Ben Nott ACS nominated for ASC Awards

Australian cinematographer, Ben Nott ACS, has been nominated for the 19th Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography being announced on 13 February 2005 in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland, USA.

John Radel, Kodak Filmschool Competition Winner - 2nd year Running

Australian Film Television & Radio School student, John Radel, has been selected as the Australian national winner of the Kodak Filmschool Competition for his work on the film Black Berries.

TV Broadcasting In Australia Turns Fifty

The 50th Anniversary of Australian television broadcasting occurs in 2006. The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney will mark this important occasion by developing a spectacular exhibition examining the impact of television on the lives of Australians since 1956.

AFI Awards 2005 call for entries

The Australian Film Institute is calling for Feature Film, Television, Documentary, Short Fiction and Short Animation entries for the 47th AFI Awards. Entries are now open announced General Manager Geoffrey Williams today

Cinematographers Questionnaire

The Australian Cinemtographers Society has launched a new initiative to chronicle details of films and productions from a cinematographers point of view, to ensure our current history is captured, presented and archived for our education and future generations.

AFTRS Graduation Night

AFTRS to relocate Sydney headquarters to inner Sydney

The Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) will relocate its Sydney campus to inner Sydney following endorsement of a move in the Australian Government budget. The Government endorsed a proposal to move the School closer to the working industry in the inner Sydney area, with the final location yet to be finally decided.

Vale: Milton Ingerson OAM ACS

Milton Ingerson OAM ACS passed away in Adelaide on Monday 27 September 2005. Milton was a former Federal President of the ACS from the 1990's until 2003...

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77th Academy Awards Nominations

Los Angeles - 25 January 2005

Cate Blanchett received a nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese’s film The Aviator while Sejong Park and Andrew Gregory’s film Birthday Boy was nominated for Best Short Film (Animated).

This is the second consecutive year an Australian animation has been nominated for an Academy Award with Adam Elliot’s Harvie Krumpet winning the prestigious award last year.

Directed by Sejong Park and produced by Andrew Gregory at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Birthday Boy is set in the Korean War. It follows a young boy playing in the streets of his village, imagining his father fighting in the front line, the young boy celebrates his birthday alone only to return home to find a parcel at his doorstep. Thinking it is his birthday present, he opens the parcel, but its contents change his life forever.

Birthday Boy received numerous awards in 2004 including Best Short Animation at the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards, Best First Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Best Animated Short at Siggraph, Award for Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica, Best Short Film at the Australian Effects and Animation Festival and the Dendy Award for Best Animation at the Sydney Film Festival.

Australian film laboratory and post production facility Atlab also worked with Best Cinematography Nominee , Director of Photography Zhau Xiaoding, on Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers.

Processing, image and sound post production and digital effects, and final prints were all carried out in Sydney by the same team that collaborated on Zhang Yimou’s previous film Hero.

Atlab’s Director of Productions and senior colourist Olivier Fontenay worked closely with the cinematographer to achieve the all-important look of the film, joining the production on location in China and in Ukraine in the northern hemisphere winter of 2003-4. All the original camera negative was shipped to Atlab in Sydney for rushes processing. Much of the material required special developing techniques such as force processing either one or two stops. Atlab’s expertise in managing this was well known by the Chinese production team following Fontenay’s previous collaboration with cinematographer Chris Doyle in Hero.

77th Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, 27 February 2005

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