For over 50 years country music legend Slim Dusty and his wife Joy McKean trail-blazed their way across Australia performing, writing and collecting songs of the bush and its people. They created a musical legacy that to this day continues to entertain and inspire, a catalogue of plain speaking yet profoundly insightful music documenting the rural Australian experience. Theirs is perhaps one of the greatest partnerships in Australian music history.
Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to film and TV first AD Jamie Leslie, who died on Friday from cancer. He was 61.
A new production company, Magnetic Theory, has opened its doors in Sydney
Saban Films snapped up North American rights to Kriv Stenders' Vietnam War movie 'Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan'.
Kriv Stenders' feature documentary on motor racing legend Peter Brock, 'Brock: Over the Top' will start to roll out in cinemas on Thursday before its Premium VOD release on July 3.
Also onboard is Caren Pistorius ('Offspring'), Gary Sweet ('House Husbands'), Alex Dimitriades ('The Slap'), Robyn Malcolm ('Upper Middle Bogan'), Lee Jones ('The Bastard Executioner'), Anna Samson ('Winners & Losers'), Hannah Frederiksen ('Hunters') and
Kriv Stenders' 'Lee Kernaghan: Boy From the Bush' - part road documentary, part concert film - has entered cinemas on more than 130 screens, with the creative team hoping it will resonate not only in regional and rural Australia, but with those who have missed live music through the pandemic.
Jen Peedom’s innovative cinematic and musical odyssey 'Mountain' ranks as the third-highest grossing Australian feature documentary ever, excluding IMAX, after launching on 30 screens last Thursday.