On paper the shooting schedule sounded logistically daunting: 20 days for a feature film starring Anthony LaPaglia, Justine Clarke, Julia Blake and John Clarke.
Matt Saville's Felony is the latest Australian film to test the rapidly evolving US distribution model of theatrical and VoD release.
Australian cinemagoers have switched off Australian films and new approaches are needed to win them back, according to some producers, directors, actors and other industry players.
When two Australian films open on the same weekend after getting mostly positive reviews at MIFF and generate copious publicity for the stars and filmmakers, the industry might have expected both to post solid opening figures.
The Australian premiere of Matt Saville’s thriller Felony and the first two episodes of Devil’s Playground are among the highlights of the 63rd Melbourne International Film Festival.
Matt Saville's thriller Felony, which stars Joel Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson, Jai Courtney and Melissa George, will get a cinema release in the US via a new distributor.
Golapost Pictures Australia producers Rosemary Blight and Kylie Du Fresne have won the FILM PRODUCED BY A WOMAN category of the US based WIN Awards, for THE SAPPHIRES.
This may turn out to be a premature and fanciful call but 2014 is shaping as potentially one of the strongest years for Australian films, commercially and critically, in recent memory.