Jub Clerc's 'Sweet As' took home the Crystal Bear in the Berlin Film Festival Generation Kplus competition over the weekend, while short film 'Marungka tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)' won the Silver Bear Jury Prize and Rolf de Heer's 'The Survival of Kindness' collected the top critics’ award, the FIPRESCI Prize.
Jub Clerc's debut feature 'Sweet As' will make its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next month in the Generation Kplus strand, which is aimed at a youth audience.
CinefestOZ Broome has released its inaugural program, with Ivan Sen's Loveland, First Nations anthology feature We Are Still Here, and Jub Clerc's Sweet As leading the line-up.
Jub Clerc's 'Sweet As' and Karl Malakunas' documentary 'Delikado' are the Australian nominees for this year's Asia Pacific Screen Awards, while director Sophie Hyde has joined the international jury.
Screen Australia and Australians in Film have revealed the participants for this year's Talent Gateway and the Global Producers Exchange programs.
'Blaze', 'How To Please A Woman', 'Sissy' and 'Sweet As' will contend for the best original feature prize at this year’s AWGIE Awards, while 'Mrs Harris Goes to Paris', 'The Stranger' and 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson' are up for the adapted gong. 'The Newsreader' leads in television with two nominations alongside 'Total Control', 'Firebite', 'Bump' and 'Heartbreak High'.
Jub Clerc's debut feature 'Sweet As' has become the first Australian winner of the Toronto International Film Festival's Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) Award for best Asian feature film.
Western Australian screenwriter and producer Dorothy ‘Dot’ West has been appointed to the CinefestOZ board.