A film tracking the 30-year journey of children's band The Wiggles and another celebrating the life of late music executive Michael Gudinski are among the nine projects to share in more than $2.7 million of documentary funding from Screen Australia.
Experimental film and video art platform Prototype has announced a new three-month season featuring nine new short works – including eight world premieres – by 10 international and Australian artists, filmmakers and collectives.
Set on Christmas Island, 'Island of the Hungry Ghosts' explores the theme of migration through the 40 million red crabs that move from the jungle to the sea when the moon is full, and the asylum seekers that are being held indefinitely in a high-security detention centre on the island.
'Island of the Hungry Ghosts', a hybrid documentary-feature which portrays the parallel worlds of migration on Christmas Island, is set for its Australian premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival this August.