Long Shot - News Archives 2004

December 2005

Keep an eye out for the Ernest Hillier Chocolate commercials, now screening, often late night on Channel 9.

Katrina Mathers recently made a guest appearance in the interactive online drama "Forget the Rules" where viewers vote at the end of the week for how the story continues. Directed by Colin Mowbray.

June - November 2005

Various short films by Katrina Mathers and Dean Francis screened at the Vineyard's short film night Harvest in September.

Corporate work is taking up most of the time at the moment, with recent productions being produced through media company Immediacy for the Family Assistance Office; State Trustees; Hewison & Associates; and ongoing production of Skybus TV for the Skybus Super Shuttles running between Melbourne Airport and Spencer Street Station.

May 2005:

Our new short film Meta4 screened as a finalist in the Siemens MicroMovie film competition at St Kilda Film Festival . Thanks to everyone who voted for the film, but congratulations to Damon Herriman who won with "Peephole".

April 2005:

Congratulations to Mike McLeish (featured in our short film "The Referees") and his colleagues, including the mastermind Casey Bennetto for sweeping the Melbourne International Comedy Festival awards pool with "Keating! The Opera".

March 2005:

"Herman the Legal Labrador" featuring the voices of Shaun Micallef, Santo Cilauro and others including Katrina Mathers screened on SBS's "Eat Carpet" during March.

Keep an eye out for Gerard Cogley's performance in one of the latest Tropfest Finalist short films: "Too Far" by Matthew Peek and Cameron Ford.

Another long time Long Shot Film Entertainment collaborator, Dean Francis has completed work on a new short "Boys Grammar". The film was made at the AFTRS with Justin Davies producing and Rozlyn Clayton-Vincent penning the script.

February 2005:

Recently seen on the X-Factor as the replacement member for harmony group "Pablo" was Mike McLeish, better known to us as one of the ex-boyfriend referees in our 2003 Tropfest Finalist short film THE REFEREES

Katrina Mathers was recently guest speaker for the Northern Film Network talking about short films. Visit the NFN website for more information. www.nfn.org.au.

We congratulate our fellow filmmakers Leigh Whannell & James Wan on the phenomenal success of SAW (Leigh Whannell appears in our Tropfest Finalist film THE REFEREES and Dean Francis & Katrina Mathers both appeared in their short film promo version of SAW).

Congratulations also to Jannine Barnes and Tony Mahony for their short film "Ray" which recently picked up a best screenplay award at Flickerfest.

September 2004:

FLIPSIDE screened again on The Comedy Channel through August/September.

August 2004

Katrina Mathers recently teamed up with producer Jannine Barnes of Happening Films to option the short screenplay "Dreams of Rage" by Sydney writer Donna Mok. Jannine and Katrina last year developed "One Out of the Box" a screenplay by Melbourne writer and actor Stig Wemyss.

July 2004

Recently screened in Spain at the Mostra de Valencia Cinema del Mediterrani was the world premiere of the Spainish/Italian feature co-production feature film: "Move! Where Are You Going?" featuring stories from around the world. "Move! Where Are You Going?" features an Australian component written by much of the same team responsible for "Crazy Richard" and stars Dominic McDonald, Dean Francis, Katrina Mathers & Ivan Neville.

June 2004

Premiering at the St Kilda Film Festival were the short films "Too Little Justice" directed by Dean Francis and produced by Justin Davies; and "Ray" starring Dylan Lewis, directed by Tony Mahony, produced by Jannine Barnes (featuring a 'don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it' cameo from Katrina Mathers & Stig Wemyss).

May 2004

David Blumenstein's much anticipated premiere screening of Herman The Legal Labrador took place (after a few technical hiccups) at the Old Magistrates Court in Melbourne as part of the Next Wave festival. AFI award-winning animator Jeremy Parker produced the film, which features the voices of Shaun Micallef, Santo Cilauro, Katrina Mathers, Adam Wajnberg, Adrian Calear and Duff.Kkeep checking the Herman website for info.

The MAFIA Documentary Awards (Music and Film Independent Artists) were held recently at LOOP Bar in the city. MC'd by Katrina Mathers, the awards screened eight short documentary finalists and handed out some generous prizes before kicking on into the night with VJ Sex Pixels & DJ Critical Sound. See www.mafia.com.au for info.

Katrina Mathers was invited to be a guest panelist on "The Know" recently, alongside actress Lisa Hensley and the inimitable Chit Chat from Machine Gun Fellatio. Visit www.musicmax.com.au for more info.

April 2004:

Keep an eye out for our short film “The Referees” if you happen to be flying somewhere. The film has been picked up by Inflight Productions, which licenses to a number of International Airlines.

Holly Salmons & Katrina Mathers have just returned from Aspen Shortsfest in Aspen, Colorado USA where “The Referees” was selected to screen from more than 1,500 entries. They wish to acknowledge assistance from Film Victoria and the Australian Film Commission respectively in funding them to attend.

“The Referees” recently screened at The Comedy Channel short film festival, as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The film will be shown on The Comedy Channel in rotation over the coming months. www.comedyfestival.com.au

“The Referees” recently also screened at the Barbican’s hugely popular London Australian Film Festival barbican.org.uk/australianfilm/festival & at a special Pictures @ Piano "best of" event called One Giant Leap, also at the Barbican in London. www.leapfrogentertainment.co.uk

You can now purchase a DVD copy of the documentary about Tropfest called "Gone Troppo". The documentary, which screened in January on Network 10, features excerpts from finalist films and interviews with the directors. Here's a direct link to www.sanity.com.au to purchase (do a search for "Gone Troppo"

February 2004:

Congratulations to long time Long Shot Film Entertainment collaborators Fiona Harris and Mike McLeish on the arrival of their little baby girl.

"Wanderlust" reprise performances of the Melbourne Fringe Festival Best Performance production were sold out recently at the Malthouse's Beckett Theatre. A unique night of theatre, media art and film commissioned from Long Shot Film Entertainment's filmmaker Katrina Mathers who worked with editor and media artist Mark Brown of Arc Productions.

We've been receiving a lot of enquiries lately about the Super 8 Sci-Fi cult classic Dawn of the DMF's by Darrell Martin & Chris 'Krow' Summers. Visit the DMF's page for all the latest news & to join the DMF Mailing List.

The Referees screened at Flickerfest 2004 in Bondi, Sydney, as well as at Pictures @ Piano monthly short film screenings in Soho, London.

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