December 2006

Another short film of ours N for Nelly, picked up two more awards at Open Channel's Love Your Work screenings at Cinema Nova. We took out the AUDIENCE CHOICE award as well as BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. Congratulations to Martin Smith for his fine work.

N for Nelly took out both the best RISING STAR film award and the BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC award at the FNI(A) Awards held in Canberra recently. http://fnia.awardspace.com

If you're in Sydney, be sure to get along to Belvoir Street Theatre see our friend Mike McLeish reprising his role of Paul Keating in Company B's extended version of "Keating the Opera".

And also be sure to catch our friend Marney McQueen who's starring in the musical version of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. (Marney played the farmer's wife in The Wedge)

November 2006

Australian Story screened a special on ABC TV about The Heart of Gold Film Festival which screened N for Nelly recently in Gympie, QLD.

October 2006

N for Nelly finishes as the highest rated film in the Portable Film Festival! Thanks to everyone who voted!! The videocast is being launched and the final competition winners will be announced this Sunday at LOOP. Come along and join in the fun, it's free: Sunday 22 October 2006 5-9pm

The Wedge returns this week at the new time of 8pm Tuesday nights on Channel 10. See our Wedge webpage for info. Available now on DVD. Order through Shock or keep an eye out for instore promotions around the Country.

The Melbourne Fringe Festival's over for another year, hope you managed to catch the very funny DeadsHit with Gerard Cogley, and brilliant The Debutante Diaries by Kate McLennan, directed by Fiona Harris which won Best Comedy & the Melbourne Fringe Award. Congratulations.

Our short films N for Nelly & Meta4 have beenshowing in a few fests. Visit their pages for details.

August-September 2006

Art Cooney the hippy well-meaning high school teacher from The Wedge is visiting a school somewhere in Australia for more filming of the show. See www.wedgedale.com.au for info. And there's another competition running where you can apply to visit us on set.

July 2006

N for Nelly won best SHORTSHORT film at the Victoria Festival of Motion Image www.victoriafestival.com.au.

We're currently working with Melbourne band Frost to create a clip for their single "Do It In Style". Check out their website: frostband.com.au

We're also putting together showreel DVDs for some Melbourne actors and independent artists. For a demo or a quote, please contact us. Hand over hours of material on whatever format you can get, and we'll edit it and put it together on a professionally authored DVD.

Channel 10's new sketch comedy show The Wedge premiered on air May 30th and is still rating around a million viewers each week. Set in the ficitonal town of Wedgedale, The Wedge continues every Tuesday night at 8pm. Visit: thewedge.com.au and ten.com.au. We've set up our own site unofficially too... longshot.tv/thewedge

June 2006

N for Nelly premiered at FilmFest @ Falls and screened the following weekend, at Thredbo as part of the SNOWYfest International Film Festival.

April-May 2006

Snatches 06 a series of new short plays by RMIT writers recently performed a piece titled "Still Water" by Katrina Mathers.

Congratulations to Long Shot friends The Drowsy Drivers including Mike McLeish on their Green Room Award nominations for Keating!.

Works by female Australian filmmakers, including some of Katrina Mathers' films screened at a special program at Liverpool Hope University in the UK.

Katrina Mathers was recently a guest judge at the popular Geelong Shootout Film Festival. For details visit: www.theshootout.com.au

January-March 2006

Congratulations to Long Shot friends Greg Williams, Tatiana Doroshenko and Jacob Oberman for their Tropfest finalist film "Last Stop". You might pick a familiar face on the tram... The DVD of 2006 Finalist Films will be available from May, preorder at: www.sanity.com.au

Congratulations to Long Shot collaborator Dean Francis who is at the Berlin Film Festival at the moment taking part in the Berlinale Talent Campus.

"SAW: Uncut Edition" is now out with loads of DVD extras including "SAW: the original short film" shot by Long Shot Film Entertainment regular DOP Martin Smith, and featuring Dean Francis and Katrina Mathers. Click on the image above to purchase a copy from Amazon.com

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The Italian/Spanish international feature film Move! Where Are You Going? by Pietro Jona includes an Australian section produced by jj splice, co-written and featuring Dean Francis, Dominic McDonald and Katrina Mathers in an integrated story about curiousity, boredom and abonment one afternoon on a suburban train.

Move! Where Are You Going? recently screened on 35mm at the Mannheim Heidelberg Film Festival and continues to screen in festivals around the world. Contact the film's International sales agent for distribution enquiries.