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.
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.
"Don't adapt and change cultural differences: some projects lose their originality because they are designed for world platforms or global deals."
Comedy feature 'The Chain Breakers', to star Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Denis Waterman and Shane Jacobson, is one of seven projects to have recently received production funding from Screen Australia.
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.