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blind freedom trailer debuts
Riverine Herald | December 12 2024
The trailer for a highly anticipated short-film shot in Echuca-Moama will be released on Friday, December 13.
Diversity in Film | ABC Darwin Saturdays
ABC Darwin | September 21 2024
ABC Darwin Saturdays Lyrella Couzens interviews filmmaker & screen storyteller Julian Neuhaus about diversity in the screen industry, his connection to Bus Stop Films and launching their program in Darwin, as well as Mise en Place screening at Darwin International Film Festival 2024.
AFTRS X Westpac Open Air Cinema
AFTRS | December 14 2023
This summer we’re thrilled to be partnering again with Westpac’s Open Air Cinema, to screen a program of extraordinary short films on selected nights of the season. Set against a backdrop that spans the Opera House, Harbour Bridge and city skyline, OpenAir has become a staple in the arts and culture calendar.…
Inclusive film series follows people with disability carving careers
FilmInk | December 6 2022
An all-inclusive film series made by people living with disability, about people living with disability, is shining a light on the value of diversity in the workforce. A project by Feros Care, the films are captured and produced by Julian Neuhaus of Ironbark Films with the assistance of budding student filmmakers from Bus Stop Films – a film school that delivers an award-winning Accessible Film Studies Program for people with intellectual disabilities…
New documentary series showing employers the value diversity brings to the workplace
7 News | December 2 2022
18% of Australians live with a disability, and most face barriers with getting a job but a new documentary series aims to inspire employers by showing the value diversity brings to the workplace. It follows six young Australians with a disability as they carve out a career…
The Man About Town
Mackay and Whitsunday Life | November 24 2022
The fourth season is the first involving people with disability both in front of, and behind, the camera, however it is not the first time Sydney-based filmmaker Julian Neuhaus of Ironbark Films has worked on an inclusive set. “When I step onto any project, particularly if it’s been done by someone else before, my inspiration is to try and bring something new to it, something different, and we’ve done that through the inclusive filmmaking aspect,” Mr Neuhaus said…
‘We can't wait to win an Oscar’: Inside a film school with a difference
SBS - The Feed | April 12 2022
A pioneering not-for-profit film school for adults with intellectual disabilities is racking up awards and placing graduates on the set of major productions. Actor and writer Chris Bunton, who has Down Syndrome, said he didn’t have any role models on screen when he was a child. But that changed. “When I was a teenager, I saw ‘Glee’ and I thought to myself ‘I could be an actor’”, he said…
Bus Stop Films creates another inclusive film in the shire
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader | November 4 2021
The Sutherland Shire has become the backdrop of another Bus Stop Films inclusive film production, with the three lead actors also long-term students of local not-for-profit Bus Stop Films' Accessible Film Studies Program, hosted in conjunction with the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Called For Better, for Worse, the film looks at dating and living with disabilities and was developed and directed by Ironbark Films' Julian Neuhaus, a Kirrawee resident who teaches the Accessible Film Studies Program…
35 AFTRS STUDENT AND ALUMNI FILMS ON SHOW AT MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
AFTRS | July 14 2021
A staggering 35 feature, short and documentary films by AFTRS students and alumni have been selected for the 2021 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). Three short films made by AFTRS students have been chosen for the highly competitive short film program.…
Inclusively-made film brings Shire community together
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader | June 17 2021
Ten young adults with disabilities were involved in producing a short film created in the Shire, and they - together with families and friends - will enjoy the result of their labours on the big screen next month. The production was an initiative of locally-based Bus Stop Films, an award-winning not-for-profit organisation that offers adults with intellectual disabilities and others from marginalised communities…