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'.
Playground Films has optioned Hilary Bell's Sydney Theatre Company stage play 'Splinter' and Fiona Wright's novel 'Small Acts of Disappearance'.
The timing could not have been worse: 'Hotel Mumbai' opening in Australian cinemas the day before the horrific slaughter of innocents at two mosques in Christchurch.
David Barker’s psychological thriller 'Pimped' won the Australian feature award at Monster Fest: The Homecoming.
After 36 years as one of Australia’s most successful producers, Andrena Finlay is pursuing a new passion: imparting her knowledge and expertise to emerging producers.
Some 15 years ago David Barker first heard about a twisted sexual “game” known as ghosting from a colleague whose two high school friends had perpetrated this practice on an unwilling victim.
The creators talk about the award, the medium and Australia's input