“I just want to play characters whose ethnicity is incidental and I’ve been lucky to be able to do that in the past few years."
Owen Trevor's 'GO!', John Sheedy's 'H is for Happiness', Ben Lawrence's 'Hearts and Bones', Mirrah Foulkes' 'Judy & Punch' and Paul Ireland's 'Measure for Measure' will compete for Australia’s biggest film prize.
British actor Rupert Penry-Jones, Ryan Corr and David Lyons have joined the cast of Stan/Playmaker Media's 'The Commons'.
An air hostess escaping a cult, an Afghan refugee saving his family, an Australian father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat trying to contain a national scandal each struggle – to the limits of their sanity – with an immigration system that is itself struggling.
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights excluding Australia to Stateless, the six-part drama about four strangers whose lives collide in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert, co-created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres and Elise McCredie.
"When I'm not worrying about my parents in WA or having to apply to Centrelink or for a mortgage freeze, I'm actually quite calm and content."
Paul Ireland’s 'Measure for Measure' will be released in North America by Samuel Goldwyn Films, the distributor's third Australian acquisition this year.
Bittersweet comedy 'Babyteeth' has swept this year's AACTA Awards, picking up seven prizes at Monday's ceremony including Best Film and Best Direction for debut filmmaker Shannon Murphy.