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.
Adam Elliot's long-awaited debut feature Mary and Max has screened and the first reviews are in, with critics describing it as a high-end claymation drama with strong doses of humor and quirkiness.
Academy Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) has joined an all-star line-up of Australian talent in lending his exceptional talent to voice the role of Max in the new claymation feature Mary and Max.
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.
Mary and Max producer Melanie Coombs revealed to Fringe delegates she set personal rules for the production of the stop motion film in order to quickly solve problems during the massive 57 week shoot.