The SAFC today launched an annual award to commemorate the trail-blazing impact of silent film pioneer Lottie Lyell on on the screen industry and to provide financial support to a female-driven screen project.
Women's collective Dame Changer will host an International Women’s Day event tomorrow evening in Sydney, to mark the organisation's first anniversary.
Critic David Stratton has curated a program of 10 "essential films" directed by Australian female filmmakers for the Sydney Film Festival and the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA).
Gillian Armstrong was 29 when she won the AFI award for best director for her debut feature 'My Brilliant Career', the first local film to be directed by a woman since the McDonagh sisters’ 'Two Minute Silence' in 1933.
Friends and former colleagues are paying tribute to Jenny Woods, a long-time executive at Film Finances Australasia, as a consummate professional and champion of Australian films and documentaries,
The Make it Australian campaign is heading back to Canberra for the first time since the federal election, restating its case for local content requirements to be placed on digital platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Diana Burnett, the incoming executive director of the Australian Directors' Guild (ADG), cites supporting female and other under-represented directors and helping directors to get more work internationally as among her objectives.
Gillian Armstrong has won one of the Australian film industry's highest honours, the Murray Forrest Award for Excellence in Filmcraft.