Some 34 feature films will compete for nominations for this year's AACTA Awards, and the longlist covers diverse range of titles, from box office earners like 'Top End Wedding' and 'Storm Boy', through to the critically lauded 'The Nightingale' and micro budget indies like 'Suburban Wildlife'.
Warner Bros/New Line’s 'It Chapter Two' and Roadshow’s 'The Farewell' injected some much-needed life into the flagging Australian box office last weekend while two new Oz releases struggled.
Alan Lindsay's 'The Naked Wanderer', a romantic comedy starring Angus McLaren, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Megan Hajjar and John Cleese, will have its world premiere at CinefestOZ.
Dumped by girlfriend Jasmine and sponsored by media scoundrel Brian King (John Cleese), desolate Jake (Angus McLaren) walks all-but-naked up the Australia’s Indian Ocean coast for charity, in the hope his worthy gesture will win back Jasmine (Megan Smart), but then he meets mesmerising backpacker Valerie (Natasha Liu Bordizzo).
When Callan Durlik wrote the character of a media mogul in his romantic comedy The Naked Wanderer, he thought of John Cleese but doubted the Fawlty Towers star would be gettable.
Since graduating from WAAPA in 2016 Megan Hajjar has built an impressive resume with roles in Breath, Love Child, Harrow, The Secret Daughter and the upcoming movies M4M and The Naked Wanderer