In today’s blog post, we have yet another very special guest. Best known for her role as Priya Kapoor on iconic Network Ten television series Neighbours, Menik Gooneratne has had a film and television career spanning over a decade, encompassing both Australian and international productions, including working with Nicole Kidman on the upcoming feature Lion. Today she…
Makeup on The Wizards of Aus
In today’s blog post we have a very special guest, our absolutely incredible Makeup Designer, Marie Kealy. Enjoy! “So Marie. We have this series we want to make and its kinda like everything you did on The Hobbit but crazier, oh & our total budget is probably what they had just for coffee, you interested?” Silence. You are absolutely…
Shooting The Wizards of Aus
In this blog post we have two very special guests – first up is longtime collaborator and close friend, our amazing Director of Photography on The Wizards of Aus, the awesome Benjamin Hidalgo De la Barrera, followed by his trusty 1st Camera Assistant, the incredibly hardworking Jonathan Haynes. Enjoy! Shooting The Wizards of Aus has been one of the most challenging…
Writing The Wizards of Aus
Hello there. My name is Nick Issell, and I’m a screen writer. Feel free to be adequately impressed… Oh, you’re not impressed at all? That seems about adequate to me. Anyway… When my best buddy-boy, Michael Shanks, approached me to co-write The Wizards of Aus with him, I’ll admit, I was a little wary of…
Producing The Wizards of Aus
So an extremely talented director (Michael Shanks for those playing at home) that you’ve been working with for a very long time comes to you and says: Screen Australia have approached me to see if I want to do a web series. And I’m thinking we could do this wizard thing I’ve been kicking around…
Directing The Wizards of Aus
I shot the very first footage for The Wizards of Aus at age nineteen with a couple of my friends acting in it. Upon reviewing said footage, I thought ‘Oh, this is kinda shitty,’ and continued living my life. However, I never could quite shake the idea out of my head. The sheer lunacy of…