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Audio Loc has been immensely proud to have done the Sound Design and post production for Top of the Lake, the highly anticipated television series from Academy Award-winning writer/director Jane Campion and the Academy Award-winning producers of The King’s Speech.  It will be screened on Foxtel on UKTV from Sunday, March 24 at 8.30pm.

Campion, who directed “The Piano,” is following peers such as “Pulp Fiction” financier Harvey Weinstein and “Terminator” producer Gale Anne Hurd to television, where investment in original productions is booming. The first foray of New Zealand-born Campion into TV is “Top of the Lake,” a BBC drama series about a detective investigating the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old girl who walked into a freezing lake.

“Creative people are always looking for places where they can have freedom and writers have more power in TV,” Campion said in an interview last week in Cannes, France, where she was promoting the series at the Mipcom fair, the world’s biggest market for TV programs. ‘You have more opportunities,’’ she said, adding that financing for classic cinema movies has “tightened.”

TV operators including HBO, AMC, Lifetime and British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSY) are ramping up investments to buy and create programming to attract viewers, especially to the global pay-TV market, which is predicted by PricewaterhouseCoopers to surge by 30 percent to $254.7 billion by 2016. The audience for television is expanding as more people watch shows on computer screens, tablets and even mobile phones and new video-streaming services allow access at any time.

Audio Loc Sound Design is proud to be doing the Sound Post Production for this outstanding series.

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Black & White & Sex

Rated MA
Review by David Stratton
On a sound stage, a director and his crew film Angie, a prostitute. The director encourages her to talk about her work, her attitudes, her lifestyle. She responds frankly and forthrightly, but she also draws the director himself into the film, probing his attitudes towards her profession.

In this low-budget, totally independent Australian film, Angie is played by eight different – very different – actresses but the dialogue flows continuously as the different faces, and bodies, of this very independent woman change from one scene to the next. Writer-director John Winter gets wonderful performances from his eight women. They include Katherine Hicks, who is first seen as a Marilyn Monroe-like character, an older woman, Valerie Bader, a dimpled nymphet, Saskia Burmeister and Maia Thomas, as perhaps the most confident face of this woman. The others, all good, are Anya Beyersdorf, Roxane Wilson, Michelle Vergera More and Dina Panozzo.

As the director, Matthew Holmes asks the questions but is only seen from behind or in silhouette. Shot in black and white, occasionally using multiple screen images, this exercise in style contains some extremely candid dialogue and interesting insights into the oldest profession. But mostly it’s a showcase for eight exceptional actresses.

Further comments

DAVID: Margaret?

MARGARET: I think this is a very interesting film.

DAVID: Very, yes.

MARGARET: I wondered what I’d got into when it first started. I thought it smacked of prurience but, in fact, it goes way beyond that into a dynamic between the director and these actresses, whores, if you will, presenting their lives, I suppose and their attitudes.

DAVID: Yes.

MARGARET: I think it’s brave. I think it’s imaginative. I think it is so well performed by these women.

DAVID: They’re really great, aren’t they?

MARGARET: They’re really terrific.

DAVID: Yes.

MARGARET: The depth of talent in this country. And when it first started I thought it was a documentary. That’s how – I didn’t recognise the first actress.

DAVID: Yes.

MARGARET: And then you realise that they are performances and you’re even more impressed.

DAVID: Yes.

MARGARET: To bring that degree of reality to the presentation.

DAVID: And it’s also, within its limitations, very stylishly done, I think.

MARGARET: Yes, exactly.

DAVID: Yes.

MARGARET: Exactly.

DAVID: Yes.

MARGARET: No, I think this is maybe not for everyone but really another very interesting Australian film. I’m giving it three and a half stars.

DAVID: Me too, three and a half.

Tony mixed this with Sam Petty at our Lindfield Studios – we had a great time doing the Foley and the ADR.  A very enjoyable project to be involved with.

View Griff The Invisible Trailer here

By day Griff (Ryan Kwanten) is an everyday office worker, in an everyday town. He lives a secluded life, bullied by co-workers (Toby Schmitz) – his protective brother his only friend. By night Griff assumes his other identity, roaming the dark streets protecting the innocent and the vulnerable from the dangers that lurk in the shadows – he is the hero, GRIFF THE INVISIBLE.

