Liam Payne’s body will be flown back to the UK in the next 36 hours, according to media in Argentina, where the former One Direction singer died last month.
The Sun newspaper reports that Payne’s funeral will take place in the UK this week, at St Paul’s Cathedral in Wolverhampton, the city where he grew up.
The singer, aged 31, died after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on October 16.
Payne’s father Geoff travelled to the Argentine capital a couple of days after the tragedy; he attended the city morgue and visited the hotel, where he stopped to look at flowers and tributes outside, and also spoke to fans.
The Sun reports that the investigation into Payne’s death took two weeks. Prosecutors said in a statement they believe he was “in a state of semi or total unconsciousness” during a substance-induced episode when he fell.
The Sun newspaper reports that Payne’s funeral will take place in the UK this week, at St Paul’s Cathedral in Wolverhampton, the city where he grew up.
The singer, aged 31, died after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on October 16.
Payne’s father Geoff travelled to the Argentine capital a couple of days after the tragedy; he attended the city morgue and visited the hotel, where he stopped to look at flowers and tributes outside, and also spoke to fans.
The Sun reports that the investigation into Payne’s death took two weeks. Prosecutors said in a statement they believe he was “in a state of semi or total unconsciousness” during a substance-induced episode when he fell.
- 11/3/2024
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Toxicology test results indicate Liam Payne had multiple drugs in his system at the time of his death last week, including “pink cocaine”, as well as cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack, ABC News reported citing sources.
Pink cocaine is a recreational drug that includes ketamine, methamphetamine, Mdma, opioids, and/or new psychoactive substances, according to the National Institutes of Health.
A partial autopsy report last week determined that the former One Direction singer died of “multiple trauma” and “internal and external hemorrhage,” as the result of the fall from the balcony of his third-floor hotel room in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires where he was staying, the local Public Prosecutor’s Office revealed.
Payne’s body will remain in Argentina until the autopsy is complete, according to ABC News, citing sources.
The 31-year-old Payne died at 5:07 p.m. on Wednesday, October 16, after falling from the Casa Sur Hotel balcony...
Pink cocaine is a recreational drug that includes ketamine, methamphetamine, Mdma, opioids, and/or new psychoactive substances, according to the National Institutes of Health.
A partial autopsy report last week determined that the former One Direction singer died of “multiple trauma” and “internal and external hemorrhage,” as the result of the fall from the balcony of his third-floor hotel room in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires where he was staying, the local Public Prosecutor’s Office revealed.
Payne’s body will remain in Argentina until the autopsy is complete, according to ABC News, citing sources.
The 31-year-old Payne died at 5:07 p.m. on Wednesday, October 16, after falling from the Casa Sur Hotel balcony...
- 10/21/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
A cause of death has been revealed for the late singer Liam Payne, the former member of One Direction who fell from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires yesterday.
According to a preliminary autopsy report, Payne died of “multiple trauma” and “internal and external hemorrhage,” as the result of the fall from the balcony of a third-floor room at the hotel in the neighborhood of Palermo where he was staying, the local Public Prosecutor’s Office revealed.
The prosecutor’s office said as a matter of protocol, the incident is being investigated as a “doubtful death,” even though it seems that the musician was alone when the fall occurred. The office said that Payne “was going through some kind of outbreak due to substance abuse.”
The prosecution said that, given the position in which the body was left and the injuries from the fall, it is presumed that Payne did...
According to a preliminary autopsy report, Payne died of “multiple trauma” and “internal and external hemorrhage,” as the result of the fall from the balcony of a third-floor room at the hotel in the neighborhood of Palermo where he was staying, the local Public Prosecutor’s Office revealed.
The prosecutor’s office said as a matter of protocol, the incident is being investigated as a “doubtful death,” even though it seems that the musician was alone when the fall occurred. The office said that Payne “was going through some kind of outbreak due to substance abuse.”
The prosecution said that, given the position in which the body was left and the injuries from the fall, it is presumed that Payne did...
- 10/17/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Simon Cowell postponed Britain’s Got Talent auditions today following the death of Liam Payne.
ApplauseStore, which manages tickets for the show, said on X that today’s auditions in Blackpool had been postponed due to “the tragic passing of Liam Payne,” adding: “We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.”
