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.
An Australian short film about a deadly pandemic and its impact on a father-daughter relationship has been selected for the Tribeca Film Festival
Well Go USA Entertainment will distribute in the US Zak Hilditch's debut feature These Final Hours, which screened in Directors Fortnight in Cannes.
Leading digital agency Soap Creative, Roadshow Films and Screen Australia have collaborated to launch the transmedia experience The Countdown – an immersive ’interactive prequel’ ahead of the release of Australian apocalyptic thriller These Final Ho
The Rocket was voted most popular feature and The Crash Reel as most popular documentary at the Melbourne International Film Festival.