Writer-director Abe Forsythe proved his skill at flicking the switch from black comedy to violence in Down Under, and now he’s embarking on a film which will mash even more genres.
CEO Elizabeth Trotman noted that StudioCanal AU-NZ was already developing a family film, two biopics, a prestige drama and a romantic comedy.
David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz travelled to the Gold Coast late last year to pick up a special award from the Australian International Movie Convention, recognising their contribution to the Australian film industry.
"If I never get the chance to make another one, I feel good now having made this one," Forsythe told IF
Younes has appeared in City Homicide, Love Child, Home and Away and Hiding. IF checks in with him on the publicity tour for his first feature lead, in Abe Forsythe's Down Under.
Abe Forsythe's black comedy Down Under is set hit Australian cinemas on August 4.
Actor-director-writer David Field plans to pen a biography of his great mate Bill Hunter.
The ugly Cronulla race riots in southern Sydney in 2005 may seem an unlikely source of humour but that's the backdrop of writer-director Abe Forsythe's latest film.