Cate Blanchett's portrayal of a famous composer who is caught up in a public scandal has won the Best Actress prize at the Venice International Film Festival on the weekend.
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In partnership with Polygon Studios, XR studio New Canvas has launched non-fungible tokens (NFTs) based on its project 'Lustration', currently playing in Venice Immersive.
Editor-turned-director Sean Lahiff's environmental horror/thriller 'Carnifex' and Brenda Matthews and Nathaniel Schmidt's feature doc 'The Last Daughter' will each screen at the Adelaide Film Festival in October.
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."