Former Australian soldier, Mike Wheeler, returns to Afghanistan, seeking redemption from the family of a civilian man he killed during the war.
Benjamin Gilmour’s Afghanistan-set drama 'Jirga' will carry Australia’s hopes of being nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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.
Benjamin Gilmour’s Afghanistan-set drama posted solid figures at three key art house locations last weekend, the start of an old-fashioned platform release.
The critics hated 'Venom', blasted as a “puddle of simplistic, sanitized PG-13 drivel” and clumsy, monolithic and fantastically boring. Audiences must be watching a different movie.
Writer-director Imogen Thomas’ debut feature Emu Runner and Benjamin Gilmour’s Afghanistan-shot drama Jirga will have their world and international premieres respectively at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Joel Edgerton and Simon Baker have scored nominations in the feature film direction and acting categories for 'Boy Erased' and 'Breath', the first time that’s happened in the same year in AFI | AACTA history.
Bryony Marks, Caitlin Yeo, Antony Partos, Brett Aplin and David Bridie have received three nominations each for the upcoming Screen Music Awards, staged by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGCS).