Archive for category: Acting and Extras Work in Sydney

For the first time in its 35 year history, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals is expanding beyond Austin, Texas, bringing its famed celebration of the tech, film, and music industries to Sydney next year.

Hosting the festival will be a huge boost to our film industry, promising a range of film oriented talks, events, premieres and outdoor screenings. Hosting the festival will cement Sydney’s reputation as the leading place for film in the Asia Pacific region.

The festival will across seven days and nights from October 15-22, 2023. Speakers and performers will be announced in the coming months; the likes of Barack Obama, Kendrick Lamar, Jordan Peele, Dave Grohl, Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga, Taika Waititi and Prince have appeared at SXSW Austin over the years.

📷: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski on the red carpet at SXSW 2018

Congratulations to the 18 MCTV members who worked on this latest campaign for Blackmores. The ad cleverly follows a wedding singer through many celebrations without missing a beat.

Great work everyone, hope you enjoyed your time on set.

As filming continues on ‘Ten Pound Poms’, details of the main cast members have been announced.

Faye Marsay (‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Black Mirror’) will play Annie Roberts. Warren Brown (‘The Responder’, ‘Luther’) will play her husband, Terry. These new arrivals to Australia try to make the best of the situation for their family, but the poor living conditions the migrant hostel and local attitudes towards immigrants test them in ways they couldn’t have imagined. 

Michelle Keegan (‘Brassic’, ‘Our Girl’) has been cast as a young nurse who arrives in Australia, having left her fiance behind in the UK. Australian actors Rob Collins, Leon Ford, Declan Coyle, David Field, Stephen Curry, Hattie Hook, Finn Treacy and Emma Hamilton have also been named as cast members.You can read more about the production here.

Submissions still happening on this one, good luck everyone!

📷: Warren Brown and Faye Marsay announced in ‘Ten Pound Poms’

‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ premiered in Hollywood last Thursday with Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale and Director, Taika Waititi all stepping onto the red carpet to celebrate. You can check out all the photos here.

Initial reviews on Twitter have been positive, as published by the Hollywood Reporter.

The movie will hit Australian cinemas on July 6. You can get tickets here. Congratulations to the 73 MCTV members who worked on the film, we can’t wait to finally see it.

Chris Hemsworth sees a bright future ahead for the Australian production industry. He remains committed to bringing more productions to Australia as he promotes his new Australian-made Netflix movie ‘Spiderhead’.

As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, Hemsworth continues to show support for the local industry by insisting films are made here “The last three or four films I’ve done were supposed to shoot in Atlanta or the UK, and I said, ‘I’m not doing it unless it shoots here.'”

“I just prefer to be here; I’ve got three young kids and I love being here. I’ve travelled so much over the last few years and loved it, but this is my home. And half the time I see so many Australian crew members on sets overseas, and everyone’s saying the same thing: ‘Why couldn’t we have shot this back home?’ I feel thankful to be able to have an opinion in it, and that it’s worked out a few times the last few years.”

He also said the future of film in Australia is in a new phase of growth and renewal after some uncertainty:

“Because there was a period recently when there was a lot of uncertainty in the film industry, about, ‘How much work is there now?’ and ‘Are we making films any more?’ And that’s what’s been so great about working at home and talking to crew that have worked here for 40 years. There was a real dip in production, and now it feels like it’s reinvigorated and there’s another life to it. So it’s all positive.”

With a great variety of work at the moment in TV, Film and advertising we are feeling positive too.