Actor Roy Billing launched the campaign calling for the relaxation of restrictions on casting overseas actors in Australian screen productions, and he.s not giving up.
Billing has received support from all sectors of the screen industry, including fellow actors, since his op-ed piece ran on If on September 17.
.Five weeks on and the support continues unabated,. he said today. .Initially I received many emails and phone calls and now as I interact with my colleagues as a working actor I am getting face-to-face support. The issue is still very much alive in the screen sector..
Billing questions why his union Actors Equity appears to be ignoring the issue, apart from an op-ed article from newly appointed Equity director Zoe Angus, which, he says, failed to address the issues he raised.
.There has not been one mention of my stance in Equity e-bulletins so the majority of rank and file...
Billing has received support from all sectors of the screen industry, including fellow actors, since his op-ed piece ran on If on September 17.
.Five weeks on and the support continues unabated,. he said today. .Initially I received many emails and phone calls and now as I interact with my colleagues as a working actor I am getting face-to-face support. The issue is still very much alive in the screen sector..
Billing questions why his union Actors Equity appears to be ignoring the issue, apart from an op-ed article from newly appointed Equity director Zoe Angus, which, he says, failed to address the issues he raised.
.There has not been one mention of my stance in Equity e-bulletins so the majority of rank and file...
- 10/21/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
After shooting a miniseries about the last Australian man executed in Singapore for drug smuggling, director Khoa Do is tackling the controversial story of another Australian convicted criminal: Schapelle Corby.
Do will direct a Nine Network telemovie about Corby, who is serving a 15-year prison term for attempting to smuggle 4.1 kilograms of marijuana into Bali in a body-board bag in 2004.
Filming is due to start in Queensland later this year, produced by Stephen Corvini for FremantleMedia.
Corby.s supporters believe in her innocence despite her conviction.
Do wrote and directed the Sbs miniseries Better Man, the saga of young Australian Van Nguyen who was executed in Singapore in 2005, which starred David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Claudia Karvan and Remy Hii.
His credits include Mother Fish, a drama about four refugees who fled Vietnam in 1980; Falling for Sahara, a love story about three African guys who fall for the same girl; and Footy Legends,...
Do will direct a Nine Network telemovie about Corby, who is serving a 15-year prison term for attempting to smuggle 4.1 kilograms of marijuana into Bali in a body-board bag in 2004.
Filming is due to start in Queensland later this year, produced by Stephen Corvini for FremantleMedia.
Corby.s supporters believe in her innocence despite her conviction.
Do wrote and directed the Sbs miniseries Better Man, the saga of young Australian Van Nguyen who was executed in Singapore in 2005, which starred David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Claudia Karvan and Remy Hii.
His credits include Mother Fish, a drama about four refugees who fled Vietnam in 1980; Falling for Sahara, a love story about three African guys who fall for the same girl; and Footy Legends,...
- 8/27/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Actors who get lousy reviews usually ignore them or suffer in silence- but not Kevin Harrington.
The veteran actor was so incensed by a review by News Ltd..s Leigh Paatsch of the DVD of Cliffy, he vented on Facebook.
The ABC telemovie features Harrington as Cliff Young, who became an unlikely hero at the age of 61 when he won the 875km endurance race from Sydney to Melbourne..
In Saturday.s Daily Telegraph and Herald-Sun Paatsch dismissed it as a .dreadful telemovie that turns the ripping true story of the late ultra-marathon legend Cliff Young into a crap-tastic cartoon. How the ABC ever ponied up a commitment to this dim-witted affair beggars belief..
Paatsch advised readers who want the .real tale- much of which was ignored or changed by this TV calamity,. to read Julietta Jameson.s book Cliffy: The Cliff Young Story.
His verdict: .1 star, run the other way.
The veteran actor was so incensed by a review by News Ltd..s Leigh Paatsch of the DVD of Cliffy, he vented on Facebook.
The ABC telemovie features Harrington as Cliff Young, who became an unlikely hero at the age of 61 when he won the 875km endurance race from Sydney to Melbourne..
In Saturday.s Daily Telegraph and Herald-Sun Paatsch dismissed it as a .dreadful telemovie that turns the ripping true story of the late ultra-marathon legend Cliff Young into a crap-tastic cartoon. How the ABC ever ponied up a commitment to this dim-witted affair beggars belief..
Paatsch advised readers who want the .real tale- much of which was ignored or changed by this TV calamity,. to read Julietta Jameson.s book Cliffy: The Cliff Young Story.
His verdict: .1 star, run the other way.
- 6/10/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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