Kirsty McGregor won the prize for best casting for a feature film for See-Saw Films’ 'Lion' at the Casting Guild of Australia’s annual awards.
Shannon Murphy’s debut feature 'Babyteeth', a bittersweet comedy starring Ben Mendelsohn, Essie Davis, Eliza Scanlen and Toby Wallace, has been acclaimed by critics after its world premiere in official competition at the Venice International Film Festival.
Critics have hailed Kitty Green's 'The Royal Hotel' as an "even deeper" and "pulpier and more explosive" look at toxic masculinity than her 2019 #MeToo thriller 'The Assistant', with many drawing comparisons between the film and Ted Kotcheff's 1971 classic 'Wake in Fright'.
Alex White and Jan Chapman went to see Rita Kalnejais’ hit play 'Babyteeth' at Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre on the same night back in 2012. By interval, the two had made a beeline to each other: they knew it had to be adapted for screen.
Sara West starred as a young woman who takes on the church where she was sexually abused at school, aided by a lawyer played by Rachel Griffiths in Tori Garrett’s Don’t Tell.
Toby Wallace finds himself in the novel position of starring in two short fiction films that are vying for an AACTA award this year: 'Nursery Rhymes' and 'Tangles and Knots'.