ranges, of vast deserts and plains, of perfect surf on hidden beaches. Our journey was a quest into the beyond; a search for new people, new places and new experiences .. (Paul Witzig and Judy Bray). Length: 95 minutes. Budget: $72,000. In release.
SCHOOL’S OUT Director . . . Production
. . . . Alex Rappel Ross Campbell, AVEC Film Unit S c r ip t....... __ Alex Rappel Camera . . . ........... Ivan Gall Lighting . . . . . . Peter Dodds Process . . . ........... Eastman Sound . . . . .. David Hughes E d ito r....... . . . Peter Dodds Gaffer/Grip .. John Sullivan Documentary about students and teachers trying to break through the conditioning of traditional education at three radical alternative schools in Melbourne — Brinsly Road, Collingwood and Swinburne Community Schools. Length: 40 minutes.
S c rip t.............................................Scott Murray, Simon Scott Photography................................. Gordon Glenn E d ito rs .......................................... Scott Murray, Sylvie Le Clezio Sound R ecordist.......................... Lloyd Carrick Sound R e-recordist.................... Bob Gardiner Study of a young man’s persistence in a one-way love relationship and his subsequent realization of the existence of choice. Budget: $20,000. Length: 80 minutes.
Shooting April/May
FILM AND TELEVI SI ON BOARD GRANTS: GENERAL PRODUCTION FUND AND SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT. LILIAS CASTLE (NSW) — Supplementary grant for music for television pilot of children's program $500 AYTEN KUYULULU (NSW) — To direct and produce The Golden Cage; 90 minute feature film about two Turkish migrants. $20,500
SIMON TOWNSEND (NSW) — Supplementary THE TERRITORIANS grant to complete television pilot for children’s D ire cto r................................. David Waddington current affairs program $1,000 Distributor..............................Global Television Production IAN BARRY (NSW) — To direct and produce company . . . . D. S. Waddington Productions narrative feature Sparks $20,400 Producer...................................................... DavidWaddington TELEM A RK P R O D U C TIO N S (G ORDO N Associate Producer ...............Byron Zanuck GRIMSDALE) (NSW) — To direct and produce Production Manager ...................... Jan Kenney Child’s Play, pilot episode for television series S c rip t..................................... Charles Wickham, written by children $13,720 James Bodwitch _ Stuart Parks BALLARAT PRODUCTIONS (NSW) — To S to ry..............................................................DavidWaddington produce Rate of Exchange, pilot episode of Photography................................................. DavidWaddington proposed television series Frood $20,159 2nd unit photography ............. Mike Atkinson SOLO FLIGHT JOHN BIRD (VIC) — To direct and produce This Stills photography.....................Bernard Glasser Other Eden; documentary based on McCubbenD ire c to r..................................................... Ian Mills M u s ic .................................................Bill Bennsing Bonython expedition $17,255 Production Manager .......................Pat Robbins E d ito r........................................................ RhondaMacGregor Photography..............................................GordonGlenn Continuity .....................................Susette White DON C A T C H LO V E (N S W ) — Dev el op S c r ip t.........................................................Ian Mills Script Assistant............................... Jan Kenney screenplay for television play Coming of Sound Recordists.................. .... Lloyd Carrick, Sound Recordist.......................... Barry Hamilton Age $1,200 Ian Armet, Mixer ................................................... Jon Lesley Alan Walton Narrator..........................................................JuneSalterMURRAY CLARK (NSW) — Develop screenplay for one episode and story lines for subsequent E d ito r................................................... Kevin Stott T itles................................... Dunatta Graphics episodes for television drama series Drift, with Continuity ....................................... Fiona Mackie Nine episodeson the people of the Northern assistance of script editor $600 Cast: Fiona Russell, Don Barker, John Ley. Territory and their lifestyles. Each episode ex amines a different character, e g. a cattleman, DARYL FREESTONE (NSW) — Develop The longing of a woman to escape th9 rigid buffalo hunter, nurse etc. screenplay for 90 minute television pilot The framework of her everyday world and the Game Trade $2,000 limitations placed on her freedom by human Length: 50 minutes per episode. society and human relations. Budget: $12,000 per episode. MARALYN J. JONES (NSW) — Develop treat Length: 90 minutes. ment for screenplay for film documentary drama Release print stage. Semi-detached $800 THE UNDERSTUDY Producer/Director...........................................EricLuighal SEAN HOGBEN (NSW) — Develop screenplay STIRRING Production company . . . . Sandbar Productions for feature film on m iddle-class school Producer's Assistant .................... Chris Morgan Direction and research........................Jane Oehr leaver $1,000 Production Manager .....................Errol Sullivan .Rrpduction company Australian Department of RON HARRISON (NSW) — Develop screenplay Assistant D ire cto r..........................Errol Sullivan Education and Film Australia for episode of television series Dinkum 2nd Assistant D irector...................Diana Kearns P ro d u cer....................................... Timothy Read M ic a w b e r and three su b se qu e n t s to ry S c rip