Unjoo Moon's 'I Am Woman' will premiere on Stan as a Stan Orginal on August 28 - the latest in a growing list of Australian films to bypass cinemas as the pandemic continues to depress the theatrical market.
The hardest part about the coronavirus pandemic for Goalpost Pictures was having to make one staffer redundant and stand down another, who was subsequently was reinstated thanks to the JobKeeper wage subsidy.
Goalpost Pictures partners Rosemary Blight, Ben Grant and Kylie du Fresne are busily progressing projects in development with local and international partners and are confident the cinema business will rebound after the pandemic.
The Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace has closed today for an indefinite period, the day after Palace Cinemas temporarily shuttered its 17 sites.
Village Roadshow Ltd (VRL) acknowledges its cinemas and theme parks may be forced to close, citing international precedents.
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.
'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.
Something remarkable happened to Fiona Press when she played Hazel Murphy in the first and second seasons of the ABC serial The Heights.