Despite the challenging theatrical market for independent films, Australian feature documentaries are generally performing well at home and some are getting decent exposure in the US and the UK.
Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Justin Kurzel’s 'Nitram', anthology feature drama 'Here Out West', and Jennifer Peedom's 'River' will each compete for CinefestOz's $100,000 Film Prize.
Transmission Films will release 'David Stratton: A Cinematic Life' on March 9, and the new trailer promises a film with a biographical bent, as much about Stratton himself as the films that have inspired him.
The Sydney Film Festival has unveiled the jury for this year's official competition, with David Wenham set to lead deliberations as president.
For Playground Films owner and director David Barker, there are many industry opportunities to discuss the business of filmmaking - less so the art of filmmaking. To help redress this, Playground has launched Helm, a program of monthly film screenings 'for directors, by directors'.
Actress Isla Fisher, director Zak Hilditch, producer Judi Levine, and filmmaker Julia Redwood will make up the jury for next week's CinefestOZ Film Festival.
Jennifer Peedom and Rowan Woods will lead this year's Screenworks Directing Intensive, a two-day workshop to be held in late July.
Director Jennifer Peedom is set to re-team with her 'Mountain' collaborators, the ACO's Richard Tognetti and writer Robert Macfarlene, on new a theatrical documentary, 'River'.