AACTA has named Martin Butler and Bentley Dean as this year’s recipients of the Byron Kennedy Award, which celebrates innovation and “outstanding creative enterprise” in the screen industry.
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Daniel Henshall and Toby Wallace are playing the leads in 'Acute Misfortune', a biopic of the acclaimed Australian painter Adam Cullen, who battled drugs and alcoholism and died in 2012, aged 46.
Jacqueline McKenzie made her film debut in Geoffrey Wright’s 1992 movie 'Romper Stomper' as Gabe, the ill-treated lover of Russell Crowe’s Nazi skinhead Hando. So the actress was delighted when Wright told her two years ago he was working on a contemporary TV series which would follow Gabe, two other characters from the original film and Gabe’s estranged son, Kane, during a race riot in Melbourne.
Ioan Gruffudd followed his riveting performance as a surgeon accused of date rape in the British TV series 'Liar' by playing a forensic psychologist who harbours a dark secret in ABC/Disney’s 'Harrow'.
In the wake of recent allegations of sexual harassment across both local and international screen sectors, Women in Film and Television (WIFT) NSW has joined forces with a range of industry bodies to deliver a free forum designed to address the issue and bring about change.
“I agree about not rushing into production until your script is pitch perfect but the agencies must recognise that unless you have Enterprise support (I never have), there is almost no support for producers to do this,” Maslin tells IF.
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Hughes joined the company in 2006, and has overseen several significant initiatives, including the establishment of Icon's home entertainment division, the acquisition of Dendy Cinema chain, the launch of on-demand platform Dendy Direct and more recently, PVOD platform Dendy Marquee.