Composer Rafael May will follow up score for 'The Twelve' with music for Helium's upcoming drama 'Paper Dolls'.
The writers of 'All Is True', 'Hotel Mumbai', 'Relic', 'Ride Like a Girl' and 'The Favourite' have been nominated for best original feature film in the 52nd annual AWGIE Awards.
The Australian titles released in cinemas this year including holdovers will overtake the calendar 2017 total in the next week or so, boosted by Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black.
Bruce Beresford’s 'Ladies in Black' opened impressively last weekend, considering that the primary target audience - mature cinemagoers - don't normally rush out to see films in the first weekend.
Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinessi’s debut film 'The Heiresses' won the $60,000 top prize at the 65th Sydney Film Festival while Ben Lawrence’s feature documentary 'Ghosthunter' took the Documentary Australia Foundation Award.
'Ghosthunter' follows Jason King, a western Sydney security guard and part-time ghost hunter, who has spent two decades searching for his absent father. As a survivor of trauma, he seeks to reconcile his fractured memories and piece together his past. When his search converges with a police investigation, a horrific family secret is exposed — forcing him to confront a brutal past in order to reclaim his future.