Are Australian audiences getting soft and avoiding darker and more confronting, challenging material?
After their successful collaboration on Backyard Ashes, the producers and Umbrella Entertainment are teaming up on another sports-themed comedy with a topical, dramatic twist.
"Someone asked me the other day in an interview, 'What was it like handing the script over to a director?' and I went 'It's the easiest thing the world.' It was ours."
Screen Australia is investing $5.4 million in six feature films from directors Gillian Armstrong, Jeremy Sims and Paul Cox and rising filmmakers Kim Farrant, Mark Grentell and Alexs Stadermann.
Zenia Starr made her screen debut in Mark Grentell's 2013 cricket comedy Backyard Ashes but this year has been the first when she has worked virtually non-stop.
Australian cinemagoers flocked to the latest edition of The Hunger Games and the Doctor Who anniversary special last weekend, but Adoration was unloved.
Umbrella Entertainment is turning the conventional notion of theatrical distribution on its head with Backyard Ashes, an Aussie comedy about two neighbours who settle their differences with a bizarre game of backyard cricket.
Early attempts at workflow management systems were expensive, came largely from the print market and were hindered by the 'closed' nature of post productions systems.