Two more Australian films have been added to the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2017 program, including the second entrant from Breath producer Jamie Hilton.
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Ahead of his spotlight session at next month's Australian International Documentary Conference, Mstyslav Chernov, director of the Oscar-nominated '20 Days in Mariupol', talks to IF about working in a conflict zone, and the differences between news and documentary storytelling, both in terms of craft and impact on the audience.
The Gold Coast Film Festival will open in early April with the Australian premiere of Damon Gameau's '2040', and close with the world premiere of Storm Ashwood's war film 'Escape and Evasion'.
Screenwest has named Brooke Silcox and Mat de Koning's '29 Years Eight Days' and Sam Lara and Cathy Henkel's 'Laura's Choice' the joint recipients of the 2019 Brian Beaton Award.
Sydney Film Festival has unveiled the first 22 films on its line-up, with the event ready to return in-person during its traditional June dates for the first time since 2019.
"I think working on screen has made me much more aware of the benefits of economic language and also that you can tell a story with silence and with faces and with body language, as well as with words." – Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith
Critics have hailed Kitty Green's 'The Royal Hotel' as an "even deeper" and "pulpier and more explosive" look at toxic masculinity than her 2019 #MeToo thriller 'The Assistant', with many drawing comparisons between the film and Ted Kotcheff's 1971 classic 'Wake in Fright'.
The Australian Labor Party has unveiled its cultural policy ahead of the election this Saturday, promising increased cooperation between federal, state, and local levels of government when it comes to the arts sector, as well as an "arms-length" approach to funding.