This year's Sydney Film Festival attendees have declared a pair of films set in the city as their favourites.
Director Peter Weir will receive an honorary Oscar at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) Governors Awards in November.
Brouhaha Entertainment has taken the film rights to Charlotte Wood's Sydney-set novel 'The Weekend'.
'Brassic' and 'Our Girl' star Michelle Keegan will lead the cast of Stan and the BBC's 'Ten Pound Poms', now shooting across NSW.
Seems Disney/Pixar's 'Lightyear' hasn't quite reached infinity and beyond - at least not yet, with the animated film trailing 'Top Gun: Maverick' and 'Jurassic World Dominion' at the box office last weekend.
After a two-year hiatus, the TV WEEK Logie Awards returned Sunday evening, with Hamish Blake taking out the night's major prize, the Gold Logie, for his work hosting 'Lego Masters Australia'.
Actor and filmmaker Kylie Bracknell, composer Caitlin Yeo, and Luke Cornish's 'Keep Stepping' are among this year's Sydney Film Festival award winners, with Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont's 'Close' triumphing in the official competition.
Australian film and television is delivering less local cultural value to audiences, authentic dramas are fewer, and much of it now feels a lot less Australian – even unrecognisable as made in this country, according to veteran screen journalist Sandy George. In this extract from her New Platform Paper, she argues Screen Australia must proactively cultivate film and television that is Australian in look and feel.