The Adelaide Film Festival has unveiled the full program for its first annual edition, which carries the theme of A Celebration of Imagination.
AACTA has revealed those in contention for the major film, television and short-form prizes at this year's awards, with 'High Ground' leading the charge in the film categories and 'The Newsreader' ahead in television.
Writer-director Jonathan Ogilvie's 'Lone Wolf' takes audiences to a near-future Melbourne marked by state corruption and constant surveillance. There, a group of small-time activists hatch a plan to commit a “victimless atrocity”.
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.
Hugo Weaving and Ed Oxenbould are attached to star as father and son in a new film from Jonathan Ogilvie exploring New Zealand’s 1979 post-punk scene.
Most independent Australian distributors are doing it tough, forced to postpone releases while the exhibition business languishes with Victorian cinemas closed and seating capacity restricted in the rest of the country.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Hugo Weaving are attached to star in 'Lone Wolf', an innovative 2D/VR feature which Jonathan Ogilvie is adapting from Joseph Conrad’s 1907 novel The Secret Agent.
"Don't adapt and change cultural differences: some projects lose their originality because they are designed for world platforms or global deals."