Xavier Samuel, Miranda Otto and Sam Neill are attached to star in Midnight in Byzantium, a mystery/adventure about a young guy who is trapped in a remote town where nothing - and no one - is as it seems.
Shorts director Cris Jones will make his feature debut on The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
Warwick Thornton, Rachael Perkins, Craig Gillespie, Elizabeth Debicki and producers Bridget Ikin and Melanie Coombs are among the 928 screen practitioners who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
For Melanie Coombs, producer of 'Mary and Max' and Oscar-winning short 'Harvie Krumpet', stop-motion animation has a magical quality - at once real, but not real - that touches audiences profoundly.
Screen Australia has announced funding for 15 Enterprise People talent opportunities and one Enterprise Business & Ideas project, with all to share in over $480,000.