Grant divides his time between LA and Melbourne these days after wrapping up work on projects as diverse as Deadline Gallipoli, Jasper Jones and Berlin Syndrome at home in Australia.
"The first few years after ['Snowtown'] I kind of feared the work because of the expectation that I put on myself, and I had led myself to believe that everyone was thinking that. I didn’t want to mess with that performance."
The 12th edition of the Melbourne International Film Festival’s MIFF Accelerator workshops provided intensive workshops for 23 directors.
Snowtown director Justin Kurzel and screenwriter Shaun Grant are collaborating on an Australian bushranger feature.
Justin Kurzel may well succeed in making Shakespeare cool again for mainstream cinemagoers judging by the mostly ecstatic reviews in Cannes for Macbeth.
Australia hasn’t had a film in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival since 2011 but Justin Kurzel will fly the flag with Macbeth at next month’s festival.
Director Justin Kurzel has begun pre-production in London on Macbeth, which stars Michael Fassbender as the ambitious Scottish king and Marion Cotillard as the conniving Lady Macbeth.
After executive producing Jane Campion's Top of the Lake, Emile Sherman and Iain Canning have boarded another New Zealand-based project, the feature Slow West.