Writer Mithila Gupta, writer/directors Thomas Wilson-White and Monica Zanetti and vice president of creative development at Sony Pictures Entertainment Jiao Chen are set to moderate masterclasses for Australians in Film and Screen Australia's Untapped initiative.
Mithila Gupta, Brooke Goldfinch, Darlene Johnson, Julie Kalceff and Monica Zanetti have been selected by Screen NSW and Australians in Film (AiF) to participate in a two-stage professional development lab designed to foster career pathways and networks in the US industry.
Marta Dusseldorp, Glenn Gainor, Alex Dimitriades and Ben Young will join chair Rachel Ward on the jury which will determine the winner of this year's $100,000 CinefestOz Film Prize.
SBS's queer, revisionist take on Australia during World War II, 'While The Men Are Away', managed to lure director Elissa Down home to Australia for work for the first time in more than a decade.
SBS has unveiled the lead cast and directors of Arcadia's 1940s-set 'While The Men Are Away', with Gemma Ward making her screen return alongside Benedict Hardie and rising stars of stage and screen, Shaka Cook and Max McKenna.
When Julia Billington was at the National Institute of Dramatic Art there was a tacit belief among sections of the screen industry that a gay actor could not come out.
As a teenager Monica Zanetti searched in vain for gay rom-coms which she could watch with her mother, while Neil Armfield’s same-sex romantic drama Holding the Man was a major influence .
Italian star Michela De Rossi has taken up a central role in Arcadia’s 1940s-set 'While The Men Are Away', which has begun filming in Sydney.