This year 46 production businesses are in contention across the 13 categories for the 18th Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards.
Joel Edgerton and Simon Baker have scored nominations in the feature film direction and acting categories for 'Boy Erased' and 'Breath', the first time that’s happened in the same year in AFI | AACTA history.
'Ladies in Black', Bruce Beresford’s first Australian film since 'Mao’s Last Dancer', is set to begin production in Sydney and the Blue Mountains later this month.
Legendary producers Andrena Finlay (Razzle Dazzle, Goddess) and Sue Milliken (Ladies in Black, Sirens), have collaborated on a handbook about producing for the screen, encompassing all the stages of feature film production.
A recap on some of the stories that broke while IF was in recess.
Ryan Corr returns to comedy.
The third seasons of ABC series' 'Ginger and the Vegesaurs' and 'The Newsreader', as well as a new film from Sophie Hyde about Oscar Wilde's wife, are among the projects to share in $10 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
The producer recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian International Movie Convention. Her book of correspondence with the director Bruce Beresford, 'There’s A Fax From Bruce', was published in June through Currency Press. She s