 Major congrats to Michelle Ang who won the AFTA (Aotearoa Film and Television Award) for ‘Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film’ for her role as Emily in My Wedding And Other Secrets.
The 2011 AFTA’s, previously known as the Qantas Film & Television Award, was held at the Viaduct Events Centre on November 12, 2011 in Auckland, New Zealand.
I am not 100% certain if Michelle Ang was in attendance to pick up the award herself as I can’t seem to find any photos of her at the event. If you know if she was there or found pics, give us a shout please :)
My Wedding And Other Secrets also won the Best Screenplay for a Feature Film, awarded to Roseanne Liang & Angeline Loo. Another notable, Tribe related win, was Kaitangata Twitch which won the Best Children’s/Youth Programme award. The series starred Miriama Smith.
Okay, so I totally failed in putting this video up before/on Halloween, but here it is, in case you missed it…
The Tribe creators Cloud 9 Ltd have uploaded a video to their official Tribe YouTube channel of the cast wishing fans a Happy Halloween… Check it out…
Beth Allen (Amber), Meryl Cassie (Ebony), Caleb Ross (Lex), Michelle Ang (Tai-San), Antonia Prebble (Trudy), Megan Alatini (Java) and Lucas Hayward (Sammy)- in that order.
Make sure you subscribed to the Official theTribeTVseries. There’s also some old Channel 5 (UK) interviews I uploaded of Damon Andrews (Guardian), Jacob Tomuri (Luke) and Vanessa Stacey (Alice) in a Halloween themed interview… Check those interviews out here and here.
Michelle Ang joined My Wedding And Other Secrets director Roseanne Liang and fellow cast member Cheng Pei Pei at the 20th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in China. The movie which stars Michelle Ang and Matt Whelan was a finalist in the Chinese ‘Oscars’.
Michelle Nominated For Best Actress Award…
In other news the film is nominated for five awards in the Aotearoa Film and Television Awards (AFTAs); Michelle Ang is nominated in the Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film, best of luck to Michelle. The other awards the film is up for are: Best Feature Film, Best Director in a Feature Film (Roseanne Liang), Best Lead Actor in a Feature Film (Matt Whelan) and Best Screenplay for a Feature Film (Roseanne Liang & Angeline Loo).
The awards ceremony will take place on 12th November.
Yay, with thanks to Marie, here’s some pics of the awesome Michelle Ang in movie The Beaver:
Here’s a bit about Michelle’s appearance in the film by Marie:
In the movie Michelle appears briefly in a scene at the start where Jodie Foster’s character Meredith Black is working at home [Jodie also directed the film]. Michelle Ang is shown on Meredith’s computer screen as a Japanese translator. We can’t hear what she says as there is a voice over in the scene talking about Meredith’s dedication to her job working on Japanese rollercoasters/theme park. Michelle’s appearance is one of those blink and you’ll miss it moments! She is also uncredited at the end of the movie. But it was great to see her and the film is pretty good too if you like character movies/family dramas. Mel Gibson plays Walter Black, the lead role, in the movie.
The Beaver is out now on DVD in America, click here to check it out. It is released in Germany (Der Biber) on October 6th (info here) and in the UK on October 10th (info here).
Michelle Ang has been filming a ‘TV-movie’ pilot for an MTV series, entitled Underemployed.
She and her fellow Underemployed cast members (Sarah Habel, Jared Kusnitz and Inbar Lavi) headed over to the premiere night of MTV’s Teen Wolf series on May 25, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.
Check out a mini interview with the cast below:
Photos of Michelle, and the Underemployed gang, from the premiere can be seen on Zimbio.
Michelle Ang fans in the UK, and in particular London, your prayers have been answered!
As part of The New Zealand Film Festival 2011 there will be a showing of the recent Roseanne Liang movie My Wedding And Other Secrets and Take 3, which both feature Michelle Ang in lead/co-lead roles. The double bill will play at 6pm on July 2nd 2011 at the Barbican, for booking details click here.
- Meanwhile over on New Zealand website 24/7 Girl their is an interview with Michelle Ang talking about acting to Sarah Illingworth, a friend and fellow Kiwi who’s living and working in America. Key quote from Michelle:
“I am currently in development on a one-woman theatre show too”.
