Bonsai Films owner Jonathan Page talks about releasing two Christmas films within a fortnight of each other and why he is leaning more towards documentaries going forward.
Mark Leonard Winter's feature directorial debut 'The Rooster', nominated for four AACTA Awards, will get a cinema release February 22 via Bonsai Films.
First-time narrative feature directors Noora Niasari and Gracie Otto will vie against Warwick Thornton, Jeffrey Walker and Colin and Cameron Cairnes for the top prize at the Australian Directors' Guild Awards next month.
Production is underway in South Australia on British director Francis Annan's feature debut 'Escape From Pretoria', starring Daniel Radcliffe and Aussie Daniel Webber.
Noora Niasari has earned yet another accolade for her debut feature 'Shayda', taking home the top prize at Tuesday evening's Australian Directors' Guild Awards.
In coming up with the story for his feature directorial debut 'The Rooster', starring Phoenix Raei and Hugo Weaving, Mark Leonard Winter tried to depict the strangeness and difficulty that came with a time of "deep depression".
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.
'Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears' - the feature film spin-off Every Cloud Productions' series 'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' - will make its world premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in early January.