Wooden Horse's 'Mother and Son' stars Matt Okine and Denise Scott in a re-imagining of the characters made famous by Gary McDonald and Ruth Cracknell.
The records smashed by doco 'John Farnham: Finding the Voice' have proven that Australians will still come out in numbers to see local stories on the big screen, and there is significant optimism among exhibitors about the commercial potential of 'Force of Nature: The Dry 2'. However, broadly the year so far has been a very slow one for Australian films at the box office.
Made Up Stories producer Bruna Papandrea, Binge executive director Alison Hurbert-Burns, and First Nations multi-hyphenates Leah Purcell, Kodie Bedford, and Jub Clerc have been added to the SXSW Sydney line-up as the event draws closer.
More than two and a half years after Screen Australia announced it would be promoting 'The Dry' via its Summer of Cinema campaign, the film's sequel is set to get the same treatment.
VicScreen has welcomed financial services lawyer Jenny Taing to its board.
Melbourne's north-west has welcomed an extraterrestrial visitor, as filming begins on new children's sci-fi comedy 'F.A.N.G (From A Nearby Galaxy)'.
Chemical Media's three-part doco 'Who The Bloody Hell Are We?' for SBS explores Australian history through the lens of multicultural communities.
Overall gains in employment, significant growth in the digital games industry, and rising production costs for television drama have headlined the eighth Australian Bureau of Statistics Film, Television and Digital Games survey - the first since 2015/16.