Screenwest has secured an industry coup with the appointment of highly awarded documentary film director Paul Damian Williams as its new documentary manager.
Warwick Thornton took home the top gong at last night's Australian Directors' Guild Awards for outback Western 'Sweet Country'.
Director Paul Williams and producer Shannon Swan's portrait of the late blind Indigenous musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, 'Gurrumul', won Best Documentary Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), held in Brisbane last night.