The Cairnes brothers' 100 Bloody Acres has been named best feature film in the Midnight X-Treme Category at Spain's Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
Cambodian-set surreal love story Ruin has won another international festival award.
After focussing on TV dramas, David Caesar plans to direct a conspiracy thriller, his first feature since Prime Mover in 2009.
The final cast of the 1978 Australian cult horror remake Patrick has been announced.
Ivan Sen's Mystery Road posted solid results on 16 screens while Mark Hartley's Patrick had a limited opening at six cinemas in Australia last weekend.
Antony I. Ginnane has long been concerned about what he regards as a high level of film illiteracy among many writers, producers and directors, both established and emerging.
Mark Hartley and Antony I. Ginnane are set to shoot the film next year in Melbourne
All US rights for the new doco on Cannon Films have just been picked up by Drafthouse Films