“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.”
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.
Warwick Thornton’s 'Sweet Country' has received three nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, the most nominations ever received by an Australian film.
Warwick Thornton’s period Western 'Sweet Country' has won a key prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, judged the best of 12 titles in the Platform program of director’s cinema.
A spin-off of Ivan Sen’s feature films 'Mystery Road' and 'Goldstone', the six-part series produced by Bunya Productions’ David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin is set to begin production this week in WA’s East Kimberley region.
'Sweet Country', Warwick Thornton’s 1920s-set outback Western starring Sam Neill, Bryan Brown and Ewen Leslie, is set to make its world premiere in competition at Venice Film Festival.
Detective Jay Swan, the protagonist in Ivan Sen's films 'Mystery Road' and 'Goldstone', is headed to the small screen.
Director Warwick Thornton decided to make his latest documentary 'We Don't Need A Map' following backlash he received when he compared the Southern Cross to a swastika.