Bittersweet comedy 'Babyteeth' has swept this year's AACTA Awards, picking up seven prizes at Monday's ceremony including Best Film and Best Direction for debut filmmaker Shannon Murphy.
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.
The producers of 'The Babadook' and US horror movie 'It Follows' are teaming up to adapt 'Small Space', a young adult novel by Australian author Sarah Epstein.
Natalie Erika James' debut feature, psychological horror movie 'Relic' will have its world premiere in the Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival.
Fremantle and Triptych Pictures' Kristian Moliere are teaming up to make a TV drama adapted from New Zealand-born author Meg Mundell’s second novel The Trespassers.
Marten Rabarts will succeed Bill Gosden as the director of the New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF), starting with the 2020 edition.
Film and distribution consultant Beatrice Neumann, writer/producer Meg LeFauve, producer Kristina Ceyton, Screen Herd content strategist Beatrix Holland and Bonsai Films founder Jonathan Page are among those to speak at women collective Dame Changer's upcoming Screen Tank event.
While more Australian films are securing distribution in the US - mostly limited theatrical combined with online release- generally the returns to producers are exceedingly modest.