hartflicker is an energetic Australian-based video and film production company founded and run by Phoebe Hart.

hartflicker is the crafter of provocative, socially aware documentaries and moving, experimental and visually intriguing drama productions for the small and big screen. With courageous intent, hartflicker distributes these media products to local, national and international markets.

 

What’s New

9/1/12: Orchids: My Intersex Adventure screens on ABC1 10pm Sunday 29 January 2012.

30/11/11: Orchids: My Intersex Adventure receives a Samsung AACTA Awards Nomination for Best Documentary Under One Hour. The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award (previously the Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards), is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian film and television industry. The awards ceremony will be held in Sydney, January 2012.

25/11/11: Phoebe Hart gets a Highly Commended in the Shoot the Architect Portrait Prize at the Australian Institute of Architects for her photograph "After Hours Architecture".

 

20/11/11: See hartflicker's Phoebe Hart speak about her career and life experiences at TEDx Youth Brisbane 12:45-5:00pm Sunday 20 November The Edge Auditorium, State Library of Queensland.

Photo credit: Mark Lobo.

13/11/11: hartflicker does the SPAA Conference in Sydney.

10/11/11: Congratulations to BIFFDOCS winner Arirang. Submitted by one of South Korea’s most celebrated filmmakers, Kim Ki-duk, Arirang is a disturbing autobiographical statement that has been described as the absolute and final expression of a filmmaker. The 2011 judges for BIFFDOCS were Richard Moore, Head of Screen Culture and BIFF director; Mark Lewis, the celebrated documentary filmmaker, producer; David Tiley, documentary filmmaker and editor of online screen journal Screen Hub, and hartflicker's own Phoebe Hart, winner of the 2010 BIFF Showtime audience award for her production Orchids: My Intersex Adventure.

18/10/11: Thank you Australia for rating! Orchids: My Intersex Adventure has been nominated for Best Documentary at the IF Awards to be announced at the gala award ceremony in Sydney on 16 November 2011.

9/9/11: Orchids: My Intersex Adventure is eligible for the 2011 Jameson IF Awards Sydney. Have your say and vote for the film now at www.ifawards.com The IF Awards are the only Australian film ceremony where YOU – the audience, get to determine the winners of the major award categories. So what are you waiting for? The Jameson IF Awards Sydney are also giving you and a friend the opportunity to win a trip for 2 to Sydney to be treated like a VIP at the 2011 Jameson IF Awards Sydney. Your chance to rate for the 2011 Jameson IF Awards Sydney ends on Friday the 16th of September at midnight – start rating now!

11/8/11: Catch hartflicker's Phoebe Hart, when the the Australian Directors Guild and Griffith Film School present Directing the First Person Documentary, a conversation with directors Phoebe (Orchids: My Intersex Adventure), Peter Hegedus (My America) and Cathy Henkel (The Man Who Stole my Mother's Face) followed by a Q&A. Date: 30th August. Time: 6.00pm til 8.00pm. Venue: Griffith Film School Cinema, Southbank campus (entry from Dock Street). Cost: Free to ADG members, $5 non members, Griffith students free, Gold coin donation other students (ID required). Please send rsvps to rsvp@adg.org.au with the email heading "Queensland Doco" by 29 August. Phone the ADG office 02 9555 7045 for any enquiries.

16/6/11: hartflicker is coordinating a crowd-funding appeal to get director/producer Phoebe Hart to the US next month to present Orchids: My Intersex Adventure at various film festivals and conferences. The initial target is AUD$3000 by June 30. If you would like to support get the word out about this extraordinary film and its important message, then you may donate here.

15/6/11: Voting is now open for the IF Awards and Orchids: My Intersex Adventure is eligible! Please rate Orchids now!!

19/5/11: Phoebe Hart is on a comedy debate panel entitled "Future Sex" tomorrow night at The Edge Auditorium, State Library of Queensland for the Ideas Festival.

11/2/11: In post production, the making of Swamp Cartography, a collaboration with porcelain designer Shannon Garson and jeweller Rebecca Ward.

8/2/11: hartflicker helps out Queensland's flood survivors, producing a training video for architects on assessing homes affected by inundation and natural disaster in partnership with Emergency Architects Australia, Royal Institute of Architects Australia and Archicentre.

28/1/11: Dates for the Australian tour of Orchids: My Intersex Adventure out now!

22/10/10: Orchids: My Intersex Adventure takes out Best Documentary (General) at the ATOM Awards! Tickets for world premiere at Brisbane International Film Festival now available.

15/10/10: hartflicker celebrates its 6th birthday.

30/8/10: hartflicker now tweets regularly - please follow us!

14/7/10: Tonight! Roller Derby Dolls rolls out as a repeat at 10pm, ABC2.

13/7/10: hartflicker is now shooting for ABC's Big Ideas... a screen space for intellectual, political, cultural and economic debate in Australia.

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