film produced by David Elfick and Catherine Knapman, directed by Steven Vidler with the screenplay by Nick Enright. Marking Vidler's directorial debut, the film was adapted from the play of the same name, also written by Enright, which was inspired by the murder of Leigh Leigh. The film stars Laurence Breuls, Simon Lyndon and Linda Cropper, and also features the first credited film performance of Heath Ledger. The film follows Jared (Breuls), a young surfer who witnesses his friends raping a girl. When she is found murdered the next day, Jared is torn between revealing what he saw and protecting his friends. Leigh's family opposed the fictionalisation of her murder, though protests against the film were abandoned after it received financial backing from the New South Wales Film and Television Office. ''Blackrock'' was filmed over a period of two weeks at locations including Stockton, where Leigh was murdered, a deci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woyzeck
''Woyzeck'' () is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. Büchner wrote the play between July and October 1836, yet left it incomplete at his death in February 1837. The play first appeared in 1877 in a heavily edited version by Karl Emil Franzos, and was first performed at the Residence Theatre in Munich on 8 November 1913. Since then, ''Woyzeck'' has become one of the most influential and most often-performed German plays. Due to its unfinished nature, the play has inspired many diverging adaptations. Composition and textual history Büchner probably began writing the play between June and September 1836. It is loosely based on the true story of Johann Christian Woyzeck, a Leipzig wigmaker who later became a soldier. In 1821, Woyzeck, in a fit of jealousy, murdered Christiane Woost, a 46-year-old widow with whom he had been living; he was later publicly beheaded. Büchner's work remained in a fragmentary state at the time of his early death in 1837. The play was first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Theatre Company
The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre company in Australia. The company's Southbank Theatre houses the 500-seat Sumner and the 150-seat Lawler, and the company also performs in the Arts Centre Melbourne's Fairfax Studio and Playhouse, all located in Melbourne's Arts Precinct in Southbank. Considered Victoria's state theatre company, it formally comes under the auspices of the University of Melbourne. As of 2013 it offered a Mainstage Season of ten to twelve plays each year, as well as education, family and creative development activities, and reported having a subscriber base of approximately 20,000 people and played to a around quarter of a million people annually. History The Melbourne Theatre Company was founded in 1953 by John Sumner as the Union Theatre Repertory Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Female Of The Species (play)
''The Female of the Species'' is a comic play by Joanna Murray-Smith first performed in 2006. The play is a satire about celebrity feminists, with a plot loosely inspired by a real-life incident in 2000, when author Germaine Greer was held at gunpoint in her own home by a disturbed student. The play was premiered in Australia, where it had several productions in 2006 and 2008. A London production opened in the West End in 2008. Productions ''The Female of the Species'' was premiered in Australia, produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company in 2006. It was also produced by the Queensland Theatre Company at the Cremorne Theatre in South Brisbane in February and March 2008. It was then produced by the Black Swan Theatre Company at the Playhouse Theatre in Perth in June and July 2008, and toured in Western Australia in August 2008. The production was directed by Patrick Nolan with music by the composer David Chesworth. The play had its London West End premiere in previews at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Theatre Company
Sydney Theatre Company (STC) is an Australian theatre company based in Sydney, New South Wales. The company performs in the Wharf Theatre at Dawes Point in The Rocks area of Sydney as well as the Roslyn Packer Theatre (formerly Sydney Theatre) and the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre. History Sydney Theatre Company was formed in December 1978, following the closure of the Old Tote Theatre Company the month before. The then premier, Neville Wran, approached Elizabeth Butcher who had been seconded from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) to administer the Old Tote and asked her to set up a new state theatre company to perform in the drama theatre of the Sydney Opera House. Butcher established its legal identity and managerial structure and proposed the name 'Sydney Theatre Company' with John Clark (director of NIDA as the artistic adviser of the first season, five theatre companies were invited to produce six plays to be presented by STC as the 1979 interim season i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Away (play)
