latest notices
QPIX STUDENTS ARE TROPFEST FINALISTS
Graduates of QPIX’s 2011 Diploma of Production course have won their way into the finals of TROPFEST, the world’s largest short film festival, with their student production PHOTOBOOTH. Set in the Afghanistan conflict, PHOTOBOOTH is one of a sequence of...
'Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu' Out February 10
(Nationwide)
Over The Fence Comedy Film Deadline
(Nationwide)
Rottofest 2012: Call For Entries Now Open!
(Nationwide)
latest news
Geoffrey Rush Joins Tropfest
The acclaimed actor and newly-crowned Australian of the Year, Geoffrey Rush, will be a key player in 2012’s Tropfest activities.
Naomi Watts To Play Princess Diana
The Aussie actress is set to play the people’s princess in an upcoming film that chronicles the final two years of Diana’s life.
Sullivan Stapleton Signs On To ‘300’ Prequel
The Aussie actor has beat out the competition to land a role in the upcoming blockbuster.
James Cameron Loses Long Time Australian Collaborators
Producer Andrew Wight and cinematographer Mike deGruy lose their lives in a helicopter crash.
search the site
newsletter
Enter your email address below to receive the weekly Filmink newsletter
Climate change rears its head
The Australian weather and filmmaking. Part one.
Today is October 22nd and it is 15 degrees in Sydney. Last night it snowed in the Blue Mountains. It is pouring rain and hail has even been spotted on the horizon. It is not a perfect day for shooting a trailer on Bondi Beach. Yet the show must go on. No doubt the cost of all the equipment and crew for a shoot plays most of the role in ensuring that things go ahead, but certainly today we knew that come rain, hail or shine, the Flickerfest trailer was going to be shot.
This year's trailer has been inspired by Jean Luc Godard's film Breathless and it couldn't have been more suited to the weather. I am told by sources that Godard himself didn't write the script for the film until the morning before the shoot. Well, the script for this trailer had to be thrown out the window when the rain came pouring in this morning. Being shot in black and white also helps when the whole thing is being filmed in this miserable weather. However, the cast looked great, the French poodle held up beautifully and even the pigeons were obliging enough to give the whole set a very Parisian feel.
Starring Gracie Otto and Toby Schmitz, and directed by Gracie Otto and Samantha ReBillet, this year's trailer carries on the Bondi Flickerfest tradition of inspiring visitors to the festival through cinema classics. There will be far more on this year's Flickerfest in the pages of FILMINK Magazine and on this website, but today all I can say is good luck to the crew and hope that the rest of the shoot went off without any more hail. Let's hope no berets were lost in the ocean or cigarettes blown out before they were smoked.