Curtin University of Technology graduate Elissa Down?s award winning first feature film The Black Balloon - starring Australian actress Toni Collette - opens in cinemas around the country this week on March 6.
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The National Filmography program at the National Film and Sound Archive recently took another step forward with the appointment of a program manager, Dr Jeannette Delamoir, who joined the staff of the NFSA?s Moving Image Branch on 25 February 2008.
ASTRA has announced the speakers for the ASTRA 2008 Subscription Television Conference in Sydney on Wednesday 19 March.
Thanks to a new sponsorship, the next generation of Australian filmmakers have a kick-start in the industry.
Five filmmakers with strong, ambitious and engaging documentary projects have been selected to participate in Headlands 2008.
Kyle McLachlan, Bruce Greenwood and Joan Chen have been confirmed to play leading roles in Bruce Beresford?s adaptation of the best-selling book, Mao's Last Dancer which begins filming in China next month.
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) has congratulated Eva Orner on winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
The winner of the 2007 Melbourne International Film Festival Melbourne Airport Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award, Warwick Thornton, has won the Crystal Bear of the Kplus Generation (Best Short Film Award) at the prestigious 2008 Berlin International Fil