Back to the Barbican… The New Zealand Film Festival is supported by the New Zealand High Commission, the New Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand’s Ministry for Culture and Heritage and NZ-UK The Link Foundation.
Want more Tribe links with the festival? Also showing will be the movie Boy, introduced by Taika Waititi and Eagle vs. Shark which will have a Q&A with Taika Waititi it also features Jermaine Clement in the film. Jermaine and Taika both appeared in The Tribe – click here for more info on that appearance. (Please note: Taika Waititi attending the festival has not been 100% confirmed yet).
Sione’s Wedding (aka Samoan Wedding) will also play in London. Amongst the cast Fleur Saville (Ruby from The Tribe) and Kelson Henderson (Pony Joe in series 3 of The Tribe) have an appearance in the film.
These are definitely some of the best titles in New Zealand cinema.
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The 2011 Cannes Film Festival will see the playing of two movies, one short film and one full length, both featuring a former Tribe cast member in each…
Desired will be screening on May 17th in the Marche du Film. Directed by Amanda Phillips the independent movie features Dwayne Cameron (as Joshua King) and Delaney Tabron (as Sarah Barker aka Red) in a dramatic love story between a detective and prostitute. The movie had the working title of Arresting Love (which we have mentioned previously on the site).
You can follow the progress of the self-funded feature film on Facebook.
The Potential Wives Of Norman Mao, has been selected to play at the Short Film Corner held during the Cannes Film Festival on May 11-21. The short film was directed by Derek Nguyen and features Michelle Ang in the cast (more info here). You can also follow this short film on Facebook.
There’s an interesting interview with Amanda Phillips on her movie Desired below, it has a few clips of the movie in it… She also gives high praise to Dwayne Cameron and his contribution to the film.
Here’s a post for you bibliophile’s out there…
Michelle Ang spoke to the New Zealand Herald (March 28th) on the books she loves – you can read it here (also pasted below with links to the books). Also Michelle features in another interview in The Herald about what she packs in her travelling bag, you can read that online here.
Antonia Prebble meanwhile did a radio interview with Lily Richards earlier this month (March 10th) on bFM, for their book month, about the books that have changed her life. Listen to Antonia’s interview here.
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Check out this melodic music video by Lips, for the single One Not Two. Michelle Ang appears in the music video as a friend of, the uhm, Lips… I think she’s playing Josie. Michelle also directed the video!
I love it, it’s quirky. The intimate video was filmed in New York and features friends of Lips and Michelle.
You can find out more about Lips, aka Steph Brown, on mySpace and Facebook. Lips has also made the track available on SoundCloud to download for free. Continue reading…
Tom Cardy from New Zealand newspaper The Dominion Post did a feature article on actress Michelle Ang. In the article Michelle spoke about working with Jodie Foster on the movie The Beaver, Mel Gibson, her character in Big Mommas 3, her current movie My Wedding And Other Secrets as well visiting family and friends while in New Zealand.
Click here to read the article online.
On The Beaver Michelle said the following, she also talked about her tattoo that is on her wrist:
“I’ve never been the great headline [name], but I’ve managed to slide in between lots of great projects. I hope it comes out. Mel Gibson is not really the most popular guy in the world right now, but his character in The Beaver would be publicly redeeming. It could have been his comeback.
“I’m only a tiny, little part in it, but the most amazing thing was getting directed by Jodi Foster. She knew heaps about New Zealand. She heard that I had a tattoo on my wrist that was a New Zealand tattoo. She came down and wanted to look at it, because she knew about the Maori culture of tattoo.” Continue reading…
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About… This blog follows the careers of the cast of Cloud 9's teen drama series The Tribe. The series was filmed in New Zealand in 1998 to 2004 and had a spin-off series The New Tomorrow. More info about this blog can be found here. This blog is not affiliated with Cloud 9 Ltd and is purely a fansite. |
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Major congrats to Michelle Ang who won the AFTA (Aotearoa Film and Television Award) for ‘Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film’ for her role as Emily in My Wedding And Other Secrets.
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