Ash Gray's 'The Urn' and Olly Sindle's documentary 'Ink Train' were among the short films to take home prizes at the Sony Catchlight Film Festival Awards on Saturday evening.
Writer-director Olivia Martin-McGuire's 'Freedom Swimmer' has collected yet another award, this time the top gong in CinefestOz's Short Film Competition.
'Neptune Frost', directed by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, is the winner of the Melbourne International Film Festival's inaugural Bright Horizons Award, while Jub Clerc won the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award.
First Nations anthology feature 'We Are Still Here' and Michael Spiccia's short film 'I'm On Fire' add to the Australian contingent headed to this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
"We made a horror film and it's found this wonderful audience. It's definitely unexpected. And I wouldn't even necessarily say that our film is a straight horror film, but obviously as soon as you squash someone's head, it tends to not really fall in any other genre, no matter what the rest of the movie's about."
If there was any doubt to the popularity of Indian cinema in Australia, look no further than the box office rankings of late: Indian films have ranked among top 10 titles in 20 out of the 31 weekends of the year so far. All of this is exciting to see for Mind Blowing Films founding director Mitu Bhowmick Lange, who is also the the artistic director of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne.
A stop-motion animation story about a young telemarketer who receives a disconcerting revelation from a flightless bird won Best Australian Short Film at the MIFF Shorts Awards on Thursday.
The main character in Alena Lodkina's sophomore feature 'Petrol' may be a filmmaker of Russian background, but the writer-director insists it's a personal tale, not necessarily an autobiographical one.