Kriv Stenders' 'Lee Kernaghan: Boy From the Bush' - part road documentary, part concert film - has entered cinemas on more than 130 screens, with the creative team hoping it will resonate not only in regional and rural Australia, but with those who have missed live music through the pandemic.
Peter Hegedus' 'Sorella's Story' and Ryan Griffen's 'Lustration' join the Australian contingent for next month's Venice International Film Festival, selected as part of the Venice Immersive strand.
Screen Queensland CEO Kylie Munnich has announced she will leave the organisation at the end of her three-year term this October.
Production on a multicultural Romeo and Juliet-style action drama starring Jenny Wu, Paul He, Grace Wuang, Ethan Browne, and Tsu Shan Chambers is underway in Western Sydney.
Australian writer/director Andrew Dominik's 'Blonde' will premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September, alongside Florian Zeller's The Son, produced by See-Saw Films and starring Hugh Jackman. Australian short 'Love Forever', directed by Clare Young and EP'd by Jane Campion, has been selected for Orizzonti.
It’s not every day that you get to sail down the Amazon River in a canoe to do location scouting with a Palme d’Or winning director who is guiding you on your short film. But that was the recent experience of Kate Vinen, one of 50 directors selected for PlayLab Films’ 10-day development lab in Peru with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
For Playground Films owner and director David Barker, there are many industry opportunities to discuss the business of filmmaking - less so the art of filmmaking. To help redress this, Playground has launched Helm, a program of monthly film screenings 'for directors, by directors'.
With the ABC looking to ramp up its natural history slate from next year, it has partnered with Doc Society to support early career filmmakers to create short-form documentaries focussing on solutions to climate and environmental challenges.