The former senior VP of acquisitions and co-productions in North America for Cineflix Rights has boarded The Line, an eight-part, female-driven World War II thriller created and written by Yolanda Ramke.
The first production still has been released from Cargo, starring Sherlock’s Martin Freeman.
For Playground Films owner and director David Barker, there are many industry opportunities to discuss the business of filmmaking - less so the art of filmmaking. To help redress this, Playground has launched Helm, a program of monthly film screenings 'for directors, by directors'.
No one could accuse Causeway Films’ Kristina Ceyton and Sam Jennings of resting on their laurels. The producers’ thriller 'Cargo' is about to debut at the Adelaide Film Festival ahead of its launch as a Netflix Original, they’re in post on Jennifer Kent’s 'The Nightingale', and have just gotten the greenlight on 'Buoyancy', the debut feature from writer-director Rodd Rathjen. The two speak to IF about establishing their company and working together.
While AACTA's Byron Kennedy Award is typically given to an individual or organisation who demonstrates "outstanding creative enterprise", this year the award will go to a film.
Yolanda Ramke was browsing social media when she spotted a tweet from Mike Flanagan, creator/showrunner of Netflix’s 'The Haunting of Hill House', complimenting her and her co-director Ben Howling on 'Cargo'.