Justin Kurzel's 'Nitram' has added another award to its festival run, crowned the winner of the $100,000 CinefestOZ film prize on Saturday evening.
Ana Kokkinos, Leah Purcell, Julie Kalceff, Fadia Abboud and Lucy Gaffy will helm anthology feature drama 'Here Out West', penned by eight emerging writers and now shooting in Sydney.
This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
Screenworks has confirmed more speakers and sessions for next month's Regional To Global Screen Forum, which will carry a focus on authenticity, diversity and inclusion.
Director and producer Nadia Tass will chair the jury for this year's CinefestOZ, which had its full line-up announced in Perth yesterday.
Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps are among the writers aiming to win consecutive prizes at this year's AWGIE Awards.
Six emerging screenwriters are set to benefit from the experience that comes from working on projects such as Please Like Me and Clickbait after being selected for the Stories From Another Australia writing initiative.
NSW cultural institution Powerhouse has announced a four-year partnership with production company Co-Curious via a new commission centred on the Western Sydney community.