Ant and Dec, who host Britain’s Got Talent, were subsequently pictured leaving a hotel in Lancashire near where the show was supposed to be filmed today. The ITV series from Cowell’s Syco Entertainment and Thames is into its 18th season and is a stalwart of the UK entertainment calendar.
Cowell created both Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor and Payne was a contestant on the latter. He went on to be part of One Direction, the pop group formed by Cowell in Season 7 and arguably the most famous to emerge from the show. Along with Harry Styles, Niall Horan,...
ApplauseStore, which manages tickets for the show, said on X that today’s auditions in Blackpool had been postponed due to “the tragic passing of Liam Payne,” adding: “We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.”
Ant and Dec, who host Britain’s Got Talent, were subsequently pictured leaving a hotel in Lancashire near where the show was supposed to be filmed today. The ITV series from Cowell’s Syco Entertainment and Thames is into its 18th season and is a stalwart of the UK entertainment calendar.
Cowell created both Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor and Payne was a contestant on the latter. He went on to be part of One Direction, the pop group formed by Cowell in Season 7 and arguably the most famous to emerge from the show. Along with Harry Styles, Niall Horan,...
- 10/17/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Liam Payne, a founding member of the popular British-Irish boy band One Direction, died Wednesday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after falling off a balcony from the hotel’s third floor. He was 31.
La Nación reports that before the incident, police were called by Hotel Casa Sur staff to report “an aggressive man that could’ve been under the influence of drugs or alcohol.”
“We were alerted about a person who was in an internal courtyard of Casa Sur Hotel. [First responders] arrived and confirmed the man’s death. We later learned that he was a singer in a musical group. Unfortunately, he had injuries incompatible with life as a result of his fall, so we had to confirm his death. There was no possibility of resuscitation,” Alberto Crescenti, head of the state emergency medical system, said.
Related: Liam Payne Tributes: Paris Hilton, Charlie Puth & More Remember One Direction Alum
Although they were...
La Nación reports that before the incident, police were called by Hotel Casa Sur staff to report “an aggressive man that could’ve been under the influence of drugs or alcohol.”
“We were alerted about a person who was in an internal courtyard of Casa Sur Hotel. [First responders] arrived and confirmed the man’s death. We later learned that he was a singer in a musical group. Unfortunately, he had injuries incompatible with life as a result of his fall, so we had to confirm his death. There was no possibility of resuscitation,” Alberto Crescenti, head of the state emergency medical system, said.
Related: Liam Payne Tributes: Paris Hilton, Charlie Puth & More Remember One Direction Alum
Although they were...
- 10/16/2024
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Magnetic Beats director Vincent Maël Cardona with Ed Bahlman (Joy Division - An Ideal For Living EP) and Anne-Katrin Titze: “When I hear the voice of Ian Curtis, still now, I hear the No Future thing.”
Vincent Maël Cardona’s Cannes Film Festival and César Award-winning Magnetic Beats, stars Thimothée Robart (Most Promising Actor Lumière Award-winner) with a first-rate supporting ensemble, including Marie Colomb, Joseph Olivennes, Antoine Pelletier, Philippe Frécon, Brian Powell, Olga Créancier-Werckmeister, Mathilde Bisson, and the director himself.
Philippe Bichon (Thimothée Robart), sound engineer for Radio Warsaw
Remembering Ian Curtis (with Joy Division’s Decades and Warsaw); David Bowie and Brian Eno’s Warszawa; Jon King in Gang of Four (Damaged Goods) and Camera Silens (Réalité); The Undertones (Teenage Kicks), Robert Görl (Dit Mir), a nod to John Peel and Bob Marley; noting The Pop Group and The Slits; Edith Nylon (seen in Philippe Puicouyoul’s La Brune Et Moi), and more,...
Vincent Maël Cardona’s Cannes Film Festival and César Award-winning Magnetic Beats, stars Thimothée Robart (Most Promising Actor Lumière Award-winner) with a first-rate supporting ensemble, including Marie Colomb, Joseph Olivennes, Antoine Pelletier, Philippe Frécon, Brian Powell, Olga Créancier-Werckmeister, Mathilde Bisson, and the director himself.
Philippe Bichon (Thimothée Robart), sound engineer for Radio Warsaw
Remembering Ian Curtis (with Joy Division’s Decades and Warsaw); David Bowie and Brian Eno’s Warszawa; Jon King in Gang of Four (Damaged Goods) and Camera Silens (Réalité); The Undertones (Teenage Kicks), Robert Görl (Dit Mir), a nod to John Peel and Bob Marley; noting The Pop Group and The Slits; Edith Nylon (seen in Philippe Puicouyoul’s La Brune Et Moi), and more,...
