Director and producer Nadia Tass will chair the jury for this year's CinefestOZ, which had its full line-up announced in Perth yesterday.
When Australian films 'Friends and Strangers' and 'Lone Wolf' screened at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam this week, it was the culmination of a decade's worth of work between their respective directors.
There's a distinctly Antipodean bent to this year's IFFR, from the work of managing director Clare Stewart and selection committee member Michelle Carey, through to last week's opening night film 'Head South', and other selections such as 'Flathead' and 'Paragon'.
Comedy feature 'The Chain Breakers', to star Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Denis Waterman and Shane Jacobson, is one of seven projects to have recently received production funding from Screen Australia.
Writer/directors have dominated the feature film categories for this year's AWGIE Awards, which will be presented in Sydney next month.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Hugo Weaving are attached to star in 'Lone Wolf', an innovative 2D/VR feature which Jonathan Ogilvie is adapting from Joseph Conrad’s 1907 novel The Secret Agent.
Jonathan Ogilvie’s semi-autobiographical music drama 'Head South' is set to open the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January.
Writer-director Jonathan Ogilvie's 'Lone Wolf' takes audiences to a near-future Melbourne marked by state corruption and constant surveillance. There, a group of small-time activists hatch a plan to commit a “victimless atrocity”.