The initial impetus behind Closer Productions' six-part ABC series 'Fucking Adelaide' was to create a show for the web that could be written quickly in between feature work and made with actors the company enjoys working with.
No one could accuse Causeway Films’ Kristina Ceyton and Sam Jennings of resting on their laurels. The producers’ thriller 'Cargo' is about to debut at the Adelaide Film Festival ahead of its launch as a Netflix Original, they’re in post on Jennifer Kent’s 'The Nightingale', and have just gotten the greenlight on 'Buoyancy', the debut feature from writer-director Rodd Rathjen. The two speak to IF about establishing their company and working together.
Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling’s debut feature Cargo – dubbed a ‘zombie tearjerker’ – will make its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in October.
'Sweet Country', Warwick Thornton’s 1920s-set outback Western starring Sam Neill, Bryan Brown and Ewen Leslie, is set to make its world premiere in competition at Venice Film Festival.
Back to Back Theatre, which features a company of actors with disabilities, has teamed with Matchbox Pictures to produce 'Bunghole'.
Entries are open for the Adelaide Film Festival and the Australian Writers’ Guild’s biennial screenwriting development initiative, the INSITE Award – presented to the writer of a screenplay that hasn’t yet secured a producer or funding.
Fred Schepisi will host Stratton in a special in-conversation event at the Adelaide Film Festival this Saturday October 29.
Tiding audiences over until the official event returns in 2017, Adelaide Film Festival will run a mini-festival this October.