Unjoo Moon's 'I Am Woman' will premiere on Stan as a Stan Orginal on August 28 - the latest in a growing list of Australian films to bypass cinemas as the pandemic continues to depress the theatrical market.
Justin Kurzel's 'True History of the Kelly Gang' and Unjoo Moon's 'I Am Woman' will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from September 5-15.
Anthony Maras has sat in on numerous screenings of his debut film 'Hotel Mumbai', including test screenings in Los Angeles, the world premiere in Toronto and the Adelaide Film Festival, and the audience responses have been uniform.
Screen Australia has announced $4 million worth of production investment for one film, two television series and three online projects. They include a film adaptation of book 'Penguin Bloom', starring Naomi Watts and produced by Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories; a second season of ABC series 'Mystery Road'; Nine's 'Seachange' reboot; and 'Roborovski', a VR project from Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Dev Patel.
'American Horror Story' star Evan Peters will play a key supporting role in 'I Am Woman', Goalpost Pictures’ Helen Reddy biopic which is about to start shooting in Australia and the US.
The distributors in the US and major international territories who bought Anthony Maras’ 'Hotel Mumbai' look set to cash in on largely positive reviews after the world premiere at TIFF.
When Emma Jensen wrote the first treatment of the screenplay for 'Mary Shelley' in 2011, she could not have imagined how the climate for female-centred films- and more broadly for women’s rights - would have evolved by the time the film was released.
“It’s a great story about female friendship, it’s an aspirational story and it happened before the #MeToo movement and we’ve come clashing into that.”