Australian TVC house Plaza Films has secured Australia and New Zealand representation of New York- based affiliate production house aWHITELABELproduct's roster of international directors.
One of Australia's longest-established talent agencies, International Casting Services, is closing its doors.
Ticket sales at Australian cinemas this year are running at about 7 per cent below the same period in 2012 despite strong trading in January and April, weighed down by relatively soft results in February and March.
Actor Penne Hackforth-Jones, a pillar of Australian films and TV for more than 40 years, died in Melbourne on Saturday from lung cancer, aged 64.
Festival accolades have translated to a significant commercial deal for first-time director Kim Mordaunt's Laos-set feature The Rocket, which will be released in US cinemas nationwide in the northern autumn.
Devil's Playground, the Foxtel miniseries that deals with the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in the 1980s, "won't pull any punches,"Â according to producer Helen Bowden.
Kim Williams today made a clarion call for a wholesale review of the regulatory, financial and industrial regimes in the screen industry.
The producers of Australian film Teenage Kicks have raised nearly $68,000 from crowdfunding site Pozible and aim to start shooting in Sydney in early 2014.