t......... ........................................Eric Luighal Photography...............Mike Edois (and others) lines $1,200 Photography............................... Galle Tattersall E d ito r.........................................Warwick Hercus Camera oper£tor .................Malcolm Richards CHRIS McGILL/TIM READ (NSW) — Develop Step by step examination of an experimental Lighting ................................... Brian Bainsgrove screenplay and prepare m u sic/lyrics for method of teaching in a classroom which reveals Color process .......................................Eastman children’s feature film Hector Hero Cat $2,900 student and teacher attitudes to an issue (cor Continuity .........................................Lynn Gailey poral punishment) and to themselves as well as PETER SEDLAK (NSW) — Develop screenplay Sound Recordist..............................Carlo Tachi showing the development of a unity within the for feature film Life of Maestro Gyongyosi. with Cast: Jeanne Drynan, Don Barkham, Frank students where there was none before. assistance of script editor $2,000 McTearnan, Robin Bowering, Graham Pitt, Ivar Length: 60 minutes. Kants. PETER WEIR (NSW) — Develop first draft Release print stage. scre e n p la y fo r fe a tu re film Raft of the “ A film within a film and what transpires when ac Gods $1,800 tors don’t relate to a situation as the director STRINGER believed they would.” (Eric Luighal). RENATE YATES (NSW) — Develop treatment Director . .. .. .Robert Schmidt Length: 90 minutes (approximately). and first draft screenplay for 50 minute television .. Robert Schmidt Producer . . . . Budget: $24,000. play based on short story Mrs. Eastern, with .. Robert Schmidt, Story ............. In pre-production. assistance of script editor $850 Chris Cuddington .............. Eastman Color process COLIN JOHNSON (VIC) — Develop screenplay WILDLIFE . Robert Schmidt, Animators . . . for feature film from novel Wildcat Falling, with Gairden Cook D ire c to r.................... . Peter Kingston assistance of script editor $1,600 Production Company . Wild Life Films Animated film about two surfers in a world DONALD MCLENNAN (V IC ) — Prepare of Australia stopped by pollution. shooting script from first draft screenplay for Producer .................. . . . .John Singer Length: 23 minutes. feature film Changes, with assistance of script Production Manager . . . .John Singer Budget: $8\000. supervisor $1,200 Assistant Director . . . . . . . Colin Beard Editing stages. S c rip t........................ . .Russel Deeble SUE FORD (VIC) — To research series of films Story .......................... .. .Bobby Bright on women artists $1,000 Photography............. SUMMER SHADOWS . . . . Colin Beard Color ........................ ........... Eastman D ire c to r...........................................Scott Murray E d ito r....... ............... Marsha Bennett Production c o m p a n y..................... Acme Films . . . . Colin Beard P roducer......................................... Simon Scott . Art Director............... M u s ic ........................ .. . Bobby Bright Music D ire ctor......... .. .Bobby Bright Sound E d ito r........... Marsha Bennett . . . Doug Davies Sound Recordist . . . .
Above Left: Ceremony: a film of rituRI and confrontation.
Above Right: Julie Dawson in Who Killed Jenny Langby.
LESLIE HUELIN/MICHAEL PATE (VIC) — Develop scripts for minimum of six 50-minute television episodes based on Huelln’s book Keep Moving $3,000 E. C. HAM/A. K. FOWLER (OLD) — Research and document source material and prepare treatment for film documentary on licensed slaughter of koalas in Queensland in the 1920s $1,800 RICHARD RUDD (OLD) — Research and develop script for dramatized documentary film on Lizard Island (Qld) pioneer, Mrs. Watson$200 W ILLIAM EDGAR (WA) — Research and develop historical television series Moondyne, with assistance of script editor $1,500 NICHOLAS LIDDELOW ( WA) — Develop screenplay for one episode of television series Dan the Dogger and synopses for subsequent episodes, with assistance of script editor $850
F IL M A N D T E L E V IS IO N BOARD GRANTS: EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND TELEVISION FUND.
NEW SOUTH WALES Kenneth Ambrose, $2,996; Paul Bugden, $1,185; Pat Fiske, $5,290; Andrez Chodkiewicz, $800; Lawrence Field, $749; Diana Fuller, $4,643; Diana Kearns, $4,649; Gillian Leahy, $2,763; Janice Mason, $766; Meg Stewart, $5,123; Lee Hobbs, $922; Jennifer Thornley, $2,000; Daniela Torsch, $3,353; Sonia Hoffman, $2,843; E. Werlemann, $2,905; Nigel Louez, $1,020; Garham Dyson, $1,550.
VICTORIA A. L. Badrock, $524; Martin Bartfleld, $1,922; Marie Battista, $1,036; Felix Bosari, $1,290; Max im Burligh, $715; James Clayden, $1,870; Rodney Corry, $1,600; Anthony Decker, $2,160; Peter Downton, $4,634; Ian Forsyth, $2,131; Ronald Hamilton, $1,255; David King, $671; Ross Lander, $1,969; Arthur McDevitt, $1,180; Trevor McKerchar, $1,505; Brett Southwick, $1,283; C h ris to p h e r S ta p le to n , $1,048; Kenneth Shepherd, $2,232; Peter Yuill, $1,000; Mike Hud son, $828; James Wilson, $400.
QUEENSLAND Bruce Dickson, $1,200; Jan Murray, $2,071; Arthur B. Palmer, $700; Sister Marie Ryan, $369; Gavin Patterson, $480; Don Scheikowski, $480.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA Lynette Bugden, $2,742; Fred Cass, $1,422; Mark Pinchbeck, $100; Donald Shepherd, $1,082; Darryl Budner, $281; Geoff Bruer, $4,865.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA Geoffrey Bennett, $2,254.
General Interest documentary on birds of the Northern part of Australia. Running Time: 1 hour Budget: $20,000 Editing stages.
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