Actress Shuang Hu started writing her own work "out of necessity" - she realised if you have a story you want to tell, you can't rely on others to tell it for you. That led her to create Australia's first Amazon Original film, rom-com 'Five Blind Dates'.
US producing pair R.J. Cutler and Trevor Smith will join Australian writer, director and producer, Rachel Perkins in the Spotlight sessions for March's Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), with the full line-up for the four-day event unveiled today.
Amazon will launch its first Australian original feature film, 'Five Blind Dates', on Prime Video February 13, ahead of Valentine's Day.
Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge, Heather Mitchell, Thomas Weatherall, Show Kasamatsu, Simon Baker and Charles An will join Jacob Elordi in Curio Pictures' 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North', now in production for Prime Video.
'Totally Killer' offered cinematographer Judd Overton plenty of challenges; the mash between horror and comedy, the need to create two distinctive looks for the film's time periods, 1987 and 2023, and the chance to create 360-degree rotating shots inside a real gravitron.
Mischa Barton, best known for playing Marissa in 'The O.C', has signed on for an extended guest role in 'Neighbours'.
Executives from Paramount, Amazon and the ABC will share their commissioning priorities at Screenworks Regional to Global Screen Forum later this month, alongside those previously announced from Stan, Netflix and SBS.
'Hugh van Cuylenburg (G.E.M.)' is a 90-minute special, in which the author of 'The Resilience Project' and co-host of 'The Imperfects' podcast utilises storytelling and unpacks research to provide simple tips on positive mental health strategies.