Producer Ross Grayson Bell (FIGHT CLUB), director Ian W Thomson (OUT IN THE LINE UP), actor Jack Thompson (THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER) and feminist writer Amy Gray consider shifting popular representations of masculinity in film. Does film have an impact on social constructions of masculinity? Have politics of gender & sexuality transformed the terrain […]
Queer Fruits Film Festival – Distinguished Festival Juror
Following on from a seminar I gave in Lismore in August on the power of a strong concept to drive film ideas, I returned to the Northern Rivers as a Distinguished Festival Juror for the Queer Fruits Film Festival. Now in its third year, Queer Fruits Film Festival is the only regionally produced independent queer […]
Gold Coast Film Festival – Future of Australian Film Marketing and Distribution
Festival Director Casey Marshall Siemer hosts a seminar on Australian filmmaking and distribution with Seph McKenna (Australian Acquisitions, Production and Distribution Manager – Roadshow Films), Chris Brown (Producer – DAYBREAKERS, THE PROPOSITION), Jonathan Page (Distributor – Bonsai Films) and Ross Grayson Bell (Producer – FIGHT CLUB, UNDER SUSPICION).
VICTORY HALL (TV Series) – In Development
I was in Brisbane today to meet with writers John Lonie and Matthew Ryan for a new TV project about a theatre director, banished to regional Queensland, whose only hope of redemption is to revive the local theatre. Imagine a show with the heart of A COUNTRY PRACTICE married with the droll humour of Christopher […]
The Northern Star – Aussie Films in the Frame (Scott Harlum)
BUDDING North Coast film-makers and screen writers were treated to advice from an expert in Lismore this week. Ross Grayson Bell, the Australian born producer of the critically acclaimed film FIGHT CLUB, which starred Bad Pitt, was in town to address a seminar arranged by the organisers of the Queer Fruits Film Festival. Back in […]
Australian Films – Can we Recapture the Glory Days?
With the decline of Australian films at the box office, the Australian-born producer of FIGHT CLUB, Ross Grayson Bell, looks at ways we can shake things up and recapture the glory days. Drawing on twenty years of experience working in LA and London with the likes of David Fincher, Winona Ryder, Jamie Foxx, Pedro Almodovar, […]
Origin8 Fast Film Festival (Toowoomba) – Guest Judge with John Batchelor
I was thrilled to join actor, John Batchelor (RED DOG), and Toowoomba Councilwoman, Ros Scotney, as judge of the Origin8 Fast Film Festival. Back for its third year, budding filmmakers are given a theme and twenty-four hours to make a film of up to 8 minutes for a chance to win up to $10,000 in […]
The Learning Annex (Seattle) – How To Pitch Your Movie Idea So That It Sells
Ross Grayson Bell (producer of FIGHT CLUB) gives you the ten points you need to be able to pitch your idea in Hollywood. The Learning Annex is a private continuing adult education school based in New York that delivers seminars around the country. Date: January 27, 2001 Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Location: Sheraton […]
SWEET TALKER – Third Assistant Director
An amiable ex-convict (Bryan Brown) arrives in a small Australian costal city (Beachport, South Australia) with the intent of duping the populace into investing money in a phony excavation of a sunken ship, which is allegedly filled with gold. Unexpectedly, he falls in love with a young widow (Karen Allen) and becomes a father-figure to […]