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.
The Australian Feature Film Summit (AFFS) has unveiled the program and first round of speakers for its in-person portion in May.
With only nine Australian feature docs making more than $100,000 at the box office last year, and none more than $350,000, the future of Australian documentary in cinemas went under the microscope at AIDC.
Next week, on 24th and 25th October, Sydney’s Chauvel Cinema will come alive with the buzz of talented filmmakers at the 9th annual SPAA Fringe conference with all its speakers locked in and ready to inspire.
Amid a dearth of new major releases, exhibitors are pleased with the staying power of Roadshow Films' 'RAMS', which held onto the top spot at the box office over its second weekend, as well as Rialto’s 'Honest Thief' and R & R Films’ 'Never Too Late'.
Screen Australia’s record spend on adult TV drama in 2017-18 has not come at the expense of support for feature films.
Producer Anna Kaplan, known for her work leading the social impact campaigns on documentaries such as '2040', 'The Hunting Ground' and 'That Sugar Film', has been awarded this year's Natalie Miller Fellowship.
Australian Feature Film Summit director Sue Maslin, both a producer and a distributor, argues there is a theatrical future for local features if the industry starts to do business differently.