Subjects ranging from the Australian Open tennis tournament to the country's LGBTQI+ history will be explored in the latest round of documentary projects to receive production funding from Screen Australia.
Sue Thomson's 'Under Cover' follows the plight of ten women as they find themselves too old to be employed, struck down with illness, unable to get back into the workforce, and dealing with the aftermath of difficult breakups and divorce.
Alena Lodkina's sophomore feature 'Petrol' has been selected for Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente (‘directors of the present’) program, dedicated to first and second features by emerging global talents.
'Franklin', set to premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival, recounts the '80s environmental campaign to save Tasmania's Franklin River through the eyes of Oliver Cassidy, who retraces the journey taken some 40 years before by his late activist father.
The world premiere of Goran Stolevski's anticipated sophomore feature, 'Of An Age', will open this year's Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).
Adrian Francis' documentary 'Paper City' follows three elderly survivors of the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo in their fight against bureaucracy and indifference to ensure that the event and its victims are not forgotten.
Co-written with Christos Tsiolkas, Aaron Wilson's 1970s-set 'Little Tornadoes' depicts a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in the world around him.
In Rhian Skirving and John Harvey's documentary 'Off Country', premiering at MIFF, Indigenous teenagers navigate exams, social dramas and maintaining meaningful connections to home while at boarding school.