'Oppenheimer' may have battled it out with 'Barbie' at the box office but 'Poor Things' proved its nearest rival at the Oscars.
Every Cloud Productions founders Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at next week's SPA Awards, to be held on the final night of Screen Forever on the Gold Coast.
Australia has two hopes in the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short category next week: 'Red, White and Blue', produced by the US-based Sara McFarlane and 'The After', produced by the UK-based Nicky Bentham. Both producer chat to IF.
Stuart Beattie is attached as showrunner and Phillip Noyce as director to five-part limited series 'The Last Days of Saigon', set during the final days of the Vietnam War.
Writer, director and producer Michael Jenkins, known for TV series such as 'Blue Murder', 'Wildside' and 'Scales of Justice', as well as feature film 'The Heartbreak Kid', which spawned 'Heartbreak High', died on Monday, aged 77. Ian Barry penned this tribute to his friend and colleague.
Content executive Natalie Robinson-Hurst has joined AFTRS as head of production, with the institution also announcing six new discipline lead roles.
Thomas Charles Hyland’s 'This Is Going to Be Big' has added the AIDC Award for Best Feature Documentary to its gongs from last year's Melbourne International Film Festival.
Remaining flexible and adapting to the needs of practitioners amid broader industry changes are among the chief concerns for Screen Australia when it comes to ongoing capacity building, industry development head Ken Crouch says.