Rodd Rathjen's 'Buoyancy' won Best Youth Feature Film at last night's Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) in Brisbane.
Jennifer Kent's 'The Nightingale' dominated the Australian Film Critics Association's annual awards, winning all eight prizes for local narrative features, while 'The Australian Dream' was named best documentary.
"The best way to get people to go to the cinema is to embrace the point of difference from television, enhance the cinematic scale of the work and create narrative experiences that are immersive." - Robert Connolly
If the consensus views of the 200 members of AACTA's International chapter are a bellwether of the Academy Awards, it could be a memorable night for Korean director Bong Joon-ho's black comedy/thriller Parasite, Quentin Tarantino, Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie.
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) has revealed the eight films that will compete for this year's Best Asian Film Award.
Paramount’s live action/CGI adaptation of the Sega videogame 'Sonic the Hedgehog' won the weekend derby in Australia while the historic four Oscar wins paid off for Madman Entertainment's 'Parasite'.
Sam Mendes’ WW1 epic '1917', which ranks fourth in the betting for the best picture Oscar, opened in top spot in Australia last weekend and was No. 1 in the US.
In a lousy weekend at Australian cinemas the combination of Harrison Ford and a bionic dog in 'The Call of the Wild' proved unappealing while a long-delayed thriller which Mel Gibson had virtually disowned had a similar fate.