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
*UPDATE* Video added We dropped in on Ken Abbott and his band of volunteers as they were rigging up a jerk-back ready for next fight in their latest short film. Ken is a director, shooter and [...]
A friend of mine asked me to produce a few small spots for the Wheel Chair Rugby Championships that were coming up. As with too many job there was little time, little organization and little [...]
Producer/Director Christiaan Blok asked me to help him with a series of cinema ads to be played before films in a major Australian Film festival. The ads were for a legal firm that was the [...]
Next up in the ongoing adventures of Ryan Tarran, stunt man extraordinaire, is some underwater action! I have a plan to shoot my next action test/short. I want to do some underwater filming and I [...]
This is the 5th time we have met up with Ryan Tarran, Stephen Murdoch and Glenn Chow. We hashed out a fight scene inspired by Universal Soldier. We shot it over two afternoons. It was defiantly a [...]
I recently went on a camping trip to Mt Kosciuszko National Park. I decided to take some camera kit with me and do a wee bit of shooting.
Shooting action scenes are said to be quite tough, with Car chases and fight scenes being especially difficult. I thought it was time to teach my self about how to shoot action so I contacted my [...]
A while ago I was asked by a friend to help create a web/TV commercial for another friends product, Suitjammas, Pajamas that look like a business suit. *UPDATE* The TVC has finally been [...]
My friend Glenn Chow is a stunt man who has recently been working on the new Wolverine movie. He is actually a trained actor as well as a stunt man but gets most of his work doing stunts. Glenn [...]