This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
This year's Gold Coast Film Festival will be bookended by two Aussie features, opening with Unjoo Moon's Helen Reddy biopic 'I Am Woman,' and closing with the locally shot comedic thriller 'Bloody Hell', directed by Alister Grierson.
Starring Tiriel Mora, 'Smoke Between Trees' is the sensitive and emotionally rich story of a broken man whose life is forever changed when he’s reunited with his grandson.
The 2019 Melbourne International Film Festival is being touted as the largest yet, with some 259 features, 123 shorts and 16 VR experiences, including Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood'.
For every actor who works consistently and achieves varying degrees of success in the screen industry, there are many more, like Damion Hunter.
Filmmaker Michael Joy knew he had to tread carefully when he embarked on 'Smoke Between Trees', a drama involving an Indigenous woman, her grandson and the boy’s grandfather.