Gold Rush murder mystery New Gold Mountain brings Chinese Australian history to our TV screens. Corrie Chen has been dreaming of New Gold Mountain, or a version of it, for years.
A 2015 profile in 3010: Melbourne University Magazine described the filmmaker's dream project as "an Australian-style Deadwood, a riff on the old Wild West played out on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s … revolving around the arrival of Chinese immigrants". Fast-forward to 2021 and the director's dream is a reality, with SBS's first foray into period drama. The ambitious four-part miniseries is a murder mystery told through the eyes of Leung Wei Shing, the morally questionable leader of the Chinese miners trying to make their fortune in Ballarat's goldfields in 1857.
Chen, who previously helmed episodes of Wentworth and SBS's Homecoming Queens, directed all four episodes of New Gold Mountain, etching her filmmaking ethos onto the series — which was created by Kiwi screenwriter Peter Cox (This Is Not My Life). Chen told Stop Everything! Outback cinema keeps projectors rolling with not-for-profit model. As a little girl growing up in her father's open-air theatre in outback Queensland, Geraldine Coughlan learned early on it takes resilience to make sure the show can go on.
Key points: Volunteers are keeping historic picture houses openThey say the not-for-profit model is "the only way to go" for the buildings, which are no longer commercially viable cinemasA mix of new release films and classics can lower costs "My father took over in 1965 after my grandfather passed away and I was a 66 baby, so I've grown up literally my whole life with the theatre at our back door," she said. One of 10 siblings, the children operated projectors, corralled crowds and kept the candy bar immaculately stocked during the Royal Theatre Winton's heyday.
Over the years, Ms Coughlan's family watched the cinema be destroyed by fire, rebuilt, used as a rollerskating rink, then cafe, and become largely unused as the cinema business became commercially unviable. Bundaberg in focus as indie filmmaker gets hooked on filming Flathead. Beer and rum cans litter a cluttered, ageing caravan in a paddock surrounded by sugar cane in Bundaberg in south-east Queensland.
A shirtless older man stumbles around a large, muddy hole in the paddock. He is surrounded by a group of young people who look like they could be members of a psychedelic rock band. It's not until you notice the cameras and sound equipment that the scene starts to make sense. Empire Records totally bombed, but 25 years later, it's still got a loyal following - ABC News.
New comic book The Grot is a timely quarantine read imagining Australian life in a climate-ravaged world - ABC News. Marvel movies with bigger casts tend to make more money at the box office - Science - ABC News. What do you get when you cross a mathematician on his summer holidays with the Marvel Cinematic Universe back catalogue?
A Christmas spent binge-watching superhero films, and a statistical analysis of why the Marvel movies are so popular. "It started almost as a joke," said mathematician and self-confessed Marvel fan Matthew Roughan of the University of Adelaide. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is "arguably the most successful movie franchise of all time" reported Professor Roughan and his co-authors in PLOS ONE last week. Its films have grossed more revenue than the two next successful franchises, Harry Potter and Star Wars.
The Stranger, Australia's answer to Doctor Who, premieres on ABC iview after decades in the vaults - RetroFocus. Posted about 4 hours agoSat 1 Feb 2020, 8:58pm Way back when Doctor Who's TARDIS was only just taking off, an Australian TV series was exploring the science fiction genre.
The Stranger was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas. It was immediately popular after it first aired on the ABC on April 5, 1964, but has since faded into obscurity. Deep reading has become a lost art as digital screens take over, but you can retrain your brain. Updated earlier today at 12:30amSat 21 Dec 2019, 12:30am Are you finding it hard to read deeply, or even remember what you've read, after a year of scanning and skimming quickly through digital content?
You are not alone — but you should be able to fix it. Some neuroscientists say skimming has become the new normal way of reading, something we have adapted to as a way of dealing with the enormous volumes of information we are presented with every day. As a result, our reading brain is becoming wired more for speed and less for processes like comprehension, understanding and committing information to our long-term memories. 50+ Camera Angles, Shots, and Movements: A Complete Guide. Have you ever been overwhelmed at the possibility of every camera angle, framing, and shot type available as a filmmaker?
Us too. So we provided a cheat sheet with definitions for you! There are so many camera movements and camera angles; it can be hard to keep track. To make film and television like the masters, you need to practice and learn the various camera movements, angles, shots, and tools. Photographer captures perfect shot of International Space Station passing surface of the moon.
Posted about 3 hours agoWed 20 Mar 2019, 8:21pm How do you photograph an object in space that is 400 kilometres away, travels at 7.66 kilometres per second and is in the right spot for less than a second?
Key points: 5 Ways Writers Use Misleading Graphs To Manipulate You [INFOGRAPHIC] Hidden stories immortalised in paint as street artists descend on Darwin. Updated Sat at 3:35amSat 8 Sep 2018, 3:35am If a picture paints a thousand words, Melbourne-based street artist Kaff-eine has spent her career weaving a carefully crafted story of power, personalities … and penises.
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In my industry,we believe that images can change the world.Okay, we're naive, we're bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.The truth is that we know that theimages themselves don't change the world,but we're also aware that, since the beginning of photography,images have provoked reactions in people,and those reactions have caused change to happen. Free HTML5 Online Animation Maker, Banner Maker and Video Maker. Underground with Koven: Notorious Adelaide graffiti artist inspired by the 'nanny state' Posted A nanny state, a regimented culture, gratuitous rules that defy common sense, they are all driving forces behind rebellious vandalism, according to one of Adelaide's most notorious graffiti artists.
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