Umbrella Entertainment has hired former New Zealand Film Commission head of marketing Jasmin McSweeney to help expand its footprint across the Ditch.
Distributor Umbrella Entertainment will launch AVOD platform Brollie next week, with a focus on Australian film and TV.
Umbrella Entertainment will release Luke Sparke's 'Scurry' in Australia and New Zealand next year, with the Gold Coast-shot horror now in post-production.
'Star Wars' actress Daisy Ridley will head to WA early next year for 'We Bury the Dead', a new survival-thriller film from Zak Hilditch that will be filmed in the state's great southern region.
Nick Hayes is moving from Icon over to Umbrella Entertainment, where he will serve as head of sales and acquisitions from January next year.
Based on a short film by the same name, 'Time Addicts' delves into the human condition, where addiction, friendship and the search for redemption all come to play.
Directors Indianna Bell and Josiah Allen were saving up for a house, but after hearing American director Trey Edward Shults speak at Austin Film Festival about making the micro budget 'Krisha', they decided their funds might be better spent making a debut feature that they could use as a calling card.
Jack Clark and Jim Weir's 'Birdeater', with its echoes of 'Wake in Fright', joins Australia's recent indie success stories. After snaring Sydney Film Festival's Audience Award, their debut feature - made on a shoestring - sold out all its sessions at the Melbourne International Film Festival, landed distribution with Umbrella and simply generated a significant amount of buzz.