Greater scrutiny of feature film projects and more emphasis on stories that can travel are among the focuses for two of the country's leading production companies in the year ahead amid ongoing challenges in the theatrical landscape.
SBS director of Indigenous content Tanya Denning-Orman reflects on NITV's decade-long journey as part of SBS.
Anousha Zarkesh is well placed to again win Best Casting in A Feature Film at this year's Casting Guild of Australia Awards, nominated for her work on 'The Stranger' and 'We Are Still Here'.
This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
With 'MaveriX', 'True Colours', 'Barrumbi Kids', 'Matt Wright's Wild Territory', 'Outback Ringer' season 2, 'The First Inventors' and 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart', the 2021-22 financial year proved the biggest year of production yet for the Northern Territory.
Gracie Otto's 'Seriously Red', Bunya Productions' 'True Colours', and Phil Noyce’s 'Dead Calm' headline the program for next month's Australian International Screen Forum (AISF), which returns as an in-person event.
"There are so many Aboriginal languages across this country and we want them all on screen. Even the ones that are being revitalised, there's a place for it. It's rich; our country is rich with this stuff."
SBS and NITV will premiere Bunya Productions' latest crime drama 'True Colours' during NAIDOC Week.