- 4/4/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The second film from Teenage Kicks director Craig Boreham is unapologetically erotic, with a lot to admire – if you can look past the rough edges
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When casting for his second feature, Lonesome, the Sydney writer-director Craig Boreham turned to Grindr. He wanted actors who knew the film’s world, not just of gay hookups and casual sex but the desires that can fuel these encounters: boredom, horniness, intense isolation.
Casey (Josh Lavery) is propelled by all of the above: a country boy leaving his small town to get his “big-smoke slut on”, as his first Sydney hookup Tib (Daniel Gabriel) says. With his wide eyes, ripped torso and cowboy hat, Casey resembles a man hoping to be mistaken for a myth – but glance underneath his hat’s rim and you’ll see a hurt soul, having long internalised that his only value is his looks.
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When casting for his second feature, Lonesome, the Sydney writer-director Craig Boreham turned to Grindr. He wanted actors who knew the film’s world, not just of gay hookups and casual sex but the desires that can fuel these encounters: boredom, horniness, intense isolation.
Casey (Josh Lavery) is propelled by all of the above: a country boy leaving his small town to get his “big-smoke slut on”, as his first Sydney hookup Tib (Daniel Gabriel) says. With his wide eyes, ripped torso and cowboy hat, Casey resembles a man hoping to be mistaken for a myth – but glance underneath his hat’s rim and you’ll see a hurt soul, having long internalised that his only value is his looks.
- 2/22/2023
- by Jared Richards
- The Guardian - Film News
Berlin-based outfit M-Appeal has acquired world sales rights to “Lonesome,” from Australian director Craig Boreham, who was nominated for the Berlinale Teddy Award for his short film “Transient.” Sales on the film will commence at the upcoming European Film Market, which was moved online due to the ongoing pandemic.
The feature follows Casey, a young man from the countryside running from a small-town scandal, finding himself down and out in Sydney. When he meets Tib, a young city lad, struggling with his own isolation, both men find something they have been missing, but neither of them knows quite how to navigate their feelings.
According to a statement, “‘Lonesome’ explores the adventures and sexuality of young gay men in a world that has never been more connected. It takes audiences on a thrilling, hedonistic, erotic journey, depicting two characters, who not only seek sexual fulfillment but also acceptance and a meaningful bond.
The feature follows Casey, a young man from the countryside running from a small-town scandal, finding himself down and out in Sydney. When he meets Tib, a young city lad, struggling with his own isolation, both men find something they have been missing, but neither of them knows quite how to navigate their feelings.
According to a statement, “‘Lonesome’ explores the adventures and sexuality of young gay men in a world that has never been more connected. It takes audiences on a thrilling, hedonistic, erotic journey, depicting two characters, who not only seek sexual fulfillment but also acceptance and a meaningful bond.
- 1/26/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
(L-r) Debra Liang, Tine Klint and Lauren Valmadre.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of her international film sales and distribution company LevelK, Tine Klint offers some advice to Australian filmmakers.
Perhaps the most valuable tip: Don’t target the world, even though the mantra “local for global” is in vogue.
“I recommend staying true to original stories,” Tine tells If. “Don’t adapt and change cultural differences: some projects lose their originality because they are designed for world platforms or global deals.”
A former sales exec at TrustNordisk, Zentropa and Nordisk Film, the Copenhagen-based Klint first connected with Australia when Aquarius Films’ Angie Fielder got in touch in 2009 after announcing plans to produce Wish You Were Here.
Subsequently Klint and Fielder met at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2010 and LevelK handled international sales for the drama directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith.
That led to numerous collaborations with Aussie filmmakers encompassing such films as Celeste,...
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of her international film sales and distribution company LevelK, Tine Klint offers some advice to Australian filmmakers.
Perhaps the most valuable tip: Don’t target the world, even though the mantra “local for global” is in vogue.
“I recommend staying true to original stories,” Tine tells If. “Don’t adapt and change cultural differences: some projects lose their originality because they are designed for world platforms or global deals.”
A former sales exec at TrustNordisk, Zentropa and Nordisk Film, the Copenhagen-based Klint first connected with Australia when Aquarius Films’ Angie Fielder got in touch in 2009 after announcing plans to produce Wish You Were Here.
