A quartet of Australian films has made it into the line-up for next year's Sundance Film Festival, with Robert Connolly's 'Blueback', Noora Niasari's 'Shayda', Daina Reid's 'Run Rabbit Run' and Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou's 'Talk To Me' all set to screen.
Australian writer-director Emma Sullivan's true-crime documentary 'Into the Deep' has been praised as more chilling than some of the horror movies which screened in the Sundance Film Festival's Midnight section.
Noora Niasari talks to IF about the making of her debut feature, the Sundance Audience Award-winning 'Shayda', which is screening in competition at MIFF and will close Locarno later this month.
When Tehran-born writer-director Noora Niasari told producer Vincent Sheehan about the time she spent living in a women's shelter during her childhood, on which her film 'Shayda' was to be based, he realised he was being told a "distinctly Australian" story, but one he had never seen on the screen before.
What is it like as the director of an animated short to have your entire film festival run confined to a pandemic period?
Noora Niasari's debut feature 'Shayda' took home the Audience Award in Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Dramatic Competition over the weekend.
Two Australian projects, 'Summation of Force' and Lynette Wallworth's 'Awavena', have been selected for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontier program, which focuses on experimental work in VR, AR, mixed reality (MR) and AI.
Writer and director Jon Bell's debut feature 'The Moogai' and Sally Aitken documentary 'Every Little Thing' make up the Australian contingent bound for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.