The past few months have held a lot of lessons for Monkey Puzzle director Mark Forstmann and producer Tamara Popper, after they decided to leap headlong into the distribution game to bring their film to Australian cinema screens.
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Two new thrillers shot in Queensland - Acolytes and The Horseman - duked it out at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival last week, with both emerging as co-winners of the Best Australian Film award.
The second feature from criminal lawyer turned writer-director Chris Nyst opened in 36 cinemas across the country yesterday. Simon de Bruyn looks at the clever marketing campaign that got it there.
INSIDE FILM gets entangled with Hairtales' director Scott Otto Anderson and producer/DOP Oliver Lawrance about their irreverent documentary set to premiere at SPAA Fringe on October 24.
Screen Australia has issued a provisional Producer Offset certificate to Omnilab Media for its sequel to the 1982 fantasy classic The Dark Crystal, which the company is currently developing.
Amidst the global crisis, Abu Dhabi has setup a production wellspring and is inviting long-term strategic investments and international partnerships for content creation. Rachael Turk reports on location.
The Melbourne Underground Film Festival kicked off its 10 days of madness last night, with the world premiere of Kel Dolen's Gates of Hell at The George Cinema.
By Simon de Bruyn Four new Australian film websites have come under the INSIDEFILM radar this week, for the upcoming films Crooked...