Director Benjamin Gilmour's 'Jirga' took home the inaugural AACTA Award for Best Indie Film - designed to honour films made under $2 million - at the AACTA Industry Luncheon in Sydney yesterday.
HBO’s critically acclaimed 'The Leftovers' returns to Foxtel this week after shooting a large chunk of its third and final season in Australia last year.
The six-part series, a re-imagining Joan Lindsay’s iconic novel, stars acclaimed British actress Natalie Dormer along with Australian rising stars including Lily Sullivan, Samara Weaving, Madeleine Madden and Ruby Rees.
The Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) has joined the Australian Director’s Guild (ADG) in its criticism over the hire of a Canadian director to shoot the upcoming 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' miniseries.
Aussie director and writer Amanda Brotchie was in Los Angeles in January, her base for the past 18 months, when her friend and occasional collaborator Michael Rymer asked if she was interested in directing an episode of Foxtel’s 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'.
FremantleMedia Australia’s re-imagining of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' has been sold to Amazon Prime Video US.
When Anna McGahan was offered the role of mathematics teacher Miss Greta McGraw in 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', she was informed the series was a re-imagining of the 1967 Joan Lindsay novel, which in turn inspired Peter Weir’s seminal 1975 movie.
FremantleMedia Australia’s Picnic at Hanging Rock will premiere later this year on Deutsche Telekom’s EntertainTV in Germany.