Increasingly concerned by Griff’s eccentric behaviour, his brother (Patrick Brammall) attempts to draw him back into the ‘real world’. In doing so he introduces Griff to Melody (Maeve Dermody) an equally eccentric and charming girl.

Fascinated by Griff’s idiosyncrasies, which are equal only to her own, Melody begins to fall for Griff. As Griff is forced to face up to realities of a mundane world, it is up to Melody to rescue GRIFF THE INVISIBLE for the sake of herself, Griff and their love for each other.

Scary and satirical, the movie features the make-up effects supervision of horror legend Tom Savini.
Six captive office workers are literally chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann (Redd). He assigns his ‘human resources’ the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences.

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REDD INC TRAILER

Comedy, Horror, UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand
If you reckon your boss is horrible, think your workplace is a nightmare or feel that your job is killing you, watching the new Aussie indie horror flick REDD INC. may just make you think otherwise, or even teach you to appreciate your job a little bit more. After all, no boss could be as horrible as the murderous regional manager Thomas Reddmann; no workplace could be as nightmarish as the torture center that is Redd Inc.; and no job could kill you faster than Redd’s ‘five strikes and you’re out’ approach to disciplining poorly performing employees.

REDD INC. tells the story of six workers who are kidnapped and chained to a desk where they have to work under the supervision and surveillance of a mad man who is Mr Reddmann. The workers soon find out that this is not some random act of craziness, but all six of them are there for the same reason. As the story unfolds, one thing becomes extremely clear: all of them could die… in that office.

Under the direction of Daniel Krige, the cast all give solid performances. Nicholas Hope is outstanding as Reddmann, while Kelly Paterniti does a fine (and hopefully star-making) job playing the film’s heroine Annabelle Hale. The story is interesting, the script is tight and the film is well made overall, but a slight complaint is that that some of the key scenes taking place in the lift are not entirely convincing. That aside, the film should satisfy all horror comedy fans, as it manages to be both disgustingly gory and wickedly funny.

The film has the legendary Tom Savini (FRIDAY THE 13TH, DAWN OF THE DEAD) as its special make-up effects supervisor, and he has done a wonderful job with the film’s many bloody scenes. But the film is not just gory, it also has some very funny moments, and many lines in the script are laugh-out-loud hilarious. The comedy fits really well with the horror, and it may actually be the best horror comedy since TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL.

REDD INC. is the kind of insanely fun film that Australia used to make. If Aussie filmmakers can keep on making good films like this one, the industry may very soon be able to get back to its glorious days again.
by Hugo Ozman, cited http://twitchfilm.com/reviews/2012/03/review-redd-inc.php
REDD INC TRAILER

This film is a truly chilling masterpiece of understatement – do not miss it.  Look at those eyes !!!

This is the synopsis from the Caught Inside website -

Ever been stuck with a friend who crosses the line?

A Surf charter to remote paradise. A bunch of mates, uncrowded waves and one rule; leave your girlfriend at home. When this is broken, focus turns towards a single female. She flirts with the attention of her captive male audience. Sexual tension, manipulation and deceit erupt into violence as the Bullish male, hell bent on getting his, has the group caught inside. Sometimes we suffer the monsters we create.

On a boat, in the middle of nowhere, you can’t just walk away.

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This chilling Australian Horror movie has an interesting storyline…..

View trailer here:-

NEEDLE OFFICIAL MOVIE TRAILER 2012

After the death of his father, archaeology student Ben Rutherford inherits an 18th century mechanical device known as “Le Vaudo Mort”. At a college party he flaunts the machine in front of a group of his closest friends and later discovers that the machine has a sinister past and may harbor supernatural powers. After class he returns to his dorm room to find that the contraption has been stolen. One by one, Ben’s friends begin to die in strange and horrific circumstances. Now he must reunite with his estranged half-brother, Marcus, a forensic photographer, and delve deeper into their father’s past to work out who is behind the grisly murders. As the terror mounts and the clues seem to suggest the unthinkable, a surprising twist will reveal the true identity of the killer… Written by Filmscope Entertainment

Bright Star
Written and directed by Academy Award winner Jane Campion, Bright Star is based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats’ untimely death at age 25.
Ben Whishaw (The International, I’m Not There) and Abbie Cornish (Stop-Loss, Elizabeth: The Golden Age) star as John Keats and Fanny Brawne.
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New York Times,
Rolling Stone,
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