When it turns into a successful calling card for its director and photographers overseas. After opening in Australia this month, The Hunter, its director Daniel Nettheim, along with photographers Matt Nettheim and Jason Boland, continue to inspire we mere mortals. News just in…..
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Director Daniel Nettheim has secured representation in the US with industry heavyweights, manager Bart Walker at Cinetic and talent agency United Talent Agency.
Cinetic specialises in the management of indie directors such as Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch and Lisa Cholodenko.
United Talent Agency is one of the biggest agencies in the US representing directors such as Joel and Ethan Coen, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumach. Wow. Fantastic news, well done Daniel!!!!
Following its success at Toronto, the film played last week to full houses at Busan and Rio International Film Festivals and will play at Doha and Abu Dhabi Film Festivals next week, where it is in the running for the newly created OUR WORLD prize of 55,000Dh for environmentally themed feature films.
Director Daniel Nettheim said the response to his film has been fantastic….
“The level of interest in the film, both here and overseas, has been incredibly rewarding, and the Q & A sessions I’ve attended show that audiences are truly engaging with the film at a deep emotional level. The people I spoke with after the screening in Korea at Busan were genuinely moved by the film, and in awe of the natural environment it depicts.”
So far the movie has been successfully sold into international markets in the US (Magnolia), Canada (eOne), UK (Artificial Eye), Japan (BMS), Germany (Ascot Elite), Greece (Strada), Turkey (Umut Sanat) Bulgaria/Romania (New Films), Poland (Kino Swiat), Indonesia/Vietnam (PT Parkit), India (Pictureworks), the Middle East (ECS Film Distribution), and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment).
In yet more good news, the Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers in LA has honoured unit stills photographer Matt Nettheim, who took the amazing images used to market the film.
Matt, along with fellow Australian stills photographer Jason Boland, was awarded membership into this exclusive honorary organisation with only 35 photographers from around the world. 35!!!!
All of which leaves me pondering …
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I know exclamation marks are meant to be used sparingly but sometimes you just have to go overboard, especially when a fellow Aussie makes good!!! see…even more so if you’ve been following his work on televion (e.g. Rush).
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Hopefully this means we will see more work by Daniel on the large screen.
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Here’s hoping he’ll be able to cast some members of our fine Australian film industry, in a couple of his upcoming productions, thereby ensuring success for even more Australians, woohoo!!!!…sorry….!
2 Comments
I’m glad it will be shown elsewhere. Nice work to all involved.
Agree the more people who see it the better, a great film