Director Warwick Thornton, musician and composer Jed Kurzel, Luckychap Entertainment producer Josey McNamara, and US animator and filmmaker Mark Andrews will take the stage at this year's SXSW Sydney as part of the October event's screen industry program.
Matt Everitt, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Sloan, and Brian Cox have earned a nod for their work on 'Love and Monsters', while the UK-based Andrew Jackson is nominated as part of the VFX team on 'Tenet'.
Australians in Film (AiF) has announced the 10 ambassadors for its inaugural Untapped online professional development program.
Australians in Film has partnered with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Screen Australia to launch Untapped, a breakthrough talent development program for undiscovered and underrepresented filmmakers.
After Leah Purcell is released from lockdown - literally - when filming of 'Wentworth' wraps in early September, she will resume developing a raft of feature film and TV projects including a series based on her play and movie 'The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson'.
Toni Collette's directorial debut, an animated series based on 'The Sapphires' and a Shakespeare-inspired anthology are among the 42 projects to recently share in $1.4 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
Elise McCredie believes that as screenwriters typically work in isolation at home and many have projects in development, the cohort to which she belongs is best placed to ride out the COVI-19 crisis.
Early next year, Victorian producer Sarah Freeman will begin a six-month placement in LA working with LuckyChap Entertainment, the production company founded by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara.