Screen Australia's head of content Sally Caplan rates 2019 as a good year for Australian films at home and abroad - and she is even more optimistic about the 2020 slate.
Adelaide Film Festival has revealed its full program for 2020, including the world premieres of local titles 'When Pomegranates Howl', 'Yer Old Father', 'This is Port Adelaide', 'ShoPaapaa' and more, as well as a special strand dedicated to Australian indies.
The Birrarangga Film Festival will return to Melbourne next month, featuring a collection of feature-length narrative, documentary, and short films.
Two climate change documentaries fronted by Craig Reucassel, a factual entertainment series which looks at public shaming and teetotaller Shaun Micallef’s expose on the effects of alcohol will premiere on the ABC next year.
Wayne Blair and Nel Minchin’s 'Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra' has followed up Monday's AACTA Award for Best Documentary with yet another win, claiming the inaugural Change Award at the Adelaide Film Festival.
Japan’s highest grossing feature film of all time, 'Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train', is also proving a hit with Australian audiences.
For the first time ever, Sydney Film Festival will run a summer season during January's Sydney Festival.
Firestarter, directed by Wayne Blair and Nel Minchin, marks Bangarra Dance Theatre’s 30th anniversary. Taking us through Bangarra’s birth and spectacular growth, the In Films documentary recognises Bangarra’s founders and tells the story of how three young Aboriginal brothers — Stephen, David and Russell Page — turned the newly born dance group into a First Nations cultural powerhouse.