What's so special about Noddy being on the ABC? This one stars Justin Hosking and there's no big Ears in site! The Comedy Cartel's 'Noddy' went live on ABC IVIEW today as part of the best of the Flickerfest program.

VISIT: http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/flickerfest/ZW0908A002S00

Emo The Musical had its world premiere at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. With sellout screenings and marked as a MIFF highlight plus tagged as an "incredibly strange" movie pick, Lee Matthews and Neil Triffett’s feature had everyone buzzing. As a genuine crowd pleaser, it was easy to see why the film was voted top Australian film in the audience choice awards.

Called "Pure gold", "Witty and "Brilliant" EMO had a fantastic debut. Visit http://emothemusical.com/ to keep up to date with all the latest news.

After a successful run of film festivals around Australia including Revelation Perth, Flickerfest, Over the Fence 18 and the laid back Heart of Gold, Noddy is going around Australia as a part of the Flickerfest National Tour.

Noddy was shared with regional and capital audiences from Cygnet in Tasmania to Darwin at the top end. The Flickerfest tour is a not for profit exercise that presents independent short films to regional communities across Australia many of whom don’t have access to high quality cinema outside of standard Hollywood fare in order to promote cultural awareness and cinema appreciation.

After the tour Flickerfest is representing Noddy signing up for worldwide distribution rights. Noddy will be coming to the website production page May 2016.

Congratulations to Comedy Cartel writer and producer Ann Murison who recently completed Film Victoria's Catapult Feature Lab. Also in the lab was Corrie Chen, Jaine. N. Eira, Michael Anthony Kratochvil, Fiona Leally, Matthew Macknamara, C.S. McMullen, Jillian Moylan, Craig Scutt and Garrath Westmore.

The early career Victorian writers were selected for the five day program. Catapulters and their film concepts were put through their paces as they were challenged and supported by a team of mentors who provided a wealth of insight and advice throughout the week.

Some Lab highlights included: writer Mark Fergus (Children of Men, Iron Man) on the importance of staying open to feedback; writer Kelly Lefever (The Circuit) on building story through characters; Gabrielle Oldaker (Roadshow Films) on the distribution and marketing perspective; and the final day of pitching to Leah Estrin (former Imagine Entertainment creative executive) and Veronica Gleeson (Head of Creative, Madman Productions).

Across the country, the DVD's of 'The Heckler' are available at JB-HI fi. Not only does it make a perfect Christmas present, it's easy to wrap. For those generous pozible supporters who purchased the DVD's earlier in the year, we will be shipping them out to you this month.

Lee Matthews, the Comedy Cartel producer, is about to go into production for the feature film ‘Emo the Musical’. Following the short films success at the Berlinale International Film Festival in 2014, the story is an irreverent and satirical adult look at High School life and what it means to be at war with a group as uncool as yours. The feature version has been scripted by director Neil Triffett through the support of Screen Australia and Film Victoria and starts shooting in less than three weeks.

To follow Emo, visit https://www.facebook.com/EmoTheMusical/

It's done! Celebrating 'The Heckler' completing its national tour, a special event was held where it all began at 'The Comics Lounge' on November the 17th. With some fantastic stand-up before the show from Bev Killock, Dave Hughes, CJ Fortuna and Doug Chappel.

This seemingly marks the end of the Heckler campaign - but with the DVD launch and pleanty of paperwork behind the scenes, the project is far from over.

'The Heckler' is launching in cinemas using a new “cinema-on-demand” platform called Tugg. It allows filmmakers to book any cinema, any time as long as they have enough people interested in watching that film at that session. This is an encouraging method for Aussie films where they often lose money because of low audience numbers.

Mr Mitchell said, “It’s difficult for home-grown films to cut through the noise of the mass marketed American Studio films and so it’s great to have Tugg on-board with us. Films like ours rely solely on word-of-mouth. And that takes time to build. By staging one-off event screenings at various locations over a longer period, we’re hoping to build momentum without spending a fortune on marketing.

“The main difference with this model is that patrons must book their tickets online in advance to guarantee the screening goes ahead, which involves changing people’s behaviour from simply turning-up at the cinema and seeing what’s on. We’re also adding value to our screenings by combining them with either a Q&A or a live stand-up comedy intro (which was a great success during the Comedy Festival).”

The film screenings and details can be seen online at www.thehecklermovie.com or at www.

tugg.com.au

‘Comedians in Bars Drinking Beer’ has been selected as a part of the third Australian International Web series festival. The Comedy Cartel is proud to be screening amongst a specially selected line-up of non-fiction documentaries at Federation Square on Saturday the 11th of July 2015.

The Melbourne WebFest is the hub for web-based content creators to come together to share their experience, network, be acknowledged, and learn about the emerging trends in digital entertainment. It is an opportunity for the public to experience the best in digital series entertainment from around the world. Check out more at: www.melbournewebfest.com