Subsequently Klint and Fielder met at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2010 and LevelK handled international sales for the drama directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith.
That led to numerous collaborations with Aussie filmmakers encompassing such films as Celeste,...
- 12/5/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The Killers had a pair of surprises in store for their Glastonbury headlining set Saturday as the band brought out both Pet Shop Boys and Johnny Marr during the gig’s encore.
With the iconic British dance duo, the Killers tackled the Pet Shop Boys’ synth-pop rendition of “Always on My Mind” before Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe joined the Killers on that band’s hit “Human.”
What's this?! A @petshopboys and @thekillers duet?
We are Here for this!
Looking forward to The Pet Shop boys headlining for us at...
With the iconic British dance duo, the Killers tackled the Pet Shop Boys’ synth-pop rendition of “Always on My Mind” before Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe joined the Killers on that band’s hit “Human.”
What's this?! A @petshopboys and @thekillers duet?
We are Here for this!
Looking forward to The Pet Shop boys headlining for us at...
- 6/30/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The choreographed chaos of Jez Butterworth’s jaw-dropping play The Ferryman certainly earns the critical attention that’s been heaped on it. With 21 people in the cast — and a live goose and rabbit — the play about an extended family in 1980s Northern Ireland leaves audiences reeling after a suspenseful three-plus hours. Part of that is due to the savvy narrative structure that defies dramatic rules and should be impossible to pull off. Part of that is a stellar cast that manages to weave the love and violence into an organic...
- 1/6/2019
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
Miranda Nation takes a bold approach to pregnancy and abortion in her Geelong-shot film that evokes the work of Jane Campion
Film is an intensely collaborative art form, which is one of the reasons the auteur theory was established: to help navigate a sea of creative people dabbing away at their corner of the canvas. It is an effective way to define authorship and contextualise film history, though sometimes an artist comes along whose work is so strong in a non-directing role they seem to call into question auteurism’s very validity.
The Australian cinematographer Bonnie Elliott is one of them. Her compositions have a striking tendency to explore relationships between people and places. They have profoundly enhanced productions including Spear, Teenage Kicks, These Final Hours, TV’s Seven Types of Ambiguity and now Undertow – a Geelong-shot psychological drama premiering this week at the Melbourne international film festival.
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Film is an intensely collaborative art form, which is one of the reasons the auteur theory was established: to help navigate a sea of creative people dabbing away at their corner of the canvas. It is an effective way to define authorship and contextualise film history, though sometimes an artist comes along whose work is so strong in a non-directing role they seem to call into question auteurism’s very validity.
The Australian cinematographer Bonnie Elliott is one of them. Her compositions have a striking tendency to explore relationships between people and places. They have profoundly enhanced productions including Spear, Teenage Kicks, These Final Hours, TV’s Seven Types of Ambiguity and now Undertow – a Geelong-shot psychological drama premiering this week at the Melbourne international film festival.
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- 8/9/2018
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
The small-scale study of a boarding school shows pupils rehearsing Teenage Kicks and flourishing under the tutelage of some gifted teachers
This endearing documentary tracks life at Headfort, a boarding prep school in Ireland where an assortment of kids, mostly local but also further flung corners of the world, grow and seemingly flourish under the tutelage of some especially gifted teachers. Although it would seem all the staff at the school care deeply about their charges, the focus is most of all on a married pair, John and Amanda Leyden, who have been with the school for over 40 years. She inspires the pupils with her passionate love of literature; he teaches them not just Latin but also how to do pretty credible ensemble renditions of Teenage Kicks in the school’s graffiti-covered music building. Imagine Fred Wiseman directing a remake of School of Rock but in Ireland and you’re almost there,...
This endearing documentary tracks life at Headfort, a boarding prep school in Ireland where an assortment of kids, mostly local but also further flung corners of the world, grow and seemingly flourish under the tutelage of some especially gifted teachers. Although it would seem all the staff at the school care deeply about their charges, the focus is most of all on a married pair, John and Amanda Leyden, who have been with the school for over 40 years. She inspires the pupils with her passionate love of literature; he teaches them not just Latin but also how to do pretty credible ensemble renditions of Teenage Kicks in the school’s graffiti-covered music building. Imagine Fred Wiseman directing a remake of School of Rock but in Ireland and you’re almost there,...
