"Not every film connects with an audience and not every film can be successful, but as an Australian industry, we’re potentially in a position to be able to better influence the fate of Aussie films, find and develop new ways of better connecting them to audience, and establish how to better inform producers about which projects are more likely to be commercially successful.”
The two stage event, to be held across October and February, aims to break down the silos between producers, distributors and exhibitors, and foster ideas as to how to work together differently to ensure theatrical success for Aussie features.
A mother and daughter deal with an ambiguous and uncertain threat that binds them closer together in 'The Girl at The Window', a new thriller helmed by Mark Hartley and starring Radha Mitchell, Vince Colosimo and Ella Newton.
"We have to fight to help the next generation so they don’t come in and get screwed from the get-go."
Natalie Erika James' 'Relic' has continued its reign as the top title in its second weekend in the fractured US theatrical market while Mark Lamprell's Never Too Late launched on a combination of virtual cinemas and hard tops.
Blue Fox Entertainment has bought the US rights to Mark Lamprell’s 'Never Too Late' and will release the comedy-drama on about 25 screens and two weeks later on transactional VOD.
Mark Lamprell’s 'Never Too Late' (formerly 'The Chain Breakers'), a comedy-drama about four heroic Vietnam veterans who plan to break out of their nursing home, will start shooting in South Australia on March 18.
Comedy feature 'The Chain Breakers', to star Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Denis Waterman and Shane Jacobson, is one of seven projects to have recently received production funding from Screen Australia.