Five films supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund including Thomas M. Wright’s directorial debut 'Acute Misfortune' and Sue Thomson’s 'The Coming Back Out Ball Movie' will have their world premieres at the 67th Melbourne International Film Festival.
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Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinessi’s debut film 'The Heiresses' won the $60,000 top prize at the 65th Sydney Film Festival while Ben Lawrence’s feature documentary 'Ghosthunter' took the Documentary Australia Foundation Award.
Melissa Anastasi, Sunday Emerson Gullifer, Jamieson Pearce, and duo Curtis Taylor and Nathan Mewett are this year’s recipients of Sydney Film Festival’s Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship.
Director Shaun Gladwell and producer/writer Leo Faber’s 'Storm Riders' is billed as the “world’s first anti-Islamophobic skateboarding 360 documentary.”
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has unveiled the first 32 films on its line-up for this year, ahead of the full program launch in July.
Director Emily Avila’s second short, 'Fitting', follows an intimate encounter between two strangers: a bra fitter, and a customer who has recently undergone a mastectomy.
Australian film 'All These Creatures' has been awarded the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Film Victoria will sponsor 10 Victorian screenwriters or writer-directors to attend MIFF 37ºSouth PostScript & Direct, where they will be able to pitch their feature projects to producers.