by renée brack | May 14, 2016 | Archive, Blog
Festival director Nashen Moodley continues to evolve the SFF into the most intriguing and beguiling international cinematic experience. The 2016 slate of screenings is astounding with too many highlights to cram into a single blog. There’s...
by renée brack | Apr 20, 2016 | Latest News
It was a joy to catch up with director Jon Favreau whose on and off screen work I love since he did Made and Swingers . What he’s done with Disney’s The Jungle Book is take a classic animation and breathe real life with 3D and CGI into the jungle...
by renée brack | Apr 4, 2016 | Archive, Blog
I chatted with director Jon Favreau in Sydney about his CGI 3D masterpiece The Jungle Book for Disney with the only live action from Neel Sethi – the actor playing Mowgli. Here are the trailers side by side – for Favreau’s 2016 version + Disney’s 1967 animated...
by renée brack | Apr 1, 2016 | Archive, Blog
On April Fool’s Day, private health cover premiums rose again – this time 5-6%. BUPA shafted me with my annual price gouge – this time 7.2% – with a healthy dose of ‘put up and shut up’: There are 4 industries that should not have shareholders: Health...
by renée brack | Mar 26, 2016 | Latest News
Some time spent at the Sydney premiere of The Boss with comedy star Melissa McCarthy and equally comically talented husband, Ben Falcone proved they are a real team in the true sense of the word. You might remember him as the reluctant guy on the plane up against the...
by renée brack | Feb 1, 2016 | Archive, Blog
A Belgian, a Persian, a Maori, an American, a Samoan and I walk into a bar… It’s called The Ugly Mermaid (yep)… At Le Vasa on Upolu Island, Samoa, the chairs, roof and all fittings are tied together with twine spun by the locals making it look and feel like Gilligan’s...
by renée brack | Jan 4, 2016 | Latest News
Thanks to iSentia, I joined the willowy, confident Maria Sharapova in the beautiful Eureka Bar & Skydeck for an interview about family, leaving Russia as a 7 year old for a Florida tennis camp and the things in life that are valuable to her. We also played a game...
by renée brack | Dec 21, 2015 | Archive, Blog
Big thanks to the creative people and agencies I worked with in 2015. It’s been a great year full of inspiring and fun productions and I’m available for more work from Feb 1st 2016. I also have proposals on a slate that includes feature films, TV series and other...
by renée brack | Dec 18, 2015 | Latest News
Arguably the biggest film of the decade – Star Wars The Force Awakens . I produced with a great crew – shooting content for global social at the Sydney Opera House Fan Event – now gearing up to produce segs for Disney of the December 17 premiere in...
by renée brack | Dec 16, 2015 | Latest News
This MC gig gave me the great opportunity to interview the legendary Ron Cobb – the filmmaker and political cartoonist who contributed to numerous productions including Alien and Back To The Future – then I moderated a panel of industry disrupters with...
by renée brack | Dec 6, 2015 | Archive, Blog
The Revenant is a beautiful, brutal revenge masterpiece that will attract awards attention for many of the cast and crew, particularly the talented trio who gave us the awards-magnet, Birdman: Iñárritu + Chivo + Mirrione (director, cinematographer, editor). Their...
by renée brack | Nov 14, 2015 | Archive, Blog
Declaring a herd of cows as a national threat sounds like an absurdist notion from Stanley Kubrick’s classic Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964) but it’s a true story. The Wanted 18 is a 75 minute documentary that tells the story...
