Canberra film festival harvey weinstein biography
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Legendary studio mogul Harvey “Scissorhands” Weinstein is coming to Australia – and Luck Buckmaster has five ideas for how he could help the Australian film industry.
Hollywood is a place dominated by big things. Big movies. Big budgets. Big parties. Big profits. Big losses. Big personalities. All of these — particularly the latter — apply to the life and career of Harvey Weinstein, whose impact on the Hollywood studio system has secured his name among the most colourful and influential movie moguls in history.
The legendary co-founder of Miramax Films is coming to Australia in November as a guest of the Canberra Film Festival. Famously assigned the moniker “Scissorhands” to describe his notorious tendency to hack huge chunks out of films to make them more commercially viable for American audiences, Weinstein, along with his brother Bob, transformed the way independent films are distributed, mass-marketing the indie movement and lining the pockets of a number of cash-strapped actors and filmmakers who emerged in the ’90s.
These people include Matt Damon, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Steven Soderbergh, Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino. Weinstein has often referred to Miramax as “The House That Quentin Built”.
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Confronting the ugly face of sexual harassment
The New York Times’ story on 5 October detailing American film mogul Harvey Weinstein’s alleged history of sexual harassment, and the subsequent allegations of rape and assault that followed, have sent shockwaves around the world.
The response has been significant, including everything from social media movements – such as the #MeToo hashtag, which made the widespread and pervasive nature of sexual harassment more visible than ever before – to the French Government proposing a new bill cracking down on sexual harassment, including introducing fines for catcalling on the street.
‘I think there is one clear message that’s come out of the last couple of weeks arising from the Harvey Weinstein instance, and that is, I think the entertainment industry globally is shocked. They may not be surprised … but this is clearly a watershed moment for our industry,’ said Zoe Angus, the National Director of Equity.
Structural differences between Australia and the USA mean that an individual like Weinstein is unlikely to exist locally, Angus continued.
‘We don’t have the studio system here, so that means there is not the same large unfettered power … Screen prod
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