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After the Deluge Season 1 Episode 4 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Claw Hunters,” titled “After the Deluge,” promises to bring viewers deeper into the challenges faced by the crew. This episode will air on Blaze and is set against the backdrop of the aftermath of a storm.

Mack finds himself surveying the damage caused by the recent storm at his family’s wharf. The destruction raises concerns about the impact on his family’s livelihood. As he assesses the situation, viewers will see the emotional toll that such losses can take on a tight-knit fishing community.

Meanwhile, Captain Lex is steaming into the Bay of Fundy, ready to tackle the challenges that await him. The bay is known for its strong tides and unpredictable weather, making it a tough environment for any fisherman. Lex’s journey will highlight the risks and rewards of...

Andrew Wiseman..

Following the conclusion of the 2017 Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) less than two weeks ago, conference director and CEO Andrew Wiseman has announced that he will not seek to renew his position..

Wiseman, who stepped into the role last November, plans to pursue his own film projects.

.This has been a great experience," he said. "The Aidc is a wonderful organisation that makes a major contribution to documentary, factual and unscripted content in Australia and internationally. I.ve been very happy to have been part of it, but after a great deal of reflection, I.ve decided my own projects are now my priority."

Wiseman.s credits include.On Richard.s Side, Kokoda, My Brother Jack, After the Deluge, Curtin and Waiting at the Royal.

Aidc co-chairs Fiona Gilroy and Denise Eriksen said they respected Wiseman.s decision and congratulated him on his work on this year.s conference.

Andrew Wiseman.

New Aidc CEO Andrew Wiseman has been in the job for a week, after a month-long handover period.

.Britt Arthur, the outgoing CEO, has been very generous with her time and the board arranged a really good transitional period,. said Wiseman. .So I.ve had a number of weeks to get my head around all the moving parts of Aidc...

Producing and directing for over twenty-five years, Wiseman.s long list of credits includes Kokoda (2010), My Brother Jack (2001), After the Deluge (2003), Curtin (2007), and Waiting at the Royal (2000). Most recently he directed documentary On Richard.s Side (2016).

The veteran comes into the job with the 2017 program already outlined. .There are some gaps in the program and we.ll be looking to fill them. But I feel very lucky to come into an organization that.s in such strong shape..

Aidc was confirmed last week to be staying in Melbourne...

George Miller and David Stratton pore over 'Fury Road' storyboards in Stratton's new ABC series.

Fred Schepisi will host David Stratton in a special in-conversation event at the Adelaide Film Festival this Saturday October 29.

Stratton is in Adelaide to present a work-in-progress screening of his series David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema, set to premiere on the ABC next year.

Featured in the three-part series are George Miller, Schepisi himself, Russell Crowe, Geoffrey Rush and many, many others. Transmission Films are planning a theatrical release (at feature doc length) prior to the series going to air.

Stratton and Schepisi will be joined on the red carpet by series producer Jo Anne McGowan and director Sally Aitken..

Also world premiering in Adelaide is Jeffrey Walker's Ali's Wedding, written by and starring Osamah Sami. Sami co-wrote the script with Hacksaw Ridge's Andrew Knight.—.the pair won an Awgie Award for the film on Friday.

George Miller and David Stratton pore over 'Fury Road' storyboards in Stratton's new ABC series.

Fred Schepisi will host David Stratton in a special in-conversation event at the Adelaide Film Festival this Saturday October 29.

Stratton is in Adelaide to present a work-in-progress screening of his series David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema, set to premiere on the ABC next year.

Featured in the three-part series are George Miller, Schepisi himself, Russell Crowe, Geoffrey Rush and many, many others.

Stratton and Schepisi will be joined on the red carpet by series producer Jo Anne McGowan and director Sally Aitken.

Also world premiering in Adelaide is Jeffrey Walker's Ali's Wedding, written by and starring Osamah Sami. Sami co-wrote the script with Hacksaw Ridge's Andrew Knight.—.the pair won an Awgie Award for the film on Friday..

Knight will also appear in conversation, discussing his long list of credits. They include.Seachange,...

In a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years, writer-producer Andrew Knight has rarely been so busy.

The co-writer (with Andrew Anastasios) of The Water Diviner concurrently is working on the Jack Irish series, the fourth season of Rake and three movies.

He is collaborating with actor-writer Osamah Sami on the screenplay of Ali.s Wedding, a feature which is due to start shooting in June, directed by Wayne Blair for Matchbox Pictures. He.s developing two other features, The Cartographer (co-written with Anastasios) for South Pacific Pictures, and King of Thieves, a co-production between Essential Media and Entertainment.s Ian Collie and UK producer David Parfitt.s Trademark Films.

.It.s a fantastic time to be writing and producing drama; I am doing exactly what I want to do,. Knight tells If.

In January he won Aacta.s Longford Lyell Award which recognises outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Australia.s screen environment and culture.

Jennifer Kent.s The Babadook and Russell Crowe.s The Water Diviner tied for best film at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) awards in Sydney.

That.s the first joint award for best film in AFI/Aacta history. Kent also collected the awards for best director (Crowe wasn't nominated in that category) and original screenplay.

