Director Benjamin Gilmour's 'Jirga' took home the inaugural AACTA Award for Best Indie Film - designed to honour films made under $2 million - at the AACTA Industry Luncheon in Sydney yesterday.
Two Australian productions, Stranger Than Fiction Film's 'David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema' and Endemol Shine Australia's 'MasterChef Australia', are in contention for the 2018 International Emmy Awards.
Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford’s Aquarius Films has received a NSW Creative Achievement Award.
Create NSW has already achieved its target of an average 50:50 gender split in its screen development and production funding programs by 2020.
Driven by Jen Peedom’s 'Mountain' and Jeffrey Walker’s 'Ali’s Wedding', Australian films are enjoying their best month since April, when Walker’s 'Dance Academy: The Movie' grossed $2.1 million.
Jen Peedom’s innovative cinematic and musical odyssey 'Mountain' ranks as the third-highest grossing Australian feature documentary ever, excluding IMAX, after launching on 30 screens last Thursday.
Aquarius Films turns 10 this year, and the company is on a roll.
Warwick Thornton's ‘We Don’t Need A Map’ will open this year’s Sydney Film Festival, with the event also marking the documentary’s world premiere.