- 10/12/2017
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
'Lion' director Garth Davis has won the Adg Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film..
Director Garth Davis has taken out the top gong at the Adg Awards for his work helming Lion..
Davis was presented the prize for Best Direction in a Feature Film by Peter Weir at an award ceremony in Melbourne on Friday..
Lion, which received six Oscar nods and has gone on to be the fifth highest-grossing Australian film of all time at the local box office, is Davis. debut feature. .
Davis was up against Simon Stone (The Daughter), Ben Young (Hounds of Love), Craig Boreham (Teenage Kicks) and Jonathan Leahy (Skin Deep) — each of which was also a first feature..
The award for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature Film was presented to Dan Jackson for In The Shadow of the Hill, while Hotel Coolgardie director Pete Gleeson received High Commendation. The...
Director Garth Davis has taken out the top gong at the Adg Awards for his work helming Lion..
Davis was presented the prize for Best Direction in a Feature Film by Peter Weir at an award ceremony in Melbourne on Friday..
Lion, which received six Oscar nods and has gone on to be the fifth highest-grossing Australian film of all time at the local box office, is Davis. debut feature. .
Davis was up against Simon Stone (The Daughter), Ben Young (Hounds of Love), Craig Boreham (Teenage Kicks) and Jonathan Leahy (Skin Deep) — each of which was also a first feature..
The award for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature Film was presented to Dan Jackson for In The Shadow of the Hill, while Hotel Coolgardie director Pete Gleeson received High Commendation. The...
- 5/8/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Peter Weir on the set of his last feature 'The Way Back'.
Adg CEO Kingston Anderson told If earlier this year that he was angling for a high-profile director to present the Feature award at this year's Adg awards.
Now we know who it is: Peter Weir will present the Best Direction in a Feature Film award at the awards in Melbourne.
Weir will bestow the award on one of the five nominees; Garth Davis (Lion), Simon Stone (The Daughter), Ben Young (Hounds of Love), Craig Boreham (Teenage Kicks) and Jonnie Leahy (Skin Deep).
.It is a great privilege to have one of Australia.s pre-eminent directors, Peter Weir, presenting the award for Best Direction in a Feature Film," said Adg CEO Kingston Anderson..
"We have a tradition at the awards to have our best feature directors presenting this award. Directors who have presented the award in the past include Fred Schepisi,...
Adg CEO Kingston Anderson told If earlier this year that he was angling for a high-profile director to present the Feature award at this year's Adg awards.
Now we know who it is: Peter Weir will present the Best Direction in a Feature Film award at the awards in Melbourne.
Weir will bestow the award on one of the five nominees; Garth Davis (Lion), Simon Stone (The Daughter), Ben Young (Hounds of Love), Craig Boreham (Teenage Kicks) and Jonnie Leahy (Skin Deep).
.It is a great privilege to have one of Australia.s pre-eminent directors, Peter Weir, presenting the award for Best Direction in a Feature Film," said Adg CEO Kingston Anderson..
"We have a tradition at the awards to have our best feature directors presenting this award. Directors who have presented the award in the past include Fred Schepisi,...
- 4/20/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
(l-r) Deepti Naval and Garth Davis on set (photo credit: Mark Rogers).
The nominees for best feature direction at this year.s Adg Awards are Garth Davis (Lion), Simon Stone (The Daughter), Ben Young (Hounds of Love), Craig Boreham (Teenage Kicks) and Jonathan Leahy (Skin Deep). All are celebrated for their feature debuts..
Adg CEO Kingston Anderson says the Adg is angling for a high-profile director to present the feature film award. .I can.t say who it is but if we get him it.d be great," he tells If. "It.s a timing issue as usual...
Emma Freeman is nominated in the TV direction category for her work on Secret City alongside Leah Purcell for Cleverman, Rowan Woods for Rake and Tony Krawitz for The Kettering Incident.
.As always TV drama continues to be a strong and important and powerful category, and that reflects what.s going on in our industry,...
The nominees for best feature direction at this year.s Adg Awards are Garth Davis (Lion), Simon Stone (The Daughter), Ben Young (Hounds of Love), Craig Boreham (Teenage Kicks) and Jonathan Leahy (Skin Deep). All are celebrated for their feature debuts..
Adg CEO Kingston Anderson says the Adg is angling for a high-profile director to present the feature film award. .I can.t say who it is but if we get him it.d be great," he tells If. "It.s a timing issue as usual...
