AFI award-winning director Scott Hicks (Shine) has moved a step closer to another Oscar nomination as his documentary, Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts, gets shortlisted to compete for the final five nomination places at the 81st Academy Awards
Without A Trace star Anthony LaPaglia is bringing a film adaptation of A View From The Bridge to Victoria
The actor has joined the cast of Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Western
The Matchbox Pictures telemovie will shoot in Melbourne and air later this year
Canberra-born US-based actor and filmmaker Paul Ashton is directing his first feature, romantic comedy This Isn't Funny, in Los Angeles.
Madman's Nick Batzias and writer-director Matthew Saville have been keen to work together again since Madman released Saville's 2003 telemovie Roy Hollsdotter Live and his 2007 crime thriller Noise.
When E! network host Maria Menounos and her partner, producer-director Keven Underago, saw footage of This Isn't Funny in post, they volunteered to join the team of producers.
US-based Australian director Frank Lotito will direct The Olive Sisters, a romantic drama adapted from Australian author Amanda Hampson's 2005 novel, which will star Leslie Mann and Anthony LaPaglia.