The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) has launched #SocialShorts, its national online short film competition.
Fox/Chernin Entertainment’s 'Ford v Ferrari' easily retained pole position in another soft weekend at Australian cinemas while Mirrah Foulkes’ writing and directing debut 'Judy & Punch'.
In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering, but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to an inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge. In a visceral and dynamic live-action reinterpretation of the famous 17th century puppet show, writer director Mirrah Foulkes turns the traditional story of Punch and Judy on its head and brings to life a fierce, darkly comic and epic female-driven revenge story, starring Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman.
Filming has begun in Brisbane on Hoodlum Entertainment’s 10-part crime drama, 'Harrow', a co-production for ABCTV and the Disney-owned ABC Studios International.
Create NSW has already achieved its target of an average 50:50 gender split in its screen development and production funding programs by 2020.
Emerging to mid-level NSW creatives have a new avenue to develop their feature film ideas after Screen NSW launched the Short Film to Feature Fast Track initiative.