Some 34 feature films will compete for nominations for this year's AACTA Awards, and the longlist covers diverse range of titles, from box office earners like 'Top End Wedding' and 'Storm Boy', through to the critically lauded 'The Nightingale' and micro budget indies like 'Suburban Wildlife'.
For director Ben Lawrence, the reaction to his feature debut 'Hearts and Bones' at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was both “emotional and overwhelming”.
The Casting Guild of Australia (CGA) named 10 actors as its top emerging talent of 2019 and celebrated the best casting of the year at its annual awards Friday evening in Melbourne.
For Madman Entertainment 2019 was the distributor's most consistent year ever, with 14 films each grossing more than $500,000 at Australian cinemas - and the 2020 slate looks even stronger.
This year's Gold Coast Film Festival will be bookended by two Aussie features, opening with Unjoo Moon's Helen Reddy biopic 'I Am Woman,' and closing with the locally shot comedic thriller 'Bloody Hell', directed by Alister Grierson.
Madman Entertainment had dated Ben Lawrence's debut feature 'Hearts and Bones' for an April 30 premiere on 40 screens, the marketing campaign was ready and Hugo Weaving was set do a a publicity tour.
The closure of cinemas in Australia, the US and many other markets is resulting in a steady stream of movies going straight to digital platforms.
Director Ben Lawrence's 'Hearts and Bones' has sold to Gravitas Ventures for the US via Visit Films.