Casting is underway for The Daughter, a movie which theatre director Simon Stone is adapting from his radical re-imagining of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck.
The ailing screen production sector is set to get a major boost with more than $80 million worth of films, TV dramas and a documentary receiving funding from Screen Australia.
Fate Films, helmed by producers Jan Chapman and Nicole O’Donohue, is delighted to announce principal photography commences on The Daughter in Sydney on September 12.
Australian films are experiencing a resurgence in cinemas this year, raking in $21.7 million through April 20.
Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man, Simon Stone’s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims’ Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom’s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
Michael Rowe’s Early Winter, Simon Stone’s The Daughter and Bentley Dean and Martin Butler’s Tanna will be launched internationally at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival in September.
Writer-director Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace will be the first film by a female Australian director to screen in competition at the Venice Film Festival since Clara Law's The Goddess Of 1967 in 2000.
The launches of Matt Saville’s A Month of Sundays and Simon Stone’s The Daughter at international film festivals are paying off with critical acclaim for both.