Catherine Scott's Backtrack Boys, which examines a youth program run by rule-breaking jackaroo Bernie Shakeshaft on the outskirts of Armidale NSW, was voted the top feature documentary at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
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Writer-director Imogen Thomas’ debut feature Emu Runner and Benjamin Gilmour’s Afghanistan-shot drama Jirga will have their world and international premieres respectively at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Charles Williams' All These Creatures won the award for best Australian short film at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
The $50,000 bi- annual David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship has been awarded to the feature documentary The Eulogy and its creative team - director Janine Hosking and the producers, Katey Grusovin, Trish Lake and Hosking.
Shelly Lauman’s Birdie and Charles Williams’ All These Creatures will have their international and North American premieres respectively in the Short Cuts competition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner’s sci-fi action-comedy Nekrotronic (formerly Nekromancer) will have its world premiere in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival.
After its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival, writer-director Jennifer Kent’s 'The Nightingale' is due to make its local debut at the Adelaide Film Festival this October.
'Island of the Hungry Ghosts', a hybrid documentary-feature which portrays the parallel worlds of migration on Christmas Island, is set for its Australian premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival this August.