Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has won this year's $60,000 Sydney Film Prize for 'There Is No Evil', beating out 11 other Sydney Film Festival (SFF) competition films.
Aquarius Films turns 10 this year, and the company is on a roll.
In a dangerous near future in the Australian desert, Eric has left everything behind, but when his last possession is stolen by a gang of dangerous criminals, Eric sets off on a hunt to find them. Along the journey he enlists the help of Rey, the naïve a
Production is underway on The Rover, starring Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson, in the South Australian outback.
Some 34 feature films will compete for nominations for this year's AACTA Awards, and the longlist covers diverse range of titles, from box office earners like 'Top End Wedding' and 'Storm Boy', through to the critically lauded 'The Nightingale' and micro budget indies like 'Suburban Wildlife'.
TNT executive VP of original programming Sarah Aubrey said that Animal Kingdom had "signaled the new tone for TNT dramas and is moving the network in the direction we hoped it would."
The producers of David Michod's thriller The Rover have clinched a US distribution deal with a relatively new distributor, A24.
Agent Bec Smith has enjoyed a steep climb in the industry since she landed in the US in 2007. This year marks her tenth with United Talent Agency, where she represents a client base of 50 writers and directors, a third of which are Australian.