Fans of Aaron Pedersen's Detective Jay Swan can look forward to more 'Mystery Road' adventures on the big and small screens.
Accomplished screenwriters Dot West and Kelly Lefever will lead a new training initiative designed to foster First Nations creative talent in Victoria.
Writer-director Antony Webb and producer Jaclyn Hewer's 'Carmentis' has won the $5,000 CinefestOz Short Film Prize.
Educator, producer, and photographer Susie Annus is the newest member of the CinefestOZ board, as the festival prepares for its Albany event next month.
ScreenWest and National Indigenous Television's (NITV) joint Factual Television Initiative is reaching fruition, with three documentaries from three Indigenous filmmakers to commence filming throughout Western Australia this month.
Western Australian screenwriter and producer Dorothy ‘Dot’ West has been appointed to the CinefestOZ board.
'Blaze', 'How To Please A Woman', 'Sissy' and 'Sweet As' will contend for the best original feature prize at this year’s AWGIE Awards, while 'Mrs Harris Goes to Paris', 'The Stranger' and 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson' are up for the adapted gong. 'The Newsreader' leads in television with two nominations alongside 'Total Control', 'Firebite', 'Bump' and 'Heartbreak High'.
First Nations media executive Dot West, late writer/director Shirley Barrett, and showrunner, writer, and director Tony Ayres have received honorary degrees from the Australian Film Television and Radio School.