“It’s a career that’s been full, rich and enormously joyful, but it’s also had a lot of ups and downs as well.”
The Gold Coast Film Festival will open in early April with the Australian premiere of Damon Gameau's '2040', and close with the world premiere of Storm Ashwood's war film 'Escape and Evasion'.
Every year, the Venice Biennale College program offers a handful of talented emerging filmmakers from around the world an intensive training course in micro-budget filmmaking.
Water cinematographer Rick Rifici ('Otherlife', 'Drift', 'Adore') has spent a lot of his career capturing surf for TVCs and commercial clients, where the brief typically involves capturing the waves and athletes in sunny conditions and bright blue water.
Director Mairi Cameron feels grateful her feature debut 'The Second' has the potential to reach a wider audience than “a little Australian film” of its ilk typically might.
Maslin is the keynote speaker at the Gold Coast Film Festival's third annual Women In Film lunch. Presented by Screen Queensland, the lunch recognises the contribution of women in film and television in Australia.
Submissions are now open for next year's Gold Coast Film Festival - the 15th - running from April 19-30, as well as for SIPFest.
SIPFest takes place in the outdoors on Surfers Paradise beach, screening 10-minute shorts by emerging filmmakers from around the country.