Sydney Film Festival has announced its audience awards, with best narrative feature awarded to Samuel Van Grinsven's 'Sequin in a Blue Room' and best documentary to Selina Miles' 'Martha: A Picture Story' - both Aussie films.
Korean director Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' has won the Sydney Film Festival's $60,000 Sydney Film Prize.
Two Aussie films, Mirrah Foulkes' 'Judy & Punch' and Ben Lawrence's 'Hearts and Bones', will be among the 12 features in official competition at this year’s Sydney Film Festival (SFF).
'Jirga', writer-director Benjamin Gilmour’s tale of an Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan to seek amends with the family of a civilian he killed in battle, will make its world premiere in official competition at the Sydney Film Festival.
Having shot several of their music videos, Kriv Stenders is set to direct a documentary on Aussie band The Go Betweens.
Submissions are now open for the 2017 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship, which gives four emerging filmmakers $50,000 each to produce a short to premiere at the 2018 Sydney Film Festival.
Anya Beyersdorf, Alex Ryan, Brooke Goldfinch and Alex Murawski were chosen from a shortlist of 21 filmmakers, whittled down to four by Davis, SFF Director Nashen Moodley, Lexus Australia's Adrian Weimers, Jan Chapman and Darren Dale.
Those films include Sing Street, Swiss Army Man, The Lure, Personal Shopper, Aquarius, Wednesday 9 May, Paterson, Tokyo Story, Weiner, Tickled and Janis: Little Girl Blue.