Last month, the Departure Lounge team took home the title of Best Comedy at the 2015 AACTAs Social Shorts competition after AFI / AACTA Members, and the general public were asked to vote for their favourite films. You can still watch the film online here Director Paul Andersen and Producer Bill Leimbach will be dancing their way to the Awards night! Congratulations to the other winners: DRAMA The Tender Dark dir Lily Rolfe INDEPENDENT Life’s a Drag dir Robin...
Read MoreIt has been a busy few months. At the tail end of a reconnaissance trip out to Winton, for our Waltzing Matilda movie, the producer’s wife had a tragic horse accident and was airlifted/evacuated to Townsville General Hospital, with a broken pelvis and femur bone. Eight weeks in the hospital bed without movement was the doctor’s order. What would Bill the Producer do for that time while he tended to his wife Karen? Make a short Bollywood film, what else? Bill’s long time friend and fellow producer of BENEATH HILL 60 (also shot in Townsville) had a short film idea and laid down an offer to make it in the same 8 weeks it would take for Karen to recover enough to get...
Read MoreFull support from Longreach, soon to be one of the homes of the film set. Here’s a nice write up in the Leader.
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Producer Bill is currently developing another project – an as yet untitled film, from a story idea by Gabrielle Lord which will become a high concept thriller and vehicle for the performance skills of young Australian actress Matilda Brown. The screenplay is being written by CJ Johnson. Gabrielle Lord is the author of FORTRESS, a story which was put to screen in 1985 starring Matilda’s mother, Rachel Ward. The first shot: L-R Bill Leimbach, Gabrielle Lord, Cj...
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