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In conversation with Damienne Pradier & Tony Briggs. Typecast and BIRRARANGGA Film Festival. 3 minutes. Founded by Wurundjeri (Woiwurrung) / Yorta Yorta screen creative and actor Tony Briggs, and producer Damienne Pradier, Typecast is a collaborative film, television and events production house.
Our company founders are Tony Briggs and Damienne Pradier. TONY BRIGGS - COMPANY DIRECTOR. Tony is a Yorta Yorta/Wurundjeri (Woiwurrung) theatre, TV and film practitioner (Actor, Writer, Director and Producer) and the creator & writer of hit feature film ‘The Sapphires’ which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
Tony Briggs (born 3 July 1967) is an Aboriginal Australian actor. He is best known for creating the stage play The Sapphires (later a 2012 film), which tells the true story of an Aboriginal singing girl group who toured Vietnam during the war. Briggs is also a former track and field athlete.
Jun 21, 2019 · Married to Damienne Pradier, Briggs has three children, a son, 14,and two daughters, 12 and 7. His older daughter is following in her father's footsteps as a budding actor.
Tony Briggs and Tracey Rigney. Tony Birch’s Miles Franklin-shortlisted novel The White Girl is set in the 1960s but the themes of the courage, strength and dignity of Indigenous resistance are just as relevant today, according to Damienne Pradier.
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May 11, 2021 · Briggs’ wife and producer Damienne Pradier tracked down a piece of archival footage featuring Rigney’s late grandfather, Jack Kennedy, that gives Elders both a note-perfect coda and a ...
Mar 22, 2023 · Originally conceived by Wurundjeri/Yorta Yorta screen creative Tony Briggs (creator and writer of The Sapphires) and produced by Damienne Pradier, the Birrarangga Film Festival is a chance for audiences to engage with stories and ideas from Indigenous storytellers around the world.
