While AACTA's Byron Kennedy Award is typically given to an individual or organisation who demonstrates "outstanding creative enterprise", this year the award will go to a film.
Following on from the success of Rosemary Myers' 'Girl Asleep', Adelaide’s Windmill Theatre Co has launched a permanent screen production arm.
Girl Asleep was selected ahead of Jasper Jones, Spin Out and The Death and Life of Otto Bloom. CinefestOZ received more than 30 submissions for the prize, with the winner decided by a jury made up of Armstrong, producer Sue Taylor (Looking for Grace), DP
Myers' debut feature Girl Asleep is screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 7 and 9.
Rosemary Myers' coming-of-age drama 'Girl Asleep' will get an Australian theatrical run, with the film set to be released in cinemas on September 8.
Rosemary Myers' Girl Asleep has taken out the Official Competition Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Rosemary Myers' Girl Asleep has won the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival Best Feature People Choice's Award for her coming of age drama starring Eamon Farren and Bethany Whitmore.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Imogen Archer, who made their debuts in Sophie Hyde's 52 Tuesdays, have been cast in Windmill Theatre's first feature, coming-of-age drama Girl Asleep.