This year's Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) promises the Australian premieres of highly anticipated local features such as Leah Purcell's 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson' and Justin Kurzel's 'Nitram'.
Screen Australia's head of content Sally Caplan rates 2019 as a good year for Australian films at home and abroad - and she is even more optimistic about the 2020 slate.
Jen Peedom's 'River' and Ben Lawrence's 'Ithaka' add to the already strong contingent of local films bound for August's Melbourne International Film Festival, which unveiled its full program today.
Seems Disney/Pixar's 'Lightyear' hasn't quite reached infinity and beyond - at least not yet, with the animated film trailing 'Top Gun: Maverick' and 'Jurassic World Dominion' at the box office last weekend.
After portraying a succession of dastardly or less than noble characters in films and TV series, Benedict Hardie welcomed the chance to play someone with at least a few redeeming qualities in Judy & Punch.
Actor, writer, director and producer Leah Purcell will deliver the Hector Crawford memorial lecture on November at Screen Producers Australia's Screen Forever conference.
As a development producer, writer, script editor and assessor, Nicole Dade is pondering the future of story telling once the pandemic has passed.