Wednesday's AACTA Awards saw a trifecta for Jennifer Kent, who took home Best Film, Best Direction and Best Screenplay for 'The Nightingale', with star Aisling Franciosi also winning Best Lead Actress.
After bonding on 'Ride Like a Girl', Rachel Griffiths and emerging writer-director Madeleine Dyer are jointly developing a TV comedy series based on a prominent Australian actor.
Is it a coincidence that three of the highest-grossing Australian films of 2019 - Rachel Griffiths' 'Ride Like A Girl', Wayne Blair's 'Top End Wedding' and Rachel Ward's 'Palm Beach' - have all been helmed by directors and producers who have backgrounds as actors? Not according to Griffiths.
Diana Burnett, the incoming executive director of the Australian Directors' Guild (ADG), cites supporting female and other under-represented directors and helping directors to get more work internationally as among her objectives.
Transmission Films' 'Ride Like A Girl', the directorial debut from Rachel Griffiths, has surpassed expectations, topping the Australian box office on its opening weekend.
Deborah Mailman is feeling anxious in the lead up to the Australian premiere of Blackfella Films’ 'Total Control' on the ABC next month.
Watching the 2015 Melbourne Cup, Rachel Griffiths didn’t initially know there was a female jockey in the race.
Actor, director and producer Rachel Griffiths will deliver this year's Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture at Screen Producers Australia's (SPA) Screen Forever conference.