These Final Hours, an Apocalyptic thriller from first-time writer-director Zak Hilditch, will screen at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section in May.
Australia hasn't had a film selected for official competition at the Cannes Film Festival or the Un Certain Regard sidebar since 2011 and in the Directors' Fortnight section since 2009.
A self-obsessed young man makes his way to the party-to-end-all-parties on the last day on Earth, but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father.
Jessica De Gouw has no permanent home but that's hardly a sign of an actor who's out of work.
Writer-director Zak Hilditch's debut feature, Apocalyptic thriller These Final Hours, will be distributed by Roadshow.
The Rocket was voted most popular feature and The Crash Reel as most popular documentary at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
The five directors - Christopher Weekes, Hannah Moon, Tom McKeith, Darlene Johnson and Liselle Mei - and their teams will now develop a short film script.
Apocalyptic thriller These Final Hours is set to begin filming in Western Australia on October 15