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House of Gary is an independent documentary production company operating out of both Australia & Norway. As filmmakers, we are interested in human stories that inspire and inform, from all corners of the globe and all walks of life. Founding Company Director Karina Astrup has had 12 years experience working as a Producer, Production Manager, Stills Photographer and Accountant within both the advertising and film industry. House of Gary's first independent film ‘6ft Hick: notes from the underground’, a rockumentary that follows a low budget, hard rock, Australian band’s European tour, premiered at NXNE in Canada, Brisbane International Film Festival, aired on ABC TV and won the 'Noisy Cats - Best Music Documentary Award' at the Grossman Film & Wine Festival in Slovenia. You can check out the current slate of other House of Gary projects in various stages of development & production, on the 'Documentaries' page. House of Gary works with a variety of highly skilled freelance professionals, fostering strong alliances and lasting working relationships. We are currently collaborating with Directors Penny Vozniak (recently nominated for the ‘Shots Asia-Pacific New Director Award 2011’) and Faramarz K-Rahber of Faraway Productions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After completing this project she got her first independent documentary financed with an ABC TV broadcast deal plus funding from Screen Queensland and Screen Australia - ‘6ft Hick: notes from the underground’. She then worked freelance and also part time for Queensland’s vibrant independent documentary production company Fury Productions until re-locating to Norway from Australia. Karina now operates between Brisbane, Australia and Oslo, Norway, managing a slate of diverse, exciting projects with two Australian Directors. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Faramarz is passionately involved with the Film community, sitting on a number of high profile Film Competition Juries, is a member of the Emmy Awards Foundation and lectures part time at Griffith Film School. Recently he was supervisory consulting Producer/Director for two ABC TV J-docs: ‘Orchids’ and ‘6ft Hick: notes from the Underground,’ both premiering at Brisbane International Film Festival. Faramarz has a wide range of technical proficiencies, able to perform duties of a DOP, Lighting and Sound to broadcast quality. He currently has 3 documentaries in development in partnership with House of Gary set in Egypt, Pakistan and Japan. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Currently she is directing a live action/ part-animated feature documentary about real-life superheroes called ‘Scenes from an ExtraOrdinary Life’, and ‘Despite the Gods’, a Bollywood/ Hollywood odyssey bio-pic about controversial Hollywood director, and prodigal daughter, Jennifer Lynch. In 2010, her one take music video for Australian musician Appleonia
was awarded ‘Best Music Video’ at the inaugural Sandfly Film Festival.
Penny was also short-listed for the ‘Shots Asia Pacific New Director
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DIRECTOR: Faramarz K-Rahber is an experienced Director/Producer who has specialized in Documentary Film since graduating from Griffith Film School a decade ago. Accomplishing world acclaim for his Directed Feature Documentary ‘Donkey in Lahore’, showcasing at Tribeca Film Festival - New York and IDFA – Amsterdam, it was invited to show at a further 30 festivals abroad. During the course of his career he has picked up numerous awards for his films, which tend to theme around cultural identity and diversity. Partnering up with Axel Grigor, Line Producer and Editor, they set up ‘Faraway Productions’ to produce entertaining, insightful, surprising, human documentaries. They have worked with a number of Broadcasters, creating high quality programs for channels such as BBC, ABC TV, SBS and Channel 10.