Emma Freeman is nominated in the TV direction category for her work on Secret City alongside Leah Purcell for Cleverman, Rowan Woods for Rake and Tony Krawitz for The Kettering Incident.
.As always TV drama continues to be a strong and important and powerful category, and that reflects what.s going on in our industry,...
- 4/6/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Kristy Best has appeared in 'Neighbours', 'Airlock', 'Teenage Kicks' and the upcoming 'Dance Academy' feature..
The biggest issue facing the Australian film or TV industry is: Time, opportunity and money for experimentation.
Best movie quote of all time: "You stop telling lies about me, I'll stop telling the truth about you". It's from Money Never Sleeps.—.don't judge me.
Do you Google yourself? Yes, mainly to see what nationality people think I am this week.
If you could live inside one of your shows, would you? Which one? I made a short some years ago called Something Fishy. I would live in that world in a second, regardless of how macabre it is.
Classics I would like to remake: American Psycho with an all-female cast.
Favourite comedy film/show of all time: Nothing has made me laugh more than the Danish black comedy Adam's Apples.
The biggest issue facing the Australian film or TV industry is: Time, opportunity and money for experimentation.
Best movie quote of all time: "You stop telling lies about me, I'll stop telling the truth about you". It's from Money Never Sleeps.—.don't judge me.
Do you Google yourself? Yes, mainly to see what nationality people think I am this week.
If you could live inside one of your shows, would you? Which one? I made a short some years ago called Something Fishy. I would live in that world in a second, regardless of how macabre it is.
Classics I would like to remake: American Psycho with an all-female cast.
Favourite comedy film/show of all time: Nothing has made me laugh more than the Danish black comedy Adam's Apples.
- 4/4/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Australian teenage drama has its European premiere this week in Tallinn.
LevelK has closed a number of deals on Australian drama Teenage Kicks, which will have its European premiere this week at the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, in the Just Film youth programme.
The film has sold to the Us and Canada (Tla Releasing), UK and Ireland (Bounty Films), Germany and Austria (Salzgeber & Co), Hong Kong (Sundream), Australia and New Zealand (Umbrella Entertainment), as well as Belgium, Luxembourg, Andorra and Monaco (Optimale).
The film is about 17-year-old (played by Miles Szanto) who is grappling with his explosive sexuality as well as feeling guilty about his brother’s accidental death.
The cast also features Daniel Webber (11.22.63), Shari Sebbens (The Sapphires), Charlotte Best (Puberty Blues), Anni Finsterer, Lech Mackiewicz and former footballer Ian Roberts.
Craig Boreham writes and directs his debut feature; Annmaree J Bell produces for Sydney-based Azure Productions. John Frank executive...
LevelK has closed a number of deals on Australian drama Teenage Kicks, which will have its European premiere this week at the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, in the Just Film youth programme.
The film has sold to the Us and Canada (Tla Releasing), UK and Ireland (Bounty Films), Germany and Austria (Salzgeber & Co), Hong Kong (Sundream), Australia and New Zealand (Umbrella Entertainment), as well as Belgium, Luxembourg, Andorra and Monaco (Optimale).
The film is about 17-year-old (played by Miles Szanto) who is grappling with his explosive sexuality as well as feeling guilty about his brother’s accidental death.
The cast also features Daniel Webber (11.22.63), Shari Sebbens (The Sapphires), Charlotte Best (Puberty Blues), Anni Finsterer, Lech Mackiewicz and former footballer Ian Roberts.
Craig Boreham writes and directs his debut feature; Annmaree J Bell produces for Sydney-based Azure Productions. John Frank executive...
- 11/11/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
2016 My Queer Career winner The Summer of ABC Burns.
Queer Screen currently has three opportunities up for grabs, including completion funding, the My Queer Career short film competition and the chance to create the trailer for the next Mardi Gras Film Festival.
.In a landscape where funding for on screen content remains a challenge for most filmmakers, we are thrilled to be able to create opportunities for Lgbtiq stories to be produced and be showcased in front of engaged and supportive audiences,. said Queer Screen president Giovanni Campolo-Arcidiaco..
The Queer Screen Completion Fund
Now in its second year, this fund offers grants of up to $10,000 to assist Lgbtiq filmmakers in completing. feature films, documentaries and webseries.
