Oranges will open in the US while Little Sparrows heads to the UK
The Sydney Film Festival has unveiled the jury for this year's official competition, with David Wenham set to lead deliberations as president.
A host of Aussie actors have joined the main cast of Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley biopic, including Richard Roxburgh, Helen Thomson, David Wenham, and Dacre Montgomery.
The launches last weekend of Gregor Jordan's 'Dirt Music' and Alister Grierson's 'Bloody Hell' underlined the challenges facing independent films in a theatrical market that is severely weakened by the Victorian shutdown, limits on seating capacity and the absence of Hollywood tentpoles.
David Wenham is in the frame to play the adopted father of Saroo Brierley, an Indian-born Australian who found his birth mother 25 years after they were separated, in Garth Davis' feature Lion.
David Wenham and executive producer Robert Connolly are hitting the road for a series of Q&A event screenings of their innovative micro-budget feature 'Ellipsis'.
Also onboard is Caren Pistorius ('Offspring'), Gary Sweet ('House Husbands'), Alex Dimitriades ('The Slap'), Robyn Malcolm ('Upper Middle Bogan'), Lee Jones ('The Bastard Executioner'), Anna Samson ('Winners & Losers'), Hannah Frederiksen ('Hunters') and
Emily Avila, Lara Kose, Goran Stolevski and Thomas Baricevic are the four recipients of Sydney Film Festival's 2017 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship.