Jennifer Kent's 'The Nightingale' dominated the Australian Film Critics Association's annual awards, winning all eight prizes for local narrative features, while 'The Australian Dream' was named best documentary.
Bron Creative, the LA and Vancouver-based company which produced Denzel Washington’s 'Fences' and Nate Parker’s 'The Birth of a Nation', will produce and co-finance the thriller with Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories.
Directors Jennifer Kent and Ivan Sen, producer Liz Watts and Oscar-nominated production designer Fiona Crombie have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Wednesday's AACTA Awards saw a trifecta for Jennifer Kent, who took home Best Film, Best Direction and Best Screenplay for 'The Nightingale', with star Aisling Franciosi also winning Best Lead Actress.
Christmas has come early for 19 feature films, 11 television dramas, and two online projects, which will collectively share $1.2 million of Screen Australia development funding.
Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
The outcry over Jennifer Kent’s 'The Nightingale' as the only female-directed film among the 21 in official competition at the Venice International Film Festival has not swayed the festival’s director.
Critic David Stratton has curated a program of 10 "essential films" directed by Australian female filmmakers for the Sydney Film Festival and the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA).