Archive for the ‘film’ Category
Under (2006) a short film by Donal Foreman
Monday, June 7th, 2010Under (2006) from Donal Foreman on Vimeo.
All Quiet on Sweep’n Front
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Front Room Gallery
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009W-anchored down in Anchorage.
Friday, June 12th, 2009A Streetsweeper In Alaska December 2008
NM
More Material, New & Old
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Click above to go there.
Same old, same old.
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Er, it’s not hard to spot the disproportionate number of films starring & made by Baby Boomers.
Half of the Australian population is under the age of 4o.
“Commercial” films must appeal to 15 to 25 year old filmgoers.
After a decade of failure the so-called Australian Film industry remains in the firm grip of the “usual suspects”who take most of the funding but little of the responsibility: ScreenAustralia is now set give more money to the filmmakers with the biggest CVs.
But interesting & engaging “cinema” cannot be produced without risk & innovation.
We need lots of new blood, right now! NM
Exploitation is a two way street.
Monday, November 3rd, 2008“Strtswpr” scrns Sunday 17th August 08 in Lass O’Gowrie br garden.
Monday, July 14th, 2008idiosyncratic novocastrian cinema
Streetsweeper
outdoor ‘feature film’ screening
fundraiser for ‘acetate’: alternative cinema east coast tour late 08
plus new film clips & live music by Grandmastermonk & Tad Poedee
Sunday 17th August, 2008
sunset
Lass O’Gowrie Hotel
14 Railway St Wickham
Newcastle
ramble on
(streetsweeper screening no. 9)
Film Festivals are a pile of shit…
Monday, June 9th, 2008I love the idea of film festivals. The romantic idea that they are a place where cinema might matter.
We are waiting on a final few before completing the festival cycle – but we have had 43 rejections. No interest at all from any “local” film festivals. Dungog and Sydney both rejected the film. I called and emailed SFF, and was not even replied to. We had a last minute glimmer of an offer from Dungog, but they seem content showing mostly films that have been in general release at Hoyts.
More and more I feel that the festival circuit is a pile of shit. The open entry system appears to be merely a paper pushing facade for an actual selection process that depends entirely on whom the filmmakers, and more importantly their distributors know.
I’ve wasted an enormous amount of time learning this and entering all these festivals. I don’t mind that they are a commercial and corporate concern, but I wish that they would drop the charade and simply select the films that they are lobbied to do – be open and transparent in their festival marketing and branding exercise. I would be shocked if any festival accepted our film now. It’s a good film. Real Australian Cinema. Audiences like it, and I am the harshest critic.
At least I know that the next film we make should be gently inserted into the rectum of the festival director over a long lunch – and then we’ll be getting somewhere… TR



















