Screen Australia supports Snowtown, My Place
Screen Australia announced funding approvals worth $5m, for 11 projects including Warp Films’ already controversial true-crime feature Snowtown.
CEO Ruth Harley justified the decision – which has been questioned by mainstream media, particularly in Victoria and South Australia – on Australia’s history of “socially relevant” cinema based on true-life crimes, in the vein of The Boys and Chopper.ABC3’s flagship drama My Place also received support for series 2, which will take the children’s history project from 1878 to the time before white settlement.
The combined production of the 11 projects is worth $18m. They are:
Snowtown
Here we go again…
Serial killers, suburban melodrama, just plain suburban, not just sex workers but extraordinary ones, naval gazing, kangaroos and death… Another thrilling creative mix! Can’t wait not to watch any of them…
My Place S2? It wasn’t a success on ABC. What overseas success justifies a second series?
Agree with Eivis…judging by the above lot it is patently obvious that drama in Oz has completely lost its way. The Eighties might have been the golden years but they bear revisiting – some of the best drama ever produced in the country. Productions like Harp in the South, Poor Man’s Orange, The Dismissal, Come in Spinner, Cowra Breakout, Vietnam, Robbery Under Arms, Bangkok Hilton, Fields of Fire. And let’s not forget movies – Gallipoli, Newsfront, Phar Lap, Wake in Fright…..I could go on. Australia has proven its world class story telling ability….it’s time to find its way again.
This sucks. 18m and quite shitty shows. I prefer some action. Kung Fu action. They should have a series two of Downtown Rumble. That was the coolest show I’ve seen on ABC in a long time.
Wow, a Paul Cox documentary! I have been waiting so long to see what kind of man spews the kind of wank that he does and -wait for it…gets funding for it! The only redemptive thing that could come out of this is that after Paul finishes contemplating his life and work he shoots himself on camera. That I’d see. Or at least, I’d illegally download it and skip to the end so that I can watch him shoot himself in the head without having to watch anything else about him.
Fair mix of comments but how about we wait and see the end product…although judging by the last decade and a half, I won’t be holding my breath. I wonder how many of these correspondents are like me and are nursing more than a bunch of sour grapes? We all have the product the world has been waiting for but getting the money/! Now there’s a story waiting to be told!
Jeff – goodness sake wake up to yourself! (show some PC).
Develope a screenplay about a blind – homeless – disabled Aboriginal single parent struggling against autism & substance adiction who has coverted to Islam -subsequent battle with authorities who refuse visa’s for the Sri Lanken family she (he) wishes too sponsor?