Writer-director John V. Soto's third feature The Reckoning will have its world premiere in competition at the British Independent Film Festival next month.
WA-born actors Presley Massara, Priscilla-Anne Forder and Jacob Brown are making their international debuts in The Pineville Heist, a thriller which starts shooting in Canada in June.
John V. Soto was named best director at the British Independent Film Festival on Saturday for his crime thriller The Reckoning.
Actress Laura Collier started shooting The Silent City, a film noir, in Perth in late May for first-time writer/director Matt Soutar.
Kriv Stenders is set to follow-up hit film Red Dog with the Western Australian-set thriller Kill Me Three Times.
Viva Bianca has joined the cast of Showing Roots, a US indie feature set in the 1970s when Alex Haley's ground-breaking slavery miniseries Roots was released.
While more Australian films are securing distribution in the US - mostly limited theatrical combined with online release- generally the returns to producers are exceedingly modest.
After Alex Williams graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2012, the actor expected to spend two or three years trying to build his career gradually through stage roles.