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.
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.
Australian films are experiencing a resurgence in cinemas this year, raking in $21.7 million through April 20.
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.
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.
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.