Shelley Birse talks about empowering writers from the set of Screen Australia-supported The Code series 2.
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Category Archives: On Location
Nick Boshier on Soul Mates series 2 and how he and collaborators the Van Vuuren brothers have several feature films’ worth of ideas.
Step inside the gated home of Sydney’s new millionaires and see what all the fuss is about with Here Come the Habibs.
Screen Australia’s Caris Bizzaca is on the red carpet for the Australian premiere of The Dressmaker in Melbourne. Caris chats to many stars of the film who are at the premiere, including Liam Hemsworth, Sarah Snook and Hugo Weaving. Plus the film’s producer, Sue Maslin and director, Jocelyn Moorhouse.
The Dressmaker is out across Australia from 29 October.
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Me and My Mates Vs. the Zombie Apocalypse was one of six Aussie films selected for the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival (9 to 18 October 2015), the world’s leading fantasy and horror film festival. Screening after the festival’s Zombie Walk, Me and My Mates Vs. the Zombie Apocalypse producers Daniel Sanguineti and Christian Doran share a few photos from Sitges.
Go behind the scenes on upcoming Aussie short film Lorne, starring Guy Pearce, about a man in oppressive isolation, who’s confronted by a stranger. Directed by Jesse Leaman, produced by Luke Saliba and written by Taylor Adams, Lorne was shot in Anakie, a town in Victoria with a population of around 600 people. Find out more about Lorne here.
We go behind the scenes with web series Footballer Wants a Wife, which wrapped filming in Toorak, Melbourne last week. It’s a spoof reality show that follows three professional sportsman on their journey to love.
Created by Ben Nicholas, Footballer Wants a Wife is directed by Jo O’Shaughnessy and produced by Julian V Costanzo and Jonathon Dutton. The series was written by Ben Nicholas and Carl J. Sorheim.
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The funniest wine show in town is back with a second season of vineyard misadventures.
The Chaser’s Chris Taylor, writer Joshua Tyler and creator Nathan Earl are back for another fictional attempt at making their ill-fated wine show Plonk. Season 2 of the satirical mockumentary takes you behind the scenes as ‘host’ Chris, ‘producer’ Nathan and ‘researcher’ Josh visit wineries in the picturesque South Australian wine regions of Barossa, McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Coonawarra and the Adelaide Hills.
This time there are cameos from sommelier Matt Skinner, South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill and local foodie legend Maggie Beer, as well as some of the top Australian winemakers from the region.
Take a look at photos from behind the scenes and follow the trail as the boys visit no less than 38 wineries in 6 episodes.
Season 2 is scheduled for release on Thursday 18 June on Stan, and if you haven’t already you can check out Season 1 now.
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- Plonk season 2 trail map. Supplied by Plonk.
Michael Shanks’ (a.k.a timtimfed) The Wizards of Aus has just finished filming. Set in Melbourne, Australia, the web series follows a Gandalf-type wizard, having turned his back on the magical realm, as he goes about his every day business in Footscray. The Wizards of Aus will be available online soon and in the meantime, here’s a look at the series in production.
