The AFC took its first steps to privatising its completion guarantor operations after compiling a damning internal assessment of filmmakers' cost overruns
Screen Australia has reminded producers to credit the new agency rather than the AFC, FFC or Film Australia, if funding has been received after July 1 2008.
Black Water, the low budget Aussie survival thriller, has now been sold to 76 countries –making it one of the most successful Australian feature films of the past twelve months.
Ballad Films is on a quest to get hold of the 150 extras who were involved in the filming of The Ballad of Betty & Joe in December 2004.
The new super agency for the film industry, Screen Australia, will receive $103 million for its first year of operation.
A short film by Queensland director Dennis Tupicoff won the Grand Prize at the 54th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival yesterday.
Oscar nominated filmmaker Anthony Lucas is on the road to Cannes again, after the short film he made with his two children in his backyard was accepted into the festival.
In two separate announcements, both the Australian Film Commission and Arena Films producer/director Robert Connolly, have each done their bit to shake up the established landscape for producers.