While some distributors are cutting back, Umbrella Entertainment plans to release 19 titles in cinemas this year, up from 14 in 2019.
Silvey came on board after multiple drafts had been penned by Shaun Grant ('Snowtown', 'Berlin Syndrome').
Virginia Madsen (Joy, Sideways) and Patrick Warburton (Ted, Family Guy, Seinfeld) have joined the cast of Safe Neighbourhood, currently shooting at Sydney's Fox Studios.
Olivia DeJonge (The Visit), Ed Oxenbould (Paper Planes) and Levi Miller (Jasper Jones) have begun shooting Safe Neighborhood, a thriller directed by Chris Peckover (Undocumented), who wrote the script with Zack Kahn (Mad).
Writer-director Heath Davis and Bronte Pictures' Blake Northfield are teaming up for 'Blood Red Sky', a feature inspired by the Australian bushfire crisis.
In writer-director Tyson Wade Johnson's debut feature 'Streamline', a prodigious 15-year-old swimmer with the world at his feet (Levi Miller) self-destructs after his father (Jason Isaacs) is released from prison. Inside of the pool he lives a life of rigorous perfectionism and outside of it, his existence is lonely and hollow.
Jordon Prince-Wright's ANZAC war epic 'Before Dawn', starring Levi Miller, Travis Jeffrey, Ed Oxenbould and Stephen Peacocke, will hit cinemas across Australia and New Zealand April 4 via Umbrella.
Regional Western Australia has doubled for the Western Front across the past few months for Jordon Prince-Wright's 'Before Dawn', which has now wrapped filming.