Director Benjamin Gilmour's 'Jirga' took home the inaugural AACTA Award for Best Indie Film - designed to honour films made under $2 million - at the AACTA Industry Luncheon in Sydney yesterday.
Director Jennifer Peedom’s follows her record-breaking documentary 'Mountain' with 'River', again created in collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and narrated by Willem Dafoe.
Australian films and feature documentaries raked in theatrical revenues of $49.4 million in calendar 2017, a market share of 4.1 per cent.
Australian films and feature documentaries have raked in combined theatrical revenues of $49 million through November 29, and with no new releases in December will likely finish the year with a tad more than $50 million.
October has been an uneventful month for Australian films with a handful of new theatrical releases plus holdover business for the September debutantes.
Driven by Jen Peedom’s 'Mountain' and Jeffrey Walker’s 'Ali’s Wedding', Australian films are enjoying their best month since April, when Walker’s 'Dance Academy: The Movie' grossed $2.1 million.
It’s rare to see three Hollywood films open wide and belly-flop on the same weekend at Australian cinemas but it was a near-disaster for 'Geostorm' and a total wipe-out for 'The Snowman' and 'Home Again'.
Director Jennifer Peedom is set to re-team with her 'Mountain' collaborators, the ACO's Richard Tognetti and writer Robert Macfarlene, on new a theatrical documentary, 'River'.