Ahead of his spotlight session at next month's Australian International Documentary Conference, Mstyslav Chernov, director of the Oscar-nominated '20 Days in Mariupol', talks to IF about working in a conflict zone, and the differences between news and documentary storytelling, both in terms of craft and impact on the audience.
Writer-director Rodd Rathjen's debut feature 'Buoyancy' has been put forward as Australia's official submission for the Best International Feature Film prize at the 2020 Academy Awards.
"Volcanoes are such a perfect metaphor for love." Sara Dosa, the director of the Oscar-nominated 'Fire of Love' and AIDC keynote speaker, talks to IF.
When Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen set out to make animated documentary 'Flee', the story of an old school friend Amin Nawabi, he envisioned it as a small project - perhaps a 20-30 minute short. Now it's nominated for three Oscars.
During the In Memoriam section, a photo of Australian producer Jan Chapman ('The Piano', 'Love Serenade', 'Lantana', 'The Babadook') was shown next to the name of late costume designer Janet Patterson, with whom Chapman worked on several Jane Campion film
Benjamin Gilmour’s Afghanistan-set drama 'Jirga' will carry Australia’s hopes of being nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Australian stop-motion short 'Lost & Found', directed by Andrew Goldsmith and Bradley Slabe, has been shortlisted in the animated short film category for the 91st annual Academy Awards.
Writer-director Daniel Agdag’s 'Lost Property Office' has made the shortlist in the animated short film category at the 90th annual Academy Awards after winning an AACTA award yesterday.