Synopsis

Into the Shadows journeys behind the big screen to discover the past, present and future of Australian cinema.

From afar, the Australian film industry appears glitzy and glamorous, almost untouchable. Into the Shadows challenges this notion and journeys behind the big screen to meet the filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors who bring Australian films to life.

Away from the bright lights and photographers, an awful truth is discovered: Australian cinema is becoming irrelevant.

The cinema was once a place where Australian culture permeated; audiences were educated, entertained and enthralled about Australian history, characters and landscapes. Alarmingly, out of the $895.4 million spent at the Australian Box Office in 2007, only $36million (4%) was spent on Australian films.

Amongst the story of decline are the seedlings for hope. Into the Shadows is the film to bring all of the complex dimensions of Australian cinema together and ask ‘how do we want Australian cinema to evolve?’

30 Aug 2008

Broadcasting via My Laptop

I have recently started up a Laptop Journal.

I will be stopping from time to time to record my thoughts about film related issues, topics, ideas as well as use the Laptop Journal to keep you all up to date with the progress of Into the Shadows.

The videos will be recorded directly from my MacBook Pro Laptop camera hence the title. So keep an eye out for them, feel free to engage with me by posting comments about the journals or even making your own video responses.

Here is my latest entry.

Cheers,
Andrew.

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13 Aug 2008

Dark Knightsbridge

Into the Shadows has finally had its first fund raiser!

A few weeks back at Dendy Canberra we put on a screening of the Dark Knight and had a raffle with many great prizes! Thanks to the businesses who provided free gifts for the prizes and a big thank you to Impact Comics for the limited edition Batman Mobile that we raffled off! (Hence there store is our banner link)Also thank you to the girls at Dendy who helped organize and run the event on the night.

We sold out the cinema and a fair few raffle tickets, which helped us raise a smidgen over $600. This money will be the beginning of a pool of money we aim to fund raise to help pay for an online edit in the near future. We see this as a great to way to include the community in post-producing a local independent feature film.

And a BIG THANKS to Phil's mum and my mum; with out your last ditch efforts the prizes the raffle would never had been so good.

Also cheers to the guys on the night who helped sell raffle tickets and to Daniel at Plushroom graphics who designed the flyer we gave out on the night.

After the screening a small group of us celebrated at Knightsbridge in Braddon, one of the guys coined the term Dark Knightsbridge. Any ideas for the next fund raiser? It will be Bigger.