Written and directed by Matthew Bate, 'The Defenders' is a feature documentary centered on footballer Hakeem al-Araibi and the global campaign that fought to free him from prison.
Ester Harding is set to join Sweetshop & Green's entertainment division as a development executive, working across its Australian and New Zealand operations.
Sweetshop & Green has promoted Ester Harding to head of drama, and appointed former AIDC CEO and conference director Alice Burgin as a documentary and factual executive.
A documentary born out of "a collaboration made in heaven" between Sweetshop & Green and Monash University will make its debut at the Melbourne International Film Festival this week.
Amazon will launch nine new originals in 2023, announcing six new unscripted titles to go with previously announced commissions 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart', 'Deadloch', and 'Class of ‘07'.
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.
Sara Kern's debut feature 'Moja Vesna', due to screen at MIFF, follows a 10-year-old girl who has to keep her grief-stricken immigrant family together.
Filming is underway in Melbourne on writer-director Sara Kern's debut feature 'Moja Vesna', in what is the first-ever Slovenian-Australian co-production.