24 features, five online series and two "high-end" television projects have received development funding.
Film programming manager and independent cinema consultant Sasha Close has been awarded the 2016 Natalie Miller Fellowship Grant.
The adaptation of Rosalie Ham's novel opened on 39 screens in nine American cities, taking $180,522 in its first weekend, an average of $5,014.
The film was produced by Charlotte Seymour (A Walk With Words) and Sue Maslin (The Dressmaker, Michael Kirby: Don’t Forget The Justice Bit).
Published by Simon and Schuster in June 2015 and immediately optioned by Film Art Media, Ann Turner's The Lost Swimmer is described as "a tense psychological thriller about the secrets in a marriage and the consequences of love and trust."
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The Dressmaker has passed $20 million at the box office, earning $20,011,313 by yesterday.
Liam Hemsworth, Isla Fisher and Elizabeth Debicki will join Kate Winslet and Judy Davis in The Dressmaker, Jocelyn Moorhouse's 1950s-set comic drama that's due to shoot in Victoria in October.