With only nine Australian feature docs making more than $100,000 at the box office last year, and none more than $350,000, the future of Australian documentary in cinemas went under the microscope at AIDC.
The Australian International Documentary Conference has revealed that filmmaker and educator Cathy Henkel will receive this year's Stanley Hawes Award.
Leah Purcell's 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson' leads the nominees for the Australian Film Critics Association (AFCA) Awards, which will be held later this year.
'Black Adam' debuted to $7.5 million at the box office last weekend - the best opening result since 'Thor: Love and Thunder'.
The box office had a much-needed refresh last weekend by way of Julia Roberts and George Clooney rom-com 'Ticket to Paradise' and 'DC League of Super-Pets', and to a lesser extent, 'Moonage Daydream' and 'Bodies Bodies Bodies'.
For the first time this year, a foreign language title has topped the box office, ‘Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva’.
Six films will contend this year's AACTA Award for Best Documentary.
'Franklin', set to premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival, recounts the '80s environmental campaign to save Tasmania's Franklin River through the eyes of Oliver Cassidy, who retraces the journey taken some 40 years before by his late activist father.