By Travis Johnson
Created with The Australia Council For The Arts, Screen Australia, and ABC Arts, HIVE FUND’s remit is to bring together Australian artists and Australian filmmakers in order to foster cross-pollination and collaboration. Previous recipients include Tender by artist, Lynette Wallworth; I Want To Dance Better At Parties, by directors, Gideon Obarzanek and Matt Bate; The Boy Castaways by director, Michael Kantor; Spear, the screen directing debut of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Stephen Page; and Girl Asleep by director, Rosemary Myers.
This round’s recipients are equally intriguing. There’s Guilty, a one-hour screen work that looks at the final days of executed Bali Nine prisoner, Myuran Sukumaran. Directed and written by visual artist and friend and teacher to Sukumaran, Matthew Sleeth (pictured above), it will be produced by Maggie Miles (The Turning) and executive produced by Robert Connolly (Paper Planes), with Andrew Bovell (Lantana) serving as script consultant. Remembering Agatha comes from writer and director, Emma Magenta, and producer, Ester Harding, and is a half-hour live action/animation hybrid that tracks the story of a woman being crushed by family obligation and domesticity. Bunghole is a black comedy that sees a team of intellectually impaired people dispatched to repair a deserted nuclear facility. This is a co-production between Back To Back Theatre and Matchbox Pictures, and is directed and co-written by Bruce Gladwin, and produced by Julie Eckersley (The Family Law) and Alice Nash, with Debbie Lee on board as executive producer.
For more information on Hive, head to The Adelaide Film Festival.
