Patrick remake funded by MIFF
The Melbourne International Film Festival has announced the next round of projects that will receive financial support from its Premiere Fund, including Mark Hartley’s ‘re-imagining’ of the 70s thriller Patrick.
Swerve, shot earlier this year in South Australia, will receive completion funds.
The projects are:
- Patrick
Mark Hartley makes his narrative feature debut with a re-imaging of the 1970s Australian medical telekinetic thriller. It was Hartley’s 2008 documentary Not Quite Hollywood that brought Patrick to the attention of a new generation of genre film fans. It will be produced by Tony Ginnane, who also produced the 1978 version directed by Richard Franklin.
- Swerve
A rural neo-noir thriller starring from Director Craig Lahiff (Black & White), Producer Helen Leake and Executive Producer Bryce Menzies starring Jason Clarke, Emma Booth, David Lyons, Travis McMahon, Vince Colosimo and Roy Billing. Shot in South Australia.
- AutoLuminescent: Rowland S. Howard
A feature documentary about the turbulent life of influential Australian rock-guitarist and songwriter Rowland S. Howard with directors Richard Lowenstein (We’re Livin’ on Dog Food) and Lynne-Maree Milburn, who produce along with Andrew De Groot.
- Falling for Sahara
From director (and former Young Australian of the Year) Khoa Do (Missing Water) is a story of new lives – and love – in Australia for African refugees in Melbourne’s Flemington flats.
- First Fagin
A feature documentary from Director Alan Rosenthal (The Brink of Peace), Producer Veronica Fury and Executive Producer Shaun Miller exploring the adventures of one of Australia’s most infamous convicts, Ikey Soloman, who inspired Charles Dickens’ character Fagin in Oliver Twist
With these films, the total number of MIFF Premiere Fund-supported projects is 26.
Applications for the next round close October 28, with decisions due mid-December.
Why would anyone remake PATRICK? What next guys, STORM BOY? Hasn’t anyone learned from that LONG WEEKEND remake piece of puss? Even Hollywood is now aware that simply remaking something for the sake of it is not a necessarily a valid or profitable rationale. Patrick’s claim to fame is that it was significant in launching the work of a talented director being Richard Franklin not in this instance the forgotten producer Ginnane. Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood) as director deserves better! Antony I Ginnane (Not Quite Anything) deserves to be remade!
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Its just another example of a timid lame film culture drought ridden with new ideas
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I concur!
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