VicScreen has announced that four films developed through its Originate Features initiative will head into production, while also launching a series version of the program.
Jacki Weaver, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and French actor Dominique Pinon are among the voice cast of writer-director Adam Elliot's next stop motion feature, 'Memoir of a Snail'.
Robert Connolly's follow up to 'The Dry', 'Force of Nature', follows five women that take part in a corporate hiking retreat, from which only four come out on the other side.
Larissa Behrendt's 'You Can Go Now' and Sari Braithwaite's 'Because We Have Each Other' are both set to screen at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival next month.
"I felt there was a story in there I wanted to locate, about what it is to feel a bit different, and to feel that who you are isn't really valued."
Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' and Frances O'Connor's 'Emily', produced by Arenamedia, have received a BAFTA boost, with both biopics well represented in the longlist for the annual film awards.
Madman Entertainment will release Frances O'Connor's directorial feature debut 'Emily' in cinemas January 12.
Jub Clerc's debut feature 'Sweet As' has become the first Australian winner of the Toronto International Film Festival's Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) Award for best Asian feature film.