Athony Maras' 'Hotel Mumbai' was voted best film and Erica Glynn's 'She Who Must Be Loved' best documentary at the Adelaide Film Festival audience awards.
High-profile talent on both sides of camera punctuate the four feature films, three television dramas, and one virtual reality project that will share in more than $6.5 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
At SXSW in March, someone asked director Matt Vesely a question about his debut feature 'Monolith': “If you had more money, what would have been different about this film?” Vesely’s answer: “We would have made a different film altogether."
Realising the long-term ambitions of its organisers, Adelaide Film Festival will become an annual event from this year onwards following a $2 million investment from the new state government.
The Australian Writers' Guild and the Adelaide Film Festival are calling for entries to the fourth biennial INSITE Competition for Unproduced Feature Screenplays.
Three South Australian filmmaking teams have moved a step closer to having a feature debut at next year's Adelaide Film Festival after being announced as the first selections for the Film Lab: New Voices development program.
Adelaide Film Festival has unveiled the 30 participants selected to take part in its inaugural Expand Lab, which aims to foster new ideas for moving image artworks.
Prior to entering the world of J. R. R. Tolkien as part of Amazon's upcoming 'Lord of the Rings' series, Markella Kavenagh undertook an exploration of queer love and intimacy in regional Victoria via Katie Found's 'My First Summer'.