Sydney Film Festival director and acting CEO Nashen Moodley hopes a program of "big emotions" will help cinemas continue to build momentum post-lockdown, with the full line-up for the 2022 event unveiled on Wednesday.
Macedonian-Australian director Goran Stolevski drew comparisons with filmmakers like Terrence Malick and Jonathan Glazer after his feature debut 'You Won't Be Alone' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on the weekend.
High-profile talent on both sides of camera punctuate the four feature films, three television dramas, and one virtual reality project that will share in more than $6.5 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
Noomi Rapace ('The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'), Anamaria Marinca ('4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'), Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta ('Tabu') and Félix Maritaud ('Sauvage') are among the cast of writer-director Goran Stolevski's 'You Won't Be Alone', which recently wrapped filming in Serbia.
Twelve Aussie creatives are off to Los Angeles for Talent USA: LA, a week-long program that involves meetings, workshops and networking opportunities.