Daniel Henshall and Toby Wallace are playing the leads in 'Acute Misfortune', a biopic of the acclaimed Australian painter Adam Cullen, who battled drugs and alcoholism and died in 2012, aged 46.
Stories that are "big, bold and surprising" or "provocative with a purpose" are the kinds SBS scripted acting commissioning editor Donna Chang hopes to see ushered through the new feature initiative the broadcaster has launched with Film Victoria and Arenamedia.
"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."
Toronto International Film Festival is proving busy for Arenamedia this year, with Frances O'Connor's 'Emily' to open the event's Platform section.
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'.
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.
LevelK has reteamed with Arenamedia on producer Robert Connolly's upcoming feature Spear.
The Indigenous creative teams in Australia and New Zealand were developing the anthology feature 'Cook 2020: Our Right of Reply' when they decided the basic premise wasn't right.