Archive for category: Acting and Extras Work in Sydney

You’ve got to check out this series of TV Commercials with our very own Daniel Jovanov and his ‘Human Car Sounds’. He has been picked up by motor oil brand G-Energy to do an amusing series of TV commercials which are shown in various parts of the world as you can see from the clips below. I think you’d agree that Daniel has done a great job and had an awful lot of fun with this one. What’s great about getting a global campaign like this is that MCTV negotiates a fee for each region that the commercial is played in and a repeat fee if the commercial gets renewed. Lucky for Daniel it’s already been renewed for Russia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Egypt Italy, China and the list goes on.

Check out the behind the scenes footage of the new Shang-Chi set filmed by the Channel 7 chopper yesterday. We’re very happy that things are slowly returning to normal with Wakefield and Shang-Chi already resumed and more and more TV commercials filming around Sydney too. We are also submitting for the new movie based on Puff the Magic Dragon that will start filming soon. If you want to be involved as a background extra on these productions and many of the other shoots coming up around Sydney, it’s a great time to join.

We are proud to say that 113 MCTV people were involved with the production of I Am Woman which premieres on STAN tonight. I am woman follows a struggle that would be familiar to any single mother living in the sixties and seventies or today. The fact that her iconic song “I Am Woman” becomes the anthem for the second wave feminist movement seems a fitting reward for the struggle. The film has been well received by critics as it toured the festivals last year and it’s great to see it get a release here in Australia.

The release of Babyteeth was postponed along with everything else and is about to hit our cinema screens from tomorrow. MCTV only had a handful of people involved with Babyteeth but we are proud to be involved with such an interesting, brave and touching story. Looking forward to seeing this one myself. You can checkout the trailer below or grab a ticket to see it now.

A huge round of applause for the federal government in boosting funding for foreign productions filming in Australia! We expect thousands of new background extra roles over the next few years due to the foreign investment that this attracts. The last funding round in 2018 attracted movies like Peter Rabbit, Thor, The Invisible Man, Shang Chi and Alien Covenant. Each of these movies usually generates roles for 200 – 300 MCTV people and so many other roles for production people too. The great news is that the last funding round was only $140m and this new round is $400m, so we should expect a significant boom in productions in the near future. The other great thing is that the productions have to compete for this funding so only the ones offering the greatest benefit to Australia will win the tax offsets. More info about the funding can be found at The Guardian.