The Asia Pacific Screen Awards has announced this year's list of nominees, with Elissa Down's The Black Balloon as being the sole Australian nominee.
In a wrap up of its 10th anniversary celebrations on October 18, Cinema des Antipodes presented awards for the six films in competition, with Australian director Nadia Tass (Malcolm, The Big Steal) heading its competition jury.
SBS has unveiled the lead cast and directors of Arcadia's 1940s-set 'While The Men Are Away', with Gemma Ward making her screen return alongside Benedict Hardie and rising stars of stage and screen, Shaka Cook and Max McKenna.
The New South Wales Film & Television Office (FTO) has sent out its congratulations to NSW winners of the AWGIE Awards 2008, announced on Friday evening.
The director tells IF how she landed her first Netflix gig; collaborating with fellow Aussies, composer Michael Yezerski and editor Jane Moran; and how her career has ebbed and flowed since her debut film 'The Black Balloon'.
Prolific screenwriter, script producer and story editor Kelly Lefever is juggling multiple projects - not least a deeply personal series about disability
SBS's queer, revisionist take on Australia during World War II, 'While The Men Are Away', managed to lure director Elissa Down home to Australia for work for the first time in more than a decade.
Elissa Down�s family drama The Black Balloon has passed $1 million at the Australian box office, after boosting its screen count from 61 to 68 last weekend. Meanwhile high school dramedy, Hey Hey It�s Esther Blueburger, has reached $600,000 after two