Actor and producer Cate Blanchett will receive the Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
Selected from eight nominees, the $10,000 cash prize will be presented to the Amazon Australian Original for deepening the knowledge and awareness of the impact of the global climate emergency.
With NSW reopening for the fully vaccinated, Sydney Film Festival is set to finally go ahead, with a line-up that director Nashen Moodley believes is one the most diverse and exciting in the event's 68-year history.
Eva Orner's 'Burning', about Australia's devastating 'Black Summer', will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
After last year's iteration saw six projects optioned, AACTA is set to re-team with Monster Pictures to run a horror and genre film development initiative.
Amazon Prime Video launched a slate of seven new local originals at a showcase event in Sydney last week, including projects from Made Up Stories, Cate Blanchett's Dirty Films, Matchbox Pictures and Guesswork Television.
Director Paul Williams and producer Shannon Swan's portrait of the late blind Indigenous musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, 'Gurrumul', won Best Documentary Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), held in Brisbane last night.