While many filmmakers still see festivals as the finish line for their film, they are actually the starting line.
Writer-director Shelly Lauman hopes to secure US representation and support for her first feature after Fox Searchlight acquired worldwide rights to her short film 'Birdie'.
Catherine Scott's Backtrack Boys, which examines a youth program run by rule-breaking jackaroo Bernie Shakeshaft on the outskirts of Armidale NSW, was voted the top feature documentary at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Charles Williams' All These Creatures won the award for best Australian short film at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
The $50,000 bi- annual David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship has been awarded to the feature documentary The Eulogy and its creative team - director Janine Hosking and the producers, Katey Grusovin, Trish Lake and Hosking.
'Island of the Hungry Ghosts', a hybrid documentary-feature which portrays the parallel worlds of migration on Christmas Island, is set for its Australian premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival this August.
A story of family and estrangement set amid the alien landscape of Australia’s opal mines.
From the Beatles to the Backstreet Boys, One Direction to Take That, three generations of zealous boyband fans reflect on the objects of their obsessions and explore how the thrills, fantasies and roller-coaster emotions of fandom have changed and challenged their lives.