Adelaide Film Festival has announced its first five titles as it pushes forward with a physical event in October as originally planned.
Shannon Murphy was the big winner at the Australian Directors' Guild (ADG) Awards, recognised for both her feature debut 'Babyteeth' and for her work on 'Killing Eve'.
Create NSW has already achieved its target of an average 50:50 gender split in its screen development and production funding programs by 2020.
Nominations for this year's Australian Directors' Guild (ADG) Awards are shared amongst the likes of Wayne Blair, Shannon Murphy, Daniel Nettheim, Tennika Smith, and Jonathan Brough, who have all scored two nods each.
'Making Muriel' will follow P.J. Hogan as he adapts his 1994 film 'Muriel’s Wedding' into a musical produced by the Sydney Theatre Company and Global Creatures.
Screen Australia has unveiled 13 titles that will share in $3.7 million of production funding, with six documentaries to be supported through the Producer Program and seven projects via the Commissioned Program.
For the first time ever, Sydney Film Festival will run a summer season during January's Sydney Festival.
Wayne Blair and Nel Minchin’s 'Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra' has followed up Monday's AACTA Award for Best Documentary with yet another win, claiming the inaugural Change Award at the Adelaide Film Festival.