Screen Australia has invested almost $5.5 million in two feature films, My Mistress and Son of a Gun, as well as a second series of indigenous TV program Redfern Now
French actress Emmanuelle Beart has been cast alongside Harrison Gilbertson and Rachael Blake in Australian S&M film My Mistress.
Co-directors Stephen Lance and Mairi Cameron are just back after spending 10 days in the US polishing the screenplay of The Secrets Lives of Dresses with the Brooklyn-based writer, Aussie Emma Vuletic.
LevelK is happy to announce the first sales on Stephen Lance's My Mistress.
Historically it's been tough for Australian films to score deals in Japan, a barrier which My Mistress has just broken.
Josh Lawson's sex comedy The Little Death has raked in nearly $127,000 in its first week at 34 cinemas after Tuesday takings improved on Monday's figures.
Film Movement has bought North American rights to My Mistress, Stephen Lance's erotic drama about the affair between a vulnerable teenager (Harrison Gilbertson) and a French S&M mistress (Emmanuelle Beart).
Producer Annie Kinnane expresses a common complaint in the industry: Often by the time she and her friends hear about a new Australian film it’s been yanked off screens before they had a chance to see it.