Sydney Film Festival has announced its audience awards, with best narrative feature awarded to Samuel Van Grinsven's 'Sequin in a Blue Room' and best documentary to Selina Miles' 'Martha: A Picture Story' - both Aussie films.
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Seven films supported by the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Premiere Fund will make their premiere at this year's iteration, including Maziar Lahooti’s 'Below' and Paul Ireland's 'Measure for Measure'.
Korean director Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' has won the Sydney Film Festival's $60,000 Sydney Film Prize.
Five Australian films have been invited to the 73rd edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs from June 19 – 30 .
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has unveiled the first 29 films on its line-up this year, including the world premiere of Good Thing Productions and Passion Pictures’ 'The Australian Dream' which will open the festival August 1.
Gillian Armstrong was 29 when she won the AFI award for best director for her debut feature 'My Brilliant Career', the first local film to be directed by a woman since the McDonagh sisters’ 'Two Minute Silence' in 1933.