Actor Ewan McGregor will appear in crime thriller Son of a Gun, which is set to shoot in Western Australia in early-2013
Australian cinema is facing a crisis because the distribution model for most Oz films is no longer viable, according to Troy Lum.
This year’s CinéfestOZ is set to go off with a bang at the Australian premiere of the much-anticipated edge-of-your-seat heist thriller SON OF A GUN.
Would lower ticket prices encourage more people to see Australian films in cinemas?
At least 17 Australian films look set to be released theatrically in the US this year following the latest batch of deals announced in Cannes.
Writer-director Julius Avery's debut feature Son of a Gun will have its international premiere in official competition at the BFI London Film Festival next month.
Australian films seem to be inhabiting parallel universes. At home only three films have grossed more than $1 million this year while a broad slate of Oz titles has been sold to distributors around the world.
Screen Australia has invested almost $5.5 million in two feature films, My Mistress and Son of a Gun, as well as a second series of indigenous TV program Redfern Now