Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinessi’s debut film 'The Heiresses' won the $60,000 top prize at the 65th Sydney Film Festival while Ben Lawrence’s feature documentary 'Ghosthunter' took the Documentary Australia Foundation Award.
Screen Australia has announced $1.9 million in production funding for 10 documentaries through the Producer program and one through the Commissioned program.
"Australians, you cannot support Black Lives Matter in the US if you don’t support Indigenous Lives in Australia."
With support from Screen Australia, NITV has commissioned NRL feature documentary 'The Fight Together', directed by Larissa Behrendt and produced by Sam Griffin for Essential Media.
Blackfella Films documentary 'Maralinga Tjarutja', directed by Larissa Behrendt, is the winner of this year's Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network (SDIN) Award.
Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths will be joined on screen by a host of new faces for the second season of the ABC/Blackfella Films' 'Total Control', including Wayne Blair, who will also direct all six episodes.
This year's Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) promises the Australian premieres of highly anticipated local features such as Leah Purcell's 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson' and Justin Kurzel's 'Nitram'.
Larissa Behrendt's documentary 'Araatika: Rise Up!', to make its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival, explores how a group of NRL greats came together to invent a new pre-game ceremony in response to the Maori Haka – one that could celebrate First Nation cultures.