Warwick Thornton’s 'Sweet Country' has received three nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, the most nominations ever received by an Australian film.
After a decade gestation, director Stephen Johnson’s frontier Western 'High Ground' is scheduled to shoot next year in Arnhem Land and Kakadu National Park.
“The opening sequence is not a wide shot; it's a shot of a billy can boiling. The black tea goes in and then the white sugar goes in, and it all gets boiled together; it's a metaphor for the landscape and the society and a time and a place.”
Warwick Thornton, Leah Purcell, Ivan Sen, Steven McGregor, Erica Glynn, Danielle Maclean and Bain Stewart will travel to Los Angeles next month for high-level networking.
Bunya Productions has brought on Courtney Botfield to head up its distribution arm and Chris Kunz to help drive the company's development slate.
Two NSW-based emerging producers from diverse backgrounds will have the chance to undertake a six-month paid industry internship next year, thanks to the Screen NSW Emerging Producer Placement program.
Season two sees Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) take on a grisly case in a new town in order to be closer to his family, but has he left it too late? Set in a small coastal community where the desert meets the ocean, secrets past and present run deep and dark. Jay must reconcile the law and deep lore and confront a dangerous enemy in a world where deception is king.
The Indigenous creative teams in Australia and New Zealand were developing the anthology feature 'Cook 2020: Our Right of Reply' when they decided the basic premise wasn't right.