In 22 years with Film Finances Australasia, Anni Browning experienced numerous highs and faced a few challenges as the cinema industry ebbed and flowed.
When Julia Billington was at the National Institute of Dramatic Art there was a tacit belief among sections of the screen industry that a gay actor could not come out.
As a teenager Monica Zanetti searched in vain for gay rom-coms which she could watch with her mother, while Neil Armfield’s same-sex romantic drama Holding the Man was a major influence .
The producers of All About E intend to open the lesbian love story/ road trip/ thriller on about 40 screens next year, all via cinema-on-demand platform Tugg.
Julia Billington will play the co-lead in The Trouble with E, a road movie/romance from writer-director Louise Wadley.
Very few Australian films in recent years have focussed on strong female characters, according to writer-director Louise Wadley.