Ten New Zealand features and shorts including a record number by female directors will screen in official selection at the Berlin International Film Festival next month while two will feature at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas in March.
The inaugural SXSW Sydney has opened submissions for its screen festival, calling out for feature film, short, episodic, music video or XR projects.
"We made a horror film and it's found this wonderful audience. It's definitely unexpected. And I wouldn't even necessarily say that our film is a straight horror film, but obviously as soon as you squash someone's head, it tends to not really fall in any other genre, no matter what the rest of the movie's about."
The first episode of New Canvas' virtual reality series 'Lustration', written and created by Ryan Griffen, is now available on Meta Quest's Oculus TV following its world premiere at SXSW.
Born in Sydney to Korean parents, emerging filmmaker Hyun Lee identifies as Asian-Australian and is starting to learn Korean.
Venues and speakers in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbanehave been confirmed for a series of free SXSW Movie Meet 'n' Greets.
Four female-driven stories on wide-ranging subjects make up the contribution of Rush Films to this year's CinefestOZ program.