The coronavirus pandemic is taking a heavy and growing toll on the screen industry, resulting in the postponement of numerous TV shows and widespread job losses.
It’s an all too familiar story: Australian films open in a handful of cinemas with minimal marketing and publicity and audiences don’t go because they don’t know where or when these films are playing.
Writer-director Heath Davis and Bronte Pictures' Blake Northfield are teaming up for 'Blood Red Sky', a feature inspired by the Australian bushfire crisis.
"The best way to get people to go to the cinema is to embrace the point of difference from television, enhance the cinematic scale of the work and create narrative experiences that are immersive." - Robert Connolly
Kiah Roache-Turner’s 'Nekrotronic' opened in the US last weekend as a multi-platform release.
After playing kids in 'Red Dog: True Blue', 'A Wrinkle in Time', 'Jasper Jones' and 'Pan', Levi Miller is set to take on his most mature role in writer-director Tyson Johnston’s debut feature 'Streamline'.
Producer-exhibitor Blake Northfield and filmmaker-actor Saara Lamberg had never met until the joined Cinegar Bar, the new independent filmmakers co-operative founded by Heath Davis.
PJ Hogan has set his next film: 'The Calligrapher', a comedy adapted from the debut novel by British writer Edward Docx.