Fighting the Skin Trade with Gabe Dowrick
Gabe Dowrick is. Bad. Ass. As careers go, Gabe slings a couple of pistols, with feature credits as an editor and screenwriter. Which when you press for it, places him in esteemed company – think uber auteur Ethan Cohen and shoot ‘em up/slice ‘em up rogue Robert Rodriguez.
Peter Cornwell on ‘The Haunting in Connecticut’
Peter started his career as a sound recordist at the ABC in Sydney, Australia, where he also practiced stop-motion animations in his spare time. After taking a redundancy package from the ABC, he was able to finish his animated short Ward 13 which went on to win 17 awards internationally and was also shortlisted for […]
CASE STUDY: Director Christiaan Blok
AnyCam recently spoke to director Chistiaan Blok about getting his start as a director for hire, working for agencies and working on TVC’s and branded content. We talked through his early work and spoke about what a director does and how he got his start.
Dane Millerd on ‘There’s Something In The Pilliga’
Hands up who’s heard of the Yowie? For most Australians under 35; a bulbous bug-eyed chocolate-koala-thing might spring to mind. But in Aboriginal folklore, the Yowie or ‘Jingra’ is a terrifying, yeti-esque brute of the bush, roaming its vast, harsh abode amidst the seemingly infinite stretches of soil & scrub…
Sofya Gollan’s ‘Gimpsey’
From humble beginnings sing-signing on Australian TV show ‘Play School’ in the early 90’s to helming a plethora of award winning shorts and the successful triple AFI nominated feature Preservation (2003), writer/director Sofya Gollan now serves up ‘Gimpsey’ in 2015
Wanna make a film for $4000AUD & get worldwide distribution? Australian filmmaker Travis Bain’s explosive 2014 adventure feature ‘Throwback’ will stand you in good stead! An [...]
From humble beginnings sing-signing on Australian TV show ‘Play School’ in the early 90’s to helming a plethora of award winning shorts and the successful triple AFI nominated [...]
Any Camera Will Do was at it again! This time we put on a round table discussion with several up and coming feature directors.
Right out of the gate, we know what’s on your mind. Yes. Speed-networking is exactly like speed-dating. Only, instead of waking up the next morning with a pounding headache in a stranger’s [...]
By his own account, Michael Budd’s debut feature as producer & director, “Love of My Life,” sounds like it was something of a trial by fire in production and distribution. From haunted [...]
The heavy sun beats down, the sky burns a deep orange and the heat sears the landscape. So bright is the hot light that the only reprieve is the dark sweaty shadows of indoors. This is what [...]
Nearly a decade ago, visionary Australian writer/director Shane Abbess came flying out the pearly gates with his super-stylized gothic actioner Gabriel in 2007, which jet-packed the inspired [...]
Back by popular demand, Any Camera Will Do and a swag of generous new sponsors were proud to curate the crowd pleasing ‘Film Makers Talk’ round 2 on April 22nd 2015, where Industry [...]
You’ve slaved away on set for umpteen hours, weeks have morphed into months, you’re taping your eyelids open like Alex from Clockwork Orange just to stay awake but you power through because you [...]
It’s been a decade since the Australian audience has seen the likes of a gritty, no-holds barred western across our dusty, harsh environs in The Proposition (2005). Come 2015, [...]