Thomas M Wright's crime thriller 'The Stranger' was added to the Australian contingent for next month's Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, alongside Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' and George Miller's 'Three Thousand Years of Longing'.
This year's Academy Award nominations are a showcase of Australian and New Zealand talent, with Jane Campion's 'The Power of the Dog' leading the race with 12 nominations, and further nods for Nicole Kidman, 'Dune' cinematographer Greig Fraser and the 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings' VFX team.
Australians in Film has partnered with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Screen Australia to launch Untapped, a breakthrough talent development program for undiscovered and underrepresented filmmakers.
AMC Studios has greenlit series 'Firebite', helmed by Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher and described as a “high-octane” Indigenous spin on the vampire genre.
IF speaks to director Garth Davis, producer Angie Fielder and screenwriter Luke Davies about turning Saroo Brierley’s 2013 book 'A Long Way Home' into an Oscar-nominated feature.
Australian writer/director Andrew Dominik's 'Blonde' will premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September, alongside Florian Zeller's The Son, produced by See-Saw Films and starring Hugh Jackman. Australian short 'Love Forever', directed by Clare Young and EP'd by Jane Campion, has been selected for Orizzonti.
Australian feature films are currently dominating the box office, with exhibitors reporting a "revitalised" audience appetite for local stories. However, both producers and distributors have concerns about being able to actually get Aussie features off the ground in the future, with the Producer Offset slated to fall from 40 to 30 per cent from July.
The Sixteen Films/See-Saw Films co-production had a good opening in its first weekend