MIFF Fund announces 2011 slate
The Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund has announced the first projects to receive funding for the 2011 edition, including a ‘teen brom-rom-com’, a ‘zom-rom-com’ and a feature documentary.
These new features bring the MIFF Premiere Fund total to 20 projects supported since 2007.The 24-Hour Window (Dir. Nicholas Verso, Prod. Ann Darrouzet, Writers Gareth Wills and Nicholas Verso) will ‘celebrate the chaos of modern teen life’ and is being publicised as reminiscent of the 1980s films of John Hughes.
Dead Cool (Dir. Martin Wilson, Prod. John Tatoulis and Angie Smith, Writer Adam Isitt), according to its creators, will “do for zombies what Twilight and True Blood have done for vampires”.
The Curse of the Gothic Symphony (Dir. Randall Wood, Prod. Veronica Fury, Assoc. Prod. Sara Edwards) will chronicle the struggle to overcome “an 80-year curse” that has prevented Havergal Brian’s “Gothic Symphony” from ever being fully performed on stage.
The next funding round opens in July.