To be eligible, the filmmaker.s work must be consistent with Queer Screen.s mission. The project must have already completed principal photography (at least 80 per cent) and be in the post production phase.
Queer Screen currently has three opportunities up for grabs, including completion funding, the My Queer Career short film competition and the chance to create the trailer for the next Mardi Gras Film Festival.
.In a landscape where funding for on screen content remains a challenge for most filmmakers, we are thrilled to be able to create opportunities for Lgbtiq stories to be produced and be showcased in front of engaged and supportive audiences,. said Queer Screen president Giovanni Campolo-Arcidiaco..
The Queer Screen Completion Fund
Now in its second year, this fund offers grants of up to $10,000 to assist Lgbtiq filmmakers in completing. feature films, documentaries and webseries.
To be eligible, the filmmaker.s work must be consistent with Queer Screen.s mission. The project must have already completed principal photography (at least 80 per cent) and be in the post production phase.
- 10/20/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Steve Le Marquand on the set of Heath Davis' Broke.
Four features have been added to the Aacta awards longlist: Michael Petroni's Backtrack, Heath Davis' Broke, Grant Scicluna's Downriver and Craig Boreham's Teenage Kicks.
They join previously announced films A Few Less Men, A Month of Sundays, Beast, Boys in the Trees, Down Under, Early Winter, Embedded, Girl Asleep, Gods of Egypt, Goldstone, Hacksaw Ridge, Joe Cinque's Consolation, Looking for Grace, Pawno, Red Billabong, Scare Campaign, Spear, Spin Out, Spirit of the Game, Sucker, Tanna, The Daughter, The Menkoff Method and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
The additions bring the number of features competing for this year.s Aacta Awards to 28: a record.
.It.s wonderful to see such engagement from the Australian screen industry this year,. said AFI-Aacta CEO Damian Trewhella. .We.ve recently broken a number of records, with more films...
Four features have been added to the Aacta awards longlist: Michael Petroni's Backtrack, Heath Davis' Broke, Grant Scicluna's Downriver and Craig Boreham's Teenage Kicks.
They join previously announced films A Few Less Men, A Month of Sundays, Beast, Boys in the Trees, Down Under, Early Winter, Embedded, Girl Asleep, Gods of Egypt, Goldstone, Hacksaw Ridge, Joe Cinque's Consolation, Looking for Grace, Pawno, Red Billabong, Scare Campaign, Spear, Spin Out, Spirit of the Game, Sucker, Tanna, The Daughter, The Menkoff Method and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
The additions bring the number of features competing for this year.s Aacta Awards to 28: a record.
.It.s wonderful to see such engagement from the Australian screen industry this year,. said AFI-Aacta CEO Damian Trewhella. .We.ve recently broken a number of records, with more films...
- 8/21/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Alex Russell in Ivan Sen's Goldstone.
The Sydney Film Festival's Travelling Film Fest returns to Newcastle this year, screening at Tower Cinemas from June 24-26.
Sff's roadshow takes films around the country after they've screened at the festival itself, which takes place in Sydney from June 8-19.
Highlights include Sff's opening night film Goldstone, directed by Ivan Sen and starring Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, Jacki Weaver, David Wenham and David Gulpilil, and closing night film Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman's adaptation of an early, unheralded Jane Austen short novel.
Stillman's acclaimed comedy of manners stars Australia's own Xavier Samuel as well as Stephen Fry, Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny.
.We are thrilled to be returning to Tower Cinemas with a vibrant program of four short films and nine feature films including one documentary,. Travelling Film Festival Manager Alicia Emery said.
Other films set to go on tour include Lee Tamahori's Mahana,...
The Sydney Film Festival's Travelling Film Fest returns to Newcastle this year, screening at Tower Cinemas from June 24-26.
Sff's roadshow takes films around the country after they've screened at the festival itself, which takes place in Sydney from June 8-19.
Highlights include Sff's opening night film Goldstone, directed by Ivan Sen and starring Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, Jacki Weaver, David Wenham and David Gulpilil, and closing night film Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman's adaptation of an early, unheralded Jane Austen short novel.
Stillman's acclaimed comedy of manners stars Australia's own Xavier Samuel as well as Stephen Fry, Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny.
.We are thrilled to be returning to Tower Cinemas with a vibrant program of four short films and nine feature films including one documentary,. Travelling Film Festival Manager Alicia Emery said.
Other films set to go on tour include Lee Tamahori's Mahana,...
