Prolific and multi award-winning Hong Kong-based actress Cheng Pei-pei has joined the cast of Ivan Sen’s outback noir thriller Goldstone now shooting in Queensland.
Goldstone has been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival's Platform sidebar.
Warwick Thornton, Leah Purcell, Ivan Sen, Steven McGregor, Erica Glynn, Danielle Maclean and Bain Stewart will travel to Los Angeles next month for high-level networking.
Directors Ivan Sen, Kitty Green, and Ricard Cussó will provide insights into their craft as part of this year's Brisbane International Film Festival, joining the line-up of speakers for the industry days.
Goldstone is the fourth feature by Ivan Sen and stars Aaron Pederson, reprising his role of the troubled Indigenous detective Jay Swan, first seen in Sen’s Mystery Road, which opened SFF in 2013.
The film stars Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten, Tony Barry, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, David Field and Robert Mammone
Daniel Connors, the film's young star, was also nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in the APSAs
Jillian Nguyen landed her first screen role – as Molly Kane in Justin Kurzel’s 'True History of the Kelly Gang' - just two weeks after graduating from 16th Street Actors Studio in Melbourne last year.