While AACTA's Byron Kennedy Award is typically given to an individual or organisation who demonstrates "outstanding creative enterprise", this year the award will go to a film.
'Cargo' is a post apocalyptic thriller and an emotional story of a father trying to save his child at all costs.
Steven McGregor and David Tranter's 'Sweet Country' was named best feature film original screenplay while Yolanda Ramke's 'Cargo' was deemed best feature film adaptation at the Australian Writers’ Guild’s annual AWGIE Awards on Thursday night.
For Playground Films owner and director David Barker, there are many industry opportunities to discuss the business of filmmaking - less so the art of filmmaking. To help redress this, Playground has launched Helm, a program of monthly film screenings 'for directors, by directors'.
The first production still has been released from Cargo, starring Sherlock’s Martin Freeman.
Australians in Film (AiF), the LA-based Australian entertainment industry guild, has announced that the feature film script for Cargo is the winner of the inaugural Gateway LA Script Development Program Prize for 2015.
Anthony Hayes has been acting since he was nine. While there is no danger of him giving up that stellar career, for the present he is concentrating more on his other passions: writing and directing.
Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling’s debut feature Cargo – dubbed a ‘zombie tearjerker’ – will make its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in October.