Mark Joffe’s 'Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Boy' was the only new Australian release to connect with mainstream audiences in August and already ranks as the second highest grossing local title since Leigh Whannell’s 'Upgrade' opened in June.
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The Adelaide Film Festival will hold special event screenings of 'The Castle', 'Muriel’s Wedding' and 'Samson and Delilah' after the three films topped its nation-wide vote on the best Australian films of all time.
Steven McGregor and David Tranter's 'Sweet Country' was named best feature film original screenplay while Yolanda Ramke's 'Cargo' was deemed best feature film adaptation at the Australian Writers’ Guild’s annual AWGIE Awards on Thursday night.
Go Viral! an innovative project that aims to unearth ground-breaking filmmakers of the future by enabling them to create micro-films and helping their works to reach audiences, launched today.
Sue Smith has received the 2018 Australian Writers’ Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the enduring mark her work has made on the Australian cultural landscape.
Hannah Barnes has resigned as group general manager of Foxtel’s Lifestyle channels after nine years with the pay TV platform.
“Now our screens show more Indigenous characters – cops, lawyers, parents, kids and superheroes. They resonate because they are created by and with Indigenous Australians. What we see now is a great start that we have to build upon.”
Director/producer Kate Whitbread is wrapping production on 'The Unlit', a female-targeted supernatural thriller which has a witch as the protagonist.