Ahead of the release of his feature directorial debut 'Breath', Simon Baker is set to receive this year's AACTA Trailblazer Award.
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Director Stephen Chbosky’s 'Wonder' is a sleeper hit in the US and could well emulate that feat in Australia after the feel-good film about a boy who overcomes a craniofacial disorder opened at No. 1 last weekend.
Ewen Leslie has spent much of his illustrious career playing basically good men who are in challenging situations. His latest roles in Matchbox Pictures’ 'Safe Harbour' and Goalpost Pictures’ 'Fighting Season' are in that milieu, but each with intriguing nuances.
When a young Australian girl of Palestinian origin disappears the night after her slam poetry performance, the media runs stories which suggest she is a home-grown radical who went to Syria to join Islamic terrorists.
Ten years after her screen debut in the SBS drama 'Kick', Nicole Chamoun finally is reaping the rewards for perseverance and hard work with key roles in Stan’s 'Romper Stomper' and SBS’s 'Safe Harbour'.
Drama producer Mimi Butler, known for her work on 'Paper Giants: Magazine Wars' and 'Howzat! Kerry Packer's War', is set to join Matchbox Pictures.
Australian films and feature documentaries have raked in combined theatrical revenues of $49 million through November 29, and with no new releases in December will likely finish the year with a tad more than $50 million.
In producing a crowdfunded film documentary, is it the creator who reaps higher relative gains, or existing agents such as distributors, film festivals, and broadcasters?