The Rocket has beaten The Great Gatsby and Goddess to win the Avid Award for Best Editing in a Feature Film at the annual Editors Guild Awards dinner held on Friday.
Local TAFE students are hopeful for success at the 86th Academy Awards for their role in the Australian-Lao flim The Rocket which was released to cinemas around the country last month.
Exposure at numerous festivals including Berlin, Tribeca, Melbourne and Sydney combined with rave reviews continues to pay off for Kim Mordaunt's Laos-set feature The Rocket.
Maryanne Redpath, Director of the Generation section and official delegate for the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) will visit Australia this month to view new Australian feature films for consideration for the 2014 festival.
Four Australian features and one short have been selected to screen at the 18th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.
Kim Mordaunt's Laos-set feature The Rocket launched at 11 screens in Australia last weekend, making $55,000, the highest per-screen average of all the openers.
The Rocket was voted most popular feature and The Crash Reel as most popular documentary at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Kim Mordaunt's debut film The Rocket was voted best narrative feature at the Sydney Film Festival in the Foxtel Movie Channels Audience Awards.