The casting directors behind 'Nitram', 'The Dry', 'High Ground', and 'The Furnace' will battle it out in the feature film category of the Casting Guild of Australia Awards to be held this month.
Closer Productions' Aftertaste will soon be served up on Acorn TV after ABC Commercial sold the scripted comedy to the US streamer.
Lynette Curran, Julian Maroun, and Syd Brisbane are set to add a fresh flavour to the second season of ABC comedy Aftertaste, which has begun filming in Adelaide.
This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
The South Australian Film Corporation will commit $5.2 million over three years to an ABC-specific matched development fund as part of a new partnership between the national broadcaster and the state agency.