Queensland based Freshwater Productions has praised filmmakers of the documentaries Rare Chicken Rescue and Roller Derby Dolls following their high profile nominations at the ATOM Awards, and the Best Documentary nomination for Rare Chicken Rescue for the
Australian ex-pat producer/director/distributor Antony I. Ginnane has been elected by SPAA members as the new president for 2008/09.
Gillian Armstrong was 29 when she won the AFI award for best director for her debut feature 'My Brilliant Career', the first local film to be directed by a woman since the McDonagh sisters’ 'Two Minute Silence' in 1933.
"It will be a strange experience," says Australian filmmaker Michael Rowe as he prepares to direct his first English-language film, psychological drama Rest Home, in Montreal.
Australia's documentary makers are less affected by production shutdowns than most other sectors of the screen industry - apart from the large cohort of animators who are still working remotely.
Thanks to the kindness of strangers, Richard Todd’s feature documentary which investigates the impact of the coal seam gas industry on residents' health and food and water resources will get a long and wide exposure around Australia.
Dayne Pratsky, aka Frackman, has become a social sensation with more than 1 million people viewing the trailer for the documentary telling the story of his fight against the coal seam gas companies.
Freshwater Pictures’ Trish Lake will team up with NZ’s Catherine Fitzgerald from Blueskin Films to co-produce 'Until the Dolphin Flies', a narrative feature from Pacific Island writer-director Vilsoni Hereniko ('The Land Has Eyes').