- 5/17/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Whilst the world's cinephiles eyes are all turned to the mother of all film festivals, Cannes, down under the Sydney Film Festival have just announced their cracking line up. While it's not one of the most prestigious festivals, it's carved a perfect spot for itself on the cinematic calendar in June each year. It's one of the first festivals to be able to screen films only previously shown at Sundance and Berlinale in the first half of the year, and the then just concluded Cannes film festival. Sydney Film Festival of course has its own world premieres of Australian films, and while this year doesn’t have as many as previous years, there’s some exciting works all the same. Here is just a sample of what’s in store for Sydney siders.
Australian World Premieres
Opening the Festival and also running in competition will be Ivan Sen’s Goldstone,...
Australian World Premieres
Opening the Festival and also running in competition will be Ivan Sen’s Goldstone,...
- 5/12/2016
- by Josh Forward
- FilmExperience
Alex Russell in Ivan Sen's Goldstone.
The full Sydney Film Festival line-up was unveiled this morning by Sff director Nashen Moodley, with five Australian feature premieres and eight Aussie documentary premieres.
In a coup for the festival, this year's Talks program at Sydney Town Hall's Hub will include a free talk with Mel Gibson, whose Blood Father is playing at the fest, as well as in-conversation events with Australian filmmakers such as Ivan Sen.
Sen's Goldstone, the festival's opening night film, will also feature in the official competition..
Other Aussie premieres include Abe Forsythe's Cronulla black comedy Down Under, Craig Boreham's queer drama Teenage Kicks, playwright Stephen Sewell's directorial debut Embedded, and Craig Anderson's thriller Red Christmas, starring E.T.'s Dee Wallace.
Also in the line-up are Aussie titles that premiered overseas last year, such as Beast, the McKeith brothers' Manila-set boxing drama that comes...
The full Sydney Film Festival line-up was unveiled this morning by Sff director Nashen Moodley, with five Australian feature premieres and eight Aussie documentary premieres.
In a coup for the festival, this year's Talks program at Sydney Town Hall's Hub will include a free talk with Mel Gibson, whose Blood Father is playing at the fest, as well as in-conversation events with Australian filmmakers such as Ivan Sen.
Sen's Goldstone, the festival's opening night film, will also feature in the official competition..
Other Aussie premieres include Abe Forsythe's Cronulla black comedy Down Under, Craig Boreham's queer drama Teenage Kicks, playwright Stephen Sewell's directorial debut Embedded, and Craig Anderson's thriller Red Christmas, starring E.T.'s Dee Wallace.
Also in the line-up are Aussie titles that premiered overseas last year, such as Beast, the McKeith brothers' Manila-set boxing drama that comes...
- 5/11/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Queer Screen's Mardi Gras Film Festival at the Blue Mountains' Carrington Hotel.
Queer Screen.s 23rd Mardi Gras Film Festival is now on tour, showcasing the best of the fest in the Blue Mountains and Parramatta.
In Sydney, the festival saw 16,500 attendees through the doors of its eight venues.
.We really stretched ourselves this year to present 75 screenings, create a large number of community and industry events, host 10 international guests and showcase a lot more lesbian and transgender films,. said Queer Screen.s Mardi Gras Film Festival Director Paul Struthers.
.This would not have been possible without the incredible hard work and passion of our volunteers, Board, partners and sponsors and my Festival Manager James Woolley and I cannot thank everyone enough for all of their time and commitment..
Queer Screen President Giovanni Campolo-Arcidiaco said that .Queer Screen is dedicated to engaging individuals and communities through queer storytelling through film.
Queer Screen.s 23rd Mardi Gras Film Festival is now on tour, showcasing the best of the fest in the Blue Mountains and Parramatta.
In Sydney, the festival saw 16,500 attendees through the doors of its eight venues.
.We really stretched ourselves this year to present 75 screenings, create a large number of community and industry events, host 10 international guests and showcase a lot more lesbian and transgender films,. said Queer Screen.s Mardi Gras Film Festival Director Paul Struthers.
.This would not have been possible without the incredible hard work and passion of our volunteers, Board, partners and sponsors and my Festival Manager James Woolley and I cannot thank everyone enough for all of their time and commitment..
Queer Screen President Giovanni Campolo-Arcidiaco said that .Queer Screen is dedicated to engaging individuals and communities through queer storytelling through film.
- 3/14/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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