Two Australian documentaries, Robert Coe and Warwick Ross' 'Blind Ambition' and Eddie Martin's 'The Kids', will make their world premiere in competition at Tribeca Film Festival in June.
'Lowdown Dirty Criminals' follows two naïve young men who are in search of a better life, encountering unsavoury situations and people along the way. Freddy (James Rolleston) and Marvin (Samuel Austin) have their sights set on a future filled with “monies and honeys”, believing that a life of crime and debauchery will get them there.
The ABC is being pressured by the Federal Government to ask staff to forgo for six months a 2 per cent pay rise which was due to come into effect in October.
A multi-year funding commitment for the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) headlined support for the screen industry in Tuesday's Federal Budget.
All Australian screen industry guilds, Screen Producers Australia and bodies including Women in Film and Television Australia have made a joint submission to the government’s ‘Supporting Australian Stories on Our Screens’ options reviewr.
In a wrap up of its 10th anniversary celebrations on October 18, Cinema des Antipodes presented awards for the six films in competition, with Australian director Nadia Tass (Malcolm, The Big Steal) heading its competition jury.
Director Paul Murphy's 'Lowdown Dirty Criminals', a comedy crime caper about two naïve young men searching for a better life, is shooting in Wellington.
Erin Madeley will the next chief executive of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), succeeding Paul Murphy.