Lisa Nichol's Wide Open Sky has won the Foxtel Movies Audience award for best documentary feature at the Sydney Film Festival.
The latest rounds from Screen Australia's Documentary Production Broadcast and Producer programs have seen 16 documentaries receive close to $4.4 million in funding.
Screen Producers Australia is calling on government, opposition and the minor parties to develop a holistic arts and communications screen policy ahead of the next election.
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights has won the top award, the Sydney Film prize, at the 62nd Sydney Film Festival.
David Stratton is the curator and patron of the inaugural Great Britain Retro Film Festival.
Former Screen Australia head of marketing Kathleen Drumm is joining the Toronto International Film Festival.
Escapade Media has sold Australian factual reality series Wimp 2 Warrior to the RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network.
The winners of the 2015 AFTRS Creative Fellowships are visual artist Del Kathryn Barton, emerging filmmaker Sari Braithwaite and AFTRS alumnus Rachel Perkins.