Thomas M Wright backed up his AACTA Award for Best Screenplay earlier in the week with the major prize at the Australian Directors' Guild Awards on Thursday, winning Best Direction in a Narrative Feature Film for 'The Stranger'.
Whereas Aaron Wilson's first film, the World War II-set 'Canopy', examined the trauma that can come from experiencing war, his second film, 'Little Tornadoes', examines how that trauma then impacts subsequent generations.
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) may have been unable to return to city cinemas this year, but the conditions proved ideal for other elements of the event.
Director and producer Nadia Tass will chair the jury for this year's CinefestOZ, which had its full line-up announced in Perth yesterday.
Co-written with Christos Tsiolkas, Aaron Wilson's 1970s-set 'Little Tornadoes' depicts a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in the world around him.
Writer-director Aaron Wilson heads to the US next week to host Q&A screenings of his debut feature Canopy in New York, Los Angeles and several other cities.
Writer-director Aaron Wilson is taking the fast track to the US after his debut feature Canopy played at numerous international festivals and sold to major markets.
World War II. Singapore. Jim, a young Australian fighter pilot is shot down, awakening in a jungle teeming with Japanese soldiers.