Six Australian films will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month following the overnight announcement that Around the Block and Canopy have been selected.
Four Australian features and one short have been selected to screen at the 18th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.
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.
Writer-director Aaron Wilson's debut feature Canopy has been lavishly praised by reviewers after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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.
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.
The crowd funding of creative projects in Australia is growing rapidly although the average per-person contribution is relatively small.
Writer-director Aaron Wilson's debut feature Canopy, a thriller set during the Japanese invasion of Singapore in WWII, has been sold to the US.