A record six Australian feature films will screen at the Sundance Film Festival, with 'Animals', 'Judy and Punch', 'Little Monsters', 'I Am Mother' and 'Top End Wedding' having their world premieres in the Utah-based festival.
Prime Video has revealed further cast details of the upcoming series 'Top End Bub', currently filming in the Northern Territory, with Rob Collins, Brooke Satchwell, Guy Simon, and Clarence Ryan joining the production.
The South Australian Film Corporation’s incoming CEO Courtney Gibson is determined to boost screen production in the state, including getting a bigger share of the nation’s TV series output.
The Australian International Screen Forum presented its inaugural scholarship, a placement with an American director on a US film, to Indigenous filmmaker Darlene Johnson.
When Shari Sebbens graduated from NIDA and WAAPA she expected her fair complexion would mean she would mostly be cast as white characters in shows about Indigenous people.
First-time feature directors Thomas Wright ('Acute Misfortune'), John Sheedy ('H is for Happiness'), Ben Lawrence ('Hearts and Bones') and Natalie Erika James ('Relic') will vie for the Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film ($1 million or over) against Sophie Hyde ('Animals') and Wayne Blair ('Top End Wedding').
Some 34 feature films will compete for nominations for this year's AACTA Awards, and the longlist covers diverse range of titles, from box office earners like 'Top End Wedding' and 'Storm Boy', through to the critically lauded 'The Nightingale' and micro budget indies like 'Suburban Wildlife'.
The Samuel Goldwyn Co. has nabbed US rights to Stephen Johnson's Western 'High Ground' which received rave reviews after the world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.