First-time director Ramata-Toulaye Sy has won the $140,000 Bright Horizons competition at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival for romantic drama Banel & Adama.
The Melbourne International Film Festival has announced the nominees and juries for the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award and the inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award.
The full line-up for this year's Melbourne International Film Festival was revealed Tuesday evening, with a significant number of Australian additions, such as the world premieres of Jason Raftopoulos' sophomore feature 'Voices in Deep' and Matthew Adekponya's behind-the-scenes look at how the Boomers took bronze in Tokyo, 'Rose Gold'.
WA director Ben Young's US crime drama 'Devil's Peak' will open this year's Revelation Perth International Film Festival, to be held in July at Luna Cinemas Leederville.
Warwick Thornton's 'The New Boy' is heading direct from Cannes to Sydney Film Festival, where it will be the opening night film for the event's 70th edition.
After premiering at Adelaide Film Festival in October, Soda Jerk's 'Hello Dankness' will make its international premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama section.
Building on the tradition of the HIVE lab, Adelaide Film Festival has launched a new initiative which aims to link visual and media artists with film and XR practitioners to create new moving image works.