Heartbreak High duo Sherry-Lee Watson and Will McDonald have made their way to the Northern Territory with experienced campaigners Miranda Otto and Noah Taylor for Stan series 'Thou Shalt Not Steal'.
Ivan Sen's 'Limbo' and Noora Niasari's 'Shayda' have joined the Australian contingent bound for this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), announced as part of the event's centrepiece program.
“[Sen's] brilliant. And I like that he’s brilliant without having to wear a shirt that says ‘I’m brilliant’... He just does his thing. And I don’t think he really cares what other people’s opinions are of him or how he goes about it. That’s really admirable.” - Simon Baker.
Ivan Sen's 'Limbo' stars Simon Baker as Travis Hurley (Baker), a detective who arrives in a small outback town to investigate a 20-year-old unsolved murder of a local Aboriginal girl.
Production is underway in the South Australian mining town of Coober Pedy on a neo-western whodunnit from auteur Ivan Sen, starring Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, and Nicholas Hope.
Producer Liz Tomkins will be the next chair of Women in Film & Television (WIFT) Australia, succeeding Katrina Irawati Graham.
The late David Gulpilil will receive AACTA's highest honour, the Longford Lyell Award, for his outstanding contribution to Australian cinema on Wednesday.
Wayne Blair and Nel Minchin's 'Firestarter - The Story of Bangarra' has won Adelaide Film Festival's documentary competition, pocketing a $10,000 cash prize.