Jon Bell's horror debut 'The Moogai' has won the Sydney Film Festival Audience Award for Best Australian Narrative Feature, with Van Alpert's 'Skategoat' taking out the prize for Best Australian Documentary.
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Images from the Sydney Film Festival's Closing Night Gala and the Souh Australian Film Corporation's 'Ladies in Black' preview screening.
As international collaboration becomes increasingly common in film and television production amid upward pressure on budgets, the future may lie outside long-established markets such as Europe and North America in burgeoning industries across MENA, according to Blacksand Pictures CEO and executive producer Kauthar Abdulalim.
The New South Wales' screen industry funding will be maintained after the Minns government handed down a restrained State Budget that is attempting to reign in record public debt.
The Motion Picture Industry Benevolent Society (MPIBS) has called for donations to help industry participants who are struggling.
Adam Elliot's Arenamedia-produced animated feature 'Memoir of a Snail' will come into August's Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) with no shortage of momentum, having been named Best Feature at this year's Annecy International Animation Festival in France.
Pixar animation Inside Out 2 has posted the biggest box office opening weekend of the year with $9.15 million across 655 screens.
Writer-director-producer Josh Wakely is scouting locations this week across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast ahead of a planned $20 million-plus sci-fi film shoot.