Producers Jason Byrne, Clayton Jacobson and Tait Brady went to the Australian International Movie Convention last year to “sell” 'Sibling Rivalry', a black comedy co-starring Clayton and his brother Shane Jacobson, to cinema owners.
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.
Stephen Amis’ film examining the long-running campaign to stop Japanese fishermen killing whales in the Southern Ocean was named best international feature documentary at the American Documentary Film Festival.
Matthew Walker's 'I'm Wanita' will make its world premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival next month.
The Jacobson brothers’ blackly comic crime drama 'Brother’s Nest', which was partly funded by exhibitors, had a quiet opening last weekend.
Matthew Walker's 'I'm Wanita' is the story of a chaotic, flamboyant force of nature - Wanita Bahtiyar - and her lifelong odyssey to realise her childhood dream; sometimes at the cost of those dearest to her.
Despite never playing on more than 14 screens around the country on any given weekend, music documentary Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party has grossed $155,203 in four weeks - a solid result given the scale of the release, and one that puts Label Distribution into the black.
“Sophisticated product placement" contributed nearly $1 million to the film's $3.7 million budget.