With Greater Sydney facing another two weeks in lockdown, the growing COVID-19 threat has led to mixed reactions regarding productions in the state as movements become more constricted.
Sam Neill, Miranda Otto and Chris Pang have been added to the cast of Jeffrey Walker's 'The Portable Door', which is shooting on the Gold Coast at Pinnacle Film Studios.
Some of the industry’s most influential have donated 30 minutes of their time to be raffled off as prizes in Screenworks’ annual fundraising raffle.
Jeffrey Walker is the set-up director for 'Young Rock', the NBC-commissioned comedy which will star Uli Latukefu as the young adult Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.
After starring in Network 10's 'The Secrets She Keeps' and the ABC's 'Operation Buffalo', Jessica de Gouw's career continues to flourish while many in her profession are idle due to the pandemic.
First-time feature directors Thomas Wright ('Acute Misfortune'), John Sheedy ('H is for Happiness'), Ben Lawrence ('Hearts and Bones') and Natalie Erika James ('Relic') will vie for the Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film ($1 million or over) against Sophie Hyde ('Animals') and Wayne Blair ('Top End Wedding').
Guy Pearce is bemused when asked how he will cope when he makes his feature film directing debut on Poor Boy, a paranormal mystery about a man who inhabits a child's body.
Jeffrey Walker will chat with actors and creatives he's worked with in Australians in Film's 'Blurring the Lines', a shortform interview series that will air live on Zoom and on AiF’s Facebook page.