Congratulations to Nicki Gardiner who will be Production Designer on upcoming feature film H is for Happiness.
The film is the feature debut for prolific, award-winning theatre director John Sheedy, with a script adapted by writer and producer Lisa Hoppe based on celebrated children’s book My Life As An Alphabet by Barry Jonsberg. Lisa will produce alongside Julie Ryan and Tenille Kennedy. Jonathan Page, Bryce Menzies and Avrill Stark will act as executive producers.
Snowtown director Justin Kurzel will direct the feature, due to start filming in Victoria from March of next year with writer Shaun Grant (Snowtown, Jasper Jones) on hand to adapt Carey’s uncompromising gothic western for the big screen.
‘Peter Carey’s book The True History of the Kelly Gang always felt like the true spirit of Ned Kelly. Unsentimental, brutal, raw and visceral,’ Kurzel said.
Russell Crowe will lead an all-star cast along with X-Men and Mad Max: Fury Road star Nicholas Hoult, Australian actress Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and The Babadook), and British actor George MacKay (Captain Fantastic) who have also signed up for the film.
TFA celebrates AACTA nominees, Shaun Grant, Chris Kennedy and Simon Chapman.
In what may be a first…Grant has been nominated twice for Best Adapted Screenplay in this year’s AACTA Awards – for Jasper Jones and for Berlin Syndrome.
TFA’s Chris Kennedy receives yet another AACTA award nomination for Best Production Design for his extraordinary work in Lion.