Producer, financier, market researcher and distributor Peter Drinkwater is taking an innovative, intensively market research-based approach to creating, producing and marketing Australian and US films
Aussie filmmakers are now in position to encourage a broader range of investors into the sector, writes PwC Australia's Megan Brownlow.
'American Horror Story' star Evan Peters will play a key supporting role in 'I Am Woman', Goalpost Pictures’ Helen Reddy biopic which is about to start shooting in Australia and the US.
Given the commercial pressures facing Australia's free-to-air networks and funding agencies, the industry should look to private investors to fill the widening gap in financing TV dramas and features, according to Deanne Weir.
Justin Kurzel's 'True History of the Kelly Gang' and Unjoo Moon's 'I Am Woman' will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from September 5-15.
Adelaide Studios' sound mixing theatre has been named after South Australia’s ‘godfather’ of sound Michael Rowan.
IFC Films’ acquisition of North American rights to Justin Kurzel’s 'True History of the Kelly Gang' before the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival now seems savvy in light of the rave reviews.
'I Am Woman' is the story of Helen Reddy, who in 1966 landed in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase and $230 in her pocket. Within weeks she was broke. Within months she was in love. Within five years she was one of the biggest superstars of her time, and an icon of the 1970s feminist movement, who wrote a song which galvanised a generation of women to fight for change.