Four Australians and three Kiwis have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Australians in Film (AIF) hosted its annual AiF Awards and Benefit Gala at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The actors are clearly high on the Sydney writer, having already turned the author's Big Little Lies into a series for HBO that is currently in post.
Together, Reese Witherspoon and Papandrea produced David Fincher's Gone Girl, Jean-Marc Vallee's Wild and upcoming HBO miniseries Big Little Lies, based on the novel by Sydney writer Liane Moriarty. Papandrea and Witherspoon recently bought the rights to
Papandrea runs her own film and television production company, Make Movies. She recently departed lit-focussed production company Pacific Standard, which she launched in 2012 with Reese Witherspoon.
Naomi Watts has partnered with Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea to option Aussie bestseller 'Penguin Bloom'.
Bron Creative, the LA and Vancouver-based company which produced Denzel Washington’s 'Fences' and Nate Parker’s 'The Birth of a Nation', will produce and co-finance the thriller with Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories.
Writer-director Abe Forsythe proved his skill at flicking the switch from black comedy to violence in Down Under, and now he’s embarking on a film which will mash even more genres.