This may turn out to be a premature and fanciful call but 2014 is shaping as potentially one of the strongest years for Australian films, commercially and critically, in recent memory.
Four Australian features and one short have been selected to screen at the 18th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.
Australian films have raked in $14 million at the national box-office this year, a much stronger start than the first three months of 2013.
Writer-director Aaron Wilson's debut feature Canopy has been lavishly praised by reviewers after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Australian writer-director Aaron Wilson is shooting a follow-up to his debut feature Canopy, which focuses on one of the lead characters 30 years after the end of World War II.
Wartime, 1942. Singapore. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary.
World War II. Singapore. Jim, a young Australian fighter pilot is shot down, awakening in a jungle teeming with Japanese soldiers.
Aaron Wilson’s debut feature Canopy has been picked up by Chinese video platform iQIYI, giving the film access to over 390 million Chinese subscribers.