Director Benjamin Gilmour's 'Jirga' took home the inaugural AACTA Award for Best Indie Film - designed to honour films made under $2 million - at the AACTA Industry Luncheon in Sydney yesterday.
This year is shaping as the most eventful and action-packed in the 20-year-career of Indigenous writer-director-producer-actor Leah Purcell.
After serving as a script editor on three seasons of 'House Husbands' and writing episodes of 'Rush' and 'Serangoon Road', writer Timothy Lee’s career has gone up a couple of gears.
Considering Danielle MacLean’s original ambition was to be a stills photographer, her 23-year career as a writer, producer and director is quite remarkable
Swedish actress Sofia Helin, who starred in all four seasons of 'The Bridge', is co-starring with Aaron Pedersen in the second series of Bunya Productions' 'Mystery Road'.
Screen Australia’s Indigenous department is contributing $745,000 in production funding to four documentary projects including two for NITV and one for the ABC.
Local films from directors Jo-Anne Brechin and Steven McGregor are among the 12 world premieres to feature on the line-up for MIFF 68½ - Melbourne International Film Festival's upcoming digital-only iteration.
The impact of the devastating bushfires of last summer will be explored in six-part drama 'The Fires', currently in development at the ABC.