While AACTA's Byron Kennedy Award is typically given to an individual or organisation who demonstrates "outstanding creative enterprise", this year the award will go to a film.
Director Gregory Erdstein and actor Alice Foulcher are the husband-and-wife duo behind indie comedy 'That’s Not Me'. The film follows Polly (Foulcher), whose dreams of making it as an actor are shattered when her identical twin sister lands a lead role on a HBO show. The couple wrote the script together, and it is both filmmakers’ feature debut. They talk to Jackie Keast about how they met and the journey of their working relationship.
The comedy directed by Gregory Erdstein, who co-wrote the script with his wife, actress Alice Foulcher, opens at nine Palace cinemas on September 7.
Alice Foulcher plays Polly who dreams of making it as an actor are comically shattered when her identical twin sister Amy lands a lead role in an HBO show, starts dating her co-star Jared Leto, and catapults to international stardom. Dropped by her agent, fired from her job and mistaken for her famous sister at every turn, Polly takes a spontaneous trip to LA only to find out she missed pilot season by several months.
'Mountain', the latest documentary from 'Sherpa' director Jen Peedom, will screen at this year's Sydney Film Festival.
Aussie indie comedy That's Not Me has wrapped principal photography and is currently in post-production.