AACTA has named Martin Butler and Bentley Dean as this year’s recipients of the Byron Kennedy Award, which celebrates innovation and “outstanding creative enterprise” in the screen industry.
The film premiered at Venice last year and is about to bow Stateside via Lightyear Entertainment, which nabbed the rights in February.
Another four Australian projects have joined the line-up at the Berlin International Film Festival: feature documentary 'She Who Must Be Loved', 2015 film 'Tanna' and two shorts, 'Blackbird' and 'The Mermaids, Or Aiden in Wonderland'.
Former ABC journalist and presenter Liz Jackson has died while on holidays in Greece with her husband Martin Butler. She was 67.
Joel Edgerton, Chris Hemsworth, Margot Robbie, Rebel Wilson, Garth Davis, Cate Shortland, Jocelyn Moorhouse and Eva Orner are among the Australians who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).