Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week, only on Tuesdays, 52 TUESDAYS follows 16-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence - accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limite
Sophie Hyde's gender-bending drama 52 Tuesdays has been selected for the Sundance Film Festival's world cinema dramatic competition in January.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey was 16 when she auditioned for and won her first acting role, the co-lead in Sophie Hyde's Adelaide-shot feature 52 Tuesdays, in 2011.
Australian films have raked in $14 million at the national box-office this year, a much stronger start than the first three months of 2013.
The list of Australian films released in US cinemas so far this year is short and, on the surface, unimpressive.
Universal's raucous comedy Bad Neighbours easily topped the Australian B.O. last weekend while festival prize-winner 52 Tuesdays had a decent debut in limited release.
The first international distribution deals for Tim Winton's The Turning have been concluded at the Berlin Film Festival, while 52 Tuesdays has found a US distributor.
The creative team at Closer Productions has resumed pre-production on the ABC comedy 'Aftertaste' (working title), which stars Erik Thomson as a temperamental chef, using a new risk development tool.