The sequel to Top of the Lake will be set and shot in Sydney.
Slow West, writer-director John Maclean's Western starring Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn, has won more critical plaudits in the US after its weekend screening at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Shooting on Australian feature film Lion will commence in Kolkata, India, this week.
The Weinstein Co. has nabbed worldwide rights excluding Australasia to an upcoming drama based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, an Indian-born Australian who found his birth mother 25 years after they were separated.
The US debut of John Curran's Tracks has been postponed- for four months.
See-Saw Films' A Long Way Home and Goalpost Pictures' Holding the Man were the only features that received production investment from Screen Australia at the March 26 board meeting.
Screen Australia board's first meeting since Graeme Mason was hired as CEO was eventful as the agency approved $11 million investment in four feature films, four adult drama productions and one children's series.
Producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning are joining forces again with Steve McQueen, director of the Oscar-touted 12 Years a Slave.