The third feature from Goran Stolevski and a South Australian docu-drama are among the first titles to be confirmed for this year's Adelaide Film Festival, taking place from October 18-29.
The history of Australia's fashion industry and the national women's soccer team's fight for gender parity will be explored in new documentaries included in Screen Australia's latest funding round.
A slate of 15 television dramas, 11 feature films, and five online series will share in more than $1 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
Aquarius Films is developing a feature film based on journalist Abdul Karim Hekmat's The Monthly article 'True Love in Nauru', about two gay refugees who meet and fall in love while in offshore detention.
Screen Australia has announced $2.7 million of production funding, going towards two features, one TV drama, one children's drama and five online projects.
When screenwriter Roger Monk was offered a gig on the Aquarius Films/SBS crime caper 'The Unusual Suspects', he seized the opportunity to channel one of his favourite films, 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'.
Two Australian feature films have been selected to screen in the Generation program of the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).