Mark Lamprell is not just a screenwriter (Babe: Pig in the City) and director (My Mother Frank, Goddess), but a novelist as well.
The 25th event will be held at Parramatta Park on February 11 next year.
Screen NSW has gifted its inaugural annual award to legendary stuntman Grant Page, who has coordinated stunts for the likes of Mel Gibson and Jackie Chan.
'Jasper Jones' director Rachel Perkins and Aussie producer Bruna Papandrea ('Big Little Lies', 'Gone Girl') will also front the panel.
Oscar-winning sound designer David White has written an open letter to his colleagues after reports that the death of renowned re-recording mixer Gregg Rudloff is being treated as a suicide.
MGM has acquired North American rights to George Miller's 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', a virtual two-hander which will star Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.
The long-rumoured 'Mad Max' spin-off is in the works at Warner Bros, with Chris Hemsworth, Anya Taylor-Joy and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II heading the cast.