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Gregor Jordan has assembled a dream
team of off-camera talent for Ned Kelly. Here you can
find out who is responsible behind the scenes for
bringing the legend of Ned Kelly to the big
screen.
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Fibre glass versions of the Kelly
Gang’s armour were made for the film, but these were not
used. Instead the actors wore heavy, 4mm-thick steel
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Director
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 Despite a busy schedule,
director Gregor Jordan immediately wanted to work on "Ned
Kelly" after reading the script.
"I
was excited by what I read" he says. "At the core of the
story is a person fighting for a cause. He's part of a
persecuted minority so he stands up and fights back.
This is what this story is about."
Jordan's
career as a director started with music videos, most
notably Christine Anu's "Party". His first short film
"Swinger" won the Tropicana Short Film Festival
in Sydney before going on to collect the Jury Prize at
Cannes in 1995. "Swinger" has since been screened
at Telluride, New York, Sundance, Edinburgh, Hofer,
Brisbane, Valladolid, Haifa and Taipei Film Festivals.
In January, 1996 it was screened as part of the
Australian Collection of short films on ABC
TV.
During 1996, Jordan completed his second
short film "Stitched", which was nominated for an
AFI Award for Best Screenplay - Non Feature. He has also
written two episodes of the Southern Star Xanadu series
"Big Sky" and directed "The Confident Man", an episode
of the anthology series "Twisted Tales" for the Nine
Network.
Jordan's debut feature film "Two
Hands" starring Heath Ledger and Bryan Brown was
selected for the Sundance Film Festival in January,
1999. It debuted at Number One in the Australian Box
Office that July. "Two Hands" was nominated for
11 AFI Awards in 1999, and won for Best Film, Best
Direction and Best Original Screenplay.
His
second feature "Buffalo Soldiers" starring Ed
Harris, Joaquin Phoenix and Anna Paquin will be released
in the USA later this year. |
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| Gregor Jordan | Oliver Stapleton | Tim White | Steven Jones Evans | Anna Borghesi | Jenny Shircore |
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of Photography
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 Oliver Stapleton has photographed
a broad range of critically acclaimed films including
Cider House Rules (1999), which marked his first
collaboration with director, Lasse Hallstrom. He has teamed
with filmmaker including Stephen Frears eight times beginning
with My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). He followed
this with Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Sammy and
Rosie Get Laid (1987), The Grifters (1990),
Hero (1992), Snapper (1993), The Van
(1996) and Hi-Lo Country (1998). He has teamed
up with director Michael Hoffman on four features including
A Midsummer's Night's Dream (1999).
Other features include; the
Oscar-winning epic Restoration (1995),
Birthday Girl (2000) starring Nicole Kidman and
The Shipping News (2001).
Stapleton first
worked with Gregor Jordan on Buffalo Soldiers
(2001), the film they completed before rejoining forces
on Ned Kelly. |
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| Gregor Jordan | Oliver Stapleton | Tim White | Steven Jones Evans | Anna Borghesi | Jenny Shircore |
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, Executive Producer
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 Tim White is the Executive
Producer of "Ned Kelly" and established himself
in Australia in the early 1980s. His producer credits
include "Strikebound", "Malcolm" (AFI's
Best Film Award in 1986), "The Big Steal", "Death
in Brunswick" starring Sam Neill, "Spotswood"
starring Anthony Hopkins and Russell Crowe, Vincent Ward's
"Map of the Human Heart" (produced with Tim Bevan/Working
Title), "Angel Baby" (AFI's Best Film Award in
1995), "Cosi" and "Oscar and Lucinda" directed
by Gillian Armstrong, starring Ralph Fiennes and Cate
Blanchett.
In 1997, White was Chief Executive of
Fox Icon Productions, a joint venture between Twentieth
Century Fox and Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey's company,
Icon Productions. During this period, he was Executive
Producer of Gregor Jordan's "Two Hands" (AFI's
Best Film Award in 1999) and Elise McCredie's
"Strange Fits of Passion". At the conclusion of
this venture in January 2000, he produced "The Three
Stooges," a film for television for Columbia Tristar
and Icon Productions for the ABC Network in the
US.
White is currently head of WTA (Working Title
Australia), a development and production company linked
to Working Title. |
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| Gregor Jordan | Oliver Stapleton | Tim White | Steven Jones Evans | Anna Borghesi | Jenny Shircore |
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Production Designer
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 Steven Jones Evans has been production
designer on a number of notable Australian features including
"Romper Stomper", "Love Serenade", "True
Love and Chaos", "Two Hands", "Walk the
Talk" and, more recently, "Australian Rules".
His recent
international features include "Buffalo
Soldiers", and the upcoming "Seventh Heaven"
due to commence production 2003.
Jones Evans has
a number of Australian Film Institute (AFI) nominations;
these include, Best Production Design on "Romper
Stomper" 1992; Best Achievement in Production Design
for both "Siam Sunset" and "Two Hands"
1999 and Best Achievement in Production Design for
"Love Serenade" 1996. For his work on "Metal
Skin", he won the 1995 AFI Award for Best Production
Design. He was nominated for an Australian IF Award this
year for his work on "Australian
Rules".
Jones Evan's television credits
include the Gannon/Jenkins series "Wildside" and three
teleplays of the "Naked" series for Jan Chapman
Productions. |
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| Gregor Jordan | Oliver Stapleton | Tim White | Steven Jones Evans | Anna Borghesi | Jenny Shircore |
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, Costume Designer
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 Nominated six times for Best Costume
in the Australian Film Institute Awards, Anna Borghesi
has contributed to many Australian feature films, including
Russell Crowe's controversial "Romper Stomper"
and Jan Chapman's "Love Serenade", winner of the
Camera D'or - Cannes Film Festival. Her theatre credits
number over forty productions, including eight with director
Neil Armfield.
Borghesi's television work includes,
"On the Beach" starring Bryan Brown and Rachael Ward,
"Sea Change" and the children's series "Eugenie
Sandler". Her international film work includes "Pitch
Black", "Darkness Falls", "Child Star"
and "The Outsider". |
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| Gregor Jordan | Oliver Stapleton | Tim White | Steven Jones Evans | Anna Borghesi | Jenny Shircore |
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, Hair & Make-Up Designer
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 Jenny Shircore is based in London.
Spanning over 20 years, her early career encompasses drama,
plays, opera and film for the BBC. These include "A Midsummer
Night's Dream", "Macbeth", "Pennies From Heaven", "The
Oresteia" and "T'is Pity She's a Whore".
Shircore has teamed up with director Shekhar Kapur on
two occasions; "Four Feathers", where she first
worked with Heath Ledger, and "Elizabeth" which
earned her an Oscar for Best Make-up and Hair and a BAFTA
for Best Make-up and Hair.
Other feature films include "Enigma" starring Kate
Winslet, "Blow Dry" with Rachel Griffiths and Josh
Hartnett, "Gangster No. 1" and "Land Girls".
In addition to "Ned Kelly", Shircore has worked
with Working Title on "Elizabeth" with Cate Blanchett
and "Notting Hill" starring Julia Roberts and Hugh
Grant, and "Personal Services", "Wish You Were
Here" and "Paperhouse". |
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