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.
'True Vision' charts the journey of Diana Fisk, whose son Alfie at four months old was diagnosed with Nystagmus – a vision condition caused by an abnormal function in the brain. As Diana researched the condition, words like 'abused' 'bullied' and 'embarrassed' appeared as descriptors of the life children with Nystagmus experience growing up. Determined to provide a better future for Alfie, Diana needed to find someone who understood the challenges she and her family were about to face.
Australia’s screen industry craft guilds have decried the Federal Government’s abrupt decision to fold the Department of Communications and the Arts into a new super ministry, omitting the Arts, as an insult to the industry.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has broadly welcomed Screen Australia's proposed overhaul of documentary funding guidelines but fears low budget productions will suffer from the scrapping of the Producer Equity Program (PEP).
Screen Australia has announced $2 million in production funding for 11 documentary projects, seven through the Documentary Producer Program and four through the Commissioned Program.
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.
The former CEO of Women in Film and Television (WIFT) Toronto Heather Webb has joined the Natalie Miller Fellowship (NMF) committee.
Filmed over three years, 'The Show Must Go On' is an important and moving exploration of the mental health of the 42,000 people working in the Australian entertainment industry.