Vale – Andrew Wright

Australian filmmaker Andrew Wright has been killed in a helicopter crash. Wright was filming a documentary about Papua New Guinea when the helicopter he was piloting crashed near Nowra, south of Sydney, killing both himself and fellow filmmaker Mike DeGruy. Mr Wright wrote and produced the James Cameron-backed film Sanctum, which was released last year and became the most successful Aussie film of 2011. Mr Wright assisted Cameron in the filming of his many dive-based documentaries, including Ghosts of The Abyss and Aliens of The Deep. Wright was also heavily involved in the the development of the 3D technology used by Cameron in Avatar, and was recently announced as the director new Aussie-based, James Cameron-funded production house Cameron Pace.

More on the tragic accident which killed both Mr Wright and Mr DeGruy can be found here.

Andrew Wright was 52.

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Rodney Twelftree

“Some people say I like films. Those people are wrong. I *love* films.” – Me. I said this.

Rodney has been writing about films for well over two decades, appreciates a good wine, the love of his wife and kids, and the affection of his dog and cats. He has a fondness of cheesy 90’s action and classic Hollywood, hates that physical media is disappearing, and wishes somebody would make a high-budget series of The Neverending Story.

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