'My Brilliant Career' producer Margaret Fink, ACS Hall of Fame inductee Daryl Binning, Emmy-winning natural history filmmaker David Parer and Heather Croall, CEO of the Adelaide Fringe and former director of Sheffield Doc/Fest, have been recognised with Australia Day honours.
A slate of 15 television dramas, 11 feature films, and five online series will share in more than $1 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
Gillian Armstrong was 29 when she won the AFI award for best director for her debut feature 'My Brilliant Career', the first local film to be directed by a woman since the McDonagh sisters’ 'Two Minute Silence' in 1933.
Screenwriter and playwright, Eleanor Witcombe, whose most enduring works were the adaptations of 'My Brilliant Career' and 'The Getting of Wisdom', has died in Sydney. She was 95.
The Sydney Film Festival has announced the first batch of 26 titles which will premiere at this year’s event and an additional screening venue.