Jimmy Barnes fans turned out for Mark Joffe’s Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Boy which opened wide but on limited sessions in a slow weekend at Australian cinemas.
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Benjamin Gilmour’s Afghanistan-set drama Jirga has won the $100,000 best film prize, Australia's richest, at CinfestOZ, surprising the writer-director.
The winners of Australia’s first film festival for deaf teenagers, the Hear For You Film Festival, have been announced.
AWGIE nominee Clare Sladden will make her feature directing debut on Shadow Lodge, a suspense/thriller about a once-close group of four friends who come together to renovate an old house.
Network Ten has released a trailer for Playing for Keeps, the 8-part Screentime drama which follows the wives and girlfriends of Australian Rules footballers.
When Sam Neill set out to retrace Captain James Cook’s three voyages to the Pacific for a six-part Foxtel documentary, he had sketchy ideas about the 18th Century explorer and his exploits.
Darcy Prendergast and Seamus Spilsbury won the inaugural Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Pitch competition for scripted series intended for television or the web.
Catherine Scott's Backtrack Boys, which examines a youth program run by rule-breaking jackaroo Bernie Shakeshaft on the outskirts of Armidale NSW, was voted the top feature documentary at the Melbourne International Film Festival.