Advocating for appropriate policy reform to support Australian stories on screen will be among the chief priorities of the new Australian Directors' Guild (ADG) executive director, Alaric McAusland.
Ben Lawrence took home the main prize – Best Direction in a Feature Film (Budget $1M+) – at last night’s Australian Directors’ Guild (ADG) Awards for his debut narrative feature 'Hearts and Bones'.
Executive director Diana Burnett will depart the Australian Directors’ Guild to take up the role of studio manager at Animal Logic.
Bobby Cannavale, Michael Shannon and Regina Hall are the latest additions to the cast of the Hulu-commissioned series 'Nine Perfect Strangers', which started shooting in Byron Bay today.
'Nine Perfect Strangers' producers, Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films and Made Up Stories, have turned down the Australian Directors' Guild's request for an Australian director to be attached to the production.
Directors Daina Reid ('The Handmaid’s Tale', 'Romper Stomper') and Kay Pavlou ('Race to London', 'Who Do You Think You Are?') will be the special guest presenters for Screenworks’ 2020 Online Directing Intensive.
First-time feature directors Thomas Wright ('Acute Misfortune'), John Sheedy ('H is for Happiness'), Ben Lawrence ('Hearts and Bones') and Natalie Erika James ('Relic') will vie for the Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film ($1 million or over) against Sophie Hyde ('Animals') and Wayne Blair ('Top End Wedding').
Breaking ranks with Screen Producers Australia, the Australian Directors' Guild opposes two of SPA's key policy proposals as well as making the case to rename the Producer Offset as the Creative Offset.