Australian critics hailed 'Gurrumul', the bio of Australia's most successful indigenous musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu as must-see and moving, mesmerising and genuinely from the heart
Australian feature films and feature documentaries released in cinemas have a very good shot at beating the 2017 calendar year total of $49.4 million, judging by the results for the first five months.
This year 46 production businesses are in contention across the 13 categories for the 18th Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards.
Screenwest has secured an industry coup with the appointment of highly awarded documentary film director Paul Damian Williams as its new documentary manager.
For director Paul Williams and producer Shannon Swan, their portrait of the late blind Indigenous musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Gurrumul, was always made with aims to be more than just about the artist himself.
SBS will mark NAIDOC Week 2019 (July 7-14) with a raft of programming that celebrates the success and shares the unique stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, starting July 5.
Despite the challenging theatrical market for independent films, Australian feature documentaries are generally performing well at home and some are getting decent exposure in the US and the UK.
Surfing along on word-of-mouth, Simon Baker’s 'Breath' maintained momentum in its second weekend, easily beating new releases 'Tully', 'Chappaquiddick' and 'Crooked House'.