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SCREENHUB: Be bold, be real, be rigorous: Samantha Lang on creativity and change in this weird moment - OCT 2020
The writer, director and ADG President reflects on the stories we're going to need and the challenges facing the industry.
'This weird time demands we be real about who and where we are, and that we have the creative courage to make stories that reflect that reality,' says Samantha Lang. Like the rest of us, she's been doing a lot of thinking and worrying since the pandemic struck. But her focus is mainly on positivity, advocacy and using this time to re-think the ways we work.
DEADLINE: ‘Lion’ Director Garth Davis, See-Saw Films Launch Production Venture I Am That; Make First Key Hire - NOV 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Garth Davis, the Australian filmmaker whose work includes Lion with Dev Patel and Mary Magdalene starring Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix, is joining forces with See-Saw Films producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech) on a new production venture.
THE CURB: IT ALL STARTED WITH A STALE SANDWICH REVIEW – A GRAND CELEBRATION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC ART - AUG 2019
If you stand over a certain grate on a fairly innocuous concrete island in Times Square, New York City, you’ll experience something unique and memorable. This grate looks exactly like every other subway grate in the city, a crosshatch of metal that allows the slurry of New York rain and snow to flow down into the sewers and away from the bustling tourist trap that is the neon lit Times Square. Yet, there’s something unique about it that distinguishes it apart from every other subway grate – a low hum emanates from the grate, at once sounding like an impending subway train, but then, once you’ve stood in the sound for thirty seconds or so, you realise it’s something entirely unique. It absorbs you, encompassing your body and mind and oddly washes the loud noise of New York City away from you and places you outside of Times Square. Somehow, you become a character from a JG Ballard novel, existing within the world, and yet, existing without the world.
SCREENHUB: Film Review: It All Started With a Stale Sandwich: The Kaldor Projects - JULY 2019
Samantha Lang's feature documentary deftly tells the story of a key figure in Australian art. Visual and performing arts critic Chris Boyd says it's brilliant.
Australians have a pretty benign attitude towards public art... providing it isn’t paid for out of the public purse. We might eye it off suspiciously as hucksterism – as post-Duchamp conceptual art all-too-often is – but we’re pretty chuffed on the rare occasions we find ourselves ahead of the new wave.
IF: SAMANTHA LANG IS READY TO FOCUS ON HER OWN FILMMAKING - AUG 2018
After devoting herself to teaching at the Australian Film Television and Radio School and serving as president of the Australian Directors’ Guild, Samantha Lang is looking forward to getting back to her first love: making screen stories.
Lang aims to progress two projects in development when she meets with agents, managers and production companies in Los Angeles next month as part of the Screen Australia/ Australian Writers’ Guild’s Talent USA delegation...
Screen Australia: Talent USA Recipients Announced - Aug 2018
Samantha Lang: With her debut feature The Well nominated for a Cannes Palme d’Or, and an incredible 11 AFI Awards back home, Lang’s directing career had a flying start. Remaining on the international stage with The Monkey’s Mask (Toronto International Film Festival premiere) and French-language film L’Idole (Toronto and Locarno Festival), Lang was tempted home to take the position of Head of Directing at AFTRS (2010-2016) ...
SEOUL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL (SIWFF) - nov 2018
Samantha Lang and fellow Jury member Lizzie Francke
With support from the Embassy, Australian filmmaker Samantha Lang was in Seoul for the 서울국제여성영화제 SEOUL International Women's Film Festival (SIWFF) to present her advocacy for #GenderEquality on behalf of women filmmakers in Australia. The Embassy was fortunate to meet with Samantha to talk about the gender issues we face in today’s society.