Owen Trevor's 'GO!', John Sheedy's 'H is for Happiness', Ben Lawrence's 'Hearts and Bones', Mirrah Foulkes' 'Judy & Punch' and Paul Ireland's 'Measure for Measure' will compete for Australia’s biggest film prize.
As more cinemas around Australia opened their doors, ticket sales improved last weekend from a low base as several art house titles led by Kitty Green's The Assistant entered the market.
The Australian presence at the Berlin International Film Festival has been bolstered with the selection of the shorts Elders, Grevillea and The Flame in the Generation program and Girl and Body in
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Theatre director John Sheedy is currently casting for his feature film directorial debut, 'H is for Happiness', due to shoot in Albany, WA later this year.
John Sheedy's debut feature H is for Happiness has been acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films in North America and Germany's Telepool as well as distributors in multiple other markets.
John Sheedy’s feature debut 'H is for Happiness', an adaptation of Barry Jonsberg’s young adult novel My Life as an Alphabet, has won this year's $100,000 CinefestOZ Film Prize.
Producer Julie Ryan was in post-production for 'Hotel Mumbai' when writer Lisa Hoppe’s script for 'H is for Happiness' came across her desk. She loved it straight away - by page 40, she'd recognised it would make a heartwarming, funny family film.
"Don't adapt and change cultural differences: some projects lose their originality because they are designed for world platforms or global deals."