Warwick Thornton took home the top gong at last night's Australian Directors' Guild Awards for outback Western 'Sweet Country'.
Nicholas Verso has worked with children so often since his 2016 debut feature 'Boys in the Trees' the writer-director says it’s a blessing whenever an adult appears on set.
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.
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
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.
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.
Nicholas Verso’s Boys in the Trees has won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the Austin Film Festival.
The debut feature from Nicholas Verso hits cinemas on October 20.