Baz Luhrmann's AUSTRALIA Educates and Inspires Aspiring Filmmakers with "Set to Screen Series" Podcasts

Business Wire, April 15, 2008

Launches April 15 on iTunes

LOS ANGELES -- Twentieth Century Fox and renowned filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, the Oscar[R] nominated director of Moulin Rouge and William Shakespeare's Romeo Juliet, are collaborating on a special series of 10 podcasts that will follow the making of the epic film AUSTRALIA, on which Luhrmann is writer, producer and director.

The "Set to Screen Series with Baz Luhrmann," launching today on the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com), is designed to educate and inspire high school and college filmmakers, taking them behind the scenes of AUSTRALIA, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman - and inside the creative process of Luhrmann and his production team.

Every few weeks through October, aspiring filmmakers can explore AUSTRALIA's on-set photography, costume design, cinematography, scoring, editing, and more. In addition, students inspired by what they've learned from the podcasts will be invited to create and share their own film projects for a chance to join Luhrmann on the film's promotional tour and have their project included in AUSTRALIA's DVD release as well as other rewards.

For additional information, please visit: www.apple.com/go/settoscreen

Twentieth Century Fox releases AUSTRALIA everywhere on November 14.

About AUSTRALIA:

A romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, AUSTRALIA centers on an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Hugh Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. With his new film, director-writer-producer Baz Luhrmann is painting on a vast canvas, creating a cinematic experience that brings together romance, drama, adventure and spectacle.

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