Female directors have taken the lion's share of nominations for this year's Australian Directors' Guild awards, with Sian Davies and Stef Smith each securing three nods and their counterparts dominating the feature film categories.
The ABC has commissioned 10-part Roadshow Rough Diamond drama 'Les Norton', based on the best-selling novels by Robert G. Barrett.
Roadshow Rough Diamond's crime caper 'Les Norton', starring Rebel Wilson, David Wenham and Alexander Bertrand in the title role, will premiere on the ABC and iview on Sunday August 4 at 8.30 pm.
Anthology feature 'Here Out West', which opened the 2021 Sydney Film Festival, will be released in cinemas February 3 via Mind Blowing Films.
Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Justin Kurzel’s 'Nitram', anthology feature drama 'Here Out West', and Jennifer Peedom's 'River' will each compete for CinefestOz's $100,000 Film Prize.
Nine has unveiled dramas 'Underbelly: Vanishing Act' and 'After the Verdict' as part of its 2022 slate, with the network emphasising its "strong investment" in the genre at its upfronts.
Indian actors Akshay Ajit Singh and Shahana Goswami will star opposite each other in SBS romantic drama 'Four Years Later', formerly 'Four Years', which has begun filming in Mumbai and Jaipur ahead of a Sydney shoot in late February.
Northern Pictures' 'Hardball' has been nominated for an International Emmy Kids Award in the Kids: Live Action category.