The final installment of The Making of Modern Australia, The Australian Soul, airs this Thursday 19th August at 8.30pm on ABC. The series has been well received and has spawned a book by narrator and actor William McInnes. The 2-disc DVD of the series is also now available to purchase.
Finally, A Thousand Encores: The Ballets Russes in Australia is being re-screened on ABC2 this Sunday night the 22nd August at 8.30pm. If you missed this one first time around it’s definately worth a look.
Just started scoring Bettina Dalton’s natural history documentary on Pelicans for The Discovery Channel.
Be the Pelican, be the pelican….
The Making of Modern Australia begins tonight at 8.30pm on ABC1 and airs for 4 weeks kicking off with the Australian Child then following with The Australian Dream (home ownership), The Australian Heart (relationships) and The Australian Soul (religion). Tune in. Great article on the series in todays Age/Sydney Morning Herald titled ‘Harsh and Ignorant’: Australia’s Wonder Years myth‘ and an Age online video review also posted today.
Also, pages including music have been added for Surviving Georgia, The Making of Modern Australia and Inside John Lewis
John Hughes’ exceptional feature documentary Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia has been selected to screen in official competition at the Sydney Film Festival. It screens June 3 at 6.30pm, details below. Not everything I’ve been a part of will stand the test of time but this one certainly will. This is a part of Australian history that should be revisited.
Abi Tucker (Secret Life of Us, McLeod’s Daughters) and I have been collaborating on a song for the end of Surviving Georgia based on themes I wrote for the film. It’s sounding great too! Gotta hurry though, because the mix is in less than a week!
And the news just keeps coming…The ABC have just released A Thousand Encores: The Ballets Russes in Australia as part of a 2 DVD set. The other DVD contains The Australian Ballet performances of Ballets Russes productions including Graeme Murphy’s interpretation of the Firebird. I’m very proud of my involvement with this fine documentary. Very classy production. The DVD can be purchased here.
OK, very exciting news! I’m currently working on my first feature. It’s called ‘Surviving Georgia’ and it stars Pia Miranda, Holly Valance, Shane Jacobson, Spencer McLaren and Caroline O’Connor. It’s directed by the wonderful Sandra Sciberras and Kate Whitbread (Caterpillar Wish). It’s a great film, beautifully acted. More news to follow soon…
Meanwhile work on ‘The Making of Modern Australia’ is continuing. I’ve finished 2 of the 4 eps and the 3rd is almost in the can. I’ve squeezed in the feature into a break between Eps 3 and 4 which was very fortunate.
Inside John Lewis, the 3 part series I scored for the BBC, debuted last Wednesday to great ratings with over 2.7m viewers. Congrats to Liz Allen, Kimberely Littlemore, Mark Fox and the team at BBC2!
2 Eps of ‘Making of Modern Australia’ down and 2 to go.
Happy New Year! Well I finished up the final episode for Inside John Lewis which is coming soon on BBC2, and have started on a four-part Australian history series for the ABC called The Making of Modern Australia. Exciting for me however is the Australian free-to-air premiere of Secrets of the Forbidden City Monday 18th January at 8:40pm on ABC1. Big budget and hugely entertaining I hope you all get to see it.
