Cate Blanchett co-created, co-produces and will play a key supporting role in 'Stateless', a six-part drama about four strangers in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert commissioned by the ABC.
“I just want to play characters whose ethnicity is incidental and I’ve been lucky to be able to do that in the past few years."
Friends for years, Tony Ayres and Andrea Denholm had long wanted to work together but did not have the opportunity- until now.
The first two episodes of Matchbox Pictures' 'Stateless' and the second series of Bunya Productions' 'Mystery Road' will have their world premieres at the sixth edition of the Berlin International Film Festival’s Berlinale Series.
An air hostess escaping a cult, an Afghan refugee saving his family, an Australian father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat trying to contain a national scandal each struggle – to the limits of their sanity – with an immigration system that is itself struggling.
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights excluding Australia to Stateless, the six-part drama about four strangers whose lives collide in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert, co-created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres and Elise McCredie.
Jocelyn Moorhouse was shooting the ABC's 'Stateless' when Jungle Entertainment offered her the gig of set-up director of the ABC drama 'Wakefield'.
Self-isolation is providing a fillip for Foxtel with a spike in viewers of its movie channels.