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The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival
The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival is an Australian film festival held annually in late June in Winton, Queensland. The nine day Festival is held in Central West Queensland, which has provided the setting of film and television productions such as '' The Proposition'', '' Gone'', ''Mystery Road'', '' Goldstone'', ''Texas Rising'' and '' Total Control.'' The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival focuses exclusively on Australian films and is promoted as Australia's only outback film festival. A proposal for a film festival in Winton akin to the Sundance Film Festival was first put forward by local publican Clive Kitchen in 2012 who saw the film industry as beneficial to Winton's economy. The idea received support from Winton Shire mayor Butch Lenton, Screen Australia's Gina Black and ''Mystery Road'' producer David Jowsey. Festival director, filmmaker and academic Dr Greg Dolgopolov was appointed the inaugural festival creative director. Mark Melrose was Festival Directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winton, Queensland
Winton is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Winton in Central West Queensland, Australia. It is northwest of Longreach. The main industries of the area are sheep and cattle raising. The town was named in 1876 by postmaster Robert Allen, after his place of birth, Winton, Dorset. Winton was the first home of the airline Qantas. In the , the locality of Winton had a population of 856. History Traditional owners The traditional owners of the Winton area, the Koa people, consider Bladensburg National Park area (near Winton) to be a special part of their traditional country, and the park is also important to the Maiawali and Karuwali people. Jirandali (also known as Yirandali, Warungu, Yirandhali) is an Australian Aboriginal language of North-West Queensland, particularly the Hughenden area. The language region includes the local government area of the Shire of Flinders, including Dutton River, Flinders River, Mount Sturgeon, Caledonia, Richmond, Corfie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Jowsey
David Jowsey is an Australian film producer, co-founder of Bunya Productions. He is known for producing many films made by Indigenous Australian filmmakers. Bunya Productions' co-owners are Indigenous filmmaker Ivan Sen, and Jowsey's wife Greer Simpkin. Early life and education Jowsey was born in Auckland, New Zealand. His mother used to take him to the cinema a lot and he developed a deep love of storytelling and films as a child. At Auckland University, he ran a drama group, which led to a job at TVNZ. Career In his work at TVNZ, he worked for some time in the Māori department, and developed an affinity for telling Indigenous stories. He was on the production team for the first episode of ''Waka Huia'', which went to air in 1987. This is a long-running TV series aiming to record and preserve Māori culture and customs as well as covering social and political concerns, and presented completely in te reo Māori (language). Moving to Australia, Jowsey married an Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Le Marquand
Steve Le Marquand (born 26 December 1967) is an Australian-born actor, known both locally and internationally for his film and stage work. Personal life Born in Perth, Western Australia in 1967, his family moved to Sydney when he was quite young. His younger sister is the columnist and media commentator Sarrah Le Marquand. He is married to Australian actress and singer Pippa Grandison and they have a child together, Charlie. He is commonly referred to by his nickname, Slem (his initials). He played cricket for a number of years for many different teams and was also selected for various representative teams. His top score was 116* and best bowling figures of 8/9. Lives in Lake Clifton in rural WA. Early life Prior to acting, Le Marquand motorcycled his way around Australia, working at various cattle stations, docks, pubs, barges and melon farms. He then studied performing arts at Penrith in Sydney's outer west at the University of Western Sydney (Theatre Nepean) befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Pomeranz
Margaret Pomeranz (born Margeret Anne Jones-Owen, 15 July 1944) is an Australian film critic, writer, producer, and television personality. Early life Pomeranz was born Margeret Anne Jones-Owen on 15 July 1944 in Waverley, a suburb of Sydney. She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, the then newly opened Macquarie University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and social psychology, and the Playwright's Studio at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). In between her studies, she spent two-and-a-half years in Vienna, where she worked as a stringer for '' The Bulletin'' and ABC Rural Radio. She wrote stories about such things as Australian sales to Hungarian farmers, and the effects of the Russian wheat crop failing.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Sen
Ivan Sen (born 1972) is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker. He is a director, screenwriter and cinematographer, as well as an editor, composer, and sound designer. He is co-founder and director of Bunya Productions, and known for the 2013 film '' Mystery Road'', its sequel '' Goldstone'' (2016), and the 2023 mystery-crime film ''Limbo''. Early life Ivan Sen was born in 1972 in Nambour, Queensland, the second child of Donella and Duro Sen. His mother Donella belongs to the Gamilaroi nation of northern New South Wales, and Duro was born in Croatia to a German father and Hungarian mother. Before moving to Tamworth, New South Wales four years after Sen was born, in his mother's efforts to escape domestic violence, the family would regularly visit her birthplace, Toomelah. The Aboriginal community there was the last destination of three forced relocations of the Gamilaroi. Founded in 1937 by the New South Wales government, Toomelah turned from reserve into mission, but is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Billing