''Away'' is a play written by Australian playwright Michael Gow. First performed by the Griffin Theatre Company in 1986, it tells the story of three internally conflicted families holidaying on the coast for Christmas, 1968. ''Away'' has become one of the most widely produced Australian plays of all time and is part of the Higher School Certificate syllabi or general High School Curriculum in many states, including Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. With the play's conscious nods to Shakespeare (it opens with the school's production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and ends with ''King Lear''). Gow emphasises the performativity of individual human responses to death, racism, class and relationships. Gow sees the play as largely autobiographical. Synopsis To conclude the year, a high school stages a production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' by William Shakespeare. The play is directed by Miss Latrobe, whose work is praised by the headmaster Roy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burning Man (film)
''Burning Man'' is a 2011 Australian drama film written and directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. Plot Burning Man tells the story of Tom (Matthew Goode), a British chef in a Bondi restaurant, who seems to have chosen to disobey his boss, and his actions are tolerated by everyone around him. As Tom descends into darkness from a car crash in his Volkswagen, pieces of a different story start to emerge. Every woman around him tries, in different ways, to help Tom put himself back together. Cast * Matthew Goode as Tom * Bojana Novakovic as Sarah * Essie Davis as Karen * Rachel Griffiths as Miriam * Kerry Fox as Sally * Anthony Hayes as Brian * Jack Heanly as Oscar * Kate Beahan as Lesley * Gia Carides as Carol * Marta Dusseldorp as Lisa * Robyn Malcolm as Kathryn * Garry McDonald as Dr Burgess Reception On Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergrad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showtime Movie Channels
Showtime Movie Channels was a group of Australian pay-TV movie channels, available on the Foxtel, Optus and Austar TV platforms. The service consisted of five original channels (showtime premiere, showcase, showtime action, showtime comedy, showtime drama), three HD simulcasts (showtime premiere HD, showcase HD, showtime action HD) and two timeshift channels (showtime two, showcase two). It was owned and operated by the Premium Movie Partnership (PMP), a joint venture in which Sony Pictures Entertainment, NBCUniversal, Viacom, News Corporation and Liberty Global had equal shares. Foxtel took over managing and producing the Showtime channels as of 31 October 2012, with it purchasing assets of the PMP. On 9 December 2012, it was announced that Movie Network and Showtime (with the exception of Showcase) would be replaced with a new line-up of Foxtel branded movie channels to be named Foxtel Movies The main competitor to Showtime was Movie Network Channels. History Formed in lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satisfaction (Australian TV Series)
''Satisfaction'' is an Australian television drama series which screened on the subscription television channel Showcase. It also screens in the Republic of Ireland on free-to-air channel TV3 and its sister channel 3e, and in New Zealand on free-to-air channel TV2 respectively. The series was filmed in Melbourne, and was created by writer/producer Roger Simpson with producer Andy Walker and executive producer Kim Vecera. It centres on the lives and loves of a group of women who are sex workers in a high class brothel. Production for the third season began in June 2009 and commenced screening in December 2009. On 31 December 2010, it was revealed by TV Tonight that ''Satisfaction'' was officially cancelled, and that season 3 was the last season in production. Synopsis ''Satisfaction'' is set in and around '232', an up-market city brothel. The show is centred on five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the pressures of their private lives with their professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skinning (film)
''Skinning'' () is a 2010 Serbian film directed by Stevan Filipović. It premiered on 6 October 2010 in Sava Centar in Belgrade.Release dates for ''Skinning'' at the '' Novosti'' Kad život imitira film (9 October 2010) Plot The film opens with actual news footage of protests in front of the American embassy in Belgrade following the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Optimists (film)
''The Optimists'' ( sr-Cyrl, Оптимисти) is a 2006 Serbian black comedy film directed by Goran Paskaljević. The film, presented as five unrelated narrative sequences, was inspired by Voltaire's 1759 satirical novel ''Candide''. ''The Optimists'' features an ensemble cast of Serbian actors with Lazar Ristovski appearing in all five stories. The film premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and was subsequently screened at several other film festivals, earning multiple awards. The 51st Valladolid International Film Festival named Ristovski Best Actor, and the film won the Youth Jury Award and the Golden Spike award as the best film of the festival. ''The Optimists'' was included as part of a retrospective exhibition on director Paskaljević at the Museum of Modern Art in 2008. Plot A large flood has almost destroyed a village. A hypnotist (Ristovski) comes to the village and speaks to the destitute inhabitants. Free of charge, the hypnotist offers t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