Telecast on Network Ten, the awards drew just 297,000 viewers in the five metro cities last night, proving more popular in Melbourne (107,000) than Sydney (80,000).

Playmaker Media.s conspiracy thriller The Code collared the awards for best TV drama, lead actor in a TV drama (Ashley Zukerman), supporting actress (Chelsie Preston Crayford) and direction in a TV drama or comedy (Shawn Seet). The Longford Lyell Award, named for Australian cinema pioneers Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, went to screenwriter Andrew Knight, whose credits as head writer or co-writer include Fast Forward, Full Frontal,...

After the deluge of Star Wars: Episode VII information that landed this past Friday, there's still more on the horizon (thankfully).  Today, we got our hands on a new picture of the set currently at Pinewood Studios, showing that some desert scenes are still being shot for the production.  Come inside to check out the new image and see for yourself!  

Filming should be starting up again shortly for Star Wars: Episode VII, which has currently been on a planned hiatus from filming, and more information is expected to be released this week (wink, wink), but in the meantime, we've got a pic from the set for you to gander at (which we received courtesy of a fellow Star Wars fan Jason, who runs his own fan site):

Filming on Episode VII started in the desert, but filming on location there only lasted for a couple weeks, so many...

The nominations for the 2012 TV Week Logies were announced on Sunday, with long-running soap Home and Away and Nine.s Underbelly: Razor leading the pool with seven nominations each.

Home and Away, which has been on air since 1988, received its nominations in the public-voted categories. It is up against Offspring, Packed To The Rafters, Winners And Losers and Underbelly: Razor for most popular drama series.

Esther Anderson (who plays Charlie Buckton) is nominated for both the gold logie for most popular TV personality and the silver logie for most popular actress. Veteran Ray Meagher (aka Alf Stewart) will compete against stars from Wild Boys, Packed to the Rafters and Offspring for most popular actor, while Dan Ewing, Steve Peacocke and Demi Harman are nominated in the most popular new talent categories.

Underbelly: Razor was acknowledged by both the public and industry peers. It earned nods for most popular series, actress...

TV heavyweights Karl Stefanovic, Adam Hills and Asher Keddie are among the main contenders for the top prize at the 2012 TV Week Logie Awards.

For the second year in a row, the Today presenter, the Spicks and Specks host and the Paper Giants actress look likely to claim the top award – the viewer-voted Gold Logie – which last year was claimed by Stefanovic.

They will be challenged by Ten’s Carrie Bickmore, Hamish Blake from Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year and Seven’s Esther Anderson.

The list of contenders in full:

TV Week Gold Logie – Most Popular Personality on TV

Adam Hills (Spicks And Specks, ABC1/Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight, ABC1) Asher Keddie (Nina Proudman, Offspring, Network Ten /Ita Buttrose, Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo, ABC1) Carrie Bickmore (The Project, Network Ten) Esther Anderson (Charlie Buckton, Home And Away, Channel Seven) Hamish Blake (Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year,...

After the deluge of ads over the past three days, you'd think we'd be getting to the bottom of the Super Bowl commercial barrel. And then along comes The Hunger Games. This morning, The Hunger Games debuted their latest trailer. You can catch up on all The Hunger Games news today and don't forget to enter for your chance to win tickets to the world premiere on March 12 in Los Angeles.     Adriana Lima, Motely Crue and Chuck Liddell star in this commercial for Kia. Can you guess which demographic they're going after?     And if that's not enough Adriana Lima for you, her she is in a Teleflora ad hinting that if men give their significant other some flowers for Valentine's Day, they'll walk around seductively in dark colored clothing at night....

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Over the past week, there's been quite a big stink that was made about the issue of Empire Magazine that features a big story on The Dark Knight Rises.  Several crummy looking scans of the images in the magazine have released, but finally we've got the high quality pictures to drool over.

Just a quick little update for you guys today as I'm sure many of you are still recovering from Thursday's gluttony.  Anytime with a Chris Nolan movie (especially the Batman ones), it's always great to see Official images.  After the deluge of grainy set pics we got over the past several months, it's especially rewarding to see these.

Let's face it.  No matter how good a quality a set picture may be, it's still not representative of how something will look in the movie.  The lighting, the frame of the camera, and most importantly post-production color correction are...

The 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala has announced the films in competition. These films have been selected out of the 625 entries the festival received.

The 2011 edition of the festival will take place from July 31-August 4, 2011 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

The list of films in the International and the Non-competitive sections will be announced this week.

The festival is organised by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, for the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala.

The complete list of films in competition:

Long Documentary:

1. A Pestering Journey Dir: K. R. Manoj/Malayalam/66min/2010

2. Between Border and Fence Dir: Ajay Raina/ Pahari|Kashmiri|Urdu/77min/2011

3. Draupadi’s Descendents Dir: Oindrilla Hazare/Bengali|Hindi/53min/2011

4. Made in India Dir: Vaishali Sinha|Rabecca Haimowitz/Hindi|English/97min/2010

5. Miyar House Dir: P. N Ramachandran/Kannada/76min/2011

6. Mrigtrishna Dir: Ujjwal U/Gujarathi/52min/2010

7. Mullaitivu Saga Dir: S. Somatheeran/ English|Tamil/46min/2010

8. Ottayal /One...

After the deluge of addiction memoirs over the last few decades (and the similar deluge of novels of "thinly-disguised" addiction fiction), I would've expected the reaction to Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, gay literary agent Bill Clegg's memoir about his own descent into crack addiction, to have been one gigantic, collective shrug — especially since it's pretentiously told in a stream-of-consciousness style meant to mimic the James Joyce classic Portrait of the Artist as a Young Men.

