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.
'Safe Harbour' is a bold new psychological thriller about a group of friends whose sailing holiday of a lifetime alters their lives forever after they cross paths with a struggling fishing boat overloaded with asylum seekers en-route to Australia.
'Safe Harbour' is a bold psychological thriller set in Brisbane about a group of friends whose sailing holiday of a lifetime to Indonesia alters their lives forever after they cross paths with a fishing boat overloaded with asylum seekers enroute to Australia.
The US rights to Matchbox Pictures’ Safe Harbour have been acquired by Hulu.
Matchbox Pictures' 'Safe Harbour', Princess Pictures' 'Wrong Kind of Black' and Synchronicity Films/December Media's 'The Cry' have received nominations for International Emmy Awards.
The UK’s BBC 4 has acquired Matchbox Pictures’ Safe Harbour, the four-part psychological thriller directed by Glendyn Ivin and produced by Stephen Corvini.
Matchbox Pictures’ 'Safe Harbour' was one of the most superbly produced, critically acclaimed and deftly promoted Australian dramas of recent years: so why were the overnight audiences on SBS relatively low?
Ewen Leslie has spent much of his illustrious career playing basically good men who are in challenging situations. His latest roles in Matchbox Pictures’ 'Safe Harbour' and Goalpost Pictures’ 'Fighting Season' are in that milieu, but each with intriguing nuances.