SXSW selections 'Audrey' and 'The Moogai' will battle it out against feature animation 'Memoir of a Snail' and the WA-filmed 'Runt' for this year's $100,000 CinefestOZ film prize.
Adam Elliot's Docklands-shot animated feature 'Memoir of a Snail' will raise the curtain on this year's Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), headlining a first-look line-up that also includes five other MIFF Premiere Fund titles and nearly 20 international selections.
Australia is among the most represented countries outside of the US in the initial line-up for this year's SXSW Film and TV Festival, with Natalie Bailey’s 'Audrey', Jon Bell's 'The Moogai', and Jack Clark and Jim Weir's 'Birdeater' among the films selected.
"Tassie-noir" 'Bay of Fires', co-created and produced by and starring Marta Dusseldorp, is set to premiere on the ABC July 16, 8.30pm.
Family features 'Drone Racers' and 'Whale Shark Jack' join new children's series 'Galaxy Girl' in being among nine projects to share in $7.4 million in production funding from Screen Australia.
Stella (Marta Dusseldorp) is unexpectedly dropped into a small community on the Tasmanian west coast with her children. But it’s not the kind of place they put on postcards – it is instead rife with simmering feuds, crime and sometimes, murder.
Marta Dusseldorp will be joined by a hefty ensemble cast when shooting starts next week in Tasmania on her comedic crime drama, ABC's 'Bay of Fires'.