Bunya Productions' 'Mystery Road: Origin' is underway in Western Australia's Kalgoorlie-Boulder for the ABC, with a stacked ensemble cast to join Mark Coles Smith as a young Jay Swan.
The ABC and Tony Ayres Productions' (TAP) anthology drama 'Fires' is underway in Victoria, with a stellar cast that boasts Eliza Scanlen, Sam Worthington, Richard Roxburgh, Sullivan Stapleton, Miranda Otto, Hunter Page-Lochard, Anna Torv, Kate Box, Helana Sawires, Daniel Henshall, and Noni Hazlehurst.
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.
Mark Coles Smith is set to take the baton from Aaron Pedersen and play a young Jay Swan in 'Mystery Road: Origin', ABC/Bunya Productions' latest instalment in the crime drama franchise.
Bunya Productions’ 'Mystery Road: Origin' has joined season five of The Handmaid's Tale and Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom Exodus in the Toronto International Film Festival's Primetime program.
'Blaze', 'How To Please A Woman', 'Sissy' and 'Sweet As' will contend for the best original feature prize at this year’s AWGIE Awards, while 'Mrs Harris Goes to Paris', 'The Stranger' and 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson' are up for the adapted gong. 'The Newsreader' leads in television with two nominations alongside 'Total Control', 'Firebite', 'Bump' and 'Heartbreak High'.
The impact of the devastating bushfires of last summer will be explored in six-part drama 'The Fires', currently in development at the ABC.
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'.