Roy Harwood Billing (born 1947) is a New Zealand television actor, now based on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. He was brought up in Ruawai, Northland Region, Northland, New Zealand. Billing spent almost three decades living and working in Australia. He became widely known for his role as organised-crime boss “Aussie Bob” Robert Trimbole, Trimbole in the TV series Underbelly (TV series), Underbelly. Career In 1965 Billing formed a psychedelic rock band called The Ministry of Fog. After a short period at university doing a science degree, he dropped out and got a job at Inland Revenue. After three years he moved into advertising, joining Auckland agencies Jacka Brown and later, McCann Erickson. “For a long time, I was stuck in accounts when I really wanted to be in creative.” After hobby stints in amateur theatre and Theatre Corporate, founding director Raymond Hawthorne offered him a job with a state theatre program, Theatre in Education, working with high schools through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Film Industry
The cinema of Australia began with the 1906 production of ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'', arguably the world's first feature film. Since then, Australian crews have produced many films, a number of which have received international recognition. Many actors and filmmakers with international reputations started their careers in Australian films, and many of these have established lucrative careers in larger film-producing centres such as the US and the UK. Commercially successful Australian films include '' Crocodile Dundee'', George Miller's ''Mad Max'' trilogy, Baz Luhrmann's '' Moulin Rouge!'', and Chris Noonan's ''Babe''. Award-winning productions include ''Picnic at Hanging Rock'', ''Gallipoli'', ''The Tracker'', ''Shine'' and '' Ten Canoes''. History The Australian film critic David Stratton characterized the history of the country's film as one of "boom and bust": there have been deep troughs, during which few films were made for decades, and high peaks, duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Morning Bulletin
''The Morning Bulletin'' is an online newspaper servicing the city of Rockhampton and the surrounding areas of Central Queensland, Australia. From 1861 to 2020, ''The Morning Bulletin'' was published as a print edition, before then becoming an exclusively online newspaper. The final print edition was published on 27 June 2020. History The first issue of ''The Bulletin'' was launched on 9 July 1861. It is the second oldest business in Rockhampton, the oldest being the Criterion Hotel which was established in October 1860. The founder and original owner, William Hitchcock Buzacott (1831–1880, brother of Charles Hardie Buzacott), brought the press and equipment from Sydney in 1861 where he operated a small weekly paper. At the time the paper was called the Rockhampton Bulletin and was eagerly read by the town's 698 residents. The newspaper was published as ''The Rockhampton Bulletin and Central Queensland Advertiser'' from July 1861 to 14 January 1871. Then as ''The Rockh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmmaking
Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a Film, motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, beginning with an initial story, idea, or commission. Production then continues through screenwriting, Casting (performing arts), casting, pre-production, Principal photography, shooting, Sound recording and reproduction, sound recording, post-production, and screening the finished product before an audience, which may result in a film release and exhibition. The process is nonlinear, in that the filmmaker typically shoots the script out of sequence, repeats shots as needed, and puts them together through editing later. Filmmaking occurs in a variety of economic, social, and political contexts around the world, and uses a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques to make theatrical films, episodic films for television and streaming platforms, music videos, and promotional and educational films. Although filmmaking originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Queensland
The COVID-19 pandemic in Queensland, Australia is part of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). Timeline 2020 On 29 January 2020, Queensland was the first state in Australia to declare a public health emergency. The legislation was strengthened on 6 February by the ''Public Health (Declared Public Health Emergencies) Amendment Bill 2020''. In March, power was given directly to the Chief Health Officer (rather than the Health Minister on behalf of the Cabinet) to make 'Directions', amongst other things allowing her to declare restrictions on movement, gatherings and business activities, to set social distancing or masking requirements, and to close borders. As of the end of July 2021, Queensland had recorded the death of just 7 patients with COVID-19. This fatality rate, of just under 1 per million residents, was the lowest not just in Australia, but of any sizeable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Caton
Michael Caton (born 21 July 1943) is an Australian actor, comedian and television host, best known for playing Uncle Harry in the Australian television series '' The Sullivans'', Darryl Kerrigan in 1997's low-budget hit film '' The Castle'', and Ted Taylor in the television series '' Packed to the Rafters''. Early life Caton was born in Monto, Queensland, was educated in Gympie at St Patrick's College, a Boarding School, where he had his first experience as an actor, and then grew up in Woolloongabba, Brisbane. Media career Television In 1976, Caton starred as Uncle Harry Sullivan in the long running Channel 9 war family drama ''The Sullivans''. Caton starred in the Australian drama series '' Five Mile Creek'' from 1983 until 1985. He then appeared in the risqué 1990s soap opera '' Chances'' (in 1991 and 1992). Since 1999, Caton has hosted two lifestyle programs – '' Hot Property'' and '' Hot Auctions'' – on the Seven Network until 2009, and Channel Nine since 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IF Magazine
''IF Magazine'', also known as ''Inside Film'', ''IF: Australia's Filmmaker Magazine'', and ''IF: The Magazine for Independent Filmmakers'', is an Australian print and online trade publication for screen-content professionals in Australia and New Zealand. History The magazine was founded in 1997 by Stephen Jenner and David Barda, in Sydney. In April 2012 the 150th issue was published. In June 2021, the 200th issue was published. Its former and long names include ''Inside Film'', ''IF: Australia's Filmmaker Magazine'', ''IF: The Magazine for Independent Filmmakers'', and ''IF Magazine: For Screen Content Professionals''. Description ''IF Magazine'' is a bi-monthly print magazine as well as a website, if.com.au, serving as a trade publication for screen-content professionals in Australia and New Zealand. The magazine's content includes original research in specially-commissioned articles that are unique. It covers Australian film and television, distribution, exhibition, digit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
