According to Numero, to date, at a total of $71.4 million (excluding holdovers), Australian films have contributed 16 per cent of the national 2021 box office.
The casting directors behind 'Nitram', 'The Dry', 'High Ground', and 'The Furnace' will battle it out in the feature film category of the Casting Guild of Australia Awards to be held this month.
Stephen Johnson's 'High Ground' earned a special mention from the The Young Cinema Award jury at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, held on the Gold Coast.
Adelaide Film Festival has announced its first five titles as it pushes forward with a physical event in October as originally planned.
As cinemas across the country do it tough, Sydney Film Festival's Traveling Film Festival has partnered with Independent Cinemas Australia (ICA) to present two curated programs of features and shorts designed to drive audiences back to local theatres.
Caren Pistorius was working part-time in a fabrics dress shop in Sydney last year when her RGM agent suggested she audition for the lead female role opposite Russell Crowe in a US thriller.
Most independent Australian distributors are doing it tough, forced to postpone releases while the exhibition business languishes with Victorian cinemas closed and seating capacity restricted in the rest of the country.
Australian feature films are currently dominating the box office, with exhibitors reporting a "revitalised" audience appetite for local stories. However, both producers and distributors have concerns about being able to actually get Aussie features off the ground in the future, with the Producer Offset slated to fall from 40 to 30 per cent from July.