Thomas M Wright backed up his AACTA Award for Best Screenplay earlier in the week with the major prize at the Australian Directors' Guild Awards on Thursday, winning Best Direction in a Narrative Feature Film for 'The Stranger'.
Whereas Aaron Wilson's first film, the World War II-set 'Canopy', examined the trauma that can come from experiencing war, his second film, 'Little Tornadoes', examines how that trauma then impacts subsequent generations.
Director and producer Nadia Tass will chair the jury for this year's CinefestOZ, which had its full line-up announced in Perth yesterday.
Co-written with Christos Tsiolkas, Aaron Wilson's 1970s-set 'Little Tornadoes' depicts a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in the world around him.
Jen Peedom's 'River' and Ben Lawrence's 'Ithaka' add to the already strong contingent of local films bound for August's Melbourne International Film Festival, which unveiled its full program today.
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'.