SBS queer revisionist dramedy 'While The Men Are Away' will join projects from Europe, South America, South Africa, and the US in the tenth-anniversary edition of the Berlinale Series Market.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has revealed further details of next year's Connect Market, which will take place March 19-21 on the Gold Coast as part of Screen Forever.
SBS has unveiled the lead cast and directors of Arcadia's 1940s-set 'While The Men Are Away', with Gemma Ward making her screen return alongside Benedict Hardie and rising stars of stage and screen, Shaka Cook and Max McKenna.
New seasons of 'Total Control' and children's titles 'Rock Island Mysteries' and 'Strange Chores', as well as feature film projects from Northern Pictures, Made Up Stories and Causeway Films are among the nine projects that will share in $12 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
Experimental film and video art platform Prototype has announced a collaboration with English auteur Peter Strickland, commissioning his new short 'Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp)'.
"We made a horror film and it's found this wonderful audience. It's definitely unexpected. And I wouldn't even necessarily say that our film is a straight horror film, but obviously as soon as you squash someone's head, it tends to not really fall in any other genre, no matter what the rest of the movie's about."
The AMC-owned horror streamer pounced on the film ahead of its world premiere at SXSW over the weekend, where it impressed critics with its sense of humour and performances - it has a 100 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes so far.
Ashley Zukerman has returned to Australia to star in sci-fi 'In Vitro', directed by Will Howarth and Tom McKeith.