Michael Rowe’s Early Winter, Simon Stone’s The Daughter and Bentley Dean and Martin Butler’s Tanna will be launched internationally at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival in September.
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Five Aussie films will vie for the $100,000 CinefestOZ Film Prize, with two of the entries to have their Australian premiere at the Festival in August.
Lisa Nichol's Wide Open Sky has won the Foxtel Movies Audience award for best documentary feature at the Sydney Film Festival.
Matchbox Pictures’ Nowhere Boys and Beyond West’s Prison songs were among the winners of the 2015 Rockie Awards handed out at the Banff World Media Festival in Canada.
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights has won the top award, the Sydney Film prize, at the 62nd Sydney Film Festival.
David Stratton is the curator and patron of the inaugural Great Britain Retro Film Festival.
One of the Cannes Film Festival’s top officials will serve as the president of the jury at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival.
Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man, Simon Stone’s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims’ Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom’s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.