Cinema des Antipodes is a film festival held annually in St Tropez, France, which celebrates Australian and New Zealand films. Assistant festival director Emilie Matyja writes to INSIDEFILM to reveal what is on the menu for 2008.
IF Award's Rising Talent Cris Jones' The Funk, Elissa Down's The Black Balloon and Peter Duncan's Unfinished Sky are among nominees at the upcoming Screen Music Awards.
To be held on Nov 3, the 2008 APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards honours a host of screen composers with The Black Balloon's Michael Yezerski scoring nominations in three categories.
In a wrap up of its 10th anniversary celebrations on October 18, Cinema des Antipodes presented awards for the six films in competition, with Australian director Nadia Tass (Malcolm, The Big Steal) heading its competition jury.
The Australian Film Institute announced at noon today the list of its 2008 award nominees at the Sydney Theatre Company, Walsh Bay to a star-studded audience that included its patron Dr George Miller in attendance.
David Hirschfelder has won the best Feature Film Score of the Year for his work on Children of the Silk Road at the APRA-AGSA Screen Music Awards on November 3, while Michael Yezerski scores two nods for Black Balloon.
Nominees from 17 countries and territories across the Asia-Pacific region are gathering on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, for the second Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Winners in the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, the region's highest accolade in film in 2008, were announced tonight at a special ceremony on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.