After starring in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, Gulliver McGrath is playing his first co-lead role in an Australian feature.
“Toronto audiences first found Christopher Nolan, Lynne Ramsay and Steve McQueen in our Discovery section,†said the Artistic Director of TIFF, Cameron Bailey. “We can't wait to introduce a new generation of vibrant, original voices in cinema."
The debut feature from Nicholas Verso hits cinemas on October 20.
Nicholas Verso’s Boys in the Trees has won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the Austin Film Festival.
Screen Australia is providing more than $400,000 in story development funding for 16 projects including feature films, television and online series, featuring such talent as Bruna Papandrea, Nick Verso, Priscilla Cameron, Lisa Shaunessy, Anthony Mullins, Kodie Bedford and Tegan Higginbotham.
When BBC announcer Simon Mayo wrote a short story for Joe, his then 10-year-old son, he had no agent or publisher and he could not imagine the book turning into a TV series half way across the world in Australia.
Australian children’s TV series rarely venture into the fast-paced action adventure genre. Rarer still is a teenage protagonist who is highly intelligent and passionate about science
Netflix has acquired global rights outside Australia to 'The Unlisted', an action thriller which follows two 13-year-old identical twins who team up with a group of underground vigilante to stop a powerful corporation from imposing control over the world’s youth.