Instead, the book sold for a reported $350,000 advance and the author has been featured in eerily glowing profiles in Vogue and the New York Times.

What gives?

Oh, it's readable enough. It's not pleasant reading — addiction-related works never are. But it's competently done.

On the other hand, it doesn't say anything that hasn't been said thousands of times before.

Bill Clegg "had it all": money, a great partner, a new...

ComicCon.org have revealed the full list of nominees for this years Eisner Awards, or to give them their full name: The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Considered by many to be the premiere comic awards (think the comic equivalent of the Oscars), the Eisner Award winners will be announced at this years San Diego Comic-Con in July.

The Nominees:

Best Short Story

“Because I Love You So Much,” by Nikoline Werdelin, in From Wonderland with Love: Danish Comics in the 3rd Millennium(Fantagraphics/Aben maler) “Gentleman John,” by Nathan Greno, in What Is Torch Tiger? (Torch Tiger) “How and Why to Bale Hay,” by Nick Bertozzi, in Syncopated (Villard) “Hurricane,” interpreted by Gradimir Smudja, in Bob Dylan Revisited(Norton) “Urgent Request,” by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim, in The Eternal Smile (First Second)

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)

Brave & the Bold #28: “Blackhawk and the Flash: Firing Line,...

The list is out. Pretty straightforward, with a few surprises (No Todd Klein or John Workman for lettering? And was Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader not eligible?)

Our congratulations to all the nominees. We'll be starting the betting pools in 3... 2...

Best Short Story

• “Because I Love You So Much,” by Nikoline Werdelin, in From Wonderland with Love: Danish Comics in the 3rd Millennium (Fantagraphics/Aben malen)

• “Gentleman John,” by Nathan Greno, in What Is Torch Tiger? (Torch Tiger)

• “How and Why to Bale Hay,” by Nick Bertozzi, in Syncopated (Villard)

• “Hurricane,” interpreted by Gradimir Smudja, in Bob Dylan Revisited (Norton)

• “Urgent Request,” by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim, in The Eternal Smile (First Second)

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)

• Brave & the Bold #28: “Blackhawk and the Flash: Firing Line,” by J. Michael Straczynski and Jesus Saiz (DC)

• Captain America #601: “Red, White, and Blue-Blood,” by...

Dick Giordano, the former DC Comics VP and executive editor, as well as one of the most recognizable comic book artists of the modern era, passed away over the weekend, and memories abounded on Twitter from his former colleagues and those whose work he inspired.

Elsewhere, "Iron Man 2" passed another landmark as Jon Favreau revealed that this would be his last weekend working on the film. The Twitter Report feed won't be the same without his editing updates. Savor one of the last work posts you'll see from him for a while after the jump. There, you can find out what "Goats" anniversary is coming up this week, as well as what Brian Michael Bendis' found out about Lady Gaga over the weekend and which premiere Edgar Wright got an invitation to attend.

It's all in the Twitter Report for March 29th, 2010.

@Jon_Favreau Last weekend working on Iron Man.

As 2009 draws to a close, it's time to look back on best and brightest comics, comic book movies, comic book swag and, well — everything else that found its way into our bookshelves and longboxes this year. Over the next few days, we'll be rolling out a trio of "Best Of 2009" features, starting with today's list of the best comics in print and digital form released in '09.

Best Of 2009: Comics

Best New Series

"Chew" (Image)

As is the case with cooking, comic books require the right blend of ingredients in order to fully flourish. Thankfully, that's exactly what John Layman and Rob Guillory's "Chew" specializes in. The series focuses on Tony Chu, an Fda agent who solves crimes by gleaning psychic impressions from anything he eats. Readers embraced the book's food-centric premise by sending "Chew" back into the kitchen for multiple sell-outs and reprints. If the new year brings a similar level of quality,...

If you've ever visited Smith magazine, you've probably been there for the great comics (A.D.: After the Deluge, The Pekar Project, Next-Door Neighbor, Graphic Therapy, Shooting War, and My Home Birth) and their innovative Six Word Memoirs. Inspired by the famous anecdote of Ernest Hemingway telling a complete story in only six words ("For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn") they've gotten enough contributions from readers to fill an entire series of Six Word Memoir books.

Amazingly, though, they haven't really combined the two.*

It works suprisingly well, and a few of them are already made for it-- "With great power comes great responsibility"; "Truth, Justice, and the American Way"; "Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot"-- and so we've decided to jump start the process. So here are our first six:

Reed Richards: Don't worry, the shielding will hold.Batman: I promised on my parents' grave.Wonder Woman: War's easy.