For writer and director Stef Smith, creating short-form project 'It's Fine, I'm Fine' - about to premiere at Canneseries - was an attempt to get out of what she calls the "credit desert".
That is, it was a bid, for both herself and her fellow collaborators, to obtain the kind of credit that could see them escape the sticky "emerging" label.
Sydney-based producer Belinda Dean has launched new company Confidante Pictures, with a slate that includes writer/director Warwick Young's debut feature, 'Brilliant Monkey'.
Oceans is a French documentary, currently in production, that showcases the wonder and spectacle of life in the all the world's oceans. It also tells the story of how man is wantonly destroying the ocean ecosystem by overfishing, whaling and pumping sewag