Noora Niasari has earned yet another accolade for her debut feature Shayda, taking home the top prize at Tuesday evening's Australian Directors' Guild Awards.
Queensland has once again been given the royal treatment, with the team from Jaggi Entertainment returning to film a sequel to 'A Royal In Paradise'.
Director Kate Woods is gearing up to shoot 'Kangaroo' in Alice Springs and NSW mid-next year, with the film now financed.
Griffith University researchers have launched a survey to assess the state of mental health in workers across the film and television industry.
AACTA has announced more than 70 of the events that will form part of its inaugural festival, including talks with Danny and Michael Philippou, Warwick Thornton and Celeste Barber.
Last weekend saw a variety of new films open at the box office: Bollywood gangster drama 'Animal', 'Trolls Band Together', two concerts in 'Andre Rieu's White Christmas' and 'Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce', and Japan's Godzilla Minus One. Yet it was 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes', in its third frame, that drew the largest audience, surpassing last weekend's no. 1, 'Napoleon'.
Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' and Helium Pictures' 'Last King of the Cross' were awarded best sound for feature film and television series, respectively, at the Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards held on Saturday.
Geoff Lamb was a double winner at Saturday's Ellie Awards, taking home prizes for his work cutting both feature film 'Talk to Me' and Disney+ series 'The Clearing'.