Georgie Stone hopes the short documentary about her life - 'The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone', which recently premiered at both Tribeca and Sydney film festivals - will be empowering for other trans people.
Maya Newell's Two won the F4 Award on the closing night of the Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival
Sydney Film School has proudly announced that the feature documentary Richard, directed by Maya Newell, is its first student production to achieve a national DVD distribution deal, set for September 18.
Maya Newell's feature documentary 'In My Blood It Runs' has been winning hearts and minds since the world premiere in competition at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival last year.
Two Aussie films, Mirrah Foulkes' 'Judy & Punch' and Ben Lawrence's 'Hearts and Bones', will be among the 12 features in official competition at this year’s Sydney Film Festival (SFF).
It's been two years since Maya Newell, Sophie Hyde, Larissa Behrendt, Alex Kelly, Rachel Naŋinaaq Edwardson and Lisa Sherrard came together to form the Unquiet Collective, a group designed to help others bridge the gap between a film’s distribution and its wider social impact.
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) has unveiled the first set of nominees for this year's awards, announcing the five films that will compete for Best Documentary.
Karl Malakunas’ Delikado and Maya Newell's The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone have made it onto the shortlists for this year's International Documentary Association (IDA) Documentary Awards, announced as the sole Australian entries in the feature and short categories, respectively.