John Harvey’s 'Katele (Mudskipper)' has again been crowned Best Australian Short, this time at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
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VFX supervisor Andrew Robinson talks to IF about using virtual production to create the environments for John Curran's 'Mercy Road' ahead of its screenings at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Jack Clark and Jim Weir's 'Birdeater', with its echoes of 'Wake in Fright', joins Australia's recent indie success stories. After snaring Sydney Film Festival's Audience Award, their debut feature - made on a shoestring - sold out all its sessions at the Melbourne International Film Festival, landed distribution with Umbrella and simply generated a significant amount of buzz.
Ivan Sen's 'Limbo' and Noora Niasari's 'Shayda' have joined the Australian contingent bound for this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), announced as part of the event's centrepiece program.
Former Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins will head up the Federal Government's Creative Workplaces Council, a new body designed to help raise and set industry standards across the arts.
Murray Enders' 'Dive', Julian Curtis' 'The Long Passeggiata', Lauren Burgueno's 'Aysha', and Liubov Korpusova's 'Marj’s Garden' have been selected for Campari's Posters to Production initiative.
Concerns about power imbalances and toxic working environments in the film and TV industries long pre-date the emergence of #metoo as a global rallying cry against sexual assault and harassment on set.
US distributyor A24 has paid attention to the box office success of Danny and Michael Philippou’s debut feature 'Talk to Me', announcing plans for a sequel to the supernatural thriller.