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20-03-2009

How many people does it take to make a movie?

Lots. What about writing, producing, directing, shooting, editing and promoting a full-length feature film from scratch, for the first time, within 12 months?

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Ryan Oliver Gelbart... 'Occupation: Actor'

By Monica Kade

27-02-2009

It’s not often you sit down with a complete stranger and have their undivided attention without their eyes darting around the room. This was the pleasant surprise I shared with actor, Ryan Oliver Gelbart. In fact, our first meet wasn’t for an interview, just a casual actor-to-actor chat...

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Once

by Sandi Tighello

25-08-2007

See it. Now.

This afternoon I had that experience that you can only get from a great movie, with great words and even better songs.

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Snow Cake Film Review

by Biwa Kwan

26-08-2007

My mother always used to say “Bad things can happen but it is how you deal with it that determines the strength of your character.” Nowhere is this better demonstrated in Marc Evans latest film.

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Home Song Stories

Biwa Kwan

25-08-2007

Director Tony Ayres begins the Dendy Opera Quays film screening and Q&A session by intimating that the film is about a harder time in his life which has necessarily been fictionalised to a degree. “I will be here to answer any questions you might have at the end of the film”.

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Burke & Wills

by Sandi Tighello

25-08-2007

I have just arrived home from the Melbourne premiere of Burke & Wills.

Oliver Torr (above, the lovely chap that he is) and Matt Zeremes are the directors, actors, writers and producers of this explosive, and sometimes painful, film. Burke & Wills was shot in only nine days in Sydney, in black and white and on a $20,000 budget. The entire film was improvised and to quote Oliver Torr the uncompromising editing made the film. Burke & Wills was selected for the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and has since been included in festivals in Sydney and Brisbane. The lovely folk at Filmink have released it at Kino Dendy for a very short time (read: see it now before it disappears).

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