Matthew Walker's 'I'm Wanita' will make its world premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival next month.
Matthew Walker's 'I'm Wanita' is the story of a chaotic, flamboyant force of nature - Wanita Bahtiyar - and her lifelong odyssey to realise her childhood dream; sometimes at the cost of those dearest to her.
Six films are set to vie for this year's AACTA Award for Best Documentary, with voting for the winner open from today until August 2.
Nominations for this year's Australian Directors' Guild (ADG) Awards are shared amongst the likes of Wayne Blair, Shannon Murphy, Daniel Nettheim, Tennika Smith, and Jonathan Brough, who have all scored two nods each.
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has won this year's $60,000 Sydney Film Prize for 'There Is No Evil', beating out 11 other Sydney Film Festival (SFF) competition films.
A French comedy following an oddball duo on an unconventional road trip and an Australian documentary about four refugees that compete in the World Wine Blind Tasting Championships have topped the audience awards at this year's Sydney Film Festival.
When Matthew Walker travelled to Tamworth in 2014 to film short 'Heart of the Queen', he knew little of the queen in question. What began as a four-day shoot transformed into a five-year journey dedicated to the story of enigmatic country music performer, Wanita Bahtiyar.
The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) has revealed the nominees for next month's awards, while announcing screen journalist David Tiley as the winner of the Stanley Hawes Award for 2022.