Canberra-based That?s-A-Wrap Productions have announced plans to film a pilot for a new science fiction series, Resistance, in the capital in March.
"The brief fame tip which I brushed was very enjoyable at that time but it is only because at that time I was deeply egocentric," the actor says.
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.
As a father of four, writer-director Storm Ashwood had long wanted to make a film that targets teenagers, including the often difficult transition from childhood innocence to adult responsibility.
Five horror shorts by emerging Indigenous filmmakers commissioned by the ABC and Screen Australia will premiere as a 75-minute anthology at the Sydney Film Festival.