Film Funding Blog

The latest news from one of Australia’s critical financing sources:

THREE of Australia’s best known filmmakers, Phillip Noyce, Scott Hicks and Adam Elliot, are set to make new films at home next year. The Film Finance Corporation has approved funding support for Hicks’ The Boys are Back in Town and Oscar-winner Elliot’s first full length animation, Mary & Max.

The FFC also issued Noyce with a letter of intent, indicating finance will be given for his version of Tim Winton’s love story Dirt Music subject to the film’s producers’ meeting certain conditions.

Rachel Weisz, Oscar winner as Best Supporting Actress this year for The Constant Gardener, is expected to be one of the international cast in Dirt Music.

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New television projects include The Falls, directed by Peter Andrikidis, the 13-hour mini-series Underbelly (an expose of the Melbourne gangland wars), and a six-part ABC series East of Everything co-written and co-produced by Deb Cox, of SeaChange.

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