Critic David Stratton has curated a program of 10 "essential films" directed by Australian female filmmakers for the Sydney Film Festival and the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA).
The influence of arts patron, collector and philanthropist John Kaldor on contemporary Australian art will explored in a new documentary backed by Create NSW and the ABC, the third project in the organisations' three-year Documentary Feature Fund joint initiative.
Filmmakers across Australia and around the world have two to six weeks to finalise their submissions for the 66th Sydney Film Festival, which will run from June 5-16.
Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinessi’s debut film 'The Heiresses' won the $60,000 top prize at the 65th Sydney Film Festival while Ben Lawrence’s feature documentary 'Ghosthunter' took the Documentary Australia Foundation Award.
Melissa Anastasi, Sunday Emerson Gullifer, Jamieson Pearce, and duo Curtis Taylor and Nathan Mewett are this year’s recipients of Sydney Film Festival’s Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship.
Director Shaun Gladwell and producer/writer Leo Faber’s 'Storm Riders' is billed as the “world’s first anti-Islamophobic skateboarding 360 documentary.”
Director Emily Avila’s second short, 'Fitting', follows an intimate encounter between two strangers: a bra fitter, and a customer who has recently undergone a mastectomy.
'Ghosthunter' follows Jason King, a western Sydney security guard and part-time ghost hunter, who has spent two decades searching for his absent father. As a survivor of trauma, he seeks to reconcile his fractured memories and piece together his past. When his search converges with a police investigation, a horrific family secret is exposed — forcing him to confront a brutal past in order to reclaim his future.