GreeneStreet set to play 'Mozart'
'Swimfan's' Polson to helm, 'Moulin's' Brown produces
Due to roll in January, it's the next project from Aussie helmer John Polson following thriller "Swimfan," which was partly funded by GreeneStreet.
Gotham firm is putting up half the $6.7 million budget for "Mozart" and will handle sales outside Australia, where Roadshow and the Movie Network have rights. Martin Brown ("Moulin Rouge") is producing, with a script by Louis Nowra, Dorian Mode and Richard Sutherlin.
It's one of four features on a slate with a production value of $39 million approved by the Film Finance Corp. at its Tuesday board meeting. The FFC's investment reps half of the aggregate budgets.
The agency will co-fund "Three Dollars," based on Elliot Perlman's novel about an honest man who finds himself with a wife, a child and three dollars, helmed by Robert Connolly and produced by John Maynard. Fandango has foreign rights.
It will back "The Oyster Farmer," a contempo romantic Western about oyster farmers and Vietnam vets, toplining David Kelly ("Waking Ned Devine"), Kerry Armstrong, Jack Thompson and newcomer Alex O'Lachlan, written and directed by Anna Reeves. A co-prod between Australia's Tony Buckley and the U.K.'s Little Wing, film will be repped internationally by Beyond; it cranks up in November.
The FFC is providing top-up funds for "You and Your Stupid Mate," which got most of its coin from the recent Nine/Macquarie fund-raising. It's a comedy about two happily unemployed friends who are forced to work for their dole payments, helmed by Marc Gracie and produced by Gracie and David Redman.
It's also investing in two telepics for the Nine Network, Southern Star Entertainment's "The Alice" and Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier's "Troppo," and children's drama series "Flipper & Lopaka -- Paradise Lost" (Yoram Gross) and "Holly's Heroes" (producers Anne Darrouzet, Jenni Tosi).
