After playing a guy suffering from PTSD in Home and Away and an inmate who impregnated Shareena Clanton’s Doreen in Wentworth Luke McKenzie relished the chance to play a more nuanced character in The Flip Side.
Going to the cinema is getting cheaper, at least for members of the movie clubs run by two of the major chains and Palace Cinemas.
Writer-director Imogen Thomas’ debut feature Emu Runner and Benjamin Gilmour’s Afghanistan-shot drama Jirga will have their world and international premieres respectively at the Toronto International Film Festival.
After devoting herself to teaching at the Australian Film Television and Radio School and serving as president of the Australian Directors' Guild, Samantha Lang is looking forward to getting back to her first love: making screen stories.
There were a record number of applications including an increase from diverse and under-represented communities for the Heath Ledger Scholarship, now in its 10th year and worth $US30,000.
Applications are now open for the Antenna Rough Cut Lab, a one-day intensive workshop designed to help filmmakers to finish their films to the best of their creative potential and to find ways to reach global audiences.
Attendees at Screen Forever will be able to meet and hear first-hand from the acquisitions team at Netflix, the world’s largest streaming service with more than 130 million subscribers.
Here is a rarity: Australian exhibitors are extremely positive about the upcoming line-up of Australian films, with one circuit chief rating it as the most commercial in years.