Melbourne and Brisbane-based Continuance Pictures has launched a short film fund offering up to $10,000 per project for emerging filmmakers whose shorts would serve as concepts for feature films or TV series.
Melbourne/Brisbane-based Continuance Pictures has selected the top 25 script submissions for its Continue Short Film Initiative, which aims to establish a platform for emerging talent to create a short film to serve as a proof of concept for a feature film or TV series.
Toni Collette's directorial debut, an animated series based on 'The Sapphires' and a Shakespeare-inspired anthology are among the 42 projects to recently share in $1.4 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
When screenwriter Roger Monk was offered a gig on the Aquarius Films/SBS crime caper 'The Unusual Suspects', he seized the opportunity to channel one of his favourite films, 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'.
Continuance Pictures' indie horror film 'Subject' has been selected as one of seven features to be shown as part of the Frontières Buyers Showcase at this year's Cannes International Festival.
Shout Factory distribution and production arm Shout! Studios has taken up North American rights to Jacob and Ben Burghart's 'Head Count', a neo-Western thriller being produced by Victorian-based Continuance Pictures and starring Aaron Jakubenko, Melanie Zanetti, and Ryan Kwanten.
Continuance Pictures will debut a trio of titles at this year's Monster Fest, with horror feature 'Subject' joining shorts, 'The Secret of Mount Trolla' and 'The Last Lesson' in the program.
Jacob and Ben Burghart’s neo-Western thriller 'Head Count' follows Kat (Aaron Jakubenko), who, after escaping prison, finds his own revolver pointed to his head by an unknown assailant.