AACTA has partnered with Casting Networks and the Casting Guild of Australia to run a national youth casting initiative.
A five-day festival will accompany next February's AACTA Awards on the Gold Coast, with the dates for 2024 event now confirmed.
The AACTA Awards will join Screen Forever, the Australian International Movie Convention and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in being held on the Gold Coast, with the Queensland Government securing the event in a three-year deal.
After dominating the AACTA Industry Awards on Monday, Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' continued its sweep at the main ceremony, winning another four awards, including Best Film and Best Direction.
The AACTA Audience Award for Best Film will this year be a duke between local titles and Hollywood blockbusters that recently called Australia home: 'Thirteen Lives', 'Thor: Love and Thunder', 'Ticket to Paradise', 'Elvis', 'The Drover's Wife the Legend of Molly Johnson' and 'Wog Boys Forever'.
Production, costume and set designer and producer Catherine Martin will receive AACTA's Longford Lyell Award next Wednesday, recognising her influence and global contribution to film.
Actors Megan Smart and George Pullar move behind the camera with 'Stonefish', nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Short Film.
This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.