This year's Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) opener - director Daniel Gordon's The Australian Dream - has proved an audience favourite, winning the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The racist slurs which ended the football career of Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes dominated the national conversation for weeks in the lead-up to the premieres of Ian Darling’s The Final Quarter and Daniel Gordon’s The Australian Dream.
While Jennifer Kent’s 'The Nightingale' has achieved an 86 per cent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes since the world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, many critics have described the tale of rape, murder as revenge as harrowing and bleak.
Warner Bros/New Line’s 'It Chapter Two' and Roadshow’s 'The Farewell' injected some much-needed life into the flagging Australian box office last weekend while two new Oz releases struggled.
'Downton Abbey' continues its box office domination, having now taken over $7 million in two weeks and beating out new releases 'Ad Astra', 'Good Boys' and 'Rambo: Last Blood'.
Exhibitors have renewed calls to address the challenges facing most Aussie films in the crowded theatrical market.
Two Australian films - Rodd Rathjen's debut feature 'Buoyancy' and Daniel Gordon's feature documentary 'The Australian Dream' - are nominated for Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA).
Two climate change documentaries fronted by Craig Reucassel, a factual entertainment series which looks at public shaming and teetotaller Shaun Micallef’s expose on the effects of alcohol will premiere on the ABC next year.