Tim Minchin, Jacki Weaver, Miranda Tapsell, Mandy McElhinney, Damon Herriman, Sam Simmons, Andrea Demetriades, Wayne Blair, Christiaan Van Vuuren, Justin Rosniak and Jenna Owen are set to star in 'Squinters'.
Alethea Jones’ first reaction when she was informed she was among the winners of this year’s Screen Australia Breakthrough Award from Australians in Film could not have been more self-effacing.
The film was set to feature 72 Outback animal characters, all of them speaking in an Australian accent, and the project had attracted a stellar Australian cast, with Margot Robbie, Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Rose Byrne, Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, Josh
Margot Robbie, Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, Josh Lawson, Ewen Leslie and Damon Herriman are also onboard.
The studio was looking for an Australian story - to do for Australia what Kung Fu Panda did for China, according to Cripps.
The Lost Thing has won Best Animated Short at